Hypnotherapy for unwanted habits

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Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH is one of the most highly qualified and experienced clinical hypnotherapists practising in Australia today who has received worldwide recognition and praise for her research and development of clinical procedures.

Do you have a habitual behaviour that you can’t control?

Is it causing you great embarrassment with other people?

Has that habit got to a stage where it is harming your life?

Are you seeking professional hypnotherapy care to help you stop that habit?

Hypnotherapy is constantly used in the clinical setting to help people overcome unwanted habits.

These habits may include nail biting, hair pulling (trichotillomania), picking, scratching, head nodding, twitching, teeth grinding (Bruxism), distortions of the body (torticollis), swearing (Tourette Syndrome aka Tourette’s), offensive behaviours and negative comments that may offend other people.

You may even have been aware that you are doing those things but seemed unable to stop yourself. The habit may have been present for many years or in some cases lifelong and you have simply laboured along with the belief that it could not be changed.

You may even have been given medications to help you cope with the situation that might have had unwanted side effects.

Are you aware that a habit is simply a programmed repetitive behaviour?

Habits are pre-programmed behaviours.

Maybe you developed the habit as a child or in reaction to certain situations. The habit itself may even at the beginning served a purpose but as time passed you kept doing the same behaviour when it no longer served you.

The good news is that since you were programmed to do that habit, you can also be deprogrammed through hypnosis to stop doing that habit or to do something else instead.

So, if the habit is a behaviour, it can be reprogrammed with hypnotherapy.

Let me tell you a true story.

All of my life I was right-handed. I had never written, used the mouse on the computer or opened doors with my left hand. In my 50s, I broke my right wrist twice in accidents. The first time I suffered, struggling for months with a plaster cast on my arm. The second time it happened, however, I used hypnosis to reprogram my brain to use my left hand. Within days I was ambidextrous, still am to this day and am able to do most things with my left hand as well as my right.

Did you know the beauty of hypnotherapy is that it allows us to reprogram the parts of your brain fast?

I rewired my brain.

We can also see how this is possible with people who have had a stroke and lose mobility in one side of their body. With rehabilitation, they are able to rewire their brain to bypass the damaged part so they can operate the disabled part of their body with other parts of their brain.

Not only are we able to suggest to your unconscious mind a change of behaviour but are also able to retrain your automatic actions and reactions, fast.

It does not really matter what the habit is that you wish to no longer have, as the process we use hypnotically can be used to rid people of a whole host of unwanted behaviours.

This will relieve you of the stress and upset you have experienced in performing the habit and help you have new behaviours that will serve you to make your life more comfortable.

There is also the added benefit that hypnosis can be a very pleasant experience and help you feel far more relaxed generally.

If you have an unwanted habit you’d like to overcome with hypnotherapy, pick up the phone and call me now on 02 8021 6429 and I will help you.

Dr Tracie O’Keefe DCH, BHSc, ND, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist. Counsellor, PACFA registered Mental Health Professional and Naturopath in Sydney. You can get help by booking an appointment with me at the Australian Health & Education Centre.

DISCLAIMER:  *Many factors will be important in determining your actual results and no guarantees are made that you will achieve results similar to anyone else’s. The nature of therapy requires each person entering therapy to actively engage in the session and to carry out any additional recommendations outside the session, so results vary according to the individual.