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Full hypnosis download Remember to take medication

Forgetting to take important or even vital medication is a big problem for many people. I’ve seen people do it: ‘Oh no! I forgot to take my insulin!’ You can imagine the effect of that.

For the first few days after being prescribed medication it can be relatively easy to remember to take it. But the problem is, after a short while, the original instructions for when and how much to take begin to fade a bit from your mind. You can probably still remember them, but it’s not as fresh in your mind as it was, and it takes a bit of effort to recall. It can start to feel a bit frustrating. The inconvenience of always having to remember to take it. Actually forgetting to take medication or having it start to feel less important than it really is can be similar to the way we addict to substances or behaviors. Weird idea?

Forgetting to take medication: short term v long term welfare

Doing something because it suits or stimulates us in the short term is how addictions operate. The smoker knows that cigarettes will age him rapidly and possibly kill him, but that possible reality is removed from now, this moment. Living in the present regardless of future likely consequences drives addictions – and also what we might call heedlessness.

So one of the factors which can interfere with taking our medication regularly is that we can sometimes fail to really connect the importance of this simple ritual with our long-term health. And for many drugs and remedies to work it really is vital to take them systematically, at the scheduled intervals. As you know, people who take their medication on and off and miss doses could be unwittingly putting themselves at serious risk.

I use hypnosis to help embed healthy habits so they feel – and become – entirely natural. So, for example the formerly nervous public speaker doesn’t have to try to calm down, because of hypnosis, they now find they can’t help but make their presentation ‘in flow’, feeling quite relaxed. I produced the session Remember to take medication specifically for hypnosisdownloads.com to help embed the habit of self medicating.

The session is about building an instinctive habit that will help people take their medication on cue effortlessly.

All the best

Mark