We’ve all heard the old adage: You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink!’ Well what if the horse had somehow paid you for that drink? Would it be more inclined to take it? We tend to value what we pay for. ‘I’m having this now because I’ve paid for […]
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Hypnotherapy Diploma students help each others
Published by May 13th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 0 CommentsOur 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 […]
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
Published by May 12th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training and psychology-research. 2 CommentsDo 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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Hypnotherapy students have their first client sessions
Published by April 30th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 0 CommentsIt 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. […]
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 […]
Social Form Of Bullying Linked To Depression, Anxiety In Adults
Published by April 28th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 0 CommentsWe 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 […]
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 may […]
