Can you really “permanently” stop smoking?

There is a profound difference between a smoker who has stopped smoking and a non-smoker. The smoker courageously resists having a cigarette, but the non-smoker can’t think of anything worse than smoking.

You’ve probably heard people who have quit smoking 10 years ago still say “Every time I have a beer or coffee I still want a cigarette” – if you are trying to stop smoking those are very disheartening words to hear!

But it simply means is that they only quit smoking at a conscious level - that is, they deliberately and consciously decided to stop, and stopped, and their abstinence is sustained only through their will power. However, subconsciously, smoking is still an attractive prospect for them, and that is where smoking needs to be tackled.

If you’re going to quit smoking, do it right!

There are a million and one ways to stop smoking – from nicotine patches and chewing gum, to tablets, lozenges, inhalers and Zyban, the stop smoking drug. In addition, there are plenty of people out there willing to tell you how to stop smoking - quit tips are everywhere. But they all miss one vital component - the subconscious mind.

If you are going to make the effort to free yourself from the terrible effects of smoking, why not do it right? Use a proper smoking cessation program that will leave you free of the desire to smoke.

Smoking Cessation Program

This program will gently move your mind from its current craving state to complete freedom from cigarettes.

You will no longer be controlled by the need to smoke. No more planning your day so you can smoke, no more running outside at work or at parties, no more worrying whether you have enough cigarettes left.

Smoking-cessation methods that treat smoking as an addiction (nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and so on) have a very low success rate, acknowledged to be around 23%. The makers of the drug Zyban state that the drug is only effective if it is taken in conjunction with ‘psychological intervention’.

A smoker’s mental state must be stable and requires will power to end the dependency. I deliberately call it a dependency and not an addiction. You have seen that an addict must take the drug in just enough amounts to temporarily satisfy the craving, but a smoker doesn’t. An effective treatment of smoking dependency must take into account this fact – that the smoker is not really an addict.

Yes, you heard right!

When many smokers are told during their smoking cessation program that they can keep smoking they are quite surprised:

“You continue to smoke while you progress through the program. You only quit when you don’t want to smoke anymore.”

Now, isn’t that easier on the smoker? Definitely! Does the smoker need to have extraordinary will power to break the habit? Of course not! By connecting the smoker with her sub-conscious she can identify the source of her habit, acknowledge it and then make the choice to stop smoking.

Consult a Hypnotherapist

For effective and permanent results, it is best that you consult and work with a qualified Hypnotherapist. Such a professional is well trained in helping you with your smoking dependency. It would be fruitless to attempt self-hypnosis with a flawed understanding and cause yourself frustration, and in the end find yourself still having not kicked that smoking habit.

It is a big difference between a smoker that has stopped smoking and a non smoker. Because the smoker is fighting the addiction and resists having a cigarette. The non smoker can not think of anything worse than smoking and that person is really more of a fanatic that often express his or her feelings about smoking and smokers. It is kind of aggressive behaviour and that attitude helps them to stay non-smokers. Some smokers who quit smoking years ago can still feel for having a cigarette after a meal, with the coffee. So if you are trying to quit smoking and hear people talk like that, it is scary to hear. Those persons only quit smoking at a conscious level, that is they decided to stop, but unconsciously, smoking is still an attractive prospect for them. The number of ways to quit are many now and we have got several new products during the last decade or so! Nicotine patches has been around for many years and works great. Many smokers just quit without actually thinking about it when they use these patches. The statistics tell that the ratio for persons that quit long term is rather low though. Chewing gums can take some time to get used to as the taste is not what chewing gums use to be. They work good in the sense that people do not smoke any more. The negative side-effect is that many can not stop with the gums! Good for the lungs but you still have the cost. You can also find tablets, lozenges, inhalers and Zyban which the stop smoking drug. If that is not enough you can always find plenty of people out there willing to tell you how to stop smoking, you can find tips everywhere about effective ways to quit smoking. A lot of smokers try a couple of methods at the same time and we have seen persons with nicotine patches, chewing gum and snuffing at the same time. The good thing is that they save their lungs a little. Unfortunately they are enforcing the addiction. Most smokers are unaware of the unconscious mind. You need to learn about that as it is important if you are going to make the effort to free yourself from the bad effects of smoking. If you decide to quit, you should do it the right way. Then you can start with a proper smoking cessation program that will leave you free of the desire to smoke. The right psychological methods and techniques you will help you to control the smoking addiction and become free from its grip.

Meaning Behind Dreams - Why Do We Dream?

The brain receives stimuli from many different sources all day long. There are far too many stimuli for it to process. The mind prioritizes the stimuli and makes you aware of those that need immediate attention (the crying baby, the out-of-control car, your boss’ request) so that you may act accordingly. The stimuli that you are not consciously aware of are nevertheless noted by the brain, but on a subconscious level (the drip of the bathroom water faucet, the remark by a coworker at the water cooler while you were on the telephone.)Furthermore, you feel emotions all day. Some you acknowledge and act on (you say thank you and smile when you are complimented.) Some you repress or do not allow yourself to act on (you don’t punch your boss in the nose when he tells you the report you worked on for a week is no longer needed.) Traumatic experiences occur that you face (you call the police) or if it too painful, you deny them happening and send them deep into your subconscious (repression.)In addition to all these emotions and stimuli the brain must process daily, it also keeps your body functioning; it remembers names and faces; it allows you to talk and walk and chew gum (sometimes all at the same time); and performs numerous other activities that you take for granted.You must admit — that’s a lot to do. At night, when your body must rest, the mind continues working. When no longer called upon to type letters and do the grocery shopping, the brain concentrates on processing all of those subconscious stimuli and emotions (while still maintaining body temperature and breathing, etc.)This is why we dream. Only you are not awake to receive the signals at a conscious level — you can not hear or see or touch (at a conscious level) while you are sleeping. The brain must resort to other means to get the signals through to your conscious mind. This is why we dream the way we do. The mind uses everything at its disposal (which is everything it has ever been exposed to) to get the message across. Simply put, dreaming is the minds way of processing all of the stimuli and emotions it has received during the day or repressed over time, so that you may act on them.All in all, it’s a pretty neat system. But unless you are remembering and making sense of your dreams, you are missing out on countless opportunities to learn about yourself and experience life to its fullest.Even though we’ve addressed it before, it bears repeating. Why should you try and remember your dreams?

Can you really “permanently” stop smoking?

There is a profound difference between a smoker who has stopped smoking and a non-smoker. The smoker courageously resists having a cigarette, but the non-smoker can’t think of anything worse than smoking.

You’ve probably heard people who have quit smoking 10 years ago still say “Every time I have a beer or coffee I still want a cigarette” – if you are trying to stop smoking those are very disheartening words to hear!

But it simply means is that they only quit smoking at a conscious level - that is, they deliberately and consciously decided to stop, and stopped, and their abstinence is sustained only through their will power. However, subconsciously, smoking is still an attractive prospect for them, and that is where smoking needs to be tackled.

If you’re going to quit smoking, do it right!

There are a million and one ways to stop smoking – from nicotine patches and chewing gum, to tablets, lozenges, inhalers and Zyban, the stop smoking drug. In addition, there are plenty of people out there willing to tell you how to stop smoking - quit tips are everywhere. But they all miss one vital component - the subconscious mind.

If you are going to make the effort to free yourself from the terrible effects of smoking, why not do it right? Use a proper smoking cessation program that will leave you free of the desire to smoke.

Smoking Cessation Program

This program will gently move your mind from its current craving state to complete freedom from cigarettes.

You will no longer be controlled by the need to smoke. No more planning your day so you can smoke, no more running outside at work or at parties, no more worrying whether you have enough cigarettes left.

Smoking-cessation methods that treat smoking as an addiction (nicotine patches, nicotine gum, and so on) have a very low success rate, acknowledged to be around 23%. The makers of the drug Zyban state that the drug is only effective if it is taken in conjunction with ‘psychological intervention’.

A smoker’s mental state must be stable and requires will power to end the dependency. I deliberately call it a dependency and not an addiction. You have seen that an addict must take the drug in just enough amounts to temporarily satisfy the craving, but a smoker doesn’t. An effective treatment of smoking dependency must take into account this fact – that the smoker is not really an addict.

Yes, you heard right!

When many smokers are told during their smoking cessation program that they can keep smoking they are quite surprised:

“You continue to smoke while you progress through the program. You only quit when you don’t want to smoke anymore.”

Now, isn’t that easier on the smoker? Definitely! Does the smoker need to have extraordinary will power to break the habit? Of course not! By connecting the smoker with her sub-conscious she can identify the source of her habit, acknowledge it and then make the choice to stop smoking.

Consult a Hypnotherapist

For effective and permanent results, it is best that you consult and work with a qualified Hypnotherapist. Such a professional is well trained in helping you with your smoking dependency. It would be fruitless to attempt self-hypnosis with a flawed understanding and cause yourself frustration, and in the end find yourself still having not kicked that smoking habit.

It is a big difference between a smoker that has stopped smoking and a non smoker. Because the smoker is fighting the addiction and resists having a cigarette. The non smoker can not think of anything worse than smoking and that person is really more of a fanatic that often express his or her feelings about smoking and smokers. It is kind of aggressive behaviour and that attitude helps them to stay non-smokers. Some smokers who quit smoking years ago can still feel for having a cigarette after a meal, with the coffee. So if you are trying to quit smoking and hear people talk like that, it is scary to hear. Those persons only quit smoking at a conscious level, that is they decided to stop, but unconsciously, smoking is still an attractive prospect for them. The number of ways to quit are many now and we have got several new products during the last decade or so! Nicotine patches has been around for many years and works great. Many smokers just quit without actually thinking about it when they use these patches. The statistics tell that the ratio for persons that quit long term is rather low though. Chewing gums can take some time to get used to as the taste is not what chewing gums use to be. They work good in the sense that people do not smoke any more. The negative side-effect is that many can not stop with the gums! Good for the lungs but you still have the cost. You can also find tablets, lozenges, inhalers and Zyban which the stop smoking drug. If that is not enough you can always find plenty of people out there willing to tell you how to stop smoking, you can find tips everywhere about effective ways to quit smoking. A lot of smokers try a couple of methods at the same time and we have seen persons with nicotine patches, chewing gum and snuffing at the same time. The good thing is that they save their lungs a little. Unfortunately they are enforcing the addiction. Most smokers are unaware of the unconscious mind. You need to learn about that as it is important if you are going to make the effort to free yourself from the bad effects of smoking. If you decide to quit, you should do it the right way. Then you can start with a proper smoking cessation program that will leave you free of the desire to smoke. The right psychological methods and techniques you will help you to control the smoking addiction and become free from its grip.

Has your elastic snapped yet?

I am referring to the relationships that don’t seem to be working for you anymore.

Most of you will have been experiencing some form of change in your relationships with family and friends, but especially with partnerships. These have been slowly deconstructing over the past few years, as all relationships are being affected by the current universal shift.

This shift was very clearly and intensely obvious leading up to March/April of this year, with many break-ups happening and many others finding that they were contemplating break-ups.

Universally speaking, it’s time to ask yourself what are you holding onto and why? You have completed the repetitive cycle, now you want the change.

Your relationships, including the one with yourself, have been changing on a conscious level anyway. You are initiating change and are now wanting more from your life and the people in it.

So you are really struggling with saying goodbye to the souls that you know so well and are familiar with. You need to recognize this inner struggle in order to move on, to allow the New Souls to come into your life.

For quite some time now, many have been commenting on how unfamiliar and awkward they feel towards the new people appearing in their lives. They do not recognize some of these new souls, and even to strike up a conversation can feel strange and uncomfortable. But these souls play an important part in helping you to recognize the change occuring in you and your evolutionary path. They are the new “family” who will give you the next opportunity to learn and grow.

The Good News is, May is going to be a wonderful month for those that have been clearing out the old, as this always makes room for the new improved, positive you. If you find that you are resisting change, you just need to learn to go with the flow and stop worrying about where things are headed, because it’s all going to happen as you planned it anyway..Embrace all the New Bountiful relationships coming you way in 2008.  Some will come with lessons but most will be exciting, new and fun to be with on your journey.

For singles who have been on their own for some time, this will be a good year for new relationships

It’s up to you. My personal choice is to Surrender and Let Go!Find and Be Yourself in all of this change!

My Sleep Apnea Cure®How I permanently cured my Obstructive Sleep Apnea in 30 days without drugs, surgery, machines, pillows or appliances.If you’re reading this, you or someone you love is one of the estimated 18 million Americans who suffer from some form of sleep apnea, like I  did . The following is how I permanently cured my Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in 30 days without the use of drugs, surgery, machines,  pillows or appliances.In January of 2001, on my regular annual visit to my family doctor, I mentioned my noticeable decrease in energy throughout the day. My doctor said, “Maybe you have sleep apnea.” I replied, “What’s sleep apnea?” He explained that sometimes people stop breathing while they sleep because of various obstructions in their throat and air passageways. The impediment in breathing results in a lack of oxygen, which leads to the body secreting adrenalin into the blood stream, which then leads to gasping for breath and an interruption in restful sleep. He explained that sleep apnea sufferers don’t fully wake up; the gasping for breath occurs just above the level of REM restful sleep but below the conscious level. Later at the University of California at San Diego  Medical  Center  I was tested for obstructive sleep apnea and told that I stopped breathing an average of 44 times per hour as I slept. No wonder I was tired all the time. I hadn’t slept soundly in years.Next came the really bad news. I was told nothing could be done to cure my OSA. There was no medication or surgical procedure that could guarantee a cure. I was prescribed a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine, (CPAP), a medieval-looking, computerized air compressor and mask contraption and was told I had to wear it every night from then on, in essence, for the rest of my  life.  I   tried  sleeping  with  the  CPAP mask and compressor but I couldn’t because of the uncomfortable mask and the noise of the compressor.While continuing to suffer for years from sleep apnea I began experimenting with various exercises of my jaw and neck muscles, thinking that lack of muscle strength and tone could be the cause of my OSA. After a period of trial and error, I created six simple-to-do isometric exercises that strengthened specific muscles in my neck and jaw and believe it or not, I cured my sleep apnea! The six exercises took less than ten minutes total to do. I did them twice a day: when I woke up in the morning and before I retired in the evening. It took me less than 30 days of doing the exercises to completely cure my OSA. One of the first things I noticed was I was dreaming more. More REM sleep equals more dreams. Second, I was rested after six or seven hours of sleep, whereas before the exercises, I could barely get out of bed in the morning no matter how long I slept and I never felt rested.I did the six exercises very slowly; I didn’t rush them. My idea was to strengthen and increase the tone of the jaw and neck muscles used during each exercise. Each repetition took at least five seconds to accomplish. An easy way to estimate five seconds is to count: one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, four Mississippi, five Mississippi. Each Mississippi is equal to one second. The slower I did the exercises, the better my results. I rested for five to ten seconds between each repetition. I did each exercise for a total of five repetitions to begin with, working up to a maximum of ten repetitions for each exercise. The full six exercises took me about ten minutes to do. You can do the exercises while sitting, standing or lying down. They are isometric and non-aerobic.The six exercises cured my Obstructive Sleep Apnea. I have continued doing the exercises, just to ensure my cure is permanent. I feel sure my OSA was caused by my weakened jaw and throat muscles. If you have OSA like I did, these exercises are your permanent cure. They definitely were mine. You can learn more about my exercises at www.mysleepapneacure.com