Is It Ok To Use Negative Hypnotic Suggestions In Hypnotherapy Sessions?

Posted on August 15, 2011 in Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy Training | No Comments

When I was younger and teenage boys used to use hair mousse to keep their big 1980s ginger affro hair-dos in order (maybe that was just me) there used to be a sign on the side of the dispenser that read “do not squirt into lid, condense into liquid and inhale.” Hahaha. They basically gave [...]

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Using Hypnosis To Access Your Higher Self

Posted on August 11, 2011 in Hypnosis, Self-Hypnosis | No Comments

Having spent some time out and around the countryside and the coastline a great deal recently, I am often led to feel that the time and tranquility I find enables me to access some higher part of myself… The peace of mind gets my creativity flowing and has led me to be moving in a [...]

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New Dates For Upcoming Hypnosis Geek Dinner and Hypnotherapy Peer Support Group

Posted on August 10, 2011 in Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy Training | 2 Comments

I hope and trust that all of you regular readers here in the UK are safe from the recreational violence spreading throughout the country at the moment. My thoughts are with all those affected and I hope that you are getting to enjoy Summer. We had a marvellous Summer hypnosis Geek dinner in July, the [...]

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Hypnosis Geek Factoids and Myth – Rachmaninov Benefited From Hypnosis!

Posted on July 29, 2011 in Hypnosis | No Comments

Last night was our most recent hypnosis geek dinner here in Bournemouth and we have a new slot in the evening whereby we all share so-called facts and myths about hypnosis and discuss them. Yesterday, the very brilliant Lindsay Shepherd offered up a bunch of stuff that got us all hotly debating, but it was [...]

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Hypnosis As An Adjunct To Empirically Supported Therapy, Not Just As A Means Of Delivering Suggestion

Posted on July 28, 2011 in Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy Training | No Comments

Today’s blog entry is really one for hypnosis professionals and therapists and something I have been discussing a great deal with my students in recent weeks. Hypnosis seen from a particular perspective, may well be considered an independent modality of therapy comparable to psychodynamic, behavioural, or cognitive approaches to therapy, many academics and hypnotherapists would [...]

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