Hypnotherapy for Natural Healthy Eating
What is natural healthy eating? The
eating is natural when we follow nature. We completely forget that we are part
of nature. Our bodies are the miracles of nature.
Do you know how many cells are in your
body? About fifty trillion cells. This is an astronomical number, billions times
more than the number of people living on the earth. All of these cells working
together are your body, the wonder of nature, full of natural wisdom. Natural
eating means just following your body, looking with love at this gift which you
call your body and letting yourself be guided by it.
Natural healthy eating is when you
assist nature, when you assist your body with providing it with what it really
needs. This is when you are connected with your body and you listen to its
needs, so you eat exactly what your body needs and how much it needs, and you do
it with joy and with love, feeling your body’s satisfaction, enjoying its happy
response, its playful willingness to move and to exercise, the flow of energy
through its every cell.
It seems very simple and logical;
however, in our culture we lost this natural connection between the body and the
mind when eating just follows the body’s needs. We try to control the body, we
have heads full of rules about the right food, we become obsessed with calorie
counting. Everybody talks about dieting, not eating this, or eating lots of
that. There are so many rules to follow. There are new researches published all
the time. What was bad last year can be good this year… I especially like the
discovery about dark chocolate – it used to be the forbidden food, but now it is
considered healthy, even for your heart.
The obsession about food and healthy
eating is very often related to anxiety and emotional problems. It is a part of
a vicious circle when combined with the obsession about body weight and body
shape or the fear of illness. Anxiety and unresolved emotions trigger the
emotional eating; the obsession with forbidden food brings guilt and feeling out
of control, so negative emotions became stronger and more emotional eating
follows. How to escape this crazy obsession with eating and dieting and trying
to control your body with a hard fist?
First step is to realize that you are
much more than your body. How? Let yourself be aware of your body just now. Let
yourself be aware of your arms and legs, and your breath. As you are aware of
you body, you must be much more than your body, because otherwise, who would be
aware of your body? As you are aware of your body, you may look at it as a gift
to enjoy, you may see it like a little child who wants you to please you, who
wants you to be happy, who also wants to be loved. And yes, look at this gift
just the way it is, with love and respect, because it is a miracle and the
wonder of nature.
Hypnotherapy is the perfect tool to help
you reconnect with your body and to implement natural eating. The hypnotic state
provides the natural focus of the mind required to make changes on the
subconscious level to restore the natural connections between the body and the
mind and to implement the natural healthy eating. The hypnotic state allows you
to overcome the chatter of the conscious mind, the obsession related to eating,
the constant controlling going on in the head. In hypnosis, you are able to use
the power of your subconscious mind, the part of your mind which is closely
connected with the body.
There are four aspects of natural eating
which can be implemented in hypnosis, the four aspects of restoring the natural
connections between the body and mind.
1.
Hunger.
Hunger is a physical feeling, a signal from the body. Your body naturally knows
when it needs food and it signals it with hunger. However, in our culture, we
are rather hungry in the head, by seeing the food, we eat because we are bored,
we confuse emotions with hunger, or we are never hungry, we forgot how it feels.
In hypnosis you can reconnect with the body so you will be hungry only when it
needs food.
2.
Cravings.
Your body knows what kind of food it needs, and craving is just the way the body
communicates with the mind to get the required nutrients. In our civilization
this connection usually disappears early in childhood. When you restore this
connection in hypnosis, you will notice with surprise that your body makes you
crave healthy food naturally, and some other food becomes simply boring. It is
good to trust your body in this matter, because your body is well ahead of any
research, so if you really crave something, just enjoy it.
3.
Enjoyment and satisfaction.
Your body knows how much food it needs, and it will naturally tell you when to
stop. However, your body needs time to notice when it has enough food. In
hypnosis, you can implement the habit of eating slowly. When you eat very
slowly, enjoying each bite, your body produces a joyful satisfaction when it has
enough food, a very pleasant, light feeling. This is the signal to stop eating,
the food becomes boring.
4. Energy management.
The body has a natural tendency to store the energy in the form of fat,
especially when we are stressed or emotional. The body interprets it as a
danger, as a possible famine pending. In hypnosis, when you are connected with
your body, you can educate it; you can assure it that there is enough food
around. Then you can simply ask your body to use this fat for energy, and your
body happily listens. Hypnosis will also help you to relax and to reduce your
stress level.
Once you implement the rules of natural
eating, you are free to enjoy your food. You can forget the calorie counting;
you can stop obsessing about good and bad food. You can always eat when you are
hungry, because you are hungry only when your body needs food. When you are not
hungry, the food is simply boring. You can eat what you really want to eat,
because your body makes you crave what it needs, and who cares about the other
food, it is just boring. And yes, you let yourself enjoy your food, eating
slowly, enjoying the look of the food, texture, aroma and taste, and stopping
when your body tells you that it has enough.
