Watching the Horizon programme last Tuesday, I was reminded of how many people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) continue to suffer unnecessarily; because they are being treated with outdated ineffective treatments, or do not have access to being treated with the ‘Rewind technique.’
Held by many to be one of the most effective psychological tools [...]
Archive for March, 2008
It’s interesting to reflect that when people develop psychological problems it’s because, on some level, they have stopped being flexible around the difficulties they face in their lives. Humour is such a boon to good mental health because it keeps flexibility of mind well and truly intact and uses new perspectives, objectivity and detachment from [...]
The Germans’ have a word for a concept we all understand. The word is “shadenfraud” which loosely translated means: joy in someone else’s suffering. And who was it that that said: ‘The worst affront to your friends in to become a success’?
People are more likely to experience shadenfraud if they were a, envious or [...]
A few years back I saw a client being seen by a student on the Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy diploma during a session I was supervising say that since they had become depressed they had suffered one physical illness after the other.
Depression depletes the neurotransmitter serotonin. Serotonin, as well as making us feel good, moderates [...]
Xiang Yu was a Chinese general in the third century BC who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in decision making. He crushed his troops’ cooking pots and burned their ships.
He explained this was to focus them on moving forward — a motivational speech that was not [...]
Students on The Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy Diploma Course are taught to use positively constructed language as a precise tool when seeking to help people over come life’s difficulties.
For too long the field of psychotherapy was beset with ideas based on ideology not science. For example people were encouraged to ‘feel their pain’, to [...]
I recall, as a late teenager, friends of my parents coming to stay. They had a young son of seven you might call a whiz kid. To say he was a smarty pants was an understatement. It was my job to show him around. He had memorized whole encyclopedias and I spent a great deal [...]
On the next Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy diploma weekend I will be teaching strategies and techniques to help people sleep better. It’s long been known that sleep problems are both symptomatic of poor physical and mental health and also causal. I was intrigued to read this article ‘Bad sleep takes heavier toll on women [...]
This here article ‘Among the elderly, slower walkers have slower brains’ describes researchers who found that how fast an elderly person walks equates with how fast they can think. The writer of the article suggests that walking faster might just get brains to work faster-a two way street.
Slow Motion and slow cognition [...]
I was talking to a man socially yesterday who told me how he had been viciously assaulted in broad day light and in a very public place. He certainly suffered trauma for many months after the attack. I asked him what had come to mind during the flashbacks he had suffered and what he felt [...]
