Quitting smoking should not take several weeks
of a pharmaceutical drug that makes you feel like killing yourself.
With hypnosis, one or two sessions should do it.
No drugs, no “side effects”.
With Ben Edmonson Hypnosis, there is no time or interest in engaging political or religious issues.
Everyone is welcome regardless of political or religious beliefs, but we prefer to check these at the door.
I specialize in assisting my clients with specific problems such as smoking cessation, stress management, weight control, or habits that need changing. If political/religious beliefs could help with these issues, no one would need my services.
Ahoy Ben,
Just a note to thank you again for helping me quit smoking last April. Seven months now! I’m once again surrounded by smokers in this boatyard in which I’m staying, and I’m doing fine. 🙂
Strangely, on the rare occasions that I think of having “just one cigarette,” I instantly recall a phrase you used, and I easily slip past the momentary temptation. It wasn’t part of the hypnosis sessions, just something you said in conversation. I had mentioned that “Oh, I don’t smoke anymore. I can have just one now,” kind of moment, and you replied, “Ah, yes, the ‘little permission.'” That’s the phrase, the magic mantra that pops into my head when I have one of those “Oh, it’s OK just this once” moments; “the little permission.” It has saved me half a dozen times. Just thought I’d share that with you.
You’re living a valuable life, Ben, helping so many people as you do; an enviable calling. You certainly added years to my life.
Hope this finds you well.
Gratefully,
Tor
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All weight is a secondary consequence of daily behavior. If our attention is primarily on losing a certain amount of weight by a certain date, then our expectation of reward lies in the future. This is putting the cart before the horse. We didn’t gain weight by planning to gain a certain amount of weight by a certain time. We gained weight by mindlessly, thoughtlessly eating our way through each day. Then we are surprised to find our clothes do not fit anymore.
With weight control, TODAY is the arena of action; TODAY is the focus of attention. The new meme is “mindfulness”. Habitual patterns must be addressed—eating on the run, eating while browsing the computer, or watching TV, eating while stressing, unconscious patterns like cleaning your plate, “getting your money’s worth” at the restaurant , not wasting food, etc. (two ways of spelling waste, or waist). There are also addictions to sugar, soft drinks, fruit drinks, etc.
The goal of Ben Edmonson Hypnosis is to bring attention back to processes, to create awareness. Hypnosis is a proven method of changing unconscious patterns for more effective and rewarding daily processes. If you want to enjoy losing weight naturally and without extreme dieting, please consult Ben Edmonson, Jacksonville Hypnotist, at 904-803-9407, and he will be glad to answer any questions you may have.
Hypnotists are getting calls from people interested in “past-lives regression”. I have always referred these calls to someone else, because I could not assure anyone that what they are getting in trance is a real “past life”.
The unconscious mind is like a genie in a bottle. With hypnosis we rub the bottle and out comes the genie who asks: “What is your desire? I am ready to grant you your wish.” This is why hypnosis is so useful. I always ask my clients what they want to experience in respect to their problem and what they want to learn from the experience. In trance, the mind will tend to create that experience and that learning.
The suggested experience in trance does not fall within the usual definition of “real” as it would be more appropriately called “metaphoric” or an imaginary inner drama, not an “actual occurrence” but a story that the mind tells it self about itself. If someone asks the genie for a “past life”, the genie will do its best to create a “past life,” perhaps using bits and pieces of long forgotten novels or movies to create a believable scenario. The same thing happens when someone asks the genie to help them remember being abducted by UFO aliens. The mind can certainly create such an image, but that does not prove that it “really happened “.
The value of “past life” images or “UFO abduction” images lies in their metaphoric meanings which often can be successfully interpreted with an amazing appropriateness to the individual’s present and real life. However, hypnosis does not guarantee nor prove reincarnation nor the existence of UFO’s.
I will be happy to assist anyone who wishes to explore their inner metaphors. However, I do not want to predetermine the direction nor meaning of those metaphors. Perhaps, we may more usefully create “future-life progression” scenarios.
Tests, and how well we score, can be crucial determinants for our future of academic, professional, or employment advancement.
No matter how well-prepared we may be, tests are a common source of stress and, sometimes, high anxiety which can interfere with our abilities to think or answer what we already know. Even long before the test, anxiety can interfere with learning, memory, and studying.
Why let anxiety block your future when HYPNOSIS is available to completely eliminate all distractions and allow you to focus entirely on learning, memory, studying, and test-taking?
For more information, call me @ Ben Edmonson Hypnosis–904-387-4489. I am highly experienced and effective at helping my clients to achieve maximum success.
Serious students of hypnosis know from experience that all hypnotic phenomena can be found in the normal behavior of everyday of everyday living. There is no transcendence of normal abilities in hypnosis. In all my experience I have never found any validity to the claims of paranormal powers, miraculous healing, or extrasensory perception arising out of hypnosis. In all such cases that I have personally investigated I have found that the so-called paranormal powers and miraculous healing were simply activated states of normal psycho-physiological processes. The so-called ESP was based on the unconscious utilization of minimal cues. We all have more potentials than we realize. Hypnotherapy consists of the evocation and utilization of these often hidden potentials.
Milton H. Erickson
from – Innovative Hypnotherapy
Edited by Ernest L. Rossi
“Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, which deserves that we employ in its pursuit not only time, sweat, trouble, and worldly goods, but even life; inasmuch as without it life comes to be painful and oppressive to us.
“As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.”
-Michel de Montaigne, 1580-
I have specialized in Smoking Cessation for over 30 years…and one day I received a call from a former client–a military veteran–
“Remember me?” he asked. “Well, I need your help again–I’ve gained some weight since you helped me quit smoking several years ago. Can you help me lose the weight?”
“Of course.”
He came in. I recognized him immediately. He said, “First thing I want to do is thank you for helping me buy my car!”
“Oh?” I glanced outside–a brand new Corvette!
“Yep, I added up the price I was paying for 3 packs a day for 15 years, and it was enough to buy this car! Paying you to get me off these cigarettes was the best investment I’ve ever made, financially, not to mention saving my health!”
That’s when he suggested I charge more for my services.
Most of us who have quit smoking for good, may have attempted a number of times to quit before finding the method that works best to finally succeed.
Making efforts to quit is usually indicative of ultimate success. So–if you have tried to quit without much success–continue to make the effort!
Various methods for smoking cessation include:
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