Wednesday 1 August 2012

Mindfullness self hypnosis

This is a simple exercise to improve your general wellbeing


Start by finding a comfortable quiet place to relax switch your phone off and close your eyes.
Just for a minuite concentrate on yourself and pay close attention to what is going on inside your body. Relax all of your muscles. Breathe slowly counting every out breath. Stay in the moment for as long as you can allowing any thoughts to just wash over you.






The Tapping Technique

Help for Food Cravings





You might want to make sure you are in a quiet place to do this as it's an unusual technique but I have seen it work very well many times!


  1. Think of the biggest desire for a food that you can. You might need to come back to this when you actually have the craving in order for it to be more sucessful.
  2. Focus on this craving and then rate your desire for a food on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 the highest. This is important so you can have an idea of how much you’ve reduced it.
  3. On a scale of 1-10 how strong is your craving? Remember, if you’re not really craving is not above a 7 come back to this technique later.
  4. Now take two fingers of either hand and tap about 10 times under your collarbone while you continue to think about the craving.
  5. Tap under your eye ten times.
  6. Tap under your collarbone again.
    1. Next place your other hand in front of you and tap on the back of it between your ring finger and your little finger. Continue to think about your desire for food as you do this and each of the steps which follow:
    2. Close your eyes and open them.
    • Keep your head still, keep tapping and look down to the right then down to the left.
    • Keep tapping and rotate your eyes round 360 degrees clockwise, and now 360 degrees counterclockwise.
    • Remember to keep thinking about the food you were craving as you do this.
    • Now hum the first few lines of "Happy Birthday" out loud.
    • Count out loud from 1 to 5.
    • Again hum the first few lines of ‘Happy Birthday’ out loud.

    1. Now on a scale from 1 to 10, what number is your craving at? If it hasn’t completely gone yet, just repeat this sequence again until it does.
    If you would like to see more helpful information about how hypnotherapy can help with cravings and weight loss please visit my website
    www.cheshirehypnotherapy.co.uk

    What is Hypnotherapy?



    Hypnosis is like meditation, your eyes are closed and you feel relaxed. It is a heightened state of awareness called trance during which the conscious mind is suppressed and the subconscious or unconscious mind is more open to positive suggestion. The hypnotherapist is then able to suggest ideas or concepts and positive lifestyle adaptations which then become more firmly planted in the unconscious mind. Hypnotherapy is a safe and natural process that aims to help with psychological issues and correct negative behaviours such as:
    • Phobias
    • Smoking
    • Stress and anxiety
    • Exam/driving test nerves
    • Lack of confidence
    It is also very helpful for weight loss and gaining control of your eating habits. Hypnotherapy is used in hospitals for IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) as well as being used for natural childbirth and also as a support to IVF fertility treatment. It can even help you to perform better on the golf course as every PGA player will say that golf is 90% mental and many other sporting professionals use visualisation to improve their game.


    For more helpful information about hypnosis and NLP you can visit my website
    www.cheshirehypnotherapy.co.uk