Keep Your New Year's Resolutions With Hypnosis

As one year ends and another begins, do you find yourself repeating the New Year's resolutions that you've made countless times before? You tell yourself, "This time I'm really losing weight." Or, "This year I'm quitting smoking for good." But what is so different about this year than years past? They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So, if you truly want to make changes in the New Year, consider something new. Consider hypnosis.

Hypnosis taps into the power of your subconscious to create deep, meaningful, and lasting changes in thinking. When subconscious thinking changes, so do beliefs, fears, desires, habits, and all of those things that create resistance when you attempt to achieve something new in your life.

Hypnosis is not a passive process. You will participate by honestly communicating your goals and what has held you back in the past from achieving those goals. It is also important that the goals are truly yours. Hypnosis will not help you lose weight if you're simply trying to satisfy social pressure. Hypnosis will not help you quit smoking if you're only doing it because your friends and family are nagging you to. Whatever change you choose to make with hypnosis has to be made with both your cooperation and your consent.

Hypnosis is a very relaxed state of consciousness. This relaxed state allows new information to easily take root in the subconscious, thereby transforming old beliefs and thought patterns that no longer serve well. Accessing the subconscious through hypnosis allows the hypnotist to communicate your consciously chosen beliefs to the subconscious mind in order to increase the chances of success and the ease with which your goal is accomplished.

For example, if you choose to lose weight and your subconscious believes that “weight loss is hard,” “healthy food is boring,” and “exercise is draining,” then it will find ways to create those experiences for you. Through hypnosis, beliefs such as these can be replaced with “I enjoy eating a variety of nutritious foods” and “moving my body is fun and energizing,” and so these chosen beliefs become your new experiences and you then perceive the weight loss process in a much more positive way. Weight loss seems to come easily, which it does, not because fat is magically melting off of your body, but because there is no more subconscious resistance when it comes to making the necessary lifestyle changes that are required for weight loss and maintenance.

Likewise, if you choose to quit smoking and your subconscious believes that "I'm too stressed to manage my life without cigarettes," "I cannot quit because cigarettes are too addictive," and "I've smoked for more than half my life, so it's too late for me," then you will find your smoke-free days limited in number, if you're able to quit at all. Hypnosis will help you replace those negative beliefs with positive ones such as " I am so much more productive now that I am free from that old habit. I have more energy, more money, and more time to pursue worthy interests," "I take several deep, relaxing breaths to remind myself of how much I enjoy breathing freely and comfortably," "I have a new identity: one that involves living a healthy lifestyle and making smart decisions." Thereafter, you will find it more desirable to take control over cigarettes than to allow yourself to be controlled by them.

Whether you resolve to lose weight, quit smoking, or achieve some other meaningful goal, if you're determined to make your New Year's resolution stick this year, hypnosis may be the best gift you can give yourself!

Michele P. Rousseau is a certified hypnotist in Middletown. For information, see http://micheleprousseau.com.