Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy was amazing! I hope I can describe it correctly because it was a great experience.

When I first met with Sally I thought she was nuts, she is a little,but in a good way. She was so excited about hypnosis and the power that it has over the subconscious. She started out by talking to me for about and hour and a half to figure out what I want to get out of my sessions with her. I told her that I have had a weight problem pretty much my entire life. I eat when I have any emotion and I have a binge eating problem. It's a problem when you hide the evidence in the outside trash can so that your husband won't find out what you've eaten. I told her about my religious background, what I believe in and the effect that it can have on my body image. I have a problem with drinking energy drinks because I never have any energy and that is something that I wanted to quit. Every time I told her something new about me she got really excited that she got to see deeper inside of me, and it really helped her for when she going to be making suggestions to me. She thinks that I keep the extra weight on because I use it as a shield to keep people away from me.

Getting hypnotized is not like how it is at a hypnotist show. I was completely aware of what was going on around me the entire time, I was just in a total state of relaxation. She had me think of a place that made me feel open and comfortable and the first thing that came to my mind was a waterfall with a pond and had my jeans rolled up with me feet in the warm water. Then she had me think of my body as a completely different entity, and she had me have a conversation with my body and how my body feels when I put junk food in it. She had me think of a color and had it slowly flow through every muscle in my body she new that I have been trying to get pregnant so she had the color wrap around my uterus and my ovaries, and the weird thing is that ever since the session I have been having cramps, very strange. Anyway, there was a lot more that went on, but overall it was great. I haven't had the urge to drink an energy drink and when I went back to work by black bean meatless chili tasted like it was a Big Mac, it cured the same craving. She also gave me a disc to listen to everyday for the next 10 days that covers the food hunger scale. It gives you a scale from 1-10. 1 being the most hungry and 10 being as full as you can get. It suggests that the only time you will eat is when you are a 3 or lower and that you will stop before you get to a 7. So far so good. I feel great, I am thinking a lot more about my food and why I eat. When I have heavy emotions, like stress, My mind automatically goes to my waterfall place of comfort and it helps me to cope with those feeling and really think am I hungry or am I eating because I'm feeling an uncomfortable emotion.

Anyway, before hypnosis I had a rough week so I'm not going to weigh myself until next week. I'm feeling positive and so far this has been a great experience!