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Article: You are getting thinner: close your eyes. Imagine your food cravings floating away. Imagine a day of eating only what's good for you. Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight--because the news is: it does. Harvard Medical School psychotherapist Jean Fain gives you ten hypnotic suggestions to try right now.(includes related article "Eat Late, Gain Weight?")(Column)
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- O, The Oprah Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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WHEN I TELL PEOPLE HOW I MAKE much of my living--as a psychotherapist hypnotizing people slim--they inevitably ask: Does it work? My answer usually brightens their eyes with something between excitement and incredulity.
Most people, including my colleagues at Harvard Medical School, where I teach hypnosis, don't realize that adding trance to your weight loss efforts can help you lose more weight and keep it off longer.
Hypnosis predates carb and calorie counting by a few centuries, but this age-old attention-focusing technique has yet to be embraced wholeheartedly as an effective weight loss strategy.
Until recently, there has been scant ...