by wp-site11 | Jun 27, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
The Metro newspaper in London blazed its front-page headlines this morning “Zombie Epidemic: Tranquilizer Abuse Among Women Soars.” Beneath the banner was an article revealing that: “Stressed-out women are turning in their millions to prescription drugs as they try...
by wp-site11 | Jun 26, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
This morning I write as ‘Ms Up-In-Arms’ and a valiantly protesting professional hypnotherapist! Do I need my own therapy you wonder? “Yes absolutely.” We all can benefit from accessing our deepest minds to polish the inner jewels to their brightest and...
by wp-site11 | Jun 25, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
Jack Osborne, the son of Sharon and Ozzy Osborne, at the age of 26, has been diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a disease that reduces life expectancy by up to 10 years. MS affects the nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain. Symptoms include tremors,...
by wp-site11 | Jun 22, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
Dr Helen Wright, Headmistress of a 30k-a-year public school in Wiltshire, England, has made a splash with her widely pre-publicised speech to the Institute of Development Professionals in Education this week. Dr Wright says, “almost everything that is wrong with...
by wp-site11 | Jun 20, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
Harvey Nichols, London, recently advertised the store’s forthcoming Summer Sale. I was surprised and impressed with the rather clever use of the word ‘Try’. Readers may well consider this to be a fairly lightweight, innocuous, three letter word! However let me...
by wp-site11 | Jun 15, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
Using hypnotherapy for controlling pain is one of the more dramatic uses of hypnosis. Success can be immediate and tangible. Due to the potential immediacy, people are less likely to go into denial about whether the hypnosis worked, and in to that popular conundrum…...
by wp-site11 | Jun 13, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
Many people who would benefit from hypnotherapy say they avoid it because they do not wish to have their mind ʹmessed withʹ. Yet, if by ʹmind messingʹ we mean surreptitious influences on our thoughts, then in fact anyone who lives in a city or is exposed to modern...
by wp-site11 | Jun 12, 2012 | Hypnotherapy
“I hope you booked me in for the brainwashing package!” ― a client’s quip, from one who wanted to get in control of her eating habits. We sometimes describe ourselves as ʹopen to suggestionʹ ― with respect to what kind of food to eat, which restaurant to go to, which...
by wp-site11 | Nov 11, 2011 | Events
My speech titled “The Wizard of Us” at TEDx Valletta 2011, Malta. First published as an illustrated book in 1900, Frank Baum’s story, of The Wizard of Oz, became a popular stage production. In 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it as a feature film making...