This question has been asked many times, and it is a reasonable enough question. The answer is yes, it does work, and works even better if you really want it to.
No one can be hypnotised against their will. You have to want to be hypnotised and know what it feels like for it to work. Its okay if you are unsure, or feel a bit apprehensive or anxious. As long as you really do want to be hypnotised it will work.
Of course the therapist plays a huge role in helping you to understand what hypnosis is, and having had it explained correctly, you should easily be able to go into a trance.
If a therapist has not been trained well, they may not explain about it enough, and just go ahead to try to hypnotise you, but more often it will fail, because maybe you were not ready to relax. It might be that you don't feel as though you trust the therapist, or another way of describing it is, you are not in rapport with them.
This is not your fault, but the fault of the therapist, because it is their job to relax you and make you feel safe.
Occasionally the therapist will become complacent, and think that all his or her clients should go into trance. Big mistake! All clients are individual, and the therapist needs to treat them as the unique person they are.
Hypnosis works because when you are in a relaxed state, you are way more open to suggestions and new ideas. Your unconscious mind takes in the new ideas and suggestions and you find yourself easily carrying out all the new suggestions or ideas. Of course they are ideas that are for your benefit and fit in with your belief systems and not the therapist's.
Saturday, 26 January 2013
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Do anti smoking adverts encourage you to stop smoking?
Do you think you have to want to stop smoking before you really do stop? The best advert that motivated people was the one where the children were seen having smoke coming out of their mouth and nostrils. That was an advert that worked on guilt.
The problem with smoking, over eating, taking drugs or too much alcohol is that it is the game of Russian roulette. You never know when it is going to affect you and not everyone is affected.Most of us know someone who has smoked all their life, or drank alcohol to excess and yet lived to a ripe old age.
That's the chance we take in life whether or not to play the game or play safe.
I believe that most smokers are afraid that they may get illnesses and diseases, because they are not stupid. They know that they are inhaling poisonous toxins. They just don't want to be reminded of it constantly because it makes them feel guilty and afraid.
Stopping smoking or giving up drugs or over eating is not as hard as you think it might be. As long as you get rid of doubt, and don't meet trouble half way!
The problem with smoking, over eating, taking drugs or too much alcohol is that it is the game of Russian roulette. You never know when it is going to affect you and not everyone is affected.Most of us know someone who has smoked all their life, or drank alcohol to excess and yet lived to a ripe old age.
That's the chance we take in life whether or not to play the game or play safe.
I believe that most smokers are afraid that they may get illnesses and diseases, because they are not stupid. They know that they are inhaling poisonous toxins. They just don't want to be reminded of it constantly because it makes them feel guilty and afraid.
Stopping smoking or giving up drugs or over eating is not as hard as you think it might be. As long as you get rid of doubt, and don't meet trouble half way!
Friday, 11 January 2013
Don't diet this month
It is not a good idea to go on a diet in January. Why? Because it is more than likely you will get bored or fed up if you are depriving yourself of foods you like.
Earlier in a blog I mentioned that it is better to plan when you are going to change your lifestyle and work towards that. Starving does not work, going mad at the gym does not work. What works is slowly coming round to the idea that you are going to make some significant changes in your attitudes towards food, and then make the plans
Earlier in a blog I mentioned that it is better to plan when you are going to change your lifestyle and work towards that. Starving does not work, going mad at the gym does not work. What works is slowly coming round to the idea that you are going to make some significant changes in your attitudes towards food, and then make the plans
Regulation long overdue
Regulation of hypnosis is long overdue, but even then it would not stop people from abusing their clients. In today's Daily Mail, they highlight a case of a hypnotherapist abusing his client. Fortunately he is now on a sex offenders register and his computer monitored. It is not just hypnotherapists that abuse clients. No matter what training or qualifications you have, abusers will abuse.
That is why it is even more important for clients to find someone with recognised qualifications and ask the therapist questions before embarking on therapy. The therapist Phillip Sherwin from Leicester has been jailed thankfully, and looking at his qualifications, if you can call it that, amounted to a short training session with a dubious 'training school'. The courses I run last for ten months, but that is really only the start of the therapist's training. I am still in training myself even after 12 years in practice.
Training that lasts for less than a year, and has less than twenty full days training is not worth the paper the qualification it is written on. Most therapists work towards the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma which is a recognised qualification awarded by the NCFE (awarding body). Anyone with anything less than this has had doubtful training. All training schools need to be monitored too.
I know I cannot be held responsible for how therapists conduct themselves after I have trained them, but I do emphasise with students that they must do no harm and act with integrity.
This dreadful therapist has ruined his life now, and it serves him right if he has abused a client who was seeking his help.
For people wishing to train in this field of therapy, make sure you look for a training school offering the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma. Anything less is not the best.
For clients, ask many questions, find out what qualifications the therapist has and you can even ask for recommendations, as some clients are only too happy to talk about how you have helped them.
That is why it is even more important for clients to find someone with recognised qualifications and ask the therapist questions before embarking on therapy. The therapist Phillip Sherwin from Leicester has been jailed thankfully, and looking at his qualifications, if you can call it that, amounted to a short training session with a dubious 'training school'. The courses I run last for ten months, but that is really only the start of the therapist's training. I am still in training myself even after 12 years in practice.
Training that lasts for less than a year, and has less than twenty full days training is not worth the paper the qualification it is written on. Most therapists work towards the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma which is a recognised qualification awarded by the NCFE (awarding body). Anyone with anything less than this has had doubtful training. All training schools need to be monitored too.
I know I cannot be held responsible for how therapists conduct themselves after I have trained them, but I do emphasise with students that they must do no harm and act with integrity.
This dreadful therapist has ruined his life now, and it serves him right if he has abused a client who was seeking his help.
For people wishing to train in this field of therapy, make sure you look for a training school offering the Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma. Anything less is not the best.
For clients, ask many questions, find out what qualifications the therapist has and you can even ask for recommendations, as some clients are only too happy to talk about how you have helped them.
Sunday, 6 January 2013
Dieting causes people to put weight on
It's true that strict diets cause more problems in the long run. Dieting simply doesn't work. What does work is simply reducing the amount of food to begin with, just a little, and then making choices in everything we eat. 'Do I want it'? Yes or no?
If the answer is yes, eat it, if it is no, forget it and get on with what you were doing. Spending too much time thinking about food causes us to become anxious, 'should I shouldn't I?
Eat moderately to begin with, have a plan on how you would like to look eventually and do some activity.
A ten minute walk each day to begin with could lead to a thirty minute walk eventually. A slow walk can lead to a brisk walk that gets your heart racing eventually.
Once you have made up your mind to get some weight off, stop thinking you can do it very quickly. You know full well that you will only put it back on if you starve or go on very low calorie diets.
Make a long term plan of say a year, and imagine how you would like to be thinking and feeling, both on the inside and outside too, so mentally and physically in fact.
If the answer is yes, eat it, if it is no, forget it and get on with what you were doing. Spending too much time thinking about food causes us to become anxious, 'should I shouldn't I?
Eat moderately to begin with, have a plan on how you would like to look eventually and do some activity.
A ten minute walk each day to begin with could lead to a thirty minute walk eventually. A slow walk can lead to a brisk walk that gets your heart racing eventually.
Once you have made up your mind to get some weight off, stop thinking you can do it very quickly. You know full well that you will only put it back on if you starve or go on very low calorie diets.
Make a long term plan of say a year, and imagine how you would like to be thinking and feeling, both on the inside and outside too, so mentally and physically in fact.
Does hypnosis help to stop smoking?
Often it is a mystery how hypnosis does work so well with people who want to stop smoking. It even helps people who don't really want to stop but must. How does it work? I have no idea really, except to say that it seems to work on an unconscious level which somehow re-programmes the mind into thinking another way.
An example of what people have said about hypnosis regarding smoking:
'I thought I would come out of the session and smoke, but strangely enough I had no desire to want to'
'I went into the session craving for a cigarette and then came out not even wanting one'
'After the session I lit a cigarette and it tasted truly disgusting. I felt sick'
'My care really smelt horrible and I had a compulsion to go home and clean it out'
'I washed my body, hair and clothes to get rid of the horrible smell of smoke'
How does all these experiences happen? Change of thought process? Change of mind? Or maybe it is just that it feels right to be a non smoker and easier to stop without the cravings.
Hypnosis is successful with many people with a very high success rate. Never 100% because everyone is different, but for many people, it is the ultimate way to stop and stay stopped
An example of what people have said about hypnosis regarding smoking:
'I thought I would come out of the session and smoke, but strangely enough I had no desire to want to'
'I went into the session craving for a cigarette and then came out not even wanting one'
'After the session I lit a cigarette and it tasted truly disgusting. I felt sick'
'My care really smelt horrible and I had a compulsion to go home and clean it out'
'I washed my body, hair and clothes to get rid of the horrible smell of smoke'
How does all these experiences happen? Change of thought process? Change of mind? Or maybe it is just that it feels right to be a non smoker and easier to stop without the cravings.
Hypnosis is successful with many people with a very high success rate. Never 100% because everyone is different, but for many people, it is the ultimate way to stop and stay stopped
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