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Psychological reversal is a surprisingly common condition that leads to a number of afflictions, including addictions, such as alcoholism, drug use, and smoking, procrastination, depression, anxiety, or just about any other habit that prohibits successful habit-making.  The good news is that it can be corrected, but there are a number of varieties of this reversal [...]

  Bilateral stimulation is a technique used for people who have experienced some sort of trauma in their life.  This is a technique in which the meridian points on the body are tapped in an alternating pattern in a specific order to release negative feelings that are associated with the traumatic event.  Many people with [...]

Explained less clinically, sexual addiction is the persistent compulsion of sexual behaviour or thought of sexual behaviour, to the point that it invades the standard and requisite day-to-day activities of life. The addict, unknowingly yet responsively rewards him or herself with a high, similar to the high of any other  type of addict. The euphoric [...]

There are many benefits of stopping smoking. Any non-smoker will gladly spout them off in your face because they simply don’t get why you don’t ‘just quit’. You’re not alone. It’s not that easy for any smoker. However, there are a lot of benefits of quitting smoking sooner, rather than later. By quitting now, you [...]

Everyone has different ideas about quitting smoking. Each smoker will face their own decisions about which treatments or products they want to try, and learning how to stop smoking will be a process for everyone. Since everyone is different, their results will be different. What works for one smoker might not work for another, and [...]

  Although many people still do not realize it, the gut feelings that we get on an almost daily basis actually do have a scientific basis.  Up until recently, most scientists and physicians did not believe that sensations such as having butterflies in the stomach had a physiological as well as a psychological component.  However, [...]

  Eye Movement Integration (EMI) is a brief therapy and quick process for reprocessing disturbing and traumatic memories. EMI can also be useful for resolving different emotional imprints. Eye Movement Integration was created in 1989 by Steve and Connirae Andreas. It works on the premise of when our eyes move we access specific parts of [...]

This article is about how to prevent a relapse. Now, that can be a relapse back into smoking addiction, drinking too much alcohol, drug abuse problems, gambling addiction or any other addiction. What can really help to prevent a full blown relapse is to become aware of your ‘relapse early warning signs’. If we take [...]

This article is all about the maintenance stage of addiction and follows on from my previous stop smoking hypnosis article 2. Just to recap on my previous article called stop smoking hypnosis 2, we covered the six stages of addiction. There is the pre-contemplation stage, the contemplation stage, the preparation stage which we covered in [...]

This article follows on from my stop smoking hypnosis article 1. Are you aware that around 27% of the 60 million UK population are smokers? Frightening isn’t it? That’s 16.2 million people out there still puffing away on their coffin nails poisoning themselves daily. Now, are these statistics enough to make you want to stop? [...]