Anger is one of the most fundamental responses. It is automatic and triggered by the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for fight, flight or freeze. As it’s an instinctive response it doesn’t involve conscious awareness. This means the brain fires off the...

Are you sabotaging your success by allowing negative thoughts to get the best of you? Instead of dreaming about achieving your goals, do you worry at night and picture gloomy scenarios that could happen instead? What you may not know is that your thoughts actually...

Anxiety has become a modern day social problem, something so overwhelming that there is even a Mental Health Awareness Week focusing on the issue. As much as this can encourage people to open up about their mental health problems, it may not necessarily  give them the...

What is there that you really need or want to do? What is there that has been on your mind for some time but you have been holding back? Why do you think you are resisting making that  important step? With time, it can become incredibly easy to get used to everyday...

Believe it or not, there are still skeptics who think they might end up being made to do a chicken dance if they come to see a hypnotherapist. But joking aside, some people really do challenge the credibility and efficacy of therapeutic hypnosis because they associate...

How do you find yourself at the point of realising that you can’t do something? Is it because you have tried so many times already? Or because you have not tried at all? Now, I don’t know exactly what you’d like to achieve and if it’s has gone wrong, but one of the...

Despite often being told that it is beneficial to think positively, many of us struggle to do so. It is also often argued that it is what we do that counts, not what we think. What you think about, you bring about Being able to act differently to how we think or feel...

So often, despite yearning for stability our lives are in a flux and subject to change. Life can throw different demands our way, and we may feel inclined to stay within our comfort zone, even when we know that is not our ultimate desire. We can come up with some very...

So, you have decided you would like to introduce a change but do not know where to start or what will work? Maybe you have previously attempted to do things differently but have since slipped back into old habits, perhaps even without realising it? The value judgement...

Most of us have found ourselves living with a situation that we really ought to change. However, no matter how beneficial these changes would be, we may still feel uncomfortable about making them. Reasons for our hesitancy can be numerous, and of course, when a change...

How many times in life have you felt that something wasn’t exactly as you hoped or expected it to be and so you felt inclined to say: “I am sorry, I’ve changed my mind”? Most of us have experienced reluctance to assert this, so instead decided to stick to the original...

When we consider our imagination, perhaps the first association that comes to our mind is that it is something nice, creative and positive. Our imagination can take us places, paint the world in the colours we want or make us believe that things can be different. The...