I am continuing to suspend in-person hypnotherapy sessions with me in my office. However, phone, and Zoom consultations ARE and WILL REMAIN AVAILABLE!
(This blog was originally posted on March 13, 2014)
The
subconscious mind controls almost all
of our beliefs and behavior. Therefore, the subconscious
mental script for an entrenched habit will overpower the conscious mind’s
logic, will-power, decision-making and reasoning faculties that want to change
this habit every time. When I help a client to change a behavior in
hypnotherapy, I utilize a technique called “pattern interrupt.” The purpose of
the pattern interrupt is to give the SCM a time out while the individual
engages in something completely different for a little while. Through this
exercise, the client experiences how it feels to have the power and control to
choose whether to engage in an activity that has been controlling his or her
life.
When I work
with someone to change a behavior, such as to quit smoking or lose weight, I first
ask what specifically triggers the undesired behavior, and how he or she
handles this kind of temptation. Next, we discuss options for dealing with the
trigger without engaging in the unwanted behavior. It is important that the
person comes up with these alternative behaviors in order for the client to
remain motivated and enthusiastic about working to achieve his or her goal. The
pattern interrupt should be simple and easy to do, whether it is taking ten
slow, deep breaths instead of lighting a cigarette; drinking a glass of water
instead of a can of soda; take the dog for a walk instead of playing a computer
game. I will also reinforce these options as hypnotic suggestions so the
subconscious mind will also start to recognize these new activities as “known”
behaviors.
Every time you
choose to do the replacement activity, even for just a couple of seconds, you
are reinforcing a new behavior and creating a new known in the SCM. The great
thing about the pattern interrupt is that anyone
can do this. You don’t need to be in hypnosis or to have received a post-hypnotic
suggestion to substitute an unwanted behavior. When temptation strikes, you
just need to do something else for a little while… just long enough for the craving to
subside and your subconscious mind to forget, for a little while, that
this behavior ever existed, at all.
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Sara R. Fogan, C.Ht. is a certified hypnotherapist based in
Southern California. She graduated with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute in 2005. Sara has been voted the Best
Hypnotherapist in Santa Clarita, California, four years in a row (2019-2022).
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