These are really great, empowering and compelling questions to ask. The quality of the questions you ask yourself really determines the quality of your life. Many of my clients come to see me to in their words “fix me” or “help me stop smoking” as many individuals are smoking and they are so frustrated with themselves; and at times feel like they are beating themselves up when they tell me, and I can see through their facial expressions that they have tried so hard to stop smoking - in fact trying so many different methods to quit with limited success,…

There are many and varied reasons and excuses that individuals currently use; which whether consciously and/or unconsciously; in nearly all circumstances unconsciously use which are therefore keeping such individuals smokers when they no longer wish to be. So chances are your one of the 70% of individuals out there who has a burning desire to quit cigarettes despite your best efforts to stop. And why are you still a smoker – even though you no longer wish to be?

Predominantly your unconscious mind is what is holding you back. My previous article called “Quitting Cigarettes in 60 Minutes using Neuro…

Vicki Anderson is a vibrant and energetic Hypnotherapist who is excited to offer you her specialized training and knowledge to inspire you on your own personal journey to success. Vicki’s journey through life started as a young teenage smoker around 10 at the time, and from that tender age she continued to smoke through her adult life as a ‘Social Smoker’ thinking it was OK to smoke socially. Vicki realized one day how crazy she was to smoke and was contributing to a possible slow painful death or early disease and these reasons including the desire to be Healthy and…

In Neuro Linguistic Programming, otherwise known as NLP, emphasises that within the first seven years of a person’s existence on planet earth our personalities are formed; of which is then verified later through tests and indicators such as Myers-Briggs; needless to say an individual can control and amend their personality through NLP. This then leads to the modeling phase and ultimately the socialisation period begins - the integral time of our lives between the ages of 7-14 where we want to fit into social situations, and be part of the ‘in’ crowd at parties and other social settings including school.

Addiction is a nasty word. When we hear it we get flashes of sad, cliched images and we think -no, not me. I’m not addicted. I’m not an addict. I’ve got my life together.-

According to the dictionary, addiction is “the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, to such an extent that it’s cessation causes severe trauma”. Perhaps we can be better served by redefining it as simply “if we don’t have it or if we don’t do it, we miss it”. We’ve got cigarettes, drugs and alcohol…

Why some addictions are just so hard to break

You know the scenario all too well. You’re sitting at home watching TV or reading a book and then you get “the urge”. You recognise the feeling and you know what is going to happen. You’re about to clean out a packet of biscuits, eat a block of chocolate or drink a glass (or bottle) of wine. What’s going on? You were feeling fine a minute ago right so what’s changed? Where has this urge come from and why is it so hard to resist?

This is a problem that effects…

When referring to addictions, we automatically picture ' adults' partaking in an activity that either involves smoking, drinking, injecting, eating or gambling. It is quite rare for people to associate ' children' as young as 7 with addictions......but this scenario is very common. The type of addictions that I am constantly having to work with among children are playstation addiction, computer and television addiction, soft drink addiction and chocolate addiction.

In my treatment of addiction, I view this behaviour as defensive behaviour in which an addiction is used to ' zone out' of a situation or to ' numb emotions'.…