Pamela Colby DHP DHA GQHP
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Do you want to play a major part in your life or do you want to be a passenger, then complain about the outcome?
When you finally get to the future, who can you expect to find there?
Answer - YOURSELF! You'll be there..... In all your glory! There's no getting away from that.
The day you cease to exist.....there is no future. At least as far as you are concerned. Do you like yourself now? Then you'll like yourself in the future. Reassured by the prospect of your own good company, you'll find tomorrow a rewarding place.
If you don't like yourself now? You had better start working on that relationship. It's powerful and it's not going to go away. Now please, keep reading ......
Almost nothing that asks us to change is cut and dried. If it were, we would have already have done it, wouldn't we....? Whether your problem is a fear of spiders....a need to quit smoking... a lack of confidence and self esteem or you feel your life lacks meaning .... there's a big wide world out there and if you feel you are swimming in the opposite direction to everyone else, it takes courage to change. Hypnotherapy can give you nourishment to be true to yourself and find the person you want to be. That's the power of Hypnotherapy.
Popular media seems to spend quite a lot of time covering hypnosis. A quick search of the internet will reveal hundreds of sites promising greater achievement if one takes their self-hypnosis course..... Change your life; Comedy Stage Hypnosis; Hypnosis Party Tricks, even 'Banned' hypnosis videos.... all of them guaranteeing change.
Smoking cessation, phobias, weight loss, anxiety and stress are still the most popular applications. There is growing awareness of hypnosis and other uses seem to becoming fashionable. Last year a popular UK theme park broke new ground, in its attempts to get trembling parents to join their kids on the scarier rides. It had noticed a growing number of parents 'holding the bags' outside rather than joining in. Now a hypnotherapist is holding sessions at the park.
A lot of time has been spent covering the benefits of hypnosis in sports and athletics. It has been suggested that Venus and Serena Williams use hypnosis to excel in tennis while Tiger Woods has stated he uses imagery to perform his golfing feats. Athletes have used this technique for years to achieve peak performance in their given sport.
On the medical front, hypnotherapy has been used for widespread and common problems and is considered a godsend for those in whom it has been successful. So much so, it is often applied for use on conditions that medicine struggles to find an adequate solution. Talking therapies are are becoming more widely available on the NHS because they are cost effective. Hypnotherapy is a useful tool in rehabilitation as, with many conditions, the client will spend most of their thoughts visualising exactly the outcome they most fear.... In doing so, they will sabortage their own efforts to get better. Rule No.1, is to be positive, Rule No.2 is to think positive. This is where hypnotherapy scores so highly. With weight control for example, if you want to be slim why not think 'slim' or think 'thin'?
Members of the psychiatric community have tended to be more open minded than their medical colleagues, towards the notion of the subconscious mind and its powers. Hypnosis has been applied to anxiety disorders, dissociative disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), eating disorders, depression etc. Severe burns patients for example, will often suffer psychiatric side effects as a result of their injuries. They must adjust to both living with the memory of acute trauma, as well as adjusting to a new body image.
Similarly withweight control issues, a person who has been morbidly obese most of their life may lose weight successfuly but not know how to be a 'thin' person. The mental adjustment may be enormous. Of course not all dysmorphic conditions are about weight loss, none the less, hypnotherapy can support the client in reaching goals, so they can get better.
We guarantee you'll enjoy the hypnotic experience, come on, give it a try....