Someone drew my attention to an article published this past year in a respected national newspaper. It absolutely was all about an obese woman who lost 8 stone having a virtual gastric band fitted under hypnosis. Exactly what a success story for hypnotherapy! Or could it be?
Folks are becoming increasingly alert to the virtual gastric band. Clients increasingly enquire about virtual gastric band treatment as opposed to hypnotherapy for weight loss. They try this in the belief that their problem can be solved by one session of hypnotherapy and that no subsequent effort on their part is required. They believe, or hope, that the virtual gastric band is a magic wand that will simply make their weight problem disappear. If perhaps it were that simple.
They say, don't they, that there's no such thing as bad publicity. I've never thought that to be true. Stories which proclaim the success of hypnotherapy are always welcome - but only when they're credible.
I'd like to start with saying that I'm quite prepared to think that the girl in the content did indeed lose plenty of weight. But the content helps it be pretty clear that this is not achieved by virtual gastric band suggestions alone but by adopting the type of radical liquid-through-to-solids diet which would be adopted by a person who had a real gastric band fitted. This article also says that she had ten sessions of hypnotherapy and that the expense of treatment was £270. However I'd a look at the website of the practitioner in question. He charges £270 for three sessions, not ten contribution. Put simply, his fees are £90 per session. If the girl had ten sessions then that will cost her £900. If you look at a few of the readers' comments on the content you might find that the most up-to-date comment hits the nail on the head. The lady lost weight because she adopted a radical diet, not due to some virtual "magic-wand" ;.And when she returns to a "normal" diet, the length of time will the weight stay off for? Not likely very long.
How are these treatments likely to work? Hypnosis can make the body do some amazing things. Operations can be carried out using only hypnosis as anaesthetic. It is quite conceivable that under hypnosis a person may be made to feel as if a procedure had been performed and a gastric band had been fitted. But once the hypnosis is terminated the client isn't left with a stomach that has somehow been shrunk by hypnosis. They might be told that they can feel as if a gastric band has been fitted. But how can they know what that really is like if they have never actually had the operation?
Essentially, then, the client is told that their stomach isn't as large as it used to be. It is possible that the highly suggestible client might accept that suggestion and lose weight. But how? By suddenly feeling sick when "too much" food has been eaten? By being confronted with a selection between feeling sickness and discomfort on usually the one hand and hunger on one other? But individuals who are suggestible enough to simply accept an indication like that are also ideal subjects of conventional hypnotherapy fat loss treatments. For such people the elaborate hoax of a non-existent surgical operation is not required.
When I first heard about virtual gastric band treatments I knew that I could not offer such treatments because nothing that's based upon an overall total lie can ever succeed in the long-term. Reality will always win out.
As far as I'm aware, virtual gastric band treatments have not been scientifically scrutinized or tested. I are finding no reference to virtual gastric band treatments in scientific publications such as for example Contemporary Hypnosis or the European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. There may, therefore, be dangers in the therapy which may have not even arrive at light. Yet I suspect that the key problem is sheer ineffectiveness. Many of my own clients have experienced virtual gastric band treatments and are finding them to be both highly expensive and totally ineffective.
At the conclusion of the day, you can find no magic wands. There's one way, and one way only, to reach permanent and lasting fat loss - by making lasting changes to diet and / or exercise regime.
Shortcuts and magical solutions such as the virtual gastric band are just gimmicks. The thing that your virtual gastric band is guaranteed to create lighter is your purse or your wallet!
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