Jan 05 2013

Quit Weed and Harder Drugs Without Withdrawals Using Hypnosis

Say no to drugs and say yes to tacos!Vol. 182, Jan. 5, 2013

One would be lead to believe that it is impossible to withdraw from drugs without some sort of withdrawals occurring with all the information the drug rehabilitation programs and medical establishment plasters the media with. Let me tell you a little story of a great success I had with a new client of mine to demonstrate the ability of your own mind to handle this situation easily, effectively and with little to no symptoms of withdrawal upon stopping the drug.

 

I received an email from a 28 year old woman who got hooked on heroin about four years ago. She did it, she said, to be able to be with the man who she felt she loved. He was a heroin user who turned her on to it. She had never used any drugs at all before this occurrence, never really having been exposed to any drugs till then.

 

Over the past four years she had been in a couple of in-patient rehabs, generally for 5 days, finding herself being drawn back into the world of drugs to be with the man she felt she loved. The last time this happened was right after the last rehab a few weeks before she called me. She was actively using four or so times a week when she called me. I told her that because I am not a licensed professional that she needed to be totally off the drugs before I could do any work at all with her, help her to stay off of the drugs for good.

 

You see, a couple of years ago I had a young mother who was a user of heroin placed on methadone replacement therapy who wanted to get pregnant again. I really had no idea how to go about doing this job for her. Yet, I knew a gentleman who knew another hypnotist who had successfully been able to do just that with great success with methadone in particular. I had an hour long phone consultation with him at the time, where he told me exactly what I needed to do have the young mother have a successful withdrawal from the methadone. I was ready to do the job when the methadone dependent woman found that she really wasn’t ready to go off her methadone treatment.

 

So, I was ready when the 28 year old woman called me for help to get her off her heroin. She came in to see me with her very supportive relative for the session that would help her withdraw from the heroin, which she was shooting into her veins a few times a week. Her relative was with her during the withdrawal process and noted that he was amazed to find that she wasn’t having any withdrawals whatsoever. She came in Friday evening and by Saturday she was out with visiting good friends, healthy friends  by both her and her relative’s description, without any issues or concerns the whole time she visited with them that evening. Sunday, again, no withdrawal symptoms at all.She didn’t understand why it was so easy given the previous experiences at the rehabilitation centers and yet, that was her experience.

 

She came in on Monday to start her drug abuse program with me safely withdrawn from the heroin. This was by her own choice. To date she reports that she has had few if any thoughts of “using” and finds it very easy to distract herself from those thoughts with more positive thoughts and ideas the few times this has occurred. She did have one fall back when a previous dealer called to give her a ‘free” sample the day after Christmas that she wasn’t strong enough to refuse.

 

Since that time her relative helped her to block all the phone numbers and emails from any of the people from that previous life style of drug use and abuse. So far she is doing very well in the program concentrating on creating a “compelling future” in line with her values and beliefs. This is the most important idea to understand about releasing any unhealthy, unwanted habit. One has to be in a situation where the future they are working toward is much more important than that old destructive habit. The compelling future also has to be based on something that is more important than one’s own issues, adding to the world for having been here. It really doesn’t matter the subject matter of the compelling future, so long as it is something that is viscerally felt as important to the client as a way to make the world a better place.

 

With this knowledge of knowing that you can be drug free without the need to ever go on a substitute drug like methadone, a drug that is taken each day which will no longer allow a person to get “high”, however is as difficult as any of the drugs that make one “high” to get off. To that point,  Donna M. Novi’s, my previous client and current business partner’s very own cousin committed suicide in his 30’s because he couldn’t find a professional of any sort that would help him to get off the methadone while he hated the way it made him feel. Worse, feeling he could never exit the projects where he was stuck living because he wasn’t functional on the methadone he felt helpless ending up taking his own life by hanging.

 

I had another client of mine several years ago. She was a nurse in her 30’s when she got addicted to pain pills. She was caught at her job and released from her position to get the help she required. She was placed on suboxone which was to replace her cocaine addiction in the same fashion that methadone is used to replace heroin. Unfortunately in her case, the suboxone worked for a couple of years until her old dealer came back into her life creating the havoc that is a drug addict’s addiction. Her ten year old son is learning through her sad example what drugs can do. In this young boy’s case his father has been very honest with him about the reason why it is that his mother isn’t always available to see him and the ramifications of her drug use on her own life. I applaud the guts this father has in being totally honest with his son about why it is that they have been divorced and the realities of the life that his mother is currently living.

 

Don’t kid yourself into believing there aren’t other negative consequences of the long term use these replacement drugs can have on one’s body. They are drugs after all, so be smart and stop fooling yourself into believing that they can’t and won’t have negative ramifications on your mind and body. With that in mind remember that any drugs that are placed into your body will need to be processed by your kidneys or liver depending on how the drugis metabolized by your body. Over time damage can and will be done to these two necessary life giving organs.

You see, there are reasons why it is that these replacement drugs are researched and used. However, the truth of the matter is that given the ability of your very own unconscious mind, and the help of a hypnotist who has the back round and experience to help you, along with appropriate medical over sight, you can easily see your way permanently off of drugs just as Donna M. Novi was able to do – at least for the period of three years now and counting. It should be noted though that at the time that she came in to work with me I didn’t have the ability to help her off her drug of choice using the method I used with this current client. She had to do it the hard way, and yet, she too is a successful testament to never desiring to be on any drugs of any sort ever again given her rather poor experience with them. This is all chronicled in detail in the book that she co-wrote with me based primarily on her case history. You can currently get this book: Wake Up Doctors: 10 Steps to Reclaim Your Patients Respect and Trust for FREE for opting in on the Home Page of the Dawning Visions Hypnosis website at: dawningvisions.com/.

 

The book will soon be available in soft cover both on the website and through Amazon.com for a small investment. The information inside there could very well save your life or a loved one.

 

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Dec 29 2012

Do You Count in Your Own Life?

Vol. 38, May 2006

Over the past few months it seemed that I did not own my life. I was running around taking care of my mother’s needs, taking care of the chores around the house or putting in time with my clients. The one thing that I did find time for was at least a half an hour to relax in the warm bubbling water of the health club’s whirlpool every few days But I still felt totally absent from getting my real needs taken care of. Holidays were no longer based on how I wanted to enjoy them.  It was as if I had little control over what I was doing on a day-to-day basis and it felt horrible. Continue reading

Dec 29 2012

Is Quitting Smoking Weed ((Marijuana) the Same As Quitting Smoking Tobacco (Cigarettes, etc.)?

Reefer Madness/The Burning Question (1936)Vol. 181, December 29, 2012

Smokers truly believe that they are “addicted” to nicotine. However, the truth of the matter is that they are more involved in a habit of “trigger-response” with triggers leading to the use of cigarettes. The trigger can be anything from drinking alcohol to being bored to the people with whom one associates. As soon as that stimulus is present, the person is triggered to use the tobacco. Interestingly enough, very few people are actually addicted to nicotine regardless of what the medical world would like one to believe. Think about this truth: How many people have tried nicotine patches found themselves going back to smoking even with the patch attached to their skin allowing for the chemical of nicotine to enter the pores of the body? The patches are only about 15% successful. If the body truly “required” the nicotine as a hard drug addict  requires their drug it would be 100% successful and all the testing done proves that it is  not.

 

The studies do show that it is more difficult for woman to stop smoking than men given the average percentage of fat on women is higher than that in men. However, one needs to think of all the women who are easily able to stop smoking for the multiple months they are pregnant once they are aware of their condition. If one were truly addicted to nicotine, it would be much more difficult for these women to stop smoking. The reason they can do so is because the health and wellbeing of their baby is more important than their smoking habit.

 

Transitioning from traditional smoking habits to healthier alternatives can be a challenging journey, but some individuals have found success through various methods. One such alternative gaining popularity is using cbd vape products. CBD, derived from cannabis plants, offers a unique approach to managing triggers associated with smoking. Unlike nicotine patches, which have limited success rates, CBD  products provide a holistic approach by addressing both the psychological and physical aspects of addiction. The calming effects of CBD can help individuals manage stress and anxiety, reducing the triggers that lead to smoking. Furthermore, many people have reported finding relief from cravings through the act of vaping CBD, making it a promising tool for those looking to break free from their smoking habits. This natural approach aligns with the growing understanding of addiction as a complex interplay of psychological, social, and biological factors, offering hope to individuals striving for a smoke-free life.

 

Realize that a bit of irritability is vastly different than a drug abuser who goes through full blown withdrawals the body requiring the substance, thus the term of “addiction” being used. In some cases these symptoms can be life threatening. Having worked with both smoking cessation clients and abusers and addicts of hard drugs, I can tell you that the difference is startling at least during the duration of their pregnancies.

 

When one stops smoking cigarettes one may become irritable, feel the urges to have a cigarette, and feel uncomfortable. However, most smokers are able to make it through the night without a cigarette. Many are able to handle very long cross country and cross the globe flights without being able to have a cigarette. For a true addict this would not be possible. Their bodies would go into a sort of shock without the dopamine being released into their body’s systems with the use of their chosen drug. Most people who are addicts have to use their drug just to feel “normal” having lost the normal dopamine pleasure response. Without the drug, they become unable to function in any way, feeling depressed, anxious and steadfastly seeking out their drug of choice no matter the cost to themselves financially, personally and even risking losing their job and perhaps even a term in prison. Sadly, most of the people in prisons in the United States are indeed people who are drug abusers/addicts these days.

 

In the case of weed, it has gotten a bit more complex as those selling the weed have added all sorts of other chemicals to stretch the weed giving different effects which can be experienced in very scary ways to the user.

 

I had a young client who came in to see me last year to stop his smoking of weed. He was 19 years old. He told me that he was so scared by the ill effects of the weed he smoked that he drove himself to the emergency room. It was with this experience that he sought out my services. I spoke to him about the fact that the weed of today is stronger than that which was smoked when I was his age, about 30 years ago, and is now laced with all sorts of harmful chemicals, one of which may have brought him this terrible experience.

 

What one needs to understand is that smoking weed is not something that is as easy to let go of as smoking of cigarettes. About 90% of my smoking cessation clients can stop in one session. Nicotine is not an addictive substance as the THC is in weed and there in lies the difference in how one has to treat the two substances.

 

In my treatment of weed I do a full scale substance abuse treatment. The client is going to have to get rid of all the negative emotions, limiting beliefs and do the forgiveness work and inner child work necessary to have them give up the main reason for their using the substance. Unlike the smoking of tobacco products which are usually begun to fit in while in the teen years, the smoking of weed is used to stop the negative feelings, the depressed feelings, as a self-medication akin to the way many abuse or get addicted to alcohol. As such it is a much larger problem that needs to be addressed with the due respect it requires. Anyone who tells you that they can help you to release the smoking of weed with one session is telling you something that is untruthful and will most likely lead you to feeling a great disappointment as you find yourself relapsing, never having gotten to the root cause of its use. It is akin to having a person who suffers from anxiety being told that increasing self-esteem will handle the problem. Increasing self-esteem is only one step of many that needs to be addressed when healing one of anxiety that has stopped one’s ability to live a joyful, fulfilling life.

 

Hypnosis is a viable method to stop smoking weed, however one must understand the brain chemistry involved and more importantly, the underlying reasons why one would become addicted to the substance in the first place.

 

I just did some work with a 24 year old heroin addict, one who was shooting up the heroin who successfully went through her withdrawal with very few if any withdrawal symptoms. Think about this a moment? One can actually use one hypnosis session to easily come of whatever drug of choice is being abused or is addicted to. However, the physical addiction is the easy part. The emotional addiction to the weed is the hard part because one needs to get to the root cause of the abuse/addiction of the weed to make sure that the client is no longer interested in ever using it again. For that reason I would always do a complete drug addiction removal program to keep the client from ever going back to using it for any reason in the future. As a part of the program one would be wise to have a compelling future with something of true passion and interest to focus one’s energies on, that is more important than the abuse/addiction was to keep the momentum of health and wellbeing going for the rest of the newly non-addicted client.

 

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Dec 22 2012

Psychological Sexual Dysfunction: Can This Describe You?

Vol. 57, October 2007

Every now and again I receive calls from potential clients who are having difficulty having sexual relations with the partner that they love. Recently I had a gentleman call in because he experienced pain every time he was sexually active with his partner. The first question that I asked him was if he was checked out by a medical doctor to make sure that any potential physiological problems were ruled out. He gave me a very long list of specialist that he had consulted with, none of them able to find any physical reason for his pain. Continue reading

Dec 22 2012

Do you hear what I hear?

3759: Mayan Calendar - Aztec Stone of the sun

3759: Mayan Calendar – Aztec Stone of the sun (Photo credit: insert screen name here)

 

Vol. 180 – 12/22/2012

 

The end of the world is coming according to the Mayan calendar.  The end of the world came and went about a year ago, so many don’t take much stock in the most recent date.

 

But I wonder what it does to the precious kids that hear the end is near.  When I grew up in the 60’s, the end of the school term was enough to give one fear of failing grades, or the end of the week if one had to go to the dentist, but the end of the entire world as we knew it.  Will it be as painful as the dentist?   If little kids fear the dentist or the end of the school term can you imagine what they must feel when they hear the end of the world is near.  And with all the school killings lately, it is hard to escape the media.  While I grieve for the children, to be reminded of it day after day is depressing.  Even on the music stations, (I used to listen to the news on the way into work, but it is too depressing now so I listen to my favorite music station) and even that has the news squeezed in between songs.  Is there no escape from the violence and depressing news that seems to be shrouding our world like a black cloth that one can’t see through any longer?

 

I tell my godson I love him, as often as I can, yet I buy him one of the few things he asked for this Christmas.  I have been struggling on whether to return it to the store.  He is a very healthy and seemingly well-adjusted young adult at 17 years of age, despite coming from 2 drug addicts that had their act together and did not actively use drugs until he was 16 years old, they now drink and party hearty.  He grew up going to meetings “hearing” that alcohol and drugs are bad and that “we” as addicts need always refrain and cannot drink even socially.  Yet now that is out the window.  Seems the rules can be changed to fit whatever it is we want to fit.

 

The item I purchased for him that he said he wanted was a video game, Call of Duty.  It is an especially violent game of killing people for sport.  I am totally against killing people for sport, always have been.  Even in videos.  Especially in videos.  I do not understand why people get off on that.  It is bad enough to see it in films, but in a video, “you” are actually doing the killing.  I don’t know if a 17 year old is old enough to be killing people for sport.  It is bad enough they must kill at that age in the military, but at least it is for a cause whether we feel the cause is just, it is ultimately for our country’s freedom and possibly that soldier’s life.  And don’t think those “kids” don’t come back from war messed up from that.

 

But to give a child the license to kill another person even if it is thru a “joystick”—what are they hearing from us adults?  And especially the fact that I am this child’s godmother.  Some say that we need to put “God” back in the schools, and there are others that don’t believe in God or a God at all.  Everyone does have a right to their opinion, however, I do believe in a God and that God represents good and doesn’t condone killing for sport.

 

I have been struggling on whether to return the video and stand by my principals.

 

Given the recent mass killings of 20 innocent 5 and 6 year olds by a child himself, I think he was merely 20 years old, I have decided to return the game.  I can’t help but feel that these children that kill think that it is all a game.

 

We know scientifically that a child’s brain is not fully formed and fully functional until the age of 25.

 

By giving my godson this game am I telling him that killing is OK?  Even if it is in a video?

 

Is it OK to get drunk—even if it is in your own home?

 

Actions often speak louder than words.

 

I can tell my godson I love him, but am I showing him I love him by teaching him love for another human being?

 

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Dec 15 2012

Study Demonstrates that Trouble Emoting Leads to Panic Attacks; Release Them Easily with Hypnosis

Vol. 75, April 2009- Study Demonstrates that Trouble Emoting Leads to Panic Attacks, Release Them Easily with Hypnosis.

There are many people who have difficulty expressing their emotions because they have a hard time identifying them creating the cause for what is commonly known as panic attacks. Many times when the first panic attack is experienced, it is mistakenly thought to be a heart attack. This is because the symptoms of a panic attack: chest pain, a rapid heartbeat, difficulty breathing, dizziness, faintness, weakness and sweating starting with a feeling of terror are very similar to what a person having a heart attack would experience. Sometimes the individual who is having panic attacks stop doing their normal activities with a small percentage becoming agoraphobic, never leaving their homes. Continue reading

Dec 15 2012

Dealing with The Holiday Blues: Happiness and Good Cheer are Possible

Do you like my Zine? Dicken's Village by MaryVol. 179, Dec. 7, 2012

With forty-five percent of the American adult population single (104 million people) with twenty-seven percent representing single-person households, you are in good company. There is a great difference between being alone and being lonely. Many people enjoy their “alone” time to do those things that are squeezed out of their normal daily schedule. On the other hand, being lonely means that you feel empty inside looking to others to fill a void within.

 

Of course if you have lost someone dear to you either through a death or a divorce it is much healthier for you to allow yourself to feel the sadness that any loss would create. Give yourself the space and time to grieve this loss. There is no need for you to feel compelled to take part in the holiday festivities, this becoming more of an obligation than something that you may feel like doing.

 

However, if you are one of the many millions who just find yourself in a situation where you are away from your home or family, or just need a place to celebrate the holidays, the first thing you can do is to share with your friends and coworkers that you haven’t any plans for the holidays. You may well find yourself invited to their home where you may be able to help dispel some family tensions by your presence.

 

Another wonderful idea is for you to make a list of “acts of kindness” you can perform for your neighbors, friends or classmates. Little things like walking the dog, shoveling the driveway or bringing some homemade goods to someone who would really appreciate them could bring happiness to yourself as well as the beneficiary of your good deeds.

When we think about the holidays, they are really about being present for others rather than bringing presents to others—because what truly matters is that you are spending quality time enjoying being with the people that you are choosing to be with.

 

What better way to share the holiday than volunteering with some charity that services a population that could use your good cheer. You could serve food to the homeless, bring companionship or some talent to the elderly or cheer up the children in the hospital. There are so many places where you can use this sacred time to bring a smile to others as you do so for yourself.

 

Many years ago, I worked in a transitional home for the mentally ill.  This was a place the clients stayed after being released from the hospital till permanent housing was found for them. Sadly, many of the clients there had family that left them there alone for the holidays. The staff at the house always made homemade holiday meals and bought special gifts for Christmas for our guests. I will always remember the sweet smiles and tears of joy on our guests faces for making their holidays something special for them.

 

A few years later I was working in a supportive housing program where I was working Thanksgiving Day. It so happened that one of my clients was to have a day pass out of the hospital’s behavioral unit. I remember bringing him back to the program and asking why it was that he wanted to be in a locked unit at the mental hospital. His doctor had told me he didn’t need to be in the locked unit, yet that is where he chose to be. My client told me that he was sure that the people on the locked ward were supposed to be there. It was his way of telling me that he felt safe there. It was that particular Thanksgiving Day that allowed me the opportunity to do right by  this client as proven seventeen years later. I was shopping in the produce department of the grocery store close to where that program once was situated.  A gentleman asked me if I remembered who he was. I couldn’t remember his name, though I knew that he was an apartment mate of this same client. He told me that my past client was living quite successfully in the community sharing an apartment with another man. I couldn’t tell you how great that made me feel to know how well my old client was doing after all these years given all the challenges he had to overcome to live in the community successfully.

 

Think about the difference you can make, just being with people who really could use your heart, your care, your ear. One never knows what sort of impact one can have getting out of your own head and into being of service to others.

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