Advances in technology and in particular the rise of the mass media has caused normal concerns about how we look to become obsessions. How? 3 reasons:

1. Thanks to the media, we have become accustomed to extremely rigid and uniform standards of beauty.
2. TV, posters, magazines etc mean that we see 'beautiful people' all the time, sometimes more often than members of our own family, making exceptional good looks seem real, normal and attainable. (Although those beautiful people are not as beautiful as their pictures, thanks to airbrushing.)
3. Standards of beauty have become harder and harder to attain, particularly for women. The current media ideal of thinness for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population. Most women are trying to achieve the impossible: standards of female beauty have in fact become progressively more unrealistic during the 20th century. In 1917, the physically perfect woman was about 5ft 4in tall and weighed nearly 10 stone. Even 25 years ago, top models and beauty queens weighed only 8% less than the average woman, now they weigh 23% less. The current media ideal for women is achievable by less than 5% of the female population – and that's just in terms of weight and size. If you want the ideal shape, face etc., it's probably more like 1%.
   

Even very attractive people may not be looking in the mirror out of 'vanity', but out of insecurity.

So the question is are you normal? Are you seeking to achieve unachievable standards of perfection? And why does your body need to be perfect when you can accept so much imperfection in the rest of your life?

Hypnosis can help with making you feel better about your looks, getting things into perspective, and if necessary, helping you lose weight.