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By John Hubert

 Smoking is an addiction that many people aren’t able to break. It plagues all countries around the world, from America to Europe to all the other regions, and no matter how hard some people try, they just can’t kick the habbit.

What many people don’t realise however, is that they can use hypnosis to quit smoking, and it’s a lot easier than some people may think. Just what do you know of hypnosis exactly? Is it based on fact or preconceptions, word of mouth or beliefs that are unsubstantiated? If you answered that you didn’t know, then allow me to explain just what hypnosis is.

Hypnosis you see is a form of treatment and psychological deepening technique that has been around for many hundreds of years. It’s only been recently that hypnosis has started to gain such a wide acceptance by the public, and also an understanding from the scientific community. So how can one actually use hypnosis to quit smoking however, you might ask? The answer is, through the same techniques as you’d use hypnosis in any other way.

Hypnosis works by placing our mind into a deeply relaxed and tranquil state, known as a trance. When it’s in this state then we can give our subconscious certain suggestions, which it will subsequently act upon. If you just can’t quit smoking, you can give yourself a suggestion such as ‘I will have no desire to ever pick up another cigarette again’. Whilst you’re in hypnosis, this suggestion will seep into your subconscious. When you awaken yourself from trance, don’t be surprised if you do in fact end up quit smoking, as that is precisely what the hypnosis session was supposed to make you do.

Lots of people will automatically dismiss hypnosis as not working, even though they haven’t tried it. The thought of running around the room doing odd things that some mad stage hypnotist suggests isn’t what hypnotherapy is really about. Hypnosis can be therapeutic just as it can be entertaining, perhaps even more so. For this reason it’s important to try and understand that hypnosis can help you quit smoking, if you put your mind to it. Now no one is saying it will happen immediately, it may take a couple of missions, but using hypnosis to quit smoking has a very high success rate.

If you’re tried every other method under the sun to kick your addiction, from nicotine patches and gum right through to trying to quit ‘cold turkey’, and none of these methods have work, then in all honesty and seriousness, why not give hypnosis a go? It can’t hard, and the worst that will happen is that you’ll experience a relaxing state of warmth without any affects. So at the very least, you’ll become relaxed whilst in the state and enjoy it, even if it doesn’t help you. But odds are however that it will do something for you and your smoking addiction.

So don’t be one of those people that says ‘you can’t use hypnosis to quit smoking’, be one of those people that actually gives it a go and sees for themselves just how well hypnosis can work. What we don’t try we will only end up regretting, so why not give hypnosis a go today? You never know what may happen.

John Hubert is a a surveyor and studies various technique of learning hypnotism. He recommends his page on ways of using Hypnosis To Quit Smoking. He runs a website that teaches you how to - Learn Hypnosis.

Dont miss the trance to lose your fear
By Paul W Howard

 We all like to believe we’re unique. But when it comes to our fears, we’re anything but.

Spiders, flying and public transport are all it takes to send many people into a state of anxiety or panic. Crowded places are simply terrifying to some people; some fears are of course rational, but others seem to have no simple explanation.

Experts say a few are evolutionary and they have developed in response to dangerous situations that may cause harm, such as a poisonous bite, or being in a situation that makes us feel trapped. If they aren’t instinctive we generally learn them from our parents, or by some long forgotten childhood event or a more recent trauma.

Many fears have some element of perceived danger in them, said Paul White, Chairman of the National Council for Hypnotherapy. To the sufferer, even a seemingly silly phobia - for example of boiled eggs - will hold a perceived danger, food poisoning perhaps, and this may have been set up by eating an egg that was rotten.

Fortunately, in the main, these responses are normal and often useful.

Children for instance, may retreat from a cliff edge because they sense they could fall. Fear of public speaking, which can reduce even the most confident person to a gibbering wreck, comes from a belief that they may be judged and seen as stupid, incapable or unprofessional. As a result, they will spend more time preparing to make sure their speech or presentation goes well.

However, for a large proportion of the public who experience a seemingly irrational reaction to an everyday object or situation, they have to deal with an entirely different form of anxiety that is commonly known as a phobia.

For instance, an agoraphobic may have a fear that they will be sick in public, which could have been set up because they were sick in front of some friends when they were a child and were ridiculed for it. This fear/phobia may not appear for 20 years and will seem to come out of the blue. For example he or she may initially have feelings of nausea, rapid heartbeat, flushing, increased respiration and chest pain when travelling on a bus. This initial attack will be interpreted in their mind as being unwell, believing it might be a heart or asthma attack. Not surprisingly this often makes the feelings of panic a lot worse. This attack will now be linked to the bus and travelling on public transport, where they felt trapped. He or she may have no understanding that it came from an earlier event. The fear of another attack may cause them to go to great lengths to steer clear of any situation where they may be trapped in a public place, or whatever circumstance triggered the reaction in the first place.

Surveys show that as our lives are improving in materialistic ways, our expectations are also rising with regard to happiness and fulfilment, and when the reality doesnt match the expectation; it leaves many of us feeling less content.

Acts of terrorism, despite the low odds of actually being affected by one, have naturally made flying and even travelling into our cities, more stressful.

But don’t get too worried or depressed. According to The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy, major anxiety problems are very treatable. Statistically hypnotherapy has been shown to be far more effective than virtually any other form of psychotherapy. Dr. Mary Lee Smith, world-renowned statistician, concludes in her book The benefits of Psychotherapy, that hypnotherapy is the most effective type of psychotherapy; with hypnotherapy being twice as effective as most other forms.

The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy has been working successfully with various types of anxiety for many years. They have seen just about every type of anxiety going, from a fear of bananas, to a lady in her seventies with claustrophobia, agoraphobia and OCD.

Paul Howard has been specialising in Anxiety and Psoriasis for nearly ten years. He has trained many hypnotherapists around the country. He works at The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy in Wallington, Surrey, UK. He can be contacted via the website at www.sich.co.uk. He is also the Marketing director for The National Council for Hypnotherapy - The premiere governing body in the UK.

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Study Habits For Concentration, Retention, And Remembering Information
By Alan Densky

 If you are a person who is trying to bring up your grades, there are a list of tricks that will help you to improve your capability to sharpen your attentiveness, absorb the data that you study, and bring it back to consciousness during a test without being tormented by mental blocks or test anxiety. This is a list of how to go about instituting good study behaviors:

(1) Set up an environment for study and only study in that place! Locate a peaceful room that will facilitate a focusing of attention without distractions. Some usual examples would be a library, a vacant classroom, or your office. You want to generate the routine of studying when you are in this place. So it is best to not use this place for other activities like daydreaming, socializing, or playing games, etc.

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STUDY PLACE HAS:

(a) A comfortable chair, but not too comfy

(b) A desk

(c) Excellent illumination

(d) Good air flow

MAKE SURE THAT YOUR STUDY PLACE DOES NOT HAVE:

(a) Distracting views of other activities

(b) A phone

(c) Loud music

(d) A big screen television

(e) Another person who talks a lot

(f) A refrigerator filled with sweets

(2) Break up your study periods into small, short-range goals.

(a) Set up small highly specific goals like, “I am going to study my history from 3 PM to 4 PM. Otherwise you will set yourself up to fall short.

(b) Set a doable work goal for the quantity of time you have allocated. For example: finish reading chapter twelve in my math text book, or complete a draft of my biology paper, etc. Set your goal at the specific time that you are ready to sit down and study, just before you begin. Set reachable goals. You might do more than reach your goal, but set a reasonable goal even if it seems much too easy.

(3) Test Anxiety & Phobias

(a) Some people mostly experience physical symptoms, like feeling hot or cold, nausea, or faintness, etc.

(b) Other people experience emotional symptoms for the most part, like feeling frustrated, irritable, or crying easily.

(c) The main trouble with anxiousness is that it can trigger one to have a memory block. Or it could trigger thoughts that are racing out of control.

(d) Although you may currently experience some level of anxiousness when taking exams, you can learn to significantly diminish that anxiety, or even completely eliminate it!

(e) Anxiousness and the resultant stress are usually the main causes of a lack of ability to focus concentration. Stress can also cause a mental block when you try to recall information.

(f) Hypnosis CD’s can be utilized to relax your mind and focus your concentration. As your mind calms down, your ability to stay focused will increase. Similarly, a calm mind enhances your ability to retain information, and recall it when it is needed.

(g) Hypnosis and NLP CD’s can be used to program your mind for the positive expectation of peace and the ability to bring back to mind the information during a test. This is valuable for reducing or getting rid of test anxiety.

(h) There are a number of hypnotherapy methods that can promptly eliminate a test phobia!

Alan B. Densky, CH has specialized in the practice of hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming since 1978. He offers NLP CD’s for improving memory and recall. Visit his Neuro-VISION NLP site for free hypnosis newsletters, articles, and MP3s and his Video Self-Hypnosis Blog for free video taped hypnosis tips.

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