CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM
Boost confidence and raise self esteem

Poor self image and low self esteem can affect you in different ways. Of course, we can be supremely confident in one area, perhaps intellectually, but find it difficult to socialise or relate to others. You may feel better staying in the background (in both situations). It can hold you back from achieving within your sphere of work; you may feel other people are far more capable than you, far more qualified. The negative inner voice reminds us to remain within our boundaries and we lack confidence to do those things we want to do.

So self esteem plays a big part in our self confidence. Self esteem is your considered assessment of yourself, self confidence is your belief in what you can achieve, what goals you can aspire to. If you have high self esteem you have a respect for yourself and an acceptance of who you are and confidence in your abilities.

Hypnotherapy can help you make the necessary changes in your life, it can help you to stop that negative inner chatter and feel much more positive about yourself. It can help lift your self esteem and boost your self confidence. You will have confidence to make plans for your future. Learning to value yourself and accept yourself so that you can move forward and change those things that need to be changed in order to achieve your full potential.

ANXIETY AND STRESS
Stress, anxiety, panic attacks

Fear and stress play a necessary and normal function in the body. However, in a modern living style this is not necessarily beneficial. When we feel fear, changes happen very quickly in our body, adrenalin is released and muscles tense ready for quick action and the heart accelerates. When the fear has passed the body relaxes. Constant pressure and stress do not allow the body time to relax and calm down.

Continual pressure and stress can cause panic attacks, lead to lowered immunity and health problems such as raised blood pressure, ulcers, sexual problems and/or sleeping difficulties.
Deep relaxation during hypnosis can help lower levels of stress and replace worries and doubts with positive feelings of well being.
To continue the effect of the therapy you may be shown how to do self hypnosis or given a CD which will aid deep relaxation.

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UNWANTED HABITS
Unwanted habits - smoking, nail biting, blushing, hair pulling, teeth grinding (bruxism)

During hypnosis we bypass the conscious part of the mind that tells us that things are too difficult or that it is quite impossible to stop, and we talk to the subconscious part of our mind and update it. We let it know that it is now time to make changes in our life, that we are now ready to make change happen.

Habits may be learned behaviour or develop as a result of coping with stress. They are often irrational and can cause a great deal of distress, such as trichotillomania (hair pulling) and bruxism (grinding teeth).
Maybe you suffer with blushing unnecessarily.
Biting nails can be a learned behaviour. Maybe a parent or sibling bites their nails. Hypnotherapy can help you make the change to stop biting your nails.
Habits can be addictive.
Are you addicted to eating that chocolate bar every day?

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STOP SMOKING
Hypnotherapy and stopping smoking

Once you have taken the decision to stop smoking, hypnotherapy can help to:-

• Build your confidence to stop
• Boost your motivation to stop
• Increase your determination to stop

I take two sessions to help you to stop smoking.
The first session aims to build your confidence and your determination to stop smoking.
The second session is the day that you choose to stop smoking.

The treatment includes a CD to help reinforce your determination to remain a non smoker.

There will be a free booster session should you find yourself tempted to smoke.

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WEIGHT PROBLEMS
Weight Issues

However, there are other reasons we may overeat. We may eat because we are unhappy, to cheer ourselves up. Maybe we eat to make ourselves feel better. Maybe we are totally bored or perhaps we eat merely out of habit. It may be that we rush in from work and just eat anything we have to hand, giving no thought to what we are eating at all.

We may overeat as a way of coping with stress, unhappiness or low self esteem. Anger can drive us to eat large amounts of food our body does not need. In order to make those changes that need to be made to help you shed excess weight we need to deal with just what triggers that overeating.

Hypnotherapy can help you deal with the cause of your overeating and help you make changes in your eating patterns. It can help you begin to choose wisely in what you eat, how you eat and when you eat. Hypnotherapy can help you overcome feelings of failure and become far more motivated to make change, far more motivated to achieve your goals.

Hypnotherapy can boost your self esteem and help you feel very much better within yourself. To begin to respect yourself and become aware of what you eat. It can help you become far more motivated to take control and change those patterns of eating which have caused you to overeat and to begin to choose nutritious foods and become fit and healthy.

EATING DISORDERS

Anorexia and bulimia are serious conditions and it is wise to check with your GP before starting hypnotherapy.

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INSOMNIA
Sleeping problems

You may find that you lie awake, tossing and turning, your mind trying to solve problems or it may be that you fall straight to sleep but wake up in the early hours and you just can't get back to sleep.

When you go to bed it's time to leave behind all the problems of the day and relax into your comfortable bed and just drift off into a deep and restful sleep. Hypnotherapy can help you address problems which may be causing you distress, help you leave behind unhappy memories and it can help you relax better within yourself.

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PHOBIAS AND FEARS
Phobias and exaggerated fears can hold you back from fully enjoying your life.

A phobia is a greatly exaggerated fear and the emotional feeling of fear can be accompanied by physical symptoms such as feeling faint, sweating and trembling. Many phobias develop during childhood, maybe learning through family reactions but any situation can be enough to initiate fear and subsequent events may serve to compound the fear. Suddenly a situation can become extremely frightening - something to be avoided at all costs.

If the situation that causes the phobic reaction is something that can be avoided in your life, then you cope with the problem. If you find that you have a fear or phobia which is holding you back, perhaps keeping you from enjoying your life to the full, or maybe it is something which is stopping you from doing something you really want to do, it's time to allow yourself the time and space to deal with the fear.

Phobias and fears are diverse and can include:-

• Fear of flying
• Fear of travelling on the underground
• Fear of being trapped in traffic
• Fear of injections
• Fear of visiting the dentist
• Fear of lifts
• Fear of insects
• Fear of heights
• Fear of being alone

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CHILDREN AND HYPNOTHERAPY
HYPNOSIS WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS