Smoking is a bad habit. Smoking is injurious to health. Smoking may cause cancer.
How many times have you heard the above statements? A number of times; I guess. And how many times, have you decided to quit the habit of smoking? Several times; I guess.
If you are a regular smoker, trying to quit smoking, you will know that it is not actually a cakewalk. Most people find it really hard, to kick the butt. Nevertheless, you can not disagree with the fact that smoking causes injury to your health. And therefore, it is important that you quit smoking as soon as possible.
Over the years, a number of solutions in this regard have come up. From nicotine patches to medicines, to electronic cigarettes, the list is long and endless. However, most of these quit smoking solutions do not actually work, simply because they focus on tricking the brain into believing something which is not exactly true. However, the brain can not be fooled and therefore the appropriate solution would be one that actually trains your brain, or commands it to perform a particular task. Hypnosis is one such solution.
As it is, hypnosis refers to a state of concentrated relaxation. It enables a person to relax, and focuses on a certain issue or preferred result. It is to be understood here that hypnosis is different form normal relaxation or sleep. Typically a session of hypnosis helps you to relax your mind as well as your body, and thereby connect to your subconscious mind. Now, the conscious mind continuously edits as well as judges your thoughts, feelings or inputs, whereas your subconscious mind is actually a sponge, which absorb every thought or feeling that comes in. as it is, the subconscious mind can not actually differentiate between imagination and reality. So, if you are able to make your subconscious mind believe a particular think, it would act accordingly.
In other words, in case you are able to make your subconscious mind believe that you hate smoking, then it would act accordingly. By reprogramming the subconscious mind you would be able to alter your actual conduct. Gradually, you will be able to convince your brain to quit smoking. 電子煙