I think we need to look at the functions of hypnosis and how it engages the mind in dialogue and whether or not this is a way to incur weight loss in the body. For one thing, you need to understand that there hypnosis is something of a general application. It assumes that the preconscious mind is something that can be engaged on equal levels, no matter who is on the table.

It also assumes that the brain and the internal functions of the mind will receive and absorb these functions and new instructions without any sort of logic filter what so ever. Weight loss is something that cannot be easily introduced into a mind and body relationship that has been used to eating a certain caloric limit and associating the ‘good’ feeling with eating. You need to remove this feeling and there are some grey areas when looking at how hypnosis will try to remove this.

For one thing, how do you specify to the inner mind that appetite and the feeling of fullness is something that must not be associated with an addictive psycho-somatic circular function? Also, there are so many levels of good and bad, and how do we peel away the many functions of the brain and allow it to understand the instructions that are given to the conscious. How do we also measure the overall functions of the brain and the way they are tied to aspects of appetite and hunger, and how do we exert an almost hierarchical control to the body?

The problem with hypnosis is that it does not allow the end user or the practitioner to effectively measure just how much of the instruction has been absorbed and it almost tried to eliminate the truth that of course, the mind will be resistant to certain set of instructions, and this is quite down to the unique biology of individual human beings. You might have to consider that the initial ‘self belief’ that the treatment has worked can sort of drive the weight loss for a short period of time, but it will not last once the entire therapy has been removed.

The sub-conscious has a very short attention span, and it needs constant stimuli (if it is as surface level as hypnosis) to have any sort of effect. Hypnosis does not actually train the mind to self perpetuate the reality of weight loss, it can be stimulated to that direction for a period of time, and soon, the message will lose its strength, no matter how much it is repeated or exposed to the mind.

When you need to rid the mind of the addiction of eating and lose weight the effective way, then you need to consider other technologies that tackle the power of the mind. One of these technologies would of course be subliminal software and brainwave entrainment. The hype that surrounded it is quite sensational but the actual technology works. It is all over the internet, so let your fingers do the walking.