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Butt is it All a Pack of Smoke and Mirrors?

Charlotte Philby visited Hypnotherapist Miera Shore to quit smoking- click the read more link at the bottom to discover the result…

NLP hypnotherapy, it turns out, to my bitter disappointment, doesn’t actually involve being knocked unconscious under the influence of a swinging pocket watch. Instead, once I’m lying comfortably on a small bed in the corner of the room, Shore brings me down into a deep sleep by counting, and giving strict verbal instructions – “you are feeling relaaaxed” and so on and so forth. After five minutes on the bed, listening to her words, I’m still alert enough that I could bring myself back to total consciousness in seconds if need be, but my body feels unusually relaxed, my mind presumably more malleable too. Somewhat off-putting is that inane thoughts keep creeping into my mind, but Shore insists this doesn’t matter: “The subconscious is still listening.”

Now I’m under her spell, with the sound of the sea calling out from the CD player behind her (I got that bit right), Shore takes me on a mental journey. Under her instruction, I find myself standing at the crossroads of my life. On one side there’s the path that would have been mine: thick, poisonous clouds hang over the street here; sickly men and women gasp for air alongside dying flowers; it’s all rather dramatic. Then there’s my new path: the air is clear, the horizon sunny, freed-up cash blows in the wind before my eyes.

We stay here a while, Shore talking me through the reasons why this is such an appealing place to live before she counts me up again, and out of my semi-trance. If I was expecting to feel reborn I’d have felt let down. Other than having acquired a partial numbness in my left leg from having lain at a rakish angle, I don’t feel any different.

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