I’m here to tell you that vaping is no different. It’s an addictive habit that can cause health-related problems and hinder your everyday life. But it’s also an addiction you have the power to overcome. 

So today, it’s time to take back control. 

In this article, we will explore the issue of vaping, along with my advice on how you can overcome your addiction, all within the comfort of your own home. 

Let’s get started on achieving this amazing feeling of accomplishment together…

Why Vaping Is Bad for You 

Despite the common understanding that vaping is less harmful than smoking cigarettes, it’s actually a habit that can have a really serious impact on your health. 

Vaping has been linked to some severe lung injuries, and less than pleasant symptoms, including a cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue, vomiting, and diarrhea. 

These are caused by the potentially harmful substances within vaping products. Such substances are reported to include ultrafine particles that can easily be inhaled deep into your lungs, nicotine, flavorings such as diacetyl, heavy metals, and other potential carcinogens. 

Indeed, there are many nasty chemicals within vaping products that your body certainly didn’t ask for and doesn’t want. 

As the number of vaping users continues to rise—the biggest markets being the United States, United Kingdom, and France—we are also seeing record numbers of young people vaping. This is really concerning for the development of these teens, and we must all set positive examples that promote healthier and happier lifestyles. 

Is Vaping Really Addictive? 

Not only is there the concern that people are unaware of the danger of the chemicals they are inhaling—especially young people. But that people may underestimate the addictiveness of nicotine. 

Due to the presence of nicotine in vaping products, this is an incredibly addictive habit. The more you vape, the more your brain and body become familiar with having nicotine, and the harder it is for you to go without it.

A large concern here is that people who vape will be far more likely to start smoking cigarettes—a highly addictive habit known to cause cancer and other diseases.

The Psychology Behind All Addiction

As I mentioned earlier, I’ve seen every kind of addiction and have worked with thousands of addicts. During this time, I made a fascinating discovery—something all of them had in common. 

In fact, it’s central to so many issues that people deal with. 

These people all had the belief…

‘I am not enough.’  

This negative, untrue belief often stems from our experiences as young children. Our minds take in words, actions, and feelings like butter soaking into toast during this time. 

As the root cause behind the belief, ‘I am not enough,’ is found in our subconscious mind, the conscious mind is unable to identify or undo its impact on us. 

When dealing with my clients, working with their subconscious mind, deep down in the roots of their addictions, it would all stem from this self-limiting belief. 

They felt they were not interesting enough, not smart enough, or not worthy enough. 

Some believed they were all of these things. 

Of course, when you have the belief, ‘I am not enough,’ you need more of what makes you feel good. And that’s exactly what addiction is. 

Addiction is something that takes you away from a bad feeling towards a good feeling. And that’s really what people are addicted to—the good feeling. 

Why Am I Addicted To Vaping? 

Now that we’ve identified the one belief all addicts have in common, no matter their addiction, we can work to overcome this. 

So take a moment to consider… 

Do you have the belief that you are not enough? 

You wouldn’t be alone—so many of us have this belief. We lack the self-confidence, self-love, self-esteem to believe otherwise. It’s one of the many lies we tell ourselves that creates the blueprint for how we think and act. 

Do you ever say to yourself…

“I’m not interesting enough.”

“I’m not smart enough.” 

“I’m not amusing enough.” 

“I’m not attractive enough.” 

Does it remove the emptiness you feel from believing you are not enough when you vape? 

Perhaps you believe it helps you within social situations? 

Maybe it gives you a sense of connection with others? 

Or makes you feel accepted? 

Vaping maybe your mind’s way of subconsciously taking you away from this feeling and attempting to add enoughness into your life. 

Leading you to think… 

“I must vape again.” 

“I’ve vaped once today, but I need to vape more.”

“I’ll never be able to stop vaping.” 

But let’s consider something…if vaping could make you feel better, make you feel enough, then why would you need to vape more?

If vaping once can’t make you feel good or better about yourself, then vaping every day certainly won’t. I can tell you truthfully that there isn’t enough vaping you could ever do in your life that will be able to fill that emptiness you feel. 

But here comes the solution…

How To Overcome Your Vaping Addiction

The first step is to recognize that somewhere in your life, you picked up the untrue belief that you are not enough. Now, in order to quit vaping for good, we have to look at ways to start adding true enoughness into your life. 

We can do this by learning to believe the truth—‘I am enough.’ 

If there is one thing I want you to take away from reading this today, it’s the importance of telling yourself this. Say it to yourself each day, multiple times a day—trust me, this could change your life.

“I am enough.”

At first, you may feel silly—that’s ok. Keep saying it every day until you begin to believe it. 

“I am enough.”

Take a lipstick and write it on your mirror, make it your screen saver, spell it out with fridge magnets. 

“I am enough.”

This message will begin to nourish you. The more you nourish yourself, start being kind to yourself, start loving yourself, you will start to believe the truth, that you are enough. More than enough. 

The need you had for vaping to fill what once was an emptiness in your life will minimize before it simply goes away. 

You will recognize that you matter, that you are significant, interesting, and worthy. You have something to contribute, something to offer the world. These are all true statements.

Because when you believe you are not enough, you will always look for more. So, if vaping could make you feel enough, make you feel better, then why would you need more?

When you know you are enough, you will no longer need more. 

You will be able to say, “I used to like vaping, but I don’t need it anymore, I don’t like it anymore, it no longer serves me in any way.” 

You don’t need more of anything when you know this because you’re already enough. At first, this will be what you do. Then, it will become who you are. 

Vaping will become something that no longer interests you. You’ll recognize that it does nothing for you. In fact, vaping is against you. You cannot and will not allow it to control your life.

To strengthen this, I would love you to check out my YouTube video on The Power of ‘I Am Enough.’ Here, I sit down for a fascinating discussion to talk more about how you can make a really powerful shift in your life for both your mind and body. 

Recognize the Power of Words 

We can clearly see the power of words in play here. However, most of the time, we are not conscious of the effect our words can have on ourselves and their ability to run deep into our subconscious. 

So the most important element of this is understanding the power of words and the blueprint we unknowingly create for ourselves. 

“It’s too hard to stop vaping!” 

“I’ll never be able to stop vaping!” 

“My body would freak out if I stopped vaping!” 

“I wouldn’t be able to last the day without vaping!” 

These are, of course, all untrue and lead you on a negative path. This is why you must empower yourself to regain control and create a new, updated, positive blueprint for your life.  

If you find the power of words as fascinating as me, then I’d love for you to watch my video here on the Amazing Secrets of Your Mind. I go into the importance of the words you use and how they can have a tremendous effect on your life in much greater detail.  

Overcome Your Vaping Addiction With Self-Hypnosis

Ready to take this one step further? 

Suppose you have decided to quit vaping for good and live a happier, healthier life. In that case, I highly recommend you download my self-hypnosis audio, Overcome Vaping Addiction. 

As the founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy® (RTT®), I can tell you that I wholeheartedly believe that self-hypnosis really can change your reality. It can help you overcome anything your subconscious mind has created. It’s truly phenomenal, and I urge you to try it out for yourself. 

In this audio, I will help you go far beyond your emotional response to vaping. Instead, we will work at a deep, subconscious level to rewire your mind and get to the root cause of your addiction—something our conscious minds simply can not reach. 

I will guide you through a hypnosis session that helps create a powerful shift by reprogramming your mind. We will work together to instill a belief that vaping is a habit you used to have and is no longer a part of who you are. 

I highly recommend that you listen to this audio every day. This will allow you to have the best chances of enjoying them in maximum effect. 

Usually, you can expect to start experiencing results within the first 21 days. Therefore, I want you to commit to making time to play this audio. Make it a priority to invest in yourself, your health, and your happiness by releasing all your current physical and emotional cravings for vaping. 

An Exciting Future Is Ahead of You  

I’ve been so blessed in my career to have been able to help so many people overcome their addictions, and I want you to know that this is possible for you too.  

To no longer be chained to a ball of destructive habit. To be able to freely spend time with your friends, family, and colleagues without the concern of when you will be able to vape. Instead, you’ll be perfectly content, and your mind and body will certainly thank you for this. 

Perhaps your social group is full of people who vape—that’s ok. Because you’ll learn to be indifferent. You’ll no longer smell vape and be sucked into your craving. In fact, you will smell it and be repulsed by it because you know the chemicals that are entering your body. Chemicals your body doesn’t want or need. 

I think you’ll soon find that not only does your mind and body respond positively to no longer vaping…but you’ll also feel excited and motivated to keep vaping chemicals out of your system and breathe fresh air into your lungs. 

No longer will you be burdened by an unhealthy, unwelcome, and unproductive addiction. 

Instead, you will feel empowered, confident, vibrant, and healthy. 
Gain the profound ability to eradicate this addiction and regain the freedom you deserve today by downloading my Overcome Vaping Addiction audio here.

This article explores the types of sugar in food, uncovering some facts about what does sugar do to your body and highlighting Marisa Peer’s advice on sugar addiction.

Types of Processed Sugars

Here is a list of the most common types of processed sugars:

1. Granulated Sugar

One of the most popular types of sugar in the Western world, granulated sugar is refined and is a multipurpose choice. It is most commonly used for adding to tea and coffee and is found in baked and confectionery food. It is made from sugarcane and sugar beets, and is refined by extracting the natural molasses, and then bleached to make it appear white.

2. Caster Sugar

Caster sugar is granulated sugar ground down so that it is very fine. Because the crystals are so fine, they dissolve much quicker and are commonly used for making meringues, syrups, and cocktails.

3. Cane Sugar

Cane sugar is produced solely from sugarcane and is minimally refined. It also has a slightly larger grain and is darker in color than granulated sugar.

4. Demerara Sugar

Demerara sugar is minimally refined and made from a type of raw cane. It has large grains, a golden color, and a subtle molasses flavor.

5. Muscovado Sugar

Muscovado sugar is a type of unrefined cane sugar where the molasses are not extracted. It comes in both dark and light varieties, and has a sandy texture with a rich flavor. You often find it used in barbecue sauce, marinades, and savory dishes.

Types of Natural Sugars

Here is a list of sugars that are naturally found in certain foods:

1. Glucose

Glucose naturally occurs in plants and fruits―it is actually a byproduct of photosynthesis. Our bodies use glucose as a form of fuel for energy.

2. Fructose

Fructose is the sugar found in fruit. It also occurs naturally in cane sugar and honey.

3. Sucrose

This sugar is found in the stems of sugarcane, the roots of sugar beet, and can be found naturally alongside glucose in certain fruits and other plants.

4. Lactose

This is sugar that is found in milk. It is something that is created as a result of a process happening in our bodies. As children, we typically possess the enzyme necessary to break down this molecule into lactose to be used by the body for development. However, many people lose this ability as they get into adulthood.

What Does Sugar Do to Your Body?

Let’s break it down into processed sugars and natural sugars.

Effects of Processed Sugars to Your Body

Online fitness guru Kayla Itsines highlights how refined sugar affects our mind, energy and weight: ‘Eating excess refined sugar may affect your body in different ways. The breakdown below will help you to understand what sugar does to your body:

1. Fatigue

Refined sugar is a carbohydrate that your body can digest quickly for energy. When you eat food or drinks that contain refined sugars, your body turns the sugar into glucose, a simple form of sugar that is carried through the blood. This provides your body with an instant energy boost, however, once the sugar is metabolized, your energy levels drop again.

If the supply of glucose in your body is up and down, say from eating foods high in refined sugar frequently throughout the day, it can feel like riding a rollercoaster. Your energy levels will rise quickly and fall again, leaving you feeling fatigued.

2. Liver

Ever wondered what does sugar do to your body, specifically your liver?

Excess sugar is stored in the liver as glycogen, a storage-friendly version of glucose. If you are eating refined sugar foods daily and in excess, it may place too much pressure on your liver. Basically, your liver has limited storage space, so too much glycogen can cause it to expand.

When your liver reaches its capacity, the excess glycogen can be converted into fatty acids, which are then deposited in the inactive parts of the body. This can include so-called trouble areas, such as your thighs, bottom and stomach. Some fat may also remain in the liver and if this continues to build up over time, it can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

3. Heart

There has been research over the years which has found a link between refined sugar and unhealthy levels of blood fats, also called dyslipidemia.

Eating large amounts of refined sugar may be responsible for higher triglycerides and low HDL (‘good’) cholesterol levels. As HDL cholesterol helps to transport cholesterol from the body’s cells back to the liver, low levels may result in an increased risk of heart disease.

4. Teeth

When you frequently eat foods containing refined sugar, such as chocolate, candy or cake, it can get stuck on and between your teeth. The natural bacteria in your mouth thrive on these sugars and it causes them to produce acids which can begin to erode your tooth enamel, causing it to weaken over time.

The combination of bacteria and acid can also lead to dental plaque, which is that ‘fuzzy’ or ‘furry’ feeling on your teeth. It is a sticky film that should be removed while it is soft, otherwise, it can harden and cause gum disease and tooth decay.

Did you know that eating low-sugar, fibrous fruit and vegetables is a great way to naturally clean your teeth? Leafy greens, carrots and celery can help to move bacteria and stimulate saliva, which helps to neutralize the acid that causes plaque.

5. Addictive

What does sugar do to your body when you eat it regularly? It actually makes it harder to say no to sugar. You know those times when you feel like you simply have to have some chocolate? Then you find yourself struggling with chocolate cravings for days or even weeks afterwards? There’s a reason for this.

When you eat refined sugar, such as chocolate, it can cause a flood of dopamine (a brain chemical that helps us feel happiness or pleasure) in the center of the brain. This is why people who eat lots of refined sugar find themselves reaching for it more and more―because it will produce these happy feelings. Something else to consider is that this flood of dopamine can also override signals that you are full. This means you can be at a greater risk of eating more than what your body actually needs.

6. Obesity

Due to what sugar does to our brains, consuming these foods and drink in excess can lead to a greater chance of becoming overweight or obese.

As I mentioned above, eating refined sugars can override feelings of fullness, meaning you don’t always feel as satisfied as you would be if you were to eat a plate full of vegetables and some lean protein. This is because foods high in refined sugars are usually filled with empty calories and lacking in essential nutrients that can help us to feel full, such as fiber.

Another reason why sugar may be a contributing cause to obesity is that it is found in so many products! Manufacturers have found clever ways to disguise the word ‘sugar’ in their products, which can make it very hard to know whether the product you are buying has sugar in it and how much it might contain. Unfortunately, refined sugars are often found in foods which appear to be healthy, such as breakfast cereals, muesli bars and slices, sauces and dressings, flavored milk and yoghurt.

Why people cannot resist sugar?

Kayla’s findings on refined sugars and addiction are mirrored in Marisa Peer’s beliefs. Marisa’s Perfect Weight Forever program encourages clients to think back to their childhood and discover what made their sugar addiction begin. It’s all part of Marisa’s therapy technique called ‘finding the root cause’.

Root Cause therapy is an approach to treatment that focuses on resolving significant past events believed to be interfering with a person’s present mental and emotional wellness. Marisa quotes in the Perfect Weight Forever e-book: ‘I had a problem for years with food. I could not resist it and would binge on sugar and carbs and this would make me unhappy; then I would starve which made me even unhappier. When I was training in hypnosis I went back to times when I remembered staying with my grandmother and she would give me all the food I did not get at home. She would take me out and buy me comics and bake me cakes and I would sit on her sofa eating the cakes she made just for me and reading the comics and I felt blissfully happy and completely loved, it was a warm, wonderful feeling that I can still vividly remember and even feel.

For years as a grown-up whenever I was unhappy, I would read magazines and eat cakes and I realized that I was trying to recreate that feeling trying to get back that perfect moment of feeling so loved. All eating is an act of regression. We use food to try to get back the happy, warm feeling we got when we were given cookies and candy as a kid. That is why when adults are unhappy, they want children’s food. No one ever says “I am so down, I crave salad” or ‘I am so fed up, I need to stuff myself with vegetables’. When we feel less than happy, we feel drawn to the foods we think made us happy as children, which are usually soft, mushy, sweet, creamy foods or chips and pizza.’

What sugar and carbs do once they enter your body?

Marisa also explains what sugar and carbs do once they enter our bodies: ‘When you eat carbs or any starchy food, they turn to sugar very fast and when your blood sugar goes up you make insulin, and the job of insulin is to store fat. It’s harder to lose weight once you have eaten carbs and it’s harder to gain weight without eating carbs. If you eat carbs 5 times a day―cereal for breakfast, a cookie midmorning, a sandwich for lunch, crackers as a midafternoon snack and then eat any kind of carbohydrate like potatoes, rice or pasta for dinner, your body is constantly cranking out insulin, making it impossible for you to lose weight and causing you to store fat, especially around the stomach. The only exception to this is if you do a lot of exercise in which case you can burn it off.

You have a 90% chance of remaining overweight if your diet is high in carbohydrates and starchy foods. The reason for this is that to burn fat you have to reduce sugar but your body cannot differentiate between carbs and sugar―they are equally recognized and used by your body as sugar. Once you have eaten the equivalent of three teaspoons of sugar you are now in fat-storing mode and if you eat starch three or four times a day you are constantly making your body store fat and never giving it the opportunity to burn fat. Eating pasta, rice, potatoes and bread is no different to eating cake and as you recognize this, it becomes easier to adapt your eating to allow your body to burn fat.

What About Natural Sugars?

The UK government launched the ‘5 a day’ campaign for fruit in March 2003. Since then, it has become ingrained in our minds. However, in more recent years, the natural sugars found in fruit have had some bad press, especially when eaten in excess. The excessive consumption has been linked to health issues such as diabetes.

An article on the Huffington Post shared some views on fruit sugar from Alexandra Parker and Anna Debenham―practising dietitians from The Biting Truth.

Generally speaking, we should be aiming to eat two servings of fruit a day. A serve of fruit is equivalent to:

1 medium apple, banana, orange or pear

2 small apricots, kiwi fruit or plums

1 cup diced fruit (berries, grapes, fruit salad)

“As dietitians, we’ve had clients on both ends of the spectrum,” Debenham told HuffPost Australia. “While some remove fruits from their diet due to its sugar and carb content, others load up on it because it’s full of nutrients.

“We believe that the ideal amount is somewhere in between and it differs slightly for each person. Generally speaking, you probably need somewhere between 2-4 servings of fruit a day to make sure that you are getting enough of other food groups.”

For those with higher energy requirements, or on the days you work out, that’s when you might need those four servings of fruit.

“Some of the pro athletes may eat even more than four servings a day, which is important for them but wouldn’t be a good choice for the rest of the population,” Parker said.

For the majority of the people, four servings of fruit per day is the upper recommended limit.

“The reason why we don’t want to eat unlimited amounts of fruit each day is that, while it is loaded with nutrients, it’s still a source of carbs and sugars and even too much of a healthy food can have negative effects, like weight gain,” Parker explained.’

Marisa mirrors these findings and states in her Perfect Weight Forever e-book: ‘Just remember that the key to making your body a fantastic fat-burning machine is to avoid or lessen starchy carbohydrates, because your body is designed to store carbohydrates as energy and if you don’t burn off that energy it will always be stored as fat. Our bodies were not designed to eat the amount of carbohydrates we now consume and can do very well without them. Limiting when and how you eat them is the key to permanent weight loss.

I love fruit but I limit myself to three pieces a day most of the time and choose berries and apples more of the time because they have the least amount of sugar, whereas grapes have the highest. Vegetables are far more important than fruits. They have more vitamins and more antioxidants and we should have more daily servings of vegetables than fruit. Fruit is still a sugar and too much of it pushes up insulin levels. Fruit juice is not a good choice at all as it contains way too much sugar. There is the same amount of sugar in a glass of juice as in a can of coke.’

How To Remove Sugar From Your Diet?

After knowing what sugar does to your body, it can be tricky to know where to start if you want to limit or completely remove it from your diet. Research findings can be a good place to kickstart your motivation, such as an article published on the Get Holistic Health website. The article states that removing sugar from our diets can ‘starve’ cancer cells:

Dr. Otto Warburg along with other health experts have been talking about how cancer loves sugar since the 1920s. Surprisingly many doctors don’t tell their cancer patients that as long as they continue to eat processed foods full of the stuff, they will likely have a more difficult time fighting this disease.

The German physiologist, leading biochemist, medical doctor, and Nobel laureate was convinced that you could starve cancer right out of the body. While it may not always be that easy, this is something that could significantly change the game.

His theory was that malignant cells and tumor growth was caused by cells that generated energy via adenosine triphosphate (ATP) through a nonoxidative breakdown of glucose (sugar). The recycling of the metabolite from this process called glycolysis and the circulation of adhA back into the body caused anaerobic respiration. This is the reverse of what happens with healthy cells.

Healthy, non-cancerous cells generate energy for the body to use through the oxidative breakdown of pyruvate, the end product of glycolysis, which leads to oxidized mitochondria. He, therefore, concluded that cancer was really a mitochondrial dysfunction. The normal process of respiration of oxygen in the body is changed to the fermentation of sugar. If you remove the sugar, the body should not develop cancer.

Marisa Peer’s Advice on How to Cut Out Sugar

Marisa believes that by making the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar, we can all program our bodies to stop eating sugar.

In her Perfect Weight Forever e-book she says: ‘Sugar is a chemical. It is bleached, processed and manufactured in a refinery and has no resemblance to sugar cane. Sugar rots tooth enamel, disrupts digestion, feeds anxiety and depression and attaches to collagen causing our skin to age, line and wrinkle prematurely. The nitrous oxide in sugar is toxic it roughens our arteries so they attract plaque which can block blood flow over time. Sugar requires no sell-by date because it is so highly refined that it cannot decompose. Sugar is a preservative. That’s why if you boil fresh fruit with sugar, the sugar preserves it. Many countries call jam preservatives and now you know why. The more sugar you eat, the more your body has to make internal fat to wrap the corrosive sugar in and keep it away from your vital organs. Your body can’t get rid of it and can’t use the excessive amount we now eat. It will usually store this around your bottom and thighs. It is highly addictive and like all addictions, the only way to stop craving sugar is to stop eating it, once you stop eating it, the craving goes away but you have to avoid it for about three months in order to cure the addiction.’

In Marisa’s blog post ‘How To Stop Craving Sugar’, she gives her top tips including topping up your vitamin and mineral intake to reduce sugar cravings, and healthier alternatives when you are craving something sweet.

If you have enjoyed this article and want to go even more in-depth into what it means to make healthier choices to nourish your body, and therefore your mind, then why not join the 21-Day Healthy Living Challenge. With trainings, meditations and audios all designed by Marisa Peer, you and your community of peers also tackling the challenge will learn how to overcome negative mindsets, and rewire your brain to say goodbye to processed sugar for good. Click the banner below to discover more about the challenge, and secure your spot today. 

An addiction is anything that moves you away from a bad feeling and towards a good feeling. Addictions are habits of action that are run by habits of thought. By changing the thought process, as well as the habit itself, long term success can almost always be achieved.

In my latest book, I Am Enough, I share how one of the major factors causing addiction is the feeling of not belonging or not feeling good enough. Feeling disconnected or rejected can lead to all sorts of issues. I believe that many modern-day ailments are a function of humans simply trying to fill the resulting emptiness or gap that they feel.

There are many reasons why people from all walks of life feel disconnected and rejected. In a lot of cases, these reasons start very early on in life, before we are even aware of our own consciousness.

Usually in the first six years or so of life, something tells you that you are not enough. This can be minor, such as a parent demanding perfection from you, or major, such as a parent abandoning or neglecting you. Either way, you internalize the belief and move on. Then, sometime during your life, your belief will be enhanced by society’s standards and expectations. Eventually, it will find a way to manifest, in the form of addiction, insecurity, depression or any other behavior you might be struggling with.

In a great many cases, these issues turn into a kind of self-loathing, a resignation to the fact that we will never be who we want to be. Our conscious mind just assumes it is our own fault: that we are lazy, we aren’t good enough, we simply can’t change it, that this is how life will always be.

Meanwhile, our harder-to-reach subconscious mind is often still stewing in the deep root causes of rejection and disconnection, agnostic to what is going on up at the surface level.

Real Life Story

I want to illustrate this with a story from a past client of mine. I was working in Los Angeles on a television show, and as the producers tended to do in those days, they called me and asked me to sort out one of their more difficult cast members.

He was being obstinately uncooperative and very rude to the show’s staff, cast, and production crew. This was a huge problem as all his unreasonable demands and eccentricities were holding up filming and making people quit. Even I was instructed that, when I drove to his home, I was not allowed to park my rental car—a brand new red Mustang—in his driveway, as he could only tolerate luxury cars such as Ferraris, Porsches, and Jaguars being seen at his address. I could not even park it on the street outside his home—it must be parked around the corner. I turned up, parked my unacceptable car out of sight and knocked on the door of his mansion, ready to get to the bottom of just what was causing him to be so miserable.

As soon as I walked in, I remarked that he had a beautiful home. He quickly said he hated it and was selling it and moving into one of his other homes nearby while he built a bigger one. He then told me I reminded him of his third wife. (He had just broken up with wife number four.) When I replied thank you he said don’t thank me, she was such a disappointment to me. When I commented on the BAFTA and award trophies he had lined up on his mantelpiece, he described them as a curse, saying: “Everyone expects you to win more once you have one and it’s too much pressure to bear.”

I quickly began to see that whatever this man had—fancy cars, luxury homes, accolades, awards, movie star status and relationships with supermodels—it was never enough to satisfy him. He had all the external trappings of success, but none of the happy feelings that he had convinced himself this success would bring him. The more he accumulated, the more baffled he became that he didn’t feel happy. He was trying to fill a hole, but it was a hole that couldn’t be filled.

I had a feeling I knew what was going on, so I began asking him about his childhood. It turns out he grew up in a trailer park with a mother that often worked night shifts and a father who worked in construction. Each day, he was responsible for heating up his father’s dinner before he came home, as his mother was already at work. Money was tight, so there was often not enough food for him to eat the same cuts of meat as his dad. When his dad had leftovers he gave them to the dog, leaving this young boy to assume his father preferred the family pet over him.

“I know what’s wrong with you,” I said to him, “You don’t feel you are enough. And so you’ve spent an entire life trying to accumulate the types of things that would make you feel enough. You’ve tried houses, cars, beautiful women, accolades, professional success but it hasn’t worked.”

Immediately, tears leaked out of his eyes, and I knew I had reached him. This feeling—that you’re not enough—is the issue that’s at the core of so many people’s problems. Often, it’s just a matter of peeling back the layers of the onion—whether it’s addiction, workaholism, depression, overeating, accumulating stuff—and locating the point in time where you internalized the belief that you weren’t enough. The rest of those issues are just manifestations of that hugely damaging belief.

The source of this client’s belief—that his father didn’t love him—was similar to what happens to a lot of my clients. This is because children have one job to fulfil in their short time on the planet: to seek and receive the approval and love of their parents. When they don’t achieve that, it’s so traumatic and disorienting that they can’t rationalize it. It’s impossible for a child to understand at such a young age that their parent is flawed, that they are loveable even if their parent is not able to love them. So, they internalize the belief that if their parent—the one person who is supposed to love them no matter what—doesn’t, they must not be loveable at all. They are not enough.

Underlying every issue is the belief that you are not good enough

Once you internalize that belief, it’s very hard to even know that it is affecting you because it is so fundamental and deeply held. Especially when society reinforces it in so many ways, from consumerism to unrealistic beauty standards, to relationship ideals. People develop all kinds of coping mechanisms to deal with this deeply uncomfortable belief, including addiction, compulsion, depression, and anxiety. I’ve seen them all in my therapist’s chair over the last thirty years. I have also watched over and over how a simple, profound, and life-changing mantra can replace this ultimate limiting belief and set you free. That mantra is:

I Am Enough

As you will often hear me say, I believe that the common denominator of almost everyone’s issues is that, somewhere along the way, they learned that they weren’t enough. Not good enough to be accepted, talented enough, loveable enough, perfect enough or successful enough.

The good news is that the belief that you are not enough is not a lifetime prison sentence. You can free yourself with the simplest, most affirming statement there is: “I am enough.”

In this free exercise taken from my book I Am Enough, you can do this simple exercise straight away and notice the difference it makes in your life. The more you repeat, the stronger the belief will become and the greater the result will be. I look forward to hearing your success story.

Self esteem and overcoming addictions

I first learned about the pervasive problem of people believing they were not enough with some of my earliest clients. I had clients who were addicted to food and literally eating themselves to death with weight gain. They neither enjoyed nor wanted the food they were eating, but simply couldn’t stop themselves from consuming it. A similar case was with shopaholics. They hardly ever wore or used the vast amounts of products they bought, but something was compelling them to continue pulling out their credit cards to buy more. The same with anorexics—there was no such thing as “skinny enough.” I instinctively knew that what was afflicting one, had to also be afflicting the other.

One client struggling with crippling obesity had tried everything—including invasive surgery—to rid him of his compulsion to overeat. But once we located the time in this childhood when he began to believe he wasn’t enough and realise that eating is an act of root cause, it was as if something changed overnight.

Seeing that he was enough all along saved him from the idea that he could “never have enough” food. He no longer had a void he had to fill. Whether it’s food, clothes, drugs, alcohol, smoking, fame, hoarding or work, it’s nearly always the case that someone who “can’t get enough” of a substance or habit doesn’t feel like they are enough deep down, so they self-medicate.

The rich and famous

We see this with celebrities all the time, too. Each time someone immensely talented and successful dies due to addiction or suicide, people often wonder out loud: “But they had everything—money, fame, success—how could they not be happy?”

The reason is that money, fame or success aren’t enough to counter that feeling that you are not enough. In fact, the feeling that they are not enough is precisely what drives them to such admirable success. However, once these people achieve this success, and still don’t feel enough, the pain intensifies.

Most non-famous people assume they are unhappy because they haven’t reached our society’s false high standards of what will make them happy. But for the rich and famous who have attained that, they feel as though there is nothing left for them to achieve. Then, somewhat predictably, they experience a massive unraveling and move on to self-destructive behaviors. They give up any sense that they will ever feel enough.

When I realized how universal and widespread this problem was, I also realized how powerful the antidote is. It doesn’t matter if you’re a millionaire Wall Street banker who is addicted to work and cocaine, or a homeless person who is addicted to whatever booze they can find, the problem at the core is the same. They don’t feel enough.

How could Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) provide freedom from addiction?

I created Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) to take people through the process of transformation step by step, to help them achieve the most incredible results.

By locating and understanding how and when a client first got the feeling they weren’t good enough, we can help them address the root cause and reframe the underlying negative belief with a more positive empowering one.

RTT uses hypnosis to work directly with the subconscious mind. People can achieve dramatic life-changing effects and I have personally helped many clients end addictions.

RTT is so powerful that it is winning awards internationally. Due to popular demand, I am now teaching others how to become certified practitioners and therapists of Rapid Transformational Therapy and you can also Find A Therapist if you would like help overcoming your issues, including addictions.

Instant downloads available now

To make this award winning method available to as many people as possible, I have also created a number of instant access downloads, which can be accessed anytime, anywhere, from the comfort of your own home. You can experience the same cutting edge techniques used with royalty, superstars, Olympic athletes and CEOs for a range of issues, including overcoming addiction. Everything you need is available to you. I look forward to hearing your success story.

Real Life Success Stories

Tom Hurst

Just over a year ago I was fighting a daily battle with depression and alcohol addiction, filled with despair at the prospect of losing my family. A year ago today my life changed. I went for Rapid Transformational Therapy to help pull me out of the alcohol and drug addiction. I knew next to nothing about what it would entail, nor did I hold much hope in it working. After all, nothing else had. But I walked out of my session free of the addictions, despair and depression. The last year has been a blessing. I have seen my son, Arlo, born and grow into the happiest not-so-little baby. And Seren, my star, has flourished into the kindest, most affectionate little girl (although she would say she is a big girl!).

It hasn’t been a perfectly smooth ride. I have found myself at times plagued with guilt and remorse, as well as shame and, of course, grief. George Shelley said, “Grief is like glitter: no matter how much you try and tidy it up you’re never going to get rid of it all. You’re always going to find bits of it.” But despite all this, the one thing I haven’t had need for is alcohol. I went from drinking until blackout to having zero desire for alcohol. I can hand on heart say that in a whole year I have not once desired a drink. Massive thanks go to Philippa Bottrill for transforming my life, and to the inimitable Marisa Peer for giving RTT to the world.

Now, a year on, Stella Jade Belvoir is a qualified RTT Therapist and already helping people free other people from their issues and changing people’s lives for the better.

Addiction, depression and mental health is a broad-spectrum issue, indiscriminate of gender, class, and race. Today, suicide is the single biggest killer of men under the age of 45. Don’t suffer in silence. RTT works – I am proof of that. Reach out to your nearest RTT Therapist.

Peace and love

#RapidTransformationalTherapy #RTT

Simonne Tate

I am in cloud 9…my first real client after the live training just sent me her testimonial…she wasn’t meant to be a paying client but she insisted on paying me and booked in for a different issue as did her daughter, what follows is her testimony…..“

So… it’s now 21 days since my Rapid Transformational Therapy session with Simone and I am completely cured of my addiction to sugar!! It’s a miracle, it’s amazing, it’s life changing! Such a rapid transformational change in just one session as promised, I am so happy!

Let me tell you what happened.. I met with Simone and discussed my addiction to sugar at length. What then followed was my being taken into a state of hypnosis: I was aware of my own ‘self’ but totally focused on what Simone was saying and so liken it to mindfulness. Simone was then able to regress me back to my childhood where we were able to pinpoint where and why I have come to have the addiction to sugar that I have today: the ‘penny dropped’ and it all made sense. We then worked on curing my addiction in helping to realise I don’t need sugar, I am in control of it and it’s not in control of me, I am indifferent: I can choose whether or not to eat it. My background is I have a psychology degree, I am a Mental Health Nurse, and sceptic of hypnosis – until now! I am so pleased with the results that I can’t wait to address another issue I have, because let’s face it, who doesn’t have issues?! I am certainly going to go back to Simone: a gentle, softly-spoken therapist, with a passion for what she does and a genuineness to help others. Simone made me feel at ease and I felt confident in placing my trust in her. And finally, I can’t stop listening to YouTube videos by Marisa Peer, RTT founder, whom Simone trained with, and thanks to the results I have had with Simone I may even follow her in training as a RTT Therapist myself.”

Marisa also received this feedback from someone who turned their life around

I purchased the Freedom From Drugs recording from Marisa Peer as soon as it was linked here. I knew I wanted to give it about 5 days of utilization before I took any other steps. As I said, I wasn’t at rock bottom, but I was on my way down a rabbit hole I had no business going down. I’ll say that by day 3 of listening to the recording I hadn’t noticed immediately, but I stopped thinking about drugs. Before I would randomly throughout the day think hm, I think I want to get something for tonight, etc. Those thoughts stopped.

By day 5, when my friends who use drugs asked what my order for the week was, I said no thank you, and I felt great saying it. It boggles my mind that it can take as little as a few days of Marisa to completely change something so powerful. There has been no back and forth in my mind about should I shouldn’t I. I have complete control over my thoughts on the subject. I can’t thank Marisa enough, or all of you, for her making this method and all of you embracing it. It changes lives and it’s cliche to say but its true. If I am alone, and feeling lonely, I reach out to friends now or I sit down to a good book (currently it’s the new Mark Your Mirror by Marisa!) or I delve into other hobbies that brings me joy. I haven’t let myself go to the party scene since, and there are a few parties coming up, but I feel confident that I can go to these events and dialogue with myself and get through it. If I feel myself slipping I will immediately go back to the recording, but as of right now, I think I am basically cured of the desire.

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Whatever reason you are here, in this article you discover why it can be difficult to quit alcohol by yourself and the easy way to stop drinking using hypnotherapy.

Why Can it be Difficult to Stop Drinking?

Most adults know the feeling of being tipsy or drunk, and many people can say that some of the best days or nights of their lives have been when they have drunk alcohol. Think engagements, weddings, milestone birthdays and so on.

This is partly what makes it addictive. It can help you free yourself of inhibitions, give you more confidence, and unleash a side of you that can be more fun and carefree.

Pain pleasure associations

Your mind is programmed to move you from pain to pleasure, triggering you to seek out the things it believes brings you pleasure. If you associate drinking alcohol with relaxing, unwinding, having a good time, being sociable and having fun, then anytime you want to feel those things, guess what you reach for…? Alcohol.

Let’s take a look at how does alcohol addiction work on the physiological level.

Did you know that one of the biggest factors of cravings is actually a lack of serotonin? When people drink alcohol to get the feeling of mood elevation, it is actually the serotonin they are craving.  

Serotonin, also known as the happy hormone, is essential for keeping our moods regulated. When people stop drinking or are hungover, they frequently crave sweet fatty carbohydrates, to replace the sugar rush they got from alcohol and increase serotonin levels.  

Research has found that “people whose brains release more natural opioids in response to alcohol may get more pleasure out of drinking and may be more likely to drink too much and become alcoholics.”

Drinking fulfills an emotional need

Drinking alcohol is often used as a way to suppress feelings of emptiness and that something is missing in our lives.  

It has been proven that one of the major factors causing alcoholism is the feeling of not belonging. One of the successes of AA is that it allows addicts to feel a sense of connection and belonging to a shared community.

Humans come onto the planet with two powerful emotional needs:

1. To seek connection.
2. To avoid rejection.

As Marisa explains in her latest book I am enough, this comes from the mindset of tribal times.

When we lived in tribes, it was imperative that we did not get rejected, as no human could survive in the wilderness out on their own. In that case, rejection really did mean death and connection meant survival. That is why this fear is so deeply rooted and the cause of so many of our modern-day problems, it really was a matter of life or death.

If you dig deep enough into the emotional problems of almost anyone, you can trace their issues back to a lack of fulfillment of those two needs.

Marisa has taught millions of people that the common denominator of nearly all issues is not believing I Am Enough.  When we do not feel good enough, we can try to fill the inner feelings of lack with self-sabotaging, destructive behaviors.  However, once we understand that the void only exists in our own mind, then we have the power to change it forever.

Limiting beliefs

So many people long to be free of their issues but have a fixed belief as to why the solution is not available to them, which becomes their biggest blocker to success.

For example: “ I am desperate to stop drinking, but I have the gene just like my Dad”.

Limiting fixed beliefs may have blocked you from achieving the solution you seek, but a solution is always available to you. Awareness is the first step to success.  The minute you begin to question a belief you are holding onto – you begin to doubt it. When you doubt it, you start to dissolve the hold it has over you. Change your beliefs and you can change your life.

When willpower is not enough

Willpower alone is not powerful enough to change behaviors long term, in many cases, you need to get resolve the root cause of your issues. This is possible by using hypnosis to quit drinking and working with the subconscious mind, which is ten times more powerful. In this way, you can make sure you achieve lasting change.

Why Should You Quit Drinking?

The World Health Organization published a study in 2011 that stated the following health concerns about alcohol addiction: “The harmful use of alcohol is one of the world’s leading health risks. It is a causal factor in more than 60 major types of diseases and injuries and results in approximately 2.5 million deaths each year…”It is not just alcoholics that need to manage their drinking.

Anyone who relies on a drink to relax or have a good time is using alcohol to self-medicate. Many people self medicate with alcohol without even realizing it, using it to sedate and tranquilize themselves, or to feel better and elevate their mood.  

What happens to your mind and body when you stop drinking?

There are multiple reasons to cut down on drinking or stop drinking altogether.

• Save money
• Lose weight
• Sleep better
• Feel healthier
• Have more energy
• Improve cognitive function and concentration
• Avoid the dreaded hangovers

How to Stop Drinking with Hypnosis 

Hypnotherapy becomes an increasingly popular method to fight drinking addiction. It has been proven to work effectively when resolving multiple issues, from improving self-esteem to quitting smoking, and weight loss.

It is not only one of the most effective methods – it is also an easy way to stop drinking. With hypnosis you do not need to rely on your willpower, you are able to access your subconscious mind and resolve the root cause of your addiction.

How does hypnosis to stop drinking work?

The Stop Drinking Expert website states the following about how hypnosis can work: “For men and women battling with alcoholism, hypnosis could enable them to recognize the reason that their habits qualify as abuse and not just standard, social use.

Additionally, it could enable them to find out and realize ways to incorporate better habits in place of existing, harmful drinking patterns. Even more, throughout hypnotherapy, an individual could (with the aid of the hypnotherapist) analyze his/her whole way of life.

This enables the individual to identify the regions and aspects of life that require modification, so as to adapt, change and to see drinking in a different light.”

Remove resistance to change

Award-winning hypnotherapist and Founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy, Marisa Peer, has helped thousands of her clients overcome addictions, including alcoholism. She famously worked with top fashion editor Stacey Duguld back in 2009 to curb her heavy drinking habit.

When working on changing habits such as drinking, she advises to take your self-talk under control and in this way remove resistance to the process.

If you decide to cut back on alcohol, your mind will most likely automatically link pain and denial of pleasure to not drinking. You may feel deprived, which leads to you craving something even more as you are wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain.

When you constantly refer to what you ‘cannot’ or ‘must not’ or ‘should not’ do, you literally increase the desire you are trying to deny. The minute you begin to think or say ‘I hate this’ your brain begins to look for a way to stop what you are doing.

By saying ‘I am choosing to do this, I choose to enjoy it’, ‘I want to’ or ‘I have chosen to,’ ‘this is going to help me achieve…’ you help stop any resistance. You do not even need to lie.

When Marisa was working as a personal trainer in LA and was teaching boot camp classes, she would get the class to say, ‘my body loves this, my body is benefiting from it, my body likes it’, and that was true – they may not have liked the fiftieth sit up but their bodies did.  

It is the same with drinking. Just like any other addiction, you have to give up the source of the addiction, to see it as a poison for your body and keep away from it. Choose to link pleasure to the benefits of choosing not to drink instead.

When you change the feelings and associations you have with food and drink, you will not have to ‘resist the urge’ ever again, as the urge will no longer be there. You will not have to fight cravings as they will be gone. You will be more empowered to make conscious choices about how to cut back on alcohol for a healthier life.

You can choose to be in control, rather than being controlled by drink.

By choosing how to communicate with yourself, how to control your thoughts and how to say and think the right things, you realize that you have a choice about how to cut back on alcohol and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

This is just one of the tools Marisa shares with her clients when working with them in the hypnotherapy sessions. Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can allow you to uncover and resolve negative habits and become one of the most powerful tools for personal transformation.

Selective and Moderate Drinking and Stop Drinking are programs Marisa developed over three decades of working with clients on multiple issues to help people gain control and freedom from their drinking. Simply listen to these relaxing audios every day for 21 days to motivate your mind on how to cut back on alcohol and create new empowering habits for the life you want.

You can download hypnosis to stop drinking audio programs Selective and Moderate Drinking and Stop Drinking and enjoy the easy way to stop drinking forever – simply click the banner below.

The act of smoking cigarettes has been around for centuries. Up until the 1950s, hardly anyone was aware of the health risks, particularly the link between smoking and cancer. This is when “Stop-Smoking Movement” began in the U.S and all over the world.

But how do you actually quit smoking – once and for all? How do you make sure your cravings are stopped for good? In this article, you will learn:

• What makes smoking so addictive
• Why you should quit smoking now
• Different ways to stop smoking

Let’s get started.

What Makes Smoking Addictive?

The scientific answer is nicotine . This is the chemical used in cigarettes that contains nitrogen (a gas used to make fertilizers, dyes, and explosives). Once nicotine gets into the brain, it creates dopamine, a neurotransmitter that gives you a feeling of pleasure.

There are other reasons why people become addicted to smoking though, such as:

• Social status

Sometimes it can be easier to get chatting to new people when you get together for a cigarette. Peer pressure can also play a part in this if you happen to be a non-smoker within a large group of smokers.

• Weight management

Smoking suppresses your appetite and it has been known to be a popular choice of supermodels that help them stay slim.

• Confidence

The act of holding a cigarette gives some people a sense of authority or just something to keep their hand busy. For years, advertisements glamorized the act of smoking and it became ingrained as something “cool” to do. When people become addicted to anything, they can rely on it to give them a feeling of security, comfort or confidence.

This is Why Should You Quit Smoking Now

Smoking is the leading cause of cancer in the world. Cancer has such a negative connotation that some people call it “the C word” instead. If that is the case, then why do people continue to smoke?

The good news is that statistically, the number of people smoking is decreasing. The NHS in England published statistics in July 2018 which stated that 14.9% of adults smoked. This was down 15.5% in 2016 and 19.8% in 2011. The World Health Organization (WHO), believes that this is partly due to picture warnings and anti-smoking advertisements.

However, it can become easy to bury your head in the sand and not listen to the negative talk about smoking. Even the warning labels and graphic images on cigarette packaging can be ignored when you are addicted. People tend to focused on how smoking makes you feel instead.

However, you can change the associations you have and therefore change your habits to healthier ones and feel the health rewards as soon as on the day you decide to quit smoking.

Ways to Stop Smoking

There are many options available to people who are looking to quit smoking. Some are free, and some are paid services. Many people start with replacing the tobacco nicotine with an alternative such as a nicotine patch, chewing gum or spray. You can also visit your doctor, who may prescribe you medicinal tablets such as Champix.

Hypnotherapy to Quit Smoking

Stop smoking hypnosis can be the ultimate way to kick the habit for good. Hypnosis is a proven tool that can help people deal with multiple issues, including drinking addiction, weight loss, insomnia, and many more.

Some people worry about feeling out of control. But it is important to realize that hypnosis does not make you do things which you do not want to do. Instead, stop smoking hypnosis is about changing the meaning we attach to behaviours. It examines the associated links of pain and pleasure.

WebMd explains what hypnotherapy involves: “a patient is often asked to imagine unpleasant outcomes from smoking. For example, the hypnotherapist might suggest that cigarette smoke smells like truck exhaust, or that smoking will leave the patient’s mouth feeling extremely parched.”

Hypnotherapist and Founder of Rapid Transformational Therapy, Marisa Peer, has over 30 years’ experience in helping people free themselves from addictions. She says: “The best way to stop is to get your mind to link having a cigarette to pain. Smokers associate pleasure with smoking, and pain with not smoking. They have got it completely the wrong way round. During hypnotherapy, you are guided into a state of deep relaxation. This induces a highly suggestible state, in which it is much easier to reprogram negative, destructive thought patterns. This is done by using visualization and guided imagery to create positive thoughts that can help you give up.”

Marisa’s hypnosis audio download is specially designed to help people give up smoking. Using the hypnosis to stop smoking Quit Smoking Today audio program allows you to stop smoking easily. It helps you program your mind to repair your body and enjoy the benefits of a healthier lifestyle.

The number one issue couples row over is money, even when they are very rich. However, it does not have to be that way. Overspending and all the stress that goes with it can be avoided. Whether it be special holidays, festivities, weddings or birthdays, knowing how to stop spending money will serve you well throughout life.

Here are some tips and practical exercises you can use straight away to improve your relationship with money.

What Is Your Relationship With Money?

We all have a relationship with money. Some people attract it. They respect it. Other people cannot keep it, they do not know how to get money, and they stress and worry about it all the time.

Your deep-rooted beliefs and what you believe you are worth will really affect your relationship with money.

The great irony that we see in the research about lottery winners that in most cases in a few years spend everyhng they won is that…

…Problems with money can almost never be solved with more money!

Indeed, in all my experiences with clients over the years, I have found that people who think they have a problem with money, actually have a problem with scarcity.

We form relationships with money very early on in life, usually by watching our parents’ relationship to it. Then, no matter how much or how little money we go on to earn, that relationship shapes our beliefs. We may have deep-rooted beliefs such as:

How to Stop Spending Money – Changing Your Relationship with Money

What would happen if we reframed the thing we have that relationship with entirely? Try thinking – it is not money, it is energy.

Money is energy – you give and receive energy all the time.

Let out a deep breath – release any negative energy. Now see how long you can give out without taking a breath back in?

No matter how hard you try, you cannot give without receiving and equally, you cannot receive without giving. Life is all about balance – giving and taking. You cannot do one without the other.

Nature requires a balance. When you have balance – you give and receive equally.

Once we make the idea of money a renewable resource – our personal energy and output – we see that money can come and go a lot more easily. It holds less power over us because we see it as a direct result of our own efforts, rather than something that we have to fight for. This helps us understand how to stop spending money.

This idea of money as a more fluid resource is something that people who have a lot of money tend to live by. They give and receive money easily; they understand that there is a dynamism to money, that coming and going is part of its nature.

When you address the fear of scarcity, you address the underlying issue most people have with money. Treat money with respect, it is an exchange of value, it is energy.

I have found my clients have a lot of success by making a fundamental shift in how they think about money and reframing to it as something else entirely. By making a new relationship with a new thing, we can shed our old beliefs and replace them with more empowering ones. This helps us appreciate how to stop spending money.

Success is not about making more money and having lots of status symbols, it is about inner peace, liking yourself and being happy doing what inspires you.

One of the things you learn as a therapist is that deep down, most people want the same:

• ​Love – in the form of affirming relationships.
• Security – usually in the form of money and social ties.
• Success – making a contribution and accomplishing something.​

However, even though most people want these things, they often act in ways that run counter to attaining them. For example, couples often fight over money, even when they do not really even have money worries. This actually negatively impacts their feeling of love, security, and success and they are not valuing the things they actually want the most.

Giving Love and Security Above Buying Things

One of the most important things you can give your children is a happy stable family environment. The challenge often comes when we are so stressed out trying to buy them things, we end up in arguments or forgetting to enjoy spending quality time together. In our busy lives, spending time is often more valuable than spending money.

Success is not all about money, it is about making a contribution and accomplishing something.

Scientists have found that doing something nice for others no matter how small, makes us feel better for longer than buying clothes or shoes or comfort eating.

I have had so many big successes and wonderful moments in my life, but what I remember most are little things, like someone at the queue making up my money when I was short. I remember a man’s face on a tube station when I gave him his fare, he was looking so distressed as he did not have enough money. When I gave him the money he looked like I had just given him my lottery win and his happiness gave me so much more than the few pounds I gave him.

Practice spontaneous acts of generosity and kindness. It does not need to cost anything. If you are stuck in a traffic queue and someone wants to join the line, let them in. You will feel good about yourself, and you will reach where you were going in almost the same length of time, except you will be significantly less stressed and better able to cope with what you are doing when you get there.

The thing I remember the most is a small boy whose family had no money coming to our house when I was about 14, to collect a bike my dad had promised him. Dad had found it abandoned at his school and was working in the garage restoring it so this little boy would have a bike. As I took him to the garage he said to me “your dad is so kind, is he Jesus?” My Dad showed me that life is about making a difference, he was always helping people and I am so glad I learnt from him. You will meet your need for connection and accomplishment when you do this.

Value Your Life and Your Life Will Have Value

Every day think about what is good and great about your life. Even when things are going wrong and you are stressed out, you can still think:

What is good about this?

It sounds challenging, but you can find good in anything if you look…

• What is good about being stuck in traffic? You have a car.
• What is good about a home that needs constant upkeep and a dishwasher that no one else in the family bothers to empty? You have a home, modern comforts and are surrounded by family.
• What is good about the long queue in the supermarket? You live in a country with an abundance of food and you have enough money to buy it.

Whatever your problem is, may be another person’s absolute fantasy dream come true. There are people who would love to have a job that is keeping them busy, a partner who is messy, a child who is expensive or a baby who keeps them up at night. By focusing on all the things that are great, you focus on what you have instead of what you do not have.

I was shamed into thinking this way when I once took my then Croatian au pair into a supermarket with me and she burst into tears at the sight of so much abundant food. At that time her family had no access to food and no money to buy it, she was sending parcels of packet soup home to them. She taught me to focus on how lucky I am.

The 21-Day Abundance Challenge

When considering how to stop spending money, I have found over the course of my career that money worries often have nothing to do with how much you can earn or how much you can save.

Financial worries are really about deep-rooted beliefs and what you think you are worth. Your Relationship With Money is influenced by your sense of self-worth.

If you want to learn how to boost your self-worth, and break free from the mindset that means you spend recklessly, then why not consider joining Marisa Peer’s 21-Day Abundance Challenge.

In this challenge, you will receive a huge range of trainings, audios, and meditations, all within a thriving community of like-minded people. Learn how to overcome your toxic, self-sabotaging behaviour, to replace them with positive traits that allow you to change your relationship with money, and unlock a new life of abundance, restraint, and wealth. Click the banner below to find out even more, and get signed-up for the next challenge. 

5 Tips on How to Stop Biting Nails

Cebrity Superstar therapist, the world renowned Founder of Rapid Transformation Therapy (RTT),  Marisa Peer over the three decades of practice discovered what are the rules of the mind.

The mind responds to words that make pictures, the more vivid the picture, the more powerful the response. The firtst step in order to change your bad habit of biting nails would be to change the pictures you have in your mind. 

1. Paint a picture in your mind 

Rodents chew their claws whenever they are caged or stressed as it distracts them from their anxiety. Paint a picture of this in your mind and tell yourself that you look like an anxious rat and it is very unattractive for people to see you chewing off bits of your own flesh. This graphic image alone could be enough to be the motivation you need to stop biting your nails.

2. Think of the germs

Nails are full of bacteria from everything you touch, such as door handles, toilet flushers, money, etc. Notes and coins are often coated with faecal matter and mucus. When you touch any of these, you are picking up whatever was on someone else’s hands and putting it straight into your mouth, increasing the risk of infection.

3. Get a manicure

Another tip on how to stop biting your nails is to treat yourself to a manicure so you can focus on making your nails attractive and say to yourself out loud every day, “I am growing strong healthy nails”- this will help it to become a blueprint in your mind.

4. Visualise a beautiful image

Imagine seeing your beautiful healthy nails as you work or go out. Your imagination is the most powerful tool you own, so use it vividly to stop biting your nails. Picture yourself running your grown fingernails down your lover’s back or giving them a scalp massage. Give your mind clear instructions and visualise the outcome you would like to achieve.

5. Nourish your nails

A final tip is to keep a small pot of olive oil by your bed and massage it into your nail beds every night. This helps to strengthen and make them less brittle — it also prevents tempting hangnails from forming.

When it comes to how to stop biting nails, these five tips will help put you back in control so you can quit the habit once and for all. It is good to remember that all habits of action are run by habits of thought and that you can change your thoughts.

Try Marisa Peer’s pre-recorded hypnosis for anxiety for anxiety audio course, which could help you to rewire your mind to feel more relaxed in any situation.audio course, which will help you to rewire your brain to feel more relaxed in any situation.

It takes up to 21 days to form a new habit, so you really can achieve healthier habits in less than a month. If you need a little extra help and motivation, then here are some things to consider…

This article will show you how you can make life-enhancing choices to cut back on alcohol and feel proud of your new healthier lifestyle and all the benefits it brings.

Gain control and freedom from drinking

I have spent over thirty years helping clients achieve freedom from a range of sabotaging behaviours, including addictions and alcohol. It’s not just alcoholics that need to manage their drinking – anyone who relies on a drink to relax or have a good time could benefit from knowing how to cut back on alcohol.

Selective and Moderate Drinking and Stop Drinking are programmes I developed to help people gain control and freedom from their drinking. Simply listen to these relaxing audios every day for 21 days to motivate your mind on how to cut back on alcohol and create new empowering habits for the life you want.

You need more than just willpower for healthier habits

Willpower alone is not powerful enough to change behaviours long term, we need to get to the root cause and work with the subconscious mind, which is ten times more powerful, as this is the way to achieve lasting change.

Primary Motivators and Powerful Emotional Needs

It has been proven that one of the major factors causing alcoholism is the feeling of not belonging. One of the successes of AA is that it allows addicts to feel a shared sense of connection with each other.

Over the thirty years and thousands of clients I have worked with, I have observed that humans come onto the planet with two powerful emotional needs:

1. To seek connection.

2. To avoid rejection.

If you dig deep enough into the emotional problems of almost anyone, you can trace their issues back to a lack of fulfilment of those two needs. It really is that simple, because that truth is so powerful and part of its strength is its simplicity.

As I explain in my latest book I AM ENOUGH, this comes from the mindset of tribal times.

When we lived in tribes, it was imperative that we didn’t get rejected, as no human could survive in the wilderness out on their own. In that case, rejection really did mean death and connection meant survival. That is why this fear is so deeply rooted and the cause of so many of our modern day problems, it really was a matter of life or death.

I always come back to this fundamental truth: more than anything else we need connection and to avoid rejection.

“But I feel like I’m lacking something, like there’s an emptiness inside.”

Clients often talk to me about a feeling of emptiness inside, that they feel something is missing and have inner feelings of lack. I believe that the common denominator of nearly all issues is not believing I Am Enough.  When we don’t feel good enough, we can try to fill the emptiness with self-sabotaging, destructive behaviors.

Drinking alcohol is one way people try to fill the inner void they feel.  However, once we understand that the void only exists in our own mind, then we have the power to change it forever.

Many modern-day ailments are a function of humans trying to fill the feelings of lack and emptiness.

Feeling disconnected or rejected can lead to all sorts of issues that manifest in other ways. It can manifest as a fear of intimacy, an inflated ego, or an addiction to eating, alcohol or drugs.

It doesn’t matter where the rejection or lack of connection comes from, it almost always leads to a person who feels as though certain things in life will never be available to them.

“The solution I so desperately want is not available to me.”

So many clients consult with me longing to be free of their issues.  However, alongside the issues, which include alcoholism, depression, obesity and lack of success, is a fixed belief that, “the solution I desperately want/need is not available to me.”

You may feel that you simply can’t or don’t know how to cut back on alcohol; that these solutions may work for others but not for you. You’re not alone, it’s very common to feel that way, but you do have a choice and you can access everything you need to make positive changes in your life right now.

As I teach with Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), the fixed beliefs clients hold about themselves are the biggest blocks to achieving their goals. However, the good news is that beliefs can be changed when you know how.

Change your beliefs and you can change your life.

Once you’ve identified your fixed beliefs, it’s very useful to ask yourself:

• Why do I believe that?
• Where did that belief come from?
• Who gave it to me?
• Who gave it to them?
• Why am I still believing it all these years later?”

The point of this exercise is that the minute you begin to question a belief – you begin to doubt it. Because as you question it, you chip away at it until it’s gone.

Many people who have dazzling success were not born into a position

where it was made available to them – quite the opposite.

Everything is available to you and the first step to achieving what you want is to fix  new positive beliefs firmly in your mind in place of old negative ones.

Whatever changes you decide to make, ensure you link pleasure to them.

If you decide to cut back on alcohol to improve your health, but resent doing it, your mind will link pain and denial of pleasure to not drinking. You may feel deprived, which leads to you craving something even more as you are wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain.

When you constantly refer to what you ‘can’t’ or ‘must not’ or ‘should not’ do, you literally increase the desire you are trying to deny.

When I worked on Celebrity Fit Club USA some of the celebrities were unused to doing anything that was hard or painful. As they went on the treadmill or running

machine for the first time they would say ‘I hate this’ or ‘it hurts, it’s painful’ or ‘I don’t like it, when can I stop.’ The minute we begin to speak in this way our brain begins to look for a way to stop the activity.

By saying ‘I am choosing to do this, I choose to enjoy it’, you help stop any resistance. You don’t even need to lie. When I was a personal trainer in LA and teaching boot camp classes, I would always get my class to say, ‘my body loves this, my body is benefiting from it, my body likes it’, and that was true – they may not have liked the fiftieth sit up but their bodies did.  It’s the same with drinking. Just like any other addiction, you have to give up the source of the addiction, to see it as a poison for your body and keep away from it. Choose to link pleasure to the benefits of choosing not to drink instead.

There are many benefits to enjoy when you know how to cut back on alcohol:

Make a point of linking massive pleasure to the changes you are implementing. Enjoy having a clear head with fresh energy and enthusiasm, instead of feeling foggy, sick and tired with a stinking hangover. Link pain to excessive drinking and pleasure to healthier choices on how to cut back on alcohol and all the benefits it brings to life.

When you make these changes, don’t say ‘I must,’ ‘I have to,’ or ‘I should.’  Instead, say, ‘I want to’ or ‘I have chosen to,’ ‘this is going to help me achieve…’

Know that you have a choice and you are able to choose how you feel, so choose to feel amazing about being in control of what you put into your body and mind. It is such a simple change yet makes an incredibly big difference.

Small changes make big differences.

As I teach in my highly effective Perfect Weight Forever program, when you change the feelings and associations you have with food and drink, you won’t have to ‘resist the urge’ ever again, as the urge will no longer be there. You won’t have to fight cravings as they’ll be gone. You’ll be more empowered to make conscious choices about how to cut back on alcohol for a healthier life.

You can choose to be in control, rather than being controlled by drink.

By choosing how to communicate with yourself, how to control your thoughts and how to say and think the right things, you realise that you have a choice about how to cut back on alcohol.

When you make healthier choices and create healthier habits you can enjoy a healthier life on your terms. Sometimes it’s the simple changes that have the most powerful results.

Actively choosing reminds your mind that you do indeed have a choice. Know that you are making life-enhancing choices and feel proud of your new healthier lifestyle.

Sugar is a chemical, it is bleached, processed and manufactured in a refinery and has no resemblance to sugar cane.

Sugar rots tooth enamel, disrupts digestion, feeds anxiety and depression and attaches to collagen causing our skin to age, line and wrinkle prematurely.

The more sugar you eat, the more your body has to make internal fat to wrap the corrosive sugar in and keep it away from your vital organs. It will usually store this around your bottom and thighs.

Why Do I Crave Sugar?

Sugar is highly addictive and like all addictions, finding out how to stop sugar cravings is to stop eating it. Once you stop eating it, the craving eventually goes away. Hovewer, you have to avoid it for about three months in order to cure the addiction and initiate weight loss.

Here are top tips on how to hold on during these three initial months and stop sugar cravings once and for all.

Top Tips on How to Stop Sugar Cravings

1. During the first few days/weeks without sugar, if you crave something sweet, break a 500mg capsule of L-glutamine onto your tongue and it will end the craving immediately.
2. Sugar cravings are often a sign of being very low in zinc, magnesium and chromium. Take a combined chromium, magnesium and calcium supplement as this will balance your blood sugar levels. As your blood sugar levels balance, the craving for sugar decreases. Always take it on a full stomach. Foods rich in magnesium are apples, avocados, brazil nuts, celery, parsley and fish. Chocolate is high in magnesium so if you crave chocolate you are probably lacking magnesium.
3. Take one B complex vitamin every day. B vitamins are effective in curbing sugar cravings because they provide a boost to the adrenal system. When the adrenal system is not functioning well, cravings for sugar increase.
4. Take a daily zinc supplement. Zinc can reduce sugar cravings. Prawns, pumpkin seeds and almonds are rich in zinc and B vitamins.
5. Low serotonin levels can trigger food cravings and bingeing. Increase serotonin by taking either 5htp or L-tryptophan as it increases serotonin production. A boost in serotonin lifts the mood and reduces cravings for sugar. Foods rich in serotonin are eggs, coriander, bananas, avocadoes, poultry, pears and celery.
6. Your body will crave sugar if it lacks essential nutrients and vitamins. Many vitamins cannot be absorbed without fat so don’t make the classic mistake of taking supplements while eating a low fat diet as you will miss out on the benefits as the vitamins won’t be properly absorbed. Oily fish, olives, avocados and raw nuts and seeds have the essential oils you need that you must include in your diet. A little every day is perfect. Fat does not make you fat but sugar does.
7. Allow yourself to enjoy naturally sweet foods like grapes and berries. If you feel you must have something sweet sprinkle Zsweet which is a natural (not artificial) calorie free sweetener onto berries or into tea or herb tea. Make air popped popcorn in the microwave and sprinkle Zsweet onto it or make the delicious sugar free cake.
8. If you particularly crave sugar around the time of your period, take agnus castus for ten days every month as it balances out hormones and stops PMT cravings and mood swings.

I hope this helps you. I used to be a terrible sugar addict, I couldnt even keep it in the house, but now I can and you will be able to as well.

If you want to try a quit and effective way to stop sugar cravings, binge eating and food addiction, try my hypnosis for weight loss Hypnotic Weight Control Audio. 

This recording is based on the Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) techniques I developed over the three decades of my therapeutic practice.

RTT is a complete solution-based treatment, offering fast effective results by combining the most beneficial principles of Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy, NLP, CBT and Neuroscience. Try Hypnotic Weight Control Audio and change your relationship with food forever!

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There are six types of overeater and they are:

• Addictive eaters
• Emotional eaters
• Habitual eaters
• Ignorant eaters
• Destructive eaters
• Angry eaters

Addictive Eater

Do you think about food all day and then, when you are eating, cram food into your mouth and eat really fast so you don’t even taste it and want more food? Do you repeat this pattern over and over? Do you crave sugar? If you have sugary snacks in the house do you eat them and are unable to save them for later or another day? Do you eat sensibly all day and only break your diet in the evenings? Are there some foods that once you start eating them you can’t stop? i.e. jumbo bags of crisps or family size bars of chocolate? Do you eat something like a bar of chocolate so fast that when it’s finished you realise you didn’t enjoy it, savour it or really even taste it? If so, you are an addictive eater.

Addictive eaters crave sugary food, caffeine, junk food, colas and refined carbohydrates because they are addicted to the chemical composition of these foods. They always find these foods stimulate them to want more and have great difficulty resisting them or eating just a little of this type of food.

Emotional Eater

Do you overeat in secret? Do you use food to block your emotions and feelings, i.e. eating when you are lonely, unhappy or bored? Do you prefer to eat alone and do you eat differently when eating with others? Would you find it hard to be without chocolate, sweets and biscuits? Do you at times crave food full of salt, fat or sugar? Do you eat when under pressure? Do you particularly crave carbohydrates when you are unhappy? Do you believe that certain foods comfort you and make you feel better? If so, you are an emotional eater.

Emotional eaters find loneliness, boredom and sadness are temporarily abated when they fill their stomachs with refined carbohydrates. They fill them up quickly and they feel satisfied and sedated, even tranquillised, for a while. Comfort can briefly be found in soft sweet foods like ice cream or cake that reminds us of childhood. Depressed people often want caffeine and sugary foods. Emotional eaters try to get rid of a bad feeling fast and try to feel good even faster by using comfort foods and bulk eating.

Habitual Eater

Are your children or partner overweight? Do you no longer recognise when you are full and when you are hungry? Do you put on weight predominantly around your stomach? Do you eat whenever food is in front of you regardless of whether or not you are hungry? Do you finish everything and always clear your plate? Do you find it particularly hard to throw food away or ‘waste’ it? Were you always made to finish meals as a child? Do you find yourself using every occasion to eat i.e. watching television, in a car or on a train journey, at the cinema, etc.? Do you eat quickly and finish before others? If so, you are a habitual eater.

Habitual eaters have often been made to eat everything on their plate. As children they were often not allowed to leave food and have conditioned themselves to continue this habit. They will eat at every occasion and eat everything in front of them without being aware of whether they are hungry or not. 

Ignorant Eater

Do you think that all salad is healthy including coleslaw and the dressing? Do you think cheese is good for you and pizza is a complete meal because it has some peppers and tomatoes on it? Do you believe that bread, potatoes, cereal and milk are good foods? Do you think all foods labelled low fat, reduced sugar and diet must be good for you? Do you count potatoes as vegetables? Do you think fruit bars, fruit drinks, and canned fruit are as good as fresh fruit? If so, you are an ignorant eater.

Ignorant eaters have been completely brainwashed by food manufacturers to believe that what they are eating is healthy or harmless. They eat a lot of convenient and ready meals and believe they are as good as home-cooked food. They may exist primarily on diet foods and diet drinks but still have a weight problem. If the “healthy” belief is not replaced by another belief, ignorant eats find themselves resistant to stop overeating.

Destructive Eater

Do you sabotage your diet every time you come close to your ideal weight? Do you feel anxious and uncomfortable when you are slimmer? Do you still buy clothes in bigger sizes and keep your fat clothes? Do you shed the same 10 pounds (or thereabouts) every year then gain it back? Do you feel more comfortable when your body is covered up and uneasy when it is on show, i.e. do you prefer winter because you can wear layers and hate summer because you are supposed to wear less? Do you celebrate your weight loss success by resuming eating the foods you had denied yourself? If so, you are a destructive eater.

Destructive eaters usually have a deep-rooted need to hide their sexuality and feel vulnerable when they look attractive or desirable. People who have never had enough like volume and frequency of meals as they always feel they may not get enough. They often feel panicky in a situation where food is shared, i.e. a group Chinese meal, in case they get less. They feel uncomfortable when they cannot dish out their own portions and a host does it for them in case they don’t get enough to satisfy them.

Angry Eater

Do you prefer crunchy food like crisps, nachos, apples, popcorn, French bread or very chewy food like toffee and beef jerky? Do you feel better after chewing and biting food? Do you eat something after an argument or if you feel tense or wound up because it changes your state? Do you feel agitated if you have to wait too long for your food to be served to you in a restaurant or on an airline? If so, you are an angry eater.

Angry eaters like crunchy food like crisps and apples and tough food like meat and thick bread that they can chomp and chew on. Hard mastication is effective when we are feeling tense and wound up. Stressed people often want salty foods. They will always eat after a fight or disagreement to make themselves feel better.

If you fall into more than one category that is okay and not unusual. People of a normal weight will answer yes to some of the questions – the difference is overeating does not run their lives. It might help you to know that over 70 per cent of overeaters are emotional eaters and addictive eaters. Another 20 per cent are habitual and ignorant eaters. Only around 10 per cent fall into the destructive and the angry category. Up to 43 per cent of people use food to alter their moods every single day.

How To Stop Overeating: Identify Your Eating Habits and Take Action

Addictive eaters can successfully stop overeating once they have identified the foods that are triggers for them. They can break their addiction by choosing to replace specific foods with something similar but healthy and not chemically addictive. Many of us have addictive traits, it’s hard to eat one chocolate, one peanut or one crisp and many of us find once we start we can’t stop. Instead of berating yourself for having an addictive trait you can absolutely use this to your benefit. It is easy to get addicted to good habits such as going to the gym, exercising, eating fruit, even drinking water. I have many celebrity clients who have what I call ‘positive addictions’– they can’t miss yoga or a gym session or they go everywhere with a water bottle as they feel ‘addicted’ to it. I have worked with many ex-addicts who became addicted to extreme sports instead of drink and drugs. You don’t need to behave in an extreme way but you can learn very quickly to replace every negative habit or addiction with a new positive one.

Emotional, angry and destructive eaters will find a lasting cure on how to stop overeating as they deal with their feelings and take charge of their thoughts, beliefs and language. Emotional eaters need to feel nourished by things other than food. Destructive eaters must feel safe as well as slender. Angry eaters need to express their emotions instead of swallowing them. Overeating is a learned response that you are unlearning through this programme.

Ignorant and habitual eaters are easier to stop overeating because human behaviour often falls into patterns – we are creatures of habit. However we can choose good habits. Habits are easier to break if you replace them with something new. To learn how to stop overeating, you need to:

1. Be convinced you can do it
2. Make a decision to start now
3. Initiate it
4. Persist
5. Allow yourself to feel a sense of accomplishment and achievement

Don’t forget that your habits, beliefs, actions and thoughts are yours to change.

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