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Interrupt the moment with an interrupt

 

Ever seen the film Almost Famous? 

A wild guitar band some say depicts Led Zeppelin, its groupies and a cub reporter pile onto a tour bus after a particularly brutal night that’s left everyone discombobulated. Everything, it seems is coming unravelled. Everyone is frazzled and not happy. Elton John’s Tiny Dancer comes on the radio. As the song plays, one by one, each person’s mood begins to turn from hardened anger to harmony. It is not conscious, it is not planned.

It just happens. Patterned responses created over years dissolve. My favourite scene and it is pure magic.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy knows that such transformations can be a very powerful part of therapy.

A momentary awakening to the intense ‘mad’ patterns we’ve adopted. Maybe its taken years to grind those patterns into existence, in a heartbeat, we become unusually open to the idea that we can choose to respond differently.

This is what cognitive hypnotherapists call creating a new pattern.

Both in Neuro Linguistic Programming and Hypnosis this pattern interrupt experience is created as a therapeutic mechanism. At my Central London Hypnotherapy centre, I use it regularly as a powerful tool. One of the most interesting and powerful NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques is the Hand Shake Interrupt made famous by Milton Erickson and of course Derren Brown.The handshake pattern interrupt is a very powerful way to induce rapid hypnosis.

As you may or may not know the handshake interrupt is simply interrupting the process of a handshake, which causes a momentary blank in the brain and bringing the subjects hand up to their face, whilst using hypnotic NLP language to bring them into a trance state.

Applied to business and networking it’s a powerful tool to disarm peoples’ kneejerk defence mechanisms and programmed responses and open them to considering a new product, solution, approach or idea.

It’s something the best speakers, salespeople and marketers use on a regular basis…though some may be oblivious to exactly what it is they’re doing that’s getting such good response. And, it’s something the top copywriters and bloggers do as well. Check out the headlines used by expert copy writers.

So, why should you care about all this?

As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, I believe that pattern interrupts give you the power to change behaviours, opinions, assumptions and decisions in the blink of an eye. They also allow you to better see opportunities that are created on a more spontaneous, organic level all day long and dive into them to open doors and create opportunity.

Say you are doing some training or a speech and you get the graveyard slot. Introduce something that INTERRUPTS THEIR PATTERNS. Such as putting on a hat, wearing a funny wig, looking outside at the weather, dare to be outrageous! Speaking Interrupts- create short windows to allow you to continue to dazzle them, introduce new ideas and thread a series of continued pattern interrupts through his presentation to keep them from sliding back into the dead zone.

What about on a personal level? Next time you feel yourself sliding into that same argument you’ve been having with your partner, lover or wife or husband, in different forms for years. Before you get too deep and too intense. Get up, and do something totally different. For example:

In The Incredibles (a fantastically well written cartoon), the whole family is fighting with each other when someone knocks at the door. They immediately stop the fight and forget what they were arguing about.

A good friend from Australia used to stare and point at the ceiling for 5 seconds. Then continue.

 You could say, “Did you realise your shoe laces are undone?” Or start jumping up and down on the spot. One of my favourites is dramatically pretend you’re about to sneeze. If you feel you're about to cry, look upwards and jump up and down and this will shift you away from crying.

I know that whenever anyone, anywhere drops tray of food in a cafeteria (school, college, airport, hospital, etc.) everyone always stops whatever they were doing and stares at them. I know multiple times that after such tray is dropped, it’s difficult to think about whatever we were talking about before.

So, there are lots of types of things that pattern interrupts could be used to stop or change (anger, fear, silliness, mourning, obsession, rising tension, compulsion, and probably hundreds of others I'm not even thinking of). Guaranteed, you’ll get a very different response. A spontaneous, surprise-driven disarming action. You can use that reaction as a moment of awakening to the lunacy of refighting the same fight and an opportunity to explore approaching the conversation a different way. You may come to realise, too, a pattern interrupt is not a new pattern. In my London Hypnotherapy sessions this is crucial.

It’s only an event that breaks the stranglehold of the old, destructive pattern, giving you a window to introduce a new one. And, if you don’t take the opportunity, that window will quickly close, leading all to slide back into the same old, same old.

So, have you experienced anything like this? Have you tried it as a chance to change course? Because, it only takes a moment…

Sarah and Cognitive Hypnotherapy in TNT Magazine. The Secret to Punctuality.

Sarah was directly contacted by TNT and  given the unusual request to help  Rebecca Kent (journalist) address the problems she was having with lateness.  Rebecca was told by others, that she would be late to her own funeral.  Over the years, she frequently kept friends waiting, and often missed important events. Rebecca missed out on some important job offers due to turning up late for the actual interviews.

Most people think of contacting a Hypnotherapist for issues such as weight loss, stopping smoking, insomnia, but Cognitive Hypnotherapy can help with so many other behavioural issues.  Punctuality can be a serious problem for people, and it can cause havoc with their personal lives as well as their careers. 

Read all about Sarah Jons and the story in this week’s TNT, by clicking on the link below

Help me lose weight, well photograph your food to help you eat less.

Medical research has shown that people began to eat healthier food when they were asked to take a picture of what they were eating. Photographs appear to be more effective at getting people to watch what they ate than food diaries alone. Food diaries are often filled in at hours or even the following day after, and it’s easy for people to forget how much food had been consumed.

The pictures appear to concentrate the mind at just the right time, before eating, the researchers who carried out the study believe.

To test if encouraging slimmers to photograph everything they eat might also encourage them to change their diet, scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison asked

43 people to record what they ate for one week in pictures as well as in words.

When the volunteers were later quizzed the photo diary appeared more effective at encouraging them to change their eating habits to more healthy alternatives.

The photographs also acted as a powerful reminder of any snacking binges, the researchers found.

“I had to think more carefully about what I was going to eat because I had to take a picture of it,” was a typical response from volunteers, the scientists found.

With many people now carrying round a camera in their phones, so its easy to do. In my role as  Cognitive Hypnotherapist I now ask my clients who come to see me with weight issues, to take pictures of their food.  It’s also a helpful technique for those who come to see me for Gastric Band Hypnosis who want to lose weight quick.

It’s especially helpful for those of my clients who are eating  too large a portion size, or struggle with takeaway or restaurant portions. The pictures also act as powerful reminders of any binge eating episodes, and its interesting to see the story they tell when linked together over the period of a week.

So are you food pictures this big?

 

 

 

 

 

Or this small?

 

 

How to Improve your Relationship with the Minding Model

It’s often not possible to change your fixed circumstances of your relationship ( if you have young kids for example, especially below the age of 5), so the key to maintaining a relationship is to focus on how to make it last and grow.

The Minding Model of relationship development has identified five specific components of successful relationships.

1) Knowing and being known is about behaviour that aims at learning about each other. This means questioning and disclosing knowing about thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values and past history.  This is not just about self expression but its a genuine attempt by either partner to really understand the other, what makes them tick etc. This knowledge can help improve the relationships, ( e.g one cooks more than the other because he/she know that his partner hates to cook). Knowing can be harder as the relationship progresses as we are at risk of taking the other for granted.

2)Attributions are the explanations that we make about our partner’s behaviour. partner. Attributional activity reflects our trust and belief in our partners. When we attribute our partners’ negative behaviors, such as rudeness or insensitivity, to outside causes we are essentially telling ourselves that they are not really insensitive; it is the situation. We believe better of them. However, if we attribute our partners’ positive, caring acts to outside events or to self-interest, we are convincing ourselves not to believe in their love, not to trust their sincerity.

3) Acceptance and respect are necessary at all time even during times of conflict. Accepting the other partner’s point of view and working out comprises together is key. Research has show that happy couples have a ratio of negative to positive exchange of one to five.

4) Reciprocity relates to the sense of equality, where each other input and take out of the relationship equally. A relationship is working well when nobody is taken advantage of.  Equal distribution of housework or child care can be an example. While it is perfectly fine to take certain roles ( for convenience), it has to involve respect, recognition and appreciation.

4) Continuity is necessary because this process never stops, because a relationship is always developing, adjusting to changing situations, changes in life cycles and personalities. This explains why empty nest syndrome is such a pivotal point in many womans lives, once their children leave home, the are left to examine closely their relationships with the remaining partner.

Further reading about the Minding Model can be found here

http://www.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/harvey/minding.pdf

 

 

 

10 Top Sure Fire ways to destroy a Relationship

1) Critise your partner personally rather than his actions
2) Make sure you display your contempt regularly, ( insults, mockery, sarcasm, and hostile humour are all good examples)
3) Attempt to control your partner
4) Get defensive at every single opportunity
4) Take your partner for granted
6) Don’t show the slightest bit of interest in your partner, and what they are doing.
7) Avoid communication by distancing yourself physically or emotionally
8) Go nuclear every time there is an argument.
9) Make sure the TV is on when your partner comes home, and make sure you ignore them.
10) Adopt strong traditional roles, even if one of you believes in equality.

Of course there are other ways to destroy a relationship much faster, such as cheating or hitting your partner, but the above ones are a bit more subtle.

Other ideas can be found here.

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=838

Now I presume most of the people reading this wouldn’t want to destroy their relationships, and they might recognise that they are guilty of a few of the above traits ( 1 to 10).

Cognitive Hypnotherapy is an excellent way of helping people change any negative behaviours such as anger. It utilises various Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Techniques to help people change their emotional state very quickly.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Getting to Happy

It has been said that happy people possess four very similar characteristics

1) Optimism

2) Extroversion

3) Self Confidence

4) Self Efficacy. (Self-efficacy- has been defined as the belief that one is capable of performing in a certain manner to attain certain goals).

The interesting thing about these traits is they are not hardwired from birth, they can be developed.

Self efficacy is just like a muscle that you can cultivate in the following four ways

1) By having a role model.  It’s important to have role models in your daily life who demonstrate what you need to do to accomplish your goals.

I am reminded of the visit of Michelle Obama to Elizabeth Garrett School an all girl’s school in Islington London a couple of years ago and the impact this had on the students there.

Michelle spoke about the power of hard work and what these girls could achieve despite their background. She made it real for these girls.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/26/gcses-michelle-obama-helped-me-make-the-grade-115875-23371968/

2) By having someone who believes in you.  This can be an understanding partner, parent, or grandparent or other family relative.  As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist I fulfill this role for many of my clients by providing them with the appropriate mentoring or coaching support they might need.

3)  By having control over our moods and stress levels. If we can’t control our moods or stress levels this makes it difficult for us to have a more optimistic outlook on life.

4) By having sucessful and winning experiences.  This is so important as this cultivates belief in ourselves. It’s an important part of the learning process, because we need to break down our bigger goals into small pieces.

I recommend Anthony Robbins  Book “Giant Steps Small Changes”  that provides the reader with a series of small practical exercises that as the title suggests lead to giant steps.

Is too much Happiness a bad thing?

You might have heard about the new science of Positive Psychology which champions the important role happiness plays in having a meaningful life. Happiness is now seen as commodity we can all attain if we work hard enough and Positive Psychology explores ways in which people can get more of this commodity,

For some happiness might come effortlessly but others might struggle, especially those with a more pessimistic disposition. It is now thought that we inherit a genetically determined happiness set point, but we actually have the power to change this set point.

There is now a mathematical equation for happiness

S+C+V=H

S stands for Set Point, C stands for Circumstance, V stands for Voluntary Behaviours and H stands for Happiness of course.

Researchers have now found that extreme happiness is now not the optimal state to be in for day to day living,  particularly if we surpress natural feelings of sadness or guilt.

I’m not saying that sadness or discontent with life should be the norm, as there is a whole bunch of negative outcomes that an individual would expose themselves too, from stress related illnesses to an absence of meaningful relationships with people.

Once a moderate rate of happiness has been achieved, anything more can in fact have a detrimental effect on our well being. Slight discontent in areas such as work, home life, health can actually motivate us to change.  If people weren’t motivated to change then they wouldn’t come and seek out my services as Cognitive Hypnotherapist to help them.

But motivation to change in areas of discontent, isn’t about acquiring material wealth, ie bigger houses or cars.  New purchases temporarily make us happy, but not for long.  I often wonder about the happiness set point of people with great wealth.

The good news is that there are some things, that we don’t need to replace, that can continually pump up our happiness set point, and great sex is listed as one of them. :-)

 

 

Achieve your goals with a Cognitive Hypnotherapist near you.

Findings from decades of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction.

To often, we don’t do that well at setting goals because of failed attempts at New Year’s resolutions, or because we view goals as tasks, which make them feel more like a burden, than anything else.

As a nation we are spending far too much time immersed in our hectic work-lives on top of a whole bunch of daily household chores. Then we juggle this alongside parenthood, and then during our forties and fifties, many of us find ourselves looking after elderly parents.

Everybody deserves a bit of “me” time for them to break away from this daily exsistence and look at the bigger picture of their life in respect to what they want.

It’s important to adopt goals because they sit well with our own beliefs and values, not because someone else chooses them for us.  Without goals we can’t start that important process of creatively thinking about how we are going to achieve them. The brain is funny like that, and  if you let your brain know that you want something strongly enough, then it will help you plan ways you can achieve it.

What is important is to write them down, and put them in a place you can see them, even share them with other people if you want too. I came across this great website that allows you to post them online and share them with another 3 million people.

http://www.43things.com/

Goals provide people with a more optimistic outlook on life as they provide hope about the future. They also don’t have to be restricted to expensive pursuits, simple things like making someone smile everyday can be a very enriching life experience. Goals can bring health benefit such as stopping smoking, losing weight or sleeping better.  It’s easy to see how these things can improve life satisfaction and happiness.  One of the ways to help yourself achieve these goals, especially if you have struggled before, is to find somebody to help you.

As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist working in Central London I help people achieve their goals. If you need help finding a Cognitive Hypnotherapist near you, check out this link

http://www.questinstitute.co.uk/therapist-finder/

 So get going with your goal list.

 

 

 

 

Texting might help those who want to stop smoking but Cognitive Hypnotherapy is better!

A recent study has found sending motivational text messages to smokers trying to stop smoking doubles their chances of giving up.

The participants were sent up to 5 text motivational messages a day. People were able to receive instant messages at times of need by texting the word crave or lapse.

There are many simple techniques that somebody can use to help them quit smoking but hypnosis is by far one of the most effective in helping people stop smoking for good.

 We normally start smoking during adolescence for social reasons. You might have wondered why some people who try a cigarette for the first time are immediately repulsed and never smoke again, whereas there are others who try, and even though they don’t like it, repeat the action and before they know it they are hooked. The difference is usually due to an external environmental factor that triggers an emotional response.

 Cognitive Hypnotherapy refers to this as a significant emotional event. Examples of this in relation to starting smoking are peer pressure, wanting to fit into a new group, elevating your social status as part of that group, the desire to look “cool” etc.

In most instances its quite easy to recall or remember our first cigarette but the reason why we started to smoke usually declines in importance with age. Its not really that important to an adult in their 30′s/40′s/50′s to look “cool” the overriding factor is usually health related.

It’s a gambling game, the longer you continue to smoke, the longer you continue to risk damaging your health. The good news is that stopping smoking reaps immediate benefits. Within 20 minutes of stopping smoking you start to reap the benefits, and as time passes you can nearly get your health back to the same as a non smoker. What’s clear is that the sooner you stop the quicker the benefits.

So if you are ready to quit smoking and need somebody to help you contact Sarah Jons Cognitive Hypnotherapist for a free 20 minute telephone consultation.

The beauty myth prescribes behaviour not appearance

As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist I can help people who need to lose weight, and also those who need to gain weight. My role is not to diagnose or assign a label to any eating disorder, but to help support my clients to make the behavioural changes they might need to make to achieve their weight goal target.There is a significant amount of evidence to support the use of hypnosis for weight loss, so it stands to reason it also works for those who actually need to gain weight.

As parents we tell our children that it’s what on the inside that counts, however this contradicts the media representation of successful people. Think of the three and four year old, who is continuously bombarded with compliments for their cuteness. Children are pumped with media images whereby successful, popular and sexy people are quite simply the thin ones. Child beauty pageants should be banned!

There are many different labelled eating disorders nowadays, one of the most commonly known is anorexia. In the UK it is estimated that 1 in 100 women suffer from anorexia between the ages of 15 to 30. Reports show children as young as 5 have weight concerns and have considered going on a diet. It affects men as well, though the statistics are much lower currently around 1 in 1000. The sad thing is that for about 5% of people with anorexia the disease is fatal.

One of the most common themes that people with weight issues need to deal with, is battling with a lower self esteem, and difficulty in coping with their own emotions and stress. Low self esteem sufferers often don’t feel good enough, that they don’t deserve good things, that they can never do anything right, that they are a failure, and other people must think the same about them as well.

It is not uncommon for sufferers to be viewed by others as lovable, warm, kind, sensitive, and intelligent people. The problem is that each person suffering can not see in themselves the beauty that others do. Their own hate from within distorts their perception of how truly great they really are.

Hypnotherapy can help change internal beliefs and values into more positive helpful messages. This is an important part of some therapeutic approaches but especially Cognitive Hypnotherapy which hunts down emotional roots of any eating problem. Subtle changes to the way we think, feel, hear or see a problem using NLP can make a fundamental difference in helping us stop our problem.

If you have an issue with eating or weight call Sarah Jons on 07872 424389 for a confidential consultation.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/food-thought/201108/child-beauty-pageants-what-are-we-teaching-our-girls

 

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FREE Relaxation Hypnotherapy Download

It’s actually my clients who are responsible for bringing about personal change. My role as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist is to facilitate this process as well as equip them with the tools to do this.
One of the tools that I sometimes provide my clients with is a personal MP3 recording which I task them to play daily. It is my long held belief that this little MP3 file can be the magic pill that can make the difference for the client.  Change doesn’t just take place during therapy, but a vast proportion of it takes place in between sessions.  By listening to their MP3 file the client is reminded of the way they can use their own resources to solve their problem. These MP3 files can also be provided in other formats such as CD.
The instruction for use is quite simple,
1)      They are to be played at least daily (before bedtime is good, but anytime will work) or as required.
These recordings are deliberately only between 6 and 15 minutes in duration, therefore making it possible for every client to find sufficient time to play these daily.
Some hypnotherapists use standardised scripts and record these for their clients. As a Cognitive Hypnotherapist the MP3 recordings that I give to my clients are bespoke and customised for each client. I spend a considerable amount of time writing these and draw upon the information my client provides during our therapy sessions together.
The content of these recordings helps reframe the client’s current problem state and focuses on representing a  future solution state for the client where there problem quite simply no longer exists.
These scripts are developed using a highly specialised hypnotic language pattern known as Wordweaving ™ and include a variety of linguistic techniques such as indirect suggestion, presuppositions, guided imagery and visualisation.
In one aspect the recordings I write can be likened to sophisticated mantra’s that work both on the conscious and sub conscious levels.
I do as well provide some of my clients with recordings mixed to music, either a favourite recording or something less structured (ambient, trance inducing type).
Simply, as well, we are what we think, and we get what we think. So in order to change something we need to start thinking differently.   It’s a lot easier to start thinking differently than you might imagine especially if you have a little MP3 handy.
The good thing is that it’s possible now to benefit from Cognitive Hypnotherapy without actually coming to see me, (Sarah Jons) at my therapy room
I can write and record anybody their very own bespoke download where ever they are in the world for well pretty much anything they want help with.  If you think you would like me to record you a Cognitive Hypnotherapy download please email  sarah@londonhypnotherapynlp.com for further information.
I have recorded and uploaded a gentle relaxation recording and mixed it with some gentle music and ambient sounds as a sample for those of you who may be curious to find out more.
A copy of this can be downloaded on the front page of my website http://londonhypnotherapynlp.com/.
Please do not listen to this whilst driving or operating heavy machinery, it is for relaxation.
Enjoy

Regulation and choosing a Hypnotherapist

 

A lot of clients seeking the services of a hypnotherapist don’t quite know where to start. Personal recommendations are always a good starting point, but it’s good to do your own research as well before making an appointment.
 
 
Many people search online nowadays using search engines such as Google or Yahoo to perform their search. If you have saved your location settings in Google then you can easily search for a local hypnotherapist by clicking on the maps selection in the left hand toolbar.
Many hypnotherapists nowadays have their own websites. So its worthwhile spending some time checking out whether they are qualified and insured as you may want to use the more specialised services of a cognitive hypnotherapist. Also it’s helpful to check whether they are a registered member of any professional regulatory bodies. This can be quite confusing for the general public as there are several to choose from and it’s difficult to know the merits of one over the other.
 
The National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH) is the largest not for profit organisation in the UK and has over 1800 members including those that practice cognitive hypnotherapy.  The NCH strives to maintain the highest standards among its members. There is an agreed Code of Conduct, an established Complaints & Disciplinary Procedure and all members are obliged to maintain comprehensive Public Liability & Professional Indemnity Insurance.  The NCH is a member of The UK Confederation of Hypnotherapy Organisations (UKCHO). UKCHO is an umbrella organisation for the hypnotherapy profession in the UK.
 
The Government believes that complimentary and alternative medicine has a role to play within the National Health Service but, to do this; it must meet the same standards as other NHS treatments, and must be clear and realistic about the contributions it can make.
UKCHO fully supports this view and has affiliated itself with the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC), the UK regulator for complementary and natural healthcare practitioners. It has now introduced voluntary self regulation for all hypnotherapists as of the 1st December 2010.
 
This is good news as it may help to simplify the confusing processes for many of the general public
 
 Regulation, whether statutory or voluntary, is about protecting the public. For this reason, the Government fully supports the work of the CNHC. If patients choose to use complementary or alternative therapy, the Government’s advice is to choose a practitioner registered with a reputable voluntary registration body such as the CNHC.”
 
Find a London hypnotherapist with membership of the CNHC
 
Further information about the CNHC can be found on the following link
 
 
 
Gil Boyne is a true legend and inspirational Hypnotherapist and trainer, who sadly passed away last year. Here he shares his view of Hypnotherapy Regulation. of all times. Sadly he died last year. I was fortunate to 
 

How Hypnosis and New Years Resolutions can extend your life.

Four relatively simple, healthy behaviours may add 14 years to your life, say scientific research from Cambridge University. Even better, it doesn’t matter what your starting point is, whether you are overweight or have other health issues.
The scientific research was carried out in the UK on a group of 20,000 people up to the age of 79 over a period of 11 years.
The group was split into 4 groups when they first joined the study of healthy behaviours: not smoking, exercising, eating fruit and vegetables and drinking alcohol in moderation.
Those who exercised for even as little as one hour per week were classified as exercising. Those with a certain level of vitamin C in their blood were considered to be eating enough fruit and vegetables. A moderate drinker was classified as being one who consumed one and 14 alcohol units each week.
People doing all four healthy things effectively added 14 years to their lives. Even those who only did two healthy behaviours increased their health and lived longer.
So what better time than now to start making those New Year’s resolutions. Whether you want to stop smoking, lose weight or help change your drinking habits or some other new exciting challenge, what better motivation do you need than wanting to add those extra valuable years to you life. 
And if you need help making these changes, as your previous attempts haven't gone to plan, why not consider contacting a London Hypnotherapist to help you. Hypnosis can help make these new habits stick for good, and easier to achieve than you thought possible. 
Find further information about Sarah who specialises in Cognitive Hypnotherapy from her therapy rooms in London.
Interesting video on how hypnotherapy can help you keep those New Year's resolutions.
 
A useful link that discusses the benefit of using hypnotherapy to help with those New Year's resolutions.
This link talks about the importance of making New Year's Resolutions specific and mapping the goals out specifically. Many of you have probably heard of SMART goals, a topic I will be discussing in detail in a further post.

Stop Smoking London

 
 
An article in the New Scientist has reported that “Hypnosis is the most effective way of giving up smoking, according to the largest ever scientific comparison of ways of breaking the habit.” The magazine reported on research done by scientists at Iowa University who studied the results of 600 studies of a total of nearly 72,000 people in Europe and the USA who had successfully quit smoking.
If you are a smoker it will come as no surprise to you that stopping smoking is the single most important thing you can do to improve your current and future health (USDHHS, 1990).
People usually start smoking in order to achieve a resolution to some problem. Engaging in the activity of smoking is a trance state which explains why cognitive hypnotherapy is so effective in helping people to quit because it breaks this trance state by using hypnosis.
One of the reasons why many people start smoking is that they believe that cigarettes will bring them positive benefits, such as membership of a social group, of being grown-up, of proving oneself, of rebelling against authority, or of looking cool, glamorous and sophisticated.  This is referred to as a positive hallucination which is a trance state and people take up smoking in the belief that it will achieve those things.
This is so true in today’s modern society and one of the reasons why so many adolescents start to smoke at a young age.In doing so, they engage in the negative hallucination of blocking out anti-smoking health education messages and all knowledge about people who have suffered ill-health or early death from smoking.
The physiological aspects of smoking are minor compared with the overriding psychological aspects. Laboratory rats, monkeys and other animals have been cruelly forced to smoke cigarettes in scientific studies. Yet when a lit cigarette is placed where they could smoke it if they wanted, but they are not forced to do so, they do not make any move to smoke it, no matter how many cigarettes they have previously smoked.
The human body undergoes a considerable shift when either starting smoking or giving it up. In most cases, this happens when a person smokes their first cigarette there is considerable discomfort. The body fights against it, associated symptoms include dizziness, nausea, violent coughing etc. There is a small minority of smokers who do not have these symptoms and this is usually because the person is so keen and enthusiastic to become a smoker, that they override the body’s natural defence mechanisms.
If it’s possible to override such physical sensations when a person starts smoking, it’s also possible to do the reverse when they want to quit.
This is just a bit of background in understanding how effective hypnotherapy is and how I help my clients to quit smoking, easily and permanently without them really noticing from my therapy room Strand Hypnotherapy. Everybody smokes for different reasons, and everybody wants to quit for different reason.
In my role as a cognitive hypnotherapist, one of the most enjoyable parts of my work when working with smokers is knowing that I am helping my clients improve their health and live longer. 
I personally stopped smoking using hypnosis many years ago and I was amazed at how easy it was. This is one of the reasons why I decided to train as a cognitive hypnotherapist and help others to make changes similar changes to their lives.  
Every client I see who wants to quit has their very own reason for quitting, just as they had their own reason for starting. For some it’s health, for some it’s concerns about improving their complexion and getting rid of the smell of smoke on their clothes. Utilising this information during trance, and bypassing the conscious mind I work with their unconscious mind to accept their new identity as a non-smoker.
If you are ready and motivated and want to quit smoking and improve your health use the most effective approach and contact Sarah Jons today.
Further articles on stop smoking
Imagine much money you could save if you stopped smoking

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/smoking/

Another useful article that extols the virtues of stopping smoking.

http://www.theipcrg.org/smoking/benefits.php

There are plenty of good reasons to stop smoking and the sooner you do it the benefits to your health will begin 

How Does Hypnotherapy Work

One of the things about being a hypnotherapist is that it’s a really good conversation topic starter. Living and working in London means that I frequently come into contact with so many people as part of my daily existence who occasionally enquire about what I do. 
The black cab drivers I sometimes chat too on my short journeys around London are a great source of information. If the topic of hypnosis comes up, (which is frequently once I tell them I’m a cognitive hypnotherapist with a practice in London on the Strand), I try to take my time to educate and share my knowledge of the subject.
Most recently, I heard from one cabbie that he didn’t believe hypnosis existed, as he was the type of person who actually needed to experience it for himself. He said he wouldn’t know it was true until he had been hypnotised.
I asked him whether he sometimes drifted off into a daydream whilst driving his clients around London. Also, had he ever picked up a client and suddenly arrived at the destination without quite wondering where the time went, or how he got there. The reply was yes, this happened to him all the time. I suggested that this was a classic example of hypnosis, as his unconscious had kicked in the automatic pilot and taken over the driving for him. He was no longer consciously aware of his route or processing the details of the journey. He was perfectly safe and being taken care of by the unconscious part of his mind.  If he had suddenly needed to brake for any reason, his unconscious would have woken up his conscious mind with a start.
The other myth that he was concerned about was being forced to do something against his will because he had seen this demonstrated on TV by stage hypnotists. My response to this is you cannot be made to do anything against your will, or break your own personal moral code. These so called volunteers are carefully selected and normally screened using some form of suggestibility test.
Hypnotherapy utilises hypnosis to bypass the conscious mind to speak to the unconscious mind in language it understands. The therapist does the talking and the client the listening. One might think you need to be in deep trance state for this to happen. Cognitive hypnotherapy teaches that this is not always necessary. You (the client) just need to be listening to what is being said. It’s quite normal for people to drift off into their own world whilst being hypnotised.  All hypnosis is self-hypnosis; the therapist is just there to facilitate the process.
On a scientific level hypnotherapy has been shown to work using MRI imaging scans of the brain. Some of you may have heard of the phrase, “neurons that fire together wire together”. Neurons are the cells that process information in the brain. Between the neurons there are synapses that connect these neurons to each other. As an example if you think of a memory that has an emotion attached to it, such as a phobia, and recall that memory using hypnotherapy, you can then work on breaking down the synapses. This is like breaking the chains that link bits of information together. If the hypnotherapist has the correct skill and level of training, they can help the client make new connections by linking old neurons with new neurons. This has the effect of dramatically changes the meaning of the memory. If you change the meaning of the memory, you can change the emotional response. 
If you want to find out more, and have a problem that you want help with, such as anxiety, stress, or wish to stop smoking or improve your performance in something contact a Central London hypnotherapist  for an appointment today.
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How The Maps In The Brain Can Be Changed

Gerald Edelman is an American Biologist Nobel Prize winner and one of the theories he is noted for involves consciousness. Edelman argues that the mind and consciousness are biological processes that arise from complex cellular processes within the brain.
 
Edelman suggest that every memory, every piece of data, idea, habit, thought—is made up of a set of connections among neurons, like a map of connecting roadways in our brain. Each of these maps can involve up to 50,000 neurons.
 
We create maps for everything. This includes maps for sight, sound, language, face, ideas and memories that we remember, whether consciously or not. We sometimes form temporary maps. For example when driving a car, we do not hold in our mind ever building we drive past on our way to work. But after taking that journey even once, we will have formed a basic map of the route.
 
After driving this route many times, we will easily remember it; with enough repetitions, we will follow it even when we are not consciously attending to it. The map of the buildings becomes lost, while the map of the route becomes what we often refer to as “hardwired.” There are maps of maps and the map of maps, and so forth. This application of maps is why revision is so key to learning processes. The more familiar you are with something, the easier you will be able to recall it.
 
So maps are our internal representations of the way the external world works for us. These enable us to understand and interact with that world. The maps that convey information that is used the most get further hardwired into our brain and become more likely to be activated in the future.
 
You may wonder why this is so important and the relevance with hypnotherapy. In practical terms this theory supports so much of the work that is done in my application of cognitive hypnotherapy. My clients come to see me with a variety of problems that are their very own constructed maps. There are individual smoking maps, fear or phobia maps, maps of anxiety, maps of compulsive behaviours, maps of eating disorders and so on.
 
During the history take which is normally the first session of meeting at my, I map out my clients problem. The longer the client has had the problem the more hardwired the problem is in the brain. Just take a moment to think of a young child.  How many very young children have phobias? Phobias and fears are developed over time. The more you get exposed to the stimulus the more hardwired the problem becomes.
 
The good news is that these problems maps can be simply deconstructed by using many of the hypnotherapy techniques I have at my disposal. You can quickly learn a new map of behaviour that replaces any unwanted old maps of behaviours. Do it enough and then that becomes hardwired. Or another way is to change the memory of the map in some way, if you remove part of the map it won't be the same map anymore.
 
If you want to find out more and need help changing something in your life, such as quitting smoking, or tackling a fear or phobia, then please contact me at sarah@strandhypnotherapy.co.uk or call me on 07769 111711 today.
 
I work from a central London therapy room conveniently located at 218 Strand London WC2R 1AT.

Are you right hemisphere or left hemisphere?

Are you left brain or right brain?

I am sure you have heard about the subconscious mind, sometimes called the subconscious mind.  London hypnotherapists will help you with the right part of your brain, the creative part of your mind where your emotions are stored. You can make positive change by giving your powerful suggestions to override a social phobia, fear of flying, help you stop smoking, nail biting or any other number of issues.
Some hypnotherapists will use neuro linguistic programming to help you overcome your problems and get the solution you are looking for.

We all have preferences and tendencies and patterns in our life and therefore we have patterns in our neurology!

Quite often we get into a tendency of using one side of the brain but more than the other we become more left brain, analytical, or more right brain, creative. Your wonderful brain is a learning machine and is capable of learning new ways to create positive change for your life.
 

Here are some right brain questions

  • If you were weather what type of weather would you be?
  • If you were an animal what animal would you be?
  • If you were a body of water what type of water would you be?

Hypnotherapists in London can help you with tapping into that right brain to create positive change. 

Instead of rationalising and struggling you need to access the power of the right side of your brain! 

In life we make meanings about things. It is the meanings that we make that can help us or disempower us.

I wonder are the meanings you made on the metaphor above positive or not?

If you made any negative meaning you can change it!

Instead ask yourself what is the positive meaning for your life from doing this simple exercise?

Sometimes it is the questions that help you move forward and not the focusing on the  problem.

If you’re curious about whether you are right brain or left brain dominant?

Click the link below I always knew that I was more right brain orientated but now with practice I am using the other side of my mind too.

Remember you can achieve anything when you open up the power of your subconcious.

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London Hypnotherapy and Stopping Smoking

Quitting smoking using hypnosis has been proven to be the most successful way in quitting smoking. This statement is taken from the New Scientist and the biggest ever survey done in helping people quit smoking.  Over 72,000 people took part in the survey and the findings were that if you want to quit smoking, hypnosis is the best way.  As a practising hypnotherapist, I would agree that if a person is ready to quit smoking,  then they need to see a competent and qualified hypnotherapist. Someone who can help them program their entire mind to think and feel like a non smoker. There are many hypnotherapists in London, so make sure that you feel comfortable with them before you start. Rapport is vital to the process of getting success. If they cant build rapport with you then find someone else.

There have been occasions that I have turned down the revenue of someone who wanted to see me to quit smoking because they were in my opinion not really ready to quit smoking.So here is the problem, if they are addicted to the memory that it helps them in some way, and they don't really want to quit, they could continue for years.

The trouble with quitting smoking and remaining free is understanding it. If you think you like it or if you think it has any benefits you could feel like you are fighting with a part of your self. If you want to quit the easy way you need to know that it gives you nothing and have no need or desire to smoke. You also need to know that you are so much more than a smoker.

If you know 100% you want to be a non smoker and have you already have no need or desire to smoke, if you want to quit pick up the phone and call a local hypnotherapist  and be free of that weed now.

 

Anxiety for Hypnosis

Anxiety

 Most of us have experienced a moment when we have heard footsteps behind us and you have a thought those dashes in your mind. “Maybe I am about to be mugged”

As you hear the steps getting closer your heart starts to race, you perhaps feel dizzy and feel like you could faint where you stand. At this point you turn around and see a woman turn and walk up her drive towards her house and you suddenly realise there was no threat at all.

 Anxiety does not come from dangerous or painful situations it actually comes from your perception of the situation and your thoughts and the bad feelings you have are not your fault they are programs that can be changed!

 It is the thought of potential danger not the danger that produces the symptoms of anxiety.  Even if you know that you shouldn’t be feeling anxiety you are not broken and the symptoms can be safely removed.

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Below is an exercise that a NLP coach could use to help with anxiety

Timeline and Anxiety exercise

10 minutes per person

Anxiety is about attempting to address a future concern. It’s warning from our unconscious mind to focus on what we want in the future as you cannot feel anxious about a past event!

Anxiety is arguably a bad habit, it’s often a habitual or a learned response (which has its place but not that often) and it can be changed.Have client identify an event in the future which they are feeling anxious about.Float above the timeline and out into the future to 15 minutes after the successful completion of the event about which you thought you were anxious. Tell me when you’re there.”Wait for response<!–[if !supportLists]–><!–[endif]–>“Good. Turn and look toward now, along the timeline”“Now where is the anxiety.Wait for response

What learning’s have you made from here? What steps did you take?”Wait for responseSend learning’s /steps back to the you back there in the present

<!–[if !supportLists]–><!–[endif]–>Come back to now and take in the learning’s.

<!–[if !supportLists]–><!–[endif]–>Future pace

<!–[if !supportLists]–><!–[endif]–>Swap roles

 

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 Social anxiety is a common psychological problem this anxiety affects 15 million Americans in any given year.It isn’t just about getting self esteem hypnosis-It is about being free isn’t it? You really can  get control over your body again and you can do it with a good hypnotherapist and your commitment to success.

Unlike some other psychological problems, social anxiety is not well understood by the general public or by medical and mental health care professionals, such as doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, social workers, and counselors.

The trouble with social anxiety is that  many are misdiagnosed almost 90% of the time.

People with social phobia feel outcast change their jobs or hobbies to escape they are  labeled as “schizophrenic”, “manic-depressive”, “clinically depressed”, “panic disordered”, and “personality disordered”, among other damaging misdiagnoses, you are not broken you can break free!

You can can get your personal transformation and sky rocket your happiness and remove your social phobia with hypnotherapy.

Why the stigma and why people ask what’s wrong with me?

Because few socially-anxious people have heard of their own problem, and have never seen it discussed on any media, such as the television talk shows, they think they are the only ones in the whole world who have these terrible symptoms.

Fear of flying hypnosis is often talked about but social phobias are not therefore, some people think they must keep quiet about them.

Many people feel nervous, scared have symptoms such as increased heart rate etc. Hypnotherapy panic attack, and social phobias can be removed with a top therapist and the power of hypnosis.Also it is advisable to work with a therapist who has additional skills and is flexible someone who is an NLP coach

 

 

 

 

Hypnotherapists in London

 

Top 5 tips to finding hypnotherapy in London – A good hypnotist

1          Ask you friends if they know of a hypnotherapist who has helped them succeed?

If you can it is far better to work with a therapist who has already proved that he can help someone. Even better still  if they have helped your friend or colleague achieve their goals on the same issue that you want to get success with.

 2         Trust your gut - a good hypnotist in London should create rapport with you!

When you are in good rapport with a person the process is like a dance. One dancer leads and one dancer follows, the role of the leader and follower are switched many times rhythmically during dancing, sometime neither dancer leads at other times neither dancer follows. While talking you should feel at ease about the therapist.

3          Call up the London hypnotherapist

The female hypnotherapist or male hypnotherapist should be able to create rapport with you and make you feel better over brief telephone consultation they should be able to help you achieve your goals, they should also hep you understand how they can help you succeed.

Once they are creating constant rapport, they should have a foundation for influencing. They should lead you to a better state and you should feel better having spoken to them even if is a 15 minute consultation. The ultimate test for whether they have achieved rapport and help you move forward is … whether or not they have helped you to a more resourceful state.

 4          Get a qualified and insured therapist

Ask them which professional body there are a member of and who they are insured with.  If they have taken appropriate courses they will have these details and will be happy to explain them to you.

5          Make sure they are experienced and preferably a NLP Master Practitioner

Ask them how long they have been practicing, what courses they have been on, who else have they helped and if they have any success stories, ask them if you can speak to someone they have helped.

Also I would recommend that they are a Master Practitioner of hypnotherapy and NLP someone who could easily explain to you what rapport is how NLP can help you whilst keeping rapport. Ask them how hypnosis works and how they use it to help you. Ask them to explain 5 different ways they could help you with the techniques they have.

If they are a master of NLP and a leading hypnotherapist in London they will have no problem speaking freely about any question you ask or being flexible therapist. A top therapist will be have many ways to help. They may not answer it but even if they don't they should be able to maintain rapport with you make you feel better about where you are at and install a belief in you that they can help you. If you doubt this I would suggest calling another therapist. All therapists are not the same some can help you in minutes and some could keep you coming for a long time so ask them  how long you think it would take to achieve success and remember to trust your gut.

 

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Unconscious and Conscious Coaching by Hypnotherapists

The Conscious and Unconscious mind

 "All change takes place first at the unconscious level. Then we become aware of it.”

Your conscious mind is but a part of your total psyche. Trying to make changes by using the conscious mind alone is not usually sufficient. If consciously trying were enough, you could make the changes you want just by thinking about them consciously. Your own experience demonstrates that this is often not enough.

Your other-than-conscious mind is a much greater portion of your psyche that operates usually out of your awareness, It is referred to in various ways: as the “sub-conscious”, “the unconscious”, or the “other-than-conscious.” It is highly responsive to metaphoric communication. If the conscious mind employs “will”, then the “other-than-conscious” mind employs “imagination.”

In NLP the conscious refers to everything that is in present moment awareness. The other-than-conscious refers to everything that is not conscious.

 Our conscious mind is the container for:

  • sequential, logical, linear thinking, deliberation, 7 ± 2
  • cognitive learning, language, solutions
  • outcome orientated, aware of now, tries to understand the problem

 Our other-than-conscious mind is the container for:

  •  thoughts, intuition, simultaneous processing
  • feelings, emotions, resources, memories,
  • possibilities, solutions, generative behaviour
  • non verbal, experiential learning, communicates through sensation,
  • altered states, sleeping, dreaming
  • involuntary movements, runs the physical body (e.g. heart beat, digestion)
  • your whole experience, everything that you are not paying attention to.

The other-than-conscious is not a ‘thing’ but a process. It deals with all the deep life sustaining functions and all the thought processes that break through into the conscious mind like bubbles bursting on the surface of a pool. The conscious mind is what we are aware of, but, like the sea, it has hidden depths that support it.

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A hypnotist in London will help you create positive change by allowing the conscious mind to rest while the subconscious mind is given life coaching powerful suggestions. An empowering shift in consciousness is always possible when you open up to the power of cognitive hypnotherapy with a qualified leading hypnotherapist in London or a NLP Coach. If you are looking for life coaching to change your life then make sure they are a master of NLP and have experience as a hypnotherapist.

Hypnotherapy in London. Common Questions

 How Hypnosis Can Help You

Common QuestionsQue 

You can use hypnosis to help you relax, you can use it to let go of stress, but other than that what can you gain from it?

Hypnosis can be used to help the way you feel both mentally and physically. If you have any worries or concerns about what it can do to you,  let me assure you hypnosis is not in any way harmful. It is completely understandable for anyone to have reservations about things that they have not experienced.

If you are worried about hypnosis, put those thoughts aside, hypnosis is relaxing, hypnosis is healing and hypnosis can really help you program your brain to help you get what you want in life.  Here is a list of questions that is commonly thought or asked before sessions.

When I am in a trance can you make me dance around like a chicken? Bark like a dog? Do anything? Control me?

These questions are obviously are looking to answer, the questions can you be made to do anything

Embarrassing, shocking, or irreversible?  The answer is simple NO.

You will not be made to do anything that you do not think is acceptable. In other words you can not be made to violate your own values, morals or do anything that is against your ethics.

Remember that hypnosis is a trance state and can be terminated by you.  Just as if you were watching a film in the cinema.  You could although in a trance state staring at the screen if at any point you decided you wanted to terminate the trance (leave the cinema) you could if you wished leave.

Just as you enter the cinema you can leave is you wish. It is the same with a trance if you do not like he journey you could terminate it at anytime.

  What would happen if the therapist just left or fainted?

  If you were left in a trance state by your hypnotherapist or by a hypnotic CD or download you would either return to full alertness immediately or enter a natural sleep and awaken after a pleasant nap. No-one has disappeared for long.

The most important meaning to remember is that trance (hypnosis) is a blissful state it is a comfortable state that enables positive suggestions to be given to the subject.  Hypnosis is safe territory and it is an extremely powerful tool to help you let go of problems and get positive suggestions into your subconscious.

There are many applications to use hypnosis and every client has specific needs to help them get what they want.  If you work with an expert therapist you can use the healing tool of hypnosis to help you get what you really want in life quicker than you think!

 

Communication London Hypnotherapist

The first thing your London hypnotherapist should do is understand exactly what you want to create.

Many times a person comes to see a local hypnotherapist because they have a problem in their life that they want to remove so they can get on with their life.

However quite often they do not have a problem it is just that they want to create more of something, or be better at something. The power of hypnotic suggestion is a wonderful tool to help people get the change that they want.

A top London hypnotherapist if highly skilled and competent will most of the time insist on a consultation to discover exactly what the client wants to achieve. Even now if I said to you the sat cat on the mat and you were to ask 5 people the same question, everyone would come up with a different type of cat and a different mat. Some people would ignore the suggestion of the mat altogether and do something entirely different with the suggestion. The point that I am making here is that for every single word we have learnt we have specific meanings for what it pertains to us.

In order to ensure that the suggestions that you are given are exactly what you want a detailed consultation should take place. This increases the effectiveness of the communication. One of the models which could be used to gather this information is the Meta Model the first Model built from NLP. The hypnotherapist should if a trained coach should have a huge number of empowering questions to help to start to find out exactly what the problem is, and what the subject wants instead. Not only that the therapist /coach should be able to ask questions that suddenly start to move the focus of the problem towards the solution. When this is done the problem can start to shift instantaneously before the hypnotherapy even starts!

I thought I would share some of the questions I may ask here.

Additional FABULOUS Questions to get inside someone’s world

How do you manage to [problem or challenge]?

How would you know if that wasn’t true?

If you did know, what would the answer be?

 

How do you manage to [problem or challenge]?

 

This question presupposes that an issue or problem is actually a skill that they've acquired. How do you manage to get frightened of public speaking? How do you manage to stay in debt? If they accept that it's a skill, then it's possible for them to learn a different skill – one that contains the solution.

 

When you ask the question, watch and listen. The person will give you clues to how they are creating their internal representation of the challenge. Their eyes will move, they’ll gesture etc. Chances are, they’ve never thought of their ‘problem’ as a skill before. Just this change of perspective can give them more power in the situation. By the way, rapport counts when you’re asking these questions!

How would you know if that wasn’t true?

Beliefs have a structure, and when people have a limiting belief, it is almost as though their awareness is constrained by what they don’t want – they have been focusing on the limiting belief.

 When you ask someone “How would you know if that wasn’t true?” a funny thing often happens. They go into a slightly confused state, and then imagine the mental conditions necessary for a new empowering belief. Sometimes, there is a sudden shift, and the limiting belief disappears in a puff of smoke. More often (in my experience), the new belief is like a newly planted tree – it takes a bit of time and nurture to grow and become strong. You can help the process by affirming the new belief, and by sorting for evidence to prove that it’s true.

 

If you did know, what would the answer be?

 

Don’t that if someone says they didn’t know that they’re telling the truth! It turns out that often people just think they don’t know. When you ask the question in this way, they often discover that they do!

 

When someone says “I don’t know” in response to a question, they are claiming knowledge of their own internal state (“I am 100% sure that I do not have the answer to that question.”) If the question is about brain surgery or rocket science they may in fact be right! But in the case of questions about themselves, their dreams and aspirations, we can assume that this is just a limiting belief.

 I hope this was of interest to you if you have any questions about hypnotherapy in London , NLP coaching or just have a question you want answering please do not hesitate to contact me. Nothing gives me more pleasure than sharing the knowledge I have to help people make a breakthrough in their life.

  

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Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy. Are they safe?

Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are both techniques that are used in Cognitive Hypnotherapy, and there is a huge difference between stage hypnotism or stage hypnosis, and hypnosis for positive change.

Although watching stage hypnosis shows it can seem like people are being controlled, this is simply not the case.

Your subconscious will always protect you, so in hypnosis you will never do anything that you is against your morals or ethics!  It a nutshell you will always be protected and will not do anything that you don't want to do.

If anything was said to you as a suggestion that went against your ethics, or you were not happy about, you would wake up or simply ignore that suggestion.

Whilst working with a client when there was a fire alarm. Even though I had given the suggestion to relax deeply, when the fire alarm went off the client opened here eyes and said " Do we need to get out?"

This was a perfect example and proof of that very statement to me why?

Your primary function of your unconscious is protection.

As Richard Bandler who is one of the most renown hypnotists in the world. "

When a fly goes in your eye it is the subconscious that would naturally blink and protect you. It is the unconscious that protects, it  doesn't make you do silly things.  The conscious mind is the part that is looking at the fly."

In many respects the conscious mind is the part of you that does silly things.

Or if you were to go on a roller coaster it is the subconscious that speeds your heart  rate up and tells you there is a threat, yet your conscious mind says yippee let's do it anyway.

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Anxiety Panic Attacks 4 Reasons Why

The 4 reasons why you could have anxiety

1    If you talk to yourself constantly by making unrealistic self-statements that keep you in alarm you body tenses up then you will go into the fight or flight response. Your heart beats faster; you feel short of breath you could have butterflies in your stomach and so on.  Anyone who has experienced these symptoms knows they are certainly not pleasant.  You become so aware that you become sensitised to any hind of possible danger.  Sensitisation occurs to the degree where you’re a bag of nerves and are ready to respond. A tiny stimuli, surprise or minor conflict can result in a stage of panic.

2    The onset of stage 1 could lead to stage 2.  You begin to fear it.  As your body mind becomes too aware, you could begin to possibly anticipate panic.  You try to avoid them at all costs.  This is the onset of the 2nd stage and you could begin to fear itself.  This new fear can be debilitating your not only fearing the trigger to the anxiety but fearing the fear itself.  You could also find that you’re scared of the fear that you could experience. You now have 2 problems.

3    The third stage many people experience is self rejection hating you own body because of the fear of the fear.   Many people experience pounding heart, dizziness, shortness of breath, trembling legs, shaky hands, and lump in your throat, or dry throat, hot or cold palpitations.  You become so attuned that your hyper sensitive to sensations in your body. Anything unusual could lead to panic. You start to fear any unusual feelings and you try to resist them.  Also you become hyper vigilant for any symptom that could lead to panic. You become hyper aware and fear the triggers to the symptoms as well as the symptoms.  The positive feelings of excitement can also be perceived as a negative trigger thinking that they could lead to panic.

4    Ultimately stage four is the most debilitating.  You look to avoid, ultimately any situation, thing or environment that evokes any triggers or symptoms to anxiety.
 

What started out as uneasiness of the original situation of discomfort become avoidance strategies of going to those places or contexts?  Shyness at events becomes not attending any event where they could be social contact.

If you experience any of these symptoms and would like to get help? NLP coaching and hypnotherapy in London and hypnotherapy in your local area can help you to relax and reprogram these responses so that you can replace symptoms of panic or irrational beliefs with new responses.  Stop anxious feelings completely instead of the negative impacts of intensifying them.

Go back to the home page and find a recommended therapist if you are in London or if not based in London find a sponsored link.

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Sometimes called a social phobia, this label is certainly not going to help.  The phobic panic attack needs to be removed, the palpitations of the panic attacks need to be removed, the physical symptoms of the panic attack need to be removed. This can all be done with NLP coaching, and the phobia cure technique to remove the phobic response.

Then using cognitive hypnotherapy in London or your local area the hypnotherapist, can replace the symptoms with feelings of well being.  Hypnosis is definitely the recommended tool to remove panic attacks

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Values Discovered

Values

 "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It's to be useful, honorable, compassionate and to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Values are concepts for which people will make extraordinary efforts and provide the motive for behaviour. Deeply held values are often held unconsciously by people. Values include deeply held beliefs about what is right and wrong, good and bad, acceptable or unacceptable conduct, and about what is worth wanting, working for and making an effort to keep in life. They can be described as matters of conscience.

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Values exist in hierarchies of importance to their holders, and are represented in visual, auditory and kinaesthetic modalities like other thought forms. A hierarchy of values can be elicited and rearranged if the holder so wishes. Values can also be taken right out, and replaced with other values more in keeping with the holder's current identity. They are acquired through life exposure to experience, other people's models of the world (parents, peers, faith etc.) and sometimes reading.

The modal operators 'should' and 'ought', for example, indicate that the client is carrying a value they do not share. The modal operator implies that they would rather do something else, but someone else will be displeased if they do. Until this is drawn to their attention, they are liable to conform to the old value, incongruently, or do their own thing, incongruently, neither of which works.

When someone ignores or violates a value, they may feel sensations they could describe as either guilt or shame. Guilt is a response to violating someone else's value, and shame is a response to violating one's own. When someone discovers which value they have violated, they can find the value they hold which was important enough to outrank the violation. This discovery is often enough to neutralise shame or guilt; otherwise they can be useful pointers to further change.

To elicit values from someone, ask what is important to them about that situation or activity. To discover their complex equivalent for non-sensory based descriptions, ask them what their description means / represents to them. Then ask them to describe that in sensory based terms.

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London Hypnotherapy Can it Help Me?

 Is there a Hypnotherapist In London near me? 

There are many things hypnotherapy can help you with a social phobia, fear of flying, stop smoking, nail biting, weight loss etc.  Dr Milton Erickson explained problems as when you have fallen out of rapport with you subconscious mind. If you feel trapped? Or have a habit or behaviour that you can’t seem to break you can tap into the power of your subconscious and get empowered again.

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 Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. Mark Epstein

Everyone lives in their own unique model of the world. Our experiences over our lifetime have created things like our beliefs and values etc. We all live in a world we have created in our heads, this world is not real but we act as if it were. We directly experience a filtered reality. This is the now, this moment, now that moment has gone. What we remember inside our heads and bodies is the world we create in our heads. If I ask you to think of a wheelbarrow you all comprehend what I say you have some re-presentation of a wheelbarrow in your heads but there really isn't one there – I hope.

Think of a time when you we out with friends or colleagues. If questioned about the social events of the day no one person's recollection will be exactly the same, the various interpretations of the day's events will be even more different.

Our map of the world has created filters or perhaps our filters have created our map, either way, we filter in the things that fit our map and exclude those things that don't. We will filter for things like good and bad, possible or impossible, self or other. We also filter based on our values and beliefs. By tentatively exploring your own filters, your beliefs and values you gain more information about yourself and by exploration you alter and extend your own map of the world. This process is generative.

When people argue or disagree, when they don't share the same view, when they don't feel the same way; it is most likely because their maps of the world are different. In order to bridge the gap between respective maps we use the process of rapport. Imagine the differences in people's maps of the world and then think how different cultural maps of the world are.

"I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself "

Narrator from Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"

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Hypnotherapy London

Cognitive hypnotherapy can help you move forward in life!

If you are looking for fast results and a personal transformation hypnotherapy in London is one of the ways you can get success.

Cognitive hypnotherapy is highly specialised and involves the very latest techniques based on medical research. 

Cognitive hypnotherapy can help you wipe away the problems from your subconscious mind.

Self hypnosis is another way of opening the door to empowering change.

Hypnotherapy weight loss – Hypnotherapy for weight loss.

Hypnotherapy depression London- your beliefs can be changed so you can move forward once again.

Stop smoking hypnotherapy – Stop Smoking hypnosis- is the most effective way to quit smoking… fact!

Social anxiety London – This is common and cognitive hypnosis can help you remove the problem.

There is a huge number of issues, in fact there is an a to z list of what hypnotherapy can help with.

Harley street in London is a famous address in London but it is more important that you feel at ease with the therapist, rather than the road or street in London. 

Many people get so inspired they look for hypnotherapy training in London after making a breakthrough in their life.

Local Hypnotherapy Can Help You Change

 

Local Hypnotherapy Can Help You…

Are you looking to create change in your life. A local hypnotherapist can help you. Make sure they are a NLP practitioner too.

Just like any foot print in the sand you can alter it, you can allow the sea to wash it away. In fact you can, with a local hypnotherapist change your life for the better and change any imprint in your life. There are hypnotic scripts and powerful suggestions to help you create the life you want.

There are also NLP techniques which require more skills and flexibility.

One of the more complicated techniques a highly skilled NLP coach and your local hypnotherapist may use is called.

Reimprinting

 Being a victim isn't your fault. Staying one is!

Roseanne Barr

Imprints are learnings during childhood that act as a template for various situations which (despite the many ways we could respond) somehow prime us with a particular kind of response. An imprint is a significant experience (or period of life) from the past in which we formed a belief or cluster of beliefs, often in relationship to our identity. It often involves the unconscious role-modelling of significant others

Whatever imprints you have made, you can use hypnosis to change them, so that you can make new imprints that work for you.

The purpose of reimprinting is to find the resources needed to change the beliefs and update the role-models that were formed (not simply to resolve the emotional issues associated with the event, as in the NLP "Change Personal History" technique).

Imprints are apparently difficult to unlearn (maybe we simply find learning something contrary to our limiting beliefs hard?). Reimprinting is powerful and can neutralise most of the bad feelings we habitually feel (i.e. make your life 10 times better after an hour's work). That said; it has some shortcomings:

Reimprinting takes a long time relative to other techniques.

Reimprinting is a remedial process, not generative. For example, if you want to be a better lover, you have to look for reasons in the past which have stopped you from being one or use a different technique.

Reimprinting works very well: most of the time. Changing the way someone feels about something can have far-reaching consequences. People usually have barriers to protect themselves from repercussions as well as various limitations they've learnt throughout their life. Such barriers can form a psychological maze that prevents them from getting better.

Reimprinting allows the client to reinterpret their experience of an event. The client often realises things that they learnt at that time which they still act upon (to their detriment) in the now. These realisations often provide a way out of their problem. It also allows any ongoing anchors that were learnt at that time to be re-anchored for more appropriate responses – including the response to the memory itself. Some of those anchors trigger the problem state itself.

The last feature of reimprinting that makes a difference is its plausibility. Ever since Freud, psychology has said that people have to go back into the past to resolve their limitations.

This is just a belief and may or may not be true, you can resolve any issue in the now when you get the positive and empowering meaning for your future.

There are hundreds of powerful techniques a NLP coach and your local hypnotherapist should know to help you, ask them if they know about reinprinting?  While they may not choose to do this technique they should be able to explain it to you:)

Make sure your local hypnotherapist is good at helping you that is the key to flexibility.

The more flexible they are and the more skillful your local hypnotherapy clinic, or local hypnotherapist is, the better and easier you will get success.

Hypnotherapy in Central London & Values

Looking for a hypnotherapist in central London?

Are you looking for the best hypnotherapist in London?

Perhaps you want to make a change in you life?

You could well be pruning a program or a pattern in your life that isn't working for you, am I right?

Want cognitive hypnosis make sure they are an expert too In NLP

Values determine where you programs are focused!

It is and where you spend your time doing things, or not doing things! You will consequently get results or not get results based on the values you have and their conflicts.

If you want something and cant seem to make it happen it may be a values issue.

Find a hypnotherapist in London that can help you with your values too!

There are only a few hypnotherapists that work with cognitive hypnotherapy and work with hypnosis scripts to help you create change.
The key to getting a massive positive shift in your life is often to do with values and not just hypnotic patterns.
Hypnosis is a very powerful technique but it is one that should be along side others such as NLP.

Values can help you get to the root of your stuff and help you propel forward to success.

It is the origin of the issue, and not the symptom. You can get hypnotherapy in central London, I would invite you to check that they are also an NLP practitioner, so that they could also help you with values, if this is where the problem or issue, or challenge is?

I would suggest that the best hypnotherapist in London, and every hypnotherapist in London should be not only be an expert in cognitive hypnosis.but understand values too.

Here is a sneak preview from Stephen Lambes and Lee Bannister NLP practitioner Manual. I hope that this article has helped you if your looking to find hypnotherapy in central London, realise that your values are also the key to your success too.

Values and ranking values
If you have ever worked in selling you will likely know about hot buttons. They are the values or emotions which drive our behaviours. Although some people like to think of themselves as rational human beings the reality is that all of us are emotionally driven – by our values. Knowing your values, and their relative importance, is a key to a happy and a healthy life.
 

What is a 'value'?
A value is a 'hot button' that drives a behaviour. Whatever you do is done in order to fulfill a value – even though you are unlikely to be consciously aware of that value.

  1. You swim to fulfill the value of improving your health, benefiting from the relaxed state it later produces, enjoying the warmth of the sun and the sea, etc.
  2. You drink alcohol to fulfill the value of feeling less inhibited, to enjoy the social scene involved, to enjoy the taste of the drink, etc.
  3. You buy fashionable new clothes to fulfill the value of looking good, looking right for work, or not looking dowdy, etc.

Pleasure and pain
Everything you do is a means to an end and this end is the fulfillment of a value. You do what you do to either move towards pleasurable feelings or values. Or to move away from or avoid painful values or feelings. (In NLP the pain values are called away from values and the pleasure values are called towards values).
Values are not neatly either towards or away from – there is a little of each behind everything we do.
Everything you do will move you a little towards fulfilling a pleasurable value and a little away from feeling a painful one. For example: you wash your face in the morning because you want it to feel and look clean and / or because you don't want other people to think badly of you for not looking clean.
We feel good when we are successfully fulfilling our towards and avoiding our away from values – and may describe this as 'happiness'. Unhappiness is when we are doing the opposite.
The challenge with values…

  1. Challenge No. 1 Few people are aware of their values. They are on auto-pilot. Driven by values that they do not know exist. We do things because we 'want to' but we rarely know 'why' we want to. We usually do things because they felt successful in the past or because others have told us they are appropriate.
  2. Challenge No. 2 Most of our values were established many years ago.
  3. Challenge No. 3… More to come on other posts…

Find a Hypnotherapist Top Tips

Looking for a Hypnotherapist?

Cognitive Hypnotherapist? Hypno? NLP? Hypnotherapy Centres?

Want to feel different, think differently, remove guilt, anger or change something? 

Fear of open spaces, fear of water. How to lose weight or how to beat stress or confidence building, boost your self esteem hypnosis? in fact anything that is causing you to feel inadequate in your personal and business life?

Hypnosis can help you and NLP coaches can help you succeed

Do you want to create a better life and future for you and yours, be a happier you? Great want to move on then this is how…

Whatever the problem, be it insomnia, improving memory, be better at public speaking, skills to relax or manage migraines check out registers  of professional bodies, that have a code of practice and have hypnothearpists that can help you.

10 Top tips in finding the right therapist for you

1 Go online and read about therapists that you are prepared to go and see, that are in a Central London location or a hypnotherapist in your local area.

2 Ask your friends and colleagues to recommend a reputable cognitive hypnotherapist. Before you choose one remember to read any testimonials an important action is to decide the right therapist  for you.

3 Make sure that the hypnotist is also a master practitioner of NLP and has been helping people successfully and is registered and insured by professional bodies.

4 Speak to the hypnotherapist first and only commit if you feel the trust is there.

5 Ask if your therapist has helped a particular problem before ask questions such as  how has the hypnotherapist helped before? Why does it work? How fast to get success? What is hypnosis? What is NLP? How can it help me? Ask lots of questions it is up to the cognitive hypnotherapist, life coach, NLP practitioner whatever the label they call themselves  to make you feel at ease.

6 Use the web by refining your understanding and when it feels right take action.  Don’t be put off by people who rubbish it people will always rubbish stuff they dont understand, its human nature.

7 Talk to those whom it has helped, ask your hypnotist if you can speaks to someone they have helped. This shouldnt  be a problem to somone who  is good at helping people.

8 A reputable personal hypnotherapist can and will help you move on to a happier place quickly if you feel no different after 3 sessions tell them your not happy. Get some sessions for free if they are good they will want your success and not just money. If there is no luck there change the therapist. The tools of hypnosis work. Sometimes it is the person who is using them is not good enough at what they do. We can all put a hammer on a nail, a skilled craftsman would get success easier and faster.  Only a bad worksman blames his tools. The tools work the therapist might not.

9 Commit to your success

10 Visit the location or have a friend with you if in any doubt for you first hypnothrapy session.

Find a hypnotherapist now. I hope these points help you make one decsion take action and find the right coach to help you change your life. Whether it is at a hypnotherapy centre, a top hypnotist, nlp guru, use the ten top tips to get success.

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The main purpose of london Hypnotherapy is to offer you a wide choice of skilled professionals who are experts in NLP and hypnosis and can help you change your life for the better. 

Hypnotherapist in London

Are you looking for a Cognitive Hypnotherapist on London Strand?

There are many areas in london so finding a local hypnotherapist is possible.  We recomend that you find a top hypnotherapist who you feel comfortable with. Someone who has a leading reputation for helping people with hypnotherapy.

Make sure that you feel comfortable and have found the right hypnotherapist for you.

Here are some areas hypnotists and clinical hypnotherapist create change in our recomended links are near by these areas.

Hypnotist Central London? You are in the right place!

Hypnotherapy in london and NLP is near these areas.

Sarah Jons has a therapy room in Central London which is conveniently located for the following Central London postcodes
 
EC1 EC2 EC3 EC4 WC1 WC2 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 E10 E11 E12 E13 E14 E15 E16 NW1 NW2 NW3 NW4 NW5 NW6 NW8NW9 NW10 NW11 N1 N2 N3 N4 N5 N6 N7 N8 N9 N10 N11 N12 N13 N14 N15 N16 N17 N18 N19 N20 N21 N22 SE1 SE2 SE3 SE4 SE5 SE6 SE7 SE8 SE9 SE10 SE11 SE12 SE13 SE14 SE15 SE16 SE17 SE18 SE19 SE20 SE21 SE22 SE23 SE24 SE25 SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW5 SW6 SW7 SW8 SW9 SW10 SW11 SW12 SW13 SW14 SW15SW16 SW17 SW18 SW19 SW20 W1 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 W7 W8W9 W10 W11 W12 W13 W14
 
Bayswater Belgravia Belsize Park Bloomsbury Brompton Brondesbury Camden Town Chelsea Chiswick Clerkenwell Covent Garden Crouch End Ealing East Finchley Earl’s Court Finchley Fulham Golders Green Gospel Oak Hammersmith Hampstead Highgate Holborn Holland Park Islington Kentish Town Kilburn Kensington Ladbroke Grove Maida Vale Marble Arch Mayfair Marylebone Mill Hill Muswell Hill North Kensington
Notting Hill Paddington Parson’s Green Pimlico Primrose Hill Queens Park Shepherd’s Bush Soho St Johns Wood South Kensington Swiss Cottage Temple The City Tuffnel Park Warwick Avenue West Brompton West Ealing West Hampstead West Kensington
Central London East End North London North West London West End West London Westminster

Hypnotherapy can be found in all of these areas, although Cognitive Hypnotherapy is a bit more unusual but can be found here >>>>>> Cognitive Hypnotherapy

Many top hypnotherapists are often based near central London.  Remember it is how you feel that is important, rather than the address of Harley Street for example.

Hypnotherapists london there are many choose!  Find one that feels right!

Rapport is the key to your success and your must have rapport with you coach or they must be able to elict the right state in you to get the change that you want.

Sarah Jons

Cognitive Hypnotherapist

NLP Master Practitioner

M.N.C.H (Lic)

Dip CHyp HPD PNLP PGDIP

 

 

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