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Wednesday 23 December 2009
Saturday 19 December 2009
Applications: weight loss
As the the emphasis on image and healthy living grows, so does the multi-million pound diet industry in the UK.
Hypnotherapy can be an excellent method to address and help you lose weight and rather than focussing on deprivation or will power, hypnotherapy can help create a change in your attitude to food and lifestyle choice. It can address the psychological factors that play a key part in weight gain such as lack of confidence, anxiety or depression – the factors that can cause people to comfort eat or develop unhealthy eating habits.
Hypnotherapy is a natural and safe method that is very successful in helping people lose weight and establish healthy eating patterns and healthy life-styles.
Hypnotherapy can be an excellent method to address and help you lose weight and rather than focussing on deprivation or will power, hypnotherapy can help create a change in your attitude to food and lifestyle choice. It can address the psychological factors that play a key part in weight gain such as lack of confidence, anxiety or depression – the factors that can cause people to comfort eat or develop unhealthy eating habits.
Hypnotherapy is a natural and safe method that is very successful in helping people lose weight and establish healthy eating patterns and healthy life-styles.
Applications: Stress
Would you like to be less stressed?
The rigours of life can be stressful and there are times when most of us feel stressed. Stress is becoming a major cause of illness and unhappiness within the UK whether these pressures come from the self, our peers or feeling unable to cope with the perceived demands put upon us. It is clear that Stress is taking it’s toll as surveys have shown that stress is a major contributory factor in up to 90% of all illnesses and 5 million people in the UK would describe themselves as being very or extremely stressed.
Both Hypnotherapy and Counselling can help to alleviate stress to begin to help you live Your Life as you’d like to be. Please read on -
Stress can be described as an imbalance between a persons demands and their ability to cope with those demands. The personal demands that cause this stress are ultimately imposed by the individual, therefore stress, to a large extent can be indirectly self imposed.
Some common triggers of stress can include lack of interest at work, time pressures, excessive working hours, relationship difficulties, insecurity of the future and money concerns. This can result in muscle tension, increases in heart rate, cold hands and feet as blood is diverted elsewhere and increases in breathing. All of this can be very mentally tiring which in turn can increase stress levels even more.
Tips to help Manage Stress
Being aware that you may be stressed can be the first step to Managing stress. Stress symptoms include mental, social, and physical manifestations. These include exhaustion, loss of appetite, headaches, emotional outbursts (anger/crying), sleeplessness and oversleeping. Increased use of alcohol, drugs, or other compulsive behaviour are often indications. Feelings of alarm, frustration, or apathy may accompany stress. You can also: -
Exercise regularly as your body can fight stress better when it is fit. Exercise also produces endorphins which can raise mood and gives general feelings of wellbeing.
Get enough rest and Sleep.
Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
Learn and practice relaxation techniques – email me for a free relaxation guide.
Accept that there are events that you cannot control.
Keep a positive attitude.
Be assertive instead of aggressive. Assert your feelings, opinions, or beliefs instead of becoming angry, defensive, or passive.
Talk to others – seek out social support from friends, colleagues and family.
Don’t rely on artificial means such as alcohol or drugs to reduce stress.
Learn to manage your time more effectively.
Set realistic goals – try not to overload yourself or add unnecessary pressure.
Get yourself out of the situation, whether this be leaving or taking a break.
Prioritise and try not to worry about the small things.
Look around – See if there really is something you can change or control in the situation.
Do something for others as this will allow you to be less conscious of yourself and your own concerns.
Work off stress with physical activity such as gardening, housework or exercise.
Be kind to yourself.
Seek help if you’re feeling overwhelmed.
Prolonged stress can have long term physical damage as the body’s response to stress creates the fight or flight syndrome. This is where your body concentrates on it’s perceived emergency situation and prepares itself for battle or to run by secreting adrenaline into the blood stream, halting the digestive system, hindering growth and slowing down the immune system. This can have many effects including causing an increase in general illness levels as the immune system is frequently slowed and stomach ulcers as the digestive system is impeded to protect the stomach lining.
Reducing stress doesn’t mean reducing activity or not achieving your goals but rather being more effective, spending your time wisely and utilizing your inner resources.
Both Hypnotherapy and Counselling can help to alleviate stress to begin to help you live Your Life as you’d like to be.
The rigours of life can be stressful and there are times when most of us feel stressed. Stress is becoming a major cause of illness and unhappiness within the UK whether these pressures come from the self, our peers or feeling unable to cope with the perceived demands put upon us. It is clear that Stress is taking it’s toll as surveys have shown that stress is a major contributory factor in up to 90% of all illnesses and 5 million people in the UK would describe themselves as being very or extremely stressed.
Both Hypnotherapy and Counselling can help to alleviate stress to begin to help you live Your Life as you’d like to be. Please read on -
Stress can be described as an imbalance between a persons demands and their ability to cope with those demands. The personal demands that cause this stress are ultimately imposed by the individual, therefore stress, to a large extent can be indirectly self imposed.
Some common triggers of stress can include lack of interest at work, time pressures, excessive working hours, relationship difficulties, insecurity of the future and money concerns. This can result in muscle tension, increases in heart rate, cold hands and feet as blood is diverted elsewhere and increases in breathing. All of this can be very mentally tiring which in turn can increase stress levels even more.
Tips to help Manage Stress
Being aware that you may be stressed can be the first step to Managing stress. Stress symptoms include mental, social, and physical manifestations. These include exhaustion, loss of appetite, headaches, emotional outbursts (anger/crying), sleeplessness and oversleeping. Increased use of alcohol, drugs, or other compulsive behaviour are often indications. Feelings of alarm, frustration, or apathy may accompany stress. You can also: -
Exercise regularly as your body can fight stress better when it is fit. Exercise also produces endorphins which can raise mood and gives general feelings of wellbeing.
Get enough rest and Sleep.
Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
Learn and practice relaxation techniques – email me for a free relaxation guide.
Accept that there are events that you cannot control.
Keep a positive attitude.
Be assertive instead of aggressive. Assert your feelings, opinions, or beliefs instead of becoming angry, defensive, or passive.
Talk to others – seek out social support from friends, colleagues and family.
Don’t rely on artificial means such as alcohol or drugs to reduce stress.
Learn to manage your time more effectively.
Set realistic goals – try not to overload yourself or add unnecessary pressure.
Get yourself out of the situation, whether this be leaving or taking a break.
Prioritise and try not to worry about the small things.
Look around – See if there really is something you can change or control in the situation.
Do something for others as this will allow you to be less conscious of yourself and your own concerns.
Work off stress with physical activity such as gardening, housework or exercise.
Be kind to yourself.
Seek help if you’re feeling overwhelmed.
Prolonged stress can have long term physical damage as the body’s response to stress creates the fight or flight syndrome. This is where your body concentrates on it’s perceived emergency situation and prepares itself for battle or to run by secreting adrenaline into the blood stream, halting the digestive system, hindering growth and slowing down the immune system. This can have many effects including causing an increase in general illness levels as the immune system is frequently slowed and stomach ulcers as the digestive system is impeded to protect the stomach lining.
Reducing stress doesn’t mean reducing activity or not achieving your goals but rather being more effective, spending your time wisely and utilizing your inner resources.
Both Hypnotherapy and Counselling can help to alleviate stress to begin to help you live Your Life as you’d like to be.
Applications quit smoking
Have you decided that your time to stop smoking is NOW?
Is NOW the time for freedom?
Studies have found that Hypnotherapy is one of the most effective treatments to help you stop smoking. It is approximately 3 times more successful than Nicotine Replacement Therapy – i.e Patches or Gum.
For more information, you may want to go to the main Stop Smoking website at www.nonsmoker.org.uk
Stop Smoking therapy is a collaborative process (i.e. we work together where we are both committed to your positive outcome) and incorporates a structured range of techniques to allow you to change your perspectives on your current habit and change your behaviour towards it (i.e. to Stop). Further to this, the Hypnotherapy will also allow you to make the changes that you desire at a subconscious level.
Applications: Relationships
Relationships are often the most important areas in our lives. Our wellbeing can be determined by how we relate to others such as with family, friends, acquaintances or colleagues.
Our relationships with others do not always run as smoothly as we would like and when we have difficulties with those that matter to us, our thoughts can be dominated and our emotions and behaviour may change in ways that we may not necessarily want. Relationship difficulties can have far reaching consequences from affecting other areas of our lives as stress levels increase to having to make permanent changes such as seeking alternative living arrangements.
Personal Therapy can help you to explore and process these difficulties and make positive changes to make improvements. Often, these changes can be very small but have profound effects.
Our relationships with others do not always run as smoothly as we would like and when we have difficulties with those that matter to us, our thoughts can be dominated and our emotions and behaviour may change in ways that we may not necessarily want. Relationship difficulties can have far reaching consequences from affecting other areas of our lives as stress levels increase to having to make permanent changes such as seeking alternative living arrangements.
Personal Therapy can help you to explore and process these difficulties and make positive changes to make improvements. Often, these changes can be very small but have profound effects.
Applications: Phobias
A phobia is an intense feeling of fear which is triggered by a specific situation, animal or object which very often poses no actual threat to our physical safety. This fear, which is beyond conscious control, results you taking extreme action to avoid potential phobic situations which can affect your behaviour, thought patterns and lifestyle.
This avoidance only serves to reinforce the phobia, thus making it stronger and creating a more negative affect in your life.
Many phobias are established as a result of past experiences. Many of these are created in childhood through traumatic experiences although many phobias can develop in adulthood through learned behaviour from others, long periods of stress or by developing a fear of fear.
A phobic response creates the stress response known as fight or flight. This is when the body reacts to the stressing event or the fear and causes symptoms such as increased heartbeat, uneven breathing, increased adrenaline production, muscle tension, dizziness, faintness, physical freezing, butterfly stomach and sweating.
Treatment
Personel Therapy can help you take control of your fears and there are a number of ways we can tackle this. For example, a Cognitive Behavioural technique such as graded exposure (where you decide the small steps forward) can bring great benefits. Also Hypnotherapy can quickly allow the brain to learn new behaviours to replace the fear or feelings of panic with confidence, control and calmness. NLP techniques are also a very powerful to allow you to view the phobic situation in a way that you want to
By choosing Personal Empowerment, we can discuss what is happening for you to safely eradicate or reduce your phobia using the therapeutic tools that fit best for you.
Specific phobias
spiders
flies
frogs
thunder
heights
insects
Process Phobias
flying
dentists
driving
exams
interviews
tests
Social Phobia
social situations
interacting with others
eating out
being watched
agoraphobia – open areas
Agoraphobia
Often described as a fear of open spaces, it may be better defined as being fearful of public places such as crowded areas, cinemas, pubs, town centres and public transport. Agoraphobia can often be symptomatic of a broader problem that leads to a person feeling too frightened to leave the house and as such can lead to a very restricted life. A bad experience in one place can lead to an avoidance of that place and this experience can multiply to the point where leaving the house is a very traumatic thought. Many times these fears revolve around public embarrassment and fear of panicking, fainting or drawing attention to themselves in a negative way and is often thought of as a fear of fears.
Social Phobia
Social Phobia is a fear of situations where a person may feel they are being scrutinized by others or that they may act in way that is unacceptable or embarrassing. Often it is when a person feels extreme anxiety in social situations and this may result in great difficult in eating or drinking in the presence of others. This phobia can also cause anxiety when having to speak or perform in public – a level of nervousness is quite normal in these situations, however, severe anxiety and distress is not.
Often beginning in childhood or late adolescence, a central theme of social phobia is the fear that others are looking at them to judge and find out if they are stupid or incapable, which maybe the person’s own inaccurate view of themselves.
As well as the fears of social interaction, dating, going to parties, eating out etc, other symptoms of social phobia can be increased heartbeat, self defeating behaviour, blushing, inaccurate thoughts, stomach ache and the person’s ‘mind going blank’.
This avoidance only serves to reinforce the phobia, thus making it stronger and creating a more negative affect in your life.
Many phobias are established as a result of past experiences. Many of these are created in childhood through traumatic experiences although many phobias can develop in adulthood through learned behaviour from others, long periods of stress or by developing a fear of fear.
A phobic response creates the stress response known as fight or flight. This is when the body reacts to the stressing event or the fear and causes symptoms such as increased heartbeat, uneven breathing, increased adrenaline production, muscle tension, dizziness, faintness, physical freezing, butterfly stomach and sweating.
Treatment
Personel Therapy can help you take control of your fears and there are a number of ways we can tackle this. For example, a Cognitive Behavioural technique such as graded exposure (where you decide the small steps forward) can bring great benefits. Also Hypnotherapy can quickly allow the brain to learn new behaviours to replace the fear or feelings of panic with confidence, control and calmness. NLP techniques are also a very powerful to allow you to view the phobic situation in a way that you want to
By choosing Personal Empowerment, we can discuss what is happening for you to safely eradicate or reduce your phobia using the therapeutic tools that fit best for you.
Specific phobias
spiders
flies
frogs
thunder
heights
insects
Process Phobias
flying
dentists
driving
exams
interviews
tests
Social Phobia
social situations
interacting with others
eating out
being watched
agoraphobia – open areas
Agoraphobia
Often described as a fear of open spaces, it may be better defined as being fearful of public places such as crowded areas, cinemas, pubs, town centres and public transport. Agoraphobia can often be symptomatic of a broader problem that leads to a person feeling too frightened to leave the house and as such can lead to a very restricted life. A bad experience in one place can lead to an avoidance of that place and this experience can multiply to the point where leaving the house is a very traumatic thought. Many times these fears revolve around public embarrassment and fear of panicking, fainting or drawing attention to themselves in a negative way and is often thought of as a fear of fears.
Social Phobia
Social Phobia is a fear of situations where a person may feel they are being scrutinized by others or that they may act in way that is unacceptable or embarrassing. Often it is when a person feels extreme anxiety in social situations and this may result in great difficult in eating or drinking in the presence of others. This phobia can also cause anxiety when having to speak or perform in public – a level of nervousness is quite normal in these situations, however, severe anxiety and distress is not.
Often beginning in childhood or late adolescence, a central theme of social phobia is the fear that others are looking at them to judge and find out if they are stupid or incapable, which maybe the person’s own inaccurate view of themselves.
As well as the fears of social interaction, dating, going to parties, eating out etc, other symptoms of social phobia can be increased heartbeat, self defeating behaviour, blushing, inaccurate thoughts, stomach ache and the person’s ‘mind going blank’.
Applications: Job related nerves
Job related nerves can be caused by many issues such as lack of confidence, fear of authority figures or lack of esteem which can have a profound effect both consciously and unconsciously to affect your well-being and happiness and your potential and performance at work.
Personal Therapy can help in a number of ways such as by boosting your esteem and confidence, by allowing small changes that can bring profound effects or by exploring what may be holding your back or where nerves or insecurities may come from to allow you to be free of them.
Personal Therapy can help in a number of ways such as by boosting your esteem and confidence, by allowing small changes that can bring profound effects or by exploring what may be holding your back or where nerves or insecurities may come from to allow you to be free of them.
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