Alcoholism - Hypnosis the Number One Cure in the US

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.