Red nose Day, Comic Relief And Humour In Hypnotherapy Sessions
So today is red nose day, a day of comic relief whereby people are doing something funny for money, having fun, doing challenging stuff and raising cash and awareness for worthwhile causes around the world. I think it is a marvellous way to raise money; by using...
My Favourite Speech of All Time
So today my blog entry is not really anything to do with hypnosis or hypnotherapy, it is just about the fact that I have been reading the transcripts of some of the most famous and powerful speeches in history for a project I am involved in and I thought I'd share my...
An Important Consideration If You Want To Be A Hypnotherapist Or Clinical Hypnosis Professional
Well, where on earth do you begin with such a potentially broad subject matter? I am not attempting to write everything that needs to be known in order to be a hypnotherapist here; I doubt I could do it in a single blog entry in the time I am able to spend writing on...
Should We All Just Trust Our Unconscious Mind? Is It Ok To Have Undefined, Unclear goals In Hypnotherapy?
No. And No. That would be an uninspiring blog entry if it ended it there, wouldn't it? It is the time of year whereby some of my hypnotherapy students are working on their case studies and this week, one particular student encountered a moderately common problem among...
Hypnosis In The News! Hypnotherapy and Kate Moss, Lilly Allen, A Nasty Man and A Maxwell Daughter.
So whilst sitting down to write about hypnotherapy and hypnosis related stuff this morning, I find that the internet is covering stories left, right and centre with the field of hypnosis and has hypnotherapy providing the reader with a different angle on many of these...
What Are My Success Rates With Hypnotherapy? Do I Give Any Guarantee For Hypnotherapy Sessions?
So earlier this week was national No Smoking Day here. The BBC re-ran a TV show that I starred in a couple of years back entitled "The Smokehouse" which coincided with National No Smoking Day and as a result, I got lots and lots of enquiries from people wishing to...
What Is Trance Logic? Does It relate To Modern Hypnosis?
So I have been reading what many consider to be a seminal work and great contribution to the field of clinical hypnosis. It is a paper entitled "The nature of hypnosis: Artifact and essence" which was published in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology in 1959...
Posthypnotic Suggestion and Re-Induction as a Rapid Means of Inducing or Deepening Hypnosis
Ok, so I have managed to distract myself from pancake day fervour to get the blog written today. My mind has been focused on scoffing my face with pancakes later on today and I have been a tad sidetracked... The means of deepening hypnosis that I am writing about here...
Charles Dickens, Hypnosis and Mesmerism
So this weekend I was running a module of my current monthly hypnotherapy practitioner diploma course. Whilst discussing strategies for helping clients stop smoking, we discussed and explored the technique championed by many NLP practitioners called the Dickens...
Increasing Hypnotizability and Improving Responsiveness To Hypnosis
The more you wade through research exploring hypnotizability, the more you come to realise that none of it really manages to relate single factors of personality, gender or age to responsiveness to hypnosis. What does become more and more obvious through experience...
