How hypnotherapy builds confidence

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In the present day, the way we communicate is increasingly computer based, but the loss of face to face connections are having an adverse effect on our society. In our hypnotherapy practice this is all too apparent as we see large numbers of socially isolated clients. We show these clients how hypnotherapy builds confidence very …

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Is Hypnotherapy Effective?

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Because of the way it has been portrayed through the years, people often ask “Is hypnotherapy effective?”. Well, studies have now shown that hypnotherapy has an impact on the brain which may be recorded scientifically. Research carried out by Stanford University pointed out that when volunteers were told under hypnosis that they were looking at …

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Drink Problems are Treatable With Hypnotherapy

Drink problems

Drinking too much alcohol is a soaring problem amongst the majority of the population. The press regularly speculate on the ever dropping ages of those in the grip of alcohol dependency. There is also a lot more information available to us on healthy consumption of alcohol – we are a good deal more aware of …

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Banish Food Cravings Using a Modern Approach

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For quite a few men and women that are trying to slim down or who are finding dieting difficult, food cravings can be a large part of the problem. Hunger pangs are acute feelings that can encourage people to consume large quantities of foods that they should preferably avoid. Research concludes that the foods that …

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Getting rid of stress – Is life taking its toll on you?

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Saying that you are stressed isn’t being dramatic. We are all vulnerable to the pressures and problems involved in daily living. Our society is a busy one; all of us are becoming victims of a pressurised and generally scary world. While front line personnel overcome management pressures, top level management have the company pressures to …

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Hypnotherapy can help many people with their irritable bowel

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IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) is a disorder that produces pain and discomfort, for the most part in the digestive tract. Hypnotherapy for irritable bowel is offered to those searching for help and information in managing their IBS and problems related to the ailment. Stomach cramping, diarrhoea, bowel irregularity, heartburn symptoms, flatulence, queasiness and trapped wind …

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Hypnotherapy strategies can aid in reducing your stress levels

Hypnotherapy to manage anger

Hypnotherapy can assist in the treatment of short-term stress in a natural way. If you are aware an event is coming up that will cause you stress, hypnotherapy can help you prepare for it and learn how to deal with it effectively. For instance, if you are attending job interviews and find that stress is …

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Hypnotherapy can give you the advantage in golf

Hypnotherapy for golf performance

In the event you learn to play golf it’s necessary for you to grasp new physical skills. You might learn how to clasp the golf club, position your legs and approaches to swinging the club. As with virtually all sports, you master the procedure, learn the physical skills and then figure out how to ‘psyche …

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How a hypnotherapy helps people that have a lack confidence

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Self confidence is how we view our own capacity to do something. Low self confidence is when you view your abilities to achieve or create as being very low. Self confidence is similar, but not the same, as self esteem which relates to our view of us. Hypnotherapy techniques can be used to help us …

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Ring in the changes this year

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Given that the festive season is now out of the way, many of us will turn to our health and look for strategies to make it better. Over the festive season it is fairly common to overindulge, both on food and drink, and not just on Christmas day. The Christmas events and New Year’s festivities …

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How hypnotherapy helps remove panic attacks

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Panic and anxiety attacks can be quite common and when they are first encountered tend to be very distressing as the symptoms can include chest pains, heart palpitations, shortness of breath and even numbness in the arms. There are various reasons why someone might have a panic attack. Studies suggest that stress can be a …

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Are you able to get a strong emotional response?

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Isn’t it amazing how we can easily respond to a film or even a piece of music in an emotional way? Not really, because what happens is that we relate it in some way to ourselves. Take the video below, for example. Most people will shed a tear or two, if not blub uncontrollably. It’s about a new bride having the “fathers dance” when her father has just passed away.

Gastric band hypnosis stops the desire for big portions

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Reducing weight can sometimes be a complex process. Emotions and food can become very tightly linked for many individuals, which might make sticking with a diet challenging and disheartening. These problems can then make people try extreme methods to help them get slimmer. The widely used ‘gastric band’ surgical treatment has received plenty of coverage …

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Using hypnotherapy to quit smoking

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Smoking related illnesses claim 114,000 lives annually in Great Britain; this includes an array of illnesses and conditions; for example, stomach and colon cancer, and chronic lung disease. These are just a few of the many reasons to quit smoking. In spite of knowing the risks, countless smokers find it hard to quit smoking. They …

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The real cost of hypnotherapy: Can you afford not to?

Hypnotherapy to stop smoking

Whilst hypnotherapy can offer a profound enhancement in the quality of someone’s life, countless people still see it as potentially expensive and worry about the cost of hypnotherapy. While they will probably spend money on other much more expensive pastimes with the aim of making themselves feel emotionally better, such as retail therapy, nights out, …

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Gastric band hypnosis takes a weight off your mind and body

Obesity has reached worldwide epidemic proportions. With delicious treats lining the supermarket shelves and every other advert on TV seductively parading fast food, is it any wonder so many of us are the not so proud owners of at least one muffin top? Medical professionals are referring more and more people to have gastric band …

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Bullying in childhood “throws a long shadow”

According to the BBC bullying in childhood “throws a long shadow” into victims’ adult lives, suggests research indicating long-term negative consequences for health, job prospects and relationships. The study tracked more than 1,400 people between the ages of nine and 26. School bullies were also more likely to grow up into adult criminals. The study, …

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‘Diet’ drinks can cause diabetes research finds

Even though we are in the middle of summer, the craze to lose weight is just as intensive for many men and women. The shops and supermarkets are full of ‘diet’ and ‘energy’ drinks, and scientists are warning that their association with type 2 diabetes is a reason for concern. The Surrey Institute of Clinical …

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Stay clear of the BBQ this summer if you want to lose weight

If you are using hypnotherapy to lose weight, or just on a diet, steer clear of the BBQs this summer, as a recent study shows that you could be consuming as much as 3000 calories. A recent research study, conducted by Boots, found that the typical BBQ meal would include: two sausages, one-and-a-half burgers, two …

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Stress reduction – running away is not the answer

A research project from the University Of Canterbury in New Zealand has established that people who are struggling with stress reduction are better off dealing with the problem, rather than putting it off. Depression, anxiety, illness, financial worries and other psychological health issues, all play their part in contributing to our stress levels. In many …

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The easiest way to lose weight is to stand up

This has to be just about the easiest way to lose weight that we have ever seen, but it actually makes a lot of sense and it helps you to stay healthy and live longer as well. Sitting down reading a book, at your desk working, watching TV or doing anything that involves sitting for …

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Advanced hypnotherapy training

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As March or September approaches we start to get enquiries about our training courses. We are often asked if we teach advanced hypnotherapy training. In an effort to answer that, I would like to tell you what we do and further down I will tackle that question. How our hypnotherapy training is different At the …

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Lack of sleep can cause worriers to develop anxiety

New research, published in the June 26 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that a lack of sleep ramps up activity in the part of the brain responsible for the regulation of emotions. The study discovered that natural worriers seem most vulnerable to the negative effect of sleep loss. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging …

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Lose weight with hypnotherapy as being fat is now a disease

At the annual meeting of the American Medical Association (AMA) last week they voted to classify obesity as a disease. Even though a committee of their own experts thought it should not be classified as a disease, the association’s delegates still voted to support the change. If the UK did the same, over 20 million …

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Cutlery can affect how the food tastes

The taste of our food is affected by the weight, size, shape, and even the colour of the cutlery we use to eat it. Our perception of how food tastes is influenced by cutlery, new research published in the Flavour Journal suggests. The flavour can be affected by the size, weight, shape and colour of …

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Gastric band hypnosis is it a magic pill?

Gastric band hypnosis is the latest magic pill to sweep through the hypnotherapy industry. People come for hypnotherapy for weight loss expecting a magic pill and, although it has some apparently magical properties, it certainly isn’t a magic pill. Clients seek out hypnotherapy for many different reasons, but for those wanting to lose weight it …

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Hypnotherapy to lose weight – Is it too good to be true?

Since we released the video of how Rebecca used hypnotherapy to lose weight just over a week ago, we have had lots of feedback asking us if this was possible and how she really felt during those eight months that she lost the weight. Rebecca said “I just didn’t feel like eating the food that I …

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Weight loss hypnotherapy – Top 3 motivators for long term success

Report: Woman ‘overhaul’ their bodies five times a year and men twice a year. According to a report about weight loss hypnotherapy released today, in the Daily Mail, 60 per cent of women slim down before summer holidays, the wedding season and other important events to get their desired body. A third of women say …

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Report: Why do diets fail or at least appear to?

We have seen thousands of clients over the years on our weight loss hypnotherapy programme and the overwhelming fact is that for virtually every client this is not their first attempt at losing weight. Most clients will report having tried a myriad of diets, all of which, according to the clients, have failed. Or have …

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Report: Pressures of the workplace can contribute towards obesity

The workplace is one of the key areas where we see our hypnotherapy for weight loss client’s new healthy behaviours put under pressure. Things like cakes on birthdays, drinks after work, colleagues bringing in their bakery efforts and often vending machines offering sugary sweets are just a few of the workplace ‘treats’ that are usually …

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Report: Common causes for anxiety conditions

We analysed 100 previous hypnotherapy clients looking for some of the causes for anxiety with the presenting issues of presentation nerves, toilet anxiety, shy bladder and lack of confidence to establish if there is any commonality between them with regards to events or conditioning. The breakdown of subject numbers was as follows:- The subjects were …

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Hypnotherapy for Toilet Anxiety

Having anxiety about needing the toilet is surprisingly common. We probably see 2 or 3 new cases a week. What triggers toilet anxiety fear? Although every case is different, they all share similar characteristics. The typical triggers generally involve believing they will need to use the toilet but for some reason, it will be difficult. …

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Hypnotherapy for anxiety helps 79% of subjects

In a recent study of 100 previous anxiety clients we found that overall 74% of clients noticed significant benefits from their course of hypnotherapy treatments. In our analysis of previous hypnotherapy clients, we looked at 100 clients that presented with either social anxiety or agoraphobic type anxiety. The clients were drawn at random over a …

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Why some hypnotherapy training courses train you to fail.

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There is a conflict of interest for all hypnotherapy schools that prospective students need to be aware of. Every student that undertakes hypnotherapy training is effectively competition for the hypnotherapy trainers themselves, unless of course they are no longer practising therapists and then their knowledge base and skill set have to be questioned. So it …

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Report: How to find effective hypnotherapy training

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“At the Surrey Institute we train people from all walks of life to become effective hypnotherapists by offering practical hypnotherapy training but finding effective hypnotherapy training is a task in its own right.” Changing careers is something which is becoming more common, with thousands of people opting to say goodbye to their mundane office jobs …

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How Anxiety is Generated, Maintained and Enhanced

Combat Anxiety with Hypnotherapy “Combat anxiety with Hypnotherapy which is scientifically proven to help” Anxiety is something which is extremely common. Feelings of anxiety are much more than general day to day worries or nerves. Anxiousness causes problems in people’s lives, through work, socialising and difficulties in relationships. The difficulties cause further anxiety, and therefore …

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Hypnotherapy education brings changes in students

In a survey of former students, the data showed that a hypnotherapy education does more than just prepare students for their new profession. The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy surveyed a selection of its former students from the last 10 years. Some surprising results were uncovered. One was that in the student’s perception, the course …

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Hypnotherapy Diploma Offers a Wonderful New Career

In a recent survey of former hypnotherapy students, we uncovered some interesting facts about the type of people that take up our hypnotherapy diploma training. Our clinical hypnotherapy diploma courses are often taken up by people that are looking for a new direction in their lives. For example, people taking early retirement, redundancy or even …

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Report on how hypnotherapy helps to remove the symptoms of IBS

“Published research supports hypnotherapy in being valuable in relieving symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome” Hypnotherapy is designed to relax the conscious mind and allow the subconscious to respond to suggestions which are aimed at helping make positive changes. This form of communication aims to enhance, motivate and change perceptions of any difficulties a person is …

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A case study – The effects of bullying on anxiety

Hypnotherapy for Anxiety – Agroaphobic eating “Imagine finding it impossible to eat in public, without fear of being sick” The following case study follows a man that found it difficult to eat in public. Something which is in fact very common, but too many of us is a strange experience. It looks at the treatment …

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In hypnotherapy training sometimes older is better

“Use your experience of the past to become a great hypnotherapist” There are many clichés to help motivate us as we get older; many a good tune played on an old fiddle for example. In many cases, there is a lot of stigma with regards to getting older, where people discriminate on the assumption that …

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Hypnotherapy can even help royal mums with morning sickness.

It was well reported recently all around the globe of The Duchess of Cambridge’s severe bouts of morning sickness that resulted in her being rushed into hospital. Maybe what has not been as widely reported or indeed picked up on is that Kate used a form of Hypnotherapy while she was being cared for by …

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Adele visits hypnotherapist for stage nerves

Adele is reported to be visiting a hypnotherapist to help her overcome her stage nerves. The star has been having the treatment in LA in a bid to conquer her anxiety over her upcoming Oscars performance. Adele is booked to perform her Bond theme Skyfall at the ceremony on February 24 – where it is …

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Increasing sleep ‘may slow down memory rot’

Source: BBC News It may be possible to slow the decline in memory and learning as we age by tackling poor sleep, researchers hope. Their study, in the journal Nature Neuroscience, has revealed an intimate relationship between an ageing brain, sleep and memory. Experiments showed that changes in the ageing brain damaged the quality of …

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Woman are 25 times more likely to die from lung cancer

Recent research shows that woman are 25 times more likely to die from lung cancer than their non-smoking friends. Starting earlier and smoking more cigarettes have been blamed on the considerable increase in risk for lung cancer in women. Their risk has now become the same as that for men. The study, reported in the …

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‘Grief and anxiety are not mental illnesses’

By Peter Kinderman Professor of Clinical Psychology The forthcoming edition of an American psychiatric manual (DSM-5) will increase the number of people in the general population diagnosed with a mental illness – but what they need is help and understanding, not labels and medication. Many people experience a profound and long-lasting grieving process following the …

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Stopping smoking “reduces anxiety” study shows

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

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

hypnotherapy builds confidenceMany 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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Biting your fingernails are you mental?

The Daily Mail reported that Millions of people around the world suffer from a self-mutilating and often painful addiction to biting their nails, which can be harder to quit than smoking cigarettes, but is often overlooked as a relatively benign habit. Medical experts are now taking a closer look at the addiction and have decided …

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