Procrastination Help – Achieve Your Goals

I guess it can happen to all of us at some point in our lives. We can all procrastinate over tasks we know we should do, goals we ought to accomplish and dreams we want to realise. Yet sometimes or maybe even regularly you find yourself getting no further this year than you were at last year.

If you have experienced that nagging feeling that nothing seems to change and no matter how much you convince yourself you find your progress never gets going you may be suffering from procrastination.

Procrastination at Work

Do you find yourself getting in late to work because your motivation is missing. Maybe you waste time at work doing non-essential tasks and avoid getting going with your priority tasks. Unfortunately the more your delay starting that new project or priority task, the more pressure you can feel under and the more likely you are to procrastinate and avoid it. Some people even leave their jobs to avoid having to start or complete a project that they have procrastinated over.

You may even hate your job but the security of it keeps you trapped. The fear what a new job might involve may stop you getting a role that suits you better. All the time you wait, your self esteem is being eroded and your ability to procrastinate increases.

Procrastination at Home

Are the jobs piling up around you? Does your home need decorating, or some door wants fixing or that leaky pipe needs to be solved? Sometimes even calling in a tradesman to fix a domestic problem can lead to procrastination and instead of it being a simple job, no fixing it in time makes it a more expensive repair. You may have outstanding bills that you have not settled or other legal or challenging matters that need you attention but you have yet to tackle.

Your home should be a place where you can unwind and relax, yet you may find that your home is no longer that safe and secure haven. The unstarted or unfinished jobs around your home just add to a sense of drift as the years go by and nothing changes.

Procrastination in Your Personal Life

Do you stay in your relationship because it provides safety or you don’t want to be alone? Has your relationship lost its spark and you and your partner have settled into a safe and yet boring rut? This can happen in any relationship and it doesn’t mean that you have to end it. The best relationship for you may be the one that you are in right now. Unless you are present in the relationship and appreciate it, you may feel unhappy, lost or just trapped. Procrastination can rear its head here too.

Procrastination can affect any and sometimes many areas of our lives. Yet you don’t have to keep putting up with a life of malaise. If you envy others success, it means you recognise things can different and you can change too. Procrastination is often just a state of mind that anyone can fall victim too.

Maybe you have tried and (seemingly) failed to change before. Maybe you have convinced yourself that whatever you do, nothing will change for you. There is an awful expression that is used at times by people that keeps them trapped in an unhappy existence. Have you heard the saying “I should accept my lot”?  If you have used it yourself, stop it now. It doesn’t help you in the slightest.

Ending Procrastination

So how do you overcome procrastination?  Initially, one step at a time. Don’t put pressure on yourself by aiming for too many goals. This approach can overwhelm you. Keep it simple to start with and aim for tasks, goals, achievements that are easy for you. Getting back some sense of success, no matter how small will encourage you.

See yourself differently and stop using negative labels. If you view yourself succeeding and doing those tasks and jobs you are much more likely to succeed (research has proven this). If you call yourself lazy, useless or other negative names, it will undermine your ability to change.

So change your imagined view of yourself and change your labels.

As a London Hypnotherapist one of the most popular issues I help people with is procrastination. Whether you are employed and are an executive, CEO or clerk, a sports person heading for the Olympics or want to improve your game, maybe you are self-employed or want to start your own business. I have helped people in all these areas and many others.

On the home front I have helped people to find new life in their existing relationship as well as getting to grips with domestic tasks.

Sometimes an individual has had a past experience that has led to a loss of motivation and procrastination and in hypnotherapy it can be effective to revisit an event and change how you perceive it today.

Procrastination is not something you were born with, it is something that you have learnt and that has become or can become a habit. This is good news because as human beings we are very adaptable and change habits all the time. Hypnotherapy can support your decision and rather than feeling a victim of it, take control of your life and make a difference to your procrastination.

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Author’s Details

Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Clinical Hypnotherapist – London and Essex

Website: www.hypno-therapist.com

Email: steve@hypno-therapist.com
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Stress Management and Modern Living

Stress management is vital for today’s faster modern life. With the advent of the internet everyone has become used to easier and quicker access to information, products and services. We have become used to communications happening within seconds via email rather than by mail. The world of the future which was predicted to have more leisure time hasn’t been realised.

There is no escape from the pace of life and although most people cope most of the time, occasionally events and experiences can conspire seemingly against us. One unhappy event can soon be compounded by another in quick succession. What we used to take in our stride now feels like a burden. We hadn’t noticed that our energy levels were being eroded over time and now we are running on empty. Sleep does not seem to give as much reprieve from tiredness or restore our energy levels back to where they once were.

If the above description rings true to you, then you could benefit from taking control and utilising stress management. Stress management is more than just about controlling stress. It is about prevention as it is as much about reduction of stress levels.

Stress Management Hypnosis

Prevention as they say is far better than cure and is worth putting the effect in. Self hypnosis can be an important element of your healthier life style and your stress management too. Self hypnosis is the regular practice of a simply relaxation method than anyone can learn easily and benefit from. Taking between 5 to 20 minutes per day, self hypnosis can be an easy habit to slip into your daily schedule.

Causes of Stress

Working late, arguments at home, death, illness, a reduction in your income, larger bills, a car accident and more can all be part of what tips us over the edge. If you turn to alcohol or drugs to provide some escape from stress and anxiety then you have already recognised that you need to cope differently. Self hypnosis can help you do that and in a healthier way be part of your success with stress management.

Just imagine how it feel to be more calm and relaxed. Others may lose their cool and temper as you remain an oasis of tranquillity. A natural result of this is likely to be a better and more restful night’s sleep and an improvement in your relationships. For only 5 to 20 minutes a day practising self hypnosis the rewards of better stress management can be immense and this includes your long-term health too.

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Author’s Details

Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Clinical Hypnotherapist – London and Essex

Website: Stress Management London 

Email: steve@hypno-therapist.com
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I am an experienced Clinical Hypnotherapist with busy hypnotherapy practices in Rugby, Warwickshire and Daventry, Northamptonshire. I’ve used hypnotherapy for myself  to ease pain. At a local dentist I underwent a root canal procedure and did so without any anaesthesia. So I know the potential of the mind and practice in my own life what I offer my clients. I have experienced first hand how using positive relaxing imagery can change our perception of pain and as a result alter the fight flight response that increases pain.

The Main Challenge to Mothers is Fear

One of the main challenges facing mothers-to-be is the fear factor. Having trained and qualified as a HypnoBirthing®practitioner, I now appreciate that the HypnoBirthing®Childbirth method is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing.

HypnoBirthing® teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable and relaxed way.  Mothers-to-be learn to uitilise their body’s own natural relaxant and thus lessen or eliminate discomfort and the need for medication.  When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and the body and mind are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other creatures.

Mothers are taught in HypnoBirthing® to let go of all previous programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and rigid muscles.

HypnoBirthing® teaches the art of using natural birthing instincts, being aware and yet fully in control, but profoundly relaxed. There are HypnoBirthing® films showing labouring mothers, awake, alert and in good humor as they experience the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know when you are free of the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome.

Midwives, Hypnotherapists and Mothers-to-be

The clear evidence for me as an experienced hypnotherapist when I was training was the cross-section of attendees:  Midwives, clinical hypnotherapists, and HypnoBirthing®mum’s all learning the Maria Mongan method of HypnoBirthing®.

With HypnoBirthing® mother’s also attending there was living proof that this can help mums, dads and the baby to have a wonderful birth experience and with minimal discomfort.

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Author’s Details

Pam Morgan PDC Hyp MBSCH

Hypnotherapist in Rugby, Warwickshire and Daventry, Northamptonshire

Website: www.hypnotherapy-reflexology.co.uk/hypnobirthing-901-0.html
Email: hypnobirthing@sky.com

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I’ve had to wait a long time to say this, but it suddenly struck me recently that all the comic-book technological fantasies we had when I was young are finally becoming reality.

 Remember imagining how one day we might have big flat TVs you could hang on the wall? Well, I’ve got one now. A mini-computer you can keep in your pocket? Got that too. Little screens you can carry round that contain an entire library? Got a couple of them.

 All those fantasies that seemed like something out of Dan Dare have now, finally, come to pass. Technological advances seem to be coming thick and fast.

 Years ago, I had a quote displayed on my wall: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” It was attributed to Charles H Duell, who was the boss of the US Patent Office in 1899. Knowing what we now know, it was clearly laughable – as well as a powerful reminder that we must always keep looking forwards.

 It now turns out that the unfortunate Mr Duell was misquoted, which is a shame as I really wanted that quote to be true. Even so, one wonders what Mr Duell would have thought about how aeroplanes, trains and cars have developed in the last 112 years, how scientific and medical discoveries have benefited mankind, and how technology has transformed our world (at least some of it for the better).

 I was thinking of Mr Duell the other day. And I was thinking too of Franz Mesmer, James Braid (“founder of hypnotherapy”) and other greats of the past such as Sigmund Freud, who also dabbled in hypnotherapy.

 I was wondering what they would have made of the hypnotherapy session I had just concluded, using technology that could open up so many possibilities for the future. I had been using Skype on my iPad as part of an experiment I’ve been conducting with friends, and friends of friends.

 My question was: is it realistic to use this technology for clients?

 Of course, there’s nothing new about video links, and Skype is just a way of phoning. Even Charles H Duell was familiar with the phone. But the portability of the iPad seems to me to take long-distance therapeutic possibilities to another level.

 When an old friend who lives in the south of France told me about an issue he had, I realised that this was my chance. So we set up an appointment and I called him on Skype. He could see me, I could see him… we had a chat, he described his problem, and half an hour later, that problem had been transformed into something that, in his mind, looked much less like the problem that had been affecting his life since he was a small child.

 Would I mind helping his wife? Of course not… another Skype appointment on my iPad, another session, and she has since told me she feels so much better.

 OK, so these were friends. The next question in my mind was: could I make this work with someone I had never met? Luckily, a former colleague living 180 miles away knew just the person: his wife. Another Skype appointment followed, beginning with a chat in which I discovered that a fear of spiders – a very common phobia, as we know – was affecting her life in a significant way. Half an hour later, the fear she felt had reduced from a 10, on a scale of 1 to 10, down to about a 3. Her subsequent thank-you message suggested that she was another satisfied customer.

 Now I’m wondering how far I can go with this. I’m hoping to set up a long-distance session with someone with a more complicated issue so I can try a more complex intervention, and I think I know just the person.

 So I’m already seeing the pros, but are there any cons? Somebody asked what would happen if the connection got cut off in mid-session. Well, I’m not the sort of hypnotherapist who believes that someone in “trance” is going to be stuck in some weird place for ever. The worst that could happen is that the client would eventually open his or her eyes and wonder why my nice soothing voice came to an abrupt end.

 What about building rapport with my client? Good question, but my ex-colleague’s wife proved to me that a video screen is no barrier. I intend to explore this further.

 I’m excited by the possibilities. If this works, it means my potential for helping people has gone global – it’s no longer limited by clients’ physical constraints in getting to my south east London therapy room. It could mean too that my iPad will have been a more than worthwhile investment (even if it has got my wife addicted to Angry Birds). And it means that I will now have to start to open my mind even more to the possibilities of using new technologies for therapeutic purposes.

  Maybe soon I will be able to look for paying clients who would be happy to work with me from the comfort of their own homes. For some, this could be reassuring: having access to therapy without the nervousness that sometimes goes hand in hand with visiting an unknown therapist in a strange place.

 I don’t know what Mesmer or Braid would make of this, but I suspect that Charles H Duell would be delighted to see that new inventions are still being patented – and that they are being used to help people to feel better and happier in the modern world.

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Nick Jenkins BA MFHT HPD DipCHyp NLP Pract MNCH (Lic) Hypnotherapist – Penge, South East

London: www.nickjenkinshypnotherapy.co.uk

Email: info@nickjenkinshypnotherapy.co.uk
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Internet Addiction or Addict?

Do you have an internet addition? Are you a computer, laptop, smart phone, Mac or PC addict?

An addiction is a feeling of compulsion or thinking that leads to a repetitive action or behaviour. A need is felt in a person and that need feels like it can only be satisfied by carrying out a specific action.

What is an Addiction ?

For some people that might be a chemical biological issue in the brain that leads to a repitition of a certain activity. The person feels anxious before the action is started but once completed, they can enjoy a sense of relief and feel less stressed or anxious.

Wikipedia suggestions that an addiction is:  ”The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity”

A learnt addiction, as the name implies, is a behaviour or activity that someone has acquired or learnt over time. As human beings we become more proficient with certain activities through repeating those activities over and over again. Learning to drive a car is an activity that is learnt over time through repetition (driving lessons). In repeating these lessons, much of the skill of driving moves from the conscious to the unconscious mind. Hence we tend to concentrate consciously on the route of the journey we take in driving a car rather than how we actually drive the car itself. The driving of the car has become an automated almost unconscious process.

However in the above example, driving a car does not ordinarily become an addiction. So you might ask what turns a repeated activity into a compulsion or addiction?

How is an addiction formed?

Generally, something else happens when a repeated activity becomes an addiction. The person repeating the activity, let’s say, checking their emails, or updating their status on Facebook, is getting some associtaed positive feeling or reward for carrying out this activity.

For example:

You leave a comment on a friend’s wall on Facebook and your comment is praised by others. You get an associated good feeling with the action you have taken. The subconscious mind starts an association between leaving helpful comments on Facebook and your sense of your self worth.

If you don’t often get praise elsewhere in your life (work, social events, personal relationships) the feel good factor you get from Facebook acts as a substitute for the real world. You find yourself returning to Facebook or other social networks to seek the same good feelings. If you succeed and your comments are praised the behaviour starts to embed itself in the subconscious mind and lead to a compulsion to repeat this pattern. You can find yourself staying up late at night either adding comments or waiting for others to respond to your latest Facebook activity, tweet on twitter or other social networking activity.

Computer Smart Phone, Ipad Internet Addiction

It may be that you have a compulsion to check your emails every minute. Do you find yourself getting up in the middle of night with a need to check your email and respond to them? This and other activities can all form part of an addiction to your computer, laptop, smart mobile phone or other device such as an ipad.

Overcoming an Internet Addiction

Behavioural addictions, no matter what their specific actions are (eg: checking emails, Facebook activity, tweeting, MSN Messenger, Skype messages, blogging etc) have all been learnt activities. What can be learnt can also be unlearnt – put another way, you can find another way of satisfying your needs.

It’s also important to know that what is an addiction for one person, may be a healthy activity for another. Some people need to check their emails frequently, or have a presence on Facebook for healthy reasons. Some people help charities via their Facebook activity. Some people run businesses that requires they respond to emails efficiently. Only you know whether your internet, computer, smart phone or ipad activity is healthy or not. Although part of an addiction can also be denial too. If you have any doubts about whether your internet activity is healthy or not, ask someone who is close to you and who knows what you do. Incidentally, if you feel the need to hide how often you access the internet then you may already know the answer.

Overcoming an addiction of any type always begins with the admittance of the addiction or compulsive behaviour. Do you feel you have an addiction to the internet?

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Author’s Details

Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Clinical Hypnotherapist – London and Essex

Website: www.hypno-therapist.com Email: steve@hypno-therapist.com
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Hypnotherapy and Internet Addiction

Hypnotherapy is often used to investigate the underlying cause of an addiction. In doing so this gives invaluable insight into the needs of a person that were previously not being met or fulfilled. In the proceeding hypnotherapy sessions, healthier lifestyle options can be explored that means that the original need is still being fulfilled but the behaviour that satisfies that need is a healthier one.

Your self confidence can often receive a boost knowing that you are no longer controlled by a compulsion but you are back in control of your life. A free initial consultation is often offered by a hypnotherapist to enable you find out more and discuss in confidence your internet addiction.

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