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Alcohol/Addictions/Substance Abuse

Why is it that some people can give up so called “addictive substances” and some people can’t? If it’s the substance that’s addictive, how do people get addicted to gambling?
In order to understand the answers to these questions we first need to understand the law of higher priority. It’s the sub-conscious mind’s job to protect us from everything, real or imagined. The sub-conscious mind will always give priority to that in the mind that gives the greatest protection.

When someone wants to stop using a harmful substance but isn’t able to, it’s usually because the substance is performing a valuable service to the sub-conscious mind. It’s in some way helping the sub-conscious mind to protect the individual from some painful information in the individual’s consciousness. The substance is being used by the sub-conscious mind to suppress this information, and sometimes an activity can do the same thing which is why it’s possible to become addicted to gambling or sex.

Hypnosis is very effective in treating addictions because it firstly exposes the painful information the individual needs protection from. Once it’s exposed it’s possible to rapidly resolve this information in hypnosis. Once this information is resolved the sub-conscious dependence is broken. Once the sub-conscious dependence has been broken, the sub-conscious mind, which is there to protect will accept that the substances or activities are not helping anymore and will accept suggestions to stop using the substances or activities.

This process is often relatively fast and inexpensive as long as the individual wants to change.