A – Z CONDITIONS HELPED BY HYPNOTHERAPY
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ANXIETY Anxiety is not caused by the situation you find yourself in but by how a situation is perceived. Hypnotherapy works for anxiety problems by accessing the subconscious mind, which is the part responsible for the anxiety, and changing the perception surrounding the fear. For example shifting negative thoughts to positive, improving self-confidence, increasing self-esteem and self-belief will help reduce anxiety. BED WETTING (ENURESIS) Bed wetting during the night is most common in children, can cause unhappiness and imposes on social activities and holidays. Bed wetting can be caused by stress and anxiety, therefore, hypnotherapy can help. Please note that bed-wetting can be the result of a physical condition and some suggest there may be a genetic link, and so you should check with your doctor to determine the cause.
BEREAVEMENT
BLUSHING CHILD BIRTH Hypnotherapy is used to improve the chances of a natural birth with maximum levels of comfort and relaxation, easing muscle tension, increasing relaxation and confidence, breathing exercises, positive self hypnosis and of course focusing on the wonderful end result COMPULSION Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterised by obsessive thoughts and compulsive ritualised behaviour. Most commonly; repeated washing, cleaning, repeating, checking, and self-mutilation behaviour such as hair pulling or spot picking. Hypnotherapy uses a two-fold approach. Firstly it is very effective in removing obsessive thoughts and reducing anxiety and secondly removing the compulsive habitual behaviour. CONFIDENCE BOOSTING Hypnotherapy has an amazing effect on confidence levels primarily because confidence is all about perception and hypnotherapy can change your perception of yourself and your world. By accessing the subconscious mind and utilising trance you will start to feel more powerful and think more positively and with new confidence everyday life becomes easier CREATIVITY Hypnosis can allow new ideas to surface by creating the right mental state and tapping into the creative right brain so that creative people can awaken inspiration, remove writers block and allow creative energy to rise to the surface. Many actors, writers and musicians use self-hypnosis to enhance their creativity.
DEPRESSION DRIVING TEST Passing your driving test may be easier than you think. Anxiety can prevent you from thinking straight on the day. Fear of test-taking is often about perception and this can be changed easily using hypnosis. By accessing your subconscious resources, utilising trance you will begin to feel more and more positive and confident about both your preparation and your performance on the day of the driving test EATING DISORDERS/HEALTHY EATING It is very important that the person with the Eating Disorder is highly motivated and has a strong desire to eat healthily again. The client must decide they want to make the change and that the time is right for them. Hypnotherapy is directed towards improving levels of confidence and self-esteem as well as re framing any negative associations with food. ECZEMA/SKIN PROBLEMS Many eczema sufferers report that stress exacerbates their condition; some believe stress may cause the problem. Hypnotherapy helps to reduce stress and with the use of visualisation can help break the itch-scratch cycle. Skin mirrors the emotions therefore other skin problems can also be helped EXAM NERVES Hypnotherapy works extremely well for exam nerves because fear of exams is often about perception and this can be changed incredibly easily. By accessing your subconscious resources, utilizing trance, you will begin to feel more and more positive and confident about both your preparation and your performance on the day of the test. Hypnotherapy can also help to enhance memory FEAR OF DENTIST No one likes going to the dentist, but for some people it is one of the most stressful events they can experience and they develop a dental phobia, avoid regular check ups and as a consequence their teeth deteriorate. Hypnotherapy can help you to relax, alters your perception of pain and desensitizes your fears. FEAR OF FLYING The subconscious mind produces the 'fight or flight' response when faced with flying because the mind is trying to protect from or avoid exposure to the flying event. These days flying is an important part of life for both business and leisure. Hypnotherapy works by increasing confidence surrounding flying and desensitizing the mind through the use of regular self-hypnosis. HABIT BREAKING Habits are learned acts. A pattern of activity that has, through repetition, become automatic behavior. Habits are associations set up at a subconscious level and stored in pictures in the subconscious mind. Some habits can be helpful, they make life easy for us because they are stored knowledge which allow us to do things automatically without conscious thought like driving a car, riding a bike or making tea. Making tea for example is stored in lots of pictures linked by association and added on to the process automatically. If you consciously do something it is not a habit it is a conscious act and that is not the same thing. People can find themselves in the grip of unwanted habits that they seem unable to control from Smoking or Nail-biting to more deep-seated compulsions. This unhealthy repetitive behaviour is also controlled by the subconscious mind. Hypnotherapy can help to remove unwanted habits and is totally free from side effects. Choosing from a variety of techniques we need to motivate the subconscious in order to overcome its resistance and permanently change a habit. HAIR PULLING (TRICHOTILLOMANIA) Trichotillomania is an anxiety (body focus) disorder. It is specifically an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviour similar to nail biting or spot picking. Hypnotherapy uses a two-fold approach. Firstly removing obsessive thoughts and reducing anxiety and secondly removing the compulsive habitual behaviour. HEADACHES (TENSION AND MIGRAINE) Headaches are experienced by 90% of the population at some time in their lives and can range in severity. Hypnosis can help with Tension headaches and Migraine headaches. The underlying anxieties can be addressed and suggestions for relaxation given. The client will be taught self-hypnosis and pain techniques to enable them to help themselves. HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE/HYPERTENSION High blood pressure or Hypertension is extremely common. Stress has been named as a risk factor along with being overweight, unfit, or drinking large amounts of alcohol. In stressful situations the heart rate increases and the blood pressure rises. A well known example is “white coat hypertension” when blood pressure rises simply as a result of having it measured by a doctor.Relaxation and visualization under hypnosis can be used to help to reduce stress and reduce blood pressure. Hypnosis alone may not be enough to control chronic blood pressure problems and should be combined with a healthy diet and exercise. IMMUNE SYSTEM BOOSTING When the body’s defences are breached, the immune system engulfs or neutralizes invaders with antibodies. Hypnotherapy helps those who need to boost their immune system due to illness. Relaxation helps to reduce stress and aids rest. Using the power of the mind and self-hypnosis, the individual can visualize a strong healthy immune system fighting their illness or they can visualize a ball of energy, directing energy to where it is needed. IMPROVED PERFORMANCE /AT WORK/STUDY/SPORT The ability to improve performance is one of the easiest and most rapid results that can be achieved by hypnotherapy. By ego-strengthening routines, reinforced by enabling access to your own powerful subconscious resources, plus the use of self-hypnosis techniques, you can gradually improve and enhance your performance. For example your can achieve.increased muscle control, endurance, and invigoration to bring greater improvements in your sports performance. Also improve your performance at work and study.
INSOMNIA INTERVIEWS Interviews can be stressful. Hypnotherapy helps by boosting confidence levels and reducing anxiety. The self-consciousness and anxiety associated with the fear of being interviewed is often about your perception of the coming event and perception can be changed so easily! See yourself confident and calm. IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME (IBS) There are well documented medical studies on the benefits of hypnosis on I.B.S. Hypnotherapy can be very useful for IBS. It helps by alleviating symptoms and showing ways to relax properly, and enables your thought processes to alter, changing your reaction to events which may usually cause stress - thus removing the source of IBS, rather that trying to mask the symptoms as a lot of the more conventional treatments try to do. JAW CLENCHING (BRUXISM) Teeth clenching or jaw grinding, when not eating, can be due to unexpressed anger and stress. It can occur during the day or when asleep at night. Problems caused by this behaviour can range from keeping your partner awake at night to breaking your teeth or even breaking bone supporting the teeth. Hypnotherapy can help you to relax the jaw and discover the cause of anger and deal with it within a safe environment.
JEALOUSY Hypnotherapy works for jealousy problems by changing the perception surrounding the feelings stemming from jealousy. This is done by accessing the subconscious mind, so that perception can be positively influenced. Negative thought patterns can then be shifted so that you can deal with the stressful feelings connected to jealously more calmly and positively MOTIVATION Motivation is quite simply what moves us. People who lack motivation need to develop a positive attitude about themselves, set realistic goals and assimilate success into their lives and enjoy the results. Hypnotherapy has many techniques to increase your level of motivation NAIL BITING Nail Biting is self-mutilation caused by hostility, anger and stress. Nail biting is related to self comforting, usually beginning in childhood, and can be caused by separation anxiety. Hypnotherapy helps break this habit using Analysis, Aversion, Suggestion and Relaxation techniques, and Imagery Hypnotherapy can be very effective in treating all sorts of habits including thumb sucking, nail biting, jaw clenching etc. These habits are a mixture of unconscious and conscious awareness. Hypnotherapy works utilizing trance, a natural state of mind similar to day dreaming, whereby the subconscious mind can absorb positive suggestions enabling you to find ways of breaking old patterns of behaviour or habits PAIN CONTROL There are many different strategies for reducing pain, such as, dissociation, glove anaesthesia, Transference and Substitution to name a few. Also Self-Hypnosis transforms your attitude to pain. People no longer feel a victim, and can learn to take more control over their situation and their pain. Use with stomach cramps, backache, headache, arthritic pain and labour pains PANIC ATTACKS The subconscious mind often produces the 'fight or flight' response when faced with an irrational fear leading to panic attacks. This is because the mind is trying to protect or avoid exposure to the feared event. Panic attacks may cause the person affected to feel frustrated with the limitations that panic attacks can often bring. Hypnotherapy works by increasing confidence around the feared event and desensitizing the unconscious mind through the sessions themselves and regular use of self-hypnosis techniques PERFORMANCE ANXIETY Hypnotherapy helps boost confidence levels and reduces performance anxiety. This is mainly because the self-consciousness and anxiety associated with this fear is often about your perception of the event and perception can be changed so easily! PUBLIC SPEAKING Hypnotherapy has an amazing effect on levels of confidence over Public Speaking, mainly because the self-consciousness and anxiety associated with this fear is often about perception, and perception can be changed so easily! By accessing the resources of the subconscious mind, utilizing the hypnotic state, which is similar to daydreaming, you will begin to have successful public speaking experiences, which will in turn enable you to further reduce anxiety surrounding public speaking. TEST TAKING Hypnotherapy works extremely well in solving problems with test-taking because fear of test-taking is often about perception and this can be changed incredibly easily. By accessing your subconscious resources, utilizing trance (similar to day dreaming), you will begin to feel more and more positive and confident about both your preparation and your performance on the day of the test. TINNITUS Tinnitus is a condition where a person perceives noise in the ears or in the head in the absence of any external source. Some people who experience tinnitus do not consider it a problem whilst others are conditioned to perceive the sound as disturbing and threatening. Stress reduction and desensitization will help the sufferer to relax and confront their fear and learn to tolerate the sound and accept tinnitus as normal. PHOBIAS Some people experience irrational fear of a variety of insects, animals, objects or situations and hypnotherapy is particularly renowned for its effectiveness in assisting sufferers to overcome these distressing and inhibiting conditions. Phobic response is a learned response which may occur after a stressful psychological event. Anxiety builds leading up the event, such as giving a speech, or making a journey. This in turn leads to avoidance of a specific behaviour, which then reinforces the fear surrounding the anxiety. Hypnotherapy uses Relaxation and Systematic Desensitization to lessen fear and increase comfort surrounding the feared event so that you can enjoy life so much more. SELF ESTEEM Lack of self-esteem is usually rooted in the past. Judgmental people from the past can lead to the development of an inner critic, that little voice that produces internal fear and feelings of self-doubt. Hypnotherapy can remove negative programming from your past and improve your self-esteem, self-confidence and self-belief, and if you believe in yourself you will find that others believe in you also! SEXUAL PROBLEMS Hypnotherapy can help with anxiety related sexual problems such as Infertility, Impotence, Premature Ejaculation, Anorgasmia, Frigidity and Vaginismus. The use of hypnosis in helping sexual problems is often effective. By offering techniques that allow rapid identification of underlying conflicts or unresolved feelings, you can access subconscious resources and use self-hypnosis techniques in order to manage stress associated with sexual problems in a positive way. In this way, physical and mental tensions can be released, leading to increased confidence that desired changes can occur. SNORING Snoring can be caused by being overweight, sinus problems, breathing through the mouth, smoking and alcohol. Snoring not only effects the life of the sufferer but also their partner.. Hypnotic Suggestion Imagery, Relaxation and Self-Hypnosis could make snoring a thing of the past. STAMMERING (DYSPHEMIA) Stammering is a disorder of fluency usually starting in early childhood when language is first being learned. There is no known cause and usually the child grows out of it. It has been estimated that one person in every hundred stammers. Emotional stress is a contributing factor. Hypnosis can help to deal with issues underlying the problem and boost confidence. STOMACH/DIGESTIVE PROBLEMS (STRESS RELATED) Gastrointestinal disorders can be produced by emotional factors and visceral reactions to physical stressors. Therefore a therapeutic programme should target both the psychic and somatic factors of the problem. Hypnotherapy can help where the problem is caused or aggravated by emotional stress and brings relief of pain, spasms, nausea and symptoms related to IBS. STOP SMOKING Hypnotherapy can have a powerful effect on quitting smoking in only one session. It can be particularly effective in enabling you to quit smoking because hypnotic suggestions are individualized to the unique motivations and concerns of each client. Through the use of hypnotic trance, if you really want to become a non-smoker, hypnosis can enable you to access your own subconscious resources in order to quit smoking permanently, and be able to live your life more healthily and happily. STRESS If you suffer from stress hypnotherapy is a very effective treatment. Hypnotherapy is the utilization of trance, whereby the subconscious mind can be accessed and positively altered. In this way you will start to feel calmer and more relaxed and be able to decrease levels of stress and tension, so that levels of confidence and energy increase. TICS (PSYCHOLOGICAL DYSTONIA) Dystonia is a condition characterised by involuntary muscular spasms that sometimes lead to pain. Nervous Tics seen around the eyes and mouth are not true dystonias but tend to be the result of repressed emotion or prolonged stress. If psychological in origin, nervous tics often disappear under hypnosis. WEDDING NERVES Hypnotherapy can help to prevent nerves from spoiling your big day. Relaxation techniques will help you to learn to relax. Using visualisation you can rehearse the day in your mind seeing yourself sailing through your special day with confidence. WEIGHT CONTROL/HEALTHY EATING Hypnotherapy is of great value in helping with issues of weight control. Where there is a strong desire to eat healthily, you can access the resources of your subconscious mind to help you to restructure your approach to food, enabling you to balance food intake and exercise. Through hypnosis you begin to enjoy your body with respect, and gain the control over your life that you really need. WORRY It is believed that every thought creates a physical reaction. Excess worry causes change in the stomach area which could lead to digestive problems. For example if you are continuously worried about your health it could have a knock on effect of actually making you ill. Self Hypnosis, Positive thinking and Progressive relaxation techniques can help you to take back control of your thoughts and help you to relax. Hypnotherapy has been found to be very effective for a variety of Medical and Psychological, problems and can be used to enhance performance and creativity. For enquiries /prices /appointment availability contact Patricia via Contact Page Or Telephone 0141 770 5641 |
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