Research about Sleep Disorders and Weight Gain and hypnotherapy

7/19/2013

According to new research stated in an article published on BootsWebMD, a lack of sleep can increase the chance of gaining weight. The study took 225 healthy, non obese people ranging in age from 22 to 50 years old. Participants slept in a sleep laboratory for 12 to 18 days and were randomly selected to suffer restricted sleep or unrestricted sleep. Some had 4 hours sleep; others could sleep freely from 10 pm to 8am.

Participants with restricted sleep ate more calories than those with unrestricted sleep. The extra calories, on average 550, were consumed between 10pm and 4 am, a time when the participants were kept awake. The overeating caused a weight gain of just over 2 pounds compared to just one tenth of a kilogram for those who had unrestricted sleep.

The results show the profound affects lack of sleep can have on the body and the influence it has on our meal decisions. One way to help with sleeping issues as well as with controlling eating habits is to use hypnotherapy. The National Council for Hypnotherapy is an online directory of hypnotists based in the UK. The organisation links hypnotists with clients looking for hypnotherapy sessions in their local area. Responding to the new research a spokesperson said:

“It is fascinating to see the effect that sleep can have on the body. Hypnotherapy can be used to treat a variety of problems including sleep disorders and weight problems, making it the perfect therapy to recommend in light of the study findings.”

The National Council for Hypnotherapy continues to follow health news.

If you would like to find more about how Birmingham Hypnotherapy Clinic can help you for problems such as anxiety, confidence, low self esteem, hypnobirth, gastric band hypnosis, sports performance hypnosis, weight loss hypnosis, sexual problems contact Birmingham Hypnotherapy Clinic.

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Open water swimming phobia, anxiety and panic attacks

Sleep Problems and Insomnia

Recently we had te pleaseure of working with a triathelet who had a severe anxiety when swimming in open water which was causing severe panic attacks.
The client was stuck at this stage and could not get over it.

During our session we establish that the client was making huge pictures of them swiming whilst feeling panic and swimming in a gigantic lake which was making it very scary.

Fortunately this client was extremele repsonsive to our techniques and had resolved the problem from the very first session.

Even more a couple of weeks later the client emailed us picture of her swimming in open water and with a huge smile with the following text

"Hello, I thought that you would like to see these. Thank you for your help".
Hypnotherapy for phobias

Sleep problems are notoriously difficult to resolve but Susan Boyle, who has suffered from chronic insomnia since she was 15, found hypnotherapy helped make her life and her relationship run more smoothly. Insomnia is an issue that is hard for those who haven’t suffered it to understand quite how detrimental to day-to-day living it can be. For Susan, battling a constant feeling of tiredness made it hard to get through the working day and even recreational outings were out of the question, particularly if driving was involved, for fear of accidents.

Only being able to sleep in ten minute snatches at a time really affected her health. Lack of sleep impacts on the immune system and made her very susceptible to picking up bugs. Consecutive bouts of insomnia would trigger acute migraines and was likely to have been one of the contributing factors that led to Susan developing the viral condition ME, which causes extreme exhaustion.

Read more about Susan's Hypnotherapy Session.

Panic Attacks

Anxiety

Just after her mum passed away Bryony began suffering panic attacks. Although she had experienced an episode in the past, these new attacks began to occur more regularly and were more severe.

Eventually they became an ‘everyday state of mind’ and Bryony realised she had no control over her life so needed to take action.

Consulting her GP her only options were medication or counselling. Not wishing to take pills, Bryony attended counselling but came to conclusion talking while someone passively listened was not the answer, especially when she had friends she could share with.

Find out more about Hypnotherapy for Panic Attacks

If you doubt hypnotherapy could be helpful to you, take a leaf out of Nadeem Arif’s book. After a conventional approach to dealing with issues around anxiety hadn’t worked, he began exploring complementary therapies.

Nadeem was always fascinated by the power of the sub-conscious and had experimented with hypnotherapy CDs but with mixed success as he was unable to enter a state of hypnosis on his own.

He then decided to investigate seeing a therapist face-to-face. Conducting his research, he contacted several people by phone and was particularly impressed with Georgios because he gave him plenty of time to explain his requirements and was offering the type of therapies Nadeem was looking for.

Find out more about Hypnotherapy for Anxiety

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Georgios Theodorou is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP practitioner, Psychosexual Disorder specialist at Birmingham Hypnotherapy Clinic.