Managing the urge to Gamble
There is a way to resolve problem gambling that targets the roots of the issue in a fashion that is so efficient that most other strategies cannot compare. Further, it equips the person with the tools to navigate life’s problems more effectively, which means they truly feel more in control and less likely to take part in the destructive gambling behaviour.
Hypnosis is this phenomenal treatment.
Those who don’t gamble are generally confused as to why someone would gamble their life down the toilet and generally gamblers themselves don’t appreciate they have a problem.
Of course, a great number of people can gamble responsibly, but when the urge to gamble overtakes common sense, such as gambling money you cannot afford to lose or carrying on in order to try to get back previous losses, then you might have a problem.
Problem gambling can seem so overwhelming that for numerous it seems hard to stop.
Many assume that problem gambling can become so ingrained in the subconscious that only hypnosis has a chance of eliminating it.
For gamblers, life can rapidly become difficult, especially as the shortage of money becomes greater and greater.
They start to lose interest in socialising, causing them to cut ties with the grounding influences in their lives.
Normally they start to lie or go to extreme lengths to hide their gambling activities from friends and family members.
They start to fall into the trap of gambling to get out of financial troubles produced by overzealous gambling.
The gambler will consistently leave essential bills unpaid, take a loan from friends and institutions that they can ill afford to repay just to feed this problem behaviour.
It does not have to be this way – there is an established solution that works.
Hypnotheraputic processes targets the root ordeals, ideas and habits that drive the compulsive gambler’s obsession.
By way of example, problem gambling can be prompted by large amounts of stress and anxiety, or a feeling of lack of control in life. It can also originate from low self-worth and the need to actually feel happy.
More often than not gamblers lose so much control that they can’t consciously pinpoint specifically where it all went wrong, and how they found themselves surrendering to such impulsive behaviour.
Sally Moore from Sally Moore Hypnotherapy based in Woodhall Spa and Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
