Weight loss hypnosis can help retrain the brain's relationship with food through techniques like cognitive behavioral therapy, guided imagery, mindfulness, and hypnotherapy. It is different from stage hypnosis and aims to create lasting changes. The Gastric Mind Band therapy combines multiple approaches over 4 sessions to address individual needs, reverse health issues like diabetes, and help clients lose up to half their body weight through developing new automatic responses to food. Case studies demonstrate its effectiveness at sustaining weight loss.

1. What is weight loss hypnosis?
What are the benefits of weight
loss hypnosis?
Weight Loss Hypnotherapy – A new relationship with food is only the beginning

2. Weight Loss Hypnosis – does it work?
 Weight loss hypnosis can help you lose
weight and keep it off
 There are many myths or misconceptions
around hypnosis that can cloud the very real
results of weight loss therapy through
hypnotherapy
 There is a very BIG difference between clinical
hypnotherapy and “stage hypnosis”

3. Stage Hypnosis
 Stage hypnosis is a form of pure entertainment that only
seeks to amuse an audience by directing willing
participants to engage in what can often be silly
behaviou, under the direction of a stage hypnotist.
 Stage hypnosis usually takes place in a bar or pub, and
the participants have usually been drinking alcohol.
These subjects eagerly volunteer to be part of the show,
as a way to ham it up in front of their willing audience.
 Unfortunately, stage hypnosis, often seen as humiliating
its subjects to get a laugh, has undermined the
credibility and therapeutic benefits of clinical hypnosis,
and weight loss hypnosis.
It is important that you
understand the very clear
differences between stage
hypnosis and clinical hypnosis

4. Clinical Hypnosis or
Hypnotherapy
o Clinical hypnosis is practised all over the world, and is
extensively researched. It is used for treating a vast array
of psychological, emotional and physical problems.
o Clinical hypnosis is normally conducted in a private, one-
to-one clinical environment. It is a collaborative and
interactive therapeutic process.
o During a session, the client will enter a natural state of
focused relaxation, and calm.
o Through directed dialogue and the application of
various hypnotic suggestions and techniques, the client
learns to move beyond their fears and limitations to
achieve their specific goals for lasting self-improvement.
Stage hypnosis is a far cry
from clinical hypnosis – a
therapy developed over
centuries to help people with
specific anxieties, memory
recovery, pain and much
more

5. Weight Loss Hypnosis
 Weight loss hypnosis applies all the same
principles and therapies used to kick bad
habits. For example, you’ve likely heard of
hypnotherapy being used to quit smoking;
therefore it is only logical that the same
therapies be used in weight loss. However, to
be more clear – when it comes to weight loss,
suggestive therapy becomes more prominent.

6. The Gastric Mind Band – Weight Loss Hypnosis
 The Gastric Mind Band is a therapy, which
utilises weight loss hypnosis and other proven
psychological therapies. It was developed by
Martin and Marion Shirran, who over 10 years,
perfected the treatment. At their Elite Clinic in
Spain, Martin & Marion provide a real
alternative to the NHS surgical gastric band.
What you get is a surgery-free alternative that
is safe and very effective.
 http://gmband.com

7. The Gastric Mind Band
Explained
What types of therapies are used in the Gastric Mind
Band
 Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
(CBT)
 Time Perspective Therapy
 NLP (Neuro Linguistic
Programming)
 Hypnosis
 Guided Imagery
 Mindfulness Techniques
 Pause Button Therapy

8. Understanding the Therapies
Through a combination of different and proven therapies, along with weight loss hypnosis; the Gastric
Mind Band has got the world’s attention

9. Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy
What is Cognitive Behaviour therapy and how does it
help you with weight loss?
When it comes to treating anxiety
disorders, research has shown us that
therapy is usually the most effective
option. Unlike anxiety medication,
therapy treats more than just the
symptons. Through therapy, the
patient can uncover the underlying
causes of worries and fears. Patients
learn to relax, and look at situations in
a new, less frightening way. They
develop better coping skills, along
with problem-solving skills, and the
therapy can provide the necessary
tools needed to overcome anxiety.

10. CBT Therapy & Weight loss hypnosis
 CBT therapy and hypnosis is combined to
help treat people with overeating. Over eating
is actually a state of mind, and your brain can
be re-trained through CBT therapy and
hypnosis, ultimiately changing your
relationship with food.

11. Time Perspective Therapy (TPT)
 TPT evolved from cognitive behavioural
therapy (CBT). The therapy is "talk therapy",
and is goal-oriented. TPT works in clinical
settings as well as a self-help tool. TPT
switches the focus from past to present, from
negative to positive, clearing a pathway for
the best yet to come - the future. TPT has
worked for a wide range of people from every
walk of life.

12. NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
What is Neuro Linguistic Programming?
Neuro-linguistic programming. Neuro-linguistic
programming (NLP) is an approach to
communication, personal development, and
psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and
John Grinder in California, United States in the
1970s.

13. Guided Imagery Therapy
 Guided imagery refers to a wide variety of
techniques including simple visualization and
direct suggestion using imagery. This type of
therapy has found widespread scientific and
public acceptance, and is now being used to
teach psychophysiological relaxation, alleviate
anxiety and depression, relieve physical and
psychological symptoms, overcome health-
endangering habits, resolve conflicts, and help
patients prepare for surgery and tolerate
procedures more comfortably.

14. Mindfulness Techniques
Mindfulness therapy or exercises allow you to be
able to identify, tolerate and reduce difficult,
painful and even frightening thoughts, feelings
and sensations. Mindfulness gives you back
control over your thoughts and feelings. Rather
than having the sense that you are being pushed
around by your feelings and thoughts you learn
to be able to have some control over them.

15. Pause Button Therapy (PBT)
 PBT is one of the most important components
of the Gastric Mind Band therapy. It provides
additional thinking time, allowing a person to
consider the potential consequences of their
actions and adjust their behaviour
accordingly.
 PBT has been hugely successful in the
treatment of everything from addiction and
weight issues to depression, anxiety and
relationship problems.
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16. The benefits of weight loss
hypnosis
Weight loss hypnosis is a mind-over-
body approach that helps you get a
handle on eating
Re-training your brain:
Through weight loss hypnotherapy,
you already have everything you
need to succeed. Crash diets can
literally be a thing of the past, and
you certainly won't need the latest
pill craze or appetite suppressant.

17. The brain constantly
learns even when you
are sleeping…
When it comes to losing weight and keeping it off, you
must trust your innate abilities.
Look at it this way – trust in yourself the
same way you trust yourself to ride a
bike. You may not remember the first
time you rode a bike on your own or
how scary it probably was, but you
kept practising until you could ride
automatically without thinking about it.
The same type of concept comes into
play when one is trying to lose weight.
You need balance, and you need that
automatic response to bad foods.
Imagine for one moment, being able to
easily stop yourself from eating junk
food - weight loss hypnosis sets out to
accomplish this.

18. The Gastric Mind Band – Seeing is Believing
 The Gastric Mind Band has several case
studies presenting incredible results from the
treatment. The Shirrans base their high level
of success on treating each client differently
based on their own individual needs. Each
client that arrives at their clinic has their own
set of problems and issues; therefore,
personalising the treatment has helped
signficantly increase the success rate in each
client.
Kay Lindley's weight loss story: Kay
reverses her type 2 diabetes –
Read more…

19. The Gastric Mind Band – Seeing is Believing
 Martin and Marion have accumulated close to
8,000 hours of one-to-one clinical time with
weight loss clients, allowing them to
constantly improve and perfect the treatment.
Sarah Jayne Hart’s Weight Loss
Success Story - Sarah lost half her
body weight after having the Gastric
Mind Band Therapy – Read more…

20. Gastric Mind Band – Sessions Overview
SESSION ONE
 The first sesssion is called the conceptualisation
session. Lasting up to four hours, this session of
the Gastric Mind Band is designed to enable us
to gain in-depth and detailed background
information about your eating habits, your
current relationship with food, any past dieting
attempts, reasons for past successes and
possible failures.
 Read more at http://gmband.com/session-one/
SESSION TWO
 This session begins with two very important
tests: a blood test, to check your glucose,
cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and
secondly, a state of the art, indirect
calorimetry test, using the latest Korr Medical
equipment, developed in the USA, to establish
your unique Resting Metabolic Rate, (now
better known as your Metabolic Fingerprint).
 Read more at http://gmband.com/session-
two/

21. Gastric Mind Band – Sessions Overview
SESSION THREE
 This session is dedicated to Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy. Using all the data
collected in the first two sessions, your
therapist, normally Martin Shirran will
introduce you to a whole new way of thinking
about food, as well as sharing with you a
selection of techniques that will ensure your
new eating habits result in permanent weight
loss.
 Read more at http://gmband.com/session-
three/
SESSION FOUR
 In session four, the Gastric Mind Band will be
fitted. You will be shown an actual band, as well
as part of an operation. This takes place during
the hypnosis session, where you will then be
taken on a virtual journey from the hospital ward
to the operating theatre, incorporating all the
accompanying sights, smells and sounds,
culminating in the gastric mind band operation.
 Read more at http://gmband.com/session-four/