Your heart rate is rapid, your palms are sweaty and you feel tense. The excitement increases as you feel the adrenaline soaring through your body. This ‘rush’ is as addictive and powerful as an illegal drug out there. It is just a couple of minutes before you know your fate. You’ve done it! You’ve won! The euphoria when you realise...Continued
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Eight benefits of understanding conversational hypnosis
Have you been in the position where you have found yourself trying to persuade someone to do something and not matter how/what you say, they just don’t want to budge? Regardless of how hard you try they just dig their heels in further. It is a common problem. It is an issue that many faces including managers, sales persons, coaches...Continued
Cognitive Dissonance
Consistency is often sought in people’s beliefs and perceptions, so what happens when our beliefs conflict with previously held belief? The term is used to describe the feeling of discomfort that results from two conflicting beliefs. Where there is a discrepancy between the two something must change to eliminate/reduce the dissonance. How does it work? Leon Festinger, Psychologist, proposed a...Continued
Anxiety dreams: Why and how to stop them
Dreams are accepted to be a natural part of an expression, of our imagination whilst we sleep and have fascinated mankind since the dawn of civilisation. Why do we dream and what do they mean? Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, two of the most famous therapists, were influential in the field of dreams and interpretation. Freud’s approach was retrospective, in...Continued
Win a place on our next one day course.
WIN your place on our informative one-day self-hypnosis course! Win a place on this interesting and informative course and learn how to counter negative self-talk and talk to your inner mind in a more productive way. We have been running this course for 0ver 10 years now with an average rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars to date....Continued
Driving hypnotherapy, how to become a confident driver.
Fear of driving and hypnotherapy Being afraid to get behind the wheel is an incapacitating phobia that often leaves suffers isolate or spending a small fortune and a lot of time on public transport. Unlike other fears such as a fear of bridges (gephyrophobia) or fear of washing (ablutophobia), a fear of driving has no medical term. Having a fear...Continued
Stress management – how to retrain your brain
Stress - can we learn to live with it healthily? The perception of stress is that it is a modern villain nagging at us constantly to perform more than is physically possible in a twenty-four-hour period. While a moderate amount of stress is beneficial to our general well-being, high and constant tension isn’t. A Cognitive Neuroscientist with Trinity College, Dublin, says that...Continued
Anonymous Customer Feedback From Our Latest Course
Our latest course ran last Sunday. Often people will hand out satisfaction surveys on the day, the danger with this is that you run the risk of getting scores that aren't quite accurate as the attendee is probably still on a high after the course or may feel under pressure to write something overtly positive. With this in mind we...Continued
WIN Your Place on our weekend certification course!
Thanks for signing up! WIN your place in our weekend certification course! The weekend certification course will teach you to hypnotise friends and family. Imagine how it would feel to be able to use hypnosis as a tool to help people deal with anxiety, quit smoking, lose weight and more? The course is limited to just 10 people so that...Continued
Relax
Relax: It's going to be OK In a previous blog I wrote about how hypnosis isn't all about being able to relax, although relaxation certainly does have it's place in mental and emotional well-being. Relaxation isn't just for holidays and it can have hugely beneficial effects on our health. I've added a relaxation audio file to the site for you...Continued