It’s a pretty common refrain: “I’d love to quit smoking / lose weight, but I just don’t have the will power.”

I know I’ve heard it many times (and to be honest, even said it) but why is willpower such a problem?

 My theory is that in this day and age, we are so used to instant gratification that we want things, like making improvements to our health, but don’t want to work for them.

 And since willpower is your conscious mind - your own inner “watch dog” you tend to justify any transgressions, backsliding or even falling off the wagon completely!

 It’s easy to tell ourselves that we lack willpower, that we just can’t say no.

And lets face it, when it comes to smoking, that’s true! It’s been said that nicotine is more addictive than heroin. Try giving that up without help! Not all that realistic is it?

As for food, many people use food as a reward, or a comfort, which is why it’s so hard to make a permanent change.

But self hypnosis allows you to bypass that conscious part of your mind that makes your excuses, and justifies your slip ups, and works directly on the subconscious.

It allows you to program your subconscious mind to think what you know you need to think in order to succeed in your mission, whether it be quitting smoking, losing weight, or improving yourself, and makes you truly believe that you can, and will succeed.

Unlike your conscious mind, there’s no fooling your subconscious. It doesn’t care about justifications or reasoning. It knows what it knows, and thats why self hypnosis works. In fact, it’s been proven in numerous studies that hypnosis and self hypnosis are effective tools in the quest to stop smoking, and to lose weight, for that very reason!

 If you don’t believe me, give it a try! Download free sample audio, and put it to the test.

 If it works for you, try out the self hypnosis cd or mp3.

Remember, you have nothing to lose but those bad habits, and you owe it to yourself to try everything, don’t you?

If anyone has ever experienced the unbridled terror that comes with panic attacks, panic disorders and phobias, they’d know that sufferers would do just about anything to get their symptoms under control.

 And panic disorders are physically debilitating - your heart races, you can’t breath, you’re consumed with fear of losing your mind, or experience dizziness, uncontrollable trembling or a feeling of disconnection with the world around you. It can affect your work, school and home life, and you’d be well advised to do everything possible to treat the causes, as well as the symptoms!

 Prescription drugs, conventional therapy and cognitive behaviour therapy do all work for panic attack sufferers, but did you know that hypnotherapy, and self hypnosis are also very effective in the treatment of this debilitating psychological condition?

 It does stand to reason, since panic disorders, by their nature, are a bit of a malfunction of the subconscious mind, triggering ill timed stress reactions - the bodies “fight or flight” mechanism - to events that don’t necessarily warrant them.

 And since self hypnosis works directly on the subconscious, it can be a valuable tool in managing, and even curing, panic disorders!

 So if you have been suffering from the symptoms of generalised anxiety disorder, or a more specific panic disorder, perhaps it would be worth your while to explore this possibility? You could start by visiting the hypnosis download page on this site, or by ordering a copy of the hypnosis cd or MP3.

You have nothing to lose but the fear!

Maybe you’re new to the concept of self-hypnosis, and skeptical. Does it work, and more importantly, will it work for you?

Say, for example, you’ve just had a baby, and shifting some weight with self-hypnosis sounds like a really great idea. Or maybe you’re a smoker and caffeine junkie, looking for ways to cut down or quit those habits, whether for health or other reasons.

It’s natural to be skeptical, but if you take the time to do some research on the topic, you will discover the following:

• Self-hypnosis does work, although it is a process, and the results and ease with which you can use self-hypnosis improve with time and practice.
• Interestingly, studies have shown that children are more “open” to self-hypnosis. It’s been hypothesized that this is because children, rather than living more in a “conscious” state of mind (analyzing, thinking things through and worrying) tend to rely on instinct and their sub conscious mind.
• For this reason, it is necessary to first train your mind to “shut down” the conscious, and tap into the sub conscious.
• There are various ways of achieving this, meditation being one.
• The speed at which you will be able to achieve self-hypnosis depends on how soon you can master the art of disengaging your conscious mind, and allowing yourself to become open to suggestion on a subconscious level.
• Unlike subliminal messaging, which relies on recorded messages, played while you sleep, we control our own subconscious, and therefore, in theory, have the ability to open our minds to the desired message of self hypnosis, whether it be self improvement, weight loss, or stopping smoking.

So there we have it. Self-hypnosis does work, and can work for anyone who takes the time to learn the techniques involved, and with systems like the hypnosis cd and hypnosis MP3 available to help the process of learning self-hypnosis, and improving your life, it seems this may be one answer to at least some of life’s little problems.

If you’ve tried everything else, and are looking for a natural, non-invasive way to solve a few of life’s trickier little problems, why not try self-hypnosis? You have everything to gain, and nothing to lose (aside from a few pound maybe, or some bad habits!)

Smoking is a very bad habit to begin with. Taking this into mind should be enough to make smokers to start reconsidering their health and the long term of effects of smoking. The bad thing about smokers who have been doing it for quite a lot of time is that they have developed smoking as a habit. In cases such as these, people don’t even need a reason to continue smoking because it has already become a regular part of their lives. And sometimes when certain actions become habits, especially bad ones, a person sometimes becomes numb of even considering the consequences of their actions. Smoking never leads to anything good, and in the worst possible case, can lead to severe damage on your lungs and respiratory system.
Some people might say that they turn to smoking because it relaxes them. This is a fact, which may be attributed to the calming effects of nicotine. The problem is that nicotine is very highly addictive. This is also the reason why so many people can’t help but continue smoking even when they become aware that it is wrong. People who have been smoking for a long time experience a very insatiable craving for it once starved. It is quite advisable for people who suffer from this craving to seek the assistance and guidance of medical professionals as well as the people close to him/her, in order to overcome his/her addiction. Some people may claim that hypnosis is the perfect solution for it, but the truth is there’s no such thing as a hypnosis, which makes people do things they don’t agree with. In line with this, for hypnosis to work, the person undergoing it must be willing to change. Hypnosis, in this context, is simply a manipulation of a person’s mind by using his past experiences or by giving him/her certain details to recreate a situation wherein the mind can relax. This simply is the main objective of hypnosis, the relaxation of the mind. When a person’s mind is relaxed, he/she becomes more receptive of actions that otherwise would have felt too difficult to accomplish.

In the case of smoking, one has to first of all, consider why he/she does it. The most common reason of all is also relaxation. By using hypnosis, or undergoing hypnotherapy, one is also able to achieve this same state of mind without the harmful side effects. Even the effects of nicotine itself may even be numbed if a person has a positive state of mind. When a person is basically in a good mood, all endeavors become a lot less stressful. To develop the discipline to fight the craving for nicotine, a person needs to focus on its bad effects and keep in mind that smoking is and will always be dangerous for his/her health. With this in mind, and a positive attitude towards life, a person’s energy and focus may be shifted to more useful things, and in effect makes life twice as rewarding by eliminating a bad habit, and also developing a good one.