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Hypnotherapy treatment normally results in the client finding their problem issues diminish or disappear.
To gain the maximum benefit from your hypnotherapy, you should develop the changes into a habit or conditioned response. This is done through self-help which creates lifestyle changes, self-hypnosis and occasionally additional hypnotherapy sessions.
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Self-Help
Changes in behaviour can add up to self-help or personal development, for example mixing with people who have a positive disposition can be good for your health. It can be soul destroying associating with people who always have a reason why they should not change their own destructive behaviour.
Lack of self-nurturing is the single biggest cause of stress, anxiety and problem behavioural issues that evolve from stress. Chill out activities such as Pilates, Yoga or Tai Chi etc can help you streatch your body, meet new people (at a class) and give your mind a chance to switch off and recover from the days activities.
It's your duty to your family to be well nourished, well rested and well motivated because if you're in good shape it's much more likely you will be able to keep your family in good shape. Give yourself "me time" is a message spelled out in the excelent CD set 'Inside-Out Wellness" by Dr Wayne Dyer and Christiane Northrup MD available from Hay House Publications.
Anxiety, depression and stress can be reduced by taking up a physical sport or hobby such as walking or cycling. As well as improving your health, sports activities gives you a natural high as endorphins (the bodies feel-good chemicals) enter your bloodstream when you are under physical duress (check with your doctor before taking up an exercise programme).
Improvements in communication and social interaction cannot fail to improve the lot of most people. Logic dictates that if you are trying to dispose of a troublesome thought (which leads to unwanted behaviour) its easier to achieve if you are busy doing something else.
A certain 'pushing out of boundaries' is helpful for clients with irrational fears. If you have a fear leaving your home (agoraphobia), then you may practice walking to the front door. Once walking to the front door does not trouble you, maybe you could walk to the end of the path, then the end of the street etc.
This is known as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the miniscule success of each achievement makes the client feel good and spurs them on to improve on their previous success. This can be perceived as an upward spiral of recovery where 'bite-sized chunks' of exceeding usual comfort zones can lead to full recovery.
Excessive giving to a partner, family member or friend eventually leads to the provider feeling resentful. Assertiveness (without anger) often results in compromise which can strengthen relationships or leads to ending unhealthy relationships.
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Self-Hypnosis
The cause of anxiety or any other neurotic behaviour is a thinking distortion that produces an effect that is detrimental to the emotional, mental or physical wellbeing of an individual. Clients learn self-hypnosis to change learned behaviour into a conditioned response (or habit).
A conditioned response results when someone visualises something repeatedly in his or her mind, until the thought is there without consciously having to think about it (Steve Norton, 'The Principles of Life'). This problem is analogous to a whirlpool of negativity the more anxious a person is the more negatively they think ad infinitum.
Self-hypnosis can effectively break this cycle by distracting the client from the faulty thought process. This distraction brings the client to a realisation that they have some control over their anxiety. If a client can successfully control their anxiety some of the time repeatedly, then it becomes a conditioned response. The anxiety vanishes as control becomes a habit (Steve Norton,'The Principles of Life').
Clients learn a self-hypnosis process on their first session, and I encourage them to affirm suggestions relating to their presenting issue. If a client were having hypnotherapy for weight control, I would encourage them to affirm suggestions like:-
I enjoy drinking a glass of water before each meal.
I enjoy eating healthier foods with less calories, fat, and sugar than before.
I feel invigorated and it puts me in a good mood when I take more exercise - even if it is going for a walk or a jog etc.
If attention drifts away during self-hypnosis, just bring it gently back concentrating on the chosen visualization using imagination and physically feel the body relax. There is no resistance to the suggestions communicated in the hypnotic state providing the client is receptive and delivery is competent. This is true for a therapist delivering hypnotherapy, or the client practicing self-hypnosis.
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Additional Hypnotherapy
Any additional hypnotherapy sessions are kept to a minimum and most clients achieve a satisfactory outcome with between one and three sessions in total.
We have consulting rooms for hypnosis in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Chester Le Street, Durham City, Bishop Auckland and Darlington.
We provide home visits for hypnosis upon request throughout Tyne and Wear, County Durham, Teesside and North Yorkshire cover the Newcastle Upon Tyne area and the remainder of the North East. The most recent addition to our consulting rooms is Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Visit home for an overview of information upon what we do.
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Benjamin Disraeli
'Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go higher than you think.' Disraeli served twice as British Prime Minister and was a statesman and literary figure during the 19th century.
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