The Easy Way To Keep Your 2025 New Year's Resolution

Many of us make New Year’s resolutions each year. We do this to make our life healthier, better or more fulfilling. Most start off the first of the year absolutely determined to follow through on our goals, ready for action and highly motivated, knowing this year will be different from the last (when our resolutions went by the wayside).

Then, by the time February rolls around, all of those lofty goals and New Year’s resolutions have been abandoned altogether, leaving us no better off than last year. Once again, we are disappointed in ourselves and in our lack of willpower.

Sound familiar? For most people, the results of those resolutions take on this all-too-familiar pattern. It’s not that we don’t want to make the changes, because we are usually very sincere. It’s that we try to “tough it out” alone using sheer willpower, when many of those resolutions involve long term habits that are difficult to change without help.

THERE IS GOOD NEWS

The good news is that there is a method we can use to make it easy and almost effortless to stick to our resolution, whether it’s something like exercising on a regular basis, stopping smoking, drinking less, eating healthy, or any other long term habit we want to change. This method is hypnosis. Hypnosis is an extremely effective tool, and can help virtually anyone realize their new year’s resolutions.

OUR TWO MINDS

Almost like two minds in our head, we each have two sides to our mind that we use to make decisions, the conscious mind and the subconscious mind.

The conscious mind is the part responsible for our logical reasoning. It is also the voice in our head when we speak to ourselves. The conscious mind is the part of our mind that we use for solving logical problems. It is the analytical mind.

The subconscious mind is the part responsible for our automatic thoughts. The subconscious mind controls our automatic fears, habits and urges. As we go through life, we make decisions based on experiences, which lead to behaviors that become ingrained in our routine. These habits could be bad habits or good habits, habits based on happiness or tragedy. The underlying reasons why we make these decisions are embedded deep in our subconscious, willing our conscious mind to act.

SUCCESSFUL NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

In order to be successful sticking to our New Year’s resolutions, we must have both our conscious and subconscious mind working toward the same goal. Any conflict between the two is likely to see our subconscious win in the end, which would cause us to return to our old, unwanted behaviors.

CHANGE THROUGH HYPNOSIS

Hypnosis is not magic or mind control, it’s about working to change the way we think. A hypnotherapist will communicate directly with the subconscious to change the habits that we have deemed undesirable and want to change. It typically takes just a few sessions for those changes to occur in the subconscious mind that allow us to stick to our goals and reach our resolutions.

Then, we can truly have a Happy new Year!

Laura Rude’ is a certified hypnotherapist with a private online practice. Laura offers 30 minute complimentary consultations by phone. For more information or to schedule a session, call 425-427-6495, or visit: www.healthwisehypnosis.com