Posts Tagged ‘baggot street’
Stop Smoking
What is the first thing that comes to mind when contemplating giving up smoking? The irritability, how will you cope, what will you do with your hands and you may have other thoughts? All of these are fears – apprehensions about what might happen. Of course, if this is what you believe and indeed, this may have been your experience with stopping [...]
Infertility and Hypnosis
For many of us, we spend our 20s trying not to get pregnant but when, in our 30s, it is the only thing you can think about and failure to become pregnant can undermine your confidence. You may have achieved all your other goals but this is something you have no control over. Why can you do? Reducing the stress your mind and body are [...]
Social Anxiety: Changing inner thoughts and self talk
Being less self conscious means changing your behaviours and reactions. This means stepping outside your comfort zone, breaking through the fear and using the fear to motivate you to change rather than keep you back. In this way, you are challenging the negative thoughts and saying "no more, I deserve and have a right to be part of society, a [...]
Social Anxiety: Stop Anxiety, Overcome Shyness, Stop Avoidance Behaviours
You may have found ways over the years to reduce your anxiety in social situations but find that the shyness and avoidance tendencies have remained. Which makes you feel that you really have made no progress at all. Anxiety, shyness and avoidance techniques are three separate entities and all three need to be worked on. The shyness and [...]
Social Anxiety and Hypnosis
Can you remember the first time you felt belittled, embarrassed, made to feel ashamed of who you were? There is significant in recalling this event through hypnosis so that you can cut the emotional tie to that memory. While we cannot change what has happened, the goal with hypnosis is take the emotional connection away so that you can be free [...]
The Pleasure/Pain Principle of Change
In some ways human beings are very simple. We like to do things that give us pleasure and we avoid doing things that give us pain. But sometimes this pleasure/pain principle can be inverted. For instance in my work with smoking cessation clients I often find that those who come to me for help to stop smoking dread the new smoke free life that [...]
Social Anxiety and Hypnotherapy
What happens with social anxiety - you worry intensely before the event, at the event itself your self fulfilling prophecy manifests and after the event, you post mortem it to justify your inital worry. Whatever thoughts you have, you will find a way at a subconscious level to justify them and make them "true" for you. If I ask you to [...]
Top 5 Reasons To Quit Smoking
The top five reasons to give up smoking are: Health – are you already suffering the ill effects of smoking? Perhaps members of yo ur family are affected by second hand smoke leading to bronchitis, asthma or other health problems. Better professional image – do you really want to be remembered for your smoky breath and stale smell on [...]
Afraid To Stop Smoking?
If it is that easy to stop smoking with hypnosis/NLP why do so many people continue to smoke? In my experience I have found that for most people the answer comes down to one thing...FEAR! FEAR that you’ll never be able to continue your life as a non smoker and be completely free of nicotine; FEAR that you’ll put on weight or start [...]
Social Anxiety and Hypnosis
With social anxiety (or any anxiety) all your thoughts are directed inwards so that you lose awareness of what is actually happening and going on around it. Time seems to slow down and perhaps you may feel everything is exaggerated. You want to feel "safe", to distance yourself physically, avoiding eye contact, trying to disappear but the [...]
