Free Yourself from Gambling

Those in the gambling industry would like to sweep gambling addiction under the carpet. Yet the issue is a very serious one … much more than you may think.

People from all backgrounds and with all types of financial situations can find themselves addicted to gambling. And it isn’t just adults that suffer. Many teenagers are involved in gambling with their friends.

A gambling addiction is nothing to fool around with. It can deceive your brain into becoming “hooked” and before long, you could find yourself in a destructive downward spiral. Gambling has the power to rob you not only of your hard-earned money, but also of your dignity and peace of mind. It can even take away joy from your relationships and family life. It is a disastrous habit pattern that can and will affect your whole life if you allow it to. The most dangerous part? It often takes control before you know what happened.

If you are a gambler, you may not realize the extent your life is being affected. If you are making excuses for your actions (like missing work or school) or telling yourself it doesn’t have a a hold on you, you are deceiving yourself. When you continue to spend more and more money in the hopes of that ‘one big win,’ or you spend nearly all your time thinking about gambling, face it. You have a problem and you need to take a serious look at how it is affecting your life.

Many like to play at online casinos because it’s easier to hide your addiction from others (you don’t have to leave home), but it can become an addiction nevertheless.

Fortunately, there is treatment available for your gambling addiction. Many people who want to stop gambling choose 12-step programs (mainly because they’re free). However, they have a very low success rate. Over 90% of those who use this method continue to suffer from the addiction.

Psychotherapy is another treatment option, but it can cost a great deal of time and money. However, if you can afford it, psychotherapy has proven to be effective for many addicted gamblers.

Medication is sometimes prescribed, but usually in very extreme cases – and only rarely does it remove the underlying urge to gamble.

One relatively inexpensive method you might want to investigate if you’re truly interested in breaking free of your gambling addiction is a self-help guide called, “Your Life Beyond Gambling.” Based on years of experience and research, the guide includes case studies done on those who have successfully ended their gambling addiction.

It consists of a step-by-step approach that allows you to easily apply the practices to your own life so you can quit for good!

Don’t let your gambling problem get any worse. Stop it NOW before it destroys your relationships as well as your finances.

P.S. It doesn’t matter whether it’s poker, slot machines, roulette, scratch cards, the lottery, black jack, sports betting, bingo, craps, Keno, horses, or video poker – it’s all gambling. And if it’s become a compulsion, it’s time to STOP!

Addiction and the Power of Temptation

Part of what keeps many people from kicking an addiction is the power of temptation — that desire to have or do something that they know they should avoid. The pull of the ‘forbidden fruit’ is just too strong.

Why do people ‘give in’ to temptation even when they know they will be unhappy with the consequences?

It’s because temptation works by shutting down time. When something you want is right there in front of you, your attention focuses on the object of desire. Little by little, everything else gets shut out until nothing else exists except the present moment. You forget any past failures. You lose sight of all regrets. Any fear of future consequences vanishes. There is only now … and the pure satisfaction you believe you will experience as you surrender to the impulse.

You see, when there is nothing else in your mind’s eye, it makes perfect sense to succumb to the immediate allure of the desire. It’s only afterwards, when time returns, that you wake up to what has happened. It’s not a pleasant awakening.

The good news is that temptation can be overcome. There is a way to stop sabotaging yourself in your efforts to overcome your addiction.

It’s accomplished through hypnosis. By allowing the power of suggestion to work on your subconscious mind, you learn to counteract the pull of temptation.

To learn more about how hypnosis can help you beat your addition, click here and you will be taken to a page where you can download Resist Temptation, an audio hypnosis session.

If you’ve been trying and failing in your efforts to overcome your addiction (whatever it may be), this may finally be the turning point towards recovery.

Addiction: Causes and Recovery

The truth about addiction is that it can be experienced by anyone — movie stars, athletes, politicians, university professors. Even you.

Some additions are considered primary; namely, food and drug addictions, alcoholism, gambling, internet addiction, obsessive-compulsive attitude, even sexual addiction. These primary addictions usually require professional treatment because a habitual attachment has formed around the particular behavior or substance.

What causes addiction? Based on medical and scientific studies, addiction is often caused by a person establishing a coping mechanism to deal with an unpleasant event in their lives, e.g., childhood abuse, societal and family distresses, ignorance, trauma, and/or prejudice.
Rather than resolve the problem through outside help, people ‘self-medicate’ to help them deal with their psychological issues. In other words, addiction becomes a way to handle a messed up situation.

The first step in overcoming an addiction is recognizing it. The second step is to accept that you are suffering from an addiction. Many people are able to take the first step, but refuse to take the second. Instead, they make excuses and rationalizations and insist they can stop “anytime.” But acknowledging that you have no control over your habitual thinking, feelings, or behavior is essential to complete recovery.

Recovery may involve counseling and intensive activities that bring out a person’s inner inhibitions and feelings regarding their problems. This isn’t always easy and people often experience some depression and/or resistance to the treatment.

Always keep in mind that recovery doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time and patience — not only from the addict but from family and friends as well. However, if you stay vigilant in your efforts, the process will become easier.

As you unlatch yourself from your addiction, you will wonder why you waited so long. Everyday living takes on a new meaning as you experience the deep joy of knowing you are in control of your life.

Overcome Addictions with Subliminal Messaging

The internet has become a great resource for self-help. We can learn about — and often solve — problems or concerns in our lives without ever having to share or discuss them with family or friends.

Some people have turned to subliminal messaging for the very same reason. This type of ‘self-help’ takes confidentiality to a new level because even if someone ‘catches’ you listening, there are no audible words or phrases. As far as others are concerned, you’re just listening to music — or perhaps nature sounds — to relax.

How It Works

Subliminal messaging is basically a soft form of hypnosis. Both accomplish the same results — a positive outcome and a change within the mind. Hypnosis works by bypassing your conscious mind, as does subliminal messaging. The primary difference is that rather than going into a trance-like state for 30 minutes, you listen to a subliminal message while remaining active and alert. You are easily able to carry on with all your regular activities. You can exercise, garden, wash dishes … even sleep … while listening.

Consciously, you won’t hear anything. However, the subliminal statements are still making their way into your subconscious mind. Eventually, as they build up to a certain level, they start to flood your mind and create changes in your thinking patterns. In turn, you begin to notice external (and lasting) changes.

Some people experience very quick changes, but generally it takes a couple of months before you begin to see changes and improvements in your thoughts, beliefs, and physical behavior.

Subliminal messages have proven to be very effective in overcoming addictions and bad habits, such as smoking, gambling, alcohol, nail biting, drugs, etc. They have also been shown to help in other areas, such as:

• Boosting self-confidence
• Increasing self-motivation
• Overcoming self sabotage
• Conquering panic attacks and anxiety
• Losing weight

Subliminal audio isn’t right for everyone, but if you’re serious about making a change in your life — and are willing to put forth the required effort — subliminal messaging could very well give you the boost you need.

Want to try it out? Click here to download three FREE subliminal MP3 audios!

Overcome Your Nicotine Addiction

Nicotine addiction is a serious dependency that requires a serious approach to quitting.

Quitting isn’t easy — and each time you try to stop smoking and fail, it becomes even more difficult. There are physical and psychological reasons for this:

• Physically — your body builds up a resistance.
• Psychologically — you begin to see yourself as a failure, someone who cannot beat the addiction.

If you need help and support to quit smoking you are not alone. Most people do. While it is possible to go “cold turkey” and quit smoking without assistance, it isn’t for everyone and it can be very difficult to do. So difficult in fact, that the number of people who break the habit without help is very small.

If you’re serious about quitting smoking, the Stop Smoking UltraPack program may be your answer. The ingredients are all herbal and homeopathic and contain NO nicotine.

It involves a three-step program:

1. Prepare to quit (4 weeks)
2. Break the habit (4 weeks)
3. Stay nicotine-free

Read more about the program here, as well as testimonies from ex-smokers.

Quit Smoking Today

As a smoker, you well know that quitting smoking is one of the hardest things you will ever do in your life.

In your efforts to quit, you’ve probably used patches, sprays, gum — and found that none of them worked. You still missed smoking so you ended up just going to the store, buying a pack of cigarettes, and throwing all the medication in the trash.

Nevertheless, you know that smoking isn’t good for you and you would really like to find something that will help you quit.

Good news! Now you can quit smoking once and for all!

“Quit Smoking Today” is a program that successfully uses hypnotherapy to help you overcome your addiction to smoking. Why does it work? Because your beliefs about smoking and your habitual smoking behaviors reside within your unconscious mind. So while you may consciously wish to quit, your all-powerful unconscious mind simply won’t let you.

You see, when you first started smoking, you bought into years of conditioning telling you that smoking would make you feel better — more confident and more relaxed.

After lighting up your first few cigarettes, you permanently installed these extremely unhelpful beliefs directly into your unconscious, along with the belief that quitting would be really difficult. Even as you inhaled those first few poisonous fumes, you had already chosen those perceived benefits of feeling better over the uncomfortable initial physical reactions.

So, as time went by and those physical reactions started to subside (as a result of your newly formed nicotine addiction), you started to mistake the relief of feeding that addiction with feelings of relaxation and confidence.

Many years later, after smoking tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of cigarettes, you have now reinforced the unhelpful beliefs about smoking and how hard it is to quit and trained your unconscious mind to (wrongly) associate the process of lighting and smoking a cigarette with feeling good, confident, and relaxed.

Hypnotherapy retrains the unconscious mind of a smoker to disregard those false beliefs about smoking and how hard it is to quit, and swaps them for something altogether more exciting and fulfilling — feeling absolutely great!

All those familiar withdrawal pangs of irritability, mood swings and cravings — the primary reasons why people fail to permanently quit smoking — are replaced with feelings of relaxation, improved self confidence, and overall happiness.

Sound good? Then check out the “Quit Smoking Today” program and start living a smoke-free life in less than one hour! Guaranteed.

Break Free from Addiction Forever

Is alcohol or drug use badly affecting your life or someone’s life that you care about?

Did you know there is a new recovery program that offers a permanent, natural cure for an alcohol or drug addiction?

“Addiction Free Forever” is an at-home, work-at-your-own-pace recovery program that shows you how to permanently take away your cravings and start living a more productive life.

If offers you something better than drugs or alcohol … and the result is your desire or cravings for drugs or alcohol completely disappear over time.

The program has been developed by an EX-user who understands addiction and knows how to resolve it from the inside out.

For much less than the price of a visit to a therapist or rehab center, this recovery program is well worth the investment for you or someone you may know who is struggling with addiction.

Don’t put it off another day. Take advantage of this opportunity to transform your life. Permanently lose your addiction and start living a happier, healthier, more rewarding life.

P.S. This method is far better than any 12-step program that only controls addiction. Addiction Free Forever will cure you of your addiction.

Breaking Bad Habits and Addictions

A Story About David Lucero

David Lucero knows where he wants to go: He wants to go to El Paso, Texas.

David is about sixty years old and for the last three months, he has been living on a sidewalk across the street from a Greyhound bus station.

No one knows how long David has been homeless. He is one of America’s walking wounded—mentally ill, unable to take care of himself, unable to cope with the business of life. He is always happy to talk, although you have to repeat yourself a few times before he can understand you because David is losing his hearing.

One day someone tried to take him to a shelter for the homeless. All he had to do was get into the pickup truck. He had to make a decision — get in or stay on the street. The right decision could have started the cycle of healing and change, but it was more than David was capable of doing that morning. He decided to stay on the street, waiting for his imaginary ride to El Paso.

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We come into contact every day with people whose lives and families have been torn apart by bad habits: people addicted to cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs; over-spenders, overeaters, and chronic worriers; negative thinkers, procrastinators, and people who won’t forgive themselves for something that happened long ago.

We have all seen firsthand how bad habits keep ordinary people from living happier and healthier lives. Everywhere you look, people want to know why they are unhappy. And they want to know what they can do about it.

The talk shows offer a constant menu of miracle cures for every type of bad habit imaginable—everything from quick weight-loss programs to 20-minute lessons in positive thinking that promise to cure depression. We are constantly bombarded by programs that promise effortless and immediate results: Lose weight fast while eating as much as you want! Guaranteed to work! Sure.

We are overwhelmed with solutions today. And the more solutions there are, the harder it is to find one that works. Many people have failed so many times that they’ve almost given up the battle. Others gave up a long time ago.

Establishing New Priorities

Can you change yourself? Is it possible to free yourself from bad habits? Can you really change in a meaningful and long-lasting way?  The answer to each of these questions is “yes.” But you can’t change in 24 hours, as some programs and self-help books promise.

What does it mean to change? To change means to establish new priorities—to choose a behavior that’s different from the one you’re using now. David Lucero is stuck on the street, waiting for a solution that doesn’t exist. When a real solution is right in front of his nose, he can’t see it.

David’s story is one of bad habits and bad decisions, and it’s probably filled with bad people and bad situations as well.

But at some point, we have to discard the factors, the people, and the situations that shaped us. Focusing on the past won’t help us solve today. At some point we have to take responsibility for our own lives.

It was most likely bad habits and bad choices that brought David to this point—day after day and year after year—until he hit rock bottom. That’s always the way it is.

Learning how to free ourselves from bad habits starts with the realization that we cause our own feelings. We are the major cause of our own problems. The moment we grasp that simple fact, that’s when we’re ready to step into the process of self-change that will lead to freedom from the habits that keep us from living a more satisfying life. And when we’re free from our bad habits, the people around us will be free from the person we used to be.

All people can bring about superficial changes in themselves. But freeing yourself from a self-destructive habit like smoking or overeating requires a deep, long-lasting change. A bad habit is like an iceberg. You can’t beat the habit if you approach it as if it were only as large as what you can see on the surface.

Franz Kafka said, “a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” Any book or program that aims to help people break bad habits must reveal the whole iceberg that lies below the surface.

You can’t eliminate the whole thing in one day, but if you take a step-by-step approach, you can eliminate the bad habit sooner than you thought possible. It is going to take effort on your part.

You can’t eat whatever you want and lose weight, no matter how many times you hear it on the talk shows. But you can learn to eat more healthy foods and stop eating the unhealthy stuff that’s part of your life now.

To free yourself from bad habits, you must stop hiding the truth from yourself.

Overeaters, smokers, and chronic procrastinators have more in common with people like David than meets the eye. They all go to great lengths to hide the truth from themselves about the destructive nature of their bad habits, and too often lives and families are destroyed before they become aware of the fact they are trapped in a cage of self-destructive behavior.

Does professional therapy work? Can it help people break bad habits before the habit destroys their lives? The dropout rate is astonishing: 45% of clients who seek a professional therapist drop out of therapy after two or three sessions.

Do programs help? Millions of smokers have quit forever without following a treatment program. On the other hand, many people who try a smoking-cessation program are not able to quit, no matter how many different programs they try. In fact, some research suggests that for every person who quits smoking by following a treatment program, there are almost twenty persons who quit on their own.

What conclusion should we draw from all of this? It’s pretty clear, I think. You have a better chance of freeing yourself from a bad habit by becoming your own coach — by taking responsibility for your own program. And by facing the truth about yourself.

Stop Smoking and Enjoy Better Health

Here are some very good health reasons why you should stop smoking:

Within 20 minutes after quitting smoking:

• Blood pressure drops to normal
• Pulse rate drops to normal level
• Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal level

Within 8 hours:

• Carbon monoxide level in blood drops to normal
• Oxygen level in blood increases to normal
• Smoker’s breath begins to disappear

Within 24 hours:

• Chances of heart attack risk decreases

Within 48 hours:

• Damaged nerve endings begin to redevelop and regrow
• Sense of smell and taste noticeably improves

Within 72 hours:

• Bronchial tubes begin to relax
• Breathing is easier

Within 2 weeks to 3 months:

• Circulation improves
• Walking becomes easier with improved breathing
• Lung function increases approximately 30%
• Chronic coughing disappears.

Within 1-9 months:

• Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue and shortness of breath decrease and continue to improve.
• Cilia regrows in your lungs, thereby increasing their ability to handle mucus which keeps your lungs clean and reduces infections.
• Your body’s overall energy increases.

Within one year:

• Risk of coronary heart disease is half that of a smoker.

Within 2 years:

• Heart attack risk drops to near normal.

Within 5 years:

• Your risk of stroke declines to that of a non-smoker.

Within 10 years:

• Your risk of death from lung cancer declines by almost half that of an average smoker (one pack per day).
• Your risk of cancer of the mouth, throat and esophagus decreases.
• Pre-cancerous cilia are replaced with healthy ones.
• Chance of other cancers, such as those of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas dramatically decreases.

Within 15 years:

• Your risk of coronary heart disease is now that of a person who has never smoked.

Why not make a decision to quit smoking right now and start enjoying better health?