HYPNOSIS BLOG & RESOURCE CENTER 

There is a growing body of research that shows the importance of grit – our capacity to dig deep and keep going even in the face of great challenges – and how this capacity is a highly accurate predictor of success in many domains of life.

If you’re reading this, and you’re a human being, the odds are you have a bias in your brain towards short-term thinking, towards...

Sometimes the strongest food cravings hit when you're at your weakest point emotionally. You may turn to food for comfort — consciously or subconsciously — when facing a difficult problem, feeling stressed or even feeling bored. Emotional eating can sabotage your weight-loss efforts. It often leads to eating too much — especially too much of high-calorie, sweet and fatty foods. The good news is that if you're prone to emotional eating, you can take steps to regain control of

Your brain can learn in more ways than just consciously. In fact, much of what you’ve learned in your life has been absorbed in other-than-conscious ways. From your native language, your body language, your taste in food, and your sense of humor to your attitude towards your work, your self-concept, and the way you relate to your significant others, none of these are things that people learn consciously and deliberately.

There is often some confusion as to the difference between hypnotherapy and hypnosis itself. Hypnosis is nothing more than a tool which cannot do anything at all until somebody puts it to work. Hypnotherapy is a skill, which uses the tool of hypnosis for the administration of many and various forms of psychotherapy.

Sometimes things just work out well even when you didn’t expect them to – seemingly against the odds. We put this down to luck. “Boy that was lucky!” But maybe most so-called luck isn’t just luck. Or, to put it another way, luck isn’t something that happens to us, but something we make happen. Something we can attract. What if luck was a muscle that you can develop and encourage?

Whenever surveys have been carried out about what people’s worst fears are, one of the top answers that consistently comes up is public speaking. So many people dread the idea of being up before an audience giving a talk or a presentation. On a rational level, you might know that you’re perfectly safe in front of an audience, but at an emotional level, a part of your mind thinks you are genuinely in danger, so it activates the body’s emergency response mechanisms.

We’ve all had the experience of feeling that some particular thing ‘should’ have happened in the past, or that we or someone else ‘should’ have done a certain thing that we didn’t do in an earlier situation, and it’s all too easy to get sucked into reliving these mental movies of the past over and over. You might have particular memories that you keep dwelling on, that cause you anger or sadness, or give you a real sense of frustration that you can’t go back in time and chang

It's clear that when we're hungry we need food. And when thirsty it's water that will quench us. But what about when your clients feel "empty", or "unfulfilled", or that "something is just lacking" but they don't know what? This post suggests a few ideas to help you discover what may be missing from your clients’ lives and how to help them find more emotional fulfillment.

Do you wake up each morning feeling lethargic, sluggish, overwhelmed or apathetic about work and the day ahead of you? Or maybe there’s an obstacle that continues to occupy your mind at every moment. Like many people, you want to be focused and feel successful, but no matter how many cups of coffee you drink, you never get to that place where you are saying, “I feel like I can take on anything put in front of me.” If this sounds familiar, it may be time for you to discover th

Mirroring the natural way you fall asleep, hypnosis can be a great insomnia cure. Hypnosis is similar to the REM stage of sleep, which is why it can act as a 'kickstart' to get you to sleep easily and naturally again.

Hypnosis is a highly effective approach for creating positive changes in your personality. Hypnosis helps you deeply connect with your strengths and shape your self-image, which can help you radically change your life for the better.

Perhaps you can think of a time you avoided a particular situation, or you didn’t participate in a particular activity, because you didn’t want to risk making a mistake and looking foolish in front of others. Or maybe you can recall getting negative feedback from a boss, or a bad mark in an exam, and it felt really painful, maybe even devastating to you at the time. These are signs that, at least at times in life, you’ve been operating from a fixed mindset, as opposed to a gr

Self-hypnosis is a process or a result of hypnosis which is self-induced. It relies on making use of self-suggestions. The successful use of self-hypnosis can be a powerful tool for one’s personal development. Once mastered, concentration can be enhanced, problem-solving improved and overall performance increased. Emotional control is also one of the notable benefits of a proper practice. Read on to find out how to use self-hypnosis to your best advantage easily and safely.

Just because you feel an urge to be negative about yourself doesn’t mean you have to allow it to happen. When you tame your own thinking, and learn to talk to yourself in a calmer, fairer, more civilized way, you’re using the same principles you’ve already learned for how to act in public, and how to speak appropriately to other people, and applying them to your own mind. Therapeutic hypnosis can help you learn to bring civilization to your mind, so that you can treat yoursel

A recent study by the Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago has found evidence to show that there is a direct link between nasal breathing and our cognitive functions.

Hypnosis refers to a set of procedures involving an induction – which could be relaxing or actively imagining something – followed by one or more suggestions. The purpose of the induction is to induce a mental state in which participants are focused on instructions from the therapist, and are not distracted by everyday concerns. One reason why hypnosis is of interest to scientists is that participants often report that their responses feel automatic and effortless.

Have you ever felt like a tiger trapped in a cage? Are you in a situation where you feel cornered with no way out? Is there something creative and passionate inside you, waiting to come out, but you’re holding back for some reason, perhaps out of fear or a sense of lack? Whatever it might be, you could have had high hopes in the beginning for any one of the above scenarios, but over time it hasn’t turned out the way you were expecting. And now you feel stuck and don’t know wh

Self-sabotage is any behavior you engage in that impedes rather than furthers the achievement of your goals and dreams. To stop sabotaging yourself, you need to understand specifically how you sabotage yourself, what triggers it, and why you do it. Only then can a strategy for replacing your self-defeating behavior be devised and implemented. By choosing to replace your self- sabotage with constructive behavior that supports accomplishing your goals, you are demonstrating sel

Hypnosis is used for many purposes in the modern day. Certified hypnotherapists today treat everything from cigarette addiction to skin diseases, as well as soothing patients in preparation for painful medical procedures (including dental work, surgery and chemotherapy injections). This article will discuss how hypnosis can affect the symptoms of anxiety, and the possible benefits of hypnosis for people with anxiety disorders.