Can you quit smoking via hypnosis?

One of the most difficult things to accomplish in one’s daily life is to quit smoking cigarettes.  The mere notion of giving up those tightly rolled chemically-drenched tobacco sticks of cancer dread can overwhelm a person’s waking life and flood nighty-nighty time with sickly nightmarish mirages of hell and damnation whether during REM or bouts of insomnia.  This could be due to a variety of cause-and-effect chain-gang like shackles, such as previous nasty encounters with trying to quit smoking, witnessing the difficulty others experience in going cold turkey on the Marlboro Man (who died of lung cancer, by the way) or living in fear that you will no longer be the same noirishly cool character without a fag hanging from one corner of your mouth while speaking cynically out of the other corner about that possibility that you might quit smoking the damn things to the femme fatale who offered the smoke to you in the first place (if you happen to be a guy).  However, despite these abhorrent misgivings, hypnotherapy may give you the strength of mental clarity to realize that resistance against your cravings need not be futile, that the truth is not only out there, somewhere, but inside your own mind, and that you stand a much greater chance of quitting by giving into said hypnotherapy.

Anyone, even abnormally prescient toddlers with 200+ IQs who just can’t stop worrying about the future and started stealing Auntie Esther’s Virginia Slims at six months of age, can quit smoking via the Stop Smoking Hypnosis program if these individuals stick with said program and maintain the requisite focused intent, this constructive and pro-active intention being that the person genuinely wishes to quit smoking and never pick the measly habit up again even in the event of a zombie apocalypse or any other end-of-the-world scenario.  Hypnosis cannot be forced upon someone, nor can it be employed effortlessly as some sort of mindless tool — you still need to want to change and must put in a certain degree of effort to make the whole thing groove to success.

Actually, though, there is no need to panic at that thought in that when used properly, hypnosis can be a more natural approach to quit smoking than the use of nicotine patches or threats from Auntie Esther that she will gut you like a stinking rat if she ever catches you snagging one of her Virginia Slims again.

Using hypnosis will help you quit smoking in a few different manners.

Primarily it will help by boosting your strength of will and mental strength. It will help keep you strong against urges. This is the main benefit people use hypnosis for — to gain that advantage and that mental edge. Because of this it can be used as an “emergency” tool to use when you feel tempted

It helps you to stay realistic, and to actually think different about smoking. Other than thinking of the advantages, or enjoyment of having a cigarette you will start to think more about the health effects, and the disadvantages of smoking. The more you alter your thinking in this way the easier it will be to quit.

Hypnosis also has a cumulative effect. The more you listen the more benefit you will get as the hypnotic suggestions penetrate deep into your mind, build and build, and change the way you think, feel and act on a deeper level.

Give Stop Smoking Hypnosis a go and your new attempt to quit smoking cigarettes, and even cigars, or pipes with cherry-flavored tobacco, will provide you with an advantage to quit smoking that stands a far greater possibility of success than ever before!

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So, what is hypnosis anyway?

Here is an official definition:

Hypnosis is the induction of a state of consciousness in which a person loses the power of voluntary action and is especially susceptible to suggestion or direction.

Going into a bit more detail, one could say that hypnosis is often over-exaggerated, but the term hypnosis is used to describe a trance-like state.

Actually, people go in and out of mild trances or hypnosis type states every day, such as those moments when the mind wanders and you are daydreaming, or even when you just shut the world out and focus deeply on a good novel being read.

These trance-like states are organic and natural.  All hypnosis does is purposefully put you into one of these mild trance states, and over time a hypnotist can then plant simple, beneficial messages into the subconscious mind.

Although you might not remember everything which is said to you once you enter a trance, you are not actually asleep.  Hypnosis is a wakeful state in which you are both deeply calm yet have a heightened level of suggestibility and a concentrated awareness.

Due to this heightened mind-set, you can use hypnosis to rewire your self beliefs and patterns of thinking.

To sum up briefly, it is often said that hypnosis gains access to the unconscious mind to get rid of the negative beliefs which hinder personal growth.

What can be done about hypnosis?

Hypnosis has a good reputation for treating phobic disorders and fears, or at least this is how it started out.  It has also been used with great success for weight loss and for giving up smoking.

Hypnosis is now used for the elimination of almost any bad belief, it is used in a wide range of health problems, and is massively effective for bettering self beliefs such as self esteem and confidence.

Get started with hypnosis today — the easiest way is to experience it for yourself.  You can download three free hypnotherapy mp3s from Natural Hypnosis after clicking on the following link:

Download your 3 free hypnosis albums here.

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The Tree of Life is more than just a movie.

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Some people call this magic.  Bruce Lipton says that it is a natural progression.  I conjecture that to occupy consciousness is the evolution of God.

No, wait a minute I think I got that the other way around.  What I meant to say is that I conjecture that to occupy the evolution of consciousness is God.  No, that’s not it either.  God occupies the consciousness of evolution.  Yeah, there, that’s it.  No, no, that doesn’t even make any sense.  At least, I don’t think it does.

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For the rest of us, those with pets they love that love you back, and those without pets but who get the gist of this message, check out this little process meant to be applied in case a stressful bout of anxious angst takes hold.  In the event that you decide to implement this process but you don’t have a pet ready and available, first go get one.  Any pet will do, as long as it is a loving pet and not too large, say like the size of a baby elephant.  If the pet is a fish, be aware that the pet may die during this process, but it will not be dangerous for you unless you are simultaneously handling large machinery of some type and suffering from a grand mal seizure.

Okay then.  Here’s the step-by-step procedure.

Get pet.  Place pet in lap.  Command faithful pet to stay.  Place stereo headphones over ears.  Begin 30-minute isochronic tone alpha brainwave entrainment preset.  Turn sound volume up and as loud as possible while still being comfortable.  Concentrate on breathing deeply and slowly.  Breathe in through nose and out through mouth.  Pet pet.  End session.  Remove headphones.  Set pet on floor.  Command faithful pet to stay.  Wait one hour but continue breathing.  Pick up pet.  Return pet to lap and command faithful pet to stay.  Replace headphones over ears.  Begin 30-minute binaural beat alpha brainwave entrainment preset.  Turn sound volume down and as low as possible until barely perceptible.  Repeat previous breathing pattern.  Pet pet.  End session.  Remove headphones.  Place pet on floor.  Reward pet.  Rinse and repeat for thirty days.  Calculate new stress level threshold.  Tell others about this.

Final note.  In case you did not get this part, the headphones go over your ears, not the pet’s.  In general, pet’s are not really into wearing headphones.

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It is best when addressing myself to be fairly straightforward with myself for the mutual enlightenment of both myself and any others who happen to stumble upon what I am saying to or about myself.  That having been said (by myself), I think now that I will reveal in more depth that which is merely hinted at in the very first posting of Mind Power Mojo about, well, myself.  This is being done more in that I want to re-post something that I have just written and posted elsewhere on the Internet rather than due to some urgent pressing unfulfilled inkling to be absolutely truthful about myself to, well, you, Dear Reader.  That which is more than hinted at involved yours truly not being exactly a paragon of meditation virtue, a brave entrainer of brainwaves or an expert at astral projection and lucid dreaming.  There are plans to become so, this is true.  In the meantime, I wear any number of guises, both on and off the Net.  Hence the following, posted earlier today at home before making my way to the office where I do my day gig thing as a foreign-contracted expat editing and translation consultant in a government foreign trade bureau.  And, it is true, I had no sleep last night; but I’m not particularly all that anxious about it, and James Joyce did not really freak me out as much as I seem to be saying in the missive that follows.  That was just a bit of dramatic flair for http://www.selfhelp-spirituality-selfesteem.com, which is where I originally posted —

Anxiety and Insomnia

Sometimes I don’t sleep so well. It is an intermittent thing, not happening necessarily every single night, but often enough so that I suppose I ought to consider the health hazards involved. Instead, however, I might just get up in the middle of the night in the midst of an insomnia bout and sit at my computer and chain smoke. Not the best recourse, I know, but there we have it.

Other times, I read to while away the hours that are being spent not sleeping and to take my mind off the fact that I am not sleeping. Otherwise, I might start to sense that an atmosphere of anxious tension is descending upon my presence. Having insomnia gives me anxiety and makes me wonder, “How do I get rid of anxiety so that I can fall asleep?” The insomnia itself seems to give me insomnia. So I read.

I have a rather large collection of books on shelves which I have not read yet, so there is an ever-ready supply at my beck and call. I almost always give a book away once I have finished reading it, and in fact, part of my joy in reading is figuring out which of my friends and family might most enjoy that particular read.

So there was this James Joyce book on the shelf, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I think I actually purchased this copy. The copy of Ulysses, which I have already read, and yes, it was rough going, is still on the shelf, but it is such a dog-eared old copy, the pages look like they are gonna be falling out soon if anyone else attacks it with much gusto, but who would I give a copy of Ulysses to anyway? Who gave it to me?

Last night, during which I did not get any sleep, and now it’s just past 7am, and at some point I will exit the abode on my commute to the workplace, I started reading Portrait. You’d think that reading James Joyce could be a most excellent remedy for insomnia.

the point that I just kept reading out of sheer fear.

“But this stench is not, horrible though it is, the greatest physical torment to which the damned are subjected. The torment of fire is the greatest torment to which the tyrant has ever subjected his fellowcreatures. Place your finger for a moment in the flame of a candle and you will feel the pain of fire. But our earthly fire was created by God for the benefit of man, to maintain in him the spark of life and to help him in the useful arts whereas the fire of hell is of another quality and was created by God to punish the unrepentant sinner.”

Okay, that’s probably enough of a sample. Besides, trying to copy from the book is a pain when typing. Probably not as painful as hell, but it was beginning to hurt in a manner not totally pleasant. And by the way, the term “fellowcreatures” is written as one word, so that’s not my typo. Maybe it was Joyce’s, or maybe it’s just Joycean. Anyway, this passage seemed to go on for pages.

I gave up being a Catholic when I was about eleven, and I’m not even Christian, but it sure freaked me out; or at least, it unsettled me enough so that boredom from reading Joyce did not successfully conspire with my feelings of exhaustion (insomniacs are often exhausted) to push me into sleep. In fact, it backfired and kept me awake. And I think that’s pretty funny.

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                                                              Laozi by way of Crowley

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Zone in Sixty Seconds

This is all about the power of breathing.  Master this concept for stress meditation, and you will always have a technique to find your relaxation zone in sixty seconds (give or take a day or two [ha ha. . . just kidding!!  I was just messing with you.  I actually meant a second or two, or maybe five, but you probably already got that part figured out]).  The secret behind this “get out of stress card free” mystique is all about the power of breathing.

Too much stress?  You need a simple stress meditation.  Of course, learning to meditate might intimidate you, and it’s tough to find the time for daily meditation.  A solution to both problems is meditation you can do that harnesses the power of breathing and takes a mere minute to practice.

An easy stress meditation using the power of breathing to get into the zone of relaxation.

When you breath through your mouth, it expands your chest, which you can then beat on like a mouth-breather standing at the, uh, mouth, of his cave.  Breath through your nose instead and you might notice that your abdomen extends.  The power of breathing via fundamental nose-breathing causes the diaphragm to pull air to the bottom of your lungs.  This delivers a good dose of oxygen into your bloodstream and  brain, and it also tends to relax you.  Breathing through your nose is healthier, and it’s the basis of this one-minute meditation using the power of breathing.

Here’s how you do it.  Close your eyes, sigh, and let the tension go out of your muscles.  It may help to tense up your muscles first, then release that stressful tension.  Let go of your thoughts as much as possible and take four or five slow, deep breaths through your nose, paying attention to the power of breathing.

Can meditation be this easy?

The short answer is yes.  No, you’re not likely to go into a deep meditative state with this simple stress meditation method.  However, you will get benefits, including a clearer mind and a reduction in stress.

Having a “trigger” helps your meditation.  For example, take five breaths getting into the car or right after lunch each day.  These triggers are reminders  of consistency so that meditation becomes a habit.

You can say this isn’t “real” meditation, but there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the relaxation you get from this technique via the power of breathing through the nose and down into your abdomen.  You can always do deeper meditation later.  Bear in mind that not everything has to be difficult to be of value.  Try this 1-minute stress meditation now.

The Power of Breathing Chills You Out

Be done with stress, be gone for the moment, go into the zone.  Make it a mantra –

“Done gone zone, done gone zone, done gone zone . . . .”

Let this mantra resonate with the power of breathing to carry you into a stress-free zone of total relaxation.  If only for a little while.  After a bigger while, the little whiles evolve into longer whiles until one day you find yourself whiling away the day in a carefree, cheerful  way and wondering in an off-hand manner why you had not utilized the power of breathing earlier.

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“How do I get rid of anxiety, depression and stress in my miserable life?”  Do you often find yourself asking . . . uh, well, yourself this question?

If you do, if you are also often mulling over the notion,”What can stress cause?” or “Why do I feel anxiety and the blues?”, I want you to know that you are not alone.  This is a very big club.  However, the vast majority of the members do not know one another and may not even recognize another member on a random street corner.

Those of us (yes, I too, at least in the past, have been an intermittent member of this club; why I am no longer will become clear by the time you have finished this short missive) who ask that question — “How do I get rid of anxiety? — have posed the query with a variety of phrases, some of which are to the discerning mind not always necessarily all that grammatical, which is understandable given the nature of this predicament, all that tension and so forth.  Following are a few of such phrases that people use on the Internet when looking for help with anxiety, stress and depression:

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I imagine you get the point.  Rather than using the phrase, how do I get rid of anxiety, if you use one of the above-mentioned phrases, then you are probably looking for the same answer.  Admittedly, life at times can be distressing, especially if you find yourself suddenly in an unfamiliar and uncomfortable situation with no apparent way out of it.  When you are up to your neck in troubling despair, you just can’t stop thinking:  “How do I Get Rid of Anxiety?”  –  or something similar.

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By asking yourself, “How do I get rid of anxiety?”, you may first be looking to find out exactly what the symptoms of anxiety are to be sure that this is what plagues you.  Depending on what sort of anxiety a person who is asking her/himself, “How do I get rid of anxiety?”, is suffering from, there are a variety of symptoms, but in general they are the following:

• Anxious or racing thoughts
• Being unable to be still or at ease
• Cold or sweaty hands and/or feet
• Dizziness
• Dryness of the mouth
• Feelings of hopelessness
• Feeling nauseous
• Heart palpitations
• Insomnia
• Muscle tension
• Nightmares
• Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet
• Out-of-control, obsessive thinking
• Repeated thoughts or flashbacks of traumatic experiences
• Ritualistic behaviors, such as repeated hand washing
• Sensations of fear, panic, and being unsettled
• Shortness of breath

How Do I Get Rid of Anxiety?

As part of a sturdy on the relationship between major life events and sickness conducted in 1967 at the University of Washington by Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe, a chart was compiled on the main reasons for stress.  The 43 causes of stress indicated on the chart in 1967 had increased to 55 causes by 2006.  Apparently, society is coming up with an increasing number of reasons to get stressed out, with more and more individuals wondering, “How do I get rid of anxiety?”.

If you knew the leading causes of stress in your life, as opposed to asking yourself that question (How do I get rid of anxiety?), what action would you take to eradicate them?  Can you get rid of anxiety and stress, or is it an inoperable condition that will be with you all of your life, possibly causing you extremely poor health and even your eventual death?

Therefore, instead of saying to yourself, “How do I get rid of anxiety and stress?”, you might first want to find out what your leading source of anxiety and stress actually is.

1. Finances

Most studies agree that finances are a leading cause of stress.  In an online poll conducted in 2005 by LifeCare, Inc., 23% of respondents named finances as the leading cause of stress in their lives.  Financial stress has led the list in many modern polls.  People suffering from stress due to money problems are always worrying, “How do I get rid of anxiety with all these debts to pay?”, or “How do I get rid of anxiety and depression when there’s not enough money in the bank?”

Some who name finances as the leading cause of stress cite major purchases they have to make, such as a home or car.  Others are stressed by a loss of income, or mounting credit card debt.  For some, financial stress will eventuate in bankruptcy.  While college students stress over paying for an education, Baby Boomers and older senior citizens find that retirement income can be a major cause of stress.

2. Work

Closely tied to finances as a cause of anxiety is work.  Jobs or careers seem to be an on-going source of stress.  In the LifeCare poll, 21% of those responding listed this as the leading cause of stress and anxiety in life.

How is the workplace a cause of stress?  People worry about getting and keeping adequate employment.  They worry about new types of work or new responsibilities.  Struggling to climb a career ladder, being overwhelmed by the demands.  Work conditions may change, or  interpersonal trouble at work may be driving you up the wall.  Students, especially teenagers and college age people, often say that school work is a cause of stress.  Sometimes, work stress is brought on by other individuals. Sometimes, you bring it on yourself.

3. Family

Family, no matter how wonderful each member may or may not be, is also a leading cause of anxiety and stress.  Arguments erupt with a spouse or other family members.  Parents get divorced.  Children marry, or maybe they don’t.  The ebb and flow of family life is filled with stress.  A child moves out, an aging parent moves in.

Family health is also a leading cause of stress.  A sick family member, a serious injury, pregnancy, miscarriage, or abortion all cause anxiety.  Family changes of other kinds bring stress, too, such as adoption, relocation, and job changes, which can cause stress for everyone in the family even though it only happens to one family member .

4. Personal Concerns

Personal concerns that are only indirectly created by others are another top cause of stress.  Lack of control tops the list of personal concerns.  Every human has a deep-seated desire for control over his or her own life.  When control is weak or missing in a given area, you can experience stress and begin asking yourself, “How do I get rid of anxiety and depression?”  To many people, a lack of control over their own time is a leading cause of stress.  Holding a job, participating in neighborhood activities, driving family to soccer practices, shopping, and scout meetings while trying to keep the household running can create major stress.  You would like to control your time, rather than let the demands of others control it, but it may seem as if it is impossible.

Being involved in legal proceedings that cause stress.  Wrestling with a bad habit.  Going through changes in general because personal change of any kind can be a cause of anxiety.  The list of things that has you saying, “How do I get rid of anxiety?” goes on and on and on.

5. Personal Health and Safety

Most people find worries over personal health to be a leading cause of stress.  For some, stress is linked to obesity and a desire to lose weight.  For others, stress is some personal bad habit that affects health which must be changed.  For example, smoking, abuse of alcohol or other drugs.  Illness or injury, regardless of how serious, can be a leading cause of stress for many people.  Personal health is more or less stressful according to the degree of seriousness and your personal outlook on health.

Personal safety is also a leading cause of stress and anxiety.  Women, more than men, tend to stress about their safety and the safety of others.  Adults tend to stress more than young people, who at times behave as if they are invincible.  Crime is a factor, as is –

6. Personal Relationships

Whether it is a friendship, dating, separation, marriage, divorce, or re-marriage, a relationship can be a leading cause of stress for many.  Everyone seems to want love in their lives, and although it certainly is potentially available in relationships, getting there can be very, very stressful and a major reason someone is asking that question, “How do I get rid of anxiety in my life?”, without fully comprehending why.  Some people resort to online relationships that are easier to handle.  Others withdraw and become recluses.  Either way, the demands on time, finances and emotions can cause constant anxiety stress.

7. Death

Probably the most wrenching cause of stress is the death of a loved one or close friend.  Even the death of a pet can be stressful.  Children are always a source of stress for parents, but when a child dies, the stress is overwhelming.  The same is true when a lifetime spouse passes on.

Win or Lose

Causes of stress change as we age.  The stressed child who threw tantrums becomes a young student, stressed by the school bully.  The young student becomes a teenager, stressed by acne, hormones and dating.  The teenager becomes a young adult trying to handle the stresses of leaving home, adjusting to college life and managing finances.  Life progresses to first jobs, marriage, children and so on.  Even if you move to a secluded cabin in the woods, stress can follow you, and you might just be siting there in your lonely log cabin all by yourself repeating over and over again, gnashing your teeth, staring desperately at the four walls getting closer and closer, the old house creaking and freaking you out, the howling of hungry wolves in the cold, dreary winter woods encroaching howl by howl, the wind in the trees sounding like the moaning of the dead, “How do I get rid of anxiety?  How do I get rid of anxiety?  How do I get rid of anxiety?  HOW DO I GET RID OF ANXIETY!!??!”.

Gaining knowledge of the leading causes of stress is important. Using that knowledge to win over unhealthy anxiety is vital in order to stop thinking, “How do I get rid of anxiety?“

How do I get rid of anxiety?

You can take pills.  You can go see a shrink.  You can go for a walk on the beach as long as just getting to the beach doesn’t stress you out even more.  Or you can sit at home with your headphones on and let brainwave entrainment make you a mellow person.  And if you make it to the beach for that walk, use your MP3 or smart phone while safely manipulating your natural brainwave patterns into a healthy alpha state.

The video above features an example of brainwave entrainment.  In this particular case, it uses both a binaural beat and an isochronic tone recording together and is intended for deep relaxation by increasing the dominance of delta brainwaves.  It is not specifically designed to help deal with that question — How do I get rid of anxiety?  However, it can definitely help you fall asleep, into a deep and peaceful sleep, during which your body produces some very advantageous brainwaves which themselves are associated with healthy neuro-chemicals in the brain that elevate your ability to withstand stress and anxiety.

There are also brainwave entrainment recordings that specifically target anxiety, stress and depression, however.  Not to mention many, many other areas of existence, and they do this in a pain-free, easy-to-access manner.  If you have never heard anything about brainwave entrainment before, you are about to enter a remarkable new phase in your life, one where you not only can stop fretting over that nagging question — “How do I get rid of anxiety?” — but also a world in which you can even increase the power of your mind.  After you have spent a good amount of time playing around with brainwave entrainment, it may seem like some type of magic, but it is based on pure science.  The true magic is what you can accomplish because of it and because of how it unleashes what is already in you, the magic of your own mind.

Go ahead and turn on the video.  You can get even better results by listening to it with headphones or earphones.  Listen to it while perusing Mind Power Mojo for the next hour, but don’t be surprised if you wake up later drooling with your face on your keyboard, feeling very, very sleepy.  You should understand, however, that if you consistently put brainwave entrainment to work for you, you will soon enough not be fretting over that despairing entreaty:

How do I get rid of anxiety?

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