Emotional Eating: NLP, Guided Imagery and Hypnosis
Before a person can treat emotional eating by any means, they first have to understand it. What is emotional eating and how does it come about? It is important for the person suffering from emotional eating to know the root of the problem.
Emotional eating is essentially a way to keep a person occupied. In other words, when you are emotionally weakened such as stress at your job, family, financial stress and more, you look to take your mind off of it. Being that food is so readily available; it is easy to turn to a food source. Unfortunately, the foods that we often turn to are not carrots and celery, the foods tend to be bad for you such as sweets, fast food and other fatty and salty foods.
Some common emotions that can trigger emotional eating are anger, stress, boredom, being lonely or even feeling sad. Some very common catalysts for these feelings to occur are the loss of a job, work related stress, health problems, financial trouble, lack of sleep and more.
The problem with emotional eating comes in many forms. Besides the natural tendency we have toward junk food as a comfort food and soother, we tend to over eat as well. This would also include binge eating and could potentially lead to more serious problems than just being overweight.
Techniques such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, hypnosis and Guided Imagery are all helpful in establishing a core to help you succeed with combating emotional eating. The way it works is by talking to your subconscious mind. The reason this is so important is because your subconscious mind is what tells you to grab for the cookie or that piece of cake. The goal is to revamp what your subconscious mind is telling you to do. What needs to happen is the bad tendencies and habits need to be replaced with good and positive behaviors.
Many people choose self help tools such as audios that can be bought at Nedependence Hypnosis. These affordable hypnosis mp3's and cd's are a very easy and cost effective way to get a hold of emotional eating. Through listening to the hypnosis MP3’s and CD’s a person can open up their mind by taking away the barriers that normally exist when they are conscious.
This is done by complete relaxation. Being that you can do it wherever you want, it allows you the most comfort level on your behalf. You can listen to the emotional eating hypnosis MP3’s or CD’s in your bedroom or wherever you have peace and quiet.
Through NLP you can program yourself to view junk foods in a different way. For example, you might have always viewed a piece of chocolate cake as delicious and one of your favorite things to eat. Using NLP you would reverse how you think of that piece of cake. NLP takes in all the senses and allows you to mold them in a different way. So, you might make yourself feel “full” when you see the cake so you will not want to eat it. Repeatedly doing this will help your subconscious mind automatically view it the way you force it to after a while of conditioning.
The choices are abundant when it comes to opening up your subconscious and inserting healthy actions. Each person can benefit from self hypnosis and NLP MP3’s and CD’s because each person will take it differently. In general the result is the same; achieving a point where you no longer use emotional eating. Through such tools a person can lead a happy and healthy life.
Resources:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/weight-loss/MH00025/NSECTIONGROUP=2