As I mentioned earlier there are all types of issues, such as IBS treatment, weight loss, anxiety treatment and building self confidence, which can be treated by Hypnotherapy. The following information will give you more detail as to how we approach and go about beginning to resolve these particular issues.

Build Self Confidence

Most of us in life have different opinions about our self image, self esteem and our levels of self confidence as we go about our everyday lives. For the lucky few, these levels are as they should be. But for the majority of us they can often fall below what we deem to be an acceptable level. Added to this are differing levels of everyday stress. Which when all put together can seem to conspire to overload this negative picture even more. Sometimes we find ourselves struggling to cope and maintain that positive image that we would like, and deserve, of ourselves.

Hypnotherapy can help you to address this imbalance and build self confidence, esteem and self image. Thus enabling and empowering you to see and enjoy a positive perspective that will give you greater scope for success. Of course boosting confidence levels for some may only need to be on a general basis, but for the majority of us it may be that we need more. For example if you need to perform in public in some way, an interview or presentation situation, taking a driving test, sitting an important exam, or simply coping with any type of social occasion.

Or if you are more sports orientated or artistic, needing self confidence to adjust and improve your golf swing or wanting to take the lead role in an amateur production without hesitation and with supreme ease. In order to build self confidence, a specially prepared self esteem CD is available for you to use in between sessions to help you further.

Of course helping you with your self confidence can be an effective and necessary feature of helping you to change habits too. Embracing healthier patterns and releasing unhealthy ones, like smoking and overeating, in favour of more positive ones. Media coverage and ever more public awareness regarding the smoking ban and reported increased obesity levels have brought both these issues to the forefront of our everyday lives even more now than in previous years.

Weight Loss

Hypnotherapy can also help to empower weight loss. My enjoyable format is designed to explore and help you to appropriately adjust your relationship with food. Before we begin our sessions, I will ask you to fill in a personal weight/lifestyle questionnaire. This information will help me to understand how best I can help and support you with your particular aims. Together with this knowledge and within a varied and individually designed format of sessions, we will then work together on those aims. Giving you more understanding and control of your eating habits now and for the future. Helping and encouraging you to choose a healthy, confident and progressive path towards shaping the body you were meant to have.

In addition, I also give you extra support in the form of CDs which are for your home use in between sessions. These are specially prepared for you in order to supplement and enhance the weight loss work that you have done already. They will provide you with an additional valuable resource for use on a daily basis to help you to maintain your focus of reducing your weight. So at your own personal pace you will gradually realise your goal towards achieving and maintaining a healthy, trim size and shape.

Of course negative patterns of behaviour are not just restricted to habits such as smoking or overeating. We have all in our lives encountered places, objects around us, and situations which we find ourselves in that conjure up different emotions for us. Positive emotions such as happiness, elation and contentment, or in contrast negative emotions such as fear or anxiety.

Relieve Anxiety

Another Hypnotherapy treatment on offer is one that can help and support you to relieve anxiety. Fears and anxieties about objects or situations can affect us in many ways as we go about our everyday life. Both can create a wide range of different reactions and responses which can vary from person to person. We all have within us our normal inbuilt ‘alarm system’ which is our physical ‘flight, fright or fight’ adrenaline response, and this acts as a type of protection in any one type of ‘situation’ we may find ourselves in. Some particular object or situation may trigger off this alarm system. So when in this situation our subconscious takes the decision to act on our behalf, and this protective device duly kicks in. Your body and your emotions then respond by reacting in several different ways.

We might react by trying to cope with the particular object or situation. Or more likely we distance ourselves from it, attempt to take ourselves away from it as far as possible, or totally avoid it all together. Sometimes these negative feelings leave a residual memory which can reappear the next time you come across a similar experience. These types of feelings for some can understandably affect their everyday life in all sorts of different ways.

Hypnotherapy can help to bring these feelings of fear and anxiety down to a much more acceptable level. You begin to understand why and when they take place. You learn how to replace old negative responses with new positive coping ones. Beginning to gradually to unravel and readjust your ‘overprotective’ response. You learn too how to maintain an appropriate perspective, so that it changes and rebalances to a much lower and much more acceptable level for you.

This in turn creates a new found freedom and ease around that specific object or situation that once caused anxiety or fear, a panic attack or a phobic response. So flying on holiday, coming across a spider in your house, a dog in the park or going in a lift is no longer the perceived ‘threat’ that it once seemed to be. A specially prepared relaxation CD is also provided for home use to contribute to your success.

IBS Treatment

Stress can take many forms, and one condition that is particularly associated with this negative feature of our society today is Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS. This is a digestive condition that affects millions of people in all walks of life. Its cause is not really known or fully understood. If stress continues to affect our body and its everyday function, it can create an imbalance in varying parts as our body will predictably react in a particular way.

This condition for some people can be a really disabling one. The sufferer experiences a range of physical symptoms ranging from abdominal pain, bloating, cramping and an erratic bowel. It can be a social nightmare for many, the cycle of symptoms often changing from day to day. This understandably leaves the sufferer feeling physically and emotionally drained. In some cases they can almost feel imprisoned by their condition.

A cure is yet to be found although a change of diet plus traditional medication can help to alleviate the symptoms. However, it has been clinically found that Hypnotherapy can help further with IBS treatment. It encourages relaxation, which in turn helps to reduce any relevant stress triggers. This can ultimately help to encourage and ‘retrain’ the gut to function more normally. My gentle format is progressive, helping you to relax more easily. Enabling you to begin to reduce your current levels of stress, ultimately helping you reduce your IBS symptoms, whatever they may be.

In addition to your sessions with me, a series of specially prepared CDs are available for home use to support and reinforce your work already done. This combination gives you practical and realistic support. Working alongside each other they help you to understand, manage, and control your IBS condition instead of it controlling you. Ultimately giving you an improved health related quality of life and freedom for you and others around you.

Improve Health

Other health matters too can affect our lives in different ways. They can affect us socially, in our work and in our general enjoyment of life in negative ways. Long or short term illness, preparing for and recovering from surgery, pain or general incapacity can create a negative mind set and lifestyle. So if we are not careful, it can become a regular and unremitting pattern of negative behaviour for us.

Hypnotherapy has the capacity to assist you, helping you to manage and improve different health issues. We work together to create relaxation, positive support, encouragement and confidence to recovery that you need at this particular time in your life.

We gradually promote your personal path of recovery, creating a strong positive outlook. Helping you to cope and manage your health issues more easily now and in the future. We can also work alongside medical assistance and medication too, encouraging a more positive and healthy picture for you.

Study With Success

Studying techniques for school/college and work related exams can be improved too with Hypnotherapy. Enabling you to be able to study with more concentration, motivation and confidence. Giving you that extra focus to deal with the challenges of life that surround you at this time. Added resources to help you are also available in the form of CD support for home use in between sessions. Their prime theme is to help you to see a clear and successful future for yourself.

Hypnotherapy can help you generally to relax, and encourage more settled patterns of sleep. To build on and improve your own potential for success in whatever way that it is required. Learning how to harness and elevate your confidence to a higher level, allowing you to achieve what you want to achieve in a way that is just right for you.

Stop Smoking

As with weight loss, Hypnotherapy can also help to empower your decision to stop smoking. My favoured format to help you achieve this is a single two hour session. Before your appointment, I will ask you to fill in a personal lifestyle questionnaire about how you have lived your life up until now as a smoker. I will then utilise this variety of information to form part of my format during your session in order to help you readjust your life on all levels as a non smoker now, and in the future.

In order to strengthen your decision and resolve in your everyday life you will be given two specially prepared CDs and some practical tips to take away with you for home use at the end of your session. All these resources will help to reinforce the work you have done already to stop smoking. They will give you an additional and valuable daily focus with which to live your life from now on. Helping you to be and remain a healthy, happy and wealthier non smoker.

Improve Relationships

Negative patterns of behaviour can also affect our personal relationships with other people. We can sometimes seem to be in a never ending spiral of negative response to a particular person or situation. Hypnotherapy can help you in your most emotional moments, giving you support, strength and clarity to see the way ahead. Thus able to cope and to ‘manage’ that person or situation in a much more positive way. In the way that is right for you.

Cope with Bereavement

Hypnotherapy can also help those who have experienced bereavement and grief, and the accompanying emotions that surround them at this sad time in their lives. Helping you to come to terms with and accept what has happened to those around you. Giving you an understanding of the grieving process that naturally unfolds when we lose someone we love. Helping you to move on gently, at your own pace. Whilst at the same time, always aware of and respectful of your feelings, as you learn to accept the present and journey towards the future.

Bringing it all together

So now you can begin to understand that Hypnotherapy is a very useful and successful therapeutic tool with which we can work with together. It has the potential to help each of us in a unique way. It can be adapted to work with so many aspects of our lives. Creating relaxation, understanding, liberation and change. A subtle yet empowering blend of factors helping to give you positive resolution now and for the future.

This can happen for every one of us, whatever age, in all walks of life and for a variety of issues. For things that we may have been carrying around with us for years, or for something that happened to us in our life only last week. CD support also can, given where appropriate, help to enhance and reinforce decisions to make those changes.

Positive change can be achieved session by session with the help of our subconscious mind. When we allow ourselves to relax, to discover, understand, and begin to change for the better the way we interact with certain situations in life. So in turn enabling us to respond with more positive and beneficial patterns of behaviour. We can then go out into the world around us with this knowledge, and really be what we want to be now, and in the future.

You may recognise this old saying – ‘If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got.’

Wishing alters nothing.

Do you want to remain the same, or change?