HEALTH & BEAUTY
Originally published on Friday, 30 October 2009
You’re Back in the Room
UJ puts hypnotherapy to the test
It turns out you can’t try to intellectualise hypnotherapy. Pitching the 10% of your conscious mind against 90% of unconsciousness is just bad maths for a start. Which is where I struggle. I like to understand why I do things. My 10% ‘thinking’ brain has rendered the remaining instinctual cells a secretive bunch who don’t want to tell me anything.
Which is where hypnotherapy really comes to the fore. I went to Diana for what is presumably a common problem amongst women – emotional eating. I know I eat when I’m stressed/bored/sad/happy/lonely/angry. But for the life of me I don’t know why. But when you’re laid in an easy chair, completely awake but in a state of such deep relaxation that you can literally pinch the skin on your hand and not feel a thing, it’s much easier to delve into the unconscious and tease the little buggers back into line.
Diana’s methods include a long consultation, looking at problem areas and future goals, which all get incorporated into this personalised, melodious speech, which in turn, gets impregnated in the deepest part of your brain (like an alien probe, but far less invasive or scary). I was asked to connect ice-cream with cockroaches, learned to associate the voice of my own flatmate with a reinforced feeling of wanting to eat healthily, and somehow gained the desire to go to the gym more often.
Do this over a few sessions, listen to a special CD every night, and you’ve got a completely new frame of mind – just try not to rationalise it.
I’m back in the room and still not touching ‘roaches. I mean ice-cream.
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