22nd December 2009
No one was born to live with a phobia.
And nobody was born to live their life with fears and phobias. But what exactly is a phobia?
Phobias are conditioned fears or reflexes that are acquired on the person's life journey - a consequence of a frighte...
01st December 2009
There are probably quite a few people sitting there right now thinking 'Just what is procrastination? Well I'll look it up later...'
And in that thought is the answer.
Procrastination is simply putting things off, delaying things - whether those thi...
04th November 2009
Letting go of the past may not always be the easiest thing to do, but it may very well be one of the wisest
One thing is certain - each and every single one of us has a past. And just as certain is the fact that in that past, each one of us will have u...
15th October 2009
The sense of disappointment and frustration experienced by those who really want to gain weight but just can't seem to do so can often feel almost overwhelming.
In modern society, with so many suffering from obesity and overweight, precious little atte...
23rd September 2009
Social Anxiety Disorder or social phobia is perhaps the most common form of anxiety disorder that there is.
In fact, it's so common that it is believed to affect somewhere around 10% of the entire population in one degree or another.
What's more, it...
07th September 2009
Dermotillomania, or Compulsive Skin Picking, is a condition that can affect anyone at any time.
What may well begin as an apparently innocent activity - an attempt to remove and deal with small skin imperfections and irregularities - can rapidly transf...
12th August 2009
Simply by being human, we experience anxiety.
Indeed, anxiety is something that each one of us is certain to have felt, in one form or another, at some time in our lives.
As such, it really is nothing to become alarmed about. In fact, a certain deg...
07th August 2009
One thing is certain, sooner or later each one of us must face the death of a loved one.
It is the way of the world. Indeed, without death there could be no life. After all, if every single person that had ever lived had never died then there would sim...
04th July 2009
Habits, it has been said, are the chains of the free.
But just how much freedom do we really have, when our life is out of control to habits such as nail-biting, thumb sucking, procrastination etc?
When we really stop and think about it, we can real...
11th June 2009
Bad posture - there are times when we are all guilty of it.
Standing, walking or sitting, we can all find ourselves with poor posture from time to time.
When we do it only now and then, of course, little will come of it. Yet to continue with bad pos...
11th June 2009
The fear of public speaking is considered to be the most common fear in both the USA and the UK today. Here are my top tips for successfully speaking in front of others:
1. Do not look at yourself as 'a public speaker'. See yourself as yourself. And y...
29th May 2009
Not many of us invest much time in consciously controlling our breathing
Indeed, for most people, breathing tends to be an automatic process that takes place unconsciously. Unfortunately, this includes unhealthy breathing.
Most of us are only too we...
15th May 2009
Hate it or love it, shopping is something we all have to engage in.
Each of us is surrounded by advertising campaigns and TV commercials that urge us to consume. And these days even the government is encouraging us to go out and spend more.
Indeed, ...
13th May 2009
The real problem with diets and dieting is that, sooner or later, you return to your 'normal' way of eating and then the weight just piles back on.
Sure, they work in the short term. As long as you stick to all of that counting, measuring and weighing....
07th May 2009
Arachnophobia is the name we give to a fear of spiders. It is one of the most common of all phobias.
It is a common fear and one that we treat quite often in our hypnotherapy practice here in the UK.
In fact, research suggests that about 50% of all ...
