‘Fears & Phobias’ Archives
Fears and Phobias – Eliminate them with Hypnosis in Limerick, Portlaoise, Dublin
When you develop a phobia, anxiety has attached itself to the fear and this fear takes on a new life and becomes conditioned by association so any e.g. dog or plane will set off a series of stress responses in your body and you only see to see them in the distance! When you start to avoid the perceived "trigger" then a phobia develops. So when [...]
Fears and Phobias, Anxiety, Blushing and Hypnosis and NLP
Trying to change something about yourself is never easy. The desire for a continued habit and routine is very powerful and some schools of thought suggest that it is more powerful than the survival instinct that each of us possesses. So armed with that information, in the past you may recognise how you self sabotaged any attempts to stop [...]
Anxiety, Fear & Phobias and Hypnosis Dublin
Anxiety is the anticipation of something happening - your mind is picturing and making assumptions about what could happen. Fear is the body's response to a stimulus - to enable the body to fight or run away. It is about self preservation. But if anxiety becomes attached to a fear then the fear takes on its own life and in this case, fears and [...]
Stammering Awareness Day – 22nd October 2008
Today is Stammering Awareness Day. How does hypnosis help to you relieve the anxiety of stammering? For adults and children alike, stammering can have detrimental effects on self esteem and confidence. Problems will be with certain letters and try as you might to avoid them, you will at some time have to use the words. Avoidence is not a [...]
Changing your habits with hypnosis
During an session with me, one of the checks that must be done is what is called an "ecological check". You want to change some habit whether it is stop smoking, stop over-eating, lose weight, stop biting nails, overcome fear etc. But are the people in your life ready for you to change. Have you noticed that if lose weight some friends will [...]
Women and Confidence
Have you noticed that your confidence can vary? In your single days, you could do anything but then a partner and children come along and I often wonder if it is because we are so pulled in all directions that sometimes we can have a crisis of confidence. Having children may make us feel more vulnerable, we worry about them and for them. It [...]
Halloween Ghouls and Ghosts
Halloween conjures up our fears and phobias. Have you noticed how eerie it can be at night - a "lonely" night or a night that would be ideal for a horror movie! Have you noticed how the best horror movies feast on your imagination, it's so dark you can't see anything but the music and atmosphere it creates like footsteps following the future [...]
World Mental Health Day 10th October 2008
Today is World Mental Health Day. I believe that women are under immense stress in this century. You can have it all as long as the everything is what you want and not what your mother or society forces upon you. When I qualified it was my wish to present a caring and nuturing environment for women to express what bothered them - things [...]
Why hypnosis works
You know that you can have insight and be logical about your problem but it doesn't seem to make any difference to the blushing, anxiety, stress with attempts to stop smoking, lose weight etc. Why? Because we reason with the logical part of the mind, the left side, and where is the hurt that prompted the problem in the first place - it's in [...]
What hypnotherapists do
Hypnotherapists do not "rescue" you from whatever problem you have whether it is anxiety, smoking, nail biting etc. Your hypnotherapist helps you to discover or learn more resourceful ways of thinking, behaving, acting, responding so that you are empowered. It is only with finding these resources from within will you ever truly overcome [...]
