Are You Ready To Stop Smoking with Hypnosis?

If you have decided you want to stop smoking, you might have heard of various methods including nicotine patches, nicotine chewing gum, acupuncture, prescription drugs and will-power. So, why use hypnosis?

1. It works immediately.
2. Hypnosis reprograms your mind at the powerful subconscious level to make the changes permanent.
3. A hypnosis session is pleasant and deeply relaxing with no side effects.

Have you considered what your life would be like if you never smoked again?
Imagine feeling healthy every day if you were no longer inhaling tobacco smoke with all its poisons into your body. Imagine starting the day without a coughing fit. Imagine feeling younger, fitter and more attractive if your body was optimising your health and energy, rather than suffering additional damage every day.

Imagine how happy and confident you would feel knowing that you had lengthened your life by years, possibly decades, and knowing you had greatly improved your chances of avoiding health problems.

Your family will thank you for taking responsibility to give you the best chance of a long and healthy life. A friend's husband died of lung cancer after 20 years of smoking, leaving behind an adoring wife and two girls who were not even ten years old. His girls still resent him for continuing to smoke when they begged him to stop and now leaving them so early in their lives.

Think about the thousands you will save over the years and all the fun things you can do to improve the quality of your life and of your loved ones. Wouldn't you rather put your children through university than smoke your way to an early grave?

Just imagine ...

The Fastest Way to Transform Your Life

There are several ways to stop smoking but many take a lot of time, many have a low success rate and some even have damaging side effects. Nicotine based products might stop you smoking but keep you addicted to nicotine with the possible risk of oral cancer from nicotine chewing gum.

Hypnotherapy, by contrast, offers a method which enables the smoker to give up smoking immediately, permanently in a deep, relaxing way without any side effects. New Scientist magazine (October 1992) investigated the various stop smoking methods available in a huge study involving 72,000 people and found hypnotherapy to be the most successful.

Stop Smoking with Hypnotherapy

The hypnotherapist induces hypnosis which is a simple and relaxing process which everyone can experience and then makes a number of suggestions to you which will allow you to leave smoking behind in the past.

How It Works

Every smoker started smoking for a reason, often during their teenage years to "appear big and grown up". Everyone thinks they can stop anytime they want to but often find it is not as easy as they think. So they look at various ways of stopping, usually waste lots of time and money before trying hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy works by accessing the subconscious mind direct because that is where every experience we have ever been through is stored and creates habits, good and bad ones. The subconscious mind does not know any difference between imagination and reality so if you reprogram it with positive outcomes, albeit imagined ones, it will do what is necessary to make them a reality. That is why hypnotherapy works for so many issues, not just stopping smoking.

Your hypnosis session will reinforce the positive outcomes of becoming and remaining a non-smoker.

Some people even have unnecessary fears about stopping smoking such as overeating as a substitute and putting on weight. Hypnosis will give positive suggestions to stop that happening. You will not be fighting cravings but rather enjoying the benefits of clean air, unclogged lungs, fresh-smelling clothes.

Remember that international scientific research by New Scientist reported that hypnotherapy is a much more powerful help than willpower alone, gum, patches and the other methods.

The average smoker spends around £2000 per year on smoking so stopping smoking will save a fortune over the years. Maybe even enough to buy your home outright. It therefore makes sense to invest a relatively small sum now to stop smoking quickly, either by visiting a qualified and experienced hypnotherapist for personal therapy or download a hypnosis Mp3 to overcome the habit in the comfort of your own home. You can find a download hypnosis Mp3 here or here.

©Antonia Stuart-James 2008 from Hypnotherapy for Positive Change and English Hypnotherapist in Belgium

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Last weekend I attended the amazing "Breakthrough to Success" three-day seminar with Christopher Howard in Dublin.

I heard he was a master in hypnosis and NLP which are my fields of interest but I was not prepared for such a significant result. I made two major personal breakthroughs and shared the experience of seeing transformation in others. We worked on values, limiting decisions, negative beliefs and so much more.

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That's right. FREE. Normally two tickets valued at £1,790 are now yours for FREE. No catch. Simply that Chris hopes you will gain so much benefit that you will want to attend additional trainings or tell your friends. There are books and CD programs on sale at the event but there is absolutely no obligation to buy and you will gain enormous benefit from attending this seminar, irrespective of whether you decide to invest in further programs with him as I have done. Personally I have enrolled for his full Fast Track Program to gain the benefit of Master NLP Certification, Training skills and challenging seminars in all areas of my life.

This weekend can bring you the breakthrough you have been looking for, whether in career, finances, relationships or health. I thought I had achieved significant work in seminars in the past until I attended this one in Dublin.

You may not know me but I hope you will trust me on this and just go.
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7 Ways to Soothe your Shyness

Shy people instinctively know that they are missing out. Shyness equals lost opportunities, less pleasure and fewer social connections. Shyness can be crippling but there are tried and tested ways to make it a thing of the past.

When I was fifteen I was shy. I recall an attractive girl attempting to engage me in conversation. My shyness made me focus on me instead of her. I heard my own voice but not hers and I thought about what I was trying to say instead of what she was trying to say.

The formula for shyness is "too much focus on the self" plus anxiety. To make it even more unpleasant, sometimes when you are feeling shy you experience physical sensations which 'hijack' your calm logical self.

My pulse raced, my mouth dried up and I felt like the village idiot! I couldn't think what to say so I said nothing apart from making barely audible grunting noises! Cary Grant eat your heart out! When I detected pity in her eyes (or was it contempt, or boredom) I mumbled my excuse and got out of there. I hated being shy and was determined to change it.

How shyness is developed and maintained

Shyness really is a combination of social anxiety and social conditioning. To overcome shyness you need to learn to relax socially. This enables you to direct your attention away from yourself and gives you the space to practice certain conversational skills. In most cases, the heightened emotions of socializing when young simply condition the sufferer to respond to social events with fear, instead of excitement and pleasure.

Relaxed socializing is so pleasurable, not to say productive, but it is an advantage denied to many until they learn to relax. To start reducing your own shyness, I want you to absorb the following tips and ideas and start to put them into practice:

1) Think about the way you feel and behave around familiar people you are comfortable and spontaneous around. It's that feeling transferred to new people and situations that equates to your emerging social confidence.

2) Focus your attention away from yourself. Sure, you can think a little bit about how you are coming across, but if all your focus is on your own words and feelings then you might as well be by yourself. Notice what other people are wearing and make a mental note, listen to their conversation, imagine where they might live, make a point of remembering names. Not only does this give you more to talk about, it also 'dilutes' social anxiety leaving you feeling calmer.

3) Ask people open questions. Many people like to talk about themselves and will find you interesting if you find them interesting. Ask questions that require more than a 'yes'/'no' response such as 'What do you like about this place?' rather than: 'Do you like this place?' Once they've answered use 'add-on' questions connected to the first such as: 'What other places do you like in this city.?' Next you can express your views. This is a great way to get the conversation going. If the conversation doesn't 'take' then no matter, you've done your bit.

4) Stop trusting your imagination so much! Have you ever had an imaginary picture in your mind of a holiday destination only to arrive and find the reality is different from the way you had imagined? That's how reliable imagination is. Stop imagining what others think. I do lots of public speaking and I've long since stopped trying to second guess what others think of me - it's just too painful. Besides, what a person thinks about you has a lot more to do with who they are than who you are.

5) Stop using 'all or nothing' thinking. The 'completely this/completely that' style of thought occurs when you are emotional. People who are depressed, angry or anxious see reality in terms of differing extremes, simplistic all or nothing terms. An angry person is 'right' and you are 'wrong'; the depressed person feels like a 'failure' while others are a 'success'. In reality, life is composed of infinite gray areas. So stop fearing that you might say the 'wrong' thing! Or that people will 'hate' you. Once you start to relax more socially you'll notice much less black or white thinking because anxiety actually causes you to think in all or nothing terms.

6) Take your time. You don't have to blurt things out. Ask questions and if questions are asked of you can take time to consider your response (within reason). Don't just blurt out what you think might be the 'right' answer. A slow answer is a relaxed answer.

7) Finally, use hypnotic rehearsal. Hypnosis is the quickest way to change your instinctive/emotional response to any situation. Only think about meeting others when your mind and body is relaxed. This conditions you to associate relaxation with being around new people. In fact you'll find that when you relax deeply enough often enough whilst hypnotically rehearsing being comfortable around others you'll reach the point where you just can't be shy any more! This is what I call a 'happy inability!'

I now love meeting new people and suspect that my current social confidence would be unrecognizable to my fifteen year old self.

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Article by Mark Tyrrell of Hypnosis Downloads.com.

Weight Loss by Hypnosis may be the answer

Weight loss by hypnosis can be the answer to many people's prayers, if done correctly. For those who have struggled with weight loss, jumping from one diet to the next, hypnosis may hold the key that will finally enable them to change their life. There are many misconceptions about hypnosis. This article will explain what hypnosis is and what it isn't and how it can help with weight loss.

Hypnosis is not being put under another person's control. This myth has been made popular by stage shows. You will not cluck like a chicken or crawl around on your hands and knees when hypnotized. In reality, hypnosis is simply a natural state in which the subconscious mind can come forward and be modified to make a change in a person's habits.

Overeating, smoking and other addictions are habits that have gone beyond conscious control. Therefore, tapping into the subconscious will help you gain control of these bad habits and stop them once and for all.

An induction is defined as the act of bringing someone into a hypnotic state. This is usually done by imagery. It can be self-induced or done by a qualified hypnotherapist. You imagine yourself in a peaceful, safe place to help you become totally relaxed. You are then guided into a specific problem area.

A person that is overweight became that way because of unhealthy eating habits. These habits are very difficult to change on your own. Hypnosis can help you break these habits by decreasing your cravings for the unhealthy foods and helping you focus on making the right decisions.

It is important to understand that hypnosis is not like a "magic pill" that will suddenly make the pounds start dropping off. It is a tool to aid you in making a lifestyle change.

The great thing about hypnosis is that it is non-invasive. It is not a one size fits all solution. Since everyone is different, hypnosis sessions can be adapted to fit the individual.

Weight loss by hypnosis often succeeds when all other traditional treatments have failed. It will get to the core of why the person is overweight and help them change their beliefs that make them overindulge.

But be aware that hypnosis is not recommended for people who have post-traumatic stress syndrome, epilepsy or any other personality disorders. It will also require work. Hypnosis can change the way you think about food, but it's up to you to implement these changes through a healthy diet and exercise.

So if you have tried everything and nothing has worked, you may want to try weight loss by hypnosis. You have nothing to lose but a lot of extra weight!

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Hypnosis on Big Brother

When Brian entered the house, we were told that "he likes to dabble in a spot of cosmic ordering and reckons he can self-hypnotize". Typically for British media, this was presented with a hint of scorn.

Well, Brian might come across as a bit thick but at least his thinking is taking him in the right direction. Cosmic ordering, if practised properly, may well take him from his present job as a data-entry clerk to something bigger and better. For more information, find out about "The Secret".

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This week we were shown how he hypnotizes when he practised on Gerry and Amanda. Unfortunately, he counted forwards to take the person deeper and backwards to wake them up which is the wrong way round. To take the person deeper, count backwards which causes confusion to the conscious mind and so gains access to the subconscious mind. Counting forwards to wake the person reintroduces order which signals to the conscious mind that it is time to wake up.

Antonia Stuart-James is an English Hypnotherapist in Belgium.

Bedwetting Responds to Hypnosis

I once helped an eight year old boy to stop bedwetting, or nocturnal enuresis to give its medical name. His parents had tried a mat and alarm. They did not let him drink anything for two hours before going to bed yet still the problem persisted. As he was about to go away to boarding school, it had become an urgent problem to avoid shame and inevitable teasing from his fellow dorm mates.

I came across this technique which worked amazingly well. Under hypnosis, I simply called the boy, Adam, by his middle name, James, and told that boy to wake up Adam whenever he needed to empty his bladder. Combined with the fun of sitting in the magic chair, Adam and James responded well and the problem was overcome.

Children generally do respond well to hypnotherapy, providing they are at least seven years old, of normal intelligence for their age and can sit still long enough with their eyes closed. They enjoy the concept of sitting in a magic chair which also works on a trip to the dentist, or flying around in their mind's eye on a flying carpet.

Obviously, I have changed the names of this boy to protect his identity. It is important to establish whether the child has always had the problem (primary) or has lapsed after months of dry beds (onset) and that there is no physical cause. Parents should not expect dry beds before the age of five.

I use this as a source book for working with children, available from amazon.com:


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Antonia Stuart-James is an English hypnotherapist in Belgium helping people to make positive change, overcome unwanted habits and relieve stress-related health problems. For more information, visit http://www.livinghealthtoday.com

Success Through Hypnosis

"Nothing focuses the mind like success, and nothing helps you achieve it like hypnosis."

This is a quote from Ursula James which I totally endorse. No matter how deep-rooted the problem, unwanted habit or negative behaviour pattern, hypnosis can quickly achieve results providing of course that the person wants change and is willing to commit to therapy. Change can be very quick. Anthony Robbins says that change can happen in a second, in the click of a finger if someone is ready.

Are you ready to make change to improve your life?

Antonia Stuart-James is an English hypnotherapist in Belgium helping people to make positive change, overcome unwanted habits and relieve stress-related health problems. For more information, visit http://www.livinghealthtoday.com

Change Your Attitude With Hypnosis

Attitude is in your mind. Hypnosis can change that attitude from negative to a more positive way of thinking. With a more positive attitude, the door opens to a more productive and happier life.

Often clutter in the mind is the cause of a negative attitude. As the saying goes, "You cannot see the wood for the trees." Hypnosis can help the subconscious mind plough through the clutter to pinpoint what is needed as a focus and make the necessary adjustments to set the person on the way to greater productivity, better health, happiness, prosperity and inner peace.

Hypnosis starts with relaxation, best with no outside stimuli. If self-hypnosis, listening to a CD just before going to sleep can be most effective. Once the person is deeply relaxed, hypnosis can offer a new way of thinking by suggesting to the receptive mind a new way of seeing things, resulting in a new, more positive attitude.

Hypnosis does not change who you are or alter your personality in any way that you do not want. When you have the desire to be a more positive person, hypnosis uses your strengths and turns those into tools that can help you make the changes you want.

I can help you make the changes you need to live the life you want.

Antonia Stuart-James is an English hypnotherapist in Belgium helping people to make positive change, overcome unwanted habits and relieve stress-related health problems. For more information, visit http://www.livinghealthtoday.com

Complete Mind Therapy for Boosting Confidence

It is said that our self-confidence is at the highest at the age of five. Our education system, peers and other influences knock our self-confidence to a level of about 10% by school-leaving age. We then have to compete in further education or in the world of work although we are ill-equipped in terms of life skills. We might be proficient in foreign languages, or calculus, or 17th century history but what about public speaking, handling people, preparing reports to impossible deadlines? No wonder so many suffer from stress and low self-esteem.

Hypnosis works by accessing the sub-conscious mind and re-programming negative habits or beliefs. As this can happen very quickly, fast results can be achieved, especially in boosting confidence, self-esteem and self-worth.

A unique form of hypnosis called ´Complete Mind Therapy´ includes NLP techniques to boost confidence and prepare the mind to overcome any problem or unwanted habit. Indeed I used this treatment on its own to stop two men drinking alcoholic spirits. Both had drinking problems that were ruining their family and business life yet after just one session of Complete Mind Therapy, they have now not touched spirits for several weeks.

I can help people in person with Complete Mind Therapy at my practice in East Belgium. Alternatively, I can supply a digital download of the therapy. Just contact me at info@livinghealthtoday.com for information.

Antonia Stuart-James is an English hypnotherapist in Belgium helping people to make positive change, overcome unwanted habits and relieve stress-related health problems. For more information, visit http://www.livinghealthtoday.com

Studies Reveal Hypnosis is More Effective when Stopping Smoking

Half of all smokers will die prematurely. Some 440,000 deaths are attributed to smoking annually. Every organ in the body has been linked to a disease that smoking causes. Adjusted for inflation, smoking 20 cigarettes a day costs a smoker $100,000 over his or her lifetime.

These statistics are straight out of the office of the U.S. Surgeon General and are compelling enough to prevent anyone from starting the deadly habit. But for the millions of Americans who are trying to stop smoking, mortality rates, economic impacts and physical impairment statistics do not do the trick. What can do the trick, however, is hypnosis: an alternative that is becoming a standard smoking cessation procedure.

Consumers looking for avenues in which to quit smoking have a lot of choices: patches, gum, cold turkey, support groups, acupuncture, carrot sticks and sweets are but a few of them. While these avenues have worked for some, they do not get to the heart of the problem, or shall we say the “brain” of the problem.

Hypnosis puts a patient into a relaxed state of mind, allowing the hypnotherapist to access the patient's subconscious mind and the triggers that set off his or her desire to smoke. Through a handful of sessions, the patient’s thought process is changed, which enables him or her to resist the temptation for a cigarette when the enticement rears its ugly head. This is the essential difference between hypnosis and other methods: hypnosis delves into the person’s subconscious, and fixes the underlying issue; other methods merely mask the addiction, feeding it bit by bit until the nicotine craving—hopefully—diminishes.

The effectiveness of hypnosis in helping smokers quit has been thoroughly examined by smoking cessation groups. Quit Smoking Support, a website that has been labelled by Yahoo as “An Incredibly Useful Website,” analyzed the varying methods in helping people quit. Their research indicated that, when hypnosis was done correctly, 66 percent of people reported success, compared to a 25 percent success rate for those who used a form of nicotine replacement, 25 percent who used a form of behavior therapy and just 5 percent success through other “go it alone” methods. So, when it comes to hypnosis and its effectiveness, as they put it, “There is no other method supported by research that even comes close.”

In Colorado, as reported by the Windsor Tribune, professional counselors are getting the word out to Windsor residents on how to kick the smoking habit through hypnosis. Sandi Y. Squicquero has been a licensed professional counselor for the past 20 years. She now works at The Medical Hypnosis & Counseling Center, P.C. in Windsor, Colorado, and boasts an 80 percent success rate in the three offices she has worked in. But despite the stellar success rate, she advises those seeking help to be sure they really want to quit.

“You have to want to quit for your own reasons, not someone else’s,” she said to the Windsor Tribune in an interview. “The more you repeat the suggestions, the more it is implanted into their subconscious. But you still have to want to quit” (Windsor Tribune, July 10, 2006).

Once you yourself have resolved to quit, hypnosis treatments can be expensive as they often take several sessions. But as a study out of the Ohio State University School of Nursing shows, nearly 60% of people who underwent hypnosis to stop smoking were still no smoking after 15 months. This is in stark comparison to the 10% of people who were still not smoking over the same period using other methods.

Can you really put a price on your health?

Antonia Stuart-James is an English hypnotherapist in Belgium helping people to make positive change, overcome unwanted habits and relieve stress-related health problems. For more information, visit http://www.livinghealthtoday.com

What to expect in a hypnotherapy session

Hypnosis is a state of deep relaxation we have all experienced in our daily lives. It is daydreaming, dozing on a Sunday morning, driving on autopilot, engrossed in a good storybook - anytime when we are in "a world of our own".

Hypnotherapists access this state which brings a change in brain waves so allowing direct access to the subconscious mind where unwanted habits and the causes of negative problems are stored. Whilst a person may know consciously why they want to change, something is holding them back and that obstacle lies in the subconscious.

St Paul wrote in Romans 7 v 14, "My own behaviour baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe."

Most people achieve a light stage of trance, perhaps with tingling sensations in the hands, blinking eyelids, rapid eye movement, slower breathing, a sensation of weight in some parts of the body or even floating. This level of trance is sufficient to achieve long-lasting results. It is therefore not necessary to enter a deep state of trance which it is said can only be achieved by about 5% of the population. A stage hypnotist typically performs certain tests to ascertain the level of trance by people in the audience and may choose those who appear to be relaxed to a very deep level as such people will make the show more effective.

Brain waves variations in intensity start with beta, the fastest, then slow to alpha, theta and delta. Beta waves are present when the mind is in a normal state of consciousness. Light levels of hypnosis decrease the brain wave activity to alpha and deeper levels may take a subject's brain waves all the way to theta.

Every time an individual enters into hypnotic trance, this will happen more quickly and more deeply. On the first session the hypnotherapist must lead the client into hypnosis through a relaxation technique, called an induction, but on subsequent sessions a shorter induction can be used as the subconcious mind of the client will have been pre-programmed to relax on hearing certain words mentioned in the first session.

Whilst the hypnotherapist uses words to lead the client into a hypnotic trance, in fact all hypnosis is self-hypnosis as the person allows themselves to enter the state. No one can be hypnotized against their will. No one can be made to take on suggestions against their will or belief system. The client remains in control at all times.

It is a common mis-conception that hypnosis is some weird, spaced-out state. Not at all. It is a state of deep relaxation combined with heightened awareness so the client will hear a car go by, a dog bark, a bird sing but these outside sounds will not disturb the relaxation. In fact they will be instructed to use such sounds to lead them deeper into relaxation.

In the event of an emergency, the client can bring themselves back into an awake state at any time so there is no need to fear the hypnotherapist having a heart attack and leaving you "under"! It is perfectly safe to drive afterwards.

People often think that only a few minutes have gone by so are surprised to learn they have been relaxing for maybe 30-45 minutes.

The end of the session is not in fact the end. The process started in hypnosis can go on during the day or during sleep to bring about the results desired.

There is nothing magical about hypnosis, nothing occult or strange. On the contrary, it is a perfectly natural state to be used for positive therapeutic change.

© Antonia Stuart-James 2007. Reproduction only permitted with author's credit and website link.

Antonia Stuart-James is an English hypnotherapist in Belgium helping people to make positive change, overcome unwanted habits and relieve stress-related health problems. For more information, visit http://www.livinghealthtoday.com