Friday 13th: What Can We Learn From Superstitious Fear?
Friday the 13th has long been considered unlucky, but where did this superstition come from? From ancient myths to historic events like the arrest of the Knights Templar, this date is surrounded by eerie lore. Yet, what’s truly fascinating is how collective belief can shape our perceptions and decisions, even without any rational explanation. Whether it’s changing plans, avoiding travel, or simply feeling uneasy, many of us are influenced by this cultural myth. But are we letting irrational beliefs steer our lives? Dive into the origins of friggatriskaidekaphobia and discover the power of superstition in everyday life.
The Problem with being a ‘People Pleaser’.
A surprising number of the people I work with in therapy start off describing themselves as being a ‘People Pleaser’ – often said with a sideways smile and an undertone of knowing this to be a problem, which it certainly can be. But why?
Overcoming Ornithophobia: The Wings of Change with Hypnotherapy
Ornithophobia, an irrational fear of birds, can be a debilitating condition that significantly impacts an individual's daily life. Whether triggered by a past traumatic experience or simply an unexplained fear, ornithophobia can cause anxiety, panic attacks, and avoidance behaviours. In this blog post, we explore the nature of ornithophobia and shed light on hypnotherapy as an effective and promising form of treatment.
Conquering Imposter Syndrome: Understanding, Causes, and the Power of Hypnotherapy
What Are Your Emotional Needs?
Just as we need air to breathe and water to drink, we also have distinct emotional needs. If these needs are not met or are imbalanced, just as a lack of food would risk starvation, our health tends to suffer.
And yet, as obvious as this may seem, when it comes to our mental health, these needs can be overlooked, instead the focus all too often is on the resulting symptoms, anxiety, panic, depression – to name a few.
How Hypnotherapy can help you overcome Driving Anxiety.
Driving anxiety is a common issue that affects many people. For some, it can be a mild unease or nervousness when driving, while for others, it can be a severe fear that prevents them from driving altogether. If you are one of those who struggle with driving anxiety, you know how limiting it can be, affecting not only your ability to drive but also your quality of life.
Fortunately, there are many treatment options available to help manage and overcome driving anxiety, and hypnotherapy is one of the most effective and popular ones. Hypnotherapy uses guided relaxation techniques to help you access your subconscious mind and make positive changes to your thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours.
Why is Anxiety worse in the morning?
Anxiety is a common mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It can manifest in various forms, such as panic attacks, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or generalized anxiety disorder. While anxiety can occur at any time of the day, many people experience it more intensely in the morning. In this blog, we discuss why anxiety is worse in the morning and provide advice for managing its symptoms.
Can OCD be treated with Hypnotherapy?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a type of anxiety disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. In Norwich, hypnotherapy for OCD can be an effective way to reduce anxiety, manage compulsions, and improve quality of life. Here's what you need to know about hypnotherapy and how it can help those with OCD.
Hypnotherapy: An Effective Treatment for Managing Anger Issues
Anger is a common emotion that everyone experiences, but when it becomes intense, uncontrolled, and disruptive, it can lead to significant problems in personal and professional life. If left untreated, chronic anger can cause physical and mental health issues and strain relationships. However, hypnotherapy can be a powerful and effective way of managing and resolving anger issues.
Hypnotherapy as a Treatment for Aviophobia: Overcoming the Fear of Flying
Aviophobia, also known as the fear of flying, is a common phobia that affects millions of people around the world. It can prevent individuals from taking trips, pursuing career opportunities, and experiencing new cultures, causing them to feel trapped and limited in their daily lives. Fortunately, hypnotherapy has been shown to be an effective treatment option for aviophobia, helping individuals to overcome their fear of flying and reclaim their freedom.
Father Christmas had you hypnotised, here’s how.
According to folklore, Father Christmas is a plump old man who can work magic. And yet, incredibly, clever kids the world over believe in Santa with all their hearts, why?
Although this as a bit of festive fun, the important point is perhaps obvious, it’s not just Father Christmas that we come to belief at an early age, its all the other stuff we inherit in those formative years, some of which can be severely life-limiting.
The Safety of Sadness
Everyone of us has experienced sadness at some point in their life, often when something we cared for is lost to us – a person, a pet, a part of our life, a part of ourselves even.
These events can very easily move us off balance, cause a feeling of sadness and in more significant cases a prolonged depression of mood and motivation. As painful as these periods can be, it is helpful to understand something of why our bodies react in this way.
This place of stuckness can be unbelievably painful for people. But with the right support, people can find their way out, to reengage with life and the fullness of what it has to offer - and what they have to offer it.
How Beliefs Can Block or Unlock Your Superhuman
We can hold strong beliefs about how limited we are, and we can hold strong beliefs about how capable we are – both will hold true in the way our bodies play those beliefs out for us through the way we feel, think and behave. Hypnotherapy can help change beliefs at a subconscious level, unlocking our incredible human potential.
Why 40% of people fear flying and 5 ways to a calmer flight
Fear of flying, or aviophobia, is an anxiety disorder affecting around 40% of people. It can ruin the enjoyment of holidays, impact relationships and leave people feeling emotionally exhausted, to name just some of the effects.
As distressing as this fear is, it is also quite understandable when you consider that we are all born with two of the main ingredients, a fear of falling and a fear of loud noises.
In combination, these tools provided here are a powerful way to bring flying fears under control and achieve calmness throughout your journey.
5 things a toddler can teach you about mastering your goal
Can you walk? If the answer is yes, you can feel good to know that you’ve mastered something so incredibly complex that even the most advanced robotics can’t get close to mimicking it. And yet most of us do it all the time without a second thought. Its vital that we learn to walk when we’re so young because they way we learn at this age, is quite different, here’s how.
Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 - Loneliness
Everyone’s personality is a collection of parts, parts formed and shaped by the many roles we play in ‘The Act of Living’. One of the common principles across the many forms of therapy is that an integrated personality is representative of good health. Hypnotherapy can help people to reconnect with problematic parts of their personality so they can enjoy a sense of wholeness and inner harmony.
Why you can’t quit smoking like everybody else.
There are 5.5 million smokers in the UK and every one of them has a story. A story as individual as they are. Hypnotherapy can help people lose their habit, but keep their story.
Why do we have emotions?
Emotions, we all have them. At best they can be life-affirming, and at worst, torturous and confusing. But why, what’s their purpose? It’s a reasonable question for anyone to ask, especially someone struggling emotionally.
Anxiety - Ancient Wisdom Short-Circuited by Modern Times.
Anyone experiencing symptoms of anxiety or panic may like to know that feeling anxious is a natural bodily process - like breathing, digestion, immunity. The reason anxiety causes so many people problems today is because the anxiety alarm is designed to keep us clear of the kinds of danger our ancestors faced, out in the wild. The good news is, by understanding anxiety as an intelligent, life-saving response and not a medical disease, we can take a different view.
Panic - Attack or Alarm?
The term Panic Attack is commonly used nowadays, but it wasn’t always the case. Over the last decade, searches for ‘Panic Attack’ on Google have increased by 223%. Here’s a different approach and one that I came to learn through self-experimentation.