What is Gastric Band Hypnosis and Can It Help You Lose Weight?

Recently a few TV programs broadcasted news stories about a form of mental gastric band surgeries.  This is not a surgical procedure at all but a creative way of using your imagination to help your body imagine that you had the surgery.  Since your body now imagines that your stomach has shrunk in size, you respond by feeling full quicker, and refusing to eat too much food.

This does seem like an impossible concept to many overweight people that have struggled for so very long with trying to remove excess weight.  If you understand how our minds work though, it doesn’t seem so far fetched.  Take for example how we respond in the present  to things that we have similar experiences to in the past.

Music is something that many of us listen to regularly.  And since music is something that goes in and out of style, we probably have listened to certain styles of music and particular songs when we were much younger than we are today.   The feelings and experiences that we were going through at that younger age are probably just a distant memory for us today.  But very often when you listen to an old song today it can have the effect of bringing you back to the feelings, thoughts, and events of your life from long ago.   So you know how very powerful your imagination is.

What about an experience that you have never had before?  How can your mind create sensations that you have no prior knowledge of going through?  Well, we do have certain ideas of what things would feel like, or how we would respond to certain situations based upon similar occurrences that we have gone through.  We might not know how it feels to fly, since most of us I can safely say have never flown unassisted by some type of aircraft.  And if you have ever seen Peter Pan, you probably dreamed that you could fly yourself.  And if you used your imagination very fully, you might have been able to really feel like you were flying during that dream or daydream.

So you see, even if you have never had an experience you can still imagine what it would feel like if you did.  And when you arrange to use gastric band hypnosis to help you re-gain control over your eating and develop a new healthier relationship with food, you gain a powerful ally for your weight loss.

You can get more information on how gastric band hypnosis can benefit you in your weight loss journey by calling the Self Empowerment Education Center at 703 658-2014 in Virginia or  301 275-0126 in Maryland.    Don’t put off another day what you can do to re-gain your control and create a healthy relationship with food.

For more information, including videos, please go to our Gastric Band Hypnosis Resource page.