Did you know that if you think of yourself as an ex-smoker that you may be undermining your ability to stay stopped permanently? We all know how powerful perceptions can be. If we view some task or goal as being difficult we will probably find it difficult as we procrastinate about it and put off starting it. However we perceive a task or goal as being achievable we are more likely to make an attempt to do it and to therefore to succeed.

The same perception idea can either make our ability to stop smoking easier or harder. So the way you have thought about yourself when you have previously quit smoking may have undermined your ability to stay stopped.  If you have thought about yourself as an ex-smoker you may have increased the odds of smoking again whereas being a non-smoker is more likely to support and enhance your decision to stay stopped. There can be a big difference between these two labels and the implications of what they mean to someone who has stopped smoking.

The Ex-Smoker

This is a person who has quit smoking but their behaviour and perception is making it increasingly tougher to stick to their goal. The ex-smoker thinks about smoking throughout most of their day. They remember those times in the past when they would have smoked such as when stressed, after a meal, with colleagues during a work-break, with alcohol etc. They day-dream about what it would be like to be smoking now. They use their imagination to see themselves smoking which is only one short step away from smoking for real again.

A person who thinks of themselves as an ex-smoker will be in a never-ending fight with their willpower to stay stopped because smoking is in their thoughts so much. Even when they visit their local retailer they will be scanning the shelves looking for where their old cigarettes are and reminiscing how they used to have that pack. When they leave the shop and if they see a smoker outside they will hang around for a few minutes with the aim of smelling the smoke.

The ex-smoker has taken something that should be firmly in their past, and kept it in their future and current moments. They are having a touch time staying stopped. Indeed it is only a matter of time before they make some excuse to smoke again.

An ex-smoker will tell you that quitting has been like “hell” and yet it is not the nicoine loss that made it difficult for them, it was their way of perceiving what they were doing. They perceived that in stopping smoking they were giving up something and none of us like to be deprived of anything. So the more they handed over their thinking to smoking and imagined themselves doing so, the tougher it became to stay stopped.

The Non-Smoker

On the other hand a non-smoker is a person someone who used to smoke and has stopped too. So at first glance there appears to be no difference there. Yet in making their decision to quit smoking they are now doing something completely different to the ex-smoker. They are now thinking and imagining all the things that they want to do with their life and current time, now and in the future and not what they don’t want to do ie. Smoking! Their thoughts are not about smoking however if smoking does become a conscious thought they remeber how good they feel that they have quit. If they come across a smoker or detect smoke on someone else, they have a great sense of relief that they no longer do that and feel empowered and strong.

They will have been aware of the good benefits of their new life style such as easier breathing, better fitness, more restful sleep, confidence about their appearance, sense of freedom and the worry of serious illness has been diminished. They are proud and pleased with their choice to quit for good.

There is no way they would even entertain the idea of smoking again. If they do see someone else smoking they may well pity them and hope that they will stop smoking whilst they still have the ability to do so. Quitting smoking for them has become one of the proud life achievements akin to getting that promotion, marrying, passing that exam or seeing the birth of their child.

Non-Smoker Versus Ex-Smoker

The person who thinks and acts like an ex-smoker is having a difficult and trying experience. For them smoking is constantly in their conscious thoughts and sooner or later they are likely to return to being a smoker. Whereas the non-smoker is having a pleasant time of it. They know and feel good that they have enhanced their ability of staying being a non-smoker.

Be a Non-Smoker with Hypnosis

Hypnosis helps to reinforce your decision to stop smoking and helps you to change your perceptions away from being a ex-smoker to become a non-smoker and enjoy your decision to be free finally of smoking. These and other changes to your perceptions form part of the comprehensive quit smoking session to help you stick to your decision to stop smoking for life.

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Author’s Details

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

Website: www.quitsmokinghypnosislondon.com Email: steve@stop-smoking-hypnosis.com
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a generalised description for uncomfortable and often painful symptoms in the abdomen including the stomach and bowels. Unfortunately the cause of IBS is not known and sufferers tend to adopt management of the symptoms rather than being offered a cure. It is estimated that IBS affects around 15 to 20% of the population and more women tend to suffer with it than men. Making IBS sufferes need to check for where the nearest toilet is wherever they are.

IBS Symptoms

Typical symptoms related to Irritable Bowel Syndrome include discomfort, bloating, and changing  bowel habits which can range from diarrhea to constipation. Some of these symptoms can be embarrassing which can lead to restrictions in lifestyle either to do with the occupation and/or social activities.

Causes of IBS

There is nothing definitive that causes IBS. Some practitioners suspect gut infections or parasites. Indeed the risk of getting IBS increases significantly after a gastro-intestinal infection. Some research suggests a connection between stress and the reaction of the gut to prolonged stress.

How is IBS Managed?

As there is no known cure for IBS treatment tends to focus on reducing symptoms and being aware of triggers and avoiding those triggers. In order to relieve symptoms adjustments for meal size, frequency and contents may be introduced. For example 5 lighter meals might be better than 3 heavier meals. Medication such as anti-sposmodic drugs and stomach acid inhibitors maybe prescribed amongst other drugs. Often a fibre supplement is suggested. Then there are the psychological interventions that can help a patient’s confidence and stress levels.

Hypnosis Helps IBS

Learning self hypnosis can be a great way of reducing stress and be a highly effective part of your IBS management program. When you consider that when we are stressed we can produce more stomach acid, anything that can help us feel more relaxed, a lessen acid production, even during work or social activities, will help the confidence of any IBS sufferer.

In fact hypnosis has been used for many years at a Manchester hospital to specifically help people who have IBS. Professor Whorwell has lead his IBS clinic with a positive role for hypnosis and it’s regular practice in the form of self hypnosis can do in reducing IBS pain and discomfort.

Help for IBS Sufferers

It’s important that if you think you suffer from or have been diagnosed with IBS, that your doctor remains at the centre of your treatment program. Hypnosis is considered an effective addition to the range of treatments for IBS.

Steven Harold teaches self hypnosis to his hypnotherapy patients in London helping them to reduce their stress levels and aiding the management of the symptoms of IBS.

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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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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 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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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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 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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Author’s Details

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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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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When does the fear begin?
Commonly the fear or experience that led to the fear begins in childhood. The fear usually happens following some event with an animal which is misinterpretted by the child. This can even happen through watching a TV programme that involved a scene with an animal. Unfortunately, the fear can also be caused by an obvious traumatic encounter with an animal such as being growled at or bitten.

When should someone seek help with a fear?
The sooner the better really. As they say ” a stitch in time saves nine”. If managed quickly, the fear can be safely released. Sadly this is not always possible. A parent, may mistakenly believe that they help their child’s fear,  by going to great lengths to avoid future encounters wuth animals. UInfotunately, this understandble tactic does not alleviate the fear and may even increase it.

What are the long-term results
Whilst avoidance of animals allows the child lead comfortable existance, the suppression of the fear can lead to problems in later life. As the child grows up, the fear will often re-surface, even later on in adult years. It will be imposssible to predict that there will never be animal-free experiences forever. An unexpected encounter with the type of animal they have spent years avoiding, can lead to another traumatic reinforcement of the fear.

Children are usually able to admit to fears whereas adults learn to hide theirs. The notion of exposing their fear by seeking help may be challenging for some people. Yet if the fear isn’t dealt with, it can lead to increased levels of anxiety and even panic attacks.

In my hypnotherapy practice, I have helped many people of different ages, children to retirees, who dreaded contact with birds, dogs, cats, mice, guinea pigs, rats, rabbits, bats, even goldfish  and, perhaps more commonly, snakes and spieders.

How can the fear be resolved?
In my experience, it’s always vital to find the initial cause of the fear and to work on that. Hypnosis gives us access to the amazing subconscious mind, which is also our permanent memory and stores everything that happens in our life.

I’ve listened as clients were able to recall, and then transform, the event that became the seed of their fear. This might have been something as small as a baby in a pushchair or pram being scared by what seemed to be a huge dog sticking its head in or barking. Or it could be seeing a pair of cat’s eyes glowing yellow in the dark. Occasionally becomeing aware of mother’s or father’s own fera of animals, can transmit a similar fear to the child. Other times, it might have been finding a dead spider inside a folded deckchair, or – more unfortunately – being badly-bitten or snarled or hissed at by an animal. In a small child, who is still learning about the world and how to survive in it, this will certainly also cause a fear of dying.

How long does it take to lose the fear or phobia?
Whether the fear of animals – any animal – is a childhood or an adult fear, it’s important to know that it can be resolved, and generally very quickly. Even London Zoo has it’s own phobia programme for helping anyone with phobias or fears especially of spiders.

If the child’s fear is addressed as soon as possible after the scary experience, it can usually be resolved in two hypnotherapy sessions. With adults, because of the years that have gone by and possible other compounding fearful experiences, although it might take a little longer, you can expect the same successful resolution.

Fears and Phobia help with Hypnotherapy
If you have a long-standing or new phobia, or anyone you know, have an unhealthy fear of cats, dogs, birds or other animal, I am happy to help you. Indeed any experienced hypnotherapist should be able to help you release your fear or phobia.

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Niki Cassar DCH DHP MAPHP(ACC)
Hypnotherapist & Past Life Regressionist – London and Surrey
Website: www.nikicassar.com  Email: mindfully@nikicassar.com
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Unfortunately the term “giving up” does not help the efforts of a smoker. the words “giving up” implies that in doing so that you will have to “do without” something or that you will be deprived of something that you like or want.

No one likes to be denied something that on some level they have accepted that they need, want or like. “Giving up” has similat connotations to the word “diet”. A diet implies limitations and depriving yourself of something you want or have had in the past.

If you start your good intention to stop smoking with the thought that you are giving up something, psychologically this perception does not help you to stay stopped in fact it may undermine your efforts to quit smoking for good.

A perception of giving up something implies that you continue to think about what you will miss by stopping smoking.  It also implies that smoking does something for you in a positive way, which, as a non-smoker you will have to cope without.

Many smokers view smoking as an aid to relaxation and having a chance to de-stress. In reality the nicotine that enters the blood stream, if anything makes you more tense. It doesn’t relax you. What does hel;p to release and relieve any stress and tension is what you do whilst you are smoking.

Most smokers do this when they are smoking:-

1) Step away from the place of stress to smoker (eg. step outside the office)

2) Take deeper breaths in (this is a well-known relaxation method)

3) Daydream about pleasant events (if they are alone) or get things off their chest by cursing something that has upset them.

4) Engage with fellow smokers – a kind of cameraderie that aids the pereception of shared experienes and helps de-stress someone

5) Smoke when drinking alcohol (alcohol provides temporary relaxation)

Smokers make an association between the above ideas and smoking and assume that it must be the cigarette or rollie that helps them to feel chilled or relaxed. In  reality it is those other things you do when you smoke that helps you to relax.

Giving Up Smoking – Good News

There is a way of stopping smoking without having the sense of giving up anything. Part of that way is to continue to do those things you used to do when you smoked. So you can still have those 5 minute work breaks and step away for a while. You can still mix with people who smoke and enjoy the cameraderie. You can still enjoy alcohol.

If you use this tactic you will not be giving up anything, you will in fact simply be stopping poisoning yourself. In doing so you will make the task of sticking to your decision to be a non-smoker much easier.
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Steven Harold BA(Hons) DCH DHP
Quit Smoking Hypnotherapist – London and Essex

Website: www.stop-smoking-hypnosis.com Email: steve@stop-smoking-hypnosis.com
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Innovative driving instructor Javez Khan has incorporated hypnotherapy techniques along with his driving instruction classes to help his nervous pupils feel more calm and relaxed when they take their driving exam.

Javez who offers his driving instruction and hypnotherapy sessions around Bradford, West Yorkshire, claims that 8 out 0 10 nervous drivers have been helped to pass their tests. In fact his driving school deliberately targets nervous learner drivers.

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Stage fright can really be related to any kind of performance anxiety. Those times when we might feel anxious are when we have to do something (eg. sing, dance, talk, play a musical instrument, the wedding/funeral speech) in front of an audience of any size.

Well-known and experienced film, TV and theatre actors who have performed for decades will still relate to those nerves just before they head on stage to perfom their part, give an acceptance speech at an award ceremony or maybe open some fete or event.

No one is immune to stage fright but as this article highlights, stage fright does not have to be permanent and you can overcome and actually reach a time when you enjoy and relish performing.

Fortunately this young singer had an asset. Her mother is an experienced hypnotherapist and knew exactly how to help her overcome her nerves.

The hypnotherapists listed on this website hypnotherapy directory can help you too with your performance anxiety or public speaking nerves. Use the county listing on the right-hand side to find an experienced hypnotherapist near you.

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 You may already know that hypnotherapy is effective for issues such as Smoking and Weight loss, but what about the more thorny issues of everyday living and existence? Can hypnotherapy help with issues such as finding meaning in life and living in an uncertain world? In the following article, the focus is on mental toughness and uncertainty. Even though we may crave predictability and security, we all have to live with doubt and the resulting anxiety. In life, anxiety is inevitable; it will either motivate us or overwhelm us. In order to live and succeed in an uncertain world we need what I call mental toughness.

Mental Toughness Versus Uncertainty 

 In order to retain our mental toughness and confidence, we need to be realistic and accept the contingencies of life and existence. This is not always easy as life is uncertain and the future unwritten. We are evolutionally hardwired to be anxious and to worry about the unknown. So it’s unsurprising that we have tried everything from interpreting dreams and reading the stars, to consulting clairvoyants, in order to assuage our anxiety about the future.

Certainty about the future (and the past) gives us a sense of meaning and purpose in the world and the universe – life makes sense. But what if there really is no certainty, no plan and no reward? What if life is just random, meaningless and groundless? What if the universe really doesn’t care? Then, perhaps we need existential mental toughness to get a grip and make the most of a random existence.

Thrown into the World

We do not choose to be born, nor do we choose when and where we are born. We are thrown into the world. At some stage in our development we realise that we exist as individuals and can distinguish ourselves from others. Who and what we become is our responsibility; it is based on the choices we make. Even if life’s conditions constrain us, we still have the freedom, choice and responsibility to decide what we will do and who we will become in each moment. We are our choices. We are our actions. No excuses.

Anxiety and Risk

Given the uncertainty and randomness of life, it is inevitable that we will suffer from some anxiety. In order to contain our anxiety and maintain our false sense of security, we may live restricted lives by limiting our choices and actions. Through risk avoidance and procrastination, our world becomes smaller. A safe life – can be a dangerous life.

The good news is that anxiety can be a catalyst for change and push us towards new experiences that enrich our lives with meaning. Using hypnotherapy we can explore what the anxiety is really telling us, what choices we have and what action we can confidently take. Change starts with anxiety.

So, how can we decide if we are living our lives to their fullest potential? Consider if you had to live your life exactly the same, over and over again for all eternity. As Nietzsche once asked, what if:

“This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence – even this spider and this moon-light between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!” (Nietzsche, 1882)

So, if you had to live your life the same over and over again, would you be happy with your choices and actions, would you change anything? To give meaning and purpose to our existence, each of us has to invent our own philosophy of life. We all need to find our own truth, however what is true for us today might not be appropriate tomorrow.

 Ask yourself these two essential (and existential) questions each day.

1.  Who am I?
2. What am I going to do?

For more information on Mental Toughness and Hypnotherapy please see my details below.

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Author’s Details

Phil Pearl Phil Pearl DCH DHP MCH GHR Reg
Clinical Hypnotherapist – Harley Street & Kensington, London

Website: www.mental-toughness.co.uk
Email: phil@mental-toughness.co.uk
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Bibliography:

Nietzsche, F. (1882). Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. Translated by Walter Kaufmann UBNVAYFFQNC6

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The followings tips are useful for any type of public speaking and boost your confidence:-

1) Know your topic

Whatever topic or theme you intend talking about, it’s vital to know what you want to communicate to your audience. If you know that you have various facts, data  and arguments to convince and inform your audience it will help boost your confidence.

2) Rehearse, rehearse, and then rehearse again

The well known saying is “practice makes perfect”. Even the most famous comedians rehearse their jokes until they have honed their delivery and timing. Rehearse your talk speech or even your planned comments at a work meeting. When you practice speak out loud so that become accustomed to hearing your voice say the phrases and words you will be using.

3) Slow down

We have a tendency to speak faster when we are nervous. Slow your speech down and take your time. Apart from anything else, speaking quickly will make you feel uncomfortable and your audience will find it difficult to absorb the information you are giving if you rattle through it.

4) Look for smiling faces

Friendly and smiling faces in your audience help you to feel more relaxed. Looking at these faces helps you to feel safer and respected. 

Public Speaking Confidence

5) Have water readily available  

Just incase your mouth dries up, have some water available.  Anyone who speaks will experience a drying of the mouth and throat as talking forces air through the mouth. Also, pausing to drink water helps set a nice relaxed pace.

6) Orange juice aids relaxation

Some studies conducted recently have suggested that drinking some orange juice before you start your speech helps to keep your body relaxed.

7) Reading doesn’t necessarily help

Reading from a prepared transcript may seem to be a useful way of preventing memory loss. Most best men read their speech and there are other occasions where writing your speech and reading may be appropriate. For meetings, trainings, workshops and other events, reading a speech or talk takes some of the energy out of your delivery and make your speech seem boring. Do have bullet points which enable you to use your natural style of speaking by expanding on each bullet point. You will feel in control and make it more interesting for your audience

8) Equipment checking

If you are going to use an overhead projector or presentation software or an overhead projector, make sure you are familiar with their operation. Rehearse in the room and with the equipment you will be using on the day.

9) Audience support

Remember that your audience will want you to succeed. If you look uncomfortable or unrehearsed, they will start to feel your discomfort. They want you to succeed too.

10) Relaxation techniques

Learn a relaxation technique such as self hypnosis. Regular use of self hypnosis helps you feel clamer and it utilises the power of your imagination.

Confident Public Speaking

Whether you are giving a short speech at a wedding or funeral, making an acceptance speech at an award ceremony, leading a work meeting, making a presentation to the board or work colleagues or just socialising with friends and family, you can feel more confident and calmer when it is your turn to speak.

Incorporating these public speaking tips can provide a boost to your confidence and bring about a more relaxed feeling during your speech. Speaking with confidence is a skill that can be learnt and improved upon like any other skill. Are you ready to speak with confidence in public?

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Author’s Details

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

Website: www.hypnotherapy-in-london.biz Email: mindfully@hypno-therapist.com
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Now many of us may confess to be experts on procrastination. We know exactly how to put things off and leave our troubles behind. Watch TV. Have a coffee or snack. Ring up a friend. Play a computer game or read every email. Do a bit of research or internet surfing. Or are we just good at keeping those things ahead of us or hanging over us?

When we look at the definition of the word  Procrastination it means the act or habit of putting something off.  (Latin  pro- onward  and crastinus – tomorrow)

So what exactly is Procrastination ? Or what exactly are we doing when we procrastinate?  And why do we do it? Is it in your nature or part of your personality?

It is about putting something off that we know should be done now and yet by doing that it can affect the way we feel, the way we look and the way we project ourselves and our confidence levels. It will even affect our social lives because it will make us feel guilty if things are still not done. Or give us an excuse for not going out, or attending a meeting or a function or inviting people to our homes. If we are not well prepared or organized we  have less inclination to engage with others.

Procrastination is a habit and an association just as compulsive drinking, eating  or smoking is a habit and association. Each person knows that they have a problem to address yet they will often delude themselves that it is under control and they can deal with it at any time or when they feel ready.  In the meantime, the problem escalates and gets bigger and bigger. In the same way that people smoke, drink and overeat, people procrastinate to give themselves comfort to help them relax or to give them a break.

It is possible that procrastination might start unwittingly when a person is under a huge amount of stress or going through a life-changing event like illness bereavement or divorce.  In relation to what is going on in their lives, certain tasks or duties seem trivial, compared with what they or their loves ones are going through.  They may often give themselves permission to let things slip.  Other people would probably give them full permission to let things slide also. Nevertheless, those jobs tasks do need to be addressed at some point in the future.

We are now under a huge amount of pressure to appear successful in everything we do.  Some people do not necessarily want success but they will load themselves with unwanted pressure until they cannot cope. A typical procrastinator will look for distractions from the tasks he/she should be dealing with and take on more and more or other peoples responsibilities.

 In an age and society with less restrictions and boundaries and discipline it is so easy to let things slide.  If we think of the word ‘order’ in the context of a Religious Order  it refers to the way in which those people conduct their lives. They live by rules – a wholesome life  in a clean and tidy environment and they are productive.

 So when we think about what causes procrastination there are several aspects of our lives we need to address.  Our physical state – are we tired, stressed, depressed, anxious. All these things will affect our ability to get things done. Do we take enough exercise, eat well? It is known that about 85% of people suffering with fatigue do not take enough exercise.  We all need to review our diets from time to time .  Are we drinking too much coffee, tea, alcohol  diet coke?  Are we eating too much sugar and fat?.

 Have we had our sight and hearing checked. If we are not feeling good physically it will definitely affect our ability to get things done. Even our size or shape will hamper us. Are we too small, weak or too big, fat to be able to carry out the task. Do we need physical help?

Attitude and Achievement 

We also need to look at our attitude. What are we trying to achieve? What do we want to achieve?  Do we avoid opening the mail because of fear of bills or our inability to pay? Do we have a fear of failure or a fear of success or a fear of being found out?

Many people will have cognitive blocks in their approach to their work or responsibilities. They may have a lack of confidence in themselves or feel they lack knowledge or understanding of how to complete a task.  They may think they cannot do a job until everything is at hand and find it easy to blame others for not playing their part.  Or simply they may just not be interested in what they are doing or have any desire to complete the task.

 Now the Chinese they like order and books on Feng Shui will talk of calm relaxed environments that create balance and bring prosperity.  We know that a poorly laid out office with bad lighting and badly arranged layout and equipment will slow us down. Clear the clutter and we feel so much better, freer and clearer in our thinking and our productivity.

The other element that affects us all is communication and stimulation. We have all heard tell of high flyers who left their jobs to go self-employed and work from home. Two weeks later they would still be in their pyjamas at lunchtime. It is as if they had lost their way or sense of urgency. Most of us need routines, boundaries, interaction and in some cases competition.

Hypnotherapy and Procrastination

As a hypnotherapist I see many clients who feel they are underachieving or unfulfilled. One of the first areas of the life I would help them address is overall health and quality sleep. Then by getting them to set goals and work towards them they gain confidence and self-belief very quickly and find they can do more and more.

The subconscious mind likes specifics so I help my clients look at the goals, what needs to be done, what must be done and then I ask them to break the projects into smaller more manageable tasks.( The sum of the parts). Often a task or project can seem insurmountable but by dividing and conquering it is soon overcome.

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Sue Turner DCH DHP MNCH(Reg)
Candela Clinical Hypnosis                           The Don Ely clinic
19 Reading Road                                      No 1 Harley Street
Henley on Thames                                     London
RG9 1AB                                      W1G 9QD

 Tel: 01491 410857    Mobile: 07702939020    
 www.candela-hypnosis.co.uk        candelahypnosis@aol.com

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In the last few years a discovery that can add to our belief that we don’t fully realise the power of the mind is its use with a mental version of the gastric band surgery bypass. An article in a UK daily newspaper described a hypnotherapy client’s experience in Spain, and how successful this approach to weight-loss had worked. The client shown in the article successfully responded to a hypnosis-induced version of the gastric band surgery. Now more and more hypnotherapists are training to be able to offer their clients this service.

What does the real Gastric Band Surgery Bypass achieve?
The physical operation for this procedure requires a band to be placed around the upper part of the stomach. The band when filled, slows the transit of digested food into the stomach. By doing this, the brain receives a signal from the stomach saying that it is full and the person will stop eating.

A person who has the gastric band fitted loses weight by getting a feeling of being satisfied quicker than they would otherwise have felt. This in turn leads to them eating less and they lose weight as a consequence.

Hypnosis Gastric Band Surgery Bypass
Steven Harold, your London Hypnotherapist has attended training from Dr. Keith Hearne of the European College of Hypnotherapy. Typically 3 to 5 sessions of hypnosis are required. During these sessions, suggestions are provided that assist your imagination that you are having the gastric band surgery. Generally clients say  that they notice similar “full up” sensations that others who have had the surgery have experienced. They feel satiated earlier than usual, eat less and lose weight.

Intriguingly, the hypnosis version of gastric band surgery may be effective even though the person having is consciously aware that they have not gone through actual physical gastric band surgery.

Is this the Hypnosis Gastric Band right for ?
The hypnosis gastric band sessions are aimed at those who have stones rather than just pounds to lose. As a rough guide anyone with 2 or more stone of excess weight may consider this type of hypnotherapy approach.

It is important to mention that you have psychological causes for excess weight. Issues around guilt, low confidence, low esteem, abuse and others from past events may have led to someone having an unhealthy relationship with food. As a part of the perparation for the hypnosis gastric band, these aspects will be investigated.

Please Note. It’s crucial to be aware that weight loss occurs through two main actions, the reduction in food digested (plus eating healthier foods), and exercise. These two aspects are the main pillars of any hypnotherapy sessions for weight loss. The goal of these hypnotherapy sessions is to provide extra support in addition to what you are prepared to do to help your weight issue which includes your willpower. It’s important to seek the support of your doctor before making any sudden changes to your lifestyle.

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We blink our eyelids without thinking about it, either to keep the surface of the eye moist and clean, or to prevent something from going into the eye. The client needed to wear special contact lenses at night in order to change the shape of his corneas, thereby improving his eyesight and avoiding the need for glasses. Soon he would be too old to go through this procedure.

He really wanted to do it but he was having difficulty putting the lenses in each eye due to his blink reflex.

Treatment involved relaxation and motivation, master control room imagery, and dialogue with the part that wants to protect the eye, together with a specially made CD designed to take the client into a very relaxed state immediately before insertion of the contact lenses.

It is no longer a problem and he can now manage without glasses.

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Patrick Browning, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Kensington London
Email: Patrick@Browning-hypnosis.co.uk
Website: www.Browning-Hypnosis.co.uk
Article Posted – 3rd March 2010
Copyright Patrick Browning

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 Milton H Erickson: The Inspiration
The history to solution focused therapy is a fascinating one and many people do not realise that it was inspired by the work of the very famous American psychiatrist and hypnotherapist Milton H Erickson. The life story of this gentleman is a huge inspiration and is of its own accord an illustration of the power of a solution focused mind. Erickson battled the paralysing affects of polio not once but twice having very unusually contracted the condition twice, the first time when he was a high school graduate.

When he heard the doctor tell his mother “the boy will be dead by morning” Erickson mustered an instinctive solution focused response to the news. He became infuriated but quickly calmed himself and requested his mother to move a piece of furniture to enable him to see the view from the window better. If his demise really was imminent he was certainly going to enjoy the best possible view!

Erickson regarded the time he spent confined to bed with only the senses of sight and hearing to entertain him as an education. He learnt to be an observer of human movement, intention, thought, expression and achievement. This close observation awakened in him the interest and understanding of unconscious patterns which was to become his future.

He would lay in bed visualising what it would like walk, noting the smallest of mechanics which were the cogs in the machine of the act of walking. Unwittingly he activated the rehearsal room of his subconscious mind as he went over and over the small changes which would be the beginning of standing and of walking, skills which he went on to regain.

Even then Erickson was sowing the seeds of utilisation by locating inner resources gathered in other times and other experiences and applying them in this new context. He qualified as a psychiatrist and hypnotherapist rapidly acquiring a reputation for what came to be known as his “teaching tales” and metaphors. He would often succeed therapeutically with cases where his colleagues had failed to create positive change.

Naturally Erickson’s work was observed by many therapists who sought to recreate his success. Grindler and Bandler were inspired by some aspects of his work and created NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). Most hypnotherapists today incorporate some NLP techniques within their work.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: The Beginning
Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg (a married couple) became the originators of Solution Focused Brief Therapy when they created the Brief Therapy Centre in Malwaukee, USA. They were soon joined by Yvonne Dolan and others. The solution focused approach was radical in that it was solution rather than problem focused; thus clients were enabled to move from a problem centred mindset to solution focused mindset. The approach is client centred, non-judgemental and solutions are often not linked to the problem in a direct way. For example, a client who found playing tennis improved her ability to concentrate at work.

The Brief Therapy Centre dealt mainly with family problems which had often become very complex over time. It was a revelation for the therapist to be able to ask each family member present what they would see as improvement, how would they recognise improvement and what changes those small changes which were the beginnings of improvement would bring to others close to them. In this way the Clients move away from problem formation mode into solution formation mode.

The originators of Brief Solution Focused Therapy used the therapy for a wide range of problems including depression, behavioural problems, addiction, family and relationship problems, depression, anxiety, phobia and stress related issues.

For further information about Brief Solution Focused Therapy in the United Kingdom and Europe please contact BRIEF of London- Website: www.brieftherapy.org.uk

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy
When hypnotherapists began to be trained in the Solution Focused Approach the circle of inspiration had really turned full circle linking back to Milton H Erickson the hypnotherapist who inspired Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg.

The Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy School
I trained at The Clifton Practice Hypnotherapy School in Bristol where the solution focused way is taught alongside an understanding of the mind from an evolutionary perspective and hypnotherapeutic techniques. Principal Tutor David Newton is a gifted and inspiring teacher and one of the first to teach solution focused hypnotherapy in the United Kingdom. His own therapeutic experience is colossal, for well over a decade in addition to teaching he would see forty to fifty clients per week. Clients would bring issues as diverse as phobias, depression, anxiety, confidence and sporting performance including a boxer who following therapy lifted his performance to such a level he become a world champion. Such is the power and diverse applications of solution focused hypnotherapy! For further information or training please visit: www.thecliftonpractice.co.uk

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy and Neuroscience
Modern neuroscience and solution focused hypnotherapy are very natural partners. Please see sections entitled “The Solution Focused Mind” and “Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Concepts: Some Supportive Research” at the end of this article.

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy: What to expect
a) Time spent discussing problem formation to be limited to understanding the difference between operating in problem formation mode and solution formation mode.

b) The formation or origin of a problem to be explained in terms of how the brain works. The influence of thinking styles will be discussed.

c) The therapist presumes you have inner strengths, potential, resources, creativity and life skills which you are not yet utilising.

d) Hypnotherapy is used in every session to lower anxiety, help you into solution focused mode and create the changes you identify with greater ease and rapidity. A CD is usually provided for use at home.

e) In second and subsequent sessions the therapist will ask you what has been different, what has been better even in very small ways.

f) Creativity is increased and positive happy memories are accessed spontaneously and far more often.

g) Playfulness, lightness, laughter and creativity to be present.

h) Therapy is non-judgemental, encourages mindfulness and is respectful of your own wisdom.

j) Homework experiments are suggested by therapist with clients being invited to add their own. If a client wishes to substitute their own homework experiment for the one suggested that is welcomed.

k) NLP techniques will be used in some circumstances particularly phobic or compulsive responses.

The Solution Focused Mind
Before we look at how and why this is so let us take a moment to look at why the problem focused mind is so unhelpful.

The Problem with a Problem Focused Mind: When we feel threatened we run the ancient fight, flight or freeze response which kept our ancestors safe and is a valuable response in dangerous situations but this is effectively our “emergency button“. When we perceive a non-dangerous threat in modern life we still press that emergency button if our anxiety is at a high enough level the following occurs:-

a) Our left brain capacity including our language faculty is greatly diminished and is calibrated to search for anything else which could go wrong (akin to a stone age man looking for more dangers).

b) The creative potential of the right brain is calibrated towards spotting more threats becoming every more hypervigilant and creating more anxiety. Pattern matches to those memories where an emotional not a logical match are made. This system of illogical pattern matching which is very active in sowing the seeds of phobic responses or simply those times when we say to ourselves “I can‘t“. Evolutionary this emotional matching system is useful. For example, when a child burns itself for the first time it learns to be cautious around all sources of heat not just the one which caused the burn. It is emotional matching and feeling anxious too close to heat which allows the child to learn without the need for repeat burns.

c) In this mode the subconscious mind do what it did to keep our ancestors safe – it will reference back making an emotional match to the past. In this mode we are recycling a program and are not innovative thinkers – for innovative thinking we need to be in solution focused mode.

The benefits of The Solution Focused Mind:
a) The intellectual left brain is in control and responding to and perpetuating our positive intention. We become masters of intention. Our left brain intellectual and language capacity are fully available to us and is calibrated to deal with problems and make the most of life. We can train the left brain to take control in this way which includes the capacity to put itself in standby mode whilst we do something purely creative. We deal with things instead of sweeping them under the carpet. In solution focused hypnotherapy we greatly increase this capacity.

b) The holistic mind: The full creative positively focused potential of the right brain is available to us and working in synergy with the left brain. The left brain is able to go into positive standby mode whenever the positively focused imagination of the right brain is the better resource to problem solve or enjoy life. Anxiety levels are kept low ensuring our automatic thoughts are positive ones!

c) The subconscious mind will create and keep updating new positive reactions and thoughts to help us as we live our lives. Our thoughts are both realistic and inspiring. The mind working in synergy in this way is an awesome machine.

Neurotransmission
We produce lots of wonderful serotonin which allows us to feel we are equal to and coping with the challenges of life. There are hundreds of neurotransmitters but it would seem that serotonin is the “key in the door” of positive neurotransmission. Major players in the neurotransmission cycle are serotonin, noradrenalin and dopamine. Serotonin helps us to cope with life, noradrenalin is a motivating factor so we create successful action and when we feel successful we create dopamine which leads to more serotonin – so as you can see solution focusing is an important tool within therapy but also a skill for life.

When our neurotransmission operates properly we cope with life better and this also has physical benefits which may interest you. Did you know that when we generate the proper chemicals we deal with long term conditions including chronic pain better and we sleep better. Our parasympathetic nervous system is in control which means we are calmer physically with lower blood pressure, better immune function, better digestion and many other improved functions. Evolutionarily we are meant to have our parasympathetic nervous system in control most of the time as our bodies work better and age more slowly that way – to do that in modern life we need to focus on solutions. The sympathetic nervous system is there to be activated by our emergency button in dangerous situations – it was designed for infrequent use and rapid resolution with a return to intellectual and parasympathetic nervous system control. By focusing on the solution we are creating the equivalent of that rapid resolution!”

Solution Focused Hypnotherapy Concepts: Some Supportive Research
Day dreaming is what the brain gets up to when it is not occupied by anything in particular. Marcus Rachie, a neuroscientist at Washington University, St Louis has carried out a lot of research into this area. It had been established that the brain uses a huge amount of energy in proportion to its dimension using even more than the heart and he wanted to know what caused such a high usage.

He carried out studies into this area of the brain which utilised so much energy which fires up whenever the brain is otherwise unoccupied in doing so he discovered a new functional system within the brain – default mode.

Guilio Tononi of The University of Wisconsin-Madison was very excited by this stating “it’s not very frequent that a new functional system is identified in the brain…” Some neuroscientist assign the his new functional system the role of selecting memories and mulling over future possibilities and combining them into a personal narrative.

Rachie also used PET to find brain areas associated with words and noted that these areas active at rest became quiet as soon as the person began physical activity. In 1997 these results were collaborated by Gordon Shulman and he and Rachie published a joint paper in 2001 positing they had discovered a hitherto unrecognised default mode which the brain only sets aside when it focuses on something else. This work led Rachie to speculate that the default network might provide the brain with an “inner rehearsal” for future actions and choices and this concept fits in very nicely with the model of the mind that we work from as SFBH where we consider the imagination to be the rehearsal room of life.

As far as hypnosis goes the work of Woolley went further positing that brain studies including PET and EEG’s have shown the involvement of the anterior cingulated cortex, the thalamus and brainstem (ponto-mesencephalic) to be involved in the production of hypnotic experiences. The anterior cingulated cortex is active in novelty detection and dissociation from sensory input. Woolley notes “A conceptual framework has been proposed which integrates neurophysiology, systems thinking and psychology, as complementary factors in hypnosis (citing Hasegawa and Jameson 2002)”. As hypnotherapists we have long since understood that hypnosis is both associative and dissociative allowing us to let go of unwanted response patterns and to install new preferred responses, it is good that we now understand how this operates within the brain.

Email: kt.cook@btinternet.com
Website: www.newhorizons-hypno.com

Article Posted – 24th November 2009. Written by and Copyright belonging to Kay Cook.

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Article Posted – 26th June 2009. Copyright Amreeta Chapman

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One of the biggest challenges facing anyone today is how to deal with a pace of life that seems to becoming more rapid. With the proliferation of access to the internet all of us have become accustomed to faster responses to what we want and our needs. Goods and services can be ordered with the click of a button and delivered in double-quick time.

Is a faster pace of life right for us and do we just go along with it because that is the way technology is taking us?

“Our minds and bodies are not like a piece of technology that can suddenly be cranked up to match the innovations in the commercial world”.

Faster internet access and quicker response times has not led to human beings stepping up a gear to match these developments. In the short-term we mahy be taking matters in our stride but what are the long-term effects of this increase in the expectancy and pace of life?

Some people are finding it harder to cope and eventually they just stop. They mayh have a nervous breakdown or in a fit of temper (built up stress or anxiety) they resign from their job.

Yet there can be a gap between what we expect of ourselves and our performance in comparison to these technological leaps. Even our employers can get caught up in the hype. They might expect unrealistic increases in workers effectiveness and efficiency.

As a result of these technological efficiency improvements and as expectations grow of life becoming faster, some people can forget to slow down enough to look after their own needs. In fact speed does not always equate to efficiency. Sometimes, just like them, you can just find yourself running on empty. In other words you feel tired or even exhausted most of the time but you still keep going.

Exhaustion, buth physical and mental, leads invariably to stress. Stress is a state that can be beneficial but an excess of prolonged stress can be detrimental to the human mind and body.

Stress & Anxiety

Prolonged stress or anxiety, if left unchecked, can lead to physical issues such as ulcers, eczema, psoriasis, acid reflux and high blood pressure to name but a few. Excess stress tends to be a de-motivator and you may find yourself making excuses to get out of doing something you no longer have the energy of will to tackle.

Self Hypnosis

Hypnotherapy can provide the solution to recovering a better quality of life and a sense of well-being. Self hypnosis, which is a relaxation method, can release excess stress and anxiety and prevent the build-up of problems resulting from prolonged stress.

For busy people for whom time is a precious resource, self hypnosis can be used in 5 minute per day to achieve lasting harmony and balance. Self hypnosis brings with it a wonderful state of relaxation and calmness. Feeling calmer more of time will help you cope with the pace of life and make better decisions too.

Once learned, self hypnosis and the wonderful sense of peace and tranquility experienced through it, can become a regular habit that helps you perform at your peak with energy and healthier self confidence.

Feel More Relaxed

If you want to destress your life, release anxiety and tension and feel calmer and more relaxed, consider learning self hypnosis. You’ll be glad you did and as it usually takes one session of hypnotherapy to learn, you can soon be enjoying a life where you feel empowered and in control more of the time.

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“How on earth can we equate a shy, pale person with an angry, red-faced person? Easily… when we realise that hidden is a series of thought and feeling processes that is just the same in both…”

Anger is normal and a very healthy way to say that we are hurt or frustrated; Anger in itself is felt when we feel brushed off, not listened to or made fun of etc…. But anger becomes a major problem in the way it is expressed. Physical violence, verbal abuse, tantrums even in adults, swearing and abusing others…you know when you are faced with a person “who has lost it completely!” don’t you? Problem is, they do not see it or accept it until they are threatened to lose that prized status, job or relationship.

We are brought up in a civilized society that often says “don’t be angry”, “you don’t look good angry!” so that we grow up lacking the right skills to express our hurt feelings in a healthy way. So how do we express anger or aggressive feelings: often shouting, swearing, throwing things around, pounding on doors or tables, shrieking, or pushing people aside and stomping off, sulking in silence for days before exploding into rage…..all these expressions of anger are bound to leave us feeling released in the short term but ashamed, guilty, angry with ourselves and demeaned in our self-esteem and with an estranged, hurt or demeaned husband, wife, partner or child.

Because what often angry people see as triggers for anger e.g. “she does not listen”, “he behaves so irresponsible; like a child I tell you!”, “my colleagues think I am a bully so I give them a bully!” are not there in the first place. Triggers are often there, seen and felt by them because of their belief systems e.g. being vulnerable if I cry, not good-enough for love, fear of losing control and being hurt, being too ordinary to deserve authority status, etc…Thus when the eye see and the heart feels that we are being treated as such we are bound to react defensively to protect ourselves.

Passivity—Assertiveness–Aggressiveness: Scale of expressing emotions.

The person who has learnt to retreat in passivity from early years as a way of protection will keep that same attitude and may even get sympathy and help later on in life to come “out of the shell!” But the person who has learnt anger (from role models, from being ignored, or by colluding with the abuser in the family) and expresses those same hurt feelings and beliefs in anger will get rejection and resentment in later years. No doubt it is difficult to sympathise with angry and aggressive people but I have learnt in my practice that they are wonderful human beings who are in pain but do not know how to acknowledge it , live with it, or express it. Their own feelings make them very uncomfortable and they defend against them!

Expressing emotions or thoughts can be done: either passively, e.g. bottling up, agreeing with everything that is said, following the other person at work or home even if we do not agree or aggressively as laid above. The only healthy way to express angry, hurt, aggressive feelings is by being assertive. Assertiveness skills are learnt from childhood when we are brought up in an environment that allows us to compromise, negotiate and argue within boundaries. But for angry people Assertiveness is an unknown sensation or skill.

When we say some people need treatment for Anger Management we mean that they need help to express their hurt feelings in a constructive way. I have had many clients over the years who have expressed a fear of losing all ability to be angry if they come for Hypnotherapy. What Hypnotherapy will help with is simply programming the mind to process the anger in manageable doses and manageable ways both for the client and his/her family members or colleagues

For people with anger issues often from childhood onwards they have learnt either to be passive with their feelings/thoughts and then blow up or they have a very low frustration tolerance which causes them to react at slight remarks. So as they grow into adults and the pressure of life, work and relationships take over they respond either by giving silent treatment that ultimately explode into raging anger that the partner often does not understand at all or by reacting so defensively and so quickly that they look dangerous and threatening. They will later say that they were only expressing themselves but it is the other person who can hear the rage in the tone, who can feel the threat of attack and who can sense themselves in danger.

Hypnotherapy works well with anger issues for two major reasons

In Hypnotherapy we are working with the unconscious mind where all our instinctive reactions have taken roots and angry/aggressive people often feel helpless once those triggers get touched upon. They have forgotten when they learnt unconsciously to blow up if someone says “you are being silly” or if they just imply it. The trigger has been programmed in the inner mind and gets set up automatically.

What a Hypnotherapist will do is access the inner mind and help identify and then change those triggers and set more constructive reactions to anger, like talking it out, shouting within limits, staying within boundaries of self-respect etc. Hypnosis techniques are there to change those belief systems that are creating anger into healthier beliefs about one’s self-worth.

The added bonus here is that we train the mind to relax and become calm so that we can access the unconscious mind and work with it and these results in the clients’ also learning to relax their mind and body. Which is something an angry person will agree is the most difficult thing for them to do! So relaxation and peace within the mind and body as well as ability to express anger in an assertive way, are some of the few things that Hypnotherapy allows an angry person to achieve. Over three to five sessions the client is helped to develop a more constructive unconscious mindset which he then practices over a few more weeks as he is taught self-hypnosis.

So next time you are faced with that angry partner, friend or work colleague of yours, know that he or she is feeling as vulnerable and hurt and fragile as the friend you know who’s shy and reserved….and then you may just be able to sympathise and help him/her?

Article Posted – 11th November 2008. Copyright Amreeta Chapman

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As a Hypnotherapist what sort of problems do I see the most?
The most common problems people consult me for are anxiety related symptoms such as panic attacks, depression, sexual problems, irrational thoughts and severe phobias. Some people can remember having their problem their whole life; other people have only noticed their severity in the last few years.

I view people’s symptoms as inner anxieties projected outwards. The anxieties within someone must have an escape route so the anxieties project outwardly in the form of fears, panic attacks and the like. For the people who have not always been aware of their problems, I explain that their anxieties have always been there, bubbling under the surface – often this bubbling lava erupts into a volcano when life is particularly stressful i.e. home life/career is demanding. This “external” pressure on a person’s psyche often means that they can no longer keep a lid on what has been going on inside of them often for a very long time and therefore they notice the full force of their symptoms.

However long a client has been suffering, one thing is sure, their symptoms are inside themselves but absolutely out of their control!

How do I help people?
I use a technique called Pure Hypno-analysis which proves very successful in allowing people to resolve the root causes of their problem, relieving them from their symptoms forever. This type of therapy is one of the best methods available for treating issues which are psychological, emotional and anxiety related.

What is so special about Pure Hypno-Analysis?
Being in the pleasant relaxed state of hypnosis helps to dramatically speed up the therapeutic process, I gain faster rapport and trust with my clients, they can often connect to their emotions more easily and as they have their eyes closed they are not being eyeballed by me meaning they feel less in the spotlight. I have a very non-judgemental approach so the relationship between me and my clients is a truly unique one. How many people can you speak to honestly and candidly about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING and not expect to receive criticism or negative feedback from?

A therapy which is client-led
In many other types of therapy you may be lead by what the therapist thinks is important, surely biased by their own life patterns? No matter how much experience I have I realise I cannot always be right about everything – I do not know that what I’m trying to get my client to feel is correct. Some clients themselves sometimes think they have many of the answers to their problems. Surely if they truly knew they would have dealt with these things themselves? That is where this therapy can find the missing answers.

With Pure-Hypno Analysis the client takes the lead – or at least their subconscious does. The conscious mind works on problem solving, daily decision making and rational thinking. The subconscious works on auto pilot 24/7, keeping our heart beating, our lungs breathing, it produces our imagination and stores anything that we have ever experienced or learned. It is also the “feeling” part of our mind where our emotions are and some of these experiences and/or emotions can get “stuck”. These bottled up emotions are the fuel for people’s symptoms. By re-discovering what has been pushed to the backs of our minds they can be dealt with properly, as an adult, seeing them for what they really were – a catharsis takes place and once the bubbles are popped (people release these “stuck” emotions) the fuel has gone and the psyche doesn’t need to project that inner anxiety outwards anymore – so the symptom dissipates.

Clients are not pushed into corners unnecessarily by myself – their subconscious will come up with the answers without the client having to consciously think about what it could be – thus making Pure Hypno-Analysis effective but safe. On average is takes 8 to 10 sessions (at weekly intervals) for all these bubbles to be popped – in the scale of life not long at all!

Benefits of Hypno-analysis

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Hypnotherpy and IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Because of that, patients will often continue to experience the problem for life whilst constantly costing the NHS money, a reported £50 million per annum, with patients only ending their treatment when becoming disenchanted with it. But over the last 20 years there has been much research into the treatment and relapse prevention of IBS using Hypnotherapy.

In the UK the instigator of much of this research has been Professor Peter Whorwell, Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology in the University of Manchester’s Medical School and Director of the South Manchester Functional Bowel Service.

Most recently, two hundred and fifty patients who have suffered from IBS for over two years and had failed to receive benefit from other treatments, were given twelve one-hour sessions, during which they were given an explanation of how the gut works and what causes their symptoms.

Positive Results for Hypnotherapy
Patients scored themselves on such issues as presence and severity of IBS symptoms, quality of life, and level of anxiety and depression. Almost all mentioned that their sense of overall well-being increased enormously. Any anxiety and depression eased considerably. The only participants that did not improve particularly well to hypnotherapy were males with diarrhoea.

This large-scale review confirms the knowledge of the benefits of treating IBS with Hypnotherapy. Symptoms such as pain and distension, as well as the level of so-called “disease interference” with life, changed intensely for most participants, with just three months of weekly Hypnotherapy treatment. The findings also indicate that treating IBS patients with Hypnotherapy can be very cost-effective, in particular due to the fact that relief from this notoriously hard-to-treat condition can be sustainable as improvements are usually permanent.

“IBS is ideal for treatment with hypnosis, as there is no structural damage to the body,” explained Professor Whorwell. “During the hypnotherapy, sufferers learn how to influence and gain control of their gut function, and then seem to be able to change the way the brain modulates their gut activity.”

With 78% success from his most recent study Professor Whorwell believes that hypnotherapy could be an extremely effective treatment for the condition; and a less expensive alternative to new, costly drugs coming onto the market. “We’ve found it to help all the symptoms, whereas some of the drugs available reduce only a few,” he goes on to explain. “As IBS can be a life-long condition it could clearly be a very valuable option for patients” Gonsalkorale WM, Houghton LA, Whorwell PJ. Hypnotherapy in irritable bowel syndrome: a large-scale audit of a clinical service with examination of factors influencing responsiveness. Am J Gastroenterol,2002;97:954-961

Email: enquiries@midlandshypnotherapy.com
Website: www.midlandshypnotherapy.com

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As a Hypnotherapist I work with expectant mums who want that extra support – I build up strong albeit temporary rapport and trust with them and help them discover how powerful they and their minds truly are. Along with treating children, working with mums-to-be gives me an enormous amount of satisfaction because you know at the end of it all there will be beautiful bundle of joy to look forward to.

I will of course not be there to support the mum at the actual moment of childbirth so my job is to make sure they can support themselves with the help of self-hypnosis. Self-hypnosis is very easy to learn and the techniques I teach can be used at any time in the future to help with situations other than childbirth. Incorporated into the sessions with this is Suggestion Therapy – positively phrased suggestions which take root in the subconscious mind.

Being out of control is often the biggest fear a pregnant woman has – possibly with regards to the sensations in her own body or not being able to make their own choices when they need to. Other less obvious concerns can be doubts about how they will cope with the new arrival, if they will lose their own identity and how easily they will bond with their baby.

Fears often have 9 months to build (from previous experiences, media stories etc) so by helping expectant mums overcome their fears it helps them feel so much more in control and reassured. Prior to or during childbirth often a woman will expect pain on a subconscious level so their body produces certain hormones during labour and the outcome is a restricted flow of blood and oxygen to her uterus and tightening of muscles in the cervix – the areas which needs the most help at this stage!

On the other hand if a woman is relaxed and looking forward to the birth, there will be more synergy between her mind and her body. When a woman feels no fear during childbirth there is little or no discomfort – the contractions come regularly and rhythmically and the baby is born more easily (and often faster).

It is important not to forget that partners often need support. They can sometimes feel a bit left out or useless when it comes to helping support the mother and they may even have their own fears or doubts. By being able to assess and deal with the likely weaknesses of the other person present at the birth, we can ensure the mother has the greatest possible support and that the partner feels both a part of the process and able to enjoy the experience.

So if you would like extra support from someone like myself, all you have to do is ASK for it!

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Amreet Chapman, Psychologist and Hypnotherapist, Reading, Wokingham, Windsor and Woodley
Email: amreeta@innerpotential.info
Website: www.innerpotential.info

Article Posted – 17th June 2008. Copyright Amreeta Chapman

 

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Let’s face it, most of us have developed a love affair with food from the moment we discovered our mother’s nipple in our mouths and we were able to suck through the warming milk to fill our tiny tummies as a baby. From then on, food can have many associations with early life. Perhaps when you smell a special aroma from a certain dish being cooked, you are transported back to those early days in mummy’s or grandmother’s kitchen and, if you are lucky, this will bring back good feelings for you of comfort.

When we were very young, we had perfect eating patterns because we were totally connected to our bodies. We simply ate to live. We knew when we were hungry, which wasn’t necessarily at mealtimes, and how many times have you seen children leave the table with food still on their plates because their needs have been satisfied and their focus has now moved on to something else? Studies have shown that, if left alone, children will automatically be drawn to the food that contain the nutrients their bodies need.

Obesity in Adults and Children

So why are there more and more obese children, more obese adults than ever before and why is it that some people can eat well and healthily, and yet others eat too much or too little?

One reason can be because of the nurturing they received as children from their families and simply developed bad eating habits that have never been addressed. Another reason can be that there might have been a time when a person experienced something so uncomfortable, that they didn’t you didn’t know how to deal with it and found that by eating, it blocked the pain of the experience. People who eat too much have moved away from the state of eating to live, and are using food as a coping mechanism to block an ego state which is causing them some kind of emotional discomfort.

Emotional and Compulsive Eating

They have discovered by eating, the brain releases seratonin, their mood changes and suddenly they feel better about themselves. They have managed to escape from their present reality, temporarily recreating the feeling of comfort they had when they were young. Over time the brain grows more towards this coping mechanism, which then becomes a habit, and the addictive eater finds themselves compulsively zoning out and reaching out for food whenever a troubled ego state emerges. These troubled ego states may be experienced as loneliness, boredom, anger, frustration, depression, fear, abandonment.

It may get to a point where we don’t even know when we are hungry any more and may well point to their solar plexus when asked where we feel their hunger pains, rather than our stomach.

Healthy Eating and Hypnotherapy

Once you understand this concept, you will be a better position to acknowledge these feelings, often emanating from childhood. You can then with the guidance of an experienced hypnotherapist, express and release these damned up feelings. With hypnotherapy you can then start to resolve the underlying issues or traumas that you were holding onto. This provides the basis for a new relationship with food. A relationship of health and feeding physical hunger rather than emotional hunger

Through the use of hypnotherapy we can teach our body to recover its initial state, which is perfect for healthy functioning and easy weight control.

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Even SuccessFul Confident People Suffer
It is interesting to observe as a hypnotherapist that anyone can suffer from public speaking nerves. I have helped numerous people from all walks of life to gain more confidence when the speak in front of a group. These people are no different from you or I. Outwardly they might appear confident but when it comes to speaking in front of others, their confidence seems to evaporate.

Intriguingly, the fear of giving a speech, lecture, talk or running a meeting or training workshop can be experienced by all ages and it doesn’t matter where you are on your career ladder. I have helped men and women who are at the top in their career, CEO’s chairmen and women, directors and entrepreneurs as well as those who are just starting out on their career.

Speaking Anxiety Symptoms
Often someone who suffers with anxiety at the thought of speaking to a group of people canl feel a sense of panic and they may find some way of avoiding giving the speech. This might be feigning illness or even changing jobs. Typically a person who is anxious when delivering a speech will have the following symtoms:-

“There is evidence for the use of hypnotherapy
for turning a breech position”

By month eight the baby was in a breech presentation position. Many hospitals now take the view that it is safer to do a C-section rather than a vaginal breech delivery. The evidence for this has been questioned but, in the meantime, the obstetrics skills needed for breech deliveries are less widely available. For a commentary on this, and advice about changing a breech position, see www.gentlebirth.org. Katy was keen to avoid a C-section so we worked on turning the baby. There is evidence for the use of hypnotherapy for turning a breech position: see Archives of Family Medicine, volume 3, October 1994, “Hypnosis and Conversion of the Breech to the Vertex Presentation” by Lewis E. Mehl. In this study 81% of breech positions were converted using hypnosis. We used imagery, with suggestions to both the mother and the baby (named “Bump” for this purpose), of being in your own swimming pool, and being able to turn somersaults, and of having your head near the exit from the pool. This imagery was also put on to a CD for Katy (and Bump) to listen to. We continued to work on the instant self hypnosis technique, with imagery of a light switch that can be used to turn off unwanted sensations from the lower part of the body, as taught at the Institute of Clinical Hypnosis. With practice it was possible for Katy to go into this state while being able to have her eyes open, move and be able to respond to any instructions from a midwife.

By the ninth month the baby had turned from the breech position, and now we were working on imagery for the birth itself. There is a short article in Contemporary Hypnosis (1996) Volume 13 number 3, pages 202 to 204, by Karola Dillenburger and Mickey Keenan entitled “Obstetric Hypnosis — An Experience” which describes hypnosis being used for a particular birth, and it uses some beautiful imagery of entering a river with flowers floating in it, the flowers having an analgesic effect. Later the river enters a cave, and regular waves begin, and in due course, you are propelled through the narrow exit of the cave into the calm sea beyond. We developed this imagery and put it on another CD for Katy to listen to regularly. In all we had four sessions, with Katy’s husband coming to the fourth session for some hypnotic experience and to hear about the approach that was being used.

“a short period of labour is characteristic of Hypnobirthing”

In the 41st week Katy started to feel contractions at 6:30 a.m. By 9 a.m. the waters had broken and Katy was advised to go to Queen Charlotte’s. Travelling was uncomfortable, as was the walk to the Birthing Suite, and the baby was born within seven minutes of arrival. So Katy achieved her objective of staying at home as long as possible; there was minimal intervention, and no pain medication prior to the birth (though there was some local anaesthetic for stitching subsequently); and the short period of labour is characteristic of Hypnobirthing. A shorter period of labour is likely to contribute to a quicker post-natal recovery.

If you would like more quantitative data there is an interesting article in the October 2007 American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis: see “Hypnosis for Childbirth: A Retrospective Comparative Analysis of Outcomes in One Obstetrician’s Practice” by Leona VandeVusse and others. This was a comparative study of childbirth outcomes between 50 women who elected for antepartum hypnosis preparation and 51 who did not. Prenatal hypnosis preparation resulted in significantly less use of sedatives, analgesic, and regional anaesthesia during labour and in higher 1-minute neonatal Apgar scores. In addition, the hypnosis-prepared women who delivered vaginally experienced an average 2.2 hour shorter labour length than the comparable women without hypnosis preparation.

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It always amazes me how many clients of mine who come for issues similar to those listed above answer in the negative when I ask them “can you look at yourself in the mirror?” and yet they are constantly checking yet never liking their appearance wherever they can get a peek: Shop windows, other people’s gaze, car mirrors…

Try it for yourself: stand silently in front of your mirror and observe what thoughts and images come to your mind; you’ll know by your ability to sustain your gaze and feel okay about what your mirror reflects back whether you are one of those people who is still waiting for others to tell you how good you look today!

Looking good and feeling good is one of the essentials to have in business or personal life. But looking good by whose standards? And trying to keep ahead or in line with the criteria of “looking good” factors that are widely advertised by the media: latest lip gloss, slimmer dress code or most aggressive perfume does not necessarily make us feel any better in the long run….

Our self image, the way we imagine ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves internally is our set of rules that we carry around and we confirm that set of beliefs by reading others’ minds and body language as confirmations. We create that mirror effect and we get back only what we are already expecting by our internal images of ourselves!

Imagine the scene: one person is wearing the latest bright dress and wishing to be noticed and liked; but before she leaves her house she looks into the mirror and says “oh my god, I still look fat!” Another person wears her favourite dress not necessarily acclaimed as the latest fashion and she looks at herself in the mirror and her internal voice goes: “I love this colour on me!”

When they reach that party the first lady is already wearing her internal lenses, poised to read “how fat she looks” in the eyes of people and thereby even when she is given a compliment instead of being able to rejoice at the efforts she made, her internal dialogue goes something like “yes but….I am still fat!” and soon she is miserable and feeling not good enough. When lady number two is told how good she looks that compliment just confirms what her internal lenses were saying earlier and it doubles her smile of satisfaction; she feels elated and even better because let’s face it we all like being liked and admired…

The first mirror of self-approval and self-affirmation comes from inside and whatever our self-image is in there that is what we project outside and awaits for confirmation via the words and expressions of others. If our self image is grotesque, ugly or even “I am not good enough!” we either fear social situations or escape from them and then our mind creates all kinds of symptoms to cope with our inner need to run away: blushing, stammering, blanked mind, tensions and nervousness, lack of confidence, panic in talking in public. Basically the mind is battling with the logic saying “you are not good enough to be here! Let’s go!”

As a Hypnotherapist the part of my work that I like best is witnessing those extra lines of tensions disappearing from the faces of my clients; years of battling with one’s own self-image when the logic and the promotions at work or the love of the partner is saying they are good enough puts a lot of strain in people’s body language and we can notice those extra tensions in our shoulders, neck and facial expressions. Over just a few sessions of hypnosis the body feels safer and good enough to smile without effort and extra use of the muscles to hold tension. As well as clients learn to let go of those old obsolete triggers of self-image absorbed from years of growing up in conditional and judgemental family or social atmospheres thus creating an inner self-image that is acceptable and “good enough”.

It is a pleasure for the therapist in me to observe how clients’ gaze grow steadier, how their language patterns change from “I should be more good looking, more smart, more tall.” To “I can be who I am and I am okay”

There is nothing magical in applying Hypnotherapy to a mind that is caught in self-defeating self-talk and self-image but it is magical to watch what changes people bring to their lifestyle and expectations from others as the simple process of changing their inner mirror help them to develop that internal locus of control rather than awaiting constant approval from external sources.

I’d like to end with what one client said about it all:

“ Before I did hypnotherapy my mind saw my boss as a tiger howling at me and whatever I did it was just not good enough because I felt like a child being reprimanded; through the process of hypnotherapy I understood it was because I developed a self-image of myself as a little girl of not being good enough, of failing my parents constantly and that feeling still got triggered every time I faced someone in authority! In only four sessions of intense Hypnosis techniques and practice I entered his room with the winning smile of a young capable woman and even now after a whole year of my last Hypnosis session on days when I am told what I did wrong I hear and see in my boss a man talking to the woman in me and not the tiger out to eat a little child!!”

It seems that when we feel bad, we want to distract ourselves from these feelings with foods that offer little or no nutritional value, even though the right – healthy -foods can have a positive effect on our mood. Instead, we tend to go for comfort foods that provide a quick fix, only to find this ‘high’ plummeting after a very short space of time, leaving us where we were before, or feeling even worse.

Because we’re not dealing with the real cause of our upset, but instead, distracting ourselves with food, once the initial high is gone, we’re left with the same emotion and need a distraction again – food. No wonder it is hard to lose weight and keep it off. But what is the solution?

Just as the dashboard on your car tells you when you need oil, water or petrol, your emotions can communicate your differing needs, too. They are signalling to you, calling out for action, but all you’re doing is shovelling in more food. So the emotions scream louder for action, you stuff down more food to distract yourself and the pounds keep piling on.

There are three important steps to breaking this cycle:

1) Identify the emotion
The primary emotions are anger, fear, sadness, guilt, stress, boredom and loneliness but it could be that your emotion is a variant of one of these. Generally if you are feeling frustration, it is because you have not dealt with one of the primary emotions and what you are doing is not working.

2) Identify the cause
This is really going to vary from person to person and situation to situation but let’s take an example. Mary is feeling guilty (the emotion) because she was irritable with her mother for no reason (the cause of the emotion).

3) Meet the need
What need is not being met? Guilt is crying out that things be made fair towards the other person. Previously, Mary simply reached for the chocolate when she felt guilty. But, because she did not identify the cause of the guilt and meet the real need, the guilt continued and so did the chocolate eating. So to meet the need Mary needs to make amends to her mother so that she no longer distracts from her guilt with chocolate.

As mentioned, emotions fall into these main types: sadness, loneliness, anger, guilt, boredom, stress and fear.

Frustration stems from those emotions not being sufficiently addressed in a positive way, and if the emotions continue to be ignored, the frustration increases and depression can ensue.

Whether we are feeling angry, or frustrated, or depressed, if we are not addressing the root cause then we may distract from the emotion with food, or suppress that emotion with food, or comfort ourselves with food (or something else). Since food does not solve the problem, the overeating continues as the need to keep distracting or suppressing or comforting persists. It is a vicious circle.

Negative emotion ==> Distract/suppress/comfort with food ==>
Frustration ==> Distract/suppress/comfort with food ==>
Depression ==> Distract/suppress/comfort with food ==>
Negative emotion ==> Distract/suppress/comfort with food
etc., etc., etc.

The way to avoid depression is to notice the originating negative emotion, identify it’s cause and resolve it in a constructive way (meet the need). In Mary’s case this was to make amends to her mother.

There are many emotional situations that cause a lot of us to reach for food to soothe and compensate. The following examples are a few of the most common we experience:

STRESS
As a natural occurrence, stress is actually necessary in order for us to be sufficiently motivated to get things done. However, negative stress has harmful consequences and occurs when the demands placed upon us are greater than our ability to deal with them.

Many people reach for food when they are stressed, but since no amount of chips, chocolate, cakes or anything else will ever help us to cope and take back control of our lives (if anything it will make it worse because overeating, especially of the wrong things, makes us lethargic) it is important to recognise that you are feeling stressed and find a way of managing it in order to get rid of the feeling.

Typically, managing stress involves learning to say no, becoming more assertive, learning how to work smarter, not harder and allowing for 80 percent perfection. This 100 percent business is significantly over-rated!

SADNESS
Sadness is described as a normal emotional reaction to the loss, or anticipated loss of access to a valued friend, loved one or cherished possession. Often confused with depression, it is usually experienced as emptiness. This emotion is telling us that something needs to be replaced, and it’s all too easy to do this with food. But how much food will fill the void of losing a loved one? How much chocolate does it take to replace a friend who has emigrated?

Once you have recognised that you have an urge to eat because of sadness, ask yourself what it is that you have lost and either get it back or replace it. If the sadness is about bereavement, of course you can’t get your loved one back, but you can find another relationship where you feel a sense of connection, support and companionship. It may not be the same or have the same intensity, but it will be a lot more effective at filling the void than junk food could ever be.

ANGER
Anger is a strong reaction to an injustice or a feeling that someone has contravened one of your values. And the cure? Well, you won’t find justice at the bottom of a biscuit tin! Anger is trying to tell you that things need to be put right, or made fair. So, instead of reaching for the biscuits, try and recognise where the anger is coming from and take appropriate action for it.

Angela’s husband never helps around the house whereas she works a full-time job, gets home, prepares dinner, then sets to work on the household chores before she can relax. Instead of speaking to her husband about helping her around the house, she stuffs down her emotions by reaching for sugary snacks. Because the problem persists as she isn’t dealing with it, she notices that her eating is getting out of control as she tries to control her emotions.

We, and women in particular, are often taught that anger is bad. However, anger in itself is not bad but what you do with it that matters. If the energy of anger is used in a positive way, it can protect us, ensuring that we are not taken advantage of. For example, Angela’s anger towards her husband is currently channelled into eating. Unhelpful. It might otherwise have been channelled into shouting at him. Also unhelpful. However, she could simply channel this energy into asking him to help her with the chores with an air of cheery optimism. This will be a positive influence on him and will more likely get the result she wants.

GUILT
Guilt is the anger we feel towards ourselves for being unfair to someone else. Again, no amount of food is going to combat this feeling. Guilt is calling out for you to make amends for a wrong that has been done by you. Sometimes, our ability to right that wrong with the “victim” is not possible for some reason. They may have passed away, or moved to a new city or country. However, it is possible to dispel that guilt by doing something good elsewhere. Doing a good deed for others is a great healer and a wonderful way to feel good about yourself.

We all make mistakes, say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing from time to time – we’re all human. However, by correcting that mistake with an apology, or a good deed, we can ease the guilt that consumes us because consuming food will never achieve that for us.

LONELINESS
We can be alone without feeling lonely yet there are times when we can experience terrible loneliness in a room full of people. This is caused by a lack of connection to others, not a lack of contact. Often this lack of connection is caused by a lack of connection to ourselves. Excessive eating simply serves to widen the gap.

To feel a stronger sense of connection – a basic human need – learn to love yourself. What qualities do you have that you can appreciate? What do other people like about you? Start to make a connection with others, be interested in other people and they will connect with you.

Remember, food is just nutrition. It isn’t love, company, comfort or support. By recognising your emotions and dealing with them in a positive way, you can overcome your cravings for foods and regain control of your life.

How Can Hypnotherapy Help
Hypnotherapy can help you neutralise the emotional drivers for eating so that you change your relationship with food. It will help you deal with your emotions in a more constructive way. In addition, it can help you develop a strong motivation for healthy food and exercise.

Suggested Reading:
Secret Language of Feelings, Cal Banyan. Available from Tricia Woolfrey

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Hypnotherapy is helpful to achieve any goal but especially to adopt healthy eating habits. This is because all our habits, beliefs and thoughts are controlled in the subconscious. Tackling the root of your weight problem is the most logical course of action. Hypnotherapy will help you STOP the cycle of yoyo dieting by identifying the underlying cause of your overeating so it can be resolved and eliminated.

“Negative eating habits must gradually be replaced with new positive alternatives,” adds Florence. This is why the treatment is a minimum of 4 sessions over a period of 2 to 3 months. You will lose weight gradually in order to keep it off. If you lose weight too quickly you may risk putting the weight back on to satisfy an old negative belief. For instance, you may have been told that you would always be overweight and since then you believe this to be true.

Hypnotherapy will empower you to take the actions, sustain your motivation and reinforce the rewards of staying on track. Changing habits according to the psychologist Skinner, is about rewards versus punishment. Hypnotherapy will help to reinforce the rewards of eating healthily and exercising as well as the negative and dangerous consequences of obesity.

However, there is no panacea or magic formula. You will still have to eat healthily and moderately as well as exercise in order to achieve your goal of losing weight and keeping it off. While in Hypnosis your subconscious is receptive to useful suggestions.

You will steadily establish new healthy eating habits and develop a positive self-image; recognizing when you are hungry, what to eat and when to stop. This will ensure that you to lose weight naturally and keep it off. It is essential to eat healthy tasty meals and to savour your food. This means that you chew each mouthful slowly and completely so you can hear the signal that you have had enough to eat.

It helps if you are open-minded, want to change and be willing to follow the suggestions. It is about acting your way into right thinking. Despite false claims to the contrary, using Hypnotherapy for tackling weight issues is not a quick fix. However, Hypnosis will give you that helping hand which is essential to keep going and to reverse negative patterns of behaviour.

“With Hypnotherapy, when the subconscious is provided with a clear target it will direct all your behaviour toward achieving this goal”, adds Florence.

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Looking from the terrace of my home at the snowy peaks of the Bavarian Alps served only to solidify this concept. Fifteen years ago I had moved to Oberstdorf, the most southern village of Germany nestled at the foot of the Alps. My husband was a well-known German ice skater and had been at the Olypmpics with Torvill and Dean. Oberstdorf was a centre for ice skating and also where Torvill and Dean had lived and trained for 10 years. Amongst all the moving paraphanelia of boxes, furniture and necessities to survive in a foreign country, namely Branston pickle and decent tea bags, was also a very carefully packed oil painting which I had personally chosen 3 years before. I had hung it consciously on the wall opposite my bed for a special reason. Although at that time I had lived near the sea in South Wales I had longingly gazed at it each morning on awaking and each night before sleeping pretending it was a window through which I saw a wonderful view.

The painting now held pride of place in my new home mirroring the breathtaking Bavarian scenery. The wooden hut, fir trees and further into the distance the snowy alps. That view was now my reality.

I had always had an interest in hypnosis and when my circumstances completed changed due to my husband leaving my daughter and I, I decided to turn my interest in hypnosis into my career.

I was fortunate to be taken under the wing of a wonderful Austrian hypnotherapist Herr Visaintainer who had a wealth of knowledge and was due to retire. He helped me take the first big step on my new journey.

In these difficult circumstances of being on my own in a foreign country with my then 9 year old daughter, I found that working with self-hypnosis enabled me to find inner resources and the strength to remain focussed. It didn’t mean that I wouldn’t cry or have days that I found difficult to cope with but I was able to reach a special state of mind and calm the worries and feel a certain guidance from my unconscious. Step by step I was getting through the days and my extensive studies became my life line.

Hypnosis is a bridge to the unconscious mind, a special state of relaxation similar to daydreaming. It is not some mystical trance and we all experience hypnosis everyday. It is that state we experience before we go off to sleep and when we awake, when pictures drift into our mind and our unconscious mind comes to the foreground. The trance state enables a person to accept suggestions without the usual defensiveness or resistance which exists in the normal conscious state. Through the techniques of inducing hypnosis we are able to induce this state at will and achieve focussed inner awareness.

In the state of hypnosis the unconscious mind cannot tell the difference between what is imagined and what is real. Therefore in this state of inner awareness clients can experience imagined events with such clarity and relaxed involvement that they under go many of the same positive changes that would actually happen in that situation. Our imagination is the language of the unconscious mind.

Eventually I set up my own practice room in a beautiful ‘wellbeing’ hotel in Oberstdorf and every 10 days I travelled to Munich where I would work for a couple of days as part of a hypnosis practice and also as an assistant trainer in hypnosis for the APHP (The Association for Professional Hypnosis and Psychotherapy) to which I belong, based in the UK, Germany and various other countries.

This pressured period continued for some years as everything which I could have considered familiar changed. My daughter and I were forced to leave our beautiful family home and I found myself fighting through the German courts desperately trying to keep up with the ‘legal’ German language just to be allowed to keep even some furniture. The power of suggestion was working against me as I experienced the final judges’ attitude towards my husband. Television, the best hypnotist in the world, had the judge won over that my husband was a sunny happy generous chap. I pleaded my case that I would like it all sorted out now, rather than having to rely on my husband for on-going payments and I actually stood up and said what if he went off to South America, where would I be then. The judge replied, “Well Herr Schramm wouldn’t do that now would he”. Of course he knew him so well, he’d seen him on the telly. Six months later my ex left for Ecuador.

In the meantime my eyes had reflected back to me that something wasn’t right and I had been to my local GP. I had various blood tests and it was discovered that I had too much protein in my blood, which could develop into multiple myeloma, cancer of the plasma cells an important part of the immune system that produces immunoglobulins (antibodies) to help fight infection and disease. Multiple myeloma is characterised by excessive numbers of abnormal plasma cells in the bone marrow and an over production of protein. My life now consisted of regular visits to the solicitors, local authorities and hospital and I was informed that I would need a bone marrow test for which a pain killer could not be used.

Throughout this time I had continued to treat clients one of whom was a surgeon in Munich. He wanted to make changes in his life and had been impressed by seeing an anesthetist colleague of his working with hypnosis. ‘On the continent’ as the Brits like to say, hypnosis has a different level of acceptance. It was a blessing for me that my own doctor, Dr Hüttig in Oberstdorf was also a hypnotherapist and we both realised the part that hypnosis would play in getting me back into balance. During the bone marrow test the edge was taken off the pain as I went off to the beach in my mind.

I chose not to go for experimental preventative treatment which would entail monthly infusions. I worked with a colleague with hypno-analysis and most days I faithfully worked with self-hypnosis. I continue to go regularly for blood tests and am pleased to report that the excess protein in my blood remains at a minimum.

In 2006 a big decision was reached after being 4 years with my daughter in Bavaria I felt I wanted to return home to Wales. I went with my intuition as to where I should move to and things slotted into place. The three clinics I called were looking for a hypnotherapist and the school had places in year eight and had recently added German to the syllabus.

Four days before Christmas we moved into a small house in Crickhowell and by 24th ‘Heilige Abend’ we were able to celebrate with our normal tradition of combined British/German Christmas.

We are happy in our life now and enjoy walks in the wonderful Welsh countryside in which we are fortunate enough to live. The hills definitely have a soothing affect for me and in some ways there’s a similar feel in the air as in Oberstdorf. My daughter of course had never lived in the UK and really did leave everything familiar behind but she is now really enjoying school here and has a healthy positive attitude to life. She loves learning Welsh and is one of the best in the class. I would say she’s best summed up by a sign she had artistically designed and stuck on my bedroom door on New Year’s Eve. Happy 2006 for a year of adventures!

Looking back I really didn’t know if we would survive such a blow. Hypnosis was an anchor for me during that storm and through my work I have the opportunity to provide the support that hypnosis can offer to others. I am now based in Monmouth Natural Health Centre, the Holistic Clinic in Abergavenny and Brecon Complementary Medicine Centre. I work with client centred therapy with a combination of suggestion therapy and hypno-analysis and all my clients receive self-hypnosis instruction as a valuable part of guiding them to a new understanding and taking control over their own lives.

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Children are the best hypnotherapists in the world: think about how entranced you become when you watch your child acting a world war with his cars or how mesmerized you feel when she starts telling you about the magical world of her teddy bear or doll! Children can paint such vivid inner worlds and they can pull us into those with them very readily because at that stage of their lives they are not yet inhibited by the critical, logical, rational part of their brain yet. They have no doubt at all that what they are saying is true thereby their brain also never questions the reality of what they paint. Imagine how difficult you find it to pull them out of the world of imagination to do some homework!!

So long as they are painting constructive imagery, imagery of self-mastery where they are the Pilot of the aircraft or the Nurse, imagery of a world that is making them feel secure about their development, that is all very well. The problem occurs when children are undergoing some mental/emotional stress which gets expressed in different ways some of which are:

Most people accept the logic of exercise in whatever form, being an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Whether that exercise is salsa dancing, pilates, yoga, a regular game of football or a gym membership, you know that exercise is necessary part of staying well and agile.

Although exercise is mainly about physical health, it does have a positive knock-on effect on your state of mind. Through exercise the heart rate increases, the feel-good hormones, endorphins, are released and you generally feel good and motivated after exercise because of all this.

You might say that physical exercise has a useful side-effect of helping us to mentally feel better too.

Self Hypnosis – For Physical Relaxation

Likewise, a mental practice such as self-hypnosis may help by tackling matters from the opposite direction. Self hypnosis helps to calm the mind leading to physical relaxation. Indeed, with sleep being the ideal time and place where the body heals itself effectively, self hypnosis can provide an ideal healing opportunity. Of course, whether you have a physical ailment or not, the body is constantly renewing cells and re-growing all parts of the body particularly during times of rest.

Benefits of Self Hypnosis

Self hypnosis is an easy art which anyone can be proficient at. Once learnt it can be a life-long skill and used to help you with virtually any issue. Indeed some of the issues typically eased or resolved by self-hypnosis are :-

Low self confidence, stress, anxiety, nerves, depression, lack of motivation, numerous phobias including arachnophobia – fear of spiders, aviaphobia – fear of flying, public speaking, fear of heights, claustrophobia – fear of enclosed spaces, agoraphobia – fear of open spaces, and social phobia – anxiety around other people.

Mothers-to-be who choose to have a natural childbirth experience may use self-hypnosis to reduce and even eliminate any labour pains.

Self Hypnosis – What Options Are There?

Self-hypnosis can be practised with a hypnosis cd or mp3 recording or can be original each time by using the power of your imagination. Self hypnosis can be a very simple process or depending on the individual, quite intricate and multi-faceted.

There is no doubt that regular practice of self-hypnosis brings with it a calmer state of being and an ability to handle those sometimes tricky and taxing and unexpected life events.

Once you have honed your self-hypnosis skills, and this does not take long, you can use this amazing form of self help anywhere you choose to within reason. Some enlightened individuals practice self-hypnosis for 5 to 10 minutes on their train journey to work morning. Others may take 5 minutes out of their busy day to regain a sense of balance and harmony.

Usually it is recommended, at least initially, to spend 20 minutes each day on your self-hypnosis and to start off with, in the comfort of your home. After a few weeks this time duration of 20 minutes can be shortened or increased according to taste, time available and your needs.

  So now you can look after your physical body and mind too. Just imagine how empowering it will feel to be fit, healthy and mentally strong and able. There is no doubt that those who are prone to nervous disorders such as ulcers and hypertension will benefit from regular use of self-hypnosis.

Want To Learn Self Hypnosis?

With the help of an experienced hypnotherapist, it only taking 60 minutes to learn the basics of self-hypnosis. Would you like to find out how self hypnosis can help you today?

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Dr. Guy Montgomery produced the research which included 200 women who were either given 15 minutes of hypnosis or had a conversation with a pyschologist. Patients who received the hypnosis reporting experiencing less side-effects (pain, nausea, emotional distress) after surgery.

UK experts have commented that more research needs to be done.

Original source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6969298.stm

Why is it so difficult to stop?
A habit is an established behaviour pattern that becomes hardwired in our brain. When you first started smoking you made the conscious decision to smoke because you wanted to smoke. You have control over the habits that you want to adopt and can easily choose to avoid certain habits like smoking. If however, you decide to smoke, you quickly acquire the habit because cigarettes can be just as addictive as cocaine. Once the smoking habit is established you are driven by a powerful compulsion to smoke.

How does it work?
Identify the emotional reasons that drive you to smoke and your daily activities linked to smoking or time of day when you smoke. Then you break the association that these emotions, activities or daily routine have to smoking by replacing the urge to smoke with positive alternatives such as going for a walk, eating fruit, drinking water, exercising or relaxing. Not only will you break the habit but you will prevent it from being replaced by another negative habit such as overeating or anger.

How do I stay stopped?
Visualisation Techniques will help you focus on the rewards of quitting and the hazards of smoking. Imagine yourself going through your daily routine and instead of picking up a cigarette; you reach for fruit, a glass of water or go for a walk. You are amazed that you have no urge to smoke. Hear yourself saying no thank you I don’t smoke and see yourself engaging in activities that use your hands, like sewing, carving, working puzzles, playing cards, gardening etc. This will reinforce your determination to never smoke again.

Back-Up Support
Many treatments include back-up support. This means that should you need further help after your treatment, you may reserve another session at no additional charge.

You have everyting to gain.

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Does such a system truly exist? The answer is a resounding YES!

5-PATH® (the shortform for 5-Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnotherapy) was developed by one of the world’s leading Master Hypnotists and Trainers, Calvin Banyan. Based at The Banyan Hypnosis Center in California, Cal Banyan has spent much of his time in recent years teaching 5-PATH to experienced Hypnotherapists throughout the USA and other parts of the world, including the Far East. Until recently, this remarkable form of therapy was only available to those students willing to travel to the USA or Singapore, so there were only a very small number of Hypnotherapists in the UK and Europe qualified to use this approach with their clients.

Clients fortunate enough to have found one of these therapists have been so delighted and astonished with the changes they have made in their lives as a result, that they have been spreading the word, and consequently those few certified 5-PATH® Hypnotherapists have been overwhelmed with work. As the demand from Clients increased, so it became apparent to Cal Banyan that it was time to bring his skills and talents over to this side of the Atlantic, and in April 2007 he conducted the first-ever UK 5-PATH® training in London, resulting in an increased number of Hypnotherapists in the UK certified in this exciting and successful approach. Here are just a few of their comments (reproduced with their permission)…

“The 5 & 7th Path course has been transformational both professionally & personally. 5-PATH has been a quantum leap in therapeutic possibilities.”

“Get on the Path! If you want to be a highly effective hypnotherapist, then Cal’s Week of Power is probably the most important course you ever attend. By adding 7th Path to 5-PATH, Cal has created a program where not only do you learn the tools to change others, but by the end of the training you have changed yourself. It’s 10 times more powerful than anything else that’s out there!”

“I recommend this course to anybody willing to improve themselves mentally, physically and emotionally – and to anyone willing to help others improve mentally, physically and emotionally.”

“This is the best course I’ve done to advance my knowledge in hypnotherapy and advance my personal growth from a self development perspective. I would highly recommend both 5-PATH and 7th Path for a better life.”

“I have been a Clinical Hypnotherapist for 12 years and enjoy being in this profession tremendously. However, the busier I have become, the more frazzled I have become juggling my practice and family life. After this week, I am going to empty a huge section of my book shelf and put those books into storage. 5-PATH encapsulates all the depth and the wisdom that I now need to serve my clients to the standard that I have always aspired to.”

How does 5-PATH® work and why can it be more successful than the traditional approach?

5-PATH® is based on the premise that every problem we have, whether emotional or physical, has a root cause. Let’s use the analogy of weeds growing in a beautiful garden, choking the potentially beautiful flowers and plants and preventing them from thriving and growing. You can cut them off above the ground and hope they will go away, but they will quickly spring up again. You can dig down into the soil a few inches and remove some roots, and the flowers above the ground will briefly recover, but the recovery will be only temporary, as the network of roots continues to spread. The only way to totally remove those weeds is to dig down deep into the earth and remove all of the roots, and by doing so, the weeds above the ground will be unable to survive, and will naturally disappear.

5-PATH® differs from more traditional forms of hypnotherapy because it goes one stage further! Not only do 5-Pathers help their Clients to find the roots of their problem, but they also look for the seed or seeds that were originally implanted and remove these too! By doing this, they ensure that those choking weeds can never start to grow again.

Clients who have experienced 5-PATH® have been astonished by the results and the changes they have made in their lives.

What problems can be resolved and overcome with 5-PATH® Hypnotherapy?

Surprisingly, there are very few issues that 5-PATH® cannot help! Working on the assumption that any problem we have has an emotional root, because of the very strong and powerful mind-body connection, then almost any issue you enquire about will elicit the response ‘I can certainly help you’ from a trained and certified 5-Pather. Exceptions are serious mental problems such as schizophrenia, multiple personality disorders and other psychoses. Most 5-Pathers will have received additional specialist training for any number of issues, and some will specialise in specific areas or disorders.

How many sessions can I expect, and how often should I have them?

It is of course impossible to give any guarantees for success, as 5-PATH® is a system of hypnotherapy which requires the full involvement and commitment of the client. Every person is unique, and the sessions are tailored to suit your particular needs. However, on average, the certified 5-PATH® Hypnotherapist would suggest a course of 6 sessions. It is important to note that 5-PATH® is a systematic approach so certified therapists will not agree to doing less than the full course, for the simple reason that they know the results would only be temporary.

Sessions are normally scheduled 3-10 days apart, and may well last for longer than the traditional 60 minutes. Many people opt to see their therapist on a weekly basis, but can also choose to have extended sessions or to have them 2-3 times weekly.

What can I expect to achieve if I do a course of 5-PATH® Hypnotherapy?

You can achieve whatever it is that you want to achieve, and more. In addition to you having the opportunity to resolve your personal issue, you will also feel stronger, more capable, much more confident and completely in control of your life. You will also have increased energy, your personal relationships will improve, and you will be much more focused. Add to that greater feelings of safety and security, and a mind that will be calmer and clearer, so you will be able to make decisions that are the right ones for you.

Article Posted – 11th June 2007. Copyright Niki Cassar

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“I KNOW MY STUFF BUT WHEN I HAVE TO SAY IT MY MIND GOES BLANK !”
~ Let Hypnotherapy give you the confidence to speak your mind!

Every one of us has the initial stage-fright, the flutters and heightened heartbeats: some of us interpret them as the extra adrenaline push they need for their best performance; others panic and focus on the sensations of heartbeats, sweating, blushing and trembling in their knees so much that their mind goes blank and the only message screaming in their head is “I want to get out of here” “If I speak now I am definitely going to make a fool of myself” “Relax, relax ….. Oh please God make this panic stop.”

Hypnotherapy and Public Speaking Help

In my two years of practising Hypnotherapy with people working at the executive levels (managers, sales representatives/coordinators, lawyers, directors and business-owners) it has always been and still is a pleasure to witness the talents/skills of a speaker emerge and grow in my clients above the fears of presentations or speaking in meetings. It all happens within three to four sessions.

The facts are simple: you know you are good at the work you do; you have the intellectual and personal skills to prove yourself to your manager/director or even the group of twenty-thirty people staring at you but it is at that crucial stage when you have to convince them that you panic! WHY??

Many reasons for that: past conditioning, learning as children from models who were insecure or anxious, experience of failures which have created a mindset within you that you are going to keep failing, the inability to cope with pressure of being stared at and sometimes it is as simple as being so self-conscious of having everybody give you attention and what about the complete silence around you when you stand up? You can almost hear your own breathing and heartbeats and it feels as if they can all hear it out there.

My clients come from two levels of interest: some of them wish to know the origin of the fears/panics and then work with it and others tell me to help them grow above it and take control of it without necessarily wishing to find the origins. Hypnotherapy can satisfy both requirements because there are several techniques to retrain and reprogram the mind to change the way it has of perceiving and reacting to events.

Subconscious learning

How does it all work? You are a driver aren’t you? Now go back to your first few months of learning how to drive and you will realise that there came a phase in the learning curve when your knowledge slips into your subconscious mind and you were driving spontaneously and without consciously having to remind yourself of the gears or mirrors. That is when you became very relaxed and at ease with driving don’t you? The triggers have settled into your subconscious mind and make you react automatically once you are behind the wheel.

In a very similar way, the fears and panics in our current lives developed almost without our conscious knowledge and sunk into our subconscious mind and then they control us from there. That explains why even if you consciously and studiously repeat to yourself to relax and it is going to be ok, when the moment comes your body and mind seems to have a will of their own and you helplessly feel the panic grow. You still manage to give the presentation maybe but come out of the whole experience feeling very dissatisfied and convinced that everyone knew you were panicking and you start anticipating the next one with accumulated tension.

Hypnotherapy and your subsconscious mind

Hypnotherapy helps to access the subconscious mind and changes the triggers that prompt us to start panicking at the sight of people staring at us or fear of starting the presentation. It also sets new triggers in our subconscious mind, constructive ones so that your mind starts reacting to the same situation with calmness and relaxation both in your body and mind.

Let me give you an example: You used to sit in a meeting dreading the moment when you will be asked to speak; you mind started spinning the images of you stammering, sweating, going blank in your mind and trembling in your body. With Hypnotherapy training you sit in the same meeting after a month and even if you force your body to start trembling it doesn’t! Because your mind is controlled by the subconscious and if the latter is already programmed to react with utter calmness and relaxation focusing on your material rather than the people staring at you what do you expect?

“After a good promotion at work, I was under a lot of pressure to present and negotiate with some strong characters. This was very difficult as I lacked the confidence to perform. I called Amreeta to talk about hypnotherapy and decided to give it a go. In the few sessions that I had, Amreeta taught me relaxation techniques and self-hypnosis and within in a short period of time I was gaining the confidence to control and negotiate properly in my meetings. This has made a significant difference to my performance at work and I am continuing to develop my new skills. This has been a very positive experience and I would recommend anyone to contact Amreeta to try hypnotherapy.” (Client from Wokingham)

Have you ever wondered how some people manage to enjoy and flow in their presentations so easily? There is only one major difference between that confident state and your fearful one: this person has got only constructive triggers in his subconscious mind that says “This is wonderful; at last I have an opportunity to prove myself.”

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts”(William Shakespeare)

 
Amreeta Aujayeb/Chapman
Clinical Psychologist/Hypnotherapist
Maidenhead, Reading, Windsor & Wokingham, Berkshire

Email: amreeta@innerpotential.info
Website: http://www.innerpotential.info

Article Posted – 25th May 2007. Copyright Amreeta Aujayeb/Chapman

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Freedom from Co-dependent Issues with Hypnosis

What is Co-Dependency?
Co-dependency is a little-understood trait which is defined as a compulsion to take care of others, wanting to “fix” them, whilst neglecting the self.

Co-dependents tend to live their life through, or for, others. Because of this they can tend to be controlling and will be apt to blame others rather than taking personal responsibility.

It is common in those who come from dysfunctional families and their parents may be addicts of some kind, ie alcohol or drugs.

Depression, anxiety, dysfunctional relationships and a high or low activity level are common in co-dependents. There may also be physical problems associated with the condition such as stomach problems, migraines, general malaise and skin problems.

Common characteristics of co-dependents:

Email: tricia@pw-hypnotherapy.co.uk
Website: http://www.pw-hypnotherapy.co.uk

Article Posted – 15th May 2007. Copyright Tricia Woolfrey

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Why People Fail to Quit Smoking

Attempting to stop smoking for the wrong reason(s) is virtually always doomed to fail. One of the wrong reasons might be convenience. What I mean by this is that you may decide to stop, not because you are necessarily ready or committed to stopping, it is just that a convenient situation as occurred for you. Let me explain…

A friend or partner, husband or wife who is a smoker, makes the suggestion to you that it would be a great idea to stop together. On the face of it this seems to be a good idea because you can support each other in remaining stopped and there is this nice feeling of doing something together. You might call this a sense of camaraderie or team spirit.

Unfortunately, in reality although both participants know they ought to stop smoking at some point in time, on this occasion it usually means that one person is really ready to stop but the other is going along with it because it is convenient. They have got caught up in this being a good idea without giving it too much thought.

Make Up Your Mind To Stop Smoking

Then what happens is that the person who hasn’t really made up their mind to stop, will at some point try to persuade or cajole the other into just having that one. If they succeed in persuading the other to have one, they will both fail. It is a kind of collusion to smoke, just as those of us who colluded to smoke for the very first time when we were young. In fact we did it because our peers did it and we wanted to be part of that crowd… and accepted. Here is an example of the same influences happening again.

That is why it is vital to stop smoking for your own good reasons and not to do it out of convenience. The convenience aspect will often come into the equation when someone decides to stop smoking with the help of a hypnotherapist. Let us say the wife has decided to do this. But the wife, although motivated to stop smoking now, will not have had hypnotherapy before and may have some anxiety about it. A way of overcoming that anxiety is to encourage the husband to quit with the aid of hypnosis too. Here again one person is persuading another to quit without them really coming to the right decision under their own steam.

Quit Smoking With Hypnotherapy

Any hypnotherapist who naturally wants his or her clients to succeed will need to ensure that both husband and wife (or friends or colleagues) really do want to stop and have made up their minds that they want to do it right now. This being the case, then doing it together can be a real asset as the sense of doing it with others can strengthen their resolve to stick to their decision.

I certainly emphasise to people who come along in pairs for quit smoking hypnosis sessions, whether mates, husband and wife, or partners, that they should be there for each other to keep to their decision to quit smoking for good and not to collude together to smoke.

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Without doubt, the best way to overcome obstacles, emotional difficulties, bad habits and to achieve goals, is to see a gifted, experienced and well qualified hypnotherapist. It is through working through someone else, a professional who is able to provide insights that you might miss, or encourage you towards your goals using the best techniques and tools available that change is easiest. It is my opinion that the very best of these tools is something called 5-PATH ® (5 Phase Advanced Transformational Hypnosis) which helps to clear out old patterns, heal the past and move you forward to where you want to be.

The Power and Benefits of Self Hypnosis

However, some people can’t afford, or don’t want to see a therapist to overcome obstacles to achieving their goals, and prefer to work on themselves. This is where self-hypnosis comes in.

But, what is self hypnosis? Self-hypnosis can be used whenever you want to create feelings of calmness and relaxation and is a technique that you practice alone, in your own time and involves getting yourself into a relaxed state in order to give yourself helpful affirmations, or auto-suggestions, in order to train your subconscious to believe it. In order to be effective all suggestions need to be stated in the positive. For example, instead of “I am not panicking” you can say “I am calm and relaxed”. Since the brain does not process negatives very well, “I am not panicking” translates into “I am panicking”, giving you more of what you don’t want!

What is Hypnosis?

It is important to know that hypnosis is simply an altered state of awareness where you are focused but aware of what’s going on around you. Most people will find it extremely relaxing yet still be able to hear the outside world. You will also be able to attend to any emergencies should that be required.

Self Hypnosis – What to do

The more you practice self-hypnosis, the easier it will become. Whilst it is easier to learn it from a professional, here are some guidelines:

1. Decide how much time you want to spend in hypnosis
2. Get yourself nice and comfortable in a place where you will not be disturbed
3. Close your eyes and breathe deeply
4. Focus your attention on your breathing – imagine yourself breathing out tension  and anxiety and breathing in calm and relaxation
5. Imagine any worries, thoughts or concerns being floated away on a cloud
6. Suggest complete relaxation of all the muscles in your body starting from your toes, all the way up to the top of your head. Eg “my toes are comfortable and  relaxed, my feet are comfortable and relaxed…” etc. If it helps, you may want to tense each muscle before relaxing it.
7. Imagine yourself on a staircase of relaxation where there are ten steps. Count  yourself down each and every step and notice that with each one you are twice as relaxed, twice as calm and twice as comfortable as the step before. It helps to  say something along the lines of “One, deeper relaxed. Two, deeper relaxed,   etc…”

8. Self Hypnosis and The Power of Positive Suggestions

Give yourself suggestions, stated in the positive, for example:

    It is helpful to repeat a positive affirmation at least 15 times in each self-hypnosis         session.
    9. Emerge yourself by counting backwards from 5-1, feeling refreshed and alert.

Self Hypnosis and Your Imagination

This process is more powerful if you are able to visualise what you want, ie see yourself calm and relaxed and dealing with things easily, or at your ideal weight, or being out at a party with other smokers feeling confident without a cigarette, etc., etc.  

This process, simplified above, is easy to learn (though better “installed” by a hypnotherapist) and needs to be repeated in order to achieve the necessary changes. If you think about how long it took you to create the problem, you will realise that it will take a while to undo it and create new responses and/or habits. Or self-hypnosis can be used as needed to create a calm and resourceful state.

5-Path and 7-Path Hypnosis

There is an even more powerful way if you want to create transformational change. 7th Path Self Hypnosis ® is a tool developed by Cal Banyan, the creator of 5-PATH ® and is a mind-body-spirit approach to achieve change inside your own mind and in your own time.  

How it differs from regular self-hypnosis in that, like 5-PATH, it will help eliminate the blocks and negative programming from your psyche in order that you can then enjoy the benefits of the resources or new behaviours you want in their place. It is also easier to enter into the hypnotic state more quickly and thoroughly than the standard self-hypnosis.  

Think of it as an emotional detox and you will start to understand the profound benefits you can experience using 7th Path ® Self Hypnosis.  

Email: tricia@pw-hypnotherapy.co.uk
Website: http://www.pw-hypnotherapy.co.uk

Article Posted – 28h March 2007. Copyright Tricia Woolfrey

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder OCD ?

There is a split in the medical world as to whether trichotillomania is an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) or an impulse disorder. However, whatever it is classified as, about 2% of the population know it causes them a great deal of embarrassment, discomfort and distress. The condition is as individual as the people who suffer from it. For many, the symptoms will be evident as hair pulling. Literally pulling their hair out from any area of their body and even from their close relatives and partners. Others will focus on pulling hair from maybe just one area of the body such eyebrow pulling, eyelash pulling and so on.

What happens after hair has been pulled from the body can also vary from sufferer to sufferer. Some then keep the hair, whilst others use the pulled hair as dental floss and a small percentage eat the hair, which is referred to as trichophagia. Trichophagia can cause serious stomach pain and on occasions surgery is needed to remove hairball.

 The hair pulling behaviour usually starts in young children with the male and female split being about 50 – 50. By with the onset of puberty, 90% of recorded cases are female. Although recorded cases do not necessarily reflect the true picture. It is quite accepted in modern society that men can from an early age start to have a receding hairline and bald patches. Very little is publicly said, whilst females with bald patches, missing eyebrows etc are subject to, at the very least, someone’s remark.

Diagnosis of Trichotillomania

Diagnosis is on occasion difficult even for trichologists as often admitting this behaviour would add shame to the discomfort felt and may result in the loss of sympathy. As a London and Midlands based hypnotherapist who specialises in using hypnotherapy and EFT with people who have trichotillomania, I recently treated a client who’s partner believed she had alopecia. When she got up the courage to admit she was pulling out her own hair the relationship collapsed. This was exceptional it should be noted as most partners have an inkling that something is not quite right and when told that it is a condition, are usually very supportive.

Treatments for Coping with Hair pulling

 Over time people with trichotillomania (sometimes shortened to TTM) become adept at covering up the damage. Some use wigs, whilst others will use scarves and caps. For those with eyelash or eyebrow pulling behaviour will cover the evidence by using false eyelashes and cosmetics.

If treatment is not offered quickly the bald patches will grow and the results not only have an adverse effect on external appearance but also the person’s ability to function in the big wide and often windy world. Activities such as swimming, driving in a convertible car or other physical pursuits become only dreams and often activities to avoid at all cost.

Self Confidence, Esteem and Depression

All of this restriction on their life can naturally affect their self-confidence and self esteem. Depression is often linked with trichotillomania and medication may be prescribed such as Prozac. Some people report some improvement with pharmaceutical treatment but others prefer an alternative approach including behaviour therapy. CBT, support groups and hypnotherapy. Some people also benefit from dietary changes.

Hypnotherapy, EFT and Trichotillomania

As an experienced trichotillomania hypnotherapist, I have found that a combination of practical and pleasant activities and strategies as well as powerful intervention therapies such as hypnosis and EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) can be effective. After working with clients directly in one-to-one sessions, other support that is particularly helpful are the use of hypnosis and subliminal cds. The use of these are encouraged each evening and assist subsequent progress made in the hypnotherapy sessions.

Lifestyle Changes

Whether working with a client face to face or by email, it is possible with honesty and trust to work out times and situations which exacerbate the issue and make a change. Just like learning to walk it takes time, practice and encouragement from people around you. In my experience I am delighted to say that there is hope. Trichotillomania in all its forms can be treated effectively and either reduced in severity or eliminated if the client is motivated to want to change and the support of loved ones can be counted on.

Easy and comfortable contractions … or surges?

Sounds too good to be true!

A growing number of couples are discovering the wonders of HypnoBirthing, a relatively new concept in the UK, which teaches them how to achieve easy, comfortable and natural childbirth, with many mothers experiencing little or even no pain. Not surprisingly it is rapidly gaining recognition in the birthing world and amongst prospective parents as the way to give birth.

HypnoBirthing is based on the belief that a woman’s body is perfectly designed to give birth without experiencing pain. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does with all other creatures. After all, why should a woman’s uterus not function just as comfortably as other muscles in the body.

The reason, according to Marie Mongan, the founder of HypnoBirthing, that the uterus muscles don’t perform is because a culture of fear of childbirth has been developed over centuries, not due to the actual physical aspect of birth but due to the fear of what may possibly go wrong during and after childbirth. When we are fearful, we are also tense and when we are tense we experience pain. This is because the blood and oxygen necessary for the uterus muscles to work in harmony for an easy, comfortable birth, are directed to the parts of the body that are more important when needing to either fight or run for our lives. The uterus does not play a life saving role and is therefore not nourished when we are in danger and fearful.

HypnoBirthing is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing and stress-free method of birthing. It teaches couples a wide range of techniques and skills that can be used in all areas of life, not just childbirth. Couples learn how to use hypnosis, deep relaxation and breathing techniques to eliminate the fear and tension that cause pain. The result is shorter labour, fewer complications, less or no need for chemical painkillers and, of course, relaxed babies and mothers. Mothers find out how to tune into their natural birthing instincts, trust and work with their bodies and to release all prior programming about birth. HypnoBirthing teaches gentle birthing techniques that allow the mother to breathe her baby into the world without the violence of hard physical pushing.

Unlike many ‘traditional’ births where fathers are often left very much on the side lines, HypnoBirthing gives fathers a wonderful, integral role in the birth. This allows the mother to relax and internalise, focusing only on her baby, secure in the knowledge that the father is in control of all that surrounds the birth, including communication with the midwives and doctors. He learns how to take the mother into a deep state of relaxation, or trance state through the use of hypnotic texts and affirmations, acting as a guide and anchor to keep the mother relaxed and focused as well as being the intermediary between the mother and midwives.

The classes are run over 3 weeks and are a mix of interesting background information and theory together with plenty of relaxation and practical work. Releasing fear about childbirth or parenting is a major part of the course and there is always a distinct change in attitude, particularly from the mothers, once this part is completed. Couples are fascinated as they view HypnoBirthing films showing labouring mothers, awake, alert, smiling and in good humour, with hardly a sound as their baby is born – they are very real proof that it really is possible to experience the serene and natural birth that nature intended. After all, only the western world has medicalised childbirth to the extent that elected caesarians are now quite the norm. In many cultures women give birth easily and comfortably and animals certainly don’t cry out in agony when their offspring is born.

Many couples start the course with a few doubts saying ‘it sounds great but I can’t imagine we’ll manage a birth like that!’ However, by the end of the course parents feel excited and confident, armed with techniques that allow them to take control of the birth of their baby, instead of allowing fear and lack of knowledge to influence the event.

The course offers a wide menu of techniques and skills for couples to choose from and they are encouraged to personalise the course to their own situation, practicing and using those techniques that work best for them. The hypnotic techniques taught are also very useful in other areas of life to reduce stress, increase confidence, cope with difficult situations and to feel more positive and energetic. The effectiveness of hypnotherapy to give up smoking, help clients lose weight, eliminate phobias or to treat stress related disorders such as IBS or ulcers is now widely recognised. Hypnotherapy has also helped many couples suffering from fertility problems.

Hypnosis is a state we are in several times a day, when dropping off to sleep, when daydreaming, when engrossed in a film or when driving 10 miles without knowing how we got there! It is completely safe and natural and in this deeply relaxed state the subconscious mind can be accessed directly without the conscious mind analysing and putting up barriers. As the subconscious mind doesn’t differentiate between fact and fiction it means that positive suggestions can be made and taken on by the client, fears can be released easily without emotion and future events can be imagined and experienced as though they were reality.

Hypnotherapy often uses visualisation for a client to mentally experience a physical outcome they desire and this is extremely effective for childbirth, allowing the mother to visualise her body, uterus and birth path (vagina) opening up very easily and then imagining her baby moving down and out safely, comfortably and quickly. Couples are encouraged to look forward to the birthing day as a special day to be embraced not endured and, whatever route the birth may take, they will benefit from HypnoBirthing.

The power of words is important to understand – when you think of a lemon your mouth will probably tingle or water and this mental-physical connection works in many other areas. This is why HypnoBirthing has developed a much softer and gentler language for childbirth, talking about a ‘surge’ instead of a ‘contraction’, ‘waters release’ instead of break, ‘breathing the baby down’ instead of ‘pushing’ and ‘birthing’ not ‘delivery’.

There are only 3 different breathing techniques which are vital to understand – sleep breathing which takes the mother into a relaxed state, slow breathing that is used to breath through each surge and the ‘J breath’ which is used to breath the baby down during the final stage of labour as the baby moves down the birth path to crown.

Parents, midwives and doctors are constantly amazed by the wonderfully easy births experienced through HypnoBirthing.

‘HypnoBirthing gave us a most priceless gift, that of a fearless birth.’

‘My parents saw the video of my birthing and couldn’t believe I was even in labour.’

‘I’ve been delivering babies for 20 years and never seen anything like this!’

‘Nothing can describe the beauty of our birthing experience with HypnoBirthing – I had 2 other children using traditional methods and never dreamed labour could be as easy as this!’

What more could you want for the birth of your baby! It’s wonderful and it works!  

Article Posted – 27th February 2007.
Copyright Kristin Hayward

 
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What is Hypnotherapy?
So, what do we mean by hypnotherapy? Firstly, it is the use of hypnosis in a therapeutic context, as opposed to being used for entertainment as in stage hypnosis. Hypnosis is sometimes described as an altered state of consciousness. In fact, you are experiencing this kind of state when you are waking up, falling asleep, or daydreaming. A hypnotic trance should therefore be looked upon as a very natural state, but one where your conscious mind has either stepped aside for a while or has become more narrowly focused. The hypnotherapist uses the trance to make suggestions to the client’s unconscious mind, without those suggestions being intercepted by the conscious mind. There are a number of other “trance phenomena” which can be used by the hypnotherapist, including analgesia and anaesthesia, time distortion, and dissociation. Hypnotherapy is a “talking therapy” and it is what is said to the client while in trance which is important, rather than simply being in trance (although that is a very comfortable and relaxing state in itself).

Fifty years ago the British Medical Association confirmed that hypnosis was an appropriate treatment method (indeed, sometimes the method of choice) for a number of conditions. While hypnotherapy is used by some doctors, dentists and psychiatrists it is not generally available on the National Health Service. There are exceptions, and some hospitals do employ hypnotherapists (for example, the Withington Hospital in Manchester uses hypnotherapy to treat IBS, and St George’s Hospital in London uses hypnosis to calm people before having chemotherapy). One reason may be the lack of available time. A hypnotherapist would normally see a client for one hour or 1 1/2 hours and this would not fit easily into a GP’s timetable. Although the sessions may be long the treatment is likely to be relatively quick, for example when compared to psychotherapy. The number of sessions needed will vary with the complexity of the condition to be treated. For example, smoking or blushing might be dealt with in a single session, while weight management might need six or more sessions over a period of months.

Helping people with cancer
What can a hypnotherapist do to help somebody who has cancer? The hypnotherapist will want to make it clear that he or she is not expecting to “cure” a person of cancer simply by taking them into a hypnotic trance. That said, there is plenty of evidence that hypnotherapy can help people with cancer, even if it is only to improve their quality of life for the time being. The reason why hypnotherapy can be relevant is because mind, body and spirit are interconnected and any treatment needs to take this into account. The extraordinary advances in medical science have been due to a greater understanding of how the body works and this has led to an emphasis on physical treatment (radiotherapy, chemotherapy etc), but the mind has its part to play as well. Hypnotherapy can therefore be used alongside the conventional medical treatments for cancer, and for a number of different purposes, as this list shows:

1. Relaxation versus stress It is generally accepted that stress can reduce the effectiveness of the human immune system, so changing the body’s ability to deal with cancer cells. Finding out that you have cancer is certainly stressful and, if you were not stressed before, you probably will be when you receive the diagnosis. Stress is an attitude of mind: you cannot control the entire external world but you can decide how you are going to react to it. There are a number of ways of improving relaxation, and hypnotherapy is a very effective one. When you have your first hypnotherapy session you will probably be taken through a progressive relaxation, relaxing first the body and then the mind. Of course, it is not enough to be relaxed only when you are with your hypnotherapist. Most hypnotherapists teach their clients how to do self hypnosis, giving the client a simple technique for taking themselves into a relaxing hypnotic trance. After a little practice the client will find that they can reduce their feelings of stress and feel much better as a result.

2. Psychoneuroimmunology The relatively new study of psychoneuroimmunology has shown that there is a relationship between the mind and the human immune system. Encouraging the client to think about their immune system, and focus on what it can do for them, does have a beneficial effect. The hypnotherapist will start with guided visualisation of the immune system and will ask the client to give themselves affirmations about their immune system while they are in self hypnosis, which they will be asked to do at least daily. The client may also be asked to do drawings showing themselves, the cancer, their immune system and their treatment. They will be encouraged to think about their immune system, together with their treatment, as being strong and powerful in comparison with the cancer cells.

Further reading
The following books, which are not specifically about hypnotherapy, provide a mass of information about the way mind and body interacts.

Getting Well Again, by Carl Simonton and others. This classic work appeared in the 1970s and has provoked a lot of new thinking.
Love, Medicine and Miracles, by Bernie Siegel
The Sickening Mind, by Paul Martin, brings the story up-to-date in a wide-ranging review. It is particularly interesting on the effect of stress on the immune system.

3. Side-effects There are a number of side-effects to cancer treatment which can be distressing or uncomfortable. It may be possible to eliminate or reduce these side-effects using hypnotherapy. For example, anticipatory nausea may arise in people going for chemotherapy. The fact that it happens before rather than after the treatment indicates that it has a psychological cause (although it is nonetheless real nausea). People taking tamoxifen sometimes experience hot flushes. We know that blushing has a psychological cause, and can be treated using hypnotherapy, so we can use similar techniques to help to reduce hot flushes. Other side-effects such as fear or depression can also be helped with hypnotherapy.

4. Preparation for surgery Hypnosis can be used in place of a general anaesthetic for some forms of surgery. This is of particular interest for those who find the after effects of a general anaesthetic to be unpleasant. However, a more common use of hypnotherapy is to help to prepare a client for surgery. This takes several forms. Firstly, a relaxed client who is expecting the operation to go well and who is expecting to recover quickly is likely to make better progress than one who is fearful and anxious. Secondly, the client can be trained to respond to suggestions given by the surgeon during an operation. While under a general anaesthetic a person’s conscious mind may be closed but their sense of hearing and their unconscious mind are still open. The surgeon can therefore give suggestions about bloodflow and healing to which the person’s unconscious mind can respond.

5. Self confidence and empowerment When a person is told that they have cancer there is a natural tendency for this fact to dominate their thinking and for them not be able to see beyond their recovery. Because they are in a situation which they have not had to face before they may feel overreliant on others (doctor, consultant, nursing staff) and feel they have lost control of their own lives. Hypnotherapy can help to re-establish their self-confidence, empower them in their dealings with others, and extend their focus to what they want to do with the rest of their lives. They will be encouraged to think about their goals (in addition to recovery), and to consider these goals when in self hypnosis. Establishing a goal as important in the unconscious mind will result in much better motivation.

6. Other issues People with cancer have the same issues as everybody else but the cancer may bring a particular issue to the fore. For example, a needle phobia, which was largely irrelevant in the past, may become very significant for somebody who is now visiting hospital much more than before. Emotional issues which have been put to one side in the past may become more important for somebody considering a reduced life expectancy.

7. Carers A person caring for somebody they love, and having to face the fact that they may die, will certainly benefit from the relaxation techniques and understanding that a hypnotherapist can provide. A carer may need help to focus on their own needs as well as on those of the person they are caring for.

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Patrick Browning, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Kensington London
Email: Patrick@Browning-hypnosis.co.uk
Website: www.Browning-Hypnosis.co.uk
Article Posted – 16th February 2007.
Copyright Patrick Browning

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Now the mind/body system is very clever and ingenious. Not only is your mind running all your bodily functions without you having to give it a single thought, it has also set up a system whereby it can take on what are termed “subconscious programmes” that run or operate your more mundane behaviours so that you can free your mind up to think about more interesting matters. In some ways it is a bit like a computer (and that is no accident). There are programmes that run and you can see them on the screen, but behind them is the operating system with all the programmes that you can’t see. Without the latter, the former simply wouldn’t exist, you’d just be looking at a blank screen. Your mind has hidden programmes running too. The one we are interested in might be called “habit install” and the other important programme “habit sustain”. As your mind goes about its daily thinking it is always looking for shortcuts or information about you to make the whole system function better. If your mind notices that you are doing something regularly it sort of thinks “Ooh! I notice my person has started reading a book at bedtime to get to sleep. That’s every night for three weeks now. I think I’ll install a subconscious programme to make her automatically reach for that book without thinking. There, that’s a job well done for me!” Or another example might be “I’ve noticed my person is having two biscuits everyday with her (habitual) morning coffee. I’ll make that a habit too for her, then she won’t have to worry about doing it, it will happen all by itself” And that is exactly how it seems to you as you go about your life wondering why it is so hard to do this diet properly. All those habits are getting in the way and you don’t even feel you’re in control of them. Your habit files are full up with all the actions and behaviours that make your life run effortlessly for you. Most of the time it’s a nice, easy way to live and it helps you to conserve your mental and physical resources so you can really concentrate on the difficult things in your life.

There is a fly in this particular ointment. What about reversing these habits, is there a programme running to do that? Well, yes, there is, but you are not going to like the sound of it. Simply stopping the unwanted behaviour or doing the opposite or an alternative behaviour can reverse habits. “But that’s a swindle, you cry! I still have to just do it!” That is true, but now that you have more understanding of your inner mind and its workings, the real bonus is that you can approach changing them in a way that is less painful.

The worst possible way to try and change is to change everything at once. Your mind/body system is knocked sideways by this and the outcome as far as you are concerned is deep emotional and mental discomfort. You have lost all of your behavioural bearings and feel unaccountably strange! No wonder you end up throwing in the towel and scuttling back to those comfortable old habits, the ones you don’t have to think about. If you approach habit change in a methodical and sensible way (dull, I know, but worth it in the end) you can make it seem easy and safe. Start by making a list of your top twenty habits that you know, deep down, you have to change if you want to lose weight and become slim and healthy. Now rank them in order with number one the easiest to change and number twenty your real toughie. Put them in order on your list on the left hand side of a sheet of paper and then on the right hand side write an alternative behaviour or action that you would like to substitute. Now if I tell you that it takes a few weeks for your mind to recognise a new habit and dump an old one then you get an idea of a timescale for your changes. You see, you want it to be permanent and effective, not your usual impatient dash to change everything overnight. That usually fails, you know that already. You might want to allow two weeks for each change or you may want to do two easy ones at once, but don’t rush, that is not the point. You can judge how well you are doing by how happy and secure you feel about your new habits and making sure you are not accidentally defaulting to your old ways. When you no longer think about your old habit, it is completely in the past, you are safe to move on to the next challenge on your list, all the time minimizing your pain and discomfort and maximizing your chances of success. After all, the way to make dieting and losing weight easy is to make it enjoyable, then we unconsciously want to do more of it. Simple, but true. It is still a serious job of work to be done, but by working at a comfortable pace with your own habit changes you lay down the secure foundations for life change that you can do without conscious effort. In fact your new healthy habits will become automatic and that, in itself, is truly miraculous.

OLD UNWANTED HABITS

 Email: deborah.bromley@btopenworld.com

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Here are some suggested steps to ensure that you have prepared as thoroughly as possible for your interview.

Do you really want the job – is this your kind of work?

Now is the time to decide whether this job, with its various tasks and required skills, is what you really want to do. Although the job title and salary might be attractive, you need to give serious thought to whether the role is one which really interests you, and will maintain your enthusiasm and drive.

Make sure you thoroughly research the company. For example, do you know what they produce? Do you understand the company structure? How long have they been trading? This knowledge will help to boost your confidence at your interview, and will also impress your interviewers. It will also help you to decide whether you really do want to work for this company.

Is this work that you’ve done before? If not, how much can you bring to the job in terms of transferable skills? For example, you may like to have a management job, but unless you can prove your organisational and management abilities either from previous jobs, or comparable life experiences, you may be over-reaching and setting yourself up for failure.

Once you’ve considered these points, a helpful technique is to ask yourself why you want this particular job, and to repeat this five times. If you can answer each why’ differently, but in a very positive way and quite quickly, you will be much clearer about your motivation for wanting this job. This can enhance how you approach the interview, and the over all impression you will give. If you can’t answer these questions easily, then perhaps you should reconsider.

Knowing your CV and handling questions

It is crucial to prepare yourself for the interview before the day of the interview. This can involve aspects such as deciding what you are going to wear for the interview, as well as getting familiar with your own CV (resume). There is nothing more embarrassing than being asked questions based on your CV, and not being able to answer them because you’ve forgotten about something which you stated.

It is perfectly acceptable to take a copy of your CV, or brief notes, into the interview with you in order to jog your memory. But do keep these as brief as possible and ensure they are relevant to the job description. It’s not very impressive to hold up the interview while you search through reams of paper for an appropriate response.

You should also feel free to jot down any questions, particularly a multi-part question, in order for you to focus more clearly on the issue. This will help you to feel confident about giving a comprehensive reply. Remember that you can always ask an interviewer to clarify, or repeat, any questions. You can also ask the interviewer to come back to a particular question if you need further time to think.

Ensure your successful arrival

You will want to make a good impression straight away. Turning up late for your interview and making excuses regarding getting lost, or public transport letting you down, will not get you off to a good start. It is therefore vital to ensure you know the route in advance, and to give yourself plenty of time to cope with any unexpected events such as traffic jams, transport failure or other emergencies.

If possible, have a practice run before the day. This will help you to estimate more accurately how much time you will need to allow for travel, and will help soothe any nerves on the day.

Rehearse answers to popular questions

Your confidence will be enhanced if you rehearse answering typical interview questions. Some people find it helpful to rehearse their answers out loud. For example, speaking in front of a mirror, a friend, or even your cat or dog!

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