Think Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Self-Hypnosis Secret to Permanent Weight Loss

Darcy D. Buehler, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice and has been helping people lose weight for more than eighteen years.

Dr. Buehler can be reached at her website drdarcybuehler.com. You can ask her questions and get feedback. Everyone can benefit from the support and individual attention the site provides. Since your feedback is invaluable, a questionnaire is on the site that Dr. Buehler uses to improve her methods.

Chapter one
Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis for Weight Loss: Rewiring Your Brain

Most weight-loss strategies involve dieting, in which your will is directed toward staying away from certain foods for a certain amount of time, but not about eliminating unhealthy urges altogether.

Using this CD, your will is directed toward addressing your most internal thoughts, urges, and finally, that area of your brain that generates the unhealthy cravings. With this approach you will be replacing the cravings with healthier thoughts and images and as a result will change your brain.
Your new brain circuitry will support and sometimes even initiate new urges fundamental to your new lifestyle. As you repeatedly listen to the CD and internalize the messages and make them your own, the guidance then is not from my voice, but rather deep in your own mind and the heart of direct experience.

The messages are also designed as a means of turning toward oneself with care and well-being. If you are an overweight person, this kind of care and nurturing from yourself is a rare experience. The negative messages that you repeatedly give yourself block the much-needed inner-directed care. Messages of fear, doubt, shame, and judgment are replaced with images of confidence and psychological strength.