Diet and hypnosis, hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapist Dr Gomez informs and reassures us about using hypnosis as a dieting aid. 

How do you define hypnosis to your patients?
Hypnosis is a technique that allows me to give patients access to their own resources. The therapist has no power; there's no magic involved. My role is to open a door the  the patients go through themselves.

How does it work?
The left side of the brain represents the conscious and the right side represents emotions and the unconscious. The unconscious part remembers everything: each moment you've lived through, each feeling of pain you've experienced, and so on and so forth, while the left side manages, arranges, forgets and doesn't understand why there's a problem. The conscious left side of the brain doesn't have the power to win over the unconscious right side.
In the case of a diet for example, people often have bad habits that willpower on its own can't confront. Habits like smoking or phobias like fear of flying don't just disappear through willpower alone. They're deeply embedded in us, so in order to change, the unconscious must be addressed.

Why does it work?
First, yiou have to supply the unconscious mind with the raw material it needs to change, to connect it. Once this has been done by hypnosis, we can really change behaviour. Difficulties are transformed into pleasures.
In the case of diets, for example, the unconscious is taught that pleasure can be derived from eating healthily! It's important that people realise it's not their fault that things happen to them. The sense of guilt needs to be removed and they need to know on what level they can act, whether it be at a conscious or unconscious level.