Does every part of your day involve drinking alcohol or thinking about when you can have a drink?
Do you use alcohol to deal with stress and anxiety?
Are you never able to stop at “just one drink”?
Do your celebrations always have to include alcohol?
Do you feel like you need a drink to “wind down” after work?
Are your relationships and career being negatively impacted by your drinking?
Do you get aggressive and say things you regret when you drink?
Do you suspect that you might be an alcoholic?
If so, you probably realize that you have a problem with alcohol. Even if you’re aware of the problem, it’s not something that you can handle with willpower alone. After all, that’s why they call it “white knuckle sobriety”; you’re only hanging on by a thread. You are trying to use a conscious solution to fix a problem that lies deep in your subconscious mind.
That’s why hypnosis for alcohol abuse is so effective; it’s the only tool you can use to gain access to your subconscious. Other treatments may focus on the mental aspects of your drinking, but no other method can access your subconscious mind to make a permanent change.
Hypnosis can help reprogram your mind and facilitate behavioral change.
The NYC Hypnosis Center Overcome Alcohol Addiction program can help you
- Identify Why You Drink
- Break the Unhealthy and Emotional Connections to Alcohol
- Release Urges and Cravings
- Assist in Reprogramming the Way You Think About Alcohol
- Improve Your Self-Esteem and Confidence to promote sober habits
- Improve sleeping patterns
- Moderate or eliminate your alcohol consumption
- Teach you Self Hypnosis for Daily Reinforcement
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Disclaimer: Results may vary from person to person
When you use hypnosis to stop drinking alcohol, you actually change the way that your subconscious mind perceives drinking alcohol. Right now, your subconscious relies on alcohol. It believes that alcohol is the only thing that’s going to get you through a stressful day, and that alcohol is so important that you can’t possibly unwind or celebrate without it.
So, how do you change your subconscious’ way of thinking?
Hypnosis for Alcoholism
During a typical hypnosis for alcohol addiction session, your subconscious mind is taught to rely on other, more positive things. For example, your consulting hypnotist may teach your subconscious to crave exercise when things get rough, or to talk to a loved one when you need to “vent” – instead of just hitting the bottle.
It can also be helpful to teach your subconscious that you are smart enough and funny enough to have a good time without alcohol. That way, when you go out for a night on the town with your friends, you will not automatically feel the need to have a buzz to have a good time. Instead, your subconscious will have enough faith in you to know that you’re capable of having fun without the mask of alcohol.
During an alcohol addiction hypnosis session, you may be instructed to visualize various positive scenes. While you are deep in your hypnotic state, your consulting hypnotist may tell you to picture your life without alcohol. You may visualize all the good things that can come from an alcohol-free life – like waking up without a hangover, not blacking out, and not risking your health by driving drunk or drinking so much that you wind up with liver damage.
Hypnosis is a natural state, that when achieved, allows your hypnotist to access your subconscious mind. When you watch a movie, read a book, or focus on a project at work and lose track of time, you are experiencing a light form of hypnotic trance. Once a client is guided into hypnosis, we at the NYC Hypnosis Center can then give positive suggestions directly to the subconscious mind.
How does Hypnosis help to Overcome Alcohol Addiction?
During a New York overcome alcohol addiction hypnosis session, we can identify the event from your past that triggered your unhealthy reliance on alcohol. Your hypnotist can then change the way your subconscious mind perceives that event, allowing the addiction to be released. Essentially, your alcohol addiction hypnotist will eliminate the subconscious triggers, created by that event, that cause you to drink more than you should.
We will identify the feelings and triggers you experience so that the suggestions given to your subconscious mind will be tailored to your specific challenge. With the combination of regression and suggestions the addiction can be eliminated naturally and quickly.
Can hypnosis cure alcoholism?
Hypnotherapy has long been used as an effective and practical tool to release and rewrite the past so you can go forward with healthier, happier habits. It’s well known for its uses for quitting smoking, but hypnotherapy for alcoholism has also been shown by research to be highly effective as well.
In another study of drug addicts who used either heroin, cocaine, or marijuana subjects were monitored for 2 years after utilizing hypnosis. 78% stayed clean of heroin and 100% remained free of cocaine and marijuana.
A New York Overcome Alcohol Addiction Hypnosis session can retrain your mind to:
Create an Aversion to Alcohol
Enhance the Appeal of a Healthy Substitute for Alcohol
Improve Your Ability to Overcome Stress
Develop New Lifestyle Changes
Minimize the Importance of Alcohol Related to the Way You Feel
Pain/Pleasure Associations
Our brains are hard wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain as a method of keeping ourselves safe. This system works well until it works too well. If your brain associates too much pleasure with alcohol, alcohol will become the solution anytime you want to feel joy, and it can become an addiction.
The Physiological Side of Alcohol Addiction
To understand why we crave alcohol, we must know why we crave anything. Cravings come in part from a lack of serotonin. Serotonin is also referred to as the happy hormone and brings us feelings of pleasure. It’s also triggered by physical happiness.
We crave things that please us and will then raise serotonin, such as alcohol. The serotonin is released, and we feel better, which enforces an association that whatever triggers the serotonin will make us feel better. This creates a pleasure association within our minds that’s implemented consistently.
Some people release more natural opioids in response to alcohol, and research has shown that these people get more pleasure out of drinking, making them more likely to drink too much or become alcoholics.
Major Factors of Alcoholism
We’ve long known that a major factor of alcoholism is feeling like we don’t belong. As humans, we all feel the need to connect with others and avoid rejection. Feeling as though we’re isolated and rejected can lead people to drink to increase their serotonin and feel better.
This is part of the reason that the community within AA is so helpful in healing addiction.
Limiting Beliefs
A common denominator of issues is a lack of belief that I Am Enough. This lack of faith in our worth can lead us to self-sabotage and self-destruction. However, realizing this is not the truth but a limiting belief can help us move past this.
Limiting beliefs is what we tell ourselves or have internalized from outside sources to create a truth we can’t move past. For example, “I want to quit drinking, but I can’t because I have the alcoholism gene, just like my dad.” Holding onto that belief no matter what you do makes healing from addiction seem impossible.
The solution to this is to question and challenge limiting beliefs. The moment you do, you begin to loosen their hold. Hypnotherapy for alcoholism is a strong tool to help you detach those beliefs.
Hypnosis for Alcohol Moderation
Hypnotism for alcohol moderation can program the unconscious mind to:
Embrace a balanced lifestyle
Eliminate limiting beliefs that trigger overindulgence
Boost Self-Esteem
Curb Alcohol Cravings
Drink in moderation
