Anxiety, Stress & Panic Attacks
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Everyone experiences a degree of stress – whether it’s at home, work or with our health, finances, relationships or something else. There’s no getting away from it – we all have lots to get done and never enough time to do it all.
Friday, February 4th 2011 is National Stress Down Day, organised by the Samaritans (http://www.stressdownday.org/) and is a timely reminder that we all need to actively take steps to ensure we maintain a healthy sense of balance and control.
A little stress can be
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Phobias & Fears
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Having been involved in a car accident several years earlier, Steve now found it impossible to go back on the motorway. Just the thought of a motorway journey would make him feel tense, sweat and shake as he pictured all those horrific sights and sounds from the accident. It was like the other vehicle was still in front of his face as he hurtled towards impact.
Steve got around his driving fear by travelling everywhere on back roads and avoiding motorways – no matter how inconvenient or time consuming that made the journey. To him it seemed the only way he could drive anywhere.
That was fine – until he
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Hypnotherapy, Hypnosis & NLP
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Have you ever set a goal and missed, and then set it again and missed again and then set it again……? How tough is it to always fall just short and have to tell yourself maybe next time?
I once set a goal twelve times over four years before I finally achieved it. My target was specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timed but there was something missing that stopped me succeeding.
My personal goal was to run under 40 minutes for a 10k race. Tough yet achievable. All I really needed to do was run about 5 seconds a mile quicker – that didn’t seem like too much to ask. Yet try as I might I couldn’t ever quite deliver on race day. On one occasion I missed by goal by one second – one second too many in
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Hypnotherapy, Hypnosis & NLP
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When I talk to people about hypnosis, one of the most common concerns they have is about a loss of control. They imagine that, for whatever reason, I would want them to enjoy a deep state of hypnosis so they can cluck like a chicken or sing like Elvis.
These misapprehensions seem to generally come from having seen or heard about stage shows where the hypnotist seemingly makes a member of the audience do silly things. Stage shows are just that – shows – those who volunteer would probably do the silly acts anyway for an audience and there are selection processes before the start as well as the social pressure to do just as the hypnotist suggests or risk ruining the entire night for everyone.
My clients tell me they love the feeling of relaxation they get from trance and are surprised to find how aware they are throughout the session.
When I ask them what hypnosis is like for them they respond with descriptions such as:
“Very relaxing – even better than a hot bath with candles!”
“I felt very relaxed and calm – my mind was clear and able to focus on what I wanted to achieve, without actually having to think about it.”
“I enjoyed it so much I didn’t want it to end.”
For me, when I
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Weight Loss
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Life isn’t fair when it comes to weight – it’s amazingly easy to pile on the pounds but seems much harder trying to shift them again.
As a teenager I was massively overweight. And I was massively unhappy about it. But I loved crisps and cola and sweets and anything else like it. Why eat vegetables and fruit when you can eat crisps?! I also hated exercise – quite frankly when you are an overweight kid, exercise is not fun and is not encouraged.
How did I shift the weight? I went into extreme exercise mode and (in the privacy of indoors) did 10 miles on an exercise bike most nights. When I felt a bit better about myself I went out and played football every night. As I grew older I started to enjoy running - but that’s another story.
Now it seems to me that if I suggest to people that they cycle 10 miles a night for weight loss they may do it for a day or a few days, maybe even a few weeks, but it isn’t going to last and it isn’t going to get to the root of their
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