BAH (Bingeing, Addictions and Habits)

Having read Steve’s interesting blog regarding a binge drinker, I was about to add my own comments when I found that several ideas and questions kept interrupting me.

I began to realise that I was becoming confused with regard to the term “binge”. It was by now late Friday afternoon and my work for the week was finished – or so I thought. That was when I turned on my PC and started to surf the web. Then the mental work really started.

I found that most authorities agree that binging is “… involuntary over consumption of food or drink”.

So I asked myself, “Is the over consumption due to an addiction to the food or drink?”

More surfing gave the general consensus that addiction is “… a recurring compulsion by an individual to engage in some specific activity”.

“That’s almost the same – just less specific”, I thought. “Perhaps they have got into the habit of doing something to excess”.

Yet more surfing provided the explanation that habits are “… automatic routines of behavior that are repeated regularly, without thinking”.

“Now, isn’t that just like binging, or am I confusing myself with so much high powered thought a the end of a busy week?”

I decided to look a little closer at this, despite the lateness of the day and the part of me that believed it was time to pack in.

Anyway, it is apparent that these three different behaviours have partially interchangeable definitions. After all, an involuntary recurring compulsion to repeatedly over consume alcohol would seem to be the problem which Steve described, whilst at the same time fitting into any or all of the above categories.

In practice, my clients agree with that sentiment. I know this because they randomly interchange the use of these three terms.

For example, I have worked with one person who claimed to be a “habitual liar”, whilst another claimed to be “addicted to telling untruths”. One young lady claimed to have control over her nail-biting until she became stressed, and then she “binged on them until they bled”. Some do not even bother with the ‘name’ of the condition, they prefer instead to use part of the description: “I am a compulsive eater!”

Even more interesting is the fact that an addict can easily be convinced that he actually has a habit; and whilst we all know that addictions are difficult to break, habits are easy to get rid of – at least that’s what they say.

In the same way, most chocoholics (who claim to have an addiction to chocolate) can be convinced that they are really binging on chocolate – it’s just a bad habit they have gotten into.

The circle can be completed by realising that it is not hard to convince a habitual nail biter that they are addicted to the taste of their nails!

The common denominator with all of these people is that they are doing something they want to stop doing – and the number of labels we can apply to that unwanted behaviour will not alter that simple fact. They want to stop doing something no matter what it is called.

Indeed, in many cases I find that the approach which worked for binging last week, works just as well with getting rid of an unwanted habit this week. Next week it possibly will not, and I will find another way to help that particular client. After all, each and every client is unique and deserves a therapy best suited to them.

Allow me to repeat this fundamental fact: it does not matter what label is used to name the unwanted behaviour. What matters is acknowledging that there is an unwanted behaviour, deciding to do something about it, and then doing something about it.

If you realise that you have ‘plogetted’ for too long, or want to stop ‘glunapacifying’, a good NLP practitioner and/or hypnotherapist will help you to achieve that aim, even though he or she will not have a clue what you are talking about. The important thing is that you know what you are talking about.

You will not even have to say it is a case of binging, an addiction, or a bad habit - unless you want to.

You already know where to find a good NLP practitioner and/or hypnotherapist because you have already read about Just Be Well, haven’t you?

So, if you feel that you want to say “BAH”, what the Dickens? You may as well complete the sentence and say “humbug” as well.

“Bah humbug!” It’s as simple as that.

And then give one of us a call. There is no need to wait until Christmas to make those changes in your life.

Bulimia Nervosa Treatments

Treatment Of Bulimia Nervosa - NLP and hypnotherapy

This has become something of a specialist area for me, though I certainly didn’t plan this to happen. It’s just that the results tend to be so positive, so quickly, and I have had so many testimonials from satisfied ex-bulimics, that my work with eating disorders, and especially the NLP treatment for bulimia, has snowballed.

The Marie Claire Article

But it wasn’t until Marie Claire wrote a piece about NLP a few years ago that things really took off. I remember when I got the call.

‘Hi’, the woman said, ‘I am from Marie Claire and we are doing a piece on NLP, we have got someone to do spider phobia and someone to do stopping smoking and we would like you to write something about weight loss’.

We are often approached by the press to help with articles and many of us have been on the radio and some of us have been on TV. Whilst ‘weight loss’ is a hugely important issue (pun intended) I wanted to do something more ‘interesting’ after all, there are lots of methods that work to help someone to lose weight (believe it or not). And anyway, I had just that day had news that the two women for whom I had given treatment for bulimia the previous week had both stopped doing it.

A Piece On How To Cure Bulimia

‘What about a piece on bulimia’, I said, and the journalist thought it was a great idea, all she wanted me to do was provide her with an ex client who was willing to appear in Marie Claire, with a photograph, and tell the world about her recovery.

I put the phone down and thought ‘damn’, where am I going to find an ex client who is willing to do that.’ After all, most people who do, or have done bulimia usually don’t shout about it from the rooftops, and some have never told anyone about their problem (one kept her bulimia to herself for thirty five years...)

By a staggering coincidence (not that I believe in coincidences), a woman called Claire rang me about two hours later.

‘You probably don’t remember me,’ she said, I came to see you about a year ago and you cured my bulimia and I have a friend who wants your help with something else.

‘Claire’, I said, ‘how would you like to be in Marie Claire. She agreed immediately. Sometimes things just fall into place beautifully, don’t you think?

The Treatment Of Bulimia With NLP And Hypnotherapy

And then I thought, ‘how on earth am I going to put what I do into words?’

In the end I wrote a very long piece which is printed in full in the ‘Cure Bulimia’ section of this website, here - Treatment Of Bulimia Article - they only used part of it in the magazine.

Sometimes self hypnosis recordings can be very effective in the treatment of bulimia, have a look at the online shop on JustBeWell.com here Overcome Bulimia or on my USA based site here – Self Help For Bulimia

Please feel free to comment after reading the article and also have a read through the many pages of testimonials from clients for whom this form of treatment for bulimia has worked. Most people who suffer from bulimia find it hard to believe that they can often stop doing it quickly and easily. But they can.

Personal Approaches To The Treatment Of Bulimia

Some of the practitioners on JustBeWell.com will have their own tried and tested methods to cure bulimia so before you decide to make a booking, do have a chat with them about how they will work for you.

Crossing Bridges

I share Nick's sentiments about the Just Be Well team which I joined whilst working in Sydney, Australia.

Having returned to the UK I now live and work in Newcastle upon Tyne and urge anyone wondering where to find help and assistance to consider hypnotherapy and NLP, and to look at the Just Be Well web site for more detailed information.

Perhaps I will see you in your dreams!

Hypnotherapy And NLP Blog Launch

Hello and welcome to the JustBeWell.com hypnotherapy and NLP blog.

I am Steve Tromans and I started http://www.justbewell.com/ many years ago as my own personal website so that I could let people know who I am, what I do, and how I may be able to help them.

Since then the site has grown so that now there are a team of over twenty skilled professionals in the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and the USA.

The hypnotherapists and NLP trainers on JustBeWell.com have been personally selected by me as people I personally know and trust, or have come highly recommended to me by people I personally know and trust.

Common Values

We all share the idea that personal change can be rapid and easy and we have much more affinity with Neuro-Linguistic Programming than with traditional clinical hypnotherapy, although many of us will utilise more traditional hypnosis with clients if we think that this will be the quickest and most effective way to help them to make the changes they desire.

Hypnotherapy And NLP To Train The Mind

So it is much more like training than therapy. We aren’t interested in where the ‘problem’ comes from as generally it doesn’t matter how ‘problems’ start, what matters is how to ‘stop’ them, and how to help someone to be more resourceful in the here and now.

A Sense Of Perspective

If someone has depression, or anxiety, or virtually any problem, them they tend to be caught on a loop of wishing they didn’t have the depression, anxiety or fear, or habit, or compulsion etc etc. It can be like watching a TV program that you simply can’t stand, but you find yourself watching it again and again anyway...
Delving into the source of these problems often simply reinforces them.

Outcome Orientated Hypnotherapy And NLP

When you begin to think of how you will be when you have stopped ‘probleming’, you begin to open your mind to new possibilities.

The difference between someone who has a fear of public speaking and someone who does not have this fear, for example, is the anticipation of it. If you are scared of public speaking and someone says you have to do a presentation tomorrow then the first thing you will do is imagine being scared whilst giving the presentation. If you are confident at public speaking and someone says the same thing then you will automatically imagine doing a confident presentation.
Both people will tend to get what they ‘expect’ to get.

So we train the person’s imagination to expect to be confident, and then, almost invariably, they are.

Hypnotherapy And NLP – A Flexible Approach

At the strategic level the above holds true for so many issues, expect to blush and you will, expect to be jealous and you will be, expect to take cocaine tonight and you are more likely to etc etc

However there are a huge range of techniques available to help in other areas such as addictions, OCD, nail biting, phobias and so forth, so we will tailor what we do to your individual needs.

Related Websites Of Interest

Several of the JustBeWell.com practitioners have sites of their own. For example, in Ireland you can visit http://www.hypnotherapy-nlp-treatments.com/ and in Australia http://www.hypnotherapy-nlp-help.com/

Self Hypnosis Recordings Online Shop

For those of you who are unable to visit us in person then we have two online self hypnosis recordings shops, one attached to this site, here – www.justbewell.com/acatalog/ and one is the USA here http://www.selfhelprecordings.com/.

Please also feel free to visit the blog www.selfhelprecordings/blog/self-help-blog.html

Why Should I Read This Hypnotherapy And NLP Blog?

Well hopefully you will find items of interest and value to you. We are only human and we don’t always cure everyone of every problem but we do tend to get relentlessly good results.
Forthcoming items will include hypnotherapy and NLP for specific issues, hints and techniques that anyone can apply to themselves, and perhaps sometimes comment on relevant news items.
So thanks for reading this and keep on reading and please do feel free to comment.