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:
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Hypnotherapy For Pain Management
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.
Five Tips To Build Self Esteem And Confidence
Helping clients to build self esteem and confidence is something I do a lot of, probably because it’s an area in our lives that most of us feel we could do with improving on. So below are a few tips and exercises I use on myself and with my clients and because we all respond…
Hypnotherapy For IBS
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…
The Power Of Visualisation In Sports Performance
‘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…
Filtering Out Reality?
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….
The Core Principles Of NLP: Flexibility
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.
The Core Principles Of NLP: Sensory Acuity
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…
The Core Principles of NLP: Outcome Thinking
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
Dreaming and the REM state
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.
