Marie Beach - Lighten Up! Lose Weight!: A 10 Week Self-Hypnosis Program

Lighten Up!
Lose Weight!!

a ten-week self-hypnosis program

Marie Beach, C.Ht.

Copyright 2003 Marie Beach. All rights reserved.

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DISCLAIMER: Please check with your doctor before contemplating this or any other weight loss program to rule out any physical and medical causes for excessive weight.

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My acknowledgements to:

Jennifer Willis, Nancy Powell, Al Marschall, Helen Schucman, and most particularly to my clients at the All Hypnosis Center for teaching me.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Beach, Marie

Lighten up! lose weight! : a 10 week self-hypnosis program / Marie H. Beach.

ISBN 1-55395-706-7

ISBN 978-1-4122-5313-0 (ebook)

1. Weight lossPsychological aspects. 2. Autogenic training.

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RM222.2.B42 2003 613.25 C2 0 03-9 01573-4

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Contents

This Ten-week Weight program is unique because it does not focus on food but the emotions that drive you to eat food inappropriately. Emotions are what send you looking in the refrigerator for something that isnt there and never will be. Overeating is the symptom, not the cause of being overweight, unless, of course, there is a existing physical condition. And we urge you before starting any program to Lighten Up! to see a doctor to rule out all physical causes. We also recommend seeing an allergist because food allergy and food sensitivities can also contribute to weight gain.

Your Lighten Up! Lose Weight!! program is an intense examination of your emotions, including unforgiveness. Yes, not forgiving someoneor yourself-can create emotional and physical havoc beyond your wildest imagination. Such is the stuff that makes up your blocks and issues that motivates compulsive behavior toward food.

Lighten Up! utilizes the power of your mindyour subconscious mindthrough self-hypnotism. In this mind-some-times called a trance state-(surprisingly similar to when you are driving and on being automatic pilot) you gain insight into what unmet needs and emotions are being satisfied by food. Like antide-depressants, an excessive intake of food can take the edge off whats bothering you, but like most temporary fixes can make it more difficult to get down to the root cause. In a program of self-hypnotism (or hypnosis, as it is more commonly referred), your subconscious is re-programmed or retrofitted with much more uplifting, self-affirming suggestions, changing negative to positive. The effectiveness of hypnosis in weight loss has been demonstrated in three recent studies: first, in a control study conducted by University of Connecticut scientists, it was found that test subjects lost 60% more weight using hypnosis than those using other strategies. Then there was a NBC Dateline TV broadcast in April of 2003 reporting hypnosis as the second most successful of six weight loss programs tested, which included Atkins Diet, extreme exercise, Slim Fast and Weight Watchers. The news magazine followed six people preparing for their 25 th high school reunion for four months. Hypnosis came in second. The man who utilized hypnosis lost 40 pounds compared to the first place winner, who lost 50 pounds on the Atkins Diet. All this proves to me is the necessity for us to cut down on our sugar and simple carbohydrates intake rather than a case for giving in to eating all that meat and fat the Atkins requires. Again one has to think longer term. Furthermore, I consider such extreme weight loss, in either case, over a period of four months to be extremely unhealthy. The third study demonstrating the effectiveness of hypnosis in weight loss was a study published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders, that showed it effective even in small doses; subjects who used hypnosis techniques just once lost nearly twice as much weight as a control group.

But claims alone will not convince you of the effectiveness of hypnosis and self-hypnosis until you experience it for yourself. What first changes is realizing that food has only the power you give it. You give it the power to do for you what it cant: to make you happy and feel pleasure. But what hypnosis greatest power is that it gives you the clarity to make better choices. This is true power.

What is exciting about the Lighten Up! Ten Week Self-Hypnosis program is its minimal cost as compared to other weight management programs. Also, it utilizes what you will always have going for you-that wonderfully exquisite mind-the subconscious. Once you accept the power of this mind, you are empowered as you have never been empowered. That, this book, and a tape recorder is all you need. What could be simpler? Your program is divided into ten-week segments. Your rate or volume of weight loss is determined entirely by your commitment to following the program. (However, each of you will have a different rhythm, time and volume.) The important thing is being patient with yourself; do not give up during normal, low bio-rhythm times. For a woman this might occur during her pre-menstrual cycle. It is a time when uncontrollable cravings can almost possess you. There are several possibilities why including the presence of parasites, but thats far outside the goal of this book. Another possibility is food sensitivities become heightened during PMS. Another is that eating meat suffused with antibiotics and hormones may engulf a womans own hormonal system to create a rush so overwhelming one wants to eat everything in sight. Or, it may be that during PMS, the body is requiring more nutrition than it is getting, particularly protein.

Each weekly segment features a different topic discussing the emotional causes of obesity that have stood in the way of your quest to maintain a slimmer self. These topics are to be read, re-read, and even

discussed with loved ones for feedback, particularly the parts that you feel dont apply to you. The feedback of loved ones is important because often they know us better than those for whom we put on a smiley face. Meditate, ponder, and retreat into the quiet to process the reading material and see what it has to say to you. The first time you may read and outright reject these concepts as making more out of weight problems than is there. Or the root causes and concepts may be/feel familiar if youve done other areas of inner work, but you hadnt applied them to weight. Become aware that if there is a dysfunction on one level-be it mind, body or spirit-it will impact the other two. This is the secret of you-the total revelation of who and what you are. You are a Oneness revealing itself as a triad.