[img]560|left|Nicholas D. Pollak|remove link|no_popup[/img]It can be hard to make the decisions you know you need to make to be the success you want to be.
What holds you back?
All of us learn our behaviors between birth and 12 years of age. That is where we learn to be the people we are, where our behaviors and habits, bad and good, are acquired.
Clients would like to break an unhealthy habit but they cannot raise the strength to quit.
It is commendable to want to break a habit, but it also is doomed to failure. When we consciously want to change, we only are using 10 percent of our brainpower to create change. Considering that 90 percent is the subconscious, and the subconscious gives the conscious mind what it asks for, the conscious mind has little chance to affect the change. The 90 percent subconscious obviously is much stronger. It will continually override the good intentions of the 10 percent.
In my opinion, this is why hypnotherapy is a powerful, quick tool to create changes. Recently I was treating a client for panic and anxiety. He had been seeing a psychiatrist for several months and participating in group sessions where everyone shared the same symptoms. They were supporting each other in their panic and anxiety discussions and descriptions. Unfortunately, the talk only was being heard by the 10 percent conscious mind with no change being affected within the 90 percent subconscious.
An Informed Client Emerges
After three sessions with me over just four weeks, his panic and anxiety was now eliminated. He has had no recurrences. If one happens, he knows why it is happening and, importantly, he has the subconscious tools to deal with it and to eliminate it with 5 to 10 seconds. A significantly better situation than the one he had been in for the past few months with the group that he was attending.
Somewhere in life he had learned panic and anxiety in certain situations. Even though he wanted to feel better, the subconscious mind was giving him the panic and anxiety because that was the learned pattern.
Why Hypnosis Is Helpful
Panic ingrained as a habit is just like tying a shoelace. At first we did not know how. We learned. By repetition, we became better. Eventually we stopped thinking about how to tie the lace because we had mastered it. Stored in our subconscious, when we knew a lace needed to be tied, the subconscious gave us the ability to do it.
The crux is, we have learned what we have learned. To replace negative habits requires subconscious intervention, the power of hypnosis.
Never does the subconscious determine whether the information it holds is good or bad. It only holds the information. While in hypnosis, I am able to create a new scenario within the subconscious of the client living his or her life without the bad habit.
These new scenarios are accepted by the subconscious as readily as if they were real. Once these scenarios have been replayed within the subconscious and the client is in a situation where the old habit was prevalent, the new behavior comes up instead. Providing that the client accepts the new behaviors, he is on the way to recovery.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me by telephone, 310.204.3321, or by email at nickpollak@hypnotherapy4you.net. See my website at www.hypnotherapy4you.net