First it can help to motivate you to change the pattern. And, secondly it can reduce or eliminate the unconscious conditioning. Coping With Emotions By Distracting Yourself With Food Okay, this is a biggie. We need to be re-educated about feelings and emotions. It is time to look at this sixth sense that we call feelings and emotions in a more practical and useful way.
All feelings are good.
They are there to help and guide you. 7th Path Self-hypnosis works with all of these feelings, as well as giving you a way to suggest to yourself more beneficial behaviors than eating to cope with these feelings. Sometimes we will begin to think of food as more than what it really is, fuel. Food is fuel. But in our lives, food can come to symbolize many different things.