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By Abby Eagle (2025)
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Are you struggling to lose weight? You’ve been to the doctor, the dietician and the naturopath. You’ve even been to the gym and got yourself a personal trainer. You’ve made some progress but not quite enough. Well maybe one expert you should talk to is yourself. Yourself?! What do I mean by that? Yourself – your unconscious mind is like a silent partner that is with you all the time and will do anything that you ask, as long as you ask in the right way.
The unconscious mind is also the storehouse for all your memories and runs your body – so who better to talk to about reaching your ideal weight than your unconscious mind?
But how do you do that? How do you talk to your unconscious mind? The first step is to set up a communication system in the form of ideomotor signals. That might sound complicated but it is actually quite simple.
You know when you talk to people they will sometimes nod their head to indicate a “yes” or they might shake their head from side to side to indicate a “no”. Well believe it or not but these movements of the head are not conscious moves they are controlled by the unconscious mind. They are what we call ‘ideomotor signals’. Ideo refers to ‘ideation’ – that is thinking – and ‘motor’ refers to muscle activity. So thoughts producing muscle activity. Does that make sense? So did you just nod your head or shake it from side to side – or did you keep your head still because you are still not quite sure what I am talking about? And if you kept your head still are you now nodding gently in agreement with me?
So when I set up ideomotor signals with a client the first thing I do is to invite their unconscious mind to move a finger or a thumb to indicate a ‘yes’ signal – and then to move a finger or a thumb to indicate a ‘no’ signal. Once we have a ‘yes’ and ‘no’ signal then I show them how to use a hypnosis pendulum.
So with the pendulum we give the unconscious four choices – that is it can swing in a clockwise direction – a counter clockwise direction – up and down or side to side. In my case the pendulum swings in a clockwise direction to indicate a ‘yes’ and it swings side to side to indicate a ‘no’.
So once you have established the ideomotor signals you can begin a conversation with the unconscious mind. And the conversation may start with a statement, for example. “Hey unconscious mind I want to go through the list of foods that I eat and find out if the food item is beneficial to me or not.” Then you say, for example, “Is white bread beneficial for me?” You will then get an ideomotor signal for ‘yes’ or ‘no’. The next step is to find out to what degree out of ten is the white bread beneficial to me. And then to what degree out of ten is the white bread a problem for me? And that is where we use the hypnosis mat. You can get a free download from my website.
So with the ideomotor signals you can find out which foods are beneficial and which foods are a problem for you – and whether they maybe related to certain health conditions. You can also use ideomotor signaling to help you banish virtually any bad habit.
So if you would like to learn how to do this for yourself you could either book a coaching package with me so that I can train you up. Or you could just work your way through the resources on this website.
On my website you will also find a series of online courses which give you the tools and techniques to banish problem foods and food cravings, stop drinking alcohol, stop smoking cigarettes, marijuana and vaping and stop gambling.
And most importantly make sure that you enrol in the NLP Future Selfing Course. It is a foundational goal setting course and it is Free with the promo code.
If you would like some help in stepping up to to the next best version of yourself then feel free to send me an email and organise a free 20 minute MS Teams or Zoom session – and if you have not done so then please comment below, and join us over at Facebook.
You are welcome to join both groups as below:
1. There is the Facebook NLP & Hypnotherapy Group.
2. And Abby Eagle's personal Facebook Page.