Hypnosis is an incredible tool to stop smoking. Smoking is a dangerous, even deadly habit. It’s a leading cause of cancer. It also increases your risk for heart attacks, strokes, lung disease, and other health problems, including bone fractures and cataracts.   Millions of people in America still smoke even though the evidence is clear that smoking kills.

During hypnosis to stop smoking we use suggestions to create an aversion to smoking. By giving the suggestion that the cigarette will taste bad, the desire to smoke will decrease. We use suggestions to help overcome the habitual thoughts by replacing them with healthier thought processes.  We also use suggestions to reinforce all the health benefits of becoming a non-smoker such as:

• Breath is fresher
• Sense of smell is improved
• Sense of taste improves.
• Increased cardiovascular function
• Lungs heal and risk of cancer begins to drop within months.

Along with the physical benefits of becoming a non-smoker there are also psychological benefits.

• Improved self confidence
• Improved self-esteem due to overcoming this addiction/habit.
• Freedom to go where you wish
• The ability to widen your social connections
• Increased desire to improve health.

When you stop smoking your world will open up in many ways. Many of my clients who become non-smokers find that they begin to have a more active lifestyle.  Some might start an exercise program or be able to travel more easily without feeling restricted on airplanes, trains etc.  Many find that other health concerns improve or resolve completely.  Of course lung related issues will improve but there are many other syndromes and illnesses that also may improve:

• Back Pain
• Insomnia
• Fibromyalgia
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Irritable Bowel/ Diverticulitis
• Anxiety and panic attacks
• Improved memory

Stopping smoking is the one thing that every smoker should do this year.  The improvements will be seen within weeks.  Now is the time to take action and overcome this disgusting habit.

If you’d like to become a non-smoker this New Year, call me for all the information you need to decide.

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Bob Crow

How many times when something bad happened to you have you said  “I knew that that was going to happen” or “This always happens to me” or “Everything always goes wrong” or “I just knew it wasn’t going to work out the way I wanted it to?”

Interesting isn’t it? What do you think you were visualizing in your subconscious mind before things went sour? Not what were you wishing for – what were you visualizing? Were you visualizing a happy and productive result? Or were you visualizing something that you didn’t desire? Hoping for good things and visualizing good things are vastly different! What were you visualizing? Are you sure? Then why was the first thing out of your mouth – something to the effect that you knew in advance the things were going to go sour?

Many people visualize certain things in their conscious mind, but where and when it really counts they are visualizing what they don’t want. We were not born afraid of spiders, or snakes, or climbing trees, or public speaking, or riding in elevators or any other limiting behavior. No… we were all born with only two fears, falling backwards and loud noises. Everything else was learned.

Man is the only machine that is meta programmable. That means that he can reprogram his cognitive maps that are found in the subconscious mind! How does one program the subconscious in the first place? It is done in REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. During the relatively short period of REM sleep, the subconscious can process eight hours worth of material in five minutes! A dream or nightmare that you felt went on for hours probably lasted for from three to twenty seconds. Now if all the subconscious has to process is previously processed garbage – the cognitive maps only get negatively reinforced.

The only way that one can access the subconscious mind is through hypnosis as hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious. Hypnosis is controlled daydreaming. One cannot make the behavioral changes that need to be made in the conscious mind. That’s why pictures of Bentley  automobiles and zillion dollar houses on your bathroom mirror don’t work. You are trying to effect behavioral change in the conscious mind and that can’t be done.

If you wish to begin visualizing what you want to happen in your subconscious mind,  call Bob Crow at 404.277.1827 for a complimentary consultation.

We were designed and engineered for success and excellence, but we have been programed for mediocrity. Did you know that if one is not thinking about it, everyone puts their left sock or shoe on first or their right sock on first, every single day? Why is this? When one was a baby, maybe as young as one or two days old, mother or grandmother without thinking about it would place a bootie on the same little foot first everyday.

We all have a most comfortable  sleeping position. Right side. Left side. Back or stomach. If we haven’t suffered an injury that makes us seek out a different position, we will invariably start out on the right side, left side etc. Why is this? Because our mother or grandmother propped us on one side or another, or laid you us on our tummy or back. Since we had no frame of reference before that time, that became the position that we sought out!

Have you ever seen a four year old little girl fold her arms just the way her mother does? Or seen a little boy walk or stand just like his father? NO ONE TAUGHT THEM TO DO THAT! These are yet more example of the nature of how habits and behaviors go straight into the subconscious. Why is our thinking limiting? We weren’t born with it.

Unfortunately we were programed with limiting thinking. Most often our software was corrupted without the offending parties, who happened to be our parents, our grand parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins and school teachers realizing what they were doing. They inculcated us with their own fears… doubts… beliefs… self sabotaging actions and habits. This formed the cognitive maps in our subconscious mind.

The subconscious is the seat of emotions, habits, memories, imagination and intuition. Therefore, if one wants to make real behavioral change in one’s life – one must use hypnosis.  Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind, the only place where significant behavioral change can take place.

Copyright 2009 by Bob Crow all rights reserved. No part of this media may be reproduced, transmitted or distributed in any form by any means without the written permission of Bob Crow

October 12th, 2008

If you questioned people and asked them if they wanted their life to change for the better – they would generally answer yes. A better marriage, a better home, a better vacation – better income. Maybe the change that they covet would be to lose weight and keep it off. The change might be to stop smoking once and for all. Or the change might be from either drinking too much to drinking in moderation, or to abstain from drinking altogether. If you want your life to change for the better, you must change it for the better! Many want their change for the better to be to stop self-sabotaging themselves in relationships, in their career, in their job, in their performance or on the golf course. The list goes on and on.

Many have tried to make changes with the willpower and discipline of their conscious mind and have found that it just doesn’t work. Wishful thinking, going to seminars and work shops that promote affirmations, mantras, listening to positive CDs and reading positive books can not accomplish the significant behavioral changes needed to bring about a better life. One must modify how one thinks and acts and this cannot be done in the conscious mind. It must be done in the subconscious mind which by most estimates is a minimum of 85% more powerful than the conscious mind! The subconscious mind is the essence and core of how we experience ourselves and the world! It is the part of the mind that dreams and it is the pathway to the super conscious.

The subconscious is the seat of creativity. It is the seat of imagination. It is the seat of intuition. It houses memories, emotions and habits. And through the autonomic nervous system, it regulates non thinking functions such as eye blinking, healing a cut, breathing, blood pressure and heart rate. Our subconscious mind is what causes our behavior to be what it is. Our life will never become better until we become better performers!

Are you willing to make the modifications in how you think, act and do? If so… you might want to consider hypnosis. Hypnosis is the bridge to the subconscious mind. Hypnosis reaches the subconscious mind through the frontal cortex, thereby allowing one to obtain lasting therapeutic results. The Challenge of Change is deciding that one must first make changes in one’s behavior in order that desired results can be made manifest. It could well be the first page of the first chapter in an exciting new life. And through hypnosis, you will have much more control over your life than you ever did before!

Copyright 2008 by Bob Crow all rights reserved. No part of this media may be reproduced, transmitted or distributed in any form by any means without written permission of Bob Crow