Hypnotherapy???

[confused<3]

I have heard about it for a few years now...and I am seriously considering it...I want to lose weight and to eat healthier and quit smoking...and I am curious if you have done this or know anyone who has and it if it really worked for them? How much can I look at spending trying...how can I find out if I can even be hypnotized?? Any information to this question would be appreciated...Thanx.

[Googler]

Hypnotism does work for those who are willing to succumb to the power of suggestion, submissive and otherwise want something. I have never, ever seen it be successful for smoking cessation or obesity.

[dutchlady]

I am a clinical hypnotist and have many successes with weight loss, cigarette smokers, and trauma victims. But, I have also had those who did not want to make changes, even though they thought they did when asking for hypnotherapy. The difference is that they wanted a cure, not something to help them quit.;They wanted me to do the work for them. Hypnotherapy doesn't work that way. It suggests things to your subconscious mind, but you will not do anything you would not want to do. In the same sense, if you want to quit smoking, but don't want to go through the process, hypnotherapy and no other way will work.Hypnotherapy puts a suggestion into your mind, but that can be overridden. Those who are successful with hypnotherapy are those who are suggestible, who have made up their mind that they want a change and are willing to follow through when the suggestion comes up in their mind. I put one man under, and he finally got in touch with a problem. It had happened in childhood, and after feeling the emotional pain he had repressed, he was able to understand and then enjoy being around his parents again. This was not what he went under for, but this was the issue his subconscious was dealing with and it freed him to function better after the session. Good luck. Pick a licensed hypnotherapist, not someone who just says they are one. This is a clinical process, not an entertainment. Success!

[elie c]

Hypnosis is not an empirically based treatment for anything! it is psuedo-science! Any person who wants to go with something that has been studied and proven effective should not go near hypnosis with a 20 foot pole. I'm not just saying this a cognitive-behaviorist, Sigmund Frued himself said that hypnosis is an interesting tool, but it should never be used as a treatment for anything!!!If you really want to help yourself, go to a licensed cognitive-behavioral therapist. they are specially trained to help people systematically accomplish things like what you are trying to do.