Dessert seems to have been a part of many of our childhoods, especially in the Western culture.  It’s been used as a pacifier and more.  Whether it was the fun times at the family dinner table or dealing with an emotional issue, desserts were used to help make someone happy.

I remember my mother bringing out banana pudding pie.  It was a cheap dessert and helped to satisfy our pallets.  That was only temporary.  Now, my mother wasn’t one of those mothers that would give us a cookie when we felt bad.  No, it was my American grandmother that did that.  Only sometimes, when I would visit or live with my grandparents.

We learned how to have a relationship with food and eventually have used food as a coping mechanism.  We may not realize it at a given time.  When we smell a freshly baked apple pie or chocolate chip cookies, it stirs up memories of an earlier period.  Embedded deep in our subconscious minds are those files which can trigger an emotional response to a smell.  Hence, we may decide to eat several cookies based on it.  It’s not our rational minds that make the decisions either.

Other times, when we’re under emotional stress, we may do the same thing.  When we were young, we may have been given something sweet by a well-meaning adult.  Doctors did it and so did dentists.  Sweets were always the go to option.  All that did was to embed that coping mechanism into our subconscious mind.

You can replace those coping mechanisms with ones that are better options via hypnosis or some other mind-training strategy.  Additionally, learning how to view food differently is an important part of the equation.   By adding in suggestions when you subconscious mind is open to them, you can tell it that food should only serve two purposes: To fuel and feed your body.  Now, you’d have to make those suggestions in a way that works for you.

Each person is going to be different and needs their own language that best suits them. That simply means the words that will ensure they embed into your subconscious.

If you’re doing self-hypnosis, it will take longer than being hypnotized by a professional hypnotherapist.  Make sure to do self-hypnosis every day.  When I worked with hypnotherapy clients, I taught them self-hypnosis and made audio CD’s for them to use.  The combination helped quite a bit.

I also made sure that they took action.  That includes getting rid of junk food and replacing them with healthy alternatives.  Keeping a journal helps too.  Reframing your viewpoint of food works as well.  There are many more strategies.  I would start with hypnosis.  Your mind has been programming since you were a kid and it’s time to reprogram it for health and for healthy eating.

Cheers

Bob Choat
America’s #1 Mind-Body Transformation Expert and author of Mind Your Own Fitness