If you have attempted to kick your smoking habit as part of you New Years resolution, here are a few quick tips to help keep you on track.
Cessation Time Distortion - A recent study found that nicotine cessation causes significant time distortion. Although no subconsciously triggered crave episode will last longer than three minutes, to a quitter the minutes can feel like hours. Keep a clock or watch handy to maintain honest perspective of time because the craving will pass after 3 minutes.
One crave coping technique is to practice slow deep breathing while clearing your mind of all needless chatter by focusing on your favorite person, place or thing. Another is to say your ABCs while associating each letter with your favorite food, person or place. For example, "A" is for grandma's hot apple pie, and so on.
Measuring Victory - Forget about quitting "forever." Like attempting the seemingly impossible task of eating an entire elephant, it's the biggest psychological bite imaginable. Instead, work hard at adopting a realistic victory yardstick that celebrates freedom an hour, challenge and day at a time. If you insist on seeing success only in terms of quitting forever then you will never truly reach your goal.
The Law of Addiction - "Administration of a drug to an addict will cause re-establishment of chemical dependence upon the addictive substance at the old level of use or greater." So simply put, just one puff of nicotine and all your hard work is down the drain. Adherence to just one rule guarantees success to all ... Never Take Another Puff.
Nicotine rewired your brain, growing millions of nicotinic receptors in eleven different regions. Although your mind's nicotine induced dopamine/adrenaline intoxication is an alert high, your chemical dependency is every bit as real and permanent as alcoholism. Treating a true addiction as though it were some nasty little habit is a recipe for relapse. There is no such thing as just one puff. Nicotine dependency recovery truly is an all or nothing proposition.
Avoid All Crutches - A crutch is any form of quitting reliance that you lean upon so heavily in supporting recovery that if quickly removed would likely result in relapse (a person, product, service or activity). If you feel the need to lean upon a quitting buddy for example, be sure that your buddy is either a sturdy long-time ex-smoker or a never-smoker.
Positive Change Hypnosis RI
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Winning The Weight Loss Battle
If you've already made a decision to lose weight...congratulations! For many people, making this commitment is the hardest part. But despite this burst of self-motivation, many people find they don't know what exercises to do for weight loss.
There are three major types of exercise.
Aerobic exercise, such as walking, running and biking
Flexibility exercises such as yoga and other forms of stretching.
And strength training, including weight lifting and resistance exercises.
Out of all three, aerobic and strength training will help you burn the most calories. Since weight loss is dependent on either taking in fewer calories or burning more, it's best to focus on these at first to ensure your self-motivation continues as you drop pounds.
Most fitness experts generally agree that 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week should be your initial goal, but it needn't be continuous. For example, two 15-minute blocks works equally well and you can build up the time and frequency as you progress.
One of the most important things to keep in mind is that self-motivation is what compelled you to begin your quest in the first place. And many people have a difficult time sustaining the pace. Therefore, figuring out what motivates you is imperative to sustaining commitment to weight loss, because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will exercise consistently.
And that is where Hypnosis can come into play. Hypnosis doesn't actually really make people lose weight. Rather hypnosis is used to create exercise motivation while as it reminds the people using it to eat healthier. It’s a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think. So although you might have a strong desire to exercise for weight loss, over time that desire by itself probably won't be enough to keep you going. So exercise hypnosis motivation treatment will help.
Our belief systems are based in our unconscious mind. The unconscious is like a computer, and computers don't reason with logic. The input simply controls the output. So logic has nothing to do with belief. In fact things don’t have to be logical for you to believe them. And because the NLP techniques used in exercise hypnosis motivation treatment can make you believe almost anything, what you believe...is what will end up happening.
So when you visit a professional hypnotist, the first step he or she will do is to help you figure out the most important things are in your life. We call these things highly valued criteria. The next step is to figure out what you need to believe to feel motivated to exercise more or reduce you calorie intake.
Finally, the hypnotist will hypnotize you so that your mind now processes this newly input data and outputs the results of a new healthier think you who is totally motivated to keep things going.
More Weight Loss Information
There are three major types of exercise.
Aerobic exercise, such as walking, running and biking
Flexibility exercises such as yoga and other forms of stretching.
And strength training, including weight lifting and resistance exercises.
Out of all three, aerobic and strength training will help you burn the most calories. Since weight loss is dependent on either taking in fewer calories or burning more, it's best to focus on these at first to ensure your self-motivation continues as you drop pounds.
Most fitness experts generally agree that 30 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week should be your initial goal, but it needn't be continuous. For example, two 15-minute blocks works equally well and you can build up the time and frequency as you progress.
One of the most important things to keep in mind is that self-motivation is what compelled you to begin your quest in the first place. And many people have a difficult time sustaining the pace. Therefore, figuring out what motivates you is imperative to sustaining commitment to weight loss, because when you feel powerfully motivated, you will exercise consistently.
And that is where Hypnosis can come into play. Hypnosis doesn't actually really make people lose weight. Rather hypnosis is used to create exercise motivation while as it reminds the people using it to eat healthier. It’s a lot easier to learn how to believe these new ideas than you probably think. So although you might have a strong desire to exercise for weight loss, over time that desire by itself probably won't be enough to keep you going. So exercise hypnosis motivation treatment will help.
Our belief systems are based in our unconscious mind. The unconscious is like a computer, and computers don't reason with logic. The input simply controls the output. So logic has nothing to do with belief. In fact things don’t have to be logical for you to believe them. And because the NLP techniques used in exercise hypnosis motivation treatment can make you believe almost anything, what you believe...is what will end up happening.
So when you visit a professional hypnotist, the first step he or she will do is to help you figure out the most important things are in your life. We call these things highly valued criteria. The next step is to figure out what you need to believe to feel motivated to exercise more or reduce you calorie intake.
Finally, the hypnotist will hypnotize you so that your mind now processes this newly input data and outputs the results of a new healthier think you who is totally motivated to keep things going.
More Weight Loss Information
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Here we are in 2012!
Another brand New Year, symbolizing another brand new chance to wipe the slate clean and begin a new way of life. And what better time is there to let go of the past and move forward? Whatever your personal history has been you can choose to leave it behind if you truly want to.
Most of our New Years Resolutions are based on prior mistakes or choices that we have made in the past. And although we may be thinking that this will be the year that we attempt to do things such as kicking that smoking habit or shedding a few pounds, what we are truly hoping is to avoid making the same errors in judgment, which got us to this point in the first place.
The important thing to remember is that everyone makes mistakes and that you are not your mistakes. They are things that did or that you failed to do, but they are not who you are as a person.
The wise person understands that their mistakes, just like their past, are there for a reason. They are there to instruct and to teach. They are there as reminders not to choose the same path, which led to our mistakes. But they are not meant to be lived in or to be rehashed endlessly, over and over again.
No matter what your past has held it does not need to dictate your future. You have the power to begin a fresh new start and change. You can write a fresh new chapter in the book of your life and there is no better time to begin than right now.
Remember that it is human and okay to error and make mistakes, so long as we correct them and prevent them from happening again. So don’t catch yourself writing down that same exact resolutions a year from now. Go ahead: move forward with confidence. After all, no one can do it for you.
This is your life and only you can live it.
http://www.positivechangehypnosis/
Most of our New Years Resolutions are based on prior mistakes or choices that we have made in the past. And although we may be thinking that this will be the year that we attempt to do things such as kicking that smoking habit or shedding a few pounds, what we are truly hoping is to avoid making the same errors in judgment, which got us to this point in the first place.
The important thing to remember is that everyone makes mistakes and that you are not your mistakes. They are things that did or that you failed to do, but they are not who you are as a person.
The wise person understands that their mistakes, just like their past, are there for a reason. They are there to instruct and to teach. They are there as reminders not to choose the same path, which led to our mistakes. But they are not meant to be lived in or to be rehashed endlessly, over and over again.
No matter what your past has held it does not need to dictate your future. You have the power to begin a fresh new start and change. You can write a fresh new chapter in the book of your life and there is no better time to begin than right now.
Remember that it is human and okay to error and make mistakes, so long as we correct them and prevent them from happening again. So don’t catch yourself writing down that same exact resolutions a year from now. Go ahead: move forward with confidence. After all, no one can do it for you.
This is your life and only you can live it.
http://www.positivechangehypnosis/
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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