I get the occasional client in Cape Town that says they tried hypnotherapy before and it did not work. Then they succeed with me. I would love to take all the credit, and of course sometimes I feel it is due, but let me tell you a story first.
I remember when I first watched a stop-smoking hypnotherapy video. It was by Paul McKenna and quite an interesting new experience for me. I loved his voice and the calm images. A colleague was noticing just how bad my health was from smoking and lent me his video. That was way back then in the days when videos were not yet DVDs. Anyway, I watched it many times and enjoyed it, but there was one phrase in it that would always get me out of hypnosis, because I could not do what it asked me to. So I concluded that the video did not work for me and returned it to my colleague. He was sad that it did not help, because it had helped him and his partner quit.
A year or so down the line, I had already cut down a little because of my worsening health with a smoking-related disease. Then one day, I was accidentally hypnotized to stop smoking. I say accidentally because it was by a business contact who was talking incessantly about the contents of the Alan Carr book, the Easyway to Stop Smoking, all this whilst the drink was flowing. So he managed to somehow get the message to my unconscious mind. I continued to smoke straight afterwards. But the next day when I ran out of cigarettes, I went up to the counter with my purse wanting to buy them and found that I could not. I opened and closed my mouth like a fish and no words came out. I left the shop an ex-smoker.
Years later when I became a stop-smoking practitioner, I was making small talk with a colleague whilst waiting for my next client. She asked what I did and then said “I I tried hypnosis once to stop smoking but it didn’t work.” I expressed my surprise, because she was a non-smoker. Then she explained that about six months after the hypnosis, she decided all on her own just to go cold turkey and succeeded.
So what happened there? What really helped us to stop? Well, I have my own opinion. Call it a hunch or an educated guess. I think that video I had first watched must have put some great suggestions in my unconscious mind. All I then needed was an extra push. That was it. I am now amazed that I had already cut down but did not put any of it down to the wonderful video I had watched! And I think that the colleague who quit “cold turkey” also had all those suggestions in her mind from her hypnosis session. And somehow after six months, something finally clicked for her and she was able to quit.
The more I think of it, the more it makes sense. That hypnosis that we first had did work. It just did not work when we wanted it to. A healing journey is just that; a journey. And the path to success is not always as straightforward as we want it to be. Sometimes we need to be on that path for a little longer than we first expect. And that is perfectly OK.
Your 3-in-1 Hypnosis offer in Cape Town includes Stop Smoking EFT, Stop Smoking Kinesiology-based muscle-testing and Laser treatment, and Advanced Hypnosis. The Hypnosis helps to get messages through to your subconscious mind enabling you to succeed, the EFT releases blocks in the path of your success, and and the kinesiology-based muscle-testing and laser treatment gets answers from your subconscious mind about the reasons behind your smoking, in order to release them. Without the underlying reasons why you smoke, you no longer have any reason to smoke, and so you can let go of the cigarettes. I got some questions in my mailbox that I thought I should answer for everybody, in case you had their questions too.
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Where are you based?
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City Centre, at the corner of Loop and Shortmarket Streets in the CBD, near Tamboerskloof, Vredehoek, Bo-Kaap, Mowbray, Observatory, Sea Point, Green Point, Woodstock, Devils Peak, Gardens, Higgovale, Oranjezicht, Claremont, Rondebosch, Constantia, Century City, and accessible from all of The Western Cape, including Durbanville, Parow, Tableview, Milnerton, Haut Bay, Newlands, just to name a few. I also do the occasional home visit in and around Tableview.
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You mention qualifying for the 1st session; what does that mean exactly?
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My hypnosis is not one-formula-fits-all. It is tailor-made to suit you. When you first see me, we sit down and I fill out a Client History Form. I ask you many searching questions that help me determine whether you are suitable for the one-session route or whether I should advise that we should work more through the underlying issues first. If, like the majority of overseas clients, who have far less daily stress to contend with than Capetonians, you qualify for the one-session route, then we keep working until every situation I put you in, on a scale of 0-10 of smoking desire, there is negligible desire. This we determine in the session itself, so there is no guesswork. Otherwise, you are best on the 6-session plan, with some being able to quit in 3 sessions. We will know when you come for your first session, and there is no need to make a decision before then.
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And the sessions after that is only if I feel the need to again ie a craving returning?
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If at the end of the first session, you have say a smoking desire of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc in any one situation, then I schedule another session for you. We then make a pact for you to smoke a lower number of cigarettes that is achievable, and cut down further in each session until you have totally quit in relative comfort. Remember, there is no guesswork with my method. You know exactly where you are.
If for any reason, we get it all down to a negligible level but either you or I miss a situation and you experience that situation afterwards, then you simply call me to schedule another session. The most common thing that goes wrong is sudden extreme stress, like a home that literally collapses, loss of a loved one, loss of a job, or illness, which can be so stressful, that the ex-smoker picks up a cigarette in a moment of weakness and becomes an addict again (all it takes is one cigarette). I say it is the most common, however it is very unlikely – it happens to only about 3% of my clients.
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I am in Cape Town for two days, and I wanted to see you. When we had a brief chat on the phone last week, you told me that I was in the minority of smokers that need nearer to the full 6 sessions you offer in your scheme, rather than the one session. Now I don’t know what to do, because I live too far to travel each week for a session.
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Whilst it is true that most people prefer to see me for the first session, I do have clients all over the world who do treatments with me on the phone; some even in Cape Town, who simply prefer not to drive to me after a long day’s work. Some weeks I even do more sessions on the phone than in person. You can attend the first session in person. We can even have a break, re-convene, and carry on. Time is not the limit in my sessions, so you can relax about that. Then we can schedule more sessions over the phone. You can easily hold the phone whilst going into a state of relaxation.
Since starting NewAgeTherapies in Cape Town, I have had visits from various places, including Mozambique, Cameroon, Gauteng, and the USA.
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I am not sure if I am hypnotizable.
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Nobody becomes unconscious in hypnosis. That is purely a myth, perpetrated by dramatic hypnosis shows, where, incidentally, the participants do not become unconscious either. I guarantee you 100% that you will not become unconscious. It will not happen, so do not expect it. Hypnosis is just a slight state of relaxation, which for some people is deeper.
The depth of relaxation or trance has absolutely no bearing on the results, so you do not need to worry about how deep you can go.
Children are hypnotized whilst they are still playing, wide awake, and moving about with their eyes wide open. Being awake does not mean that the hypnotic messages are not going into your subconscious mind.
I use at least 3 techniques in my treatment. Hypnosis is just one of them, and not necessarily the most effective, although it is the best-known. You do not even need to have hypnosis in the first place. So if you have any worries about hypnosis, rest assured that you do not have to have it. All you want is to stop smoking. The purpose of the exercise is not so that you get hypnotized, but so that you stop smoking, right? If I help you stop smoking, even if you did not feel hypnotized, does it matter? Of course not! Focus on what you want. What you want is to stop smoking.
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Why do you want me to release the reasons behind my smoking? Can´t you just make me hate cigarettes or forget about them? Surely that is what hypnosis is about.
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If that is what you want, then don´t come to me, because in my experience, that can have unwanted side-effects; whereas releasing the underlying reasons to smoking I find a better long-term option. My initial hypnotherapy diploma training in the UK was to find the root of the problem and help the client with that root cause, or those root causes. It is far better than just treating the symptom, and this is why. I have seen clients who have stopped smoking elsewhere by pretending smoking is just a habit without reason, and they developed a number of problems that may be even worse than the smoking was in the first place. For example:
Depression that suddenly appeared from nowhere mysteriously just after stopping smoking, including feeling suicidal.
Bulimia.
Addiction to narcotics such as cocaine or tik that, again, suddenly appeared from nowhere mysteriously shortly after stopping smoking.
Because these people stopped smoking whilst denying that there were good reasons why they smoked, they did not solve the original problem they had in the first place. And so they developed another problem that replaced the smoking. Better to resolve the reasons why you smoke, and then you can be truly free.
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I keep thinking in terms of an hourly rate. This seems like a good deal, up to 6 sessions and 5 years. Please explain.
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It is strange for South Africa, but eventually many hypnotists will be doing it this way. In other countries, it is normal to charge per result for hypnosis or hypnotherapy rather than per hour. I am from such a country (UK) and I find that South Africans like this new way of charging, because it is fairer. Payment is upfront at the very beginning.
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