The Reasons for Regular Napping, and the Science to Support It.
Napping – what a riveting subject to be writing about today, eh? I’m hoping to make it seem a lot more exciting than it may seem on the surface. For example; what did Winston Churchill, Salvador Dali, Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Edison...
Why We Need Much More Science and Scientific Thinking in the Hypnotherapy Field
Science and the scientific method in the field of hypnotherapy and hypnosis, this is what we're talking about today. Throughout the years working in this field, there has been an ongoing and running debate that I am often pulled into whereby "Art vs Science" is hotly...
Celebrating 21 Years As a Hypnotherapist!
This week marked the anniversary of me setting up my first hypnotherapy practice, some 21 years ago! My qualifications and professional memberships predate this of course, but I set up my hypnotherapy business 21 years ago. I am getting plenty of congratulations from...
Finding Hope in Difficult Times
Hope is something that is a major theme with my hypnotherapy clients, my students, my friends and family. Today, we find hope. Today, we hold on to hope, we celebrate hope. In the Star Wars film Rogue One, Cassian Andor is speaking to Jyn Erso while they are trying to...
The Importance of Being Assertive: Why You’ll Benefit From Being Assertive
Being assertive and the value of it is my topic today. It is that golden zone of appropriate assertiveness that we are after – not too submissive at one end of the spectrum, not too dominant at the other end of the spectrum, just a good, balanced, healthy level of...
How to be More Open-Minded
Open-minded is something I think comes with the territory when you work in the hypnosis field as a hypnotherapist and hypnotherapy trainer. I instruct and request my clients, students and attendees to adopt an open-mind as a prerequisite to my courses, seminars,...
How To Make Yourself Indispensable
How to be indispensable? As a title to a blog article, it sounds rather grand, but I’m writing on this subject for a very particular reason: We are now in the second week of the new year and I have had to stop taking new one-to-one clients as I am fully booked now...
Creating a Vision For Your life
Vision is my topic today, because it has begun, hasn’t it? All the “New Year – New You” stuff. All the articles about goals, resolutions, making changes and so on. All of which, if I am honest, I love. It seems pretty fashionable to say that we should be that way...
How To Ensure Christmas Boosts Your Mental Health
Christmas is winding down here, and I just about squeezed myself into my office this afternoon following the excess of the past week or so. Writing about the psychological impact of Christmas and the festive season is something I have meant to do for a few years...
Adversity: How to Overcome it and Be Stronger
Adversity is my topic today. I want to offer up the idea that adversity is not to be feared or avoided, but actually embraced in order that we can grow and develop. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater...
