From State to Self - Why your Agency Heals You

 This is why it can work for you. See, the most powerful tool you have for change is your own mind, in effect. You are the hypnotist.

You go in and out of hypnosis pretty much every day.

We don't chase a mystical state. We train a skill —the ability to direct attention to cues you install — so you can choose consciously. Your following best action is something I teach all my clients, and it's critical to how we provide help here —and that is all help. All hypnosis really is self-hypnosis.

All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. Your brain takes the new information that you want it to accept. Which is based on factual truth, evidence that you haven't been aligning to and sticks with it, it makes it real. So when you don't wanna smoke anymore for all of these reasons that you tell yourself over and over again, and everyone else, unfortunately, probably keeps echoing that even more, but somehow it doesn't stick.

This makes it stick. This makes the brain learn at a subconscious level. I don't do this. It's not so much about quitting smoking as much as it is about there are other things going on, and this just isn't part of the track anymore. So the therapist and hypnotherapist are a little different. The hypnotherapist really is just a coach.

You are the driver. The work is to focus on purpose, give an explicit instruction, which actually comes from you. You're the client. After all, we pair it with cues. These are ways to take you out of the old track whenever it rears up, until that change becomes completely durable and permanent. For the rest of your life.

Techniques and Practices

Sometimes it's as simple as doing this. Sometimes it's not even visible, but repeated. And with the aftercare support we provide, that repetition is what is required. So by doing that, we get that automatic response to calm, to focus, to sleep. You can do a simple sort of micro protocol right now and ten-second breath in,

six seconds out

and soften your gaze. Picture one, calm, seen, or word.

When I exhale, your shoulders drop and your thinking clears.

Touch your fingertip and thumb or press your palm. Lock the feeling to the queue. Clear, calm, ready. Open your eyes. Or look up,

pair that cue with the state you want every time you practice. Same cue, same sentence, same breath. One week of consistent pairing turns the cue into your shortcut.

And track the tiny wins. Celebrate them. So I shift it on purpose. I can do this. Change how your nervous system reads.

Building Lasting Habits

Stress, less avoidance, more intention and direct choices, and twice a day in the morning, 60 seconds in the evening, 60 seconds. Small and consistent. Bringing you back to that calm will help you along your journey.

And if that overwhelm comes in, I can't even name the feeling. Work with a professional, get help, go gently and go support it. But we provide is for everyday people and what they need support in their lives. So this turns into a habit, many audios, check-ins. So the skill sticks,

and if you want to learn more, you can book a free journey with me and a consultation to understand if this is for you. Until then, I'm Greg.