Glass half empty or half full – how you experience stuff is keeping you miserable
I'm going to talk about another 'Pattern of Chronicity'. If you read my previous post, you'll know that these are patterns of behaviour (this includes thinking!) that help maintain a problem, or keep that problem in place. Think of these as being the 'glue of misery'....
Maybe Man – how uncertainty and lack of commitment makes a cozy bed for problems
I've just finished co-presenting an IEMT (Integral Eye Movement Therapy) workshop with its developer, Andrew T. Austin at the weekend. This workshop covers quite a few therapeutic components. Probably the most important being "The Patterns of Chronicity" In plain...
I cannot get rid of your Anxiety using Hypnotherapy NLP and IEMT. (But YOU can).
With every week that goes by, I see more and more clients for Anxiety issues. While the structure or the 'recipe' for creating the anxiety is often quite similar, the different things that feelings of anxiousness will 'attach' itself to are numerous. Travel, work,...
The first and last question you should ask yourself when you want to change
I say this to every client I see. It's a question that's so simple, it's often overlooked. Despite its simplicity, often when I ask it to clients they will struggle to answer directly. Some people will tell you a story about the problem, perfectly understandable,...
New year – new you?
Happy New Year! as it's the 9th of Jan you're probably tired of hearing that, so I won't repeat it! January is an interesting time for a Hypnotherapist, because it's often a time where people, filled with the best intentions, commence on a weight loss programme, try...
Hypnosis is still in the dark ages (or the perception of it is)
I was sitting in the dentist yesterday with No. #1 son, who had an appointment. Across from me in the waiting room was a lovely essex grandma. Black crushed velour tracksuit on, dyed blonde hair and full make up on. She was obviously taking her grand-daughter for an...
Things on my mind
*GROAN* So many Hypnotists seem hell bent on talking each other into the ground, and anyone else who'll listen in fact. Their way is the right way, they know better, you're wrong because of xyz etc. It ends up looking like a bunch of people desperate to be...
Preparations, Tough Mudder and choosing what Beliefs to hold.
How many of you, as I do, oscillate between cynicism and optimism? What side does most of your thought-energy go? It's raining. My legs feel a little heavy, but still lighter than last week. I'm soaked through, but I'm wearing lycra, so the wet has turned into an...
Learning through play ~ My son the hero
Memes. "An idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture" ~ src Wikipedia (so it must be accurate, right?) I'm wondering about how Memes are spread in children. We have all seen the recent media interest reboot in the Titanic disaster....
Discomfort – there’s a pattern emerging here…
So this discomfort thing... I keep going on about it I know. And in spite of knowing about the payoff, the light at the end of the tunnel, there's still the thorny issue of, well, the bloody thorns themselves. There's an area I've been paying close attention to, as of...