How to End Obsessive Behaviors

©2010 Jane Ann Covington

In our life, anyone can learn to be obsessed with something or someone. Most people with these symptoms had family members with similar patterns and they were passed down to the next generation (not by genetic encoding, but by example).
Definition of obsess: (verb) preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone or something) continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent seemingly powerless to resist.
What doesn’t work: If I just figure it out, then I can control it. Why this strategy isn’t a strategy that works is that the patterns are in the subconscious and the “figure it out” is in the conscious mind. The subconscious mind always wins the battle in the end by replaying that old unhelpful obsession or addiction, until the underlying causes or unconscious beliefs are changed (by hypnosis and hypnotherapy).
Bad habits can become Obsessions, and when taken to the extreme, can eventually be classified as OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). This pattern is similar to an addiction to something or someone. The underlying cause(s) of these seemingly out of control patterns tends to be an immature perspective, neediness, out of control emotions or anxiety, brought on by perfectionism coupled with a lack of self-esteem or an overindulgence in self-esteem.
All addictions are an attempt to give to our self. There’s nothing wrong with giving to ourselves or making ourselves feel safe, secure, and comfortable. However, we need to find appropriate ways to accomplish this in order to remain healthy, balanced, and appropriately in control of ourselves.

The key to get out of this seemingly never-ending cycle is two fold:
1) To address these bad habits/patterns in the consciousness mind through education about your mind (which hardly anyone has ever been taught how their mind actually works and how to work it to your benefit), and then practice using this understanding appropriately
2) Confront and reeducate the subconscious mind with masterful hypnosis and hypnotherapy to clear unhelpful beliefs and patterns; becoming open to reinforce new beliefs, patterns, and strategies.
Coming at the problem from these two angles, helps develop effective skills that dissolve the old unhelpful patterns, in order to regain control of your mind, behaviors, freedom and your life.
Some areas that must be addressed include: 1) make a plan/strategy (broken down to doable, manageable processes) to take back control; 2) set limits; 3) develop skills to redirect your mind to healthy, helpful thoughts and behaviors.
Finally, as we first mentioned, we can’t always make changes ourselves. Just understanding why we do something doesn’t usually make it go away. Successful people ask for help. We’re here to help! Our success rate using my personally developed methodology process is 95%.
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