QUIT SMOKING

How does hypnosis work?
Many misconceptions exist about hypnosis, and much of this comes from what we see in movies and on television. You must remember that the directors of those movies and the television programs are trying to entertain people, rather than inform them about the subject of hypnosis, and this results in people developing false impressions and total misunderstandings about hypnosis. You are never out of control. You are never under some sort of zombie-like unconscious spell, in fact you are totally IN control at all times, and are totally aware of what is happening around you the whole time.

A smoker may consciously want to quit smoking. They don't like the terrible smell. They don't like the way it affects their health. They don't like burning holes in their clothes and furnishings, and they certainly don't like watching their money go up in smoke. Yet they continue smoking in spite of their many reasons for wanting to quit. These people are unable to quit because they are being controlled by thoughts, imprints and impressions, which exist in their subconscious minds. The conscious level of the mind can be used to reason and think, but it cannot over rule the control of the subconscious mind that has been programmed by thoughts, imprints, and impressions, that the conscious level of the mind is not even aware of.

The "Hypnosis Method" gives your subconscious mind the suggestions and instructions it needs to change and clear out all of those thoughts, imprints and impressions, which are currently causing you to smoke. This is one of the main reasons why hypnosis can be so powerful in helping people overcome the smoking habit permanently.

Once a person has been guided into a hypnotic state, the subconscious level of the mind becomes much more susceptible to suggestions. The person is completely aware of what the therapist is saying, and the suggestions given by the therapist are received by the subconscious mind, and have a powerful and profound effect in releasing those thoughts, imprints and impressions that have been causing the problem.

Unless the subconscious mind is changed, the smoking habit continues to dominate the person. Normal willpower can only dent the surface temporarily. Hypnosis can permanently change the subconscious mind, so you will never want to smoke again.

Your subconscious mind will also be given suggestions

· To keep you calm and relaxed as you go about your normal daily activities, so you will not stress as a result of not smoking.

· Not to substitute food for cigarettes so you will not put on any excess weight as a result of not smoking.

· To cope with the situation of being around other smokers.

· Strategies to deal with any residual withdrawal symptoms or cravings.

As a result of the hypnotic process your cravings and withdrawal symptoms tend to reduce by between 80% and 100%. Some may still experience a tiny bit of residual withdrawal symptoms, however your subconscious mind will receive strategies for dealing with any residual cravings, so that as soon as the strategy is put in place, the craving disappears very quickly. The actual session itself is very positive and uplifting, and you will feel wonderful to finally be a non-smoker. Rather than being cranky and moody, you will feel terrific about not smoking. You can get rid of the smoking habit permanently and completely with "The Hypnosis Method" than by any other method being used today, and in over 95% of cases it only takes one session to permanently overcome the smoking habit.

WEIGHT LOSS

Most people eat for comfort or to relieve stress and those habits become a life-long problem.

Act Now will work with you one-on-one and can help you solve that problem - once and for all.

Your Act Now hypnotist will learn what unique triggers effect your personal eating habits and use techniques of neuro-linguistic programming, EFT, regression and other hypnotic techniques to develop a customized program for you.  Through hypnosis you will learn to look at food differently and change you habits permanently. 

It's very easy and often takes little or no willpower. 

It's also proven to work better than anything else you can try (read the research below).

And, unlike the diet roller-coaster, you will see and enjoy lasting effects in just a few short sessions.

The difference between permanent weight loss and temporary gains and losses is purely psychological.  95 % of people on ANY diet end up gaining the weight back AND THEN SOME! 

But with hypnosis you learn how to think differently.  You learn how to identify and then separate emotions from your eating habits and so your gains aren't dependent on the form of mental "adrenaline" we call will power.  Your gains are the result of real and permanent changes in your outlook and so they are for real and forever.

Contact us and we can help you change your health, your appearance, your self-esteem and your life forever.

ANGER & STRESS

Learn to control your anger and feel more relaxed!

Do you lose your temper easily or find it difficult to let go of frustrations? Have you ever found yourself reacting out of anger in a way that you later regretted? Does your rage seem so strong at times that it scares people, including yourself? Have you ever been told that you should consider anger management?

Anger management is important for your physical and emotional well being. Maybe you have always struggled with controlling your temper, or maybe recent circumstances have left you feeling powerless. Whatever the cause of your anger, you are not happy with the way it is impacting your life. You may notice now that your anger has caused your loved ones to pull away, your friends to distance themselves, and your co-workers to avoid you. You want them back in your life and you want to be at peace with yourself - and you can with the help of anger management.

We know it’s hard not to let things get to you. Someone is bound to cut you off in traffic or steal your parking space. Your partner will say something that upsets you on the same night your boss makes you work late. You’ll have days where you feel like nothing is going right and everything exists to annoy you. But you don’t have to let it get the best of you. You can be in control of your anger - with the help of our anger management hypnosis session.

The Anger Management Hypnosis session.

Effective Anger Management requires both the conscious desire to control your emotions and the sub conscious reprogramming of the automatic anger response in a given situation. Our Anger control/management hypnotherapy session creates both using powerful guided imagery, neuro-linquistic programming, and hypnosis taylored to your unique situation. You will experience immediate decreased intensity of the emotional response, reduced feelings of anger and slip into a natural manageable state allowing conscious decision to impact behavior positively

We Treat You Individually

You aren't the same as everyone else which is why, when you are needing a permanent change, it is so important to seek guided hypnotherapy. Your hypnotherapist ensures your session is therapeutically adjusted and adpated to your unique situation. He will learn about you, who you are, where you are having anger management issues. Your hypnotherpaist will meticulously put together an exclusive program that will have you calm and relaxed instantly. Afterwards, he will professionally record that session, over-lap it with high quality music, powerful subliminal suggestions deliver it to you free of charge.

DEPRESSION

At one time, depression and hypnosis were thought to be incompatible, but recent depression hypnosis techniques have proven highly effective in the treatment of depressive illness.

Depression can creep up on you or hit you suddenly. You may have had a depressed mood that felt as if it would never go and lasted most of the day. You may have lost interest or pleasure in something that previously really important for you.

You probably experience sleep disturbances and feel fatigued much of the time. You might also experience weight changes, agitation, feelings of worthlessness, excessive or inappropriate guilt, poor concentration, even thoughts about death and suicide.

Most of us experience loss, disappointment, rejection, humiliation and many other painful experiences over a lifetime. It is how your mind interprets these events that affects your overall mental health.

If you suffer from depression then your outlook on life may be somewhat different. Typically events are:

• Taken very personally 
• Considered permanent and not temporary 
• Affect all of your life and not just a small part of it. 

The thoughts that go behind these ideas are built deeply into the unconscious mind but they can be changed. You can learn to not take things personally, that it is not your fault. You can realize that events just happen beyond your control and that they pass and are not so important. You can understand that events in life do not affect your whole life just one area of it and only for a short while.

Under hypnosis cognitive, behavioral and psychotherapeutic techniques can be used to teach new skills to interpret life's events in a more empowering way.

The greatest risks to depression are:

• Stressful life 
• Marital conflict 
• Physical or sexual abuse (past or present) 
• Economic deprivation 
• Inadequate social skills 
• Inadequate problem solving skills 
• Inadequate self management skills 
• Dysfunctional ways of thinking 
• Other coexisting conditions (anxiety, drug dependence, alcoholism etc.) 

It is one of those days when the mind turns inwards and a black cloud descends. The more you fight it the more you sink. Any conscious fight just reinforces this by focusing your attention on it. This is the time when you need to turn your focus of attention to something positive and uplifting. You can prepare your mind in a number of ways, so that it does not get caught in this downward spiral. This is very difficult to do consciously.

The idea with hypnotherapy is to build in a number of new unconscious habits and ways of thinking. You then just leave it to your unconscious mind and focus your conscious thoughts elsewhere. 

Depression and Hypnosis

Modern Hypnotherapy techniques have proven to be very effective in helping to treat depressive illness. 

You need to remember and focus on the good events in your past, not the bad ones. If you can't remember any particularly good moments then manufacture some. For example, take a scene from a film and turn it into a personal memory as if you were daydreaming. Recalling a manufactured daydream is as powerful as recalling an actual memory. You must focus your mind on what you can look forward to in life. Anything that you hold predominantly in your mind will begin to direct your mind to fulfill it (The Law of Concentrated Attention). Maintaining your focus on the future and certainly not the past 

You can push a negative, unhappy thought out of your mind and pull in a more positive one. This works on the Principle of Substitution. Your conscious mind can only really focus on one thing at a time. So, by having a number of good positive pre-prepared thoughts or images, you can concentrate on these and prevent negative thoughts taking control. It may sound strange but basically you are installing a happy switch that you can imagine and use when you need it.

You have to break out of the old ritual pattern of behavior. You need to create a new habitual way of thinking so that every time the circumstances occur that would normally trigger a deepening depression, you behave differently. You can learn to relax your whole body and switch off that busy inner voice that loops round and round and keeps you fixed on the one thing you are trying to escape. 

Banish anything depressing or upsetting from your life. Hypnosis can help you develop ways to integrate this new behavior into your unconscious, so that you are not continually struggling to escape the depression. Many clients don't realize that hypnotherapy has made any changes, until they look back . This is the way it should be, well away from your conscious mind. The key point is that escaping depressive thoughts are difficult for your conscious mind to do, but, easy for your unconscious. It is a matter of preparing your unconscious and then releasing control. Let us help you today.

ALCOHOLISM

Battling the feelings of guilt, numbness, anger, sadness, and loneliness that come from substance abuse can be the most difficult part of your recovery. These emotions come and go quickly during healing and increase the urge to use again. Hypnosis can provide you with the tools to handle everyday life and these emotions again.

Denial… again?

Overcoming denial was the most important step in advancing to where you are in recovery now. Did you know that addictive denial is not a conscious act? The subconscious mind completely blocks the conscious mind's awareness of the nature of his/her addictive behavior and personality, replacing it with vivid misconceptions, created to support the addictive behavior. Positive emotions and motivations are perverted, denied, or extinguished. An individual eventually becomes almost zombie-like, and running on automatic, very unlike its former self. Lack of emotional control can 
motivate a relapse, which in turn starts the unconscious mind on its tirade of denial, unbeknownst to you. You need a tool to permanently defeat addictive denial and improve the subconscious mind’s behavior in order to return to a more productive way of life.

Dissecting Jekyll and Hyde

Ask yourself: Prior to your particular substance abuse, what was the nature of the original motivation and emotional reward of the drug? What did it seem to do for me that was good? The majority of us cannot truly explain what originally motivated today's behavior. Sometimes a certain smell, sound, scene in a movie, or reaction from another person can send us into a series of emotional reactions that are so habitual themselves that they 
have become uncontrollable. This is the subconscious mind steady at work. The reason that this point is so important is because treating addiction is next to impossible unless the reason for the first repeated use is identified. You need a tool to access your subconscious mind, learn what event(s) in your life caused this myriad of emotions that the subconscious mind is working on overtime to protect your conscious mind from. 

Example of a subconscious on overdrive: Mom is newly divorced, a single working mother, just coming home with John, her four year old son. John goes quietly into the living room with his coke and turns on the TV. Mom hurriedly heads straight for the kitchen and starts dinner. Eventually, on her way across the house to change clothes she sees John drawing spirals in a puddle of spilled coke on the table. 

“Johnny! Look what you’ve done!” she issues in her loudest angry tone. Startled, John begins to cry. “Crying won’t clean up the mess,” she yells, “Look at the carpet! We just moved in and look what you’ve done. You’re always tearing everything up! I have to pay for all of this, you know. We just moved in and the carpet’s ruined! Ruined, just like your Dad ruined everything,” she says as she goes to get a rag to clean up the mess. “You’re just like him. I hate him,” she exclaims as she begins cleaning the stain. “Always messing everything up, never working, drunk, amounts to nothing, and you look just like him”, she mutters while feverishly scrubbing and blotting the ever widening stain. “You’ll be just like him when you grow up. Just like him. A good for nothing $@#%.” Having heard this before and realizing Mom is no longer paying any attention to him, John just turns and stares at the TV with tears rolling down his cheeks. He doesn’t want to be anything bad. Or like Dad, or make Mom mad…

In his mid-thirties, John now battles drug and alcohol addiction, is divorced and has two DUIs. John has been seeking treatment for his addictions for some time, even before the courts made him. When asked by his newly appointed therapist why he continues to seek solace in substance abuse, John’s only answer is “I just want to be like everyone else.” In truth, that is just what he has succeeded in doing. Fulfilling his Mom’s prophecy in being just like everyone else…Dad. John cannot remember what really sent his subconscious mind on this fruitless journey of protection. So he repeats the journey over and over again; trading alcohol and Marijuana for muscle relaxants and stress relievers issued by a doctor in his best interest; never recognizing the triggers or having a fighting chance at healing. 

By using hypnosis as the tool to access John’s subconscious mind, he could learn what event in his life has attributed to his succession of substance abuse, deal with it and the emotions that his subconscious mind is still doing overtime on. 


Learning to Live Again - Facing Reality

Dealing with family, people at work, close friends, and even acquaintances can induce a multitude of mixed feelings. You feel powerless to control this onslaught of emotions because you not only fail to recognize them; they come and go so fast. Those feelings are now habits of the subconscious mind. You may be angry right now but don’t remember or know that just moments before, you whirled through sadness, helplessness and fear all at the same time. 

Since it is necessary for you to go on with a healthier life you must learn to handle these situations and their recurring sensations. Add that to your already reeling emotions and battling the addiction and it may seem overwhelming and even pointless. That is the subconscious at work busily defending you the best it knows how. 

Hypnosis can help you retrain your subconscious so that you are better capable of handling your emotions. Once your behavior takes on a new color, other people’s stereotypes and resolve about you will change too. More often than not, you will find a positive side to your life that you only dreamed existed.



What to Expect and the End Result

The psychological and emotional issues surrounding the addiction will be addressed and treated. Just exactly as you learned to walk and talk in your infancy, your subconscious mind will be taught to cope with issues you were incapable of dealing with at one time which led to abusive behavior. Coping is an important part of healing the emotional pain. 

Any emotional or physiological triggers for relapse will be identified and avoidance 
techniques explored and put into action. Positive feelings and the ability to succeed will be reinforced, as can motivational techniques, body image and self-control. Additionally, many clients have found that hypnosis calms the nerves, the mind and the body, releases stress and alleviates anxiety. Imagine this without the use of a replacement drug such as Prozac. 

The positive ideas and perspectives that you receive build self-esteem and boost confidence. You can have personal accountability for yourself, your thoughts, and your actions again and be completely successful in your recovery. But moreover hypnosis has a positive effect on every aspect of a person’s life. 

Use hypnosis in conjunction with your support network to put you back in control of your emotions and make your recovery a complete success.

Hypnosis can be used for any positive change that involves the subconscious or unconscious mind. Here are some of the goals hypnosis has been successful in treating:

PHOBIAS

Hypnosis has long been a treatment of choice by psychologists for stress, post-traumatic stress disorders, generalized fear and phobias. Through hypnosis you can learn to relax and manage stress, eliminate the hold fear has on you and get your life back to normal.
Dentists have been referring clients to hypnosis clinics for decades to help their patients lessen their fear of dentistry.

PAIN & CHILDBIRTH

Perhaps you saw the feature article television’s 60 minutes had on hypnosis for childbirth. Hypnosis empowers you to release encaphalins and endorphins naturally in your body to lessen or eliminate pain—even in childbirth.
The trained pain management and hypno-birthing instructors will help you learn to diminish and manage your pain whether it’s acute or chronic as in arthritis or back pain.

OTHER COMMON COMPLAINTS WHERE HYPNOTHERAPY CAN HELP:

Pain, Phobias, Stress, Anxiety, Insomnia, Body/Mind Relaxation, Weight Loss, Quit Smoking, Self-Hypnosis, Panic Attacks, Public Speaking, Stuttering.

HEALTH ISSUES WHERE HYPNOTHERAPY HAS BEEN PROVEN EFFECTIVE:

Drug Addiction, Alcohol dependency, Pain relief, Irritable bowel syndrome, Chronic fatigue, Migraines, Allergies, Anorexia nervosa, Eczema, Skin diseases, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Smoking cessation, Asthma, Gastro-intestinal disorders, Snoring, Bulimia nervosa, Impotence, Sports injuries, Bruxism (Teeth Grinding), Insomnia, Tinnitus Candida, Ulcers, Childbirth, Krohns disease, Warts

UNPRODUCTIVE HABITS THAT HYPNOTHERAPY CAN HELP:

Obsessions, Procrastination, Poor self-confidence, Anger, Nervous Habits, Post-natal depression, Blushing, Nervous Tics, Premature ejaculation, Bruxism (Teeth grinding), Enuresis (bed wetting), Oversleeping Shyness, Knuckle Popping, Swearing, Nail biting, Poor self-esteem, Worry

SELF-IMPROVEMENT GOALS THAT HYPNOTHERAPY CAN HELP:

Assertiveness, Expanding Awareness, Problem solving, Communication, Goal achievement, Public speaking, Creativity, Habit removal, Sales motivation, Creative thinking , Handling criticism, Self hypnosis, Creative visualization, Memory recall, Self image, Creative writing, Motivation to exercise, Self improvement, Decision making, Overcoming blockages, Sports performance, Dream Interpretation, Performance, Stress reduction, Dream Recall, Positive thinking, Team performance, Effective speaking, Priority and goal setting

LEARNING ABILITIES THAT HYPNOTHERAPY CAN HELP:

Reading speed, Concentration, Test taking, Study habits

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