They often start as a comfort behaviour, something we do to make us feel better, less stressed or to enable us to unwind. For a child it can be a favourite toy or blanket, or maybe they suck their thumb.
As an adult maybe it's a cigarette or a drink, or perhaps it's a habit like pulling your hair or your eyelashes out or biting your nails. In the moment that you are doing it, it feels like a release, perhaps a feeling of relief of comfort.
Over time however the addiction begins to take its own hold and the addiction itself needs to be met, rather than it being something to 'ease' the emotions attached to another issue. In fact it may be that the original issue has resolved itself in some way, but the addiction remains and now drives your behaviour.
Addictions are a type of habit. A behaviour that has been 'practiced' repetitively until you become really good at it!! (You can become as good at unhelpful behaviours as you can at helpful behaviours). In the same way the brain has learned this habit, it can un-learn it and hypnotherapy is an excellent way of tapping into the subconscious, where all habits and behaviours are stored, to reprogram the brain to behave in a new way. For more information log onto www.halotherapies.com
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