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.

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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.

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STRESS MANAGEMENT

Are you wondering why you feel stressed or anxious when there doesn't seem to be any major reason for it?

Do you find yourself getting tense, sleeping badly, and feeling irritable a lot of the time, even though outwardly things appear to be okay?

We all know that life is full of situations that can cause stress. You have probably noticed that some people are able to easily manage these events, while others are easily overwhelmed.  The people who do well under stress are no different than you, except that they have learned effective stress management skills. Learning stress management skills is one of the most important things you can do in life.

If you could find a real 'cause' to pin it on, you might feel better about it. If there was a big personal problem, like a bereavement, or a divorce, or trouble at work, the sort of thing that everyone agrees is stressful. But if you feel you 'really have nothing to complain about', you begin to wonder what on earth is going on.

The truth about the stress of ordinary life

The truth is, stress isn't always all about the big stuff. Stress is a spectrum, not an on/off switch. At any time, a range of different pressures may be affecting your life, and all to a different degree. If they are at the lower end of the spectrum, but there are a lot of them, the cumulative effect can be as great as if a single one of the 'big beasts' is rampaging about in your life.

This is why everyday stress levels can build up without you noticing. It's just a little bit here, a little bit there - but it all wears away at you. And it deserves to be taken as seriously as you would take major stress. That is, you need to look after yourself - no matter how good your life looks on the outside.

Hypnosis can help you manage your stressors better

We will help you identify what your stressors are, where they are stemming from and through behavior modification, you will be able to:

• you feel much calmer and more relaxed generally
• you sleep better
• your mood improves and you feel more cheerful and optimistic
• you are more resilient and can handle things better
• you are enjoying life more

Click here to get started on a happier healthier life or call us at (407) 309-6104.  You deserve effective methods for managing stress and anxiety in an uncertain world

Why Are Stress Management Skills Important?

WARNING: Stress has been linked to most health problems, including heart attacks and strokes. In fact, WebMD estimates that 75% to 95% of all doctors visits are stress related. Being over-stressed can also lead to low work performance, sleep issues, absent-mindedness, decreased interest in life, addictions, and many other undesirable results.

On the other hand, people who respond well to stress and know how to prevent unnecessary anxiety are typically peak performers. Below are some results you can expect if you listen to the free Stress Release Hypnosis MP3.

• Increase your energy and focus
• Increase your tolerance to frustration during difficult circumstances
• Permit you to relax and sleep better

How Will Hypnosis Help?

Through hypnosis, which is a focused state of attention that increases suggestibility, you will be guided through exercises that help you learn how to adapt to stressful situations, remove previous triggers that cause you to deal with stress ineffectively, resolve existing anxieties, and create new ways of looking at the world.

In a 2001 study, published by Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, and conducted at Ohio University, medical students who learned just one part of what you will experience in our hypnosis sessions were able to significantly reduce exam-time stress. Furthermore, blood samples revealed that these students' immune systems became stronger the more they practiced the techniques!

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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.

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ALCOHOLISM

Please take time to read what our philosophy on addiction is and why our programs work so quickly.

Hypnosis by contrast is safe, reliable and quick when dealing with alcoholism.

There is hope for everyone dealing with alcohol addiction, however each individual requires a specific program tailored to their needs. Keep in mind, the recovery process is long and requires commitment from and extensive support to the individual. Utilizing our program, "long" is defined as a month with 80% recovery from the very first session.  When evaluating treatment program options, the following points should be considered:

• No single treatment is appropriate for all individuals, we customize each and every program for the individual.
• Treatment needs to be readily available.  We have a 24 hour on-call individual for our clients during the recovery process.  That means whether someone is being treated in our office or their home (same cost) someone is available 24-7.
• Effective treatment attends to multiple needs of the individual, not just his or her addiction. Again, we customize each and every program for the individual suffering from the addiction.
• An individual’s treatment and services plan must be assessed often and modified to meet the person’s changing needs.  This is accomplished with our program on a daily basis.
• Remaining in treatment for an adequate period of time is critical for treatment effectiveness.
• Counseling and other behavioral therapies are critical components of virtually all effective treatments for addiction.
• Addicted or abusing individuals with coexisting mental disorders should have both disorders treated in an integrated way.
• Medical management of withdrawal syndrome is only the first stage of addiction treatment and by itself does little to change long-term drug use.
• Treatment needs to be voluntary to be effective.
• Possible drug use during treatment must be monitored continuously.
• Drug addiction is treatable and there is hope of full recovery.

By introducing relaxation therapy along with imagery, hypnosis helps remove physical barriers to recovery, such as the body's symptoms of withdrawal, anxiety, muscle tension, spasm and pain. Along with reinforcing the commitment to sobriety or abstinence from alcohol.

If you are feeling skeptical about using hypnosis, even after reading this information, click here and learn about hypnosis, the skepticism surrounding it, and why people have doubts about this age old therapy with such a long history of proven results in so many areas.

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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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