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BAD HABIT? WAKE UP FROM THE TRANCE
YOU’RE ALREADY IN!
For reasons of privacy I won’t
use names, but a person I knew went up on the stage at a hypnosis show
and did some entertaining, funny things. Nothing that “crossed the
line” of course, but pretty out of character. When some friends joked
with her about what she did in front of the audience, her response
was “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe I did that! I must have really been
hypnotized. It seemed OK to do those things at the time.”
Jump to daily life. Stage
hypnosis and clinical (“professional” or “office”) hypnosis are two very
different things. The stage is for fun and entertainment, period.
People who look into clinical hypnosis usually have identified a problem
to fix, or a goal to achieve. Problem habits, problem feelings or
thoughts, and maybe they don’t even know why. In this way it’s like a
“trance,” automatic behavior, unthinking, linked to environmental cues.
“The phone rings, I want a cigarette.” We have learned lots of
automatic behaviors and thoughts as we learned to function in life, and
most of them are useful. We just get in our car and do all those little
things to drive and don’t think too much about it.
But if we have a bad habit,
uncomfortable feelings, or are stuck, one way to look at it is we need
to wake up
from the “bad habit” trance we're already in. If you have a
counterproductive habit, do any of these apply? “I don’t know why I do
it, OR—I have rationalized why I do it, OR—I do it without thinking
about it, OR—I can’t imagine how I would cope without it, OR—it scares
me to think of changing it."
This is another way of looking
at tough habits we wish we could break. The solution? SNAP those
fingers! Wake up! Wide awake, smell the coffee, realize the TRUTH with
ALL parts of your mind, and the truth will set you free. As soon as you
get the truth into every part of your mind.
One of my teachers a long time
ago said “we shouldn’t be trying to hypnotize our clients, we should be
waking them up from the trance they are already in.” Food for thought.
Since the habit may be
long-standing and stubborn, it may have worked its way into many parts
of your mind and your life. It may be stubborn, because it has learned
over the years how to control you to keep itself alive. If you wake up,
your habit will be “whispering in your ear” to put you back to sleep,
back to the automatic behavior. It’s hard to wake up. You really have
to give yourself permission to do it. That’s an area where clinical
hypnosis shines. The message for your unconscious: wake up, you don’t
need your bad habit to feel peace of mind. --Jay T.
DID YOU KNOW? In order to benefit
from marriage or couple counseling, you usually need five to ten
sessions. You don’t have to sign up for this, but just commit in your
own mind to give it the time you need, even though your may feel (A)
better, (B) worse, pick one, after a session or two. Movement in either
direction means we are getting somewhere.
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