Three Counties Advanced Hypnotherapy Centres

October 23, 2009

Smoking and the Effects on Pets.

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Passive Smoking and Pets

As pet owners, we spend a lot of time trying to keep our pets fit and healthy. However, although we constantly worry about the food we are giving our pets or the amount of exercise they are getting, how often do we consider that they may suffer from a fatal disease by our own hand, if it contains a cigarette.
There have been very few studies on the effects of passive smoking on animals. However this month, Dr Anthony Moore from Tufts University in Massachusetts has revealed that living in a house with smokers considerably increases a cat or dog’s risk of getting feline or canine lymphoma. Mr Moore hopes new research linking second-hand smoke exposure to the most common kind of cancer in pets, will encourage some people to kick the habit. ”I think there are a lot of people who might not quit smoking for themselves or their family. But they might for their cats and dogs,” he adds hopefully.
Although there is scepticism about the research, it makes sense that if your pet is subjected to smoke fumes in the house, their respiratory system could feel the repercussions. Some vets have suggested that smoke becomes quite concentrated at a lower level and have highlighted these figures when arguing for the plight of our pets. Only 15 per cent of cigarette smoke is actually inhaled by the smoker. The rest is dispersed into the atmosphere exposing pets to over 400 toxins. This smoke includes over 40 known cancer-causing substances, as well as carbon monoxide.
One dog owner, who thought about the long-term effects on her pet, was Shirley Beardsworth, owner of Crufts Lifetime Member, Cocker Spaniel Meg Beardsworth. After deciding to give up smoking she realised that, not only was she putting herself at risk, her dog was at risk too. “My dog, Meg, used to sneeze and run out of the room whenever I lit up a cigarette,” she recalls, “but since I have given up smoking she is extremely fit. She’s still winning dog championships and even beating dogs younger than herself.”
Recent research has also demonstrated that cigarette smoke is related to other health-related illnesses in pets, such as asthma. Studies have found that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke is also linked to nasal and sinus cancer in pet dogs. Constant exposure to cigarette smoke is certainly not going to make your pet fitter, healthier or happier. In a perfect environment, an animal should not come into contact with any cigarette smoke, so why not go outside to have a cigarette. Better still, for the sake of you and your pet’s health, give up smoking altogether!

October 22, 2009

Hypnotherapy for Weight Loss

Finally a weight management programme will change your life!

Using the very latest in mind/body psychology I  help clients learn how to bring more balance into their lives, creating a purpose and direction for them to move towards… Be prepared for amazing changes in your life!

I have developed this successful programme  over the  past 6 years (2003) and have helped many hundreds of people lose weight effortlessly.

Many people look at overweight people and think they are greedy have no willpower, or that their appearance is due to lack of knowledge or ignorance. Being overweight, at least significantly so, is almost never just a matter of not knowing better; it’s far more complicated than that. and in my experience people who are overweight know a lot about what they should be eating.

There are often psychological problems associated with obesity – depression, lack of confidence, low self esteem etc. Most psychological problems are resolved naturally once the weight has been lost. Often the anxiety and frustrations that cause people to over eat stem from being over weight… it’s a vicious circle.

Dieting in the UK and worldwide is a multi billion pound business. There are literally  thousands of diet books, videos, food substitutes, weight loss drugs and weight loss clubs.

The trouble is all these treatments rely on willpower, which is why they usually fail! If you have had enough of all those diets that have found that they just don’t work for you in the long term…call us now for a revolution that will change your mind…and change your behaviour so that you too will become slimmer, have greater confidence and have many more choice in what you want to do and wear etc.

A common misconception surrounding weight loss is that you need a lot of willpower to succeed. Willpower however doesn’t really exist, behaviour that gives the appearance that a person has willpower, is simply behaviour allowed by the unconscious mind because it agrees with the conscious desire.

Generally if someone succeeds in losing weight using willpower alone, as soon as the weight is lost, they resume back to their old eating patterns and re-gain all the lost weight. Another common problem when using willpower alone is that as soon as other things occupy your mind, or the main goal is removed i.e. losing weight for a special occasion or slimming for a holiday, or an crisis arises, people have a tendency to slip back into their old habits. This compounds the problem because of the added disillusionment and discouragement. Something more efficient and permanent than willpower is needed to enable clients to stick to their new healthy eating regime.

So How does Hypnosis for weight loss help?

Hypnosis bypasses willpower and changes the way the unconscious mind thinks. This allows eating healthily and smaller portion sizes becomes effortless.

This works by utilising the same psychological principles you employ when mastering a new skill. If you are not able to imagine that you are going to be successful, then you are defeated before you begin. This is what happens when people undertake diets having previously failed many times before. No amount of willpower can surmount this feeling of negative history of failed diets.

Every successful person has had to be capable of visualising himself/herself as a success long before it becomes a reality. A doctor, for example, could not undertake many years of study unless he/she was first able to ’see him/herself as a doctor. Any successful person achieves their goals by overcoming handicaps, which defeated those people who were less motivated.

Unfortunately, all negative opinions – true or not – filter into your unconscious mind, which does not question or analyse the many impressions it receives. People become so convinced that they are incapable of the strength necessary to maintain a diet that they eventually stop mentally picturing a healthy/more attractive body. Using advanced hypnosis to create a positive self image is the key that open the door to a slimmer you. Once a proper self image is generated people find they have the conviction to easily stick to a healthy eating plan.

It is the role of the Hypnotherapist/coach to determine the most suitable treatment for each individual client but the following are examples of some of the benefits clients gain from hypnotherapy:

* Removes the desire to overeat
* Forms a positive self image
* Produces stronger feelings of strength and determination
* Improves self esteem, confidence and positive thinking
* Improves stress levels
* Occasionally weight gain is caused by a past event, uncovering this can help

Sometimes hypnotherapy uncovers secondary gains (reasons to remain overweight) and replacing weight gain with something more beneficial can help.

So with Advanced Hypnotherapy there are no diets, gunky shakes or pills off the Internet. No meal plans, potions to weight or calories to count.

You just get to eat the food that you want to eat but smaller portions, much much smaller potions.

Feel free to contact me if you truly want success…i can help get to where you want to get to easily.

Thanks for takingthe time to read this

Howard the Hypnotherapist

A Little Note On Hypnosis.

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Eliminate Bad Habits, Build Self Confidence, Lose Weight Stop Smoking and Much Much More
How safe is Hypnosis and What is it?
Hypnosis is a natural safe state of mind that you spontaneously experience many times a day. For instance, you are in hypnosis when:
• You find yourself day dreaming.
• You are driving on a road and you find yourself so focused in something in your mind that you missed your exit, or you arrived home not remembering every turn and manoeuvre you made to get there.
• You are watching a film and you are crying or getting scared or having any kind or emotions related to it.
• You are looking for an object which is within sight r but you can not see it.
• Hypnosis is safe, over 200 years of experience in the Western World and there have been no cases of someone hurt by hypnosis. The British Medical Association accepted and recognised hypnosis in 1959.
All Hypnosis is fundamentally Self-Hypnosis as one of the real pioneers of modern Hypnosis Dr. Milton Erickson stated many years ago. Hypnosis is defined as a state of heightened suggestibility and you must be willing to follow the suggestions or there is no so-called trance state. Only you decide when you go in hypnosis and no one has the power hypnotise you against your will! Your hypnotherapist is simply a guide who helps you use these human abilities to make the changes that you want. For example, breaking bad habits, overeating, smoking, etc…

October 21, 2009

Myths About Hypnosis

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Myths about Hypnosis
A hypnotherapist has magical powers: Myth
This is completely false. A hypnotherapist is an ordinary human being. Just as in any other profession there are good and unfortunately poorer or just inexperienced hypnotherapists. We recommend that if the issue you want to deal with is important to you than you choose carefully. Our advice is simply this: If for any reason you feel in any way uncomfortable with the hypnotherapist than you must terminate the session before therapy begins.
You can be hypnotised and do things against your will: Myth
Absolutely false. Nobody can be hypnotised against their will. You must be 100% cooperative in order to be hypnotised. Under Hypnosis you can choose to accept or reject any suggestions given to you by the hypnotherapist.
Only weak minded people can be hypnotised: False.
In fact the opposite is true. The more intelligent you are the easier it is to be successfully in hypnosis. Unfortunately in certain cases of mental debility, hypnosis is not possible. You can be hypnotised only if you want to be AND agree. Advanced Hypnosis can help you make all the changes you want quickly, easily and permanently.
Under hypnosis you are unconscious: Myth
Not true at all. Under Hypnosis you are awake, completely aware and also very relaxed. Even people who find it normally difficult to relax find it very easy once shown how.
You can get stuck in Hypnosis: Myth
Completely false. Even if the hypnotherapist dropped dead after putting you in deep Hypnosis, you will either open your eyes after not hearing his voice for a while or you will slip into a brief sleep and awaken normally.
Advanced Hypnotherapy means that you are aware and you stay in control at all times.

We only practice from professional city centre offices for your peace of mind.

October 20, 2009

What Can I Use Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy For?

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What Can I use Hypnosis for?
Hypnosis is beneficial and can be used in so many ways; at The Three Counties Advanced Hypnotherapy Centres we use Advanced Hypnosis and NLP technology along with many other tools to help our clients with issues such as:
• Stop Smoking
• Lose Weight
• Eliminate Unwanted Habits
• Achieve Self Acceptance
• Build Self Confidence
• Build Self Esteem
• Enjoy Public Speaking
• Excel in Sports
• Improve Grades & Reading Skills
• Improve Memory
• Increase Concentration
• Manage Stress
• Overcome Exam Anxiety
• Overcome Fears
• Remove Panic Attacks
• Sleep Well
• Stop Nail Biting
• Unleash Sales Ability
• And Much More

October 19, 2009

Hypnotherapy a Different Explanation.

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Hypnotherapy: changing your life through your subconscious mind
• Have you ever tried to change some behaviour through will-power only to end up stuck and frustrated?
• Have you ever tried to achieve your dreams and goals – only to end up disappointed?
• If so, your core negative beliefs may be holding you back. Advanced hypnosis get to the point of the problem and makes positive changes fast.
Change your life by changing core beliefs held in your subconscious mind!
The problem is like a weed in your garden!
Pretend for a moment, that your mind is like your lawn in the garden of your home. Even some of the best cared for gardens, if you look close enough, are going to have a couple of weeds! Weeds are interesting because they are so persistent. You see, most of the garden is made up of good green grass, shrubs, and flowers (the good things about yourself). The grass, shrubs and flowers have good roots, but the weeds roots go much deeper. That’s why if you try to remove a weed by cutting it off, or pulling it up and you don’t get all of its roots, it is most likely to just come back and sometimes bring more weeds (your personal challenges and symptoms).
Taking this example a little further, you could imagine a picture of the weed and divide it up into three distinct areas:
1. Root area: – Here is the area where the root is. This is equivalent to the subconscious mind, the part deep inside.
2. Ground Level: – Here is the area where the grass is. This is equivalent to the conscious mind, the part that is easy to see.
3. Leafy part: – Here is the part that sticks up into the air for yourself and everyone else to see, the weed, the part of yourself that you don’t like.
The part we don’t like may be a bad habit like biting your finger nails, or something more serious like smoking, a phobia, stress or eating issues etc.
By using Advanced Hypnotherapy we help our clients remove the problem at the root.
When the root is removed, then the problem ceases to exist!

5 reasons that stop successful weight loss

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Just thought i would note just some of the reasons why people fail on diets or weight loss and these are just some of the many ways in which we help people make positive changes using Advanced Hypnotherapy and NLP to lose weight.

EATING QUICKLY
Are you always the first to finish?
Did you taste your meal or did you just shovel it in?
Did you enjoy the flavours, texture and aroma of your meal?
Do you feed rather than eat?
Contact our office in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire to find out how Advanced Hypnotherapy and NLP help you slow down your eating and allow you to actually enjoy eating and become an eater rather than a feeder

BOREDOM EATING
Do you reach for the biscuit packet when you are bored, lonely, watching TV, without a person in your life, or you have split up for a relationship?
Do you sit on the settee and just pile the food into your mouth while you watch your favourite soap?
Contact our office in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire to find out how Advanced Hypnotherapy and NLP will enable you to understand your emotions, your reactions to them and allow you to break the link that your unconscious has between emotions and food

REWARD EATING

Had a good day?
Had a bad day?
Do you deserve a treat?
Rewarding yourself with food seems a good idea at the time but will only lead to the pounds piling on.
Contact our office in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire to find out how Advanced Hypnotherapy and NLP will enable you to fully understand why you need to reward yourself and once again break the link that your unconscious has created between reward and food

PLATE CLEARING

Do you ever leave food on your plate?
Do you have to clean your plate?
Eat up all the leftover rather than throe it away?
Can’t stand to see good good wasted?
Why? Was it the way you were taught when young?
Contact our office in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire to find out how Advanced Hypnotherapy and NLP will help you slow down your eating and allow you stop before you are over full. This alone will reduce your food intake dramatically by ensuring that you eat ‘consciously’.

PROTECTION EATING

Does the thought of attention from the opposite/same sex cause you to get a take away?
Is your partner quite happy with your size maybe thinking a slimmer you could be a temptation to stray?
Do you find yourself yo-yoing when on diets?
When you lose weight does a positive comment cause a negative reaction from you?
Contact our office in Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire to find out how Advanced Hypnotherapy and NLP will allow you to explore the root causes of why you eat to protect yourself and allow you to move on and successfully lose weight successfully and permanently.

If you just want to find out more about how hypnotherapy can be succesful for you and your own unique situtation feel free to conact us 0800 0 19 1366

Howard the Hypnotherapist

October 18, 2009

More Myths of Hypnotherapy

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Here are some More on Myths About Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy
People often fear that being hypnotised will make them lose control, surrender their will, and result in their being dominated, but a hypnotic state is not the same thing as gullibility or weakness. Many people base their assumptions about hypnotism on stage acts but fail to take into account that stage hypnotherapists screen very carefully their volunteers to select only those who are fully cooperative, with probable exhibitionist tendencies.
. Stage acts help create a myth about hypnosis which can sometimes discourages people from seeking legitimate and successful hypnotherapy.
Another myth about hypnosis is that people lose consciousness and have amnesia. A small percentage of subjects, who go into very deep levels of trance will fit this stereotype and have spontaneous amnesia. The vast majority of people remember everything that occurs in hypnosis. This is beneficial, because the most of what we want to accomplish in advanced hypnosis may be done in a medium depth trance, where people will tend to remember everything.
In hypnosis, the patient is not under the control of the hypnotherapist. Hypnosis is not something imposed on people, but something they do for themselves. A hypnotherapist simply serves as a facilitator to guide them.
Advanced Hypnotherapy does not utilise deep hypnosis.

October 17, 2009

Some of The Many Uses of Hypnotherapy

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Uses of Hypnosis in Medicine and Psychotherapy
• Gastrointestinal Disorders (Ulcers, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Colitis, Crohn’s Disease)
• Dermatologic Disorders (Eczema, Herpes, Neurodermatitis, Pruritus [itching], Psoriasis, Warts)
• Surgery/Anesthesiology (In unusual circumstances, hypnosis has been used as the sole anaesthetic for surgery, including the removal of the gall bladder, amputation,
cesarean section, and hysterectomy. Reasons for using hypnosis as the sole anaesthetic may include: situations where chemical anaesthesia is contraindicated because of allergies or hyper-sensitivities; when organic problems increase the risk of using chemoanesthesia; and in some conditions where it is ideal for the patient to be able to respond to questions or
directives from the surgeon)
• Pain (back pain, cancer pain, dental anaesthesia, headaches and migraines, arthritis or rheumatism)
• Burns: Hypnosis is not only effective for the pain, but when hypnotic anaesthesia and feelings of coolness are created in the first few hours after a significant burn, it appears that it
also reduces inflammation and promotes healing. We believe that a second degree burn can often be kept from going third degree if hypnosis is used soon after the injury.
• Nausea and Vomiting associated with chemotherapy and pregnancy (hyperemisis gravidarum)
• Childbirth: Based upon our members’ anecdotal evidence, approximately two thirds of women have been found capable of using hypnosis as the sole analgesic for labour. This eliminates the risks that medications can pose to both the mother and child.
• Hemophilia: Hemophilia patients can often be taught to use self-hypnosis to control vascular flow and keep from requiring a blood transfusion.
Other areas of successful application include: Allergies; anxiety and stress management; asthma; bed-wetting; depression; sports and athletic performance; smoking cessation; obesity and weight control; sleep disorders; high blood pressure; sexual dysfunctions; concentration, test anxiety and learning disorders.

October 16, 2009

More Definition of Hypnosis

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Hypnosis is a state of inner absorption, concentration and focused attention. It is like using a magnifying glass to focus the rays of the sun and make them more powerful. Similarly, when our minds are concentrated and focused, we are able to use our minds more powerfully.
Everyone has experienced a trance many times, but we don’t usually call it hypnosis. All of us have been so absorbed in thought –while reading a book, watching TV or riding the bus or driving to work– that we fail to notice what is happening around us. While we were not fully concentrating, another level of consciousness, which we refer to as our unconscious mind, takes over. These are highly focused states of attention similar to hypnosis.
Clinical hypnotherapists do essentially three things with hypnosis. They encourage the use of imagination. Mental imagery is very powerful, especially in a focused state of attention. The mind seems capable of using imagery, even if it is only symbolic, to assist us in bringing about the things we are imagining.
Another basic hypnotic method is to present ideas or suggestions to the patient. In a state of concentrated attention, ideas and suggestions that are compatible with what the patient wants seem to have a more powerful impact on the mind.

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