Hypnotherapy and Happiness

On my journey to wellness, I have made some decisions since I last posted on this blog.


One was that, although I think Jon Gabriel completely has it right in terms of changing the way one thinks about food, oneself and healing, I felt I needed to delve a little deeper into the reasons I gained weight in the first place. In fact, Jon Gabriel suggests in his book that if you have deep-seated issues, it would make sense to get some sort of therapy to help dismantle some of the 'stuff' that can get in your way.


So I took his advice.


I really believe that when you are ready to do something, to take a new path, the Universe sends you what you need. You don't always notice it but I have worked hard to try to recognise the messages I get from time to time.


What changed my thinking was doing something called The Dip in the Nip, a skinny dip in north west Ireland to raise money for cancer charities.  350+ people got naked and dashed into the ocean. Here is a post I wrote about it on my blog, The Sound of the Night. 


Getting naked when I was young was no big deal. I had a great body. What's so hard about skinny dipping when you know you look good? Well, when you're 53 and overweight, it's another matter all together.


Funnily enough, it was seeing my bare ass in a national newspaper the next day that set me on the path to where I am now. I was faintly embarrassed about it but, on thinking about it, I realised I wasn't THAT embarrassed and started to think about how doing the Dip had really affected me.  What it did, in the end, was make me realise that, despite being overweight, I didn't look that bad and, after all, it was only fat, and could be got rid of.  I know that sounds easy but, in fact, it was a turning point for me in my sense of self worth. 


If I could get naked and be in the papers and not be worried about it, what was to stop me from finally tackling the issues?


Remember I mentioned signs from the Universe above? The the day after the event, we bought all the newspapers to see what had been written about us swimming naked. The event was in every Sunday paper. In one of the papers, I came across an article about hypnotherapy for weight loss and filed it in the back of my mind.


A couple of weeks later, I dug out the information and checked out the website, Weight Loss Clinic Ireland,  and made the all important phone call to see if I could afford the program.  It was expensive but I figured it was going to be more expensive in the long run when I started getting serious health problems.


Here's a video testimonial from someone who went through the program:

What they do as part of the program is a hypnotic Gastric Band!  The last session of the 6 in the program is dedicated to creating an idea in your subconscious that you have had a gastric band fitted. I figured with the underlying work being done on your subconscious prior to that, that the hypnotic band would be more effective than a real one as it seems to me that the real one is only dealing with the physical side of weight gain and nothing to do with the psychological reasons most of us gain weight.


I decided to go for it.


My next blog post will be about how it's been going and what I have learned. Watch this space.


Would you consider hypnotherapy for healing what ails you?