My British colleagues Adam Eason and Sophie Nicholls have both featured this story from the Independent on their blogs this week: Less is More: How to cut down on drink.
I always enjoy reading spontaneous testimonies from ordinary people who have been helped by hypnotherapy. This one is fairly typical. “I didn’t ‘go under’” (whatever that means – I have no idea), “I didn’t feel anything magical”, “I thought it hadn’t worked”, “I couldn’t account for it – I just started acting differently without trying to”, “I’m feeling so much better, I’m a changed person”. Yep, that was hypnotherapy, all right.
Drinking alcohol in moderation is a very timely topic, as we come into the “festive season” – where “festive” is often a euphemism for “overindulging and then regretting it”. But alcohol, and food, are a problem for people year-round, and they don’t need to be.
A few people, of course, are addicted to alcohol, they have a physical dependency, and they need to stop drinking it completely. But most people who drink more than they are comfortable with or more than is good for them can cut down to a healthier level, where they’re actually enjoying the occasional drink and feel fine afterwards. It just takes a simple mental readjustment.
Drinking too much, eating too much, smoking, sitting in one place staring at a screen, and the various other weapons of mass distraction we employ as a society are not effective ways of dealing with stress, anxiety or discomfort. In fact, they will lead to more stress, anxiety and discomfort, not less. What works is facing our discomfort squarely, employing some simple techniques of emotional and stress management that work without equipment or external substances, and realigning our minds so that we are pursuing our best selves.
If you’re in Auckland and you’d like to work on some of these issues, contact me and we’ll set up a time. If you’re outside Auckland… that’s why I record my hypnotherapy scripts. You can get them on audio CD or as individual MP3 downloads, and they’ll also be on the CD accompanying my forthcoming book, all available in the Hypno NZ shop.
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