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.

8. 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

What do you think when you look at this picture?

We all think in pictures and images and it is those thoughts that create actions. It is therefore important to try and keep your thoughts positive to guide your actions.

If you want to lose weight for example you need to start seeing yourself in a more positive way, slim, happy and confident. Then you will naturally make more healthy food choices because you want to. Not because you are on some faddy short term diet. When you are making these new healthy choices voluntarily you will be able to stick to them with much less effort and then you will be able to make long term changes.

If you would like to learn more about how hypnotherapy can help you with weight loss please visit my website for more information

http://www.cheshirehypnotherapy.co.uk/trt_weight.htm



NHS are Running a Study into the Effectiveness of Hypnotherapy in Childbirth

This current study is being run by Professor Soo Downe and it will involve over 800 first time mothers chosen from hospitals in Blackburn and Burnley. This trial will last 18 months and it will look at hypnotherapy and Self Hypnosis in Birthing. If the results are favourable then more research in this area and others will be carried out by doing further trials across th UK.
Hypnosis or hypnotherapy for childbirth is also called hypnobirthing was first started in Australia and it has been used here in the UK for the past 15 years.
It gives Pregnant women the opportunity to manage their labour themselves at home or in hospital in a more relaxed and calm way. This is both as helpful for the mother as it is for the newborn baby. Learning self hypnosis including relaxation and breathing techniques before giving birth can be very valuable for pain control and stress reduction both during pregnancy and birth. Most people will need about 4 or 5 teaching hypnotherapy sessions normally undertaken during the second half from about 30 - 35 weeks pregnancy whilst practicing themselves with a cd for use at home.

This kind of relaxation practice can be invaluable for women who are working stressful jobs or have busy homelives and other demands throughout their pregnancy.
It is also helpful for mothers who have had a previous bad birthing experience and those who are anxious about giving birth. Hypnobirthing is suitable both for first time mothers or those who already have chlldren. It can help with confidence and self esteem as well as pain control and relaxation and it can be learnt easily as contrary to popular belief everyone can be hypnotised just to varying degrees. it doesn't promise a pain free labor but it can help to control pain.

Mothers who have been through the hypnobirthing experience report feeling more in control of their birth they are not out of it at all but more focused and confident. they also report less pain, tension and a quicker easier labor. Midwives are now able to train as teachers of hypnobirthing so it is being used more widely than ever as is becoming increasingly popular. If the NHS study proves sucessfull it will be more available to expectant mothers in the UK.There are many basic hypnosis techniques that can be used throughout pregnancy and childbirth for the purposes of relaxation, sleep, physical comfort, preparation for childbirth and preparation for parenthood.

Lisa Smith is a Registered Clinical Hypnotherapist at Cheshire Hypnotherapy Est 10yrs in Altrincham. I am a member of the National Council for hypnotherapy. I often help clients with psychological issues such as stress and anxiety. I also help clients with Phobias, IBS, Insomnia, Bulimia and childbirth. Hypnotherapy is also great for stopping smoking and weight loss. Please visit http://cheshirehypnotherapy.co.uk/ for more information about hypnotherapy and health issues. My blog is cheshirehypnotherapy.blogspot.com

Hypnotherapy Can Help Stress Anxiety Habits and Phobias

Stress, Anxiety Habits and Phobias are all linked in some way. For example Stress causes anxiety and feeling anxious is stressful, Phobias cause stress because they are basically a fear of something.
Also a habit like smoking can be stressful because the smoker is aware of all the health dangers and if the smoker tries to stop smoking they feel stressed due to the change in their life.
Some people find it much harder than others to get rid of habits such as nail biting, smoking or hair puling, even over eating can be a habit.
A person with a fear of small spaces or claustrophobia will feel anxious if they have to get in a lift and someone who has a fear of spiders will be stressed and Anxious if they see a spider or even if they think they have seen a spider. A flying phobia can mean that a person never travels abroad. Some phobias are more unusual such as a fear of leaves or wet matches.
When a person is stressed there may be other issues such as panic attacks, eating problems or sleep disturbance, depression, headaches, weight gain or weight loss and Irritable bowel syndrome or IBS.
Anxiety causes fear and it can be very isolating and frightening especially if panic attacks are frequent. The sweating and palpitations are a very real and sometimes scary physical symptom of Anxiety.
All of these discussed symptoms are treatable with hypnotherapy and hypnosis. Teaching the client how to relax then using hypnotherapy to help them to deal with condition, and sometimes even getting rid of the condition or problem completely. Hypnotherapy can also help the client to recognize the trigger to their problem, and help to rebuild their self esteem and confidence.