Overcoming Addiction
Whether you are looking for addiction counselling or hypnotherapy and NLP I can help you to get your life back on track. I can help you overcome your addictive thinking and behaviours.
I believe that we all have the internal resources to help ourselves and achieve our best possible outcome. If you have decided to change your lifestyle I can help you overcome your addiction by using my skills, experience, knowledge and techniques to help you find your own positive and healthy solution to your problem.
Treating Addiction by Understanding the Brain’s Reward Pathways
Addictions plague millions of people, and if you’re one of them you may not understand why you keep repeating the same behaviors even though you know they’re bad for you. You may feel like you’re weak, but you’re not. You’re just responding to the triggering of reward pathways in your brain. When you practice your addiction – whether it’s to nicotine, drugs, alcohol, food, or even relationships and other people – those reward pathways light up in response. The addiction feels good. If it stopped feeling good, you’d very likely stop doing it, because you wouldn’t get any reward from it.
Treating Addiction to Reduce Reward
Treating addiction isn’t an easy road, but there’s plenty of hope and help for anyone who wants to break an addiction. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been addicted or what kind of substance you’re addicted to. When the reward pathways no longer respond to the addictive substance, you’ll find your desire for it diminishes. It can take time to completely overcome an addiction, but it’s certainly something you can do with help and dedication. There are medications that can be used to block these reward pathways from getting joy out of addiction, but that’s not the only option you have.
Using Hypnotherapy to Treat Addiction
Hypnotherapy can also be used to battle addiction and affect the brain’s reward pathways. Suggestion is very powerful, and it’s possible to ‘reprogram’ what you ‘know’ about how addiction makes you feel. If you no longer crave something and you don’t get enjoyment from it, you’ll move away from doing it. Naturally, behavioral changes are often a part of this process because people who have addictions can struggle with other behaviors, as well. They befriend others with the same kinds of problems and involve themselves in activities that promote their addictions – but it doesn’t have to be that way anymore.
Take Steps Toward an Addiction-Free Life
The first step is to make a decision to get help. From there, you can begin to move forward. As you learn about your addiction and see it as the disease it is, you’ll come to a better understanding of why you’ve made the choices you’ve made and how your brain chemistry has played a role in this. Because addictions can alter the way your brain’s reward pathways work, you start to need more and more of the addictive substance in order to receive the same reward feelings that you got in the past. With work, it’s possible to reverse that, and to no longer crave that addictive substance.
If you feel that you have an addiction problem and you have decided to make changes in your lifestyle please call 07738380146 or email tom@selfhypnosisdownloads.co.uk for a FREE 30 minute confidential consultation/assessment and help for overcoming addiction.
Tom Smith, common name, uncommon therapy.
