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Subconscious Alignment for Weight Control

Charles E. Henderson, Ph.D.

The subconscious part of the mind sometimes confuses being healthy with being fat. This causes a drive to be fat in order to remain healthy. Such confusion can be corrected with the proper use of self-hypnosis and suggestion.

Weight control is very much a state of mind

It is truly amazing just how many ways of thinking there are in Western culture that equate fat with good health. Or, on the other side of that coin, that associate slenderness with ill health (in which case the slenderness is usually referred to as “skinny”).

Sometimes these concepts run deep in people's minds and never come directly, overtly to the surface. And sometimes the thoughts remain effectively not stated. For instance, it is probably that you have never heard anyone say, “My, what a healthy, skinny baby!” Although you won't hear it as much these days with our burgeoning awareness of the evils of fat, in years past it was not uncommon to hear someone praise a baby for being fat. “My, what a healthy, fat little baby!”

How about this one: “You look like you've lost some weight. Are you sick?“ That one is a real killer and shows just how easy it is for weight loss to be commonly associated with being unhealthy. (Remember, we're talking about the subconscious level of the mind.)

Of course most people know that being slender is much healthier than being overweight. And anyone who's been around for longer than about 30 minutes knows that losing weight, while almost an American national mania, is tough! It's hard to do and most people can't, at least they can't keep it off if they do manage to lose a few pounds. So it is not surprising that we often jump to conclusions about a person's health when we observe any weight loss in them.

This concept is so pervasive it appears everywhere and in all kinds of formats in the Western world. Here is just one example taken from a popular television sitcom:

[Woman is cleaning house when her mother arrives for a visit.]
Mother: "You've lost weight. What's wrong with you?"
Woman: "Nothing. I'm fine. Put your glasses on."
Mother: "Glasses my foot. You've lost weight. What's wrong, are you sick?"

The canned laughter that punctuated this scene evidently meant it was supposed to be funny, but it was far from it. This is exactly the kind of interpersonal interaction that, overheard and recorded by the subconscious mind, leads to the subconscious imprint that weight loss equals sickness. We will never know how many people have recurring weight problems because of this kind of trivial crap that comes at us from every direction. (The category of “weight problem” includes people suffering from bulimia and anorexia.)

So, being thoroughly acculturated Westerners, many of us are saddled with the sub subconscious conviction that to be overweight is to be healthy. Conversely, to lose weight is to be unhealthy. Consciously this doesn't make any sense, of course, but it is perfectly logical to the subconscious mind because it functions only with deductive logic. (If inductive reasoning were available to the subconscious we would not have nearly so many dysfunctions).

For more on how to use self-hypnosis for weight control, see the books, CDs and tapes available from the Biocentrix catalog.

Thus it is that for most people the achievement of significant, permanent weight loss, requires one to deal with subconscious fixations about health and fat. As a first step it is a good idea to engage in some ideomotor questioning to determine your subconscious beliefs, attitudes and values as they relate to fat and health.

When you have done that you will be armed with the information you need to formulate suggestions that will work toward changing any dysfunctional subconscious beliefs, attitudes or values.

Then, when the weight loss program begins to show results, it will be necessary to formulate and apply suggestions to give yourself subconscious resistance to any negative suggestions people might make. As you now know, being asked if you are sick can be a potent suggestion that, if unanswered within your own mind and suggestion program, can undo a lot of good work.