Typically, bad habits include nail biting, hair pulling, and procrastinating. Every so often, you get the self-destructive, borderline addictive habits -- smoking, drinking, gambling, and so on. You can also get the weird ones like people who inhale mucus instead of blowing it out and people who blow bubbles in their drinks through straws.
I once had a friend who chewed modeling clay. Thank God most modeling clays are non-toxic, but that aside; it was disturbing. She tried substituting it with chewing gum, thinking her mouth just needed something soft and chewy, but it just wasn't the same. She reverted back to Clay-doh in less than a week.
It sets a new level of embarrassment for her. During public events, she'd discreetly spit the clay out. She didn't exactly have a pack of pre-rolled clay lumps in her purse. Oftentimes, she stuck to the same clay ball for the whole night, spitting it out and popping it back in. It was weird, it was disgusting, and she could not – for the life of her – kick it.
Understanding Bad Habits
Why do we have bad habits? You can thank your subconscious mind. While our conscious mind tells us that the habit is wrong, our subconscious says it's good because of the satisfaction linked to it. The subconscious acts on emotions, not logic, and it triggers feelings of fulfilment and gratification every time you do the habit – whatever the nature of the habit – which is why you keep doing it.
Understanding Hypnosis
Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis does not involve a pocket watch swinging back and forth and the words "You are getting sleeeepppyyyyy..." Hypnosis is actually a relaxed state of active, focused concentration. It works with the subconscious directly, circumventing unconscious thoughts like "this won't work" or "that won't help". Suggestions made under hypnosis sneak past the rational and appeal directly to the emotional.
People are now using hypnotherapy for weight loss, addictions, phobias, and other aspects they feel are detrimental to their growth and development. Stories from Adelaide, New York, and other cities attesting successful hypnotherapy courses have gotten the medical world abuzz. Studies and extensive research have been – and still are – conducted on the nature of hypnosis.
How It Works
Brain imaging studies have illustrated how hypnotherapy works. Imagine the word "blue" written in yellow ink. When asked what color the ink is, you need an extra second or so to differentiate the word blue from the color yellow. Your conscious mind reads the word immediately, and it also registers as a color, which is why you need an extra moment to process.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York put people under hypnosis and told them they'd be able to process the color of the ink immediately. It worked. During the experiment, brain images showed that the part of the brain that resolves conflict stayed inactive, proving that hypnosis could actually change the way the subjects' brains functioned. It's like the subconscious mind told the conscious mind to shut up for a minute.
In the same way, hypnotherapy can remove the feeling of relief one gets when doing a bad habit. Hypnosis can make the subconscious aware of the bad qualities of a habit. When the subconscious says "that's disgusting", the body will follow accordingly. With the subconscious fully in control, one can skip the chips, drop the cigarette, push the beer away, and keep the fingers nibble-free.
It took just one hypnotherapy session for my friend to kick her chewing-clay habit. The hypnotherapist asked her some questions regarding it (the usual "when did this start," and "when do you do it,") before guiding her in a trance. From there, the hypnotherapist was able to links feelings of disgust to chewing modeling clay. I'm happy to announce that she has been chew-free for almost ten years.
If you're interested in hypnotherapy South Australia, particularly Adelaide, has several notable practitioners that you might want to try or get recommendations from.
I once had a friend who chewed modeling clay. Thank God most modeling clays are non-toxic, but that aside; it was disturbing. She tried substituting it with chewing gum, thinking her mouth just needed something soft and chewy, but it just wasn't the same. She reverted back to Clay-doh in less than a week.
It sets a new level of embarrassment for her. During public events, she'd discreetly spit the clay out. She didn't exactly have a pack of pre-rolled clay lumps in her purse. Oftentimes, she stuck to the same clay ball for the whole night, spitting it out and popping it back in. It was weird, it was disgusting, and she could not – for the life of her – kick it.
Understanding Bad Habits
Why do we have bad habits? You can thank your subconscious mind. While our conscious mind tells us that the habit is wrong, our subconscious says it's good because of the satisfaction linked to it. The subconscious acts on emotions, not logic, and it triggers feelings of fulfilment and gratification every time you do the habit – whatever the nature of the habit – which is why you keep doing it.
Understanding Hypnosis
Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis does not involve a pocket watch swinging back and forth and the words "You are getting sleeeepppyyyyy..." Hypnosis is actually a relaxed state of active, focused concentration. It works with the subconscious directly, circumventing unconscious thoughts like "this won't work" or "that won't help". Suggestions made under hypnosis sneak past the rational and appeal directly to the emotional.
People are now using hypnotherapy for weight loss, addictions, phobias, and other aspects they feel are detrimental to their growth and development. Stories from Adelaide, New York, and other cities attesting successful hypnotherapy courses have gotten the medical world abuzz. Studies and extensive research have been – and still are – conducted on the nature of hypnosis.
How It Works
Brain imaging studies have illustrated how hypnotherapy works. Imagine the word "blue" written in yellow ink. When asked what color the ink is, you need an extra second or so to differentiate the word blue from the color yellow. Your conscious mind reads the word immediately, and it also registers as a color, which is why you need an extra moment to process.
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York put people under hypnosis and told them they'd be able to process the color of the ink immediately. It worked. During the experiment, brain images showed that the part of the brain that resolves conflict stayed inactive, proving that hypnosis could actually change the way the subjects' brains functioned. It's like the subconscious mind told the conscious mind to shut up for a minute.
In the same way, hypnotherapy can remove the feeling of relief one gets when doing a bad habit. Hypnosis can make the subconscious aware of the bad qualities of a habit. When the subconscious says "that's disgusting", the body will follow accordingly. With the subconscious fully in control, one can skip the chips, drop the cigarette, push the beer away, and keep the fingers nibble-free.
It took just one hypnotherapy session for my friend to kick her chewing-clay habit. The hypnotherapist asked her some questions regarding it (the usual "when did this start," and "when do you do it,") before guiding her in a trance. From there, the hypnotherapist was able to links feelings of disgust to chewing modeling clay. I'm happy to announce that she has been chew-free for almost ten years.
If you're interested in hypnotherapy South Australia, particularly Adelaide, has several notable practitioners that you might want to try or get recommendations from.
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