Candy Floss Brain Theory and Being In Control Of Our Thoughts
I am not sure if it is therapy modalities which profess to be deterministic, or the way in which 'mental illness' is treated like a pathological disease - Read Thomas Szasz for more on this - but I am continually amazed with how little control many people seem to...
Money Back Guarantees in Hypnotherapy and a Hypnotherapy Student P.R.A.T
Yes indeed, today I am referring to that famous acronym - P.R.A.T. The official dictionary definition of acronym is an abbreviation so old or familiar that no one remembers what its letters stand for. So here is the reminder and explanation of what it means: P -...
What I’m Doing For Fun Today
Each and every day, I make time to have some fun. Not just laughing and joking, but actually doing something I enjoy and find fun. I am lucky that I actually find most of my work to be fun, but I also like to ensure I do things each day that are not my work that are...
Evidence Based Hypnotherapy? What Are The Reasons For Evidence Based Hypnotherapy?
Undoubtedly, such is my preference for an evidence base in my hypnotherapy practice these days that I am a member of the Register of Evidence Based Hypnotherapists and Psychotherapists, though I still encounter huge swathes of hypnotherapists with no real idea of what...
Negative Self-Hypnosis – Comparing Yourself To Others
A lovely hypnotherapist called me yesterday to ask if I would mentor him... He was in a state of despair and desperate for me to help. He qualified as a hypnotherapist less than a year ago (with another UK school I hasten to add) and attended a networking breakfast...
Hypnotherapist Fights With Stormtroopers At Otherwise Well Behaved Event
On Saturday night, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra played Sci-Fi tunes from Star Wars to ET and Star Trek to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the back drop of fireworks and us all waving out light sabres in the air... It was marvellous. I'd like to take...
My Philosophy – Adam Eason
I very nearly squeezed in a nominalisation in today's blog title... I was going to call it 'my learnings to date' but thought against it... I want to be matter of fact today, spell things out, so to speak. So yes, tomorrow I officially enter my late 30s. 37 years ago,...
A Hypnotherapists Opinion On A Big Mistake Many Hypnotherapists Make
I am in a quandry over my rather paradoxical title in relation to todays blog entry... I am going to talk about what I consider to be a big mistake many hypnotherapists make with their marketing, whilst falling foul of the same thing in writing about it here... So I...
What Is Normal?
When teaching self-hypnosis or on my hypnotherapy training courses, I often tell the budding self-hypnotists or hypnotherapists to be very careful in using the word 'normal' to describe an experience... Simply because what is normal to one person, may not be normal to...
Preparing for a Hypnotherapy Session
Lots of people do ask me about what goes on in my consulting rooms and there is a great deal that happens when preparing for a hypnotherapy session. Even before I meet people I send them on a lengthy document for us to discuss in our first session together in order...
