7th January 2025: “Is the New Year a good time to make life-changes or turn over a new leaf? It’s a well-worn path to save-up resolutions and goals for the new year and it is as good a time as any, but every day holds the potential to be the beginning of change. Every day is charged with possibility, waiting to be activated by a sense of purpose. The key is to harness the purpose and forget about finding the right day. You have already found the right day: it is today.”
31st Oct 2024: "Small changes can bring big benefits. Anxiety influences our behaviours in subtle ways. When we are in a difficult situation that makes us feel uncomfortable we may be drawn into focusing inwardly, on our feelings of discomfort. This inward attention is caused by, and helps perpetuate, the anxiety mechanism. To reverse the process, by refocusing our attention toward the external stimuli of our immediate surroundings, helps to break the grip of anxiety."
23rd Aug 2024: "If you were to ask yourself at any given moment 'Why am I here, right now, doing this?' and your honest answer is 'Because this is where I want to be, and this is what I want to be doing' then carry on, you are living a good life. If however your answer has more to do with the will of other people over your own then perhaps it is time for a change. Why would you live the life that others want from you? Take back your own life to suit your own will."
15th June 2024: "To understand the concept and value of acceptance is key to overcoming anxiety. Acceptance does not mean liking something or resigning oneself to defeat. Acceptance is the ability to rise above a crisis and understand that some things in life cannot be changed and therefore all we can do is adopt a preferable response to their ongoing presence. Sometimes we cannot defeat the problems of life but we can choose to change the way we live with them and, in doing so, end our unwinnable battle of the mind and find peace at last."
8th April 2024: "One of the goals I set myself regarding all of my clients is to help them become their own therapist. The process is about change and improvement within, and between, each session but also educating the client to know and understand themselves, objectively and rationally. This enables the prospect of ongoing alleviation of symptoms, growth and improvement as well as relapse-prevention. Therapy for the present, education for the future."
24th February 2024: "Why do we tell ourselves we 'must, should or need' when really we just 'want, would like to or would prefer'? In reality we need very little of what we want. If we felt free to admit to what we want all the pressures of necessity are lifted and anxiety evaporates."
15th December 2023: "The anticipation of the harsh judgement of us by others is typically the result of our own unforgiving opinion of ourselves. Only when we learn to forgive ourselves for our mistakes, perceived humiliations and mis-steps can we notice that those around us are perceptive to the joys of our company and remember only the good in us. Contrary to popular belief the City of London is a place of warmth and welcoming humanity - can we all truly say we extend ourselves the same courtesy? Overcoming our anxieties starts within and with acceptance of ourselves."
3rd October 2023: "Lately I have been putting some thought to a particular subsection of Hypnotherapy for Anxiety - specifically Hypnotherapy for Corporate Anxiety. This subsection can be viewed as separate from workplace stress management because it focuses on both the anxiety stimulus and individual response, both internal and external/strategic. Many of my clients find themselves in unpleasant predicaments at work that are identifiably caused by the current default corporate climate - that of skeleton staffing, resource-stripping and never-ending 'rationalisation' and 'restructuring'. With Hypnotherapy they can learn to live and prosper in this historically difficult environment and overcome their anxiety."
1st Aug 2023: "A buzzword that cropped-up a few years ago and has lasted as a prevalent phenomenon is Status Anxiety. In London it's not hard to find the aggravating factors of status anxiety, whether it be the highly competitive property market, the super-charged career possibilities, the fight for top-quality schooling or the general scramble to get ahead amongst the most ambitious and demanding demographic in the country. Hypnotherapy in London for Status Anxiety can help reshape the priorities in life, introduce mindfulness-based acceptance methods and improve your relationship with those around you and yourself. Free from status anxiety, you can learn to live the life you want based on your own values - all with the help of Hypnotherapy in London."
28th June 2023: "When stuck in a rut, wrestling against thoughts that limit you remember: when all else fails, we are what we do. While your mind is stuck in a debate about what to do, get busy acting-out the role you want to adopt. Your mind will soon get the idea. Hypnosis can assist with this transition by teaching us to easily adopt new methods of action. Procrastination and damaging routine can be overcome with Hypnotherapy in London."
27th April 2023: "During my years of practice as a Central London Hypnotherapist I have seen a wide variety of clients that have taught me a great deal about the human condition. Whilst trends and similarities are always to be found with particular issues brought before me, also apparent is the unique individuality of each client. It is within these individualities that we can see the human ability to adapt, grow and prevail against the challenges of life. It is a privilege to be a Hypnotherapist in London to be able to witness these stories of perseverance and positive change to overcome anxiety with Hypnotherapy."
26th Feb 2023: "A common use for Hypnotherapy is to help with weight-loss. Hypnosis for weight-loss has a particular advantage over traditional dieting methods in that it seeks to bring about a permanent life change from one way of living to another, as opposed to a short-term fix which, statistical evidence clearly shows, is typically either ineffective or counter-effective in the longer term. Hypnotherapy for weight-loss is a way for the client to transition from the thoughts and behaviours of the over-eating, non-exerciser to those of the healthier, slimmer person. The thoughts, feelings and behaviours lead and the body-change takes care of itself."
21st December 2022: "Social phobia is an anxiety and can be overcome with Hypnotherapy. The anxiety exists in the damaging speculation about what others think of you, leading to more catastrophic imagined ideas of their low regard or contempt when, in fact, they may barely even have noticed you. Through Hypnotherapy we can learn to care much less about the judgements of others which enables us to perform at a much higher level and in far greater comfort in social situations that would otherwise provoke deep social phobia."
24th October 2022: "Hypnotherapy is the best therapeutic antidote to anxiety. But from where does anxiety arrive? Anxiety is neither the external factor, nor the internal response but the result of the interaction of these two elements. Eg. a stressful situation plus a fearful, defensive and disproportionate response results in anxiety. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy enables the anxious person to respond differently to the stimulus preventing anxiety from appearing and break the cycle of anxiety."
23rd August 2022: "Identify the problem, design the ideal, understand the self, abandon what is counter-productive, adopt the new model, live the change, reap the rewards. That is Hypnotherapy! Anxiety is what happens when we compliment difficult situations in life with our compliance - hypnosis can teach us do drop this response."
20th June 2022: "Anxiety can manifest itself in too many ways to count but, in essence, can be seen as the anticipatory fear of things which are not. Humans have evolved to be able to envision ideas in the abstract and anxiety is the by-product of this development. When people urge others to 'Live in the present' they mean engage with that which is tangible, current, available and near. When doing this we cannot concern ourselves with abstract threat. Hypnotherapy can help bring us back, constantly, to our present reality and reject our interaction with the anxieties of our imaginings."
21st April 2022: "For all its mystique, mystery and sense of the transcendent, Hypnosis is the practice of focused and willing attention on specific ideas or situations. A prosaic enough idea that enables profound personal change at otherwise impossible speed and depth. Hypnosis when used in alliance with Cognitive Behavioural therapy is truly and profoundly transformative in a short time to reduce and often eradicate anxiety."
20th February 2022: "Instinctively we believe our thoughts, however lacking in logic, reason or credibility. We can improve our life-quality by learning to notice our pop-up thoughts with amused indifference. They are unsolicited bursts of random creative by-product - bizarre, often macabre, but without true resonance or insight. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy can help us to reach this pleasant state and greatly reduce anxiety."

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