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Have you been feeling stressed?

Do you have an irrational fear?

Do you have any habits that you haven’t been able to control?

Are you unhappy with your life?

Do you find it difficult to set goals and achieve them?

Do you act in a way you don’t like in certain situations?

Have you found it hard to lose weight and keep it off?

Are you not confident in your abilities?

Are you looking to change your life?

Have you been unable to let go of negative situations in the past?

Do you lack motivation?

Do you get nervous for no reason?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these, then maybe hypnotherapy can help you.

If you are curious and would like help, please register for a place on my self-hypnosis course to find out about one of the fastest and most effective ways to change your life permanently.

I became interested in hypnosis when I was on holiday in Tenerife and saw a stage hypnosis show in which some of my friends took part. I knew them well enough to know they weren’t faking it.

About two weeks after coming back from holiday, I saw an advert in a newspaper about an NLP course with Paul McKenna and decided to attend. I had never heard of NLP; I didn’t even know what NLP stood for. I just thought it must be something to do with hypnosis because Paul McKenna was a hypnotist.

Following this, I decided to learn more about hypnosis but couldn’t afford to pay thousands of pounds for training courses so I joined lots of hypnosis forums and read books recommended on these, plus suggested reading lists from some hypnosis courses. I also bought video and home study courses and followed these for about three years before going on one and two day hypnosis courses.

After this, I decided hypnotherapy was something I would like to choose as a career. So I researched which courses were the best available and decided to take a course with Terence Watts, who teaches hypnoanalysis, and Stephen Brooks, who teaches Ericksonian hypnosis.

By the time I had finished these courses, I had accumulated a wealth of theoretical knowledge and practical experience, but did not feel confident enough to start charging clients because I was only new and I thought that maybe I would not be able to help people.

So I decided to go and see the best therapists in the UK and the US and have some sessions with them so that I could see what therapy was like outside the classroom, and also to benefit from the therapy itself. I decided that I would only see people with at least ten years’ experience because I thought I could learn from their experience.

Afterwards, I looked around for places where I could start working with real clients and since then, I’ve worked at a hospital, in a women’s shelter, given talks to groups, worked with company executives on stress management. I’ve also worked with lots of sports people because this is what I’ve chosen to specialise in.

My Qualifications include:

Diploma in Hypnoanalysis (Advanced) Essex Institute Terence Watts

Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis with Psychotherapy Essex Institute Terence Watts

Practitioner certificate in practical application of indirect hypnosis, Ericksonian Psychotherapy and NLP (distinction) British Hypnosis Research Stephen Brooks

Intensive training in Ericksonian hypnosis and NLP British Hypnosis Research Stephen Brooks

NLP practitioner McKenna, Breen and Bandler

Certificate in Pain Management Healthy Visions Ron Eslinger

Quest Institute Wordweaving online course

HypnoSynthesis Hypnotherapy Practitioner Certificate (HPC) Donald Robertson

Smoking Cessation:

Essex Institute award-winning Easy Quit Smoking Program

HypnoSynthesis Certificated Smoking Cessation

Master class David Botsford Certificate in smoking cessation

Rob Kelly’s Method Stop Smoking Easily

Sports Hypnosis Centre

Learn how do your beliefs effect your genes.

you can find out more at www.brucelipton.com

Model of the mind

According to Freud, the mind can be divided into two main parts:

1) The conscious mind includes everything that we are aware of. This is the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about rationally. A part of this includes our memory, which is not always part of consciousness but can be retrieved easily at any time and brought into our awareness. Freud called this ordinary memory the preconscious.

2) The unconscious mind is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that lie outside our conscious awareness. Most of the contents of the unconscious are unacceptable or unpleasant, such as feelings of pain, anxiety, or conflict. According to Freud, the unconscious continues to influence our behaviour and experience, even though we are unaware of these underlying influences.

To explain how the mind works, I will use a thought metaphor that I hope will make it easy to understand.

If we liken your mind to a computer, then just like a computer, your unconscious mind can only do what it is programmed to do. It does not have the analytical ability to judge whether what it is doing is correct.

If the computer is programmed so that it understands 5+5=11 it will always give this answer because that’s what it believes to be true.

So, for example, if the computer has to work out:

5+

5+

17

=­­­__

this should give us the answer 27 but with the wrong bit of programming, the unconscious mind would give us 28 because it believes 5+5=11

If we do this calculation again with a small change to the order in which the computer processes the information, then we get 5+17+5 = 27 (which is correct)

5+

17

5+

=­­­__

Because the computer has been programmed to believe 5+5 = 11, when the calculation is done in a different order, then the computer will give a different answer without an analytical judgement about whether it is right or wrong.

Another example is

5X

100

5+

=­­­__

This would give us an answer of 505, which is correct, but if we change the order

5+

5+

100X

=____

would be 11X100 which would give us the incorrect answer of 1100 not the correct answer, which is 10X 100= 1000. So you can begin to see how a small mistake can lead to a big problem if the programming of the computer is incorrect.

Hypnotherapy can help to find the wrong bit of information and then reprogramme it so that it does not affect you any more; just like a computer programmer who debugs computer code.

The mind can also be likened to a ship and a captain. The captain is the conscious mind and the ship and the crew are the unconscious mind.

It is the captain’s job to set the course and direction of the ship and be aware of the capabilities of the ship and crew. The crew are there to make sure the ship is moving at a speed set by the captain

If the captain starts to micro manage, he would spend too much time checking the crew is doing their job and being too hands-on with the engine.

The captain should be delegating and then leaving the job to the crew. If there was a problem, the crew would let the captain know so he does not have to get too hands-on. All the captain needs to do is set the course and make sure the ship stays on course.

If you look at the table below, you will see some of the functions of the conscious and unconscious mind.

Within the unconscious mind there are different depths. So, for example, your name and telephone number are close to the surface and easily retrievable, but we may find it harder to recall childhood experiences or information we learnt at school.

The mind body connection

In this article, I hope I can give you some information, backed up by evidence-based research, about how the mind can affect the body, as well as convince you of the power that your mind has over your body.

If you are interested in more information, I have provided some links at the bottom of the page.

For thousands of years, people in the Eastern cultures have known that the mind and the body are intimately linked and have devised techniques that have treated the mind and the body as a whole.

In 1641, René Descartes, a philosopher and mathematician, was the first person to distinguish the difference between the mind and the brain and, ever since in Western cultures, the mind and the body have been studied as separate subjects.

The study of the body and the mind was separated in too many different fields: neurologists studied the brain, doctors the body, psychologists the mind, philosophers the thinking and religion the spirit.

It was left to complementary alternative therapies to study the link between the mind and the body, but until recently, they have not had much success at getting the public and the scientific community to take these forms of therapy seriously.

One thing these experts forget is that the medication given to clients is tested against a placebo, and in most cases, the medication is only slightly more effective than the placebo.

The term “placebo effect” was introduced by T.C. Graves in 1920, although it had been known about for many years.

The placebo effect shows from extensive research that if you expect a medication to work it is more likely to, even if it is only a sugar pill.

Some studies have been conducted, where heroin addicts were given injections of water instead of heroin and they did not suffer withdrawal symptoms until the injections were stopped.

In another study, people have been given placebo pills for pain control and it was discovered that the effectiveness of the placebo was dependent on the colour of the pill and its size.

Bruno Klopfer had a patient with cancer of the lymph nodes. Everything had been tried with little or no success and the patient had huge tumour masses throughout his body.

The patient had heard of a new drug called Krebiozen which Klopfer was researching and was put on it, even though it was still in its trial stages and only for use on patients with less then three months to live.

Within ten days, the tumours shrank dramatically and the patient went home and was able to fly his private plane.

Then, the AMA and FDA reported two months later that Krebiozen had no effect on cancer of the lymph nodes.

The patient soon suffered a relapse. Dr Klopfer decided to tell the patient he had a super-refined, double-strength Krebiozen that would produce better results, but it was actually sterile water.

This time, the patient’s recovery was even more remarkable. He remained symptom-free for two months.

Then, further stories of the AMA and FDA’s tests appeared in the press: “Nationwide tests show Krebiozen to be a worthless drug treatment of cancer.” Within a few days, the patient was dead.

In another study, asthma sufferers had their inhalers filled with water and seven out of ten experienced relief.

In another study, the placebo effect created the antibodies that they thought they were taking, and they experienced the side effects of the real treatment (Wolf and Pinsky).

People who have taken placebo pills have become addicted to them. In one extreme case, a patient took 10,000 in a year (Rhein 1980).

Dr Frederick Evans’ book “Placebo: Theory Research and Mechanism”, he says:

“………in other words, the effectiveness of a placebo compared to standard doses of different analgesic drugs under double blind circumstances seems to be relatively constant, this is indeed a rather remarkable and unique characteristic for any therapeutic agent. The effectiveness of the placebo is proportional to the apparent effectiveness of the active analgesic agent.

“It’s worth noting that 56% effectiveness ratio is not limited to comparing placebo with analgesics drugs, it is found in double blind studies of non-pharmacological insomnia treatment techniques (58%) and psychotropic drugs for the treatment of depression such as tricyclics (59%) and lithium (62%). Thus it appears that the placebo is about 55-60% as effective as active medications, irrespective of the potency of these active medications”

There is also the Nocebo effect, which is the opposite of the placebo, i.e. if you expect something negative to happen, your body can produce it.

In the 1940s, Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon found that people could die from voodoo if certain criteria were met. This is also called the nocebo effect.

In Ernest Rossi’s book, “Psychobiology of Mind Body Healing” (1993), he has a catalogue of maladies that may implicate three major body systems in the mind body healing system.

Walter Cannon also developed the theory of homeostasis, which means that a biological system will always try to find equilibrium between two states, so that the body stays in a stable constant condition.

For example, normal body temperature is 37 degrees. If we go above this level, we will sweat and blood will flow closer to the surface of the skin to bring your body back to a normal temperature. If we get cold, we will shiver and blood vessels will contract at the extremities of the body.

In 1964, George F. Solomon coined the term “psychoimmunology.”

Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) is the study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body.

PNI takes an interdisciplinary approach incorporating psychology, neuroscience, immunology, physiology, pharmacology, molecular biology, psychiatry, behavioural medicine, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and rheumatology.

This new area of research has shown that the nervous system, which is controlled by the brain, does affect the immune response.

Other research has shown that every cell in the body is connected to the brain, because every cell in the body is covered in neurotransmitters.

Norman Cousins, author of “Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit” had blood drawn and tested for blood levels and immune levels. Immediately afterwards, he meditated on peaceful feelings for one hour.

Afterwards, he had blood drawn and tested again, and it was shown that some of his immune factors went up 200%.

Some studies about multiple personalities show the amazing ability of the mind to change the body.

Dr. Bennet Braun has found that allergic reactions, reactions to alcohol and pharmacological drugs could change very rapidly when personalities switched.

Braun records a case in which 5 milligrams of diazepam, a tranquiliser, sedated one personality, while 100 milligrams had little or no effect on another.

There are accounts of multiples switching when they are anaesthetised and being operated on and the anaesthesia having no effect.

If the client changes from an adult personality to a child and has taken an adult dosage of medication, then it can result in an overdose for the child personality.

Other conditions that can vary from personality to personality include scars, burn marks, cysts, and left- and right-handedness, eyesight, eye colour, menstrual cycle, voice, diabetes and epilepsy.

In recent years, some highly respected scientists, such as Judith Swack, Candice Pert, Bruce Lipton and Ernest Rossi, have done research into the mind body connection.

Their research indicates that our thoughts have an influence on our bodies at the cellular level and that our genes are not pre-determined because they can be expressed in different ways.

You may find the following links interesting if you want to know more about mind body therapy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoneuroimmunology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind-body_problem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_top_down_control_of_physiology

Bruce Lipton Ph.D. www.brucelipton.com

Judith Swack Ph.D. www.jaswack.com

Candice Pert Ph.D. www.candacepert.com

Ernest Rossi Ph.D. www.ernestrossi.com

http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet

These articles should help you learn a little more about hypnotherapy.

A Typical Session

Definitions of Hypnosis

How To Find a Hypnotherapist

Hypnotherapy Associations

Hypnotic Depth Scales

Hypnotic Phenomena

Qualifications Index

Mind-Body Therapy

Model of the Mind

Laughter Therapy

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