Breaking the Habit
Bad habits can impact our lives and can annoy us but we still find it difficult to stop. Habits can become embarrassing for us such as:- thumb sucking, nail biting, pulling out lumps of hair, creating bald patches, overeating, addiction to certain foods etc. Hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for eliminating unwanted habits.
Out with the old, In with the new
Every habit has three components: a trigger, when the automatic behaviour starts, a routine, the habit itself and a reward, whether that reward causes us discomfort or pleasure it's a pre-programmed habit that is difficult to break and it is how our brain remembers the pattern of events so that we can resort to our habitual behavioural response.
Habit Reversal Training (HRT) is a technique used in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) which has proven to be highly successful.
A Therapist can help with Habit Reversal by helping an individual understand what motivates the habitual urge and identify an alternative way of adjusting the behaviour so that a more acceptable behaviour replaces it.
During the treatment together we will explore what is maintaining your habit and create an opposing physical response that will work for you. In sessions, we will use hypnosis to allow you to practice the new response so that you can make the internal behavioural changes.
Evidence has shown Habit Reversal combined with Hypnosis has a significant and powerful effect on treatment outcomes.
