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The Self-hypnosis Diet: Use the Power of Your Mind to Reach Your Perfect Weight

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Steven Gurgevich, Ph.D. specializes in mind-body medicine. As your guide, he leads you through a number of hypnosis sessions that are non-threatening and nurturing. Having someone in your life to encourage you is a very powerful force for change. Spending time reprogramming your thinking patterns helps to banish negativity so you can achieve the change you are seeking.

In the first session time is spent explaining how thoughts influence the body and how the body influences thoughts. Steven Gurgevich explores the dynamics of weight loss and explores how you can achieve your perfect weight. He gives insight into the origins of emotional eating and explains why diet beverages can actually cause you to gain weight.

In the second session acceptance and self control are encouraged and positive affirmations encourage new positive lifestyle choices. I love the part where you imagine you are going up stairs into a castle tower. I felt like he was reading my mind because for a long time I've had such a place to escape to and it brings a sense of comfort. In this tower, you sit in a chair and listen to a calming voice leading you to places where you can remove emotional obstacles and understand why you may choose certain foods for various reasons. This hypnosis sessions on this disk include: healthy habits, emotional barriers, self-love and acceptance, and self-control for cravings and temptations.

In sessions three there are various ideas that bring healing to your life. You may choose to spend more time enjoying the preparation of food or choose to step away from food and introduce other emotionally fulfilling activities in place of unconscious eating. I did think that the idea about throwing away food was not a good idea after dinner - instead freeze the leftovers and reheat the next day. This will allow you more time to exercise because you won't be spending so much time cooking. There is a morning motivation, before dinner hypnosis and a bedtime hypnosis.

Through listening to the three CDs, you can convince yourself that weight loss is a worthwhile achievement and you can start to reprogram your mind so your metabolism increases and your self-confidence is renewed.

If you prefer not to put yourself in a trance (it feels more like relaxing into words), you can just listen to the CDs while fully present and gain a sense of what it will take to make an ally of your subconscious. You can use positive affirmations and many of the ideas to establish healthier habits over time. A booklet is included with additional tips and techniques for lifestyle changes.

~The Rebecca Review

I have been listening to the book for 11 days now and have lost 8 lbs. I am not exercising much (yet) other than parking further back in the lots and am not on any special diet plan other than eating whole, healthy foods, limiting dessert to 1 time per week and making sure I eat at least 3 times a day. I shoot for 3 small meals per day with snacks but have a hard time eating that often. Anyway...I listen to the book with headphones when I go to bed. It does have a wake up at the end, but it doesn't wake me once I am sleeping. When I wake in the morning I feel rested; I have found it amazingly easy to make healthy food choices and I credit this CD. I do recommend listing to hypnosis tapes daily when you first start.

The nice thing about these CD's (3 in all) is that you don't have to do any work except find the time to listen. I feel myself carried into a trance state without much difficulty, perhaps because this happens in the safety of my own home. The first CD gives many tips on reaching your perfect weight. The second has four separate hypnosis sessions (like guided meditations). Each one addresses a different issue around weight issues - changing your taste for foods, finding your own, unique reasons for gaining weight in the first place, loving yourself and visualizing the cells of your body functioning the way you want them to, and craving control. The third and final CD is one you should use daily, with three separate sessions for morning, before dinner, and before sleep.
In addition to the focus on weight loss and gaining your perfect body, there is an emphasis on feeling good in general, which I like very much.
I would say that for me these CD's are proving effective. In the past five days I have lost three pounds without stress. I notice that I'm drinking my green drink more than once a day(very unusual for me) and just am less interested in food. Pretty impressive.

Don't get me wrong - I like salads, but craving them? The CD doesn't make you crave salads, but it reinforces whatever diet you are choosing to follow. For me, I've been wanting to get more fresh veggies into my system for a long time. So I found it odd and really cool that after listening to the cd 3 nights in a row, I actually really, really, really wanted a salad when I went to order food. And I didn't feel like I was "missing out" on "real" food. I'm impressed so far!

I've been listening to the CD's for three weeks and there have been a lot of changes for me in how I approach food and eating. I have tried to control my emotional eating for years and now for the first time I can. I feel like I am in control and not always thinking about food. My appetite is under control as well and I'm losing weight. I love knowing I can put on my headphones and get the support I'll need. I don't don't know how it works, I just know that for the first time I "feel" really differently about food, eating and how that should naturally work in my life. I recommend these CD's to anyone struggling with a weight problem, poor self-
image and the confusing messages we get about what we should or shouldn't be eating.

I've only used this CD for a week but I know it's working. My cravings for sweets and potato chips are gone. If you knew me you would know how big a deal this is for me. Aside from that, the CD is wonderful for relaxing the body. I've reccomended it to several family members, they are just waiting for their copy to arrive. you can use this CD for many things you would like to change in your life. you just have to have the desire to do so. Expect change and it will happen.

I own quite a few self-hypnosis CDs and I am a strong believer in the power of the mind and of self-hypnosis...
I bought this item and gave it a few chances...: sorry, no disrespect to the author or to the other reviewers but it is rubbish!: too much talking, not enough affirmations, very unpleasant voice (rather irritating to be honest!) and too fast...what a waste of money...
I do respect that other people have a different opinion about it, fair enough, but this is my personal review and I would certainly not recommend this item to anyone.

to Amazon staff : would it be possible in the near future to be able to listen to self-hypnosis CD, just like we can for other CDs, please?

I find the author's voice actually quite soothing to listen to. I have the Audible audiobook (no CDs, just one big file) and I do wish that each hypnosis session was a separate track. I went through the audiobook via iTunes and wrote down the time when each hypnosis session begins. I printed it out and keep it nearby so I can fast forward to the specific session that I want to listen to. I hope this will help out anyone else with the program as an Audible file. (I tried to post this on the Audible website but I keep getting an error message.)

Healthy Habits 1:17:03
Emotional Barriers 1:41:10
Self Love & Acceptance 2:01:37
Self Control over Cravings 2:17:12
Morning Motivation 2:31:20
Before Dinner 2:52:44
Bedtime Hypnosis 3:07:47

I have tried everything I know to loose weight these past 3 months. I have, or what I thought been very focused. Counting calories, monitoring the food, exercise. Admittedly, I was slowly loosing a few inches with exercise but the scale was not moving. I decided to purchase the Self-Hypnosis Diet and of course very skeptical starting using it approximately 2-3 weeks ago. At first just getting use to listening to the tone of voice and what he was really saying was a challenge. The more I listened the more acustomed and focused I became. I am proud to say that I have lost 8 pounds. I have always exercised but coupled with the messages given on the CDs I found it to be quite rewarding. I just needed a little boost and these CDs certainly helped. All of them may not apply but as I got used to listening, I would pick and choose what assistance I needed.

I have never used self-hypnosis for anything but I am certainly I gave this a chance. I don't use every CD (other than the one for bedtime and morning trance)every day but rather pick and choose what I need for that time. Works for me.

This isn't the first "book on tape" that I've listened to by a doctor, who has come up with a good idea, but allowed his ego to get in the way and insisted he should narrate the book when he has an extemely irritating voice. His lisp get's on my nerves to the point of distraction. Dr. Gurgevich should have hired a professional with a strong, soothing voice to narrate the hypnosis CDs, if nothing else. Also, the CDs contain no music, which would have aided in the relaxation process. I've been meditating and using self-hypnosis for years and this is the first hypnosis I've come across without music.

The first CD is just the book part. There's nothing new on this CD if you have used self-hypnosis before. The only reason to listen to it is to get used to his voice before trying the hypnosis CDs. Since, I've gone through self-hypnosis before, I tried to use the second CD right away and found the voice so irritating I ripped the headphones off after about 10 minutes because it was making my skin crawl. The next day I put the first CD (which is not a hypnosis tape) in my car's player while I drove around to listen to what the doctor had to say. Again, nothing of importance, just what hypnosis is and how it works, but after listening to his voice all morning I started to get used to it.

The second night I listened to the second CD, which has several trances on it. He does not use the standard method of taking you into a trance, in fact, as each trance goes along he used fewer suggestions to take you under. This would be fine if it were one long trance, but he brings you out of each one before you go into the next session. If you start at the beginning and keep going it's easier to go into trance with each successive session; however, the premise is that you will only listen to each session that you choose at any given time. So, if you start with session 6 you'll get "ok, now you go into trance." That's it. No other suggestions to bring you under.

I listened to this CD for three weeks without weight loss success. I pulled it out again six months later, and still with no success. I gave it my best shot, but I would not recommend this as an effective tool for weight loss.