Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue - 12, (1 June 2018) | Page 18

7. Find ways to bring more joy into your life. What makes you happy?
What do you enjoy doing? Maybe it’s time to revive some of your old
passions? Expand your interests and find a new hobby.
8. Get physical. Physical activities help to balance our body and boost
production of feel good hormones like serotonin and dopamine. Pick
a list of activities that you enjoy and alternate so you don’t get bored.
Walking, running, yoga, dancing, playing tennis, swimming. You
should be active for at least half an hour, and optimally one hour,
every day.
9. Physical contact is very important. Humans need to be touched. We
need it as much as we need food. Prolonged hugging boosting good
hormones and harmonizes our mind and body. Get more physical
contact with your intimate partner even if it does not involve sex.
Looking into each other’s eyes, holding hands and hugging, skin-to-
skin contact can do miracles for your sense of well-being and health
in general. If you are single, make sure to get massage
regularly. Self-massage can provide some of the benefits too.
10.
The meaning of life is to live with the meaning. Find a purpose.
Whatever that may mean to you. Focusing on your family, taking care
of people you love. Your career. Your education. Knowledge. Spiritual
growth.
11.
I am inviting you to look at the addiction differently. What if your
addiction is just a bonding. Yes, just like you would bond with your
loved ones, bond with your lovers, bond with your friends, you can
bond to your career, to your interests, hobbies… It is natural for
humans to build bonds. When you do not have enough of those
beautiful happy bonds, you have this void to fill, and that is when
some of us reach out to alcohol, smoking, drugs, overeating,
shopping compulsively and gambling. So, create more healthy bonds,
so you leave no space for unhealthy ones.