You're feeling sleepy......You will lose weight......Does hypnosis really help in losing weight?

The rise in obesity among the youth and aged alike has given rise to the need for a healthy and scientific program that can be used as an effective weight loss method to those in need of serious relief. Based on such a search, hypnosis has emerged as a one of the feasible alternatives to effective weight loss in an effortless, safe and scientific way.

A search on the Internet would give you a wide range of news as well as views on how hypnosis affects the body weight. You would do good not to follow all such information blindly, since this would only leave you frustrated without any real knowledge of how the system works.

Over the years medical science has indeed established the link between hypnosis and weight loss, this can be testified from the results that are writ large on some of the patients who have used this method as a facilitator to actually loose weight and woken up to brief us of the details.

Before jumping to conclusions about whether the system works for you or not, one needs to understand the basis of this treatment. It has been variously suggested that hypnosis actually helps obese people in adapting to better and healthier eating habits while more importantly retaining them. Several experts suggest that it has been observed that patients undergoing hypnosis have actually acquired better concentration, mental relaxation and suggestibility. This in turn has led to better and improved lifestyles which help the patient achieve proper balanced weight according to their physique. The method of hypnosis resulting in weight loss avidly vary from simple relaxation techniques to more formal inductions that are administered by hypnotists at later levels.

Most hypnotists will tell you, or actually should be informing their patients that, this is a medical wellness program not to be associated with any supernatural factors. The fear of the unknown combined with a lack of adequate knowledge of the subject can result in failures in hypnosis. This is primarily because the patient fails to relax and is too aware of the fact and also curious about the actual methodology.

There are of course diverse opinions regarding the techniques or methodology followed by hypnotists to aid the process of weight loss. Before starting on any such program the patient needs to understand that hypnosis is a facilitator for weight loss it cannot by itself actually make a person loose weight. People should also be cautious of falling into the trap of corrupt practitioners or firms which advocate high sounding benefits of the system.

A more realistic view of the matter might be had in the opinion that hypnosis as a medium for weight loss lacks in methodological problems. An experiment conducted by Andersen in 1985 however reported that after conducting an 8 weekly treatment session and 12 weeks of self-hypnosis, the participants concerned had lost weight averaging 20.2 pounds. Though this remains an exemplary case study precious little has actually been derived from it because of a very small number of subjects who could not be termed as a substantial amount of people survey.

We might then conclude that while hypnosis may as of now still seem to be more of behavioral weight management program, the final onus lies on how a patient handles this treatment and responds to it.