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Hypnotherapy

Stopping smoking “reduces anxiety” study shows

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Smokers who successfully quit feel less anxious afterwards – despite the belief that smoking relieves stress, researchers say. The British Journal of Psychiatry study followed nearly 500 smokers attending NHS hypnotherapy for Stop Smoking clinics in England. It found a “significant” decrease in anxiety levels among the 68 smokers who had quit after six months. …

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Lifestyle Changes Key to Dropping the Pounds in 2013

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Losing weight in 2013 is a common New Year’s resolution, but experts say that few of them take the necessary steps to accomplish their goal.
But research shows that following a few rules can you change your lifestyle and lose weight:

‘Binge-drinking gene’ discovered

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Many genes may be involved in influencing how much we drink

Scientists believe some people have a gene that hard-wires them for binge drinking by boosting levels of a happy brain chemical triggered by alcohol.

The King’s College London team found animals lacking the gene had far less desire for alcohol than those with it.

Brain scans of 663 teenage boys showed those with a version of the gene had heightened dopamine responses in tests.

During a task designed to make them anticipate a reward, these 14-year-old boys had more activity in a part of the brain called the ventral striatum which is known to be involved in dopamine release.

When the researchers later contacted the same boys at the age of 16 and asked them about their drinking habits, they found the boys with the ‘culprit’ gene drank more frequently.

The NHS definition of binge drinking is drinking heavily in a short space of time to get drunk or feel the effects of alcohol.

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People who don’t eat get hungry

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I must admit that the above headline may seem a little glib. However, I was so shocked and amazed by the revelations of the BBC’s Health News site, “Skipping breakfast primes the brain to seek out fat” that to coin a phrase, unfortunately this wasn’t exactly food for thought and, surprise surprise, it wasn’t exactly …

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Hypnotherapy helps problem drinking in the baby boomers

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More NHS money is spent treating alcohol-related illness in the 55 to 74-year-olds than on the young, a study says. The Alcohol Concern report found the cost of hospital admissions linked to heavy drinking 55 to 74-year-olds in 2010-11 was more than £825m. That was 10 times more than 16 to 24-year-olds. Almost £2 billion …

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Are you getting a good nights sleep?

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Sleep is absolutely essential for the health and wellbeing of both the body and mind. It is the time for the body to repair and rejuvenate. Adults need around 7-8 hours sleep a night, more when stressed or run down. Sleep deprivation or poor quality sleep impairs mental and physical function, including that of the …

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New link between insomnia and high blood pressure

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Research from the Henry Ford Center for Sleep Disorders found that there was a strong link between being able to fall asleep (primary insomnia) and/or waking up in the middle the night (middle insomnia), and severity of high blood pressure.

Over a third of cancers are due to lifestyle

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Nearly half of cancers (over 130,000) diagnosed in the UK each year are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and diet, research reveals. Smoking is the biggest culprit, causing 23% of cases in men and 15.6% in women, says the Cancer Research UK report. This is followed in men by a lack of …

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It’s Official – Dieting Makes you Fat

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Research shows dieting affects the way your brain works and hormone changes encourage you to eat and store even more fat. It shows that in most cases dieters put on more weight than they lose. There is a huge amount of scientific evidence that points to a demoralising fact for the 25 per cent of …

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The real cost of smoking

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What would you and your partner do with over half a million pounds £532,304.10 to be precise? Spend it on cigarettes perhaps? Well, if you and your partner both smoke 60 cigarettes a day between you, and you both smoke for another 50 years, this is exactly how much it will cost you.

Blushing, there is a way out

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When people dismiss blushing as an insignificant it makes the blusher feel “silly” and “stupid”. I have never worked with a blusher who thought it was insignificant. However what I do hear is “I now it’s stupid but….” or “I feel silly saying this but….”

Simon Cowell gives smoking a “NO” with Hypnotherapy

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Simon has reportedly started to undergo hypnosis to kick the habit, as it has been claimed that the star’s friends and family want him to try and quit. The X Factor USA judge has been smoking for almost 44 years despite his family’s history of health complications, and he admitted that his New Year’s resolution was to try and give up his 15-a-day. A source says,

Criticism can really effect our lives in so many ways

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We often blame ourselves but are we really to blame? This sort of conditioning is generally way out of our control. As a child it can come from parents, bullies, teachers or even siblings. Worst of all, if it continues for a substantial period of time, we become used to it.

Where’s My Confidence Gone?

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Clients are always asking for more self-confidence they say “I need more confidence”, but what is confidence? In the main what they are really saying is that I am less confident than I used to be, confidence starts to grow as children as long as we are nurtured, loved and live in safe surroundings. But for a large number of people this is not true.

Hypnotherapy Courses Online or Something Else?

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If you are thinking of becoming a hypnotherapist because you think it’s easy money or perhaps it’s something you can dip in and out of and earn some extra cash, think again. People who go into hypnotherapy for those reasons don’t generally last long. However, if that’s what you’re after there are hundreds of distance learning and cheap hypnotherapy training courses out there for you to choose. It does not really matter which type of hypnotherapy training you go for as the clients will soon discover your lack of commitment to them and yourself and they wont come back and you will have zero income.

Blushing : ‘I was so embarrassed I thought I’d die’

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Don’t you think it’s strange what some people say when they get embarrassed and blush. Things like “I thought I would die” or “I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me”. These type of expressions, when you analyse them, seem a bit extreme. However, when you work with clients that come to see you for blushing you start to get an understanding for why these type of expressions are common place.

Jack Dee Wards off Depression with Hypnotherapy

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In a recent interview with Bryony Gordon from The Telegraph, Jack Dee discusses how he uses hypnotherapy on a casual but regular basis to, as he puts it, “reset the brain”.

He says “I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long – I didn’t function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out. Plus I found another way…” He trails off. And that was? “Hypnotherapy.”

Dealing with IBS – A clients view

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The following twelve years involved numerous diet changes, GP appointments and specialist consultations, culminating in internal examinations of my stomach and bowel at hospital.

Surprisingly, throughout my entire period of IBS symptoms I had been a Bus driver. For years I had been unable to access toilet facilities as I was often miles away en-route. This, over the years had made me very anxious and uncomfortable as IBS would prey heavy on my mind.

Most smokers want to quit? – Now there’s a surprise!

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A Office for National Statistics report, based on research on 13,000 people, has discovered that 63% of smokers in Britain wanted to quit.  Not much of a surprise I hear you saying.  Well it certainly wasn’t to us, but it went on to say that they find it hard to go even a day without smoking.

Fizzy drinks subtract life

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What damage does fizzy soft drinks cause? Looking at the latest research quite a lot. A study by UK and US researchers claims that drinking too many sugary beverages appears to raise the risk of high blood pressure.

Poor alcohol regulation will cause 250,000 deaths

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However, can we really blame the lack of regulation for this problem. Surely the behaviour is set up long before people can afford to buy alcohol. Children are subjected to watching their parents having a great time whilst drinking alcohol, using it to de-stress and even using it to “let off steam”.

Spiders and Snakes – who cares? by John Marks

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Phobias although fairly simple in terms of anxiety disorders can themselves be underpinned by many different facets and reasons. However what this study shows is that we are not born with them so it has to be conditioning. The great news for those who suffer with phobias is that if it’s conditioning then it can be changed.

Offer support but stay out of the way

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It would seem that it does not matter if you’re the Prime Minister, or simply trying to lose weight or even stop smoking, the best support comes from those who offer practical help without making a fuss, it was reported by the Daily Mail with regard to a recent study in the U.S. journal Psychological Science.

Take the p*** out of the NHS

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I was really heartened by the focus on hypnobirthing by the media lately. Firstly there was One Born Every Minute on Channel 4 yesterday on the 14th February, and then in the Daily Mail talking about the NHS using hypnotherapy in a trial to take the pain out of birth. However, they both miss the point. The fact is that they are actually perpetuating the problem. In both of them their main feature is PAIN.

Beat the Blues with Hypnotherapy

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As a society we start to pick up inappropriate habits right from childhood. Things like using food as a treat or reward. “If you’re a good girl you can have a sweet/biscuit/ice cream” or who remembers a parent saying something like “eat all your dinner and you can have a pudding” or “you must eat all your dinner as there are starving people in Africa”. This is just one area where we are hypnotised in our life into inappropriate beliefs.

“I’m Not Good Enough”

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As a hypnotherapist and anxiety specialist for nearly 12 years now, I have come across the belief that “I’m not good enough” so many times that I’m fed up of writing it so in my client notes it’s just INGE syndrome.

I probably see this in 70 – 80% of my clients. The strange thing is most of my clients believe that it is just the way they were born. This is definitely not the case.

UK men and women are fatter than ever.By Paul Howard

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Both UK men and women are in Europe’s fattest top ten.

The fact is that there is a direct correlation between our weight increase and the increase in sugars that we eat. It is said that in the UK we eat on average 2 pounds of sugar every week. It is not all sugars that are the problem…..

Ambulances are set to get bigger!By Paul Howard

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Ambulances are the latest vehicles to face up to one inarguable fact – as a nation, we are getting bigger and that poses a huge design headache.

Nowadays warnings about rising obesity levels are in almost every headline – as a result of which, ironically, the advice suggests we need to be moving more and eating less. Surprise surprise! The point is that the vast majority of people who are overweight already know that. The problem is how do they achieve that.

The Surrey Institute tackles the obesity problem from a different angle.

GP’s are finding effective ways to cut the NHS bill

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The government has announced this week its new mental health strategy for England and promises an extra £400m for therapies, such as counselling, so as to increase access to them by 60% by 2015. This together with the shift of NHS spending to the GP’s might explain why we at The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy have been approached by two local GP’s this week to discuss sending their patients to us for effective help with smoking cessation.

Relationships are damaged by lack of sleep.

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According to a new report published by the Mental Health Foundation, insomnia needs to be treated as a major health issue.

The report called “Sleep Matters” suggests there is a link between insomnia and poor relationships, and also low energy levels and an inability to concentrate.

Anxiety Loses When Fought With Hypnotherapy

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How is anxiety generated, maintained and enhanced. There are ways to combat it that perhaps you haven’t tried. Hypnotherapy is backed by a raft of scientific research and is very effective in the fight to remove anxiety.

Obviously people with Psoriasis deserve it!

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For anybody that does not have the condition Psoriasis it would seem ludicrous to suggest that they deserve to suffer from this condition. However, during the study I conducted on the effects of Hypnotherapy upon Psoriasis, this is one of the core beliefs that I discovered a Psoriasis sufferer has.

Don’t miss the trance to lose your fear

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What is Anxiety? How does it develop? Most of us have experienced anxiety at some time in our life but for some of us it becomes a debilitating force that if left untreated can continue to get worse.

Psoriasis an Angry Man’s Game

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For nearly 10 years I’ve been using hypnotherapy to help clients with Psoriasis.  I have noticed three particular personality traits that seem common to most clients I see.  But more of that later…
 
When I first started working with clients who had Psoriasis, I conducted a study into the effectiveness of hypnotherapy on the condition.  Initially I didn’t expect too much, however the results were staggering.  
 

Hypnotherapy for claustrophobia may well unlock the confined spaces

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It is a common phobia and at its most severe it could devastate your daily life. When considering the various common scenarios that are able to trigger claustrophobia, you begin to discover precisely how small a chance the sufferer has to evade the anxiety. In addition to the avoidance of aeroplanes or possibly lifts, some …

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