Hypnotherapy for Healthy Habits for the New Year: 5 Reasons it Works
Making New Year's resolutions isn't a new concept – in fact, many people learn about it fairly early on in life. A large percentage of them will likely continue to put lists together every January, all through to, perhaps, their early adult years.
Even if people have the best intentions when they make these resolutions, less than half of them are actually kept each year, unfortunately. While having a support group made of friends and family may work, additional help might be needed. For some people, this means reaching for the phone and calling the local hypnotherapist.
But, why hypnotherapy? There are several reasons.
1. No judgement. A hypnotherapist knows not to judge their client's choice of resolution, let alone their chances of success. For people whose loved ones are quick to judge, or immediately give tips to help keep the resolution, this is a welcome change.
Since you're not judged, and will not be judged even 6 months down the line with less success than you thought you'd have at that point, you'll feel less pressure. This also means you'll be stressing yourself less over your ability to keep that resolution.
2. Less stress. As mentioned, the less pressure is on you to achieve something, like keeping a resolution, the less stressed you feel. Hypnotherapy can go further by helping you identify other things that are causing you stress.
This is important because, when you're stressed, you're more likely to revert to old and potentially bad habits, which may hamper your efforts to keep your resolution. Less stress also means you'll find it easier to sleep. This is good news if getting more shut-eye each night is on your list of health tips for the new year in Adelaide.
3. Reinforcement. At the beginning of the year, there's still enough motivation, but it begins to dwindle after a few months or so, but seeing a hypnotherapist can help you stay motivated. You might discover a previously-unknown reason for a certain habit, or hidden reasons you want to achieve a particular goal.
Hypnotherapy sessions will also help enforce your belief in your abilities to do certain things, which will increase your chances of success, one task or another. When it comes to keeping resolutions, the phrase "mind over matter" is a fitting description for these effects. The more you believe, the more likely it is to be true.
4. Positive focus. Along with reinforcing your belief in yourself, hypnotherapy will help you focus on the good, instead of the bad. That doesn't mean you'll forget that something bad happened. Instead, hypnotherapy will enable you to come to terms with it and accept it, without it controlling your actions from then on.
For instance, if your resolution is to finally stop smoking, but you give in to a craving less than a month after you started, picking the lighter and another cigarette up seems easier. Hypnotherapy, though, will help you understand what caused you to give in to that craving, and how you were able to stop yourself after only one stick.
This focusing on the upside means you get another form of encouragement.
5. Action, not deprivation. Hypnotherapy is about giving positive suggestions to the subconscious mind, that will eventually show in physical actions. In a vein similar to positive focus, the hypnotherapist will give you suggestions that are your own goals and desires, only re-worded. There are two reasons for this.
The first is so that you get reaffirmation of your goals, since studies have shown that hearing them from another person helps to validate the belief or goal. The second is so that they sound more about taking action, rather than depriving you of a certain thing.
Whether you're trying to adopt healthy habits for the new year Adelaide, or making a life-changing career move, hypnotherapy can help you really take action.
Even if people have the best intentions when they make these resolutions, less than half of them are actually kept each year, unfortunately. While having a support group made of friends and family may work, additional help might be needed. For some people, this means reaching for the phone and calling the local hypnotherapist.
But, why hypnotherapy? There are several reasons.
1. No judgement. A hypnotherapist knows not to judge their client's choice of resolution, let alone their chances of success. For people whose loved ones are quick to judge, or immediately give tips to help keep the resolution, this is a welcome change.
Since you're not judged, and will not be judged even 6 months down the line with less success than you thought you'd have at that point, you'll feel less pressure. This also means you'll be stressing yourself less over your ability to keep that resolution.
2. Less stress. As mentioned, the less pressure is on you to achieve something, like keeping a resolution, the less stressed you feel. Hypnotherapy can go further by helping you identify other things that are causing you stress.
This is important because, when you're stressed, you're more likely to revert to old and potentially bad habits, which may hamper your efforts to keep your resolution. Less stress also means you'll find it easier to sleep. This is good news if getting more shut-eye each night is on your list of health tips for the new year in Adelaide.
3. Reinforcement. At the beginning of the year, there's still enough motivation, but it begins to dwindle after a few months or so, but seeing a hypnotherapist can help you stay motivated. You might discover a previously-unknown reason for a certain habit, or hidden reasons you want to achieve a particular goal.
Hypnotherapy sessions will also help enforce your belief in your abilities to do certain things, which will increase your chances of success, one task or another. When it comes to keeping resolutions, the phrase "mind over matter" is a fitting description for these effects. The more you believe, the more likely it is to be true.
4. Positive focus. Along with reinforcing your belief in yourself, hypnotherapy will help you focus on the good, instead of the bad. That doesn't mean you'll forget that something bad happened. Instead, hypnotherapy will enable you to come to terms with it and accept it, without it controlling your actions from then on.
For instance, if your resolution is to finally stop smoking, but you give in to a craving less than a month after you started, picking the lighter and another cigarette up seems easier. Hypnotherapy, though, will help you understand what caused you to give in to that craving, and how you were able to stop yourself after only one stick.
This focusing on the upside means you get another form of encouragement.
5. Action, not deprivation. Hypnotherapy is about giving positive suggestions to the subconscious mind, that will eventually show in physical actions. In a vein similar to positive focus, the hypnotherapist will give you suggestions that are your own goals and desires, only re-worded. There are two reasons for this.
The first is so that you get reaffirmation of your goals, since studies have shown that hearing them from another person helps to validate the belief or goal. The second is so that they sound more about taking action, rather than depriving you of a certain thing.
Whether you're trying to adopt healthy habits for the new year Adelaide, or making a life-changing career move, hypnotherapy can help you really take action.
