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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Anxiety Symptoms
What Drives Anxiety Symptoms? Anxiety is a reaction to events in the environment around us. It is a word that’s used to describe the physical and emotional feelings of worry and fear and a general uneasiness that happen in some situations. The feelings are the embodiment of the flight / flight / freeze response […]
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What Are The Symptoms Of Depression The symptoms of depression are varied and are spread across a spectrum that takes in emotional, physical and social symptoms. People are different by their very nature and they exhibit symptoms of depression to differing degrees. This severity of symptoms combined with the range of symptoms of depression makes the […]
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What Sorts of Signs of Depression are we Looking for? Signs of depression fall in to three main categories: Personal emotional state signs Personal physical signs Social signs It’s useful to break it up like this because it allows us to realise that there are personal issues being faced that are both emotional and physical. […]
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What is Sleep Sleep Apnoea? Sleep apnoea is a sleep condition that is often discovered accidentally by a partner who notices that during sleep a person stops breathing. Sleep apnoea is a condition where the walls of the throat relax during sleep and gradually cause the throat to become narrower and eventually to close. This […]
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Some mornings when I get up, particularly in summer, when I just need a quiet place. That’s not to say that the other members of my family are noisy, its simpler than that. Some days are just like that. Some days you just need a quiet place to spend a few quiet moments to yourself […]
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So if there were a three way competition: Hypnosis vs NLP vs Mindfulness which would win? I went to a seminar this week at Portsmouth University and the speakers were a mindfulness coach and an NLP master trainer. Both were offering solutions to Stress in the workplace. A friend asked me “which is best then”. On […]
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This post is NOT everything you need to know about meditation, but it’s a start. In studies it has been shown that after 6 weeks doing some form of meditation for 10 minutes a day people reduce their levels of stress, they improve their sleep and they cope with their daily schedule better. So what’s meditation? […]
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I’ve read a lot of things about the law of attraction, the secret and all the other versions out there. It’s all compelling, especially the versions where we can create anything that we want for ourselves. I’m not so compelled by the versions that say when bad stuff happened to us that we wanted that […]
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In my previous post I looked at how we are judging people and everything at all times. That included judging other people and judging ourselves. So if I recap, our conscious minds are pattern matching engines that search for memories and thoughts that match the situation that we are in. For example if a car […]
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