Friday, June 28, 2013

How Does Hypnosis Help People to Stop Smoking


How Does Hypnosis Help People to Stop Smoking

Many people use hypnosis to stop smoking. Please understand if you go to a hypnotist to stop smoking, the hypnotist can’t “make” you stop smoking. Nobody can “make” you do anything unless they put a gun to your head.

Hypnosis is the transitional state between being awake and falling asleep where your mind is clear, alert, and receptive to positive and beneficial suggestions. You must want the positive change in your life. You must want to stop smoking 100%

During the pre-talk of the session it’s good to recognize when you have an increased desire to smoke and what are the benefits of being smoke free for life. What’s your motivation to stop smoking? What are you moving towards? For example, are you moving towards good health? What are you moving away from? For example, are you moving away from disease?  

Different hypnotists have different approaches to help people stop smoking. My approach which has been very effective was to communicate with the client’s subconscious mind and ask it to generate new choices to do instead of smoking when the client has an increased desire to smoke which are just as immediate, effective, and available as the smoking habit to accomplish the same positive intention of the habit (the positive intention is usually to manage stress)

Some examples of what my clients came up with to do when they have an increased desire to smoke are: Take the dog for a walk, listen to music, play a game on the cell phone, work on the car, go for a walk, exercise, call someone.

Now my approach is based on Dr. Hebert Spiegel’s teachings which emphasize respect for your body. The client is taught self-hypnosis and to develop a sensation of floating while in trance. Then these 3 points are emphasized: 1. For your body, smoking is a poison. 2. You need your body to live. 3. You owe your body respect and protection. I also emphasize that once you stop smoking, you cannot have not even one puff of a cigarette. Not even after 5, 10, 20, 30 years, or you’ll be right back to where you started from.

Coping techniques are given if you get the urge to smoke: Stroking your eyebrow, which activates the third point of the strategy, “you owe your body respect and protection.” Rubbing your finger and thumb together, letting that remind you of your motivation to stop smoking and all the benefits of being smoke free for life. Taking three deep breaths and after each exhale saying to yourself or out loud with emotion, “I’m a winner! I’m a winner! I’m a winner!” which is an ego strengthening technique.

Breathing exercises are given to the client to manage stress because one of the most common reasons people start smoking again is due to stress.

Some of the stress management and coping techniques my clients have reported using are:

1.     Reminding themselves of their strong desire to stop.

2.     Not wanting to disappoint themselves.

3.     Rubbing their finger and thumb together, reminding themselves that smoking is bad for them and reminding themselves of the benefits of being smoke free.

4.     Put motivation and benefits of being smoke free on their cell phone and reading it when they get the urge.

5.     Taking a walk.

6.     Breathing exercises.

7.     Stroking their eyebrow, reminding themselves that they owe their body respect and protection.

8.     Reminding themselves that if they have just one puff, they’ll be right back to where they started.

9.     Ego strengthening techniques, like saying to themselves over and over again, “I’m a winner!”

If you have the motivation and truly want to stop smoking, through hypnosis you can become empowered to be smoke free for life.

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist. Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce.
Certified in Clinical Hypnotism by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches self-hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526

Email info@HypnosisByTony.com

For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com

 

 

Friday, March 8, 2013

Increase Confidence and Self Esteem using Hypnosis


Increase Confidence and Self Esteem using Hypnosis

The final step in my Weight Loss program is to increase confidence and self-esteem using hypnosis. That’s because when you feel good about yourself, you can accomplish any goal; including weight loss.

There are a lot of complicated definitions for self-esteem. But the simplest definition of self-esteem is how much you like yourself. How much you like yourself is the #1 factor in how successful you are in every aspect of your life.

One way to increase confidence and self-esteem is to say to yourself  “I like myself, I like myself, I like myself” as if you were saying it loud enough for someone to hear you 100 yards away. “I like myself, I like myself, I like myself.”

 

Another way is to remember a time in your past when you behaved in a particularly satisfying way; remembering what you saw, heard, and felt. Then instructing your subconscious mind to use the resources you used back then in the goal you want to accomplish now; using the mannerism and attitude you used back then during the present situation.

 

If you have negative self talk, one of the best ways to deal with that is to change the voice of the negative self talk into a silly cartoon characters voice; like Elmer Fudd or Woody Woodpecker.  Or you can change the voice to someone you just can’t take seriously; like Slick Willy’s voice when he said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, or Marylyn Monroe’s voice when she sang “Happy Birthday Mister President”.

 

One of the best ways to increase your self-appreciation is to experience the “Seeing yourself through the eyes of love” technique. In this technique, you imagine you’re sitting at your desk, writing your autobiography. You imagine someone who you know loves you is watching you as you write your autobiography. Then you imagine leaving your body, entering into the body of the person who loves you, and seeing yourself through the eyes of the person who loves you. Then returning to your body and writing what you saw, heard, and felt through the eyes of the person who loves you. This experience will provide you with the kind of deep personal self-appreciation, confidence, and self-esteem to accomplish any goal you truly want to accomplish.

 

These techniques, when done in the hypnotic state, are supercharged.

About Tony Longobardi, Certified Hypnotist.

 
Tony has a private hypnosis practice in Phoenixville and is a member of the Phoenixville Chamber of Commerce.

 
Certified in Clinical Hypnotism by the National Guild of Hypnotists, he teaches
Self-Hypnosis classes at Owen J. Roberts Adult Education in Pottstown and the Widener University Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Exton.

 
You can contact Tony by phone at 610.659.0526
Email info@HypnosisByTony.com
For more info on Tony and Hypnosis, visit www.HypnosisByTony.com