Breaking Bad Habits using Hypnotherapy

One of the famous uses of hypnotherapy is helping people get rid of bad habits.

Hypnotherapy was very effective in helping people quit smoking and give up other bad habits such as overeating. Some people even managed to stop smoking after only one hypnosis session completely.

The idea behind breaking habits using hypnotherapy

If you are new to hypnosis or hypnotherapy, you may be wondering how it can be used to break bad habits. The idea is simple. Breaking habits using hypnosis is based on the concept that your addiction to a bad habit is mainly a result of your false beliefs about the practice; here are some examples of such false beliefs:

• Thinking that smoking will reduce your stress
• Thinking that eating will make you forget your problems
• Thinking that you can never give up the habit
• Thinking that you will never find a replacement for your partner who broke up with you

How hypnotherapy help can help you change your false ideas

Using hypnotherapy, you can have your subconscious mind programmed with new beliefs to break your bad habits.

For instance, a person addicted to smoking will have new beliefs installed in his subconscious mind about the truth about the relation between smoking and stress (smoking increases pressure). So this new belief will reduce his desire to smoke.

By changing those false beliefs, your subconscious mind will give up its attachment to the habit, and so you will find that breaking it becomes much more comfortable.

Breaking habits by finding the root cause

Most people make the mistake of trying to break a habit directly without understanding its root cause. As a result, they fail to break the habit.

Let’s suppose that a person procrastinates because he is afraid to fail; in such a case, fear of failure is the real problem and not the habit of procrastination itself.

By Fixing this root problem, that person can get rid of this bad habit. Hypnotherapy can help you in such a case as well. Just find the root cause behind your practice, then use hypnotherapy to fix that root cause whenever possible.