Health and Wellbeing

As full-time hypnotherapists (as well as lecturers), we’re coming across clients needing help with Long Covid. Sadly, we can’t get rid of Covid with the swish of a magic wand, but we can help to reduce symptoms in some cases. This is because one of our primary jobs as hypnotherapists is to reduce stress and ... Read more

The word ‘but’ is an interesting one. It’s quite incredible how it can change the course of a life if you apply the word ‘but’. For instance, if we start a sentence with “I’m thinking of doing something different…” then the brain kicks in with the word ‘but’, and we end up not doing something ... Read more

Do you ever get a tug of war in your brain? Maybe one part of your brain jumps at the thought of doing something different, but then the other part leaps in and talks you out of it? As lecturers, we do smile at how our brains can stop us from doing something we want ... Read more

We suspect the majority of us have unfulfilled goals?  Whether that’s simply getting around to clearing out the spare room, sorting out our paperwork or taking the plunge to change careers to something more fulfilling! Most of us have things that we will “do one day”. Did you know that research has shown that unfulfilled ... Read more

Well, given all that’s been going on in the world, who can blame you? If you are feeling a bit low, or worse, it’s worth noting that you’re certainly not alone.  Prescriptions for antidepressants in the UK rose by 173% (and the cost rose by 700%) between 1991 and 2001. That’s one heck of a ... Read more

Take a moment to think about a pile of words. Imagine a pile of words on the floor to your left. Then consider those words being as follows: winter, miserable, cold, sleet, hail, shivering, damp. Okay? Done it? Now if those words were to be a colour, what colour would they be do you imagine? ... Read more

In our Hypnotherapy Training, the  Initial Consultation involves about 10 minutes of information gathering. We ask our clients a few pertinent questions that rather quickly gives us a picture of the client’s stress levels. We go onto discuss these later in the first meeting. Probably the most telling questions we ask revolve around sleep. The ... Read more

It used to be thought that, once we got to be adult, the brain lost it’s ability to change – but thanks to neuroscience, we now know that many of the aspects of the brain can be altered through adulthood.  This ability of the brain to change is termed ‘neuroplasticity’.  Neuroplasticity is often described as: ... Read more

The epidemic of modern life is stress We came across an article by Deepak Chopra recently that made a lot of sense. It’s almost identical to what we’ve been saying for years: “If an epidemic is defined as a disease that affects whole populations, without having a medical cure, then the epidemic of modern life ... Read more

A great advantage we have in Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy is that we explain to a client, how the brain works, and how this is reflected in the symptoms or difficulties they are experiencing. The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ but for the purposed of our explanation, it can be considered as two parts: There is ... Read more

By helping others, we help ourselves. We’ve all heard that said; however, is this old truism actually correct? From my experience of working as a hypnotherapist, it most certainly is. Here’s how we meet our own emotional needs by being pro-social. What does it mean to be pro-social? As the term suggests, a pro-social behaviour ... Read more