HYPNOSIS IN THE NEWS
Excerpts from media coverage of Nancy Pavlicek’s work:
FINDING LOST ITEM WITH HYPNOSIS
Victoria in Motion Magazine, Spring 2013
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SMOKING CESSATION WITH HYPNOSIS
Victoria Advocate Newspaper – March 4, 2007
Article Title: Burned Out by Louise Popplewell
People are trying different methods to put away the nicotine for good.
PHOTOS: T.C. BAKER/ADVOCATE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Four years ago, Edna car salesman John Dean walked into Nancy Pavlicek’s office to get hypnotized as a means to help him quit smoking. After his first session, Dean had no cravings and now dedicates more time to working out. Many others have turned to medication such as Chantix and quitting cold turkey.
“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.”
MARK TWAIN
Once upon a time people didn’t smoke in church, but many lit up as soon as they were out the door. Women did not smoke on the street because, at best, it was considered unladylike, but anywhere else was acceptable. There were ashtrays in hospital rooms, courtrooms, offices, restaurants and even the White House.
Smoking was such a central activity in movies, that it’s surprising there was time to make so many great ones. Lighting up in stores didn’t raise any eyebrows and there were ashtrays in cars! Then came the studies showing the dangers of smoking and the added danger of secondhand smoke and the revolution was on.
Today, there is yet another incentive to quit: the cost. With the 2007 tax increase of $1 per pack set by the Texas Legislature, $5 gets you a pack of smokes and a few cents in change.
It isn’t hard to find people who have quit using a number of methods, and unlike Mark Twain, they’ve stuck to it.
HYPNOSIS
John Dean, an Edna car salesman, smoked two packs a day for 20 years. “I probably quit 50 times,” he said. “Everybody wants to quit, then 10 days later they’re back doing it again.” About four years ago he decided to see a hypnotist and turned to Nancy Pavlicek of Victoria. Dean had two sessions with Pavlicek, but said he really didn’t need the second one.
After that first session, “I drove back to Edna and I really wasn’t thinking about a cigarette. I really didn’t want one,” he said and added, “I can’t remember any harsh reaction. But, it’s something you have to really want to do it, that’s everything. It was something I had to want, it’s no miracle.”
At 47, Dean said although he has worked out all his life, “I’m more dedicated now that I don’t smoke. At lunch today, I ran for 30 minutes and I ran hard.”
Florence Williams of Seadrift also turned to Pavlicek for help. “Back in the ’80s I quit for four or five years and got hooked again. I went to a hypnotist because it worked before.”
After one of two sessions, Williams said, “I had made up my mind to quit. I took the cigarettes out of my purse, turned on the water in the sink and held them under it. I haven’t had one since.” That was four months ago.
Williams, a retired bank employee, said she was a pack and a half smoker since she was a teenager.
After quitting, “I feel fine, but I don’t have the energy I thought I would,” she said. “After the first week or so, the desire to smoke decreased greatly. It’s there first thing in the morning, but not bad enough to get a cigarette, I certainly won’t start again.”
She said little things like tossing ashtrays in the trash helps. She said the two sessions cost more than $100, “but think what cigarettes cost.
Williams said she highly recommends hypnosis for anyone trying to quit. “I’m trying to get my brother to go.”
Pavlicek said her success rate is about 80 percent. The two sessions cost $140 and come with a video. The sessions include an interview in which she is looking for typical smoking patterns, helping the client learn relaxation skills and focusing on the benefits of being a non-smoker.
She may be reached at 361-574-9400.
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SELF-HYPNOSIS TO RELEASE INNER BLOCKS AND OBSTACLES
Article by Unity Minister Luigi Persichitti
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FEAR OF FLYING RELEASED WITH HYPNOSIS
Victoria Advocate Newspaper – August 5, 2007
Article Title: Relax your mind by Rebecca Holm
More people are turning to hypnosis to overcome addictions and anxieties.
“You’re getting very sleepy …”
Those words and a swinging pendulum are images often conjured when someone mentions hypnosis. Once largely regarded by the public as taboo, the alternative medical therapy is seeing more and more patients seeking hypnosis as a way to cure addictions and anxieties.
That’s also the case for Dennis Eisele, who went to see a hypnotherapist about four years ago.
“I was having problems flying; I was having fear of flying,” said the 55-year-old Victorian. He wanted to eliminate the anxiety attacks he was having, so after seeing a TV series on hypnosis, he opened the phone book and picked out the name of hypnotist Nancy Pavlicek.
After several hypnosis sessions, Eisele said that Pavlicek gave him a tape of the session, advising him to listen to it before he flew. The tape was a summation of the sessions that, when listened to, put the listener in a suggestive state of mind and relaxed him.
“I’ve found that with time it helped me greatly and now I don’t have any problem with it at all,” he said, noting that he would recommend the treatment to others.
“I can fly perfectly; I have no problems whatsoever,” he said. His job as a chemical engineer has him flying quite frequently.
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