Hypnosis is oftentimes misunderstood, but more and more people are coming to now understand how hypnosis works and how hypnosis can help to break unwanted habits. Joyce Frye, an assistant professor at University of Maryland’s Center for Integrative Medicine explains how hypnosis helps: “ a hypnotherapist can help guide a person therapeutically by making suggestions such as how great it would be to smoke-free and breathing easily.” Suggestions however are just suggestions. A hypnotist cannot get you to do anything you do not want to do, but it can help to grease the wheels, or add some oomph to your willpower. Ultimately you still have to consciously choose not to smoke, overeat and break the unwanted habit.
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Lynne Harris wrote about her experience an article for Glamour magazine about with how hypnosis helped her to stop biting her nails. She said: “Hypnosis appears to circumvent the part of the brain that says, there’s no way this will help. If someone said to you right now, ‘The next time you see a cheesecake, you’ll want a carrot instead,’ you’d laugh (and dig in). But if someone makes that kind of suggestion when you’re under hypnosis, it sneaks past your rational mind and into the part of your brain that influences action.”
It has been my experience, especially when we are dealing with deeply rooted behaviors that are almost unconscious, such as nail-biting, or with habits that deal with addictive substances from sugar to nicotine, we change when we are finally fed up enough with it. There has to be a strong desire to stop. You have to really be on board with the awareness that the negatives are outweighing the positives. Once you stop doing the behavior for a week, it gets easier because you begin to see that you can do without it. When you doing the behavior regularly you are battling the cravings that are real. Hypnosis can help to make this process easier. I have also found that if you take up exercise and can get the exercise up to a level where it is creating a positive effect on your brain chemistry, this can also help to make you feel stronger which can strengthen your resolve to break unhealthy habits.
If you are curious you can download a hypnosis MP3. This will give you a good idea of how hypnosis works and if it is for you.
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