Healthy eating is important for your long-term health. Although you may not be overly concerned about achieving or maintaining your ideal weight, if you’re planning on living to a ripe old age then focusing on your long-term health is vital. However, if your life is busy or stressful it can be easy to reach for foods and drinks that give you a quick burst of energy but might not be as good for you long-term.
These foods and drinks often contain lots of sugar or fats like highly processed foods, chocolate, crisps, high energy drinks or alcohol. When your sleep patterns are disturbed you might reach for drinks that contain caffeine to boost your energy levels. Short-term this approach might work well, but over time your dependency on these foods can become habit forming and difficult to change. All foods are fine in moderation, however if your diet starts to centre on these food types, overtime this can have a negative effect on your health.
When it comes to hypnotherapy for healthy eating, a combination of talking therapy and hypnosis can be effective. The length of your hypnotherapy session could vary between 30 minutes – 90 minutes. An initial consultation will generally be held prior to your hypnotherapy sessions starting. This is to agree the aims and goals of your treatment, to discuss your symptoms and to give you a guide as to the number of sessions required. This will vary from client to client, the approach used and how limited your current diet is. As a rough guide for long term results, you can expect to need 8-10 hypnotherapy sessions.
When it comes to healthy eating, your lifestyle can have a major impact on your eating patterns. If you’re relaxed and calm, your digestive system works efficiently. If you’re stressed and anxious or not sleeping properly then you might go for the easiest options, ready meals rather than ingredients. These are often highly processed foods that can leave you feeling dissatisfied despite often eating more calories than you normally would.
Sometimes childhood patterns and an aversion to certain textures can limit the type of foods you eat. Alternatively, you might have experienced issues with choking or acid reflux during your life that have caused you to shy away from certain foods. If this is an individual food then that might be something you can cope with long term, but sometimes this develops to incorporate whole food groups. Your long-term health relies on a variety of different food groups, so getting this back under control quickly can be helpful.
As you get older, your metabolism can change and if your eating patterns are not healthy ones this can cause weight gain and health issues. If you’re looking to lose weight, there is no quick fix but you can look to change your approach to food, particularly the sweet, fatty foods that are the main culprit in weight gain.
If you are aware that you need to eat more healthily, but are struggling to find motivation, then hypnotherapy can help you understand your reluctance to change and could give you that little extra push to help you to get going.
Understanding the root causes of unhealthy eating habits is a crucial step toward making positive changes. Many factors, from lifestyle to emotional well-being, can influence the way we approach food. Below are some of the most common reasons people fall into unhealthy eating patterns, along with insights into how these habits develop and their impact on overall health. By identifying these causes, it becomes easier to implement strategies for improvement.
Unhealthy eating habits don’t just affect your waistline—they can have serious consequences for your overall health and well-being. Over time, consistently poor dietary choices can lead to a range of chronic conditions and health complications that impact physical, mental, and even reproductive health. Below is a list of some of the most significant long-term risks associated with unhealthy eating habits, highlighting the importance of making mindful choices to protect your future health.
The Long-term health risks of unhealthy eating habits include:
It’s worth starting by saying that there are no quick fixes when looking to move to a more healthier eating lifestyle. You will have developed your current eating pattern over a period of time and it much of it will have become a habit. However, there is research to suggest that hypnotherapy is effective by increasing motivation and limiting food cravings and emotional eating. Hypnosis is particularly effective when used alongside some form of psychotherapy.
The hypnotherapy approach to healthy eating approach will help you to recognise your current and triggers. If you reach for the biscuit time when stressed, for example, hypnotherapy will help to reduce your stress levels and help you to find better coping mechanisms. It will also help you to address the emotional element of your comfort eating. The ‘talky’ bit of the hypnotherapy session will help you to understand the areas in your life that are contributing to your poor food choices.
The trance part of the session will help you to relax and see things from a different perspective. Helping to motivate you to make better food choices that align with your goals. Hypnotherapy is a very relaxing therapy and once you relax, it causes a drop in the stress hormone, cortisol. Cortisol uses lots of energy and encourages you to eat sweet, fatty foods to create more energy. When cortisol levels drop, the urge to eat these sugary sweet fatty foods diminishes. Hypnotherapy has also been shown to be effective in helping you to sleep better, giving you more energy to follow through on your health goals.
The number of sessions you will need for healthy eating will vary from person to person. The questions that your hypnotherapist will ask to help them calculate the number of sessions you might need might include: “What foods would you like to add or remove from your diet?” or “What other approaches have you tried?” Another factor to consider might be the level of your commitment. You might be expected to listen to an MP3 download every night or to perform some other task between sessions. You will see results much more quickly if you do the things your hypnotherapist suggests.
The cost of hypnotherapy for healthy eating can vary from one therapist to another. This will depend on your location and the qualifications and experience your hypnotherapist has. To give you a rough guide prices can vary from £40- £150 per hour.
The cost of hypnotherapy for weight loss can vary from one therapist to another. This will depend on your location and the qualifications and experience your hypnotherapist has. To give you a rough guide prices can vary from £40- £150 per hour.
Hypnotherapy is a gentle treatment that can help children to eat more healthily. In fact children often find it much easier to go into a trance state than their adult counterparts. This is thought to be because children are more open about trying new things than many adults. Many children can struggle with certain textures and trying new foods. The more anxious they are about trying new things, the less they are likely to do so. Hypnotherapy has been shown to help with anxiety related issues in children.
Even before lockdown many hypnotherapists were running online hypnotherapy sessions for healthy eating. The good news is that there is now evidence to support the effectiveness of online hypnotherapy sessions for a range of conditions. All you would need to take part in an online hypnotherapy session would be a laptop, tablet or smartphone, access to the internet and somewhere quiet where you can relax.
Hypnotherapy works in two ways. Most hypnotherapy approaches use a blend of talking therapy plus trance. The talking element of the session will help you to look at your eating pattern from a different perspective. You might explore your current behaviours or thought patterns that are getting in the way of eating more healthily. The talking element might be some form of Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) or a Solution Focused (SF) approach. The aim is to help give you a better understanding of why you develop poor eating patterns.
This will then be followed by a trance session where the therapist will use hypnosis to relax you into a trance state. While in this state, which is a natural state of focused attention, you will be able to let go of any tension and relax fully. Hypnotherapy will help to improve your sleep. It will increase your motivation to eat more healthily and even to exercise more. When you are in a trance state the predominant brain waves change from Beta to Alpha and Theta, these allow you to change the way you think and to problem solve more effectively.
Start out with the basics, Search for “hypnotherapy healthy eating” in Google or Bing. The results will contain a map with local hypnotherapy businesses. Start looking through their reviews either in the search engine or on their social (Facebook) pages.
The best hypnotherapists will be registered with a professional association and with organisations that are accredited by the professional standards authority. There are only two in the UK and they are the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) and the National Hypnotherapy Society.
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