Hypnotherapy Blog

Why do people sabotage other peoples' efforts to improve themselves?

More on how self-improvement efforts can be sabotaged, including the "Abstinence Violation Effect".

This post discusses how to make your good intentions more real and vivid, so as to overcome short term difficulties.

New Year Resolutions begin with good intentions. This article examines the reasons for success and failure.

Immediate improvement after a client's first session is very encouraging, but it can cause false expectations. The course of therapy always has its ups and downs, three steps forward and one step back. So long as the general trend is upwards, you are doing fine.

Anxiety has physical symptoms, and is therefore often mistaken with a physical illness. This sets up a vicious circle, where we get anxious about feeling anxius.

This article discusses phobias and how they can be treated with hypnotherapy.

In my last news post I discussed how anger develops. In this article I’m going to look at how anger affects relationships.

In previous news articles I’ve analysed anxiety and fear into its component parts, showing how it develops. In this article I’ll be looking at another troublesome emotion, namely anger.

In this article I will bring together the different components of anxiety, showing how they fit together. I will use the example of Social Phobia, which is the fear of meeting people and especially new people.

Many people have unrealistic expectations and demands about what ought to be. These unachievable demands are a source of permanent dissatisfaction.

An important part of anxiety and other problems is the meaning we place on it, the beliefs about ourselves that arise from negative experiences. These beliefs have a life of their own, continuing long after the experiences that originally caused them.

Our imagination is a precious gift, without which we'd be little better than an animal. But imagination can also cause problems, generating imaginary disasters based on hardly any real evidence.

Emotions are based on physical sensations, and the names we give to these sensations determine how we respond to them. Understanding our responses helps us to control them, and thus to control our own lives and choose our destiny.

Fears and anxiety are the most common problems for which people seek help from a hypnotherapist. Most fears are vicious circles, and consist of seperate parts. By examining the different parts we can attack the problem at its weakest point.

How hypnotherapy can help to overcome emotional problems.

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