Gastric Band Hypnotherapy is a relatively new form of hypnosis that helps people to lose weight by tricking their minds into believing that they have had a surgical procedure to fit a gastric band. By tricking the subconscious into believing that it now has a band fitted around the stomach the clients using the procedure report that they start to feel full more quickly and start eating significantly less. This means that they tend to start losing weight naturally without the need of a typical diet. Is is really that simple?

In fact nothing is as simple as it sounds when you start to look into the procedure in more detail. Gastric Band Hypnotherapy when performed by a proper Clinical Hypnotherapist takes place over at least 4 sessions to find out the reasons why their client is overeating before they fit the Virtual Gastric Band. Suggestion hypnosis works for some people but not all of the time so just telling a client that they have a band fitted under hypnosis will often not be enough. Instead a therapist spends a considerable amount of time with their client doing detective work before the fitting of the band.

Generally most of us eat too much because we are using food to help us deal with our emotions. Since we have been children we have been given food to help us feel better and to comfort us. Perhaps we were rewarded with food when we had done well and that made us feel happy. Or alternatively we may have felt scared or upset about something when we were young but when we were eating it made us forget about those feelings for a short while. These strong associations with food would have started in childhood and then have just been reinforced as we got older without us even knowing.

A Hypnotherapist can be considered to be a detective of the mind. Hopefully asking the right questions to get the answers they need from their client. Gastric Band Hypnotherapy when done correctly spends considerable time finding out why their clients have a particular pattern of eating and what emotion is involved in this. Once the emotion is discovered then work begins on helping their client to become much more conscious of the triggers that make them over eat so that they can begin to change their behaviour.

This work to find out the emotional reason for overeating and working with the client to make sure they are eating consciously can rapidly change their eating habits. As they are now paying attention to what they are putting in their mouth they start to notice the exact point when they are full. When this is compounded by the suggestions of the hypnotherapist telling them that their stomach is shrinking it has a powerful impact on their weight.

The Gastric Band Hypnotherapy virtual surgery is simply the icing on the cake as it reinforces the other work that has already been completed. This is why Gastric Band Hypnosis can work when other diets fail as it doesn't deprive you of food but instead makes you much more aware of what you are putting into your mouth.