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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

When it comes to losing weight, many individuals know to focus on eating less and exercising more. But a major aspect of weight control involves understanding and managing thoughts and behaviors that can often interfere with weight loss.

Yogi Berra, the famous New York Yankees player and manager, once said, “Sports is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.” While his math was intentionally, and humorously, wrong, he made a key point: the mental side of sports is often more important than the physical side

The average person ranks the fear of public speaking higher than the fear of death. The truth is, this fear could be hurting your professional and personal life. You may have been there before. You feel nervous, your palms sweat, your stomach ties itself into knots. You don’t want to do it. You would rather do anything else than talk to someone. Is this you?

Today’s world class athletes may be approaching the limits of physical potential, suggests an analysis in the journal Sports Medicine, as indicated by a slowing pace of record performances on the track and in the pool. To push athletes further, researchers and coaches look to maximize the power of the brain. Amongst other techniques, sports hypnosis is a powerful teaching tool that can quickly propel athletes to the next level of sports performance.

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.

Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, nicotine) or engages in an activity (e.g., gambling, sex, shopping) that can be pleasurable but the continued use/act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilities, such as work, relationships, or health. Let's see how understanding the critical role of context and expectation in addictions makes them easier to treat.

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.

For a creative professional, a creative block isn’t just frustrating — it’s potentially career-damaging. When you rely on your creativity to pay the bills and build your reputation, you can’t afford to be short of ideas or the energy to put them into action. Struggling for (new) ideas? It happens to the best of us — so here are twenty proven tips to see those inspirational juices flowing again.

The pain and discomfort of IBS, and the fact that it's hard to predict when you will experience a flare up, can really interfere with your quality of life, and many people find it an upsetting and distressing condition to deal with at times. While there is no single, one shot cure for IBS, there are a variety of treatment options for it, and hypnosis is one of them.

Boost your persuasion skills at work and in any social scenario with these five proven "power words", that will change the direction of any conversation you have.

Self-confidence is a psychological quality related to (but distinct from) self-esteem. Having high levels of self-confidence can have huge benefits for all areas of an individual’s life, including relationships, career and social life. Self-confidence isn't there just to make you feel good. We need self-confidence to drive our aspirations to make them real; it's as much a vehicle as a destination in itself. What's more, when you are self-confident others feel it and can't hel

Your doctor may recommend you to take medicine to help you sleep. For some people this can be an effective treatment, but it is important to try and find out the underlying cause to the issue. Behavioral therapies and talk therapies are sometimes advised. Hypnotherapy is another treatment option that many people find effective. Hypnotherapy for insomnia can tackle any potential causes, while helping you relax and easily drop off to sleep.

Hypnotherapy works by accessing the underlying cause of the phobia and eliminating the person’s conditioned response to a stimulus. When hypnosis is used to treat a phobia, the initial goal of the hypnotherapist is to discover the initial event from which the phobia developed.

As a hypnotherapist, I help people live a better life. I give people advice every day – advice that makes a difference. But that said, self-improvement can sometimes be overwhelming, especially if you’re trying to change a number of things at once and you’re not sure where to start. If you’re stuck in a rut, and would like to discover a powerful self-hypnosis practice that streamlines your focus so you can make the right kind of changes to your life, check out the steps below

Would you like to cure yourself of an irrational fear? Hypnosis for phobias can help you overcome many debilitating fears, including fear of public speaking (second most "googled" fear), stage fright, fear of flying, fear of driving, fear of heights, social phobia, economic fear... and many other fears not listed here.

With many stage hypnotists using hypnosis as a form of entertainment, it may surprise you to know that hypnosis in the form of hypnotherapy can be very successful in helping with several medical and psychological conditions. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of those.

There are multiple forms of therapy to choose from, whether it's mainstream or of the alternative variety. With all these seemingly endless options, why should anyone choose hypnotherapy?

People have spent so much time trying to focus and work within the rules and be in line with correct thinking, that we have lost our ability to put faith in the power of our natural mental ability. But what if you were able to let down your guard? What if you could overcome the blocks you have placed in your mind and remove your inability to thinking through issues and finding solutions? Imagine the power you could generate!

Many people wonder what does a therapeutic hypnosis session feel like. My answer is: it really depends on who you ask. But however you experience your session, you will find that hypnosis in a therapeutic form is a safe, natural and uniquely soothing experience.