I’m a sceptic

I was just reading through the forum as I’m currently seeing Aidan Sloan for hypnotherapy. My issue isn’t weight, but more to do with motivation – so there are some similarities.

I’d never had hypnotherapy before, but I was in the crowd at a health seminar a few years ago where the guy was asking people to imagine their favourite food, imagine smelling & tasting & enjoying it, then looking down at it and imagining there was…um… dog poo mixed into it. Pretty gross and unhelpful. I wanted to say to the girl that posted that if that was ‘hypnotherapy at play’, then its rubbish. Luckily though, that dog poo thing has NOTHING to do with hypnotherapy, and I wanted to just convey my experience of it to her.

I better just say that I was probably the biggest sceptic about whether hypnotherapy would help me – I just couldn’t see HOW that could be possible in my case. I was also dreading being ‘hypnotised’ and worried about what might come out during hypnosis. The ‘hypnosis’ part of it was nothing like I’d feared or expected, it was a refreshing and relaxing experience. Being in hypnosis felt like how relaxed I’d feel if I were on holiday, lying on a lounger on the beach, with the sun beating down and knowing that someone was preparing a perfect lunch to bring out to me soon. It might be a silly comparison, but I just mean that being in hypnosis is a very pleasant state to be in.

The outcome of the first session was pretty pleasant, helpful and sort of revelatory, but I did not feel that I had everything solved – I could tell that I just felt differently about things, but in a really good way. I could tell that there was some kind of switch in how I felt, and that I then had a lot of confidence that hypnotherapy was a brilliant and natural way to get to the root cause of the problem and get rid of it for good.

The 2nd session is where Aidan suggested that we actually get to the CAUSE of the problem and WHY I behave in the self-sabotaging ways that I have. This session was much simpler than I ever thought it would be. I still can’t believe the big shift in how it feels to be more in control of what I’m doing, calm, happy and relaxed. It doesn’t feel like a "quick fix", it feels like a ‘change’.

My next (and probably last or penultimate) session is next week and we’ll address the ‘HOW’ of moving forward and doing things differently and changing my behaviours. I’m looking forward to that.

I haven’t a bog’s notion of how hypnotherapy really works, but it doesn’t matter to me either. I just wanted to stop my self-sabotaging behavoiurs and stop doing the things that were working against me. Working with Aidan Sloan on this is working out really well for me and I have been recommending Aidan to other people.

I hope this helps the lady who posted – and I’d also like to say to her that I know where you’re coming from with your comments, but I’d say that you should go and have a chat with Aidan and invest an hour into your own personal well-being. He knows what he’s doing, he has a really lovely manner about him and that feeling of being daunted, embarrassed etc. disappears pretty quickly once you get there. I’d also bet he’ll get you sorted and enable you to liberate yourself from the hold that the food issues have over you – even if it feels like a tall order at the moment.

Its not about how hypnotherapy works, its not about whether Aidan Sloan is a nice guy or not, its about YOU and getting your problem sorted, and if thats what you want, you should go see him!

Wishing you the courage!

H