You already know all the reasons to stop smoking. While studies show that about 85% of smokers want to quit, only 15-20% who try to stop on their own will succeed.
The rest need assistance and back-up to get there; books, subliminal tapes, the patch, groups, or of course hypnotherapy. Using any and all of these tools is great! Just get started!
Decide now if you are ready; you will need:
2. Pick up or learn tools to help inner mind to change
3. Practice, Practice, Practice
If you do this you will succeed.
In the hypnotherapy sessions, you will learn techniques of self talk and self treatment that go far into the future with any other issues you might wish to transform.
I take responsibility for my life. Nothing and no one does "it" to me.
I am giving birth to a healthy new me
It is important to realise the pain of smoking has to in your own mind become greater than the pain of not smoking. Is that the case with you? One must focus on what you hate about it and the new life that awaits you. This will not be the time to focus on what you love about smoking or what you will be missing.
People often tell me of the inner battle that goes on in their minds. This is because there is a conflict with the conscious and sub-conscious mind. We tell ourselves I must not have one now - but end up having "just one, anyway." This shows the conflict. Until you can reach the sub-conscious (or inner mind) and change the programming, you will continue to fight with yourself. Willpower and discipline comes through our conscious mind. No matter how much we will ourselves, unless our inner mind is also in agreement, then as soon as you become sick or tired, or sick and tired, you will go right back to automatic pilot functioning, which resides in the sub-conscious.
We all have secret agendas residing in our inner minds - that we have forgotten about. Inside we really do know why we are still smoking but have forgotton long ago why we started! It has dropped completely out of our conscious minds. We can recall it however, - with hypnosis. Once a person can feel why they origninally started with this crazy habit - they are a long way into quitting!
"I wanted to start because it was a way to be close to my dad," (who also smoked).
"Yeah, I was mature, sophisticated and it was a way to rebel and say XXXX you! when I began to smoke."
These (secret) beliefs no longer serve you. You need to let go of them. Are you ready?
Diane Kirkland Cl.H. zenobia@mindspring.com
Tel: (323) 223-8934