Achieving Change Through Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapists utilize hypnosis in order to effect a positive change and help people unravel problems such as lack of confidence or insomnia. Hypnosis is an experience typified by feeling relaxed and as if all your senses are heightened. During hypnosis you may also have the experience of focused awareness. The state of mind induced during hypnosis occurs naturally and people fall in and out of this state, known as trance regularly in everyday life. It is perfectly natural and can include...
Anchoring For Emotional Balance
Most people experience life as a roller-coaster of different emotional states, accepting without question that emotions are something that just happen in response to life events. In any given day, you may experience a range of states, some positive and some that are negative or distressing. The emotional state we are in is so important as it affects how we behave and the results we get. If you are feeling positive and happy, of course the whole world seems better and more interesting and the...
Believe You Can!
In any therapeutic intervention that is designed to achieve change, it is important to have an understanding of the beliefs and values held by the person wishing to change. NLP therapists are able to work with clients to eradicate limiting beliefs. NLP therapists, Edinburgh are available to provide NLP in Edinburgh.
Have you ever taken the time to stop and think about your beliefs and values. Ask yourself where have my beliefs originated? How do they guide how I live my life? Do my values...
Bibliotherapy: Freeing Yourself From Depression, Anxiety, Stress And OCD
If you feel that you could manage your depression, anxiety, OCD or stress if only you had the tools, then why not try a good self-help book. This is a cheaper option for those who cannot afford private therapy or give those waiting to see an NHS Cognitive Behavioural Therapists (CBT), the foundation to begin to manage their own mental-health.
There is wealth of self-help books out there and it can be overwhelming deciding which ones will be most useful. I regularly prescribe reading and...
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Skills to Help Yourself in Six Weeks
For many people who need help with overcoming depression, anxiety, OCD or other emotional, psychological or behavioral problems, Cognitive Behavior Therapy could be the answer. Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is suitable for anyone who is able to think and reflect on his or her thinking! Of course, this is trickier then it sounds but a good therapist can help you do this. Cognitive Behavior Therapy is particularly suitable for people who want to be active in helping themselves, as it actually...
Cognitive Therapy Treatment For Health Anxiety
Health anxiety refers to having a preoccupation with a fear of having a serious illness or disease, despite medical investigations that show the person is healthy. A person with health anxiety will often misinterpret normal physical sensations as a sign of serious illness. For example, flu-like symptoms may be misinterpreted as a sign of HIV and tests that indicate the person is HIV negative may be discounted as unreliable.
Health anxiety can be treated effectively with CBT therapy, Edinburgh....
How Does Counseling Differ From Cognitive Therapies Such As NLP Or CBT?
If you are considering having some form of therapy it can sometimes be difficult to decide which therapy is best suited to meet your needs. Most people are aware of what counselling is, but nowadays there are other options such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP). I practice cognitive behavioural therapy in Hertfordshire. Often people contact me to discuss how CBT and NLP, Hertfordshire differs from counselling therapy. This article will introduce you...
Hypnotherapy a Victim of Tall Tales
Misconceptions about hypnotherapy are common, even among clients who attend hypnotherapy Edinburgh. Most likely, this misunderstanding originates from the mostly unethical use of hypnosis as a form of entertainment on stages and television. Hypnosis used in this way has led to many a myth such as only gullible people can be hypnotized and hypnosis can make you lose control or go mad. Whilst it appears that people on such shows seem to be under the control of the hypnotist, they are not. Rather,...
Hypnotherapy For Insomnia
Having trouble sleeping can be really distressing and frustrating. You go to bed, wishing for a good nights sleep and then lay awake for hours, tossing and turning, becoming more and more anxious about getting to sleep. Or perhaps you drop off to sleep quite easily, and then awake at some unsociable hour and cant get back to sleep. Either way, the result is that you may feel tired, emotional, irrational and not able to function in a way that you would like to in daily life.
Most people have...
Learn To Make Your Submodalities Work For You!
As human beings, we make sense of the world through our five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell). This is the only information we have about the world and this information is used to make up our internal representations of the world.
What this means is that every thought, memory or use of imagination, contains information from our senses. So, it may comprise pictures, sounds, feelings, smells or taste.
Furthermore, the information from our five senses contains lots of different...
Misunderstandings About Hypnosis
Hypnosis refers to being in a trance like state, the kind of states that people experience naturally all the time in daily life. If you have ever been driving somewhere and have suddenly realised you have reached your destination, whilst being absorbed in thoughts about other things, if you have ever been so engrossed in a good book or movie, that you have been unaware of time or distractions, if you have ever daydreamed, then you have experienced trance.
Hypnotherapists use hypnotic...
Self-Hypnosis For Stress Relief
Most of us experience stress at times in our lives and often this is a perfectly healthy reaction to external factors such as having a new job or moving house. Sometimes, there are no major events going on in your life, you are just very busy and have begun to notice that you feel anxious more often or there have been some changes in bodily sensations such as an increased heart rate or shoulder tension.
I am a hypnotherapist, Edinburgh and when clients present for Hypnotherapy in Edinburgh,...
So You Not A Psychologist, Then What Are You?
Whilst most people have heard of psychologists and psychiatrists (although people often confuse the two!) and understand them to be professionals qualified to work within the field of mental-health, many are not so sure about the professional skills an occupational therapist posses and how they can be helped by this profession.
I am an Occupational Therapist and my specialist area is working within mental-health settings or in the community with people experiencing mental-health or emotional...
Understanding What You Value
NLP therapists, Hertfordshire, often support people in developing self-knowledge and having a better understanding in who they are through the process of eliciting the persons values.
Are values are very important. In fact most of what we do is driven by the values we hold. We also compare or evaluate what we do by our values in order to decide whether what we have done is good enough. Therefore are values will often impact on our self-esteem.
Often people do not ever really think about where...
Ways To Combat Worrying
Worrying can make you physically anxious for example, increase in heart rate, butterflies and feeling tense. When people experience the physical symptoms of anxiety, this usually leads to more worrying about the symptoms, creating a vicious cycle.
There are lots of practical steps you can take to combat your worrying and to break the vicious cycle. These are techniques that I share with my clients at NLP and Hypnotherapy sessions in Edinburgh.
Identify and clarify the worrying thought: Often...
What's In Your Coping Toolbox?
Life consistently presents us with challenges and changes and at times this can lead to us feeling stressed. Planning how to manage and cope in various life situations, and finding out which coping skills work best for you, is the key to succeeding with stress rather then experiencing distress. When clients come to see me for NLP and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Edinburgh, it is a big part of therapy that they develop and become confident in employing coping skills. This article contains ideas...
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