Hypnosis For Alcoholism Can Help You To Succeed
Scientific studies have shown that when hypnosis is used in conjunction with other therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy as part of an alcohol addiction treatment plan, long-term sobriety figures increase significantly. In other words, hypnosis for alcoholism can help you to succeed.
Understanding Alcohol Addiction: How Hypnosis Can Help
Alcoholism is also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD). There are many millions of people globally affected by this problem. This is where you just can’t stop your alcohol consumption even though you know there will be negative effects either in your job, your relationship, or in some other significant way. Hypnosis has been found to get positive results in helping addicts to stop drinking and stay stopped.
Here are some of the reasons why hypnosis can be a powerful tool to help you achieve positive change:
- Change Your Beliefs: Hypnosis can help you to change your beliefs about alcohol that are keeping you in the grip of addiction
- Learn To Relax: By regularly experiencing the relaxed state you experience when you are in a hypnotic trance, you have fewer cravings. Many alcohol cravings are experienced because you are stressed. Your unconscious mind has learned that alcohol does relax you so it’ll set up a craving to help you solve your stress. Going into a trance-like state regularly helps you to be more relaxed which means less stress which in turn means less cravings and more control.
- Trauma: Many alcoholics have underlying emotions from past events that require escaping from. Using self-hypnosis, you can heal those hidden traumas so that you have nothing to escape from. When you have nothing to escape from, you don’t need to drink alcohol.
- Motivation: Many alcoholics have very low self-esteem which destroys motivation to have a better life. With regular use of hypnosis, you can feel better about yourself and believe that you can do this.
- Re-training Your Triggers: In hypnosis, your mind can be conditioned to have a different automatic response to a trigger (a healthier one). This means that you’ll have a strong urge to do a healthier activity and drinking never enters your mind.
Breaking the Cycle: Hypnotherapy Techniques for Overcoming Alcohol Dependence
Here are some of the hypnosis techniques that are used by a trained hypnotherapist in face-to-face sessions. These are also used on a self-hypnosis recording such as my “Overcome Alcohol Addiction” hypnosis audio.
- Subconscious Re-programming: You have certain beliefs about yourself and your relationship with alcohol which reside deep in your subconscious mind. Using the state of deep relaxation during hypnosis, you can access and change these beliefs.
- Visualizing Being Sober: You’ve got to be able to imagine being sober and believe you can do it, to make that a reality. A problem for most alcoholics is that, deep down, they don’t believe they can be successfully sober.
- Anchoring Techniques: An example would be bringing up a strong feeling of calm and then touching your thumb and first finger together each time. With practice, you’ll be able to trigger off a calm feeling at will.
- Dissolving Old Anchors; There are old triggers that always trigger a craving for alcohol. These must be dissolved so that they can’t work anymore.
- Programming New Anchors; You can program new responses to those old triggers which would be very beneficial.
- Building Staying Power: You’ll hear the phrase “falling off the wagon” a lot from alcoholics. The translation of this is that their belief became weak and they relapsed. Through hypnosis, it is possible to build a strong belief and the staying power to succeed long-term.
Addressing Triggers: Hypnotherapy Strategies to Prevent Relapse
So you’ve successfully given up alcohol. You’re sober. The biggest challenge for most addicts is not getting off alcohol – it’s staying away from it. Many people relapse. It’s a very good idea to know in advance, what are the reasons you could relapse. Here are some of them.
- Emotional Relapse: This is where you start to neglect your self-care, you gradually stop talking openly about your emotions and start to bottle them up, and, of course, you withdraw from social interaction. These symptoms have a lot in common with how people develop depression. Listening to a self-hypnosis recording can help you to stay committed to self-care.
- Mental Relapse: it’s like you have two voices in your head, the one that wants sobriety and the one that wants alcohol. When you have this internal battle, it’s important to know what to do. Listening to a self-hypnosis recording will program you with exactly what to do when this happens.
- Physical Relapse: This is where you give in and go to a bar or a liquor store and you actually drink alcohol. If your automatic reponses have been successfully re-programmed using self-hypnosis, this is more unlikely to happen.
Self-Hypnosis Audio To Overcome Alcohol Addiction
Self-hypnosis can be a great tool to help you visualize your new sober future and get excited about it.
Rewiring the Mind: Neuroplasticity and Alcohol Recovery through Hypnosis
Imagine your brain looks like the electrical wiring hub of a large company. There are thousands of wires all connecting to terminals. Imagine one of those wires is wired up to the wrong terminal. The term neuroplasticity refers to the brain’s ability to rewire itself.
Hypnosis can be a very effective treatment for rewiring your mind. The psychological effect of using visualization of a sober future where you feel great is to rewire that belief that only alcohol could help you. Hypnosis is a very effective method of rewiring triggers so that when you in a situation where your current wiring is to turn to alcohol, now you can be rewired to instantly think of an alternative strategy other than the use of alcohol.
The most important thing to know is that this rewiring process is not a once-off thing. You can’t just have one hypnotherapy session and think you’ll be magically cured of alcohol abuse for the rest of your life. When you listen to a self-hypnosis recording for a long time (ie. once a day for a couple of months), the positive suggestions embed deeper and deeper in your unconscious mind, creating much better results as time goes by.
Self-Hypnosis for Alcohol Abstinence: Practical Tips and Guidance
If you’ve decided to download a self-hypnosis recording to help you stay sober, here are some tips that will make your experience even better and help the recording to have maximum effectiveness.
- Where To Listen: Find a quiet place, where you definitely won’t be disturbed for the next half hour. I always suggest lying down on your bed. Dim the lights and put your phone on airplane mode.
- Deep Breathing: Before you even begin listening, think about all of the “stuff” that’s on your mind, or the tension in your body, and, as you take deep breaths, imagine breathing it all away. Tell yourself you don’t need any of that “stuff” right now.
- The Recording: Start the recording. On most good recordings, you’ll be guided first of all, into a deep state of relaxation. Then you’ll hear lots of powerful suggestions for positive change. While listening, try to detach from the recording. Go and have a pleasant daydream about something else. This is when the suggestions on the recording are having maximum impact.
- Routine: Create a regular routine for listening. Maybe set a reminder for the same time every day. The key to the success of any self-hypnosis recording is listening consistently.
Remember, your ultimate goal is to fall in love with sobriety. If you’re just trying to be sober, but you find it boring, that won’t work. You’ve got to aim for a mindset where sobriety is the most fun thing you can do and where it provides you with everything you need.
Self-Hypnosis Audio To Overcome Alcohol Addiction
Self-hypnosis can be a great tool to help you visualize your new sober future and get excited about it.
Managing Withdrawal Symptoms with Hypnotherapy
One of the biggest challenges to staying sober is when those withdrawal symptoms kick in. Depending on the seriousness of your alcohol problem, you may need help from the medical community to manage those withdrawal symptoms. In severe cases, those can be life-threatening, so it’s always best to get professional advice and help.
For most alcoholics, their withdrawal symptoms aren’t life-threatening, but the negative impact on your mind of total abstinence can be quite powerful. This is where learning how to harness the power of the mind can be a very easy way to give yourself the best chance of succeeding. As a matter of fact, I believe that we should promote this form of therapy much more as it can give you an easy win. Hypnosis programs that are designed by a professional hypnotherapist with years of experience are obviously the best choice.
I have recorded a hypnosis mp3 called “Overcome Alcohol Addiction” which I’m certain will help you as long as you commit to listening every day for at least thirty days. You can download it right now if you’d like and get started straight away.
Building Resilience: Strengthening Mental Health in Alcohol Recovery
Resilience is your ability to stay the course, to hang in there, and practice sobriety every day for the rest of your life. I regularly use the analogy of a marathon runner. If you were preparing to run the marathon in the Olympic Games, you wouldn’t just go out and run every day. You’d pay great attention to what you eat, how long you sleep, and a whole lot of other small things. When you see a runner winning the gold medal, you know that is a combination of a lot of little things.
This is why all of the following are equally as important. You’ve got to be good at all of these to be successfully sober for life. They are:
- Self-Care: Showering regularly, taking care to wear nice clothes, getting good sleep, eating good food, and getting some exercise every day are all essential
- Positive Affirmations: Repeating a motivational sentence to ourselves every day increases our likelihood of succeeding
- Getting Support: Surrounding yourself with supportive people, or joining groups like Alcoholics Anonymous can be a great help to hang in there long-term.
- Growth Mindset: Regard all setbacks as opportunities to grow and learn.
- Relaxation Practice: Listening to a self-hypnosis recording each day can have a two-pronged effect – it can help you to relax and it also embeds positive suggestions for success deep in your mind.
- Your Strengths: Regular self-appreciation helps build the determination to succeed that you need. We all have strengths. By focusing on our strengths, we boost our self esteem and our belief that we can succeed.
Self-Hypnosis Audio To Overcome Alcohol Addiction
Self-hypnosis can be a great tool to help you visualize your new sober future and get excited about it.
Self-Hypnosis For Alcoholism: What to Expect and How It Works
When you listen to a self-hypnosis recording, you’ll enter a trance-like state. It’ll probably feel like you are daydreaming. Most people would say that listening to a self-hypnosis audio is a peasant experience. When you listen to a hypnosis for alcoholism recording such as “Overcome Alcohol Addiction“, your subconscious mind becomes more open to positive suggestions. For instance, you might hear a suggestion that says”Now being sober seems much more desirable and pleasurable than drinking alcohol.”. In your hypnotic state, you will accept this suggestion much more readily than you would while conscious.
If you’d like to find out more about listening to a hypnosis recording, have a loot at this article “How Do I Listen To A Self Hypnosis Audio?”
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