Urges don’t stand a chance against modern hypnotherapy specialist techniques
Dieting becomes difficult for most people when hankerings for food build, particularly when they are on diets that make them feel like they are missing out. Food cravings are acute feelings that can encourage people to eat large amounts of foods that they should preferably avoid.
Typically the type of foods people most seem to crave are unhealthy and do not have much nutritional value, such as cookies, sugary snacks and sweets, and quite a few people have a specific weak spot for chocolate. Addictions to certain foods can take hold if cravings are not managed and chocoholism is considered the most prevalent.
The true reason for these food urges varies. Chemicals in our body can impact our brain. Serotonin makes us feel relaxed and happy, but an insufficiency can lead to despair. Endorphin levels are also thought to have an affect on our state of mind in the same way. Hypnotherapy can assist in controlling specific parts of the brain to break unhealthy habits that have developed over time. Certain foods that are easily available, well promoted and often low cost, can have a dangerous effect on our health. Weight problems and other health concerns can develop from eating too many foods loaded with sugar and unhealthy fats, including, amongst others, raised blood pressure, cardiovascular illnesses and being diabetic. There have been some significant developments in hypnotherapy techniques which can now help people eliminate cravings for food and thus prevent them ruining their health.
Chocolate boasts a chemical called phenylethylamine, which is an amino acid that controls the release of endorphins hormones from the body that are renowned for making us feel good and relaxed. If we eat chocolate and then begin to feel good and relaxed, an association develops with chocolate and the feelings of euphoria. We can then begin to crave these feelings and therefore chocolate, particularly if we feel anxious or overloaded. Hypnosis can sever this relationship and even provide a new link with a healthy and beneficial alternative, such as physical exercise that release endorphins naturally. The body may also begin to crave other components of the food like salt and iron, an overload of which can again be harmful. A craving might also indicate a dietary need within the body, but when the communications become misdirected we can easily desire the wrong types of foods.
Expectant mothers have hankerings to ensure the nutritional needs of the body and the unborn baby are satisfied. For example, iron may be required if there is a longing for red meat as it contains a significant amount. Troubles arise when there’s an over indulgence, especially in unhealthy foods as this can bring about obesity. Hypnotherapy solutions can successfully change behaviour on a sub-conscious level and cut bad eating habits that can lead to gain in weight and health issues.
Utilising hypnosis to eliminate urges for food and unhealthy eating habits, you ought to choose a highly trained Hypnotherapist who has the appropriate training. Keith Dorrington a hypnotherapist working in the Hypnotherapy Blackheath practice, has many years of experience of tackling problems like food cravings.
Based in Blackheath, London, Keith Dorrington, a professionally trained Hypnotherapist, said “Most food cravings actually stem from an earlier emotional issue from an event in our past, using hypnotherapy, we can let go of the emotional attachment to that event and to food at the same time at a subconscious level”.
