Before we can answer or at least approach an answer as to whether hypnosis is a placebo effect or not, perhaps we should recap on what a placebo is. The placebo effect is when a treatment with no apparent active component causes a person to improve a medical condition. In short something that shouldn’t affect […]
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Meditating Mindfully
Meditating mindfully is a common thing these days. But what does mindful mean? The usual answer is that mindful is the opposite of mindless, so you are doing meditating with a sense of purpose and not just shutting your eyes and letting your mind skip around like a butterfly. There is another interpretation of mindful […]
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Imagine. You’re sitting on a plane, it’s taken off and it’s reached its cruising altitude and the man across the aisle from you is looking white. And in to the bargain he’s just drinking his second brandy and from your point of view that’s only the drinks he’s had on the plane. He’s absent mindedly […]
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I had to write about this, a wonderful woman I know from volunteering at a hospice called me the spider man. We all know someone who is scared of spiders. In my time as a software engineer I remember an 18 stone colleague who was sitting at his desk one minute, and the next moment […]
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It’s an interesting title, the voices in the quiet of the night. I don’t mean literal voices, the voices of drunks and others with loud voices who walk past our bedroom windows late in the night and disrupting our sleep. No I mean the voices in the form of thoughts that some of us get […]
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I have successfully provided a lot of people with help with insomnia. What Is Insomnia? Insomnia is a condition where you consistently fail to get to sleep, or get back to sleep if woken for some reason in the night. Do I Have A Cure? In Short, No! However if you asked if I could […]
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As a hypnotherapist I’d love to say I delivered guaranteed hypnosis results, I’d love to but hand on heart I can’t. That might sound odd, but as I hope you will understand as you read on there are just too many variables and too many expectations to be dealt with and met. Who Will Be […]
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What is hypnosis? Hypnosis is a thing that actually comes naturally to us. It was discovered a long time ago but recognising it in its current form probably dates back to the mid 1800s. Hypnosis is a natural focused state of mind, it allows you to be more open to suggestions without the intrusion of […]
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When it comes down to it we all need perspective on life. The way that we achieve that perspective is interesting. Many people in anxious situations find it hard because they try so hard to get perspective to enable resolution of their issues but they do so while staying in the life context which has […]
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If you trawl around the internet you will find several versions of eye movement therapy. I’ll give you a quick description first then you can get used to it being an unlikely therapy. This is a much simplified overview of one aspect of eye movement therapy: Let’s assume somebody becomes anxious when they go outside […]
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