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Many of us have occasionally indulged in pursuits which can lead to addictions, like alcohol, smoking, gambling, eating too much or an over-active sex life. With the exception of illegal activities, these are not a problem if controlled. However, when control over them becomes difficult they start to control you, rather than the other way round. You start living your life to meet the demands of the addiction, rather than seeing them as a pleasure.

Some addictions are driven by a real chemical reaction in the body, like drugs. For others, it's the subconscious mind that drives the desire. Your mind tells you that you need the activity to function normally and because it's from the subconscious you automatically do it, as explained in How it works.

The techniques practised by Transformation Hypnotherapy & NLP allow you to change your way of thinking so that you no longer want the activity. We can help you break the link between the subconscious mind and the activity.

It's not about creating the will power to break the addiction. Will power means that you're wrestling for control with your subconscious mind. That battle will end in one of two ways;

  • You lose and the subconscious wins, meaning you stay with the addiction.
  • You spend your whole life thinking that you're "giving something up", or making a sacrifice. You might kick the addiction but it'll be a struggle and you may always have the nagging feeling that you're missing out on something.

So instead of giving something up, you get rid of something you don't actually want. If you don't want it, you're less likely to suffer side effects, mood swings, anxiety at living without it or gain weight as you replace the addiction with something else.

A combination of hypnotherapy and NLP & EFT from Transformation Hypnotherapy & NLP can help you beat addictions without struggling or will power.

Visit our dedicated page for more information on using hypnotherapy to stop smoking.