MindgladIs this programme for you?
- Worth-beyond-output reframe
- Evening shutdown ritual rehearsal
- Urge-surfing the pull to check
- A press-and-breathe calm anchor
- Guilt-free rest practice
Mindglad programme
Hypnosis for workaholism
This programme is designed for a mind that can never quite stop working. It helps you practise switching off, resting without guilt, and decoupling your worth from your output, using calm guided voiceover, a short relief session, and repeatable cues you can return to when the old pattern gets loud.
What the programme includes
- Sessions
- 8
- Total minutes
- 96
- Daily length
- 12 min
Includes deep-induction audio, quick-relief audio, bedtime or morning audio, affirmations, and a written script.
How this programme helps with hypnosis for workaholism
A powerful, conviction-style session that reframes overworking as a nervous-system safety alarm, then uses CBT-style restructuring (you are not your output), ACT-style urge surfing, a physical anchor, and a rehearsed evening shutdown ritual. The audio is written to keep the change practical: you are guided to notice the exact cue, soften the body response, and rehearse a next step that fits the moment. Rather than promising to remove every thought, urge, or feeling, the programme gives you a calmer sequence to repeat until the new response feels easier to access.
Each session uses a different sensory anchor from the preview script, so the page is not only a keyword match. It is a programme with a specific behavioural target, a specific listening context, and a specific safety boundary. Mindglad uses wellness language because hypnosis audio should support your choices without replacing clinical care.
What science says
Cognitive and behavioural approaches to work addiction. Workaholism research points to cognitive restructuring (decoupling self-worth from output), values and acceptance work, and deliberate psychological detachment from work as the most supported routes to switching off. Relaxation and rehearsal audio can reinforce those skills, but is a wellness aid rather than clinical treatment. Source context: CBT, ACT, and detachment/recovery research on workaholism and burnout.
Sample session script preview
Welcome. Right now, in this moment, something is about to shift inside you, because a part of you has already decided that the running has to end. Settle in, drop your shoulders, soften the jaw, and let the eyes close. Your overworking was never laziness or weakness. It is a nervous system that learned, long ago, that stopping was dangerous, that to rest was to fall behind. Today, that ends. The urge to keep going is just a wave; it rises and it falls, and you are the ocean, not the wave. Press your thumb and first finger together, breathe in the deepest calm you can find, and make that your anchor. Then drop the old lie that you are only as good as what you produce. You are not your work, not your inbox, not your hours. Say it and mean it: I am enough, even when I rest. It is safe for me to stop. Rest is not the enemy of your success, it is the engine of it. Rehearse the end of the day: press the anchor, breathe, run your shutdown ritual, close the laptop, and step fully into your evening, present, at peace, with nothing to prove.
FAQ
Can hypnosis really help me stop overworking?
Hypnosis-style audio can reinforce the skills that research links to switching off, like decoupling self-worth from output, tolerating the urge to keep working, and deliberately detaching at the end of the day. It is a wellness aid that supports those habits, not a treatment for work addiction on its own.
Why does the session say overworking is a safety alarm, not laziness?
For many people the drive to keep working is an over-active stress response: the nervous system has learned that stopping feels risky. The session works with that, teaching the body that it is safe to stop, rather than shaming you for not having more discipline.
What is the anchor and the shutdown ritual?
The anchor is a press-and-breathe cue (thumb and finger together) you can use any time the urge to keep working hits. The shutdown ritual is a short end-of-day sequence — note tomorrow’s top three, close the laptop, and say a clear stop phrase — that the session rehearses so it feels automatic in real life.
When should I listen?
Most people get the most from listening in the evening or whenever they are struggling to put work down. It is around eleven minutes, so use it as a wind-down, then lean on the press-and-breathe anchor in the moments you cannot stop.
Is this a treatment for burnout or work addiction?
No. Mindglad is guided meditation and hypnosis-style voiceover, not medical care. If overworking is tied to burnout, anxiety, depression, or is harming your health or relationships, please also speak with a qualified professional.