Critical Thinking: Its Importance and Ways to Improve It
Critical thinking is a central tenet of my training courses and my therapeutic work with clients that myself, my students and my clients become good and effective critical thinkers. I go on about it a lot, especially in the academic environment, but today I am keen to...
The 2017 UK Hypnosis Convention Is Looking Hot!
Today, the organiser of the UK Hypnosis Convention Nick Ebdon announced the timetable for the event taking place later this year (November 3-5). I thought this was a very good time to say that I think this is the leading event of it's kind in the UK and if you are a...
How To Learn From Failure
Failure: I struggle to even use the word at all here because of what it typically implies. Yet I tend to think that anything deemed as a failure is actually something that helps us grow, and has the potential to be incredibly positive. In personal development circles,...
7 Reasons Why Being a Geek is Awesome
Let's talk geek. If I were to take some of the official dictionary definition of ‘geek’ and tweek it a little bit to contextualise this article… Definition of hypnosis geek. noun: hypnosis geek; plural noun: hypnosis geeks (like those who listen to my podcasts, train...
Have Increased Optimism: Using Self-Hypnosis To Be More Optimistic
Last week, I wrote an article about how to develop and increase your optimism in a healthy, appropriate way. I recommend reading that article before you then engage in the following self-hypnosis session: 11 Ways to Be More Optimistic and Increase Optimism. Once you...
Be More Persistent: Using Self-Hypnosis To Increase Your Persistence.
Prior to running through this self-hypnosis process in full, I recommend that you read yesterday’s article first and implement as many of those strategies as possible into your life and daily regimen, you can read it here: Persistence: 9 Ways to be More Persistent....
Persistence: 9 Ways to be More Persistent
All those runners with persistence! All those persistent people. I watched the highlights of the London marathon yesterday and wished I was there, I love the event and have run it many times before. All those thousands of runners, that all trained and trained and then...
Loving The Candour Of Prince William and Prince Harry Raising Awareness of Mental Health Issues
This Sunday is the London marathon and I shall be watching with some slight envy of all the runners who are competing in it as it really is a favourite event of mine and I love the atmosphere of it all. One thing that continues to impress me about the event is the...
11 Ways to Be More Optimistic and Increase Optimism
Optimism and being more optimistic is this week’s theme. “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.” ― James Branch Cabell The official 4 days of the Easter holiday have just come to an end here and I...
Using Self-Hypnosis For Increased Focus and Concentration
Ideally, I recommend reading my blog post from yesterday and employing as many of the strategies as possible in practical terms as possible: Increase Focus: 10 Ways to Stay Focused. Then, with those engaged, start to use this self-hypnosis session to advance your...
