From the category archives:

Hypnotherapy – General

Self-hypnosis

4 June 2009

Just had a look at the self-hypnosis section of my blog and realised that I haven't posted on there for over two years! Time is the one thing that all of us share, my sixty seconds is the same as your sixty seconds, and time passes whether we master it or use it as an excuse. [...]

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The act of driving is 95% subconscious……..

25 February 2009

Imagine a square. The square represents a supermarket car park with the bottom right hand corner being the car park exit and the top left hand corner being the car park entrance. You can only access the car park from one direction, by approaching from the bottom right hand corner, passing the exit, doing a [...]

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Follow my updates on Facebook

21 February 2009

I've recently joined Facebook so if you want to keep up to date with blog posts and the latest information regarding new programmes, the latest hypnosis news including the new group sessions that I will be launching very soon which offer great value and will cover a vast amount of topics, simply search Exuberance Clinical [...]

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Drugs to erase memories – memory erasing drugs.

19 February 2009

This week has seen the announcement that a team of Dutch researchers have used beta-blocker drugs to erase the negative emotions connected to certain memories. This has raised a lot of questions about it's moral and ethical usage. I'm sure that this has been mentioned on the TV before, about a year ago, but perhaps [...]

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Diseases with no known cause.

25 November 2008

I am an absolute believer in the mind-body connection, I believe that stress is bad for our immune systems and that when we feel good mentally we also boost our immune systems. I absolutely believe that every thought, feeling or emotion that we experience at a subconscious level manifests itself in our physical body somehow. Now, [...]

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Kerry Katona, alcoholic – why I wouldn't take her on as a client.

11 November 2008

Kerry Katona has recently admitted that she is an alcoholic. Apparently, she was “diagnosed” as an alcoholic four years ago after her marriage break-up. She said “I have never admitted to this before and I know it is a battle I will have to face for the rest of my life.” Why is it a [...]

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World Mental Health Day – Hypnotherapy Hypnosis

10 October 2008

Today is World Mental Health Day and I'm pleased that so far I've heard and read mentions of it in some of the press. As I believe that every thought, feeling or emotion that we experience at a subconscious level manifests itself somehow in our physical body, the importance of mental health can't be stressed enough (no [...]

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Amazing new hypnotic techniques discovered!

3 October 2008

I love to collect and read old books on hypnosis, some of which are not that good and some of which could have been written today because they are so spot-on with guidance, techniques and understanding of human behaviour. There are many different methods of hypnosis and many different techniques involved within the many methods. [...]

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Hypnotherapy when you feel great?

21 August 2008

Hypnotherapy is not only for those occasions when people feel bad, depressed or down about themselves or life, it can be used at anytime, even if you feel great. One of the many wonderful things about the state of hypnosis is how virtually any state can be improved immediately so even if you feel fantastic, you [...]

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I officially distance myself from NLP.

8 August 2008

I’ve read the books, listened to the CD’s, browsed the websites and can not find one single thing that NLP could help me achieve that I can’t already do as a clinical hypnotherapist. Not one.   I’m fed up with people asking me if I use NLP, telling me I should use NLP or actually [...]

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Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy – Should I laugh or cry?

4 August 2008

There are many myths surrounding hypnosis and the perceived “mind control” that a hypnotherapist has. Of course there is no mind control, no-one can be made to do anything that contradicts any moral, religious, spiritual or ethical beliefs that they hold. This is the biggest myth of all. I stumbled across this article on the [...]

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Natasha Farnham – "Addicted = dependent on a substance"

21 May 2008

Recently in the UK a young girl, Natasha Farnham, has been told by doctors that if she drinks alcohol again she will die. She is 18 years young and when she was 14 she was the youngest patient in the UK to have liver failure caused by alcohol abuse. Having scanned the Internet to find [...]

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BBC Alternative Therapies – Hypnotherapy – Kathy Sykes

19 March 2008

Hmmmm, interesting. The programme that aired recently on BBC2 took a look at hypnotherapy. The main question on the mind and lips of it's presenter, Kathy Sykes, seemed to be “can I be hypnotised?” Well, what does it mean to be hypnotised? The definition of hypnosis that I use and agree with is “The bypassing [...]

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Emotional eaters find it hard to lose weight. Official!

28 November 2007

People who eat when they are lonely, sad or stressed have the hardest time losing weight and then keeping it off, according to a new study from The Miriam Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, R.I, USA. Often called “emotional eaters,” this group tends to view food as a [...]

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Some so-called hypnotherapists are sicko's!

30 October 2007

My blood is boiling but I feel I have to put this post up now. I was just checking my emails before I set off home when I found one promoting some “hypnosis downloads”. Just before I hit the delete button I caught sight of one of the titles and had to re-check it to [...]

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Fancy a dip? The power of the mind

20 July 2007

Earlier this week, British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh became the first man to swim at the North Pole. He spent almost 19 minutes at minus 1.8C as he front crawled for one kilometre – more than half a mile in the coldest water a human has ever swum. Lewis Pugh's incredible ability to withstand the [...]

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