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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.

 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!

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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Negative self talk is very harmful to our self esteem. Especially if it's not conscious, then it can be considered as a strong self hypnosis – unfortunately as a negative one.

Internal dialogue, is the NLP term for the voice(s) people speak to themselves with. It is often out of consciousness, but as you start to become aware of it, it becomes easier to hear it consciously. In some eastern traditions, internal dialogue is referred to as ‘the chattering monkey', and years of practice are spent in meditation with the aim of getting the monkey to stop chattering. They believe that internal dialogue is a barrier to clear perception and enlightenment. In NLP, internal dialogue is often the channel people use to ‘beat themselves up', reinforce limiting beliefs and generally stop themselves having more fun in their life.

Here are a few techniques to switch off internal dialogue.

1)     I learned this from Eric Robbe and still use it consistently. Stick out your tongue and grasp it gently but firmly between your thumb / forefinger. Wait a few moments as you continue to breathe. You may well become quiet inside.

This works on the basis that mind and body are one system. Internal dialogue is accompanied by tiny micro-muscle movements of the tongue and larynx. When these movements are restricted by your thumb and forefinger, the internal voice stops. As it's not very practical to go around with your tongue clasped between your fingers, so part two is as follows:

2)     Gently place the tip of your tongue against the roof of your mouth just behind your front teeth (continue to breathe easily) .You will stay quiet.

I use this approach when I'm doing one to one work with people. It allows me to quieten down on the inside, so that I can put all my attention on them and what they're saying and doing. It allows me to really watch and listen, because I'm not inside my head having conversations with myself about what I think is going on. When I catch myself talking to myself when I should be in ‘watch and listen' mode, I merely do the following:

3)     With a soft, gentle and patient tone, go inside and say to yourself "Shhhhhh, shhhhhh", like you would if you were soothing a baby. Allow yourself to smile on the inside and feel a sense of patience with the monkey. It may take up to a minute before you go quiet inside.

4)     Go inside your mind and find the volume control for internal dialogue. If you can't find one, just imagine one – it works just as well. Turn the volume control up and hear the dialogue get louder. Turn it down and hear it get quieter. Then turn it all the way off. Quiet.

5)     In a firm but loving tone of voice, say "Shut the *!&% up!" inside your head. Repeat as necessary. I learned this one from Richard Bandler and only tend to use it when I'm trying to pay attention on the outside but some nagging thought keeps drawing my attention inside.

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>>>Hypnotherapy in London

No one approach works for everybody, but each of these approaches will work for some people. Practice when you are relatively relaxed and have some time, and you will find the ones that work best for you. As you begin to get into the habit of using them systematically and consistently, you will really start to reap the benefits.

As an NLP practitioner, one of the core skills is your ability to detect patterns in people's language and behaviour. I've found that being able to switch off internal dialogue has massively increased my pattern recognition abilities. Go into peripheral vision, go quiet on the inside, and allow your sense to be flooded with information from the other person. This is a way you can give your unconscious permission to start detecting patterns which you may not have noticed in the past.

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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.

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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…

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!

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 NLP Coach 

If your looking for a coach to help you move forward in your life, it's a great idea if they are also an expert in hypnotherapy.

Have you ever felt a part of you wants x but another part doesn't?

For example I want to lose weight but I want to eat the cake.

I want to end the relationship but a part wants to stay.

The conflict could possibly be helped by this powerful intervention.

If your looking for  top NLP coach  in London they should be very familiar with this technique.

Parts integration

Internal conflicts occur when two or more "parts" of a person lead to behaviours which are contradictory. The most problematic conflicts occur when the opposing parts have negative judgments about each other.

The parts integration technique comes from the modelling of Fritz Perls – Gestalt therapy and Virginia Satir – Family therapy.

The following is a general overview of the basic NLP technique for integrating conflicting 'parts'.

1. Identify the conflict and identify the 'parts' in conflict.
Ask the subject to discuss the conflict as they see it, look and listen for the different parts in the conflict. It helps to see these as distinct arguments, e.g. a part which wants to express itself, versus a part which wants to control this.
 

2. Find the purpose and positive intent of each part.
Can I talk to the part of (person's name), who wants to e.g. express itself ?
What do you do for (person's name)? Acknowledge the positive intention, e.g. that it's a good thing to want for (person's name).
What would you like to be called? – e.g. expression – ensure it is stated in the positive, if not work to enable the part to state in the positive.
 

3. Talk to each part to express its perceptions of the other
What do you think of the part of (person's name) which wants to e.g. control? Understand the issues the part has. Work to help the part get the issues out so that they can be dealt with.
 

Carry out steps 2 and 3 for each part.

4. Make sure that each part recognises and accepts the positive intent of the other.
Ask each part, “Did you hear what the expression part does for (person s name)?”
Get the parts views on the positive intent and help them to recognise it. If necessary look for collaboration and joint intent for (person s name).
Use chunking up questions to get to a mutually collaborative place, e.g. “So if you have that (positive intent already stated by the part), what would that do for (person s name)?”
At this step it is sometimes useful to re-engage with the person, by asking “could I speak with(persons name)?” to ask them to review what they have heard and consider if there is any other parts, or if there is a collaborative joint intent they could offer. This could then be offered to the parts for discussion. Establish a common goal, e.g. to keep (person s name) safe.

5. Identify the resources and capabilities that each part has that would be helpful to the other part in order to accomplish its’ own positive intention and the common goal.
Look for ways in which the parts could collaborate
Ask each part – What would they like to happen differently? How could the conflict be resolved?
Offer the suggestions between the parts, using the parts language and checking to ensure movement. It is necessary at this stage to move between each part and keep rapport.
Ask the part what they heard, What they think about what they heard ?, filling in anything which they may not have heard which could be useful – sometimes they will have listen to all that is said, sometimes not a word.
If the part is holding anything which they heard as negative, or taken a slightly different perspective help them to find a way to make it work for them, or suggest alternatives. What would make this work for you? What other suggestions do you have?
Move between the parts, working towards a mutual solution for the conflict, working on the details of – How they will work together? What will each part bring and how they can get the best from each other towards the common goal.
 

6. Gain Agreement
Once you have reached a solution between the parts, gain the agreement of each part to the solution.
Get the part to describe the solution and you summarise and gain agreement.
Carry this out for each part.

7. Check Ecology
Ensure that there are no other parts which would want to input/comment on the solution. If there are other parts, discuss with the parts their input and as necessary work with the existing parts to bring the new part into the solution, re-gaining the agreement of all parts.
 

8. Physical Parts Integration (Optional, if appropriate / ecological to do so)
At this stage you could, if there were only two parts, bring them together and integrate back into self.
 

9. Future Pace (Optional)
Imagine what it is like to go into both your past and future, taking this integration with you and experiencing how it positively influences the events.
 

10. Check with Subject to ensure movement on the conflict
Ask the subject, How is that for you now?
Is there anything else that would be helpful to the situation?
You are checking for movement (which you should have already witnessed in the above steps) and to ensure that there is nothing else left in the background.
You can also at this stage embed some commands, suggesting that over the coming days and weeks the parts will be thinking about x ( something that they said they wanted to happen)

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…