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Losing weight by imagining having exercise

September 23, 20241 min readByIda Chan
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I am taking hypnotherapy course in which I discovered I have aphantasia. Besides, I found out that I cannot "feel" the emotion when I recall memory. I would like to use hypnotherapy to loose weight. At class, mentor taught us to imagine running during trance, then our body will burn fat on its own. Does this imagination work for me while I cannot "see" nor "feel" me running?

Losing weight by imagining having exercise

September 23, 20241 min readByIda Chan
StrategiesVisualization
I am taking hypnotherapy course in which I discovered I have aphantasia. Besides, I found out that I cannot "feel" the emotion when I recall memory. I would like to use hypnotherapy to loose weight. At class, mentor taught us to imagine running during trance, then our body will burn fat on its own. Does this imagination work for me while I cannot "see" nor "feel" me running?
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Kevin Miller•recently•edited
Does having aphantasia keep us from even being hypnotized? If I can't recall something I've seen, can a hypnotist 'make' me see it? Or, is hypnotism more like dreaming?
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