Why Are Most Hypnotherapists Unaware of The Stroop Effect and It’s Importance To The Field of Hypnosis?
I had a couple of thoroughly enjoyable days in class last week. I was teaching two separate one day seminars in consecutive days and welcomed a number of wonderful professional hypnotherapists from all around the UK and Europe to my classroom. On Friday, I loved the...
Are Hypnotherapists Aware Of The Diversity Within The Field of Hypnotherapy? Is There More Than Erickson vs Elman?
“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.” – George Bernard Shaw There were times at the early stages of my own professional career as a hypnotherapist whereby I would suggest that the same is true for hypnotherapists and the field of...
How To Improve Your Mood
The weekend just gone I was teaching my hypnotherapy practitioner diploma, in this particular module we cover ways to help clients who suffer with depression and that involves examining a wide range of ways to improve your mood. I ran a group hypnosis session that led...
How To Get Inspired – Inspiration This Way….
I am back in the office after a wonderful period of time away. We had an active, fun-packed time together as a family, with lots of adventure, fresh air and laughter. It would not be right to suggest it was a relaxing period of time, heck, with my 3 and 4 year-old in...
The Health Benefits of Real-Life Social Interaction – Yes, Actually Interacting With Real Humans and Stuff!
This week, our hypnotherapist business development academy began for this year and I spoke to the members of this year’s programme about how to get productive and ended up explaining how back in 2004 I took a week’s holiday and had a ‘staycation’ whereby I sat in my...
The Science of Laughter: Why Laughing is Really Good for Your Health
I have been in class teaching my college’s intensive hypnotherapy practitioner diploma course for the past 9 days. Those that are familiar with my college, my courses and my teaching style, know that I put a lot of energy into my teaching. We refer to this format of...
Perform at Your Best: Unleashing Hell with Self-Hypnosis
I love reading about Samurai warriors and watching films about them too. Samurais trained relentlessly and made it an inherent part of their lives. It was not just physical training though, they prepared the mind in a wide variety of ways too. They strongly believed...
The Man In The Glass and Self-Esteem
This weekend just passed was the seventh module of my current monthly hypnotherapy practitioner diploma. I enjoy this one a lot as we learn about pain management and sitting in a room full of people doing or receiving analgesia is just marvelous. Among other things,...
How To Keep Yourself Motivated
“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.” ― Zig Ziglar This is one of the first ever motivational quotes I can recall reading and hearing when I first started taking an interest in...
8 Ways to Reduce Your Stress
Eight ways to reduce your stress. It would appear that we are getting better and better at being stressed these days. In this modern era of competition, unrealistic expectations, comparisons and the rat race many people find themselves in, stress is prevalent. Once...
