Ping Your Internal Dialogue
These days it means techy things to ping your blog articles and do pingbacks and so on... But the kind of ping I am talking about today is also an 'ouch' and 'ooh' and often requires a sharp intake of breath to withstand, let me explain... My friends and I grew up in...
The Stanford Prison Experiment: Can Activity Effect Mood?
Last night, Katie and I watched a recent film called 'The Experiment' which is an equally violent and bloody remake of the German film Das Experiment of a few years back. Aidrien Brodie and Forrest Whitaker starred so I expected it to be good, you can view the trailer...
Hypnotherapist and Hypnotherapy Student Complete Great South Run
So yesterday I ran the Great South Run in Southsea, Portsmouth on a crisp, sunny Autumn morning along the sea front with another 23,000 competitors. This is about the closest I'll ever get to the lead vehicle, as things got set-up in the morning: And here is the start...
The Science Behind Being In Love
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the value of using evidence in my own hypnotherapy work with my clients... I got a couple of straw man arguments back, a couple of personal attacks on me from those believing hypnotherapy is purely an art form, and I also got...
Hypnosis And Binaural Beats: Can Binaural Beats Be Used To Induce Hypnosis?
One question I get asked on a weekly basis by someone somewhere in the world, is whether or not my hypnosis audio programmes contain binaural beats. The simple answer is that no, I don't. I then get told that they are the best way to induce theta level brain wave...
Come On In Here And Use Self-Hypnosis To Lift Your Mood!
Maybe we expect more today... It seems that increasingly more people are currently lacking satisfaction as far as their moods are concerned. Therapists of varying kinds that I encounter are reporting that more people are coming to see them and reporting being...
Is All Hypnosis Self-Hypnosis? And Would I look Good In A Cape?
There are still loads of those hypnotists and hypnotherapists out there who seem a bit ego-maniacal and believe that they wield hypnosis upon their underlings and subjects. They have this hypnotic power that their hypnotic subjects surrender to. Hmmm... I am not...
How To Be A Human Lie Detector
On my hypnotherapy training diploma, I often do a really simple exercise to show people how good they are at really paying attention. Behind a cover, I drop a pound coin onto a saucer several times and ask everyone in the room to really listen to it. Then I drop a ten...
Is There A Link Between Beer and Sexuality?
I can remember being stood in a pub with a group of my friends in our late teenage years, all drinking pints, and making a confession of sorts: "Why do we drink this stuff? It tastes awful.... Doesn't it?" My good friends all refused to publicly agree with me. Some of...
Evidence Based Hypnosis Podcast Up and Running!
Are hypnotherapists capable of seeing all sides of their own field? What actually is hypnosis? Why do so many people define hypnosis so differently? Is there such a thing as the subconscious mind? What is the relationship between mesmerism and hypnosis? Are there...
