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Weight Loss without Diets (22 August 2010)
Diets can work, but for how long? Losing weight using hypnotherapy is a very different approach.
The Cracked Pot - A Tale from India (1 August 2010)
Could your deficits actually be strengths?
Learning to Use Hindsight in Advance (19 July 2010)
Michael Yapko's article on the benefits of hindsight in advance highlights how most things that seem unpredictable are, and that living for the moment isn't always the best policy.
Hypnotherapy and Dementia (30 June 2010)
Working with dementia is another area where hypnotherapy can help.
The Value of Hypnotherapy Explained (24 June 2010)
Some interesting articles on hypnotherapy talk about its value across a number of presenting problems, including weight management and dealing with stress and anxiety.
How effective is hypnotherapy? (16 June 2010)
An interesting article from the National Council For Hypnotherapy (NCH) website outlines some of the key research findings.
Who says you can't? (31 May 2010)
Most successful people have tried and failed at many things - this is how you learn. The key difference is that successful people have dealt with ‘failure’ differently.
Be Happy: Coaching for Happiness (11 May 2010)
In positive psychology, well-being is comprised of three categories: the Pleasant life, the Good life, and the Meaningful life
Are you happy? (Part II) (27 April 2010)
In his book Authentic Happiness, Martin Seligman looks at the qualities of successful and happy societies.
Are you happy? (Part I) (13 April 2010)
On a scale of 1 to 10 - where 10 is the happiest you can be - where would you put yourself right now?
Hypnotherapy for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (6 April 2010)
A BBC news article talks about the benefits that hypnotherapy can bring to IBS sufferers.
How to forget fear (23 March 2010)
How reliable is our sense of the past? Is who we think we are based on a system of memory that is more fluid and unstable than we are comfortable admitting?
Is your work “working” for you? (7 March 2010)
If you made a list of 5 to 10 things that are important to you about work, would your job match up to these?
Why do we get what we don’t want? (6 February 2010)
The therapeutic paradox often results in limiting beliefs that drive our behaviour . . .
Who are you? How the past affects the present and the future (26 January 2010)
Our memories form an intrinsic part of our self-identity; that elusive entity that helps to give us a feeling of coherence as we navigate through time . . .
Looking back, how would you describe your life? (31 December 2009)
Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian has carried out some research on people’s metaphors for life. Common ones include: life is like a pizza, a river or a journey. I wonder what your metaphor for life is like? . . .
The Placebo effect: are prescription drugs as effective as people think? (12 December 2009)
There is increasing evidence available that the placebo effect (which is the tendency of any medication or treatment, even an inert or ineffective one, to exhibit results simply because the recipient believes that it will work) in the prescription of drugs is more important than the drugs themselves . . .
Learn to identify what’s holding you back (28 November 2009)
Richard Bandler , co-developer of Neuro Lingusitic Programming (NLP) describes hesitation as one of the main barriers to learning, and he focuses a great deal of time and energy on helping people to overcome it . . .
How in control of your mind are you? (Part II) (7 November 2009)
Living in the ways we do in modern society requires more of us than our brains are developed to do . . .
How in contol of your mind are you? (Part I) (1 November 2009)
Freud posed the idea that our identity operates on more than one level, and that what was underneath was more responsible than what was above . . .
The NLP Filter Model (24 October 2009)
When information comes in from the external world, it enters through the five senses and at this point filtering begins . . .
What is Neuro Linguisitic Programming (NLP)? (16 October 2009)
Richard Bandler and John Grinder developed Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) in the mid seventies . . .
The Power of Forgiveness (7 October 2009)
Anger, resentment, outrage, stubbornness and bitterness can sometimes be the only things you can cling to when you are trying to get you through a particularly tough time . . .
Free Will Is Not an Illusion? (27 September 2009)
In 1983, an experiment by Benjamin Libet seemed to indicate that our unconscious was responsible for behaviour that we attributed to our own free will . . .
What is Mental Health - and how do we achieve it? (21 September 2009)
At some point in our lives all of us will be affected by something or somebody in this area and we’ll have to manage our response to it . . .
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (12 September 2009)
What is it about fear that makes it so powerful and sometimes so overwhelming? . . .
Do you and your partner speak the same language? (3 September 2009)
We are all unique and experience the world in unique ways. We need to make sure that we are communicating in a way that the receiver understands . . .
The Power of Nature (28 August 2009)
Apparently certain smells release good chemicals in us which help us to relax and feel good. That explains why a good walk in the countryside can do the trick when you’re feeling under pressure . . .
Your Brain is Like a Computer (24 August 2009)
This is a useful metaphor for understanding how the brain works . . .
You aren’t what you think you are . .. what you think, you are (24 August 2009)
We each live in our own separate reality; this is a physiological fact. Our brains filter information through the five senses - sight, sound, touch, smell and taste, and then make representations of that information inside our minds . . .
Too busy to appreciate the good things in your life? (22 August 2009)
Getting the balance right between 'doing' and 'being' can be a challenge for all of us . . .
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How can you harness the power of happiness?
The Times
Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.
New Scientist
Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian has carried out some research on people’s metaphors for life.
Guardian
There is increasing evidence available that the placebo effect in the prescription of drugs is more important than the drugs themselves.
David Hamilton
This article from the Telegraph illustrates very well the power that nature can have over us to help relieve stress.
Telegraph
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