I’ve talked to several people lately who have mentioned trying hypnosis to try to lose weight. I usually tell them,

“If hypnosis was the key to losing weight, everyone would be doing it!”

But in our ultimate quest to understand what determines our own success in weight loss (or anything for that matter), I realized something…or at least I started seeing it in a different way.

If you go back to my last thoughts on the notion of our “mindset”, you’ll see how I have come to believe that mindset is this overarching way of thinking that can determine everything about what we do, and what we ultimately become.

And so, hypnosis, may not be some magical way of brainwashing us into doing something in particular, but what it might do for some, is put them in the proper mindset. That is, for some, the very belief that they have been “hypnotized” is a mindset - it gives us this powerful notion that something is causing us to do the right thing. Something more powerful then ourselves…so it just works. Actually, it probably works because we believe it works, and that ultimately makes us do the right things more consistently.

Maybe hypnosis does work!

You are getting verrry sleepy…