The average adult spends around 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime.1 This may sound like a crazy amount, but plenty of people exceed this average—and you may be one of them. Perhaps you own a business or are a member of an executive team, and you just can’t seem to stop working. And maybe you find that when you do actually unchain yourself from the desk, you’re still thinking about your job.

If you find your work-life balance is out of whack, it may be time to make a change, and hypnosis can help. Hypnosis for addictions can be a powerful tool—and that extends to minor or major work addictions.

Understanding Work-Life Balance

Signs of Poor Work-Life Balance

Has this ever happened to you? It’s your child’s birthday, and you’re ready to celebrate. Fortunately, you’ve prepared your schedule to be on time for the event. You spend your work day attending meetings and taking calls, and you’re genuinely excited to get home.

But just as you are ready to leave, you hear about a last-minute meeting at work. You could decline, but it’s an important meeting that could affect your company or team. You decide to attend, but it runs long. When you finally leave, you’re racing for home, hoping you can get back in time for dessert.

You finally arrive home, but then the messages come flooding in, and you need to respond. You’re on your laptop for the rest of the party. Before you know it, all gifts have been unwrapped, your child’s in bed, and your plate of ice cream has melted. While you were checking on work, you were totally checked out at home.

This is what it means to have no work-life balance. It’s when you’re unable to tame the “survival” part in your brain that insists you have to keep working (i.e., make money) in order to provide for your family, even at the detriment of not spending time with them or participating in life events (like your child’s birthday). It’s what causes you to stay clocked in long after you’ve left the office.

Other signs you may lack a healthy work-life balance include:

  • Constantly feeling fatigued or stressed
  • Decreased productivity or experiencing burnout
  • Having no time for personal activities or hobbies

Consequences of No Work-Life Balance

Making money is not wrong, and it’s natural to worry about having enough money for your needs. You may also want to be respected at work, which isn’t wrong either, but any time you carry these concerns to the extreme, you’re going to get out of balance. A poor work-life balance can lead to:

  • Constantly feeling distracted
  • Guilt and regret
  • Lack of relationships with your children or partner
  • Loss of sleep
  • Scattered thoughts
  • Stress and anxiety
  • Self-esteem and confidence issues
  • Struggling with your weight
  • Turning to coping mechanisms (smoking, drinking, etc.)

Understanding Hypnotherapy

Having no balance between work and life is unsustainable. Even if you think you can handle it alone, something will eventually give. If you find that you can no longer juggle life and work (and still remain sane), then it may be time to consider a hypnosis center.

If you’ve used traditional therapy before, you may know that this therapeutic method focuses on the “why” behind your behaviors. For instance, maybe you’ve discovered that your obsession with work comes from growing up in a low-income household. Therapists may spend a long time trying to delve into your past to sort through the origin of your challenges.

Comparatively, hypnotherapy works to propel you forward in meaningful ways. It puts you into a mental state where you are most receptive to change. In this state, you can learn to adopt healthier thinking patterns. Hypnotherapy doesn’t just help you understand the survival reflex that is causing you to overwork. It helps you detach from this overly strong reflex and the worries and anxieties associated with it, so you can approach your work from a far healthier perspective.

Hypnotherapy and NLP

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is one method hypnotherapists use to help people actively change thought patterns about work and life.

NLP is based on the study of subjective experience. In other words, it studies how you think about and process information while you actively engage your mind to create new thought patterns or behaviors. Through this method, your hypnotherapist can help you end any subconscious belief that your value is connected to your income, net worth, or job title.

Once that subconscious belief is changed, your hypnotherapist can then help you focus on learning how to relax so that your attention stays in the present. That way, you’re no longer distracted by work when you’re at home. The result? No more answering emails during your child’s birthday party or taking business calls during dinner.

Where Hypnosis Can Help

Hypnosis can help create noticeable changes in many areas affected by poor work-life balance. Let’s focus on two: relationships and coping mechanisms.

Relationships

Many people don’t realize how much their relationships with loved ones struggle to compete with work until it’s too late—until they’re on the verge of divorce or losing a relationship forever.

Maybe you don’t feel like you have a close connection with your child or find it’s becoming difficult to communicate with your partner. While hypnosis can’t turn off your emotions or give you picture-perfect relationships, it can help you access your subconscious mind so that you can reshape your focus and give better attention to those around you.

Coping Mechanisms

Perhaps you’ve turned to smoking, drinking, or other coping mechanisms as a way to deal with the stress of balancing work and life. Hypnosis can help you change your thought patterns around these behaviors, too.

For instance, if you smoke, your hypnotherapist may use NLP techniques like anchoring or parts integration to help you refrain from turning to this habit to cope with your unbalanced work-life schedule.

By using the anchoring technique, your hypnotherapist can help you associate positive thinking around not smoking with a particular action or gesture. If your hypnotherapist uses the parts integration technique, they can help you determine and resolve any potential internal conflicts you might have about your smoking habit.

As a result, you may be able to leave these habits behind in only a few sessions.

Create Work-Life Balance with Hypnosis

If you’re giving too much attention to work and too little to yourself or your loved ones, hypnotherapy can be a powerful tool to help you restore your work-life balance. Through this therapeutic method, you’ll be able to detach from the survival reflex you experience with managing your job, and the worries you feel about making money. In short, you’ll be able to bring the balance back to live a fulfilling life.

1https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thrive/201102/finding-happiness-work