I have done all I can to avoid it until now… Every shop is playing jingle bells… News items are talking about the impact on the financial climate upon our festivities… TV advertisements have got snow flakes in abundance… At facebook everyone seems to be inviting me to place gifts under their trees and decorate my profile…

I love Christmas… But do I need to spend 2 months preparing or it? And what about the seemingly hypnotically induced stress that the festive season seems to inject into many individuals… Yes indeed, for many this is the most stressful time of the year…. Jingle Bells sends shivers of worry into some people…

It seems ironic doesn’t it? That our Christmas holidays are a time inherently defined as times meant for joy and release from work demands…. Or as Cliff Richard puts it “a time to rejoice in the good that we bring.” (And a time for loving, a time for living, a time for sharing and a time for giving… A bit disappointed with myself for knowing so many of the lyrics of that song!)

The images of close-knit families throwing coloured wrapping paper in the air, sat around the roaring fireplace, beside the tree, giggling at Granddad snoozing on the sofa…. According to many though, Christmas is generally when the worst of nightmares often become reality… Let me explain this further…

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More video today folks… With reference to an article I wrote here last July… Let me tell you about a man who I wrote about fondly in my first book, who came to see me for hypnotherapy and insisted on being serious about his depression…

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One of the things I labour on my hypnotherapy training diploma course, my self-hypnosis seminars and within much of my written and audio work, is the notion of progressive language. What do I mean by that?

Well, I cannot put it all in its entireity here today - there is not enough space and I have not got the hours…

One of the aspects of progressive language to use with others and especially for your own internal dialogue is to make language move and have incresing momentum nd motion… Because this illustrates my point here today incredibly well in relation to your own happiness… And we always want to be more happy, don’t we? Let me explain how…

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Ok, so we really have gone video crazy today… Well, it is Friday… My thanks to Ellie Blunt for the inspiration for this video clip… All about the man who could not be hypnotised…

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Yes indeed, today heralds a new era in this blog… I am speaking on it… You asked me for it… So here we are in the 21st century and a few times a week, I’ll be video blogging instead of just writing… It took a wee bit of time to get all the fangled things operating smoothly, we are here now though… Here’s the first of many…

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