Having a fear of speaking in public is one of the commonest fears in the world, affecting most people to some degree, especially if they haven’t had much experience of speaking in public. Here are my top tips, based both on my personal experience and through the many clients I have helped:

I’m really pleased to be reading that more people are now willing to use hypnosis for minor operations instead of the traditional form of anesthesia, with surgeons now working alongside hypnotherapists. This makes it easier to show to my patients that controlling and substantially reducing their pain is something easily learnt.

When I help clients who have self esteem and confidence issues, they also often run a negative thinking style that can reinforce their self esteem and confidence concern.

Helping clients ease their IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) symptoms such as pain, bloating and the anxiety that goes with that is particularly satisfying, as I used to suffer with this myself a number of years ago. And it’s great to see that hypnotherapy for IBS is getting some good press too; BBC article Quite often…

‘Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them- a desire, a dream, a vision’ Muhammad Ali It’s been well recognised that having positive thoughts and expectations are more likely to bring you positive results. We know what it’s like when we walk into a room and feel a…

We all know what it’s like when we try to communicate a message across to someone and it’s misunderstood. In NLP it has been suggested that there exists a set of learning filters which we use to communicate to one another and so the response we get can depend on how we use these filters….

In my final blog on the principles of NLP comes Flexibility. This is all about being flexible enough in our behaviour so that we have choice and options open to us. The more choices we have available to us the more likely we are to achieve success in our outcomes.

Following on from my previous post on the Core Principles Of NLP I wanted to talk a little bit more about Sensory Acuity. This is about the way we think, remember and construct our thoughts through the use of our senses and also how we communicate that through the choice of our language. The core senses…

I was recently looking over some of my notes from the NLP course I did many years ago and was reminded of the simplicity that lay in the foundations of NLP, the core principles as such. These are: Rapport Outcome Thinking Sensory Acuity Flexibility

People have always been fascinated and mystified by dreaming and recent groundbreaking research by the psychologist Joe Griffin has shed an interesting light on the purpose of dreaming.

John Gottman, a US Psychologist, has spent almost two decades studying the interaction of couples. He has found the key determining factor in finding out what can be put right in a relationship is not how passionately a couple argue but the way they argue. He has found four key factors that make or break…

Thinking, speaking, writing and of course dreaming in metaphors is something we all regularly do, and yet we rarely give a moment’s pause for our choice of metaphors and the importance they play. ‘I am up to my eyes in stress’, ‘The kids are driving me mad’, ‘My stomach is all tied up in knots’,…

As an ex smoker I know what it feels like to want to stop…and yet not do anything about it. It was a part of my life and although I obviously knew what was so bad about it I instead gave myself reasons for why it was ok and what I got out of smoking….

Now although a number of my articles have covered various anxiety relieving topics, including specific exercises, I am aware I haven’t written a straight forward ‘Top five’ list as such so here goes. And to be clear these are not in any specific order other than they are all used by me with success to…

This is the second blog of two parts on self hypnosis, with this month’s focus on the practical learning of how to use self hypnosis to achieve a specific outcome. Also a quick reminder for those of you with google plus please do click on the little icon on my home page and also check out my…