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30.05.2016 |
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Better weight loss results with self-hypnosis
Self-hypnosis can help people who want to lose weight, as psychologists at the University of Northern Colorado discovered in the mid-1980s. The self-hypnosis took only a few minutes a day, but nevertheless resulted in permanent weight loss.
Study
The therapists started by teaching the subjects to work out what triggered them to eat sweets. Then the subjects could avoid the triggers or teach themselves a different reaction.
Secondly the therapists taught the subjects to pay more attention when eating, and to be more aware of tasting the food they were eating. The better you can do that, the less you eat.
The other half of the subjects tried to hypnotise themselves a couple of times every day. They had to relax, and then repeat to themselves what they had learned during the therapy sessions.
After the ninth and last session the subjects then tried to keep up the patterns they'd learned.
Results
Explanation
"Second, and perhaps more importantly, behavioral weight-management studies that report successful long-term change typically have developed incentive systems to bridge the gap between the short-term reinforcers provided during treatment and the long-term goal of weight reduction. [...] The significant relationship between the hypnosis treatment and alterations in weight and eating patterns suggests that hypnosis may have served as an effective motivator for subjects to continue practicing the more adaptive eating behaviors acquired during treatment."
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