Guided Hypnotic Meditations For Anxiety to Substance Abuse

While designed for Substance Abuse, this touches themes common to many otherproblems affecting wellbeing like stress, anxiety, and social anxiety among others.

# WHY DO MY OLD PATTERNS KEEP RETURNING BETWEEN MEETINGS?

### What if I could notice what was happening before the old pattern really got started?

You can mean every word you say in a meeting.

You can sincerely want to be sober.

You can have a good sponsor in your corner.

You can work the Steps.

You can have a strong relationship with your Higher Power.

And still...

hours or days later...

you can find yourself having that same old conversation inside your head.

“This is just a one-off.”

“I can start again tomorrow.”

“Nobody needs to know what happened.”

And somewhere underneath all of it:

“How do I keep finding myself back here again?”

Here is something worth considering:

That does not necessarily mean the meetings aren't working.

It doesn't mean you're not sincere.

It doesn't mean you're weak.

And it certainly doesn't mean everything you have already been doing has been wasted.

The meeting may have helped.

Your sponsor may still be firmly in your corner.

The Steps may still be the right Steps.

But there can be another part of the process that is much easier to miss.

## THE PATTERN MAY BEGIN BEFORE YOU REALISE THE PATTERN HAS BEGUN.

A thought.

A feeling.

Stress.

Loneliness.

Anger.

A memory.

A familiar internal conversation.

One small shift leading into another...

until something that began quietly starts feeling almost automatic.

And that is the area I want us to explore.

Because between the trigger and the action there can be moments.

There can be spaces.

And learning to recognise those moments earlier may give you an opportunity to respond differently before the old sequence gathers momentum.

That is why I have created a FREE 10-WEEK LIVE ONLINE GROUP using guided meditation and self-hypnosis alongside the recovery work you are already doing.

I am a Certified Hypnotherapist with 39 years of sobriety, and this is one way for me to give back something from my own continuing journey from simply being sober toward living in Sobriety.

## PATTERN → PAUSE → CHOICE

### 1. RECOGNISE THE PATTERN EARLIER

Learn to become more aware of the thoughts, feelings, stress responses and triggers that can begin the old sequence.

Not after everything has already happened.

Earlier.

### 2. CREATE A PAUSE THAT MATTERS

Practice guided meditation and self-hypnosis techniques designed to help you move out of automatic responding and create enough internal space for conscious choice.

Because sometimes the most important change is not having a different answer.

It is having enough of a pause to remember that another answer exists.

### 3. STRENGTHEN THE SOBER RESPONSE

Repeatedly rehearse the thinking, behaviour and identity of the sober person that is already available within you.

Not simply:

“I must not drink.”

Or:

“I must not use.”

But increasingly:

“This is simply not what I do anymore.”

This group is not designed to replace AA, NA, sponsorship, the Steps, fellowship, professional treatment, medical care or your Higher Power.

Keep all of that.

This is about adding another practical tool for the hours when you are not sitting in a meeting.

Because the meeting may last an hour.

## YOUR RECOVERY CONTINUES DURING ALL THE HOURS IN BETWEEN.

### FREE — 10-WEEK LIVE ONLINE GROUP

Mondays or Fridays — 5:00 PM Arizona time

Both sessions cover the same weekly material.

Attend whichever session works best for you, and you may change between Monday and Friday from week to week.

I ask you to bring three things:

A sincere intention to strengthen your sobriety.

A willingness to participate as fully as you are able that day.

And your Higher Power as you understand Him.

You do not need to decide today whether this will change everything.

You do not even need to commit mentally to all ten weeks.

## COME TO ONE SESSION.

Experience the process.

See whether it gives you something useful for those moments between meetings.

Keep the meetings.

Keep the sponsor.

Keep the Steps.

And add another way of catching the old pattern before the old pattern catches you.

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