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Archive for May, 2008

Hypnotherapy Diploma students help each others

Our students had their first observed session a couple of weeks ago and Mark and I have had some great feedback about the beneficial changes that they have experinced.
The students worked on each other, each in groups of four for the day, looked after by one of our appointed supervisors. Taking it in turns […]

Pain is all in the mind-well partly

Chronic and acute pain can be so debilitating. This article looks at the psychological element of pain and suggests Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help ease pain. Our attitudes, fears, and other emotional responses to pain can all greatly affect the way we actually experience it.
Hypnosis can be even more powerful.
After the summer on […]

Childrens creative play and psychological development

Do you remember a time when you were a child playing some made up game? A branch became a horse, a twig a gun; and in the blazing heat of the desert sands (well …local hills) you rode to capture the bad wizard? No? But maybe you have your own story?
I started to think […]

Fear and guilt share the same brain space

Fearful people seem to feel the guiltiest. And it seems that fear and guilt are connected. People who experience the unpleasant affects of panic attacks and anxiety may be more prone to guilt and shame.
In March of 1943 a tragedy struck in the Bethnal Green area of London. 173 men, women and children were killed […]

magic tricks of the eye

This short article suggests that magic is not just about where your eyes are focused but where you mind is focused that will determine whether you’ll see how a trick is done.
When people experience wide awake opened-eye hypnosis they can be looking but not seeing as their attention may very well be inwards seeing, […]

Fear of snakes and spiders

It’s often said that some fears are ‘hard-wired’ and some we learn. For example most babies do not automatically fear public speaking (a fear which has to wait to be learnt later!) but they may have innate hard wired fears of, say, spiders and snakes and heights. This article: More evidence that fear of snakes […]

A smell by any other name

This brief article caught my eye/nose: Perceptions: Another Name Smells Sweeter It seems we not only rate smells with nice names as more pleasant (than the same smell with an unpleasant name) but our brains actually process the experience of those smells differently.
So language which molds association and expectation can actually determine how we […]


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