Breaking Habits
Would you like to overcome unwanted habits?
We can develop unwanted habits to deal with stress and boredom.
All the habits we have in our lives right now – either wanted or unwanted, are there for a reason. Some behaviours benefit us, and other undesirable habits harm us differently.
Because unwanted habits provide us with some benefits in life, eliminating them cannot be easy. Instead, we need to replace them with a new pattern that provides a similar use and better results.
Unwanted habits are a negative behavior pattern and common examples can include:
- Nail biting over-eating smoking emotional shopping
- Wasting time online skin picking eating candy excessive alcohol
- Video games over spending obsessively checking your phone
- Overeating, hair picking, negative self-talk, excessive social media use
I can help you to break your unwanted habits, using a combination of techniques and hypnosis
Together we will:
- Choose a substitute for your unwanted habits that provide similar benefits and plan ahead of time how you will respond when you face the stress or boredom that prompts your undesirable habits.
- Analyse when your unwanted habits show up, how often a day, do you do it, where you are and who you are with when you do it.
- Identify as many triggers as possible to make it easier on yourself by avoiding the things that cause them.
- Make a plan to overcome setbacks if you get off track rather than beating yourself up over a mistake.
- Focus on awareness and show you how to make a change.
- Visualise yourself succeeding and see yourself building a new identity.
When engaging in unwanted habits, we are running on auto-pilot, and we do them without even thinking about them, so the first thing we need to do to reform the practices requires us to pay attention to the triggering cues.
Awareness alone does not change the strength of the habit memory but is effective because they enhance executive control processes.
Sometimes we want to change an unwanted habit but are not ready to give it up, or we do not believe it is possible to change because we may have been doing it over a prolonged period.
Successful treatment of unwanted habits starts with believing that we can achieve it and expecting that the process we are about to undertake will work.
By targeting the unconscious mind with powerful suggestion techniques, I can help you to develop a positive relationship with your unwanted habits.
If you have unwanted habits that negatively impact your life, I can help you in just one session.
I have three unique programs that can help you overcome unwanted habits and start living the life you want!