This interesting blog from Trevor Silvester from the Quest Institute raises some interesting issues about how your environment and the choices you make reflect who you are because of our need to conform. Take a look around you are you happy with what you see? Clients who come to see me for hypnotherapy change their … Read more →

This article explores the issues related to weight loss and how the key to effective change is to change your relationship to food. Cognitive hypnotherapy embraces the best of these approaches and works through hypnosis at a deeper unconscious level to find different ways to tackle emotional eating. Your unhelpful eating habits were probably once … Read more →

We’re all guilty of procrastinating. But here’s the thing: procrastinating when something is important, when it’s something you know you should do, can drain your energy and you won’t even know it. This article on PsyBlog explains how when you feel more negative about something you tend to avoid it. This is a key factor … Read more →

“The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust I live in a row of terraced houses. On my left is Norman, his glass is what I would call half empty. In the summer as we meet over the garden fence, I’ll say to him … Read more →

“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based on our perception. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive … Read more →

This is the first of a series of articles on how to develop emotional resilience. If you think back over your lifetime, there have been some amazing discoveries in science, medicine and technology to name but a few, that have transformed the way we live in the world. As human beings we have immense capacity … Read more →

This very powerful article by Trevor Silvester of the Quest Institute – as well as this YouTube video – show how powerful the placebo effect can be and how hypnotherapy puts this to good use. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRVCaA5o18&sns=em The same can be true of the opposite – the nocebo effect- a kind of negative self fulfilling prophecy. Many health … Read more →

This is a great YouTube clip of Tony Robbins, looking at how to get what you want out of life: He summarises very succinctly the three most important things for success: focus on what you want get the right tools and support sort out the inside Everyone has the skills and abilities to do this, … Read more →

Have you made New Year’s resolutions for 2011? Are you one of those people who typically gives up on your resolutions after just a few months or weeks? Would you like to increase your chances of following through on your resolutions? Why is it so hard to create lasting changes in your behaviour? It’s because … Read more →

I was talking to a friend today who I haven’t spoken to for a while. She described last year as one of the worst of her life; she’s had problems in her relationship, problems at work and family problems as well. In anybody’s map of the world, a real ‘annus horribilis’. What struck me though … Read more →