It was great to see our hypnotherapy students this last Sunday work with one another on their first supervised client sessions. Although on this initial session they were working with one another they were still working with real issues and it’s a great rehearsal for when they start working with ‘real-Joe public’ clients in June. [...]
Archive for April, 2008
People who report being the happiest in life tend to be the very same people who report being the most miserable at other times: (see Staying Sane: How to Make Your Mind Work for You by Raj Persaud.) True happiness would consist of contentment and meeting ones basic emotional needs which includes a need to [...]
We know that learned helplessness can be a major factor in the development and maintenance of clinical depression Feeling helpless in one situation can produce feelings of helplessness in another (even if in fact you no longer are, in reality, helpless. This could explain the research in this article cited leading to the conclusion that [...]
I was on a slot with BBC Radio Lancashire last Tuesday who did a section of their afternoon show on teenagers and depression. The broadcaster Sean McGinty has three teenagers of his own so he was really interested in understanding why they display such strange behaviour at times. We talked about some basic ideas that [...]
I was saddened to see on the UK news of a vulnerable man of twenty two with a mental age of eighteen months who has been murdered by two (it seems) strangers. Idealists’ state that there ‘is good in everyone’ but psychologists think there is ‘potential good in the vast majority’ but that about 2% [...]
Ok so I admit to watching TV while I ate breakfast today. They were talking about a study from Birmingham University that showed if you thought about your last meal in detail, you ate less. The facilitators took two groups of students and asked one group to recall their journey to the campus and the [...]
People spend lifetimes fantasizing about winning fortunes or having amazing positive events happen to them with a feeling that once these happy events come to them they will be sorted forever and ‘happy from here on in.’ Research consistently shows that experiencing super one off triumphs isn’t what really produces and maintains stable happiness. Happy [...]
The solution focused approach we teach on the uncommon knowledge hypnotherapy diploma teaches hypnotherapy students to help people who are negatively ruminating about past events (or properly traumatized by them) to feel differently about the past so it stops intruding on the present and determining the future. Uncommon therapists also teach people to look forward [...]
Some people never seem to stop apologizing (sorry but you know who you are). But being able to apologize means you are more likely to enjoy easier and longer lasting relationships. A survey conducted in San Francisco found that people who stay happily married are twice as likely to be able and willing to apologize [...]
Not long ago in the British press there was much talk of the research (some of which was reviewed by Irving Kirsh-an excellent presenter as I can attest) that shows antidepressants such as Prozac are little more effective that a simple (and much cheaper) sugar pill given to someone who is told they are receiving [...]
