The X Factor Weight Loss
16 June 2008
Trying to lose weight is never an easy process. Even a reduced calorie-intake and an increased activity level is sometimes not enough to help shed the pounds. But can this new and powerful technique, Hypnopuncture™, help you to lose weight?
Hyp, hyp, horray!
Hypnopuncture™ is a combination of acupuncture and hypnotherapy that is having fantastic results with people who have previously struggled unsuccessfully to lose weight. Unlike traditional diets and exercise regimes, Hypnopuncture™ works by retraining the mind, enabling people to easily lose 2-4lbs a week over a six week course of treatment. Not only that, but patients often continue to lose weight after the six week course has finished and the weight seems to stay off. Hypnopuncture™ can also be used to help addicts stop smoking.
There are many benefits of using Hypnopuncture™. The acupuncture brings the body back into balance, boosts the metabolism and controls the appetite centres of the brain; and because the acupuncture releases more energy into the body, the motivation to exercise increases as they begin to feel healthier and more energetic.
Hypnotherapy works to remove unwanted eating patterns whilst keeping you focused on your goal. It aims to eliminate those self-disrupting habits so familiar to failed dieters, like eating unhealthy snacks, not exercising and over-eating. Negative thought patterns are replaced with positive suggestions for healthy eating and exercise. But the “X Factor” that makes this technique so successful is the removal of dampness from the system.
Hypnopuncture™ was developed at Middlesex University’s Research Centre for Chinese Medicine by hypnotherapist Paul Haynes and acupuncturist Alex Owen. In the theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, people put on weight and are unable to lose it because of damp energy and phlegm that is stuck in their body. This damp energy accumulates in the body through a variety of factors, but is mainly as a result of eating too many dairy and fatty foods. Hypnopuncture™ clears this “damp” energy from the body and gets the life force “qi” to move more freely and “kick start” the metabolism. This is done through a unique combination of acupuncture points and visualisations that powerfully amplify the effect of the acupuncture.
Acupuncturist Alex Owen says: “The effect on patients is really amazing. Although acupuncture on its own can help clear dampness from a patients’ system, with Hypnopuncture™ this effect seems to be amplified dramatically. Time and again patients come back to us after just a few sessions telling us how well they feel and how much more energy they have now. Weight which was previously difficult to shift tends to be shed quite quickly once dampness is cleared from the system”.
Paul Haynes, the hypnotherapist says: “Overall patients will lose weight with Hypnopuncture™ and feel so much better, have more energy, feel more positive and optimistic and generally experience a much greater sense of well being.
“Additionally if patients continue to eat sensibly and exercise regularly, the weight will continue drop off even after they finish the treatments, until their ideal weight is reached. The weight will stay off due to the increased vitality of their bodily systems as they will now have a healthy balanced lifestyle achieved with the help of the ancient body-wisdom of acupuncture and the cutting edge techniques of hypnotherapy – Hypnopuncture™.”
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