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18 June 2012

Using Hypnosis to Change Habits

By Rick Smith


Humans have constantly been creatures of habits and not all of them are great for you. However you can rectify plenty of your bad habits and replace them with good ones through hypnosis or hypnotherapy.

There are several private continual obsessions and habit abnormalities like over reacting, over eating, smoking, obsessive compulsive rituals, bruxism, tongue thrusting, skin picking, trichotillomania, nail biting and thumb sucking or time wasting that've been successfully corrected and replaced by hypnosis.

How Hypnosis Corrects Bad Habits

An example will help you in understanding how hypnosis works in this situation. Many people have a bad practice of nibbling and piling on calories while watching TV and sometimes these people are obese. Infrequently these folks are so habituated to snacking in front of the Television that they aren't even consciously aware of their actions. It is mostly one factor that triggers another and eventually leads to the degeneration of your condition.

Other examples you can easily identify with are a cigarette and a cup of coffee or a pitcher of aerated sugary drink and fries along with your office lunch. Pro trained gurus use hypnosis to reprogram their patient's inner PC and free them from their old cycle of bad incessant patterns. Unhealthy, dangerous habits are also replaced thru hypnosis and changed for good ones.

Hypnotic Strategies and Tools for Conquering Bad Habits

A few of these tools and systems include (but aren't limited to) positive self empowerment suggestions, negative self talk redirection, mindfulness, positive memory revival, negative trigger desensitization, inner kid work, led images, interactive self esteem building, resource state discovery, habit replacement visualization, post hypnotic suggestion, progressive relaxation, deep diaphragmatic centered respiring and cognitive inquiry.

Hypnotherapy for Correcting Bad Habits

Every patient is unique and so are his wants. Therefore mental well-being execs have to invent customised hypnotherapeutic treatment plans for their different patients. But some elements are found in all hypnotherapeutic treatment plans which are noted below.

First off, the mental health professional has to spot the causes and triggers of unpleasant habits as well as underlying issues, issues and wishes. Then he has to look into the case study and negative effects and come up with a positive replacement behaviour.

He'll then set first goals for the patient the latter will have to focus on. The hypnotist will also invent a proper hypnotherapeutic strategy for his patient employing special methods and tools already listed above. Then he'll offer habit correction hypnosis and track the patient's progress. It customarily takes at least three sessions to notice any tangible improvement in the patient. If it's necessary, the hypnotist will again set new goals for the patient to focus on.

He'll also revise the technique and implement it for the patient's welfare. And this cycle will continue until the patient is successfully able to break his old bad habits and form new good habits. Hypnosis is furthermore used to bolster and consolidate new affirmative habits that replace the bad ones.




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