Fears & Phobias, Agoraphobia, Anxiety, Claustrophobia, Panic Attacks, Public Speaking, Worry, Stress
Hypnotherapy can empower patients to react to, and cope with, anxieties in a new and positive way. It can address fears and phobias involving lifts, all forms of travel (especially by air), fear of crowded or enclosed places, animals (spiders and snakes are frequent examples). Other problems including fear of disease, going to the dentist or undergoing surgical operations - all can be successfully relieved by hypnotherapy. The workplace can lead to anxious times - particularly talks and presentations, interviews and dealing with staff. These, and loss of confidence, blushing and shyness, can be greatly helped. Many patients are pleasantly surprised to find that their 'public' situations become genuinely positive and productive experiences.
Depression, Nervous Breakdown
Everyone can suffer depression, often with good reason, but many people become caught in a downward spiral, unable to deal with the position in which they find themselves. Hypnotherapy can help patients regain control of their situation, laying the past to rest and rebuilding for the future.
Insomnia
Insomnia can be caused by situations where sleep patterns have been interupted by illness, anxieties or unnatural stresses. Hypnotherapy can help a patient alter the pattern that led to insomnia, and adopt techniques that induce natural sleep.
Weight and Eating Disorders
Hypnotherapy can help a patient regain the control they feel they've lost, and restore balanced eating habits. Importantly it can help create a better self-image, allowing patients to like themselves again, and be more self-confident in the world around them.
Addiction, Dependency & Compulsion
Patients often begin smoking, drinking, gambling or taking drugs as superficial strategies to cope better with life, yet they cause more problems than they solve. Hypnotherapy is very successful at helping a patient take control of the underlying issues, making external support irrelevant and unnecessary.
Relationships, Marital Problems, Insecurity, Jealousy
Physical intimacy is a fundamental part of everyday life, and problems in that area lead to anxieties that inhibit happiness and normal interaction. When a patient understands the underlying causes of marital problems, harmony can be restored. Further, hypnotherapy can help relieve feelings of insecurity, jealousy and aggression, giving the opportunity to reclaim closeness and understanding with a partner.
Lack of Confidence, Examination Nerves
Hypnotherapy is an excellent tool for the enhancement of artistic productivity - for example in acting, singing, writing and painting. It can also help improve memory and concentration, and instil a positive attitude to learning any skill. Hypnotherapy is especially useful in preparing for examinations.
Nail Biting, Migraines, Headaches, Blushing, Enuresis
Hypnotherapy can help with physical conditions and chronic pain in a safe, natural, way - and can be used successfully as an effective anaesthetic for surgery, burns or dentistry [with the agreement of a patient's own medical practitioner]. It is excellent in helping people to improve their own immune system, long-recognised as an important aspect of health and well-being. The immune system is governed by emotions, and the whole body benefits when these are in balance. Hypnotherapy is also successful in helping with problems of irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, skin disorders, asthmatic symptoms, migraine, headache, neck tensions and abnormal blood pressure. Back pain and arthritis can be substantially helped by hypnotherapy where such problems have an anxiety basis.
Hypnotherapy is an excellent strategy for women wanting natural childbirth ; helping with contractions and delivery - and also in recovery, allowing mother and baby to form a relaxed and happy bond. With a first baby there can be a fear of the unknown, and parental anxiety about looking after a new and precious human being. Maternity units often have a positive attitude to hypnotherapy for mothers, knowing that it has helped many to relax and enjoy their maternal experience.
Work, Sports Performance
This area is a life-long personal interest of John Gallacher, who has competed successfully in weight-lifting and strength contests, and Hypnotherapy can help with many such activities including golf, trampolining, swimming and others. Hypnotherapy can assist in removing mental 'barriers', and motivate athletes in all fields to optimise physical development and achieve 'personal best' performances. Similar principles can be applied to Business Performance motivation, and much benefit can be derived from the use of Hypnotherapy to increase confidence in sales situations.
Guilt
Nobody questions feeling guilty but we can carry guilt around with us like a backpack and we can feel guilt at times but not be fully aware of why or how destructive it can be to our mind and to our body. Most people are not aware that their anxiety and guilt can cause not only psychosomatic illness like asthma and eczema but also physical illnesses. It can also become a defence which can stop us from coping or dealing with a major situation or turning point in our lives and in not dealing with it properly it can also damage other people and our relationships with them. We can feel guilty about what we have done to people in the past or what we have not done for them but that too can be a way out for not facing up to the responsibilities of our actions. We also can be made to feel guilty by our loved ones or by the media and advertising. Hypnotherapy can help a person to start to get their life in to perspective and help them start to take responsibility in dealing with these issues of guilt.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder [PTSD] is a psychological and physical condition that can be caused by extremely frightening experiences or witnessing traumatic events such as military combat, serious accidents, violent deaths, personal assaults, terrorist attacks or natural disasters etc. Symptoms usually develop immediately but they can take months or years before they develop and PTSD can develop at any age including childhood. Someone suffering from this condition often relives the experience through nightmares and flashbacks, has problems with concentrating and sleeping and has a feeling of isolation, unreality and detachment from life that can also cause depression and an inability to cope at work or with their loved ones around them.
At one time it was known as shell shock or battle fatigue syndrome after the terrible battle traumas of the soldiers fighting in the trenches in the First World War. Since then it has now been recognised that other traumatic events have had similar effects when someone has experienced extreme horror or fear or helplessness. With Personal physical attack the wounds may heal but the emotional invasion of a personal space can leave a much more damaging effect.
STOP SMOKING WITHOUT GAINING WEIGHT!
Hypnotherapy is a very successful way of helping a person to become a non Smoker. Research based evidence shows that it the most effective method to help smokers to stop when compared to all other methods. Smoking itself is not just the problem but it is how you cope with every day life and its stresses and anxieties and importantly, Hypnotherapy can reduce or even remove the anxiety that smokers sometimes feel when they stop smoking, as well as helping them to control their weight, which for some smokers is an important issue. The subconscious mind influences our smoking behaviour in several ways, repetitious behaviour becomes automatic, emotional triggers may mean for example that we smoke when we are bored or stressed, psychological triggers may mean that we desire to smoke in certain places or at certain times. Virtually all smokers use smoking as a reward. These reward systems underpin the belief in the subconscious that they need to smoke.
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