http://positivetranceformations.com.au/eating-disorders/ Eating disorders, including Bulimia are instigated, controlled and run by the Subconscious mind, which is emotionally driven. Therapy or intervention to change the behaviour needs to work with the subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy, NLP and EFT do just that.

1. Eating Disorders
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2. Eating disorders are an ever increasing
problem in Western Countries including
Australia, for children, adolescents and
adults alike. Recent Australian studies have
indicated eating disorder behaviour has
increased twofold in Australia in the last five
years, and that 9% of the population (men
and women) will suffer from one, at some
point in their lives.

3. While Eating Disorders (ED’s) effect both
males and females, girls and women account
for 75% of all Eating Disorder sufferers,
while boys and men account for 25%.

4. There’s no single cause for eating disorders
although family and cultural pressures such
as the media promoting an “ideal” weight, as
well as a host of emotional and personality
factors

5. (such as being perfectionist, being of above
average intelligence, having very high
standards, having a controlling or
domineering member of the family, and
suffering from anxiety), are all candidates
that may play a role.

6. Bulimia nervosa

7. Bulimia is the more common eating
disorder, and its sufferers are usually near
average weight or even slightly overweight.
Bulimics engage in periods of binge eating
(more food than most people would eat in
the same time), and purging (to rid their
bodies of the food).

8. Purging includes intense exercise, forced
vomiting, fasting, and using laxatives.

9. About 5% of the population suffer from
bulimia but the true incidence is estimated
to be as high as one in five in the student
population. The current lifetime prevalence
in Australia is 2.9%.

10. Bulimics tend to become very adept at hiding
their behaviour from others, including
family, partners and friends. Often Bulimic
behaviour becomes almost ritualised and
planned, while at other times it can be
spontaneous and opportunistic.

11. The individual engaging in Binge and Purge
behaviour often feels as though the
behaviour itself, gives them the feeling or
perception of gaining control and
empowerment, often accompanied by a
temporary feelings of gratification or
satisfaction.

12. There is often a kind of “Have my cake and
eat it too” feeling and mentality for the
bulimic, in so far as the behaviour yields a
form of temporary emotional gratification
and access to changing the way they feel,
during the binge faze,

13. while at the same time perceiving or
believing that the purge faze then expels the
“evil” of extra calories and weight gain.

14. This is, in fact, largely a misperception in
practice, however rational thinking and
eating disorders, do not reside in the same
neighbourhood of the brain.

15. Which is why Interventions that aim to assist
Bulimics by convincing them to alter their
behaviour with rational arguments against
the behaviour, are doomed to fail.

16. Eating disorders, including Bulimia are
instigated, controlled and run by the
Subconscious mind, which is emotionally
driven.

17. Therefore, therapy or intervention to change
the behaviour needs to work with the
subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy, NLP and
EFT do just that.

18. Know how Hypnotherapy Brisbane can
help eliminate eating disorders.