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Hypnotherapy has been used to help resolve many challenges people have, from confidence, phobias to anxiety and stress.
Hypnosis is not a new thing, in fact there are instances of its use hundreds of years ago. Story telling is a well known form of hypnosis.
Good News! Its available to you to use and enjoy the benefits, especially when assisted by a competent therapist.
Hypnosis is simply a state of focused attention, this is known as a trance. When we focus inside or on a challenge, the rest of the world around us becomes less apparent, and allows us to explore our thoughts, feelings and how our internal processes operate.
How Does Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Work?
Hypnotherapy has been accepted by many professional bodies as a highly effective therapy, and it allows you to explore what is going on in your unconscious in a safe, confidential and caring environment.
When in a trance new thinking patterns can be explored, and things may be reviewed form new perspectives. These new patterns can be tried on and if more supportive that previous patterns, 'installed' so to speak.
There are generally there are only three parts to how Hypnosis is used in therapy:
- Find out what the challenge is, delving into your challenge, where the root cause can be revealed, not always necessary though, and resolved during the sessions over a couple of weeks.
- Make the changes to the thought processes whilst using deep trance states to effect changes
- Future Pace, checking how the new processes fit in your life into the future, and make adjustments as required
- Ongoing post session help and review, to ensure the changes are now result in the new normal behaviour
There are many benefits to using Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy as a treatment, any many challenges it can help you deal with as few of which are listed here:
Benefits:
- Its completely Safe
- You are in control at all times
- Its entirely confidential
- Its a Natural treatment
- It is un-invasive
- Very Fast effects
- Once learnt can be used in the future
Common Challenges it helps with
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Stop Smoking
- Overeating
- Bad habits
- Addiction
- Phobias
- Confidence
Hypnosis has been used for hundred of years to effect new learnings in people, taking what works and using it in place of internal thought processes that no longer support your life. Remember, behaviour is learnt, in fact we are born with only two fears, being dropped and load noises. We learn everythiing else, and as such can unlearn and replace behaviours easilly.
So when you choose to use hypnotherapy to help you, contact me and start the covnersation.
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As we grow and experience life from Birth, we build a unique organisation and understanding of the world, our thinking and behaviours we carry out, In NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) we refer to it as a map. This map is a product of the way we filter and perceive information absorbed through our five senses from the world around us all the time, and within this map we have strategies of mental gymnastics that result in our behaviours.
These maps are as individual as fingerprints, and the good news is they are not fixed and, can and indeed do, change as we go through lif
Some of these maps and strategies are un-supportive and can be unlearned, being replaced with custom, individual strategies that do support the individual forward.
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLp) provides a methodology to model behaviours, abilities and performances achieved by the leaders and highest performers in their fields. It also provides for modelling behaviours that do not work well, and replace them with more supportive strategies.
Korzybski, a mathematician, introduced and popularised the idea that "the map is not the territory". In other words, the description of the thing is not the thing itself. The model is not reality. Our reality is a mental construct based on beliefs and values we learn as we grow. Some are supportive, others not so. They can be changed using Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP), usually very quickly.
Neuro
Each individual has established their own unique mental filtering system for processing the millions of bits of data being absorbed through the senses. Our first mental map of the world is constituted of internal images, sounds, tactile awareness, internal sensations, tastes and smells that form as result of the neurological filtering process. The first mental map is called ‘First Access’ in NLP.
Linguistic
We then assign personal meaning to the information being received from the world outside. We form our second mental map by assigning language to the internal images, sounds and feelings, tastes and smells, thus forming everyday conscious awareness. The second mental map is called the Linguistic Map (sometimes known as Linguistic Representation)
Programming
The mental processing that occurs, subject to our neurological filtering processes and the subsequent linguistic 'map', that result in processes that are known as strategies and manifest as our behaviours
NLP - A brief history,
Neuro Linguistic Programming began in the 1970s when Richard Bandler, teamed up with John Grinder.
Gregory Bateson (renowned anthropologist) was interested in Bandler and Grinder's collaborative work and he introduced them to Milton Erickson. They began the development of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) by initially modelling three people, Fritz Perls, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson. Modelling is key skill in NLP and exposes how and what successful people do to be who they are. These therapists were outstanding in helping people, their skills were unmatched.
Perls, Satir and Erickson performed their therapeutic change-work from a perspective of unconscious excellence, and learning. Bandler and Grinder unconsciously learnt by absorbed the patterning inherent in what was being done, by experiencing it first hand.
Bandler and Grinder collated the results of the language-based models, they noticed the three were using patterns of transformational grammar to effect change in their clients. Grinder and Bandler made explicit the tacit skills the three were using and NLP was born.
It was in 1975 when, Bandler and Grinder presented the first two NLP models to the world in the volumes “Structure of Magic I", and, “Structure of Magic II.”
Neuro Lingustic Programming (NLP) is accepted as a powerful way to effect change in yourself and others.
Ongoing Development
Since the 70's There has been a number of developments by different people who have taken the basics and created new technologies from them. There are parts of CBT for example that resemble NLP modelling, and in fact I am working with a few others on Natural Human Intelligence, which encompasses developments from various fields, with NLP, REBT, EFT and more, merging together to provide a very powerful skill-set.
"If you think you can or you think you cannot, you are going to be right" - Henry Ford.
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When you change your thinking, you will change the behaviour
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a treatment approach that helps you recognize negative or unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. It can be highly effective and is similar to NLP.
By exploring your thoughts, emotions and feelings you can find out how they affect your behaviours.
Awareness of these patterns,enable you to change your thoughts into a more positive and supportive way forward.
Much like NLP we do not generally focus on the past, being forward looking and solution focussed.
Our unconcious thought processes result in feelings and behaviours, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is aimed at changing these processes and replacing with new ways of doing things designed with you. As an example, do you make the best decisions when angry or upset?
The good news is cognitive behavioural therapy can help change these patterns of unconcious thoughts and resulting behaviours, usually quickly and effectively.
The circle of thoughts and the behaviours that result
- Our brains can only handle 7 +- 2 bits of information at a time, we then delete and generalise, so many of our perceptions are inaccurate or just plain wrong, resulting in unsupportive thoughts
- These thoughts and the resulting feelings can lead to unuseful, unsupportive or even harmful behaviours.
- Overtime, repeatedly using these poor thoughts and behaviors can become a pattern that repeats and builds upon itself.
- By using Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) these patterns can be changed andhelp you deal with lifes challenges as they arise.
- By noticing and changing the thoughts, anables you to make changes 'on the fly' in the future
Some of the techniques used in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) are:
- SMART goals. SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-limited. These can be short or longer term.
- Guided effective questioning. By caefully questioning the assumptions you have about yourself or your current situation, I will help you learn to find new more empowering solutions.
- Keeping a Diary or Journaling. A review of your thoughts, and how you can change them into more supportive and positive ones.
- Your Inner voice - Monkey Mind. How do you talk to yourself? is it pleasant? Supportive? of not you can begin to stop that 'nagging' easily.
- Cognitive Restructuring. by realising that open thinking is more effective than binary (yes/no) type thinking you will open up more options to choose from
- Positive Activities. Take time every day to get peaceful and do something just for the hell of it, such as walking, jogging, playing an instrument etc
- Situation Exposure. Create a list of situations or events that upset you, rate them on a scale of 1-10, and then you can begin to change.
Homework is another important part of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Any homework will help you to practice and develop the skills you have used in the sessions, repetition is the mother of skill, and carrying out the work is an essential part of the work.
- depression
- Stress
- anxiety
- phobias and fears
- eating disorders
- post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- bipolar disorder
- addiction
- relationship problems
- breakup or divorce
- serious health problems, such as cancer
- grief or loss
- low self-esteem
- lack of confidence
- general life challenges
- Insomnia or other sleep problems
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is one of the most effecgive and best treatment available for a number of mental health conditions.
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Created by Albert Ellis, Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) is a different approach and fits well within cognitive behaviour therapy. It's approach and techniques towards psychological treatment have been used since the 1950s. |
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What is Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT)?
You may be unsure about what distinguishes REBT from other forms of psychotherapy techniques and methodologies.
The basis of REBT is the belief that it is not the events we experience that cause our emotions & feelings, rather it is our beliefs and thinking processes that cause us to experience emotions such as anger, stress, depression, and anxiety.
By consciously examining our processes and changing our irrational beliefs and has shown to have a favourable effect on reducing emotional pain.
We create our own responses by our beliefs and values, which may not be supportive in specific situations.
REBT established three guiding principles of REBT. These are known as the ABCDEs: activating event, beliefs, and consequences.
- Activating (or Adverse) Event. First, we identify the specific situation or event that triggers the un-supportive behavioural or emotional response.
- Beliefs. Secondly, we identify the core belief(s) that are connected to the emotional or behavioural response must be identified and carefully examined.
- Consequences. The combination of the activating event and the core beliefs will produce an un-supportive result By changing and replacing these negative beliefs, we can drastically improve a person’s outlook and experience of life.
- Dispute. You will learn how to actively dispute their irrational beliefs and provide tools so that they can design and install healthier supportive beliefs.
- Effect. The effect of replacing one’s irrational beliefs about a specific situation is you become more adaptive and rational, which in turn leads to an improvement in emotions, behaviours, and thoughts.
REBT Three Insights
Although everyone has irrational thoughts from time to time, it is suggested that people can develop three fundamental insights that will reduce this tendency.
- 1: Our rigid beliefs about negative events are primarily responsible for our psychological disturbances.
- 2: We remain psychologically disturbed because we continue to adhere to our rigid beliefs instead of working to change them.
- 3: Psychological health only comes when people work hard to change their irrational beliefs. It’s a practice that must start in the present and continue into the future.
There have been many studies supporting the claim REBT is an effective form of therapy for issues like obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, and social anxiety.
It has to be said, REBT can be a somewhat confrontational, challenging your beliefs can be very uncomfortable, there is little that can be done to avoid these ab-reactions, remember, any challenge would be dome with the intention of creating a better, more supportive belief, and any feeling will be temporary.
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