Smoking Hypnosis!

Most people think of smoking or weight loss when they think of hypnosis. But it’s so much more than that. Any kind of habit – like smoking, overeating, or nail-biting – brings unwanted side-effects. And this is what motivates a person to change.

But these are just symptoms. It's what caused the person to smoke or overeat or bite their nails in the first place that’s the ‘real’ problem. 

So I don’t work with habits.

Habits are simply learned behaviors. Most habits start out as attempts to relieve stress. They work – but only temporarily. It’s like clipping off the head of a dandelion. It gets rid of the problem for a while. But before long, it’s back. And usually it has invited some of its friends over to join it.

So the problem gets worse.

That’s the problem with behavior modification and symptom management approaches. We need to get to the root of the problem.

My approach is to help people get to the root so they can release all that internal stress inside. As a result, they feel better. AND they start to feel better about themselves. 

This empowers them to make healthier choices. Choices that are more aligned with what they want.

Every body has stress. It affects each of us differently. For one person, it may express through habitual behaviors. For another it may surface through uncomfortable emotions like anxiety, fear, phobias, anger, guilt, and depression. Another person might have performance blocks in school or sports. Test anxiety or difficulty concentrating are pretty common problems.

Some people have physical problems that won’t respond to conventional treatments. I don’t diagnose or treat or prescribe because I trust the wisdom of the body. The body is perfectly designed to heal itself. You can see this for yourself whenever you cut a finger or bruise your leg. If you break a bone you need to set it back in place but it heals automatically. 

Healing happens when we let it. 

It’s not magic. It’s one of nature’s ordinary miracles – what Hippocrates called ‘the healing power of nature.’ This healing power flows through the body’s energy system. Stress creates blocks in this flow. For example, under stress the endocrine system produces more cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone which, in excess, disrupts every system in the body. Over time this can develop into chronic conditions.

The American Institute of Stress estimates that 95% of all visits to primary health care workers are for stress-related conditions. Sleep problems. Skin problems. Problems with the digestive system. Immune disorders. Persistent pain. Infertility. The list goes on.Really, I don’t think that there is any physical problem that doesn’t have an underlying stress factor.

The good news is – anything that is made worse by stress can be made better by hypnosis.

There are basically two kinds of hypnosis. The traditional approach is what most of us learned in basic training. We learned how to guide a person into a relaxed state. And verify that the client is actually in hypnosis. And then how to formulate and deliver suggestions based on the desired change. 

Hypnosis is not physical relaxation. It is the bypass of the critical thinking part of the mind. And there are times when relaxation techniques are not enough. When suggestion alone fail to generate the desired change - lasting change - it's very likely the problem is rooted in unresolved feelings from the past. 

Regression hypnotherapy addresses the roots. 

Regression hypnotherapy is a body-centered approach to therapeutic hypnosis. It works to gain access to the deeper layers of unresolved pain from the past that generate stress.By working with the body you can guide your client to release the stressful feelings contributing to the problem. 

Release brings relief. And your client feels it immediately.

This isn’t a single-session approach, though. The goal of therapeutic hypnosis is complete resolution of the problem. The objective is to drain the swamp. Doing so will allow the mind and body to come back into harmony. So the client can heal.

Everybody has a swamp. 

Everybody has some degree of unresolved pain from the past. The bigger the swamp, the more it inhibits us. The more it controls our life. 

Some people’s swamps are inhabited by alligators! In this case it might take a while.

Regardless. Whatever is there, at the subconscious level of mind, releasing it will bring relief. Regression hypnotherapy allows us to release it. 

And wonderful things can happen when you take it one step at a time.

One release at a time.