Control Gaming Addiction
With Gold Coast Hypnosis

The Gamer’s High

You might not know this, but video games tend to take over your brain’s very reward centre. Whenever you achieve something in a game, any milestone whatsoever, your brain tends to experience a ‘high’ and the reward centre lights up. Your brain then knows that it needs to have you keep playing to experience that very same high again. This is how an addictive pattern begins to surface. This addiction might seem harmless to some, but I believe that it is the very train of thought that a compulsive gambler tends to exhibit.

This very ‘high’ is what every gamer seeks out. It begins to take over all of their thought processes, prohibiting them from directing their focus toward anything else. That is primarily why you commonly see gamers preferring to be in front of their screens enjoying the game than being with their loved ones and valuing their relationships.

How Will Hypnotherapy Help Me?

Hypnosis is the very technique of guiding people into a state of trance where their subconscious becomes exceedingly easy to access. Don’t worry, you’ll be completely aware of your surroundings and in total control of the situation. My hypnotherapy tackles gaming addiction stepwise as follows:

Step 1: Discerning Irrational Thought Processes

When people fall prey to any form of addiction, their brain tends to opt for rather irrational and illogical thought patterns. For gamers, the belief is that they need to play videogames in order to survive. To someone who isn’t a gaming addict, this might seem unworldly, but that’s how the brain of a gaming addict works.

On another note, many gaming addicts tend to use gaming as a means of ‘escape’ – to get away from stressful, unwanted situations. This notion of hiding from your problems and finding comfort in playing games is pretty common and tends to be an unconscious decision.

As the first step, I will help you trace out these thought patterns and allow you to understand where the problem begins.

Step 2: Restricting Compulsive Thoughts

When we start to crave, it is a means of communication that the brain uses to tell our body to take an action and do something to satisfy it – a fix. It is actually our subconscious trying to keep us safe. This is where all rationality leaves us.

Hypnosis can effectively allow you to slow things down and give yourself time to asses situations rationally. It can help you retrain your brain to understand what it needs to be doing instead. At this step, I will attempt to help you perceive the triviality of gaming by altering your very subconscious thought pattern. When I guide you into a state of trance, I’ll be able to instill positive coping mechanisms to get your mind to respond in healthy ways to such cravings. Since this state makes the subconscious highly receptive to suggestions, it will listen and it will reprogram itself.

Step 3: Renewing Subconscious Associations

Whether you like it or not, your subconscious views video games in a certain way and that won’t change on its own. Your subconscious tends to associate only positive thoughts to video games and that’s why you feel no guilt. In fact, it makes you euphoric and reduces stress.

My technique is to help your brain realise the adverse effects of this habit by renewing these associations and painting the picture in a bad light.

The Gold Coast Hypnotist

So, the question remains: why should I opt for the Gold Coast Hypnotist? Well, I have been in the game for quite a long time and I can safely say that I have had tremendous success with all of my clients. I know my way around the general functioning and thought processes of the brain. I can help you break your unhealthy gaming habit and guarantee that you’ll turn over a new leaf. Don’t believe me? Come over for a 1-on-1 session and witness for yourself.