Advice

The three most important things you need for healing to occur in your life.

How much do you believe that you can influence your life and health? How much do you believe that your brain and body influence each other?

If you don’t understand how these concepts might work, how ‘open’ are you to finding out more?

Are you expecting therapy or the medical profession to help you without you doing any work to help yourself?

The ‘placebo effect’ very clearly proves the effect that our mind can have over illness. A positive belief and expectation is the foundation stone of healing. Your expectation will influence the outcome more than you know.

Your underlying beliefs will influence the benefit that you get from therapy. It is clearly easier to train or teach somebody who is prepared to take an active role in their healing.

I know about (and practice) some awesome techniques that bring about incredibly quick results in some cases, particularly for emotional trauma.  However in many cases there simply isn’t a ‘magic bullet’.  There is no therapist or medical practitioner who deals with everything and knows everything. Even a masterful healer like Jesus was unable to heal some people!  Interestingly, they were people from his home town who had no belief in him!

I know how annoying it is to have ‘positive thinking’ rammed down your throat, and in no way do I suggest that it is the be-all and end-all.  I am sure there are people who have been healed and yet have had a negative outlook, just as I am sure that there are people with the  most positive outlook that have not been healed. However, I do know that there has been much research to show that you are much more likely to get better if your attitude is generally positive.

While many people report ‘healing’ from faith and belief alone (and I absolutely believe this to be possible), most mortals require a little more than that.  Your feelings and thoughts can sometimes take a ‘dive’, but giving up hope is a killer. We need hope to allow ourselves to find healers, seek answers and do something about our problems.  This is the primary reason why depression is so hard to overcome – because the lack of serotonin and ‘feel good’ chemicals make a person feel hopeless and hope is the thing they most need.  Many depressed people do not seek help because they simply have no hope of an answer.

It is important, in these cases, to remember that our physical body is affecting our emotions, and unconscious patterns affect both our thoughts and our body.There is nothing more debilitating to a depressed or ill person than to be told

Absolute Basics For Healing

I find it rather amusing to see the purple faces that instantly appear on the faces of corporate executives at the mere mention of ‘emotional’, ‘spiritual’ and, god-forbid, “therapy”! ‘Personal Development’ is only slightly more acceptable.

Business owners want a well oiled machine but forget the oil!  The oil that keeps humans working and growing is in their emotional psyche, It isn’t ‘done’ for executives to mention words like love, forgiveness, acceptance or belonging. Yet these are absolutely primary to the needs of human beings in order for them to feel whole. There are too many corporate executives operating on Victorian ethics where they expect workers to arrive, work their fingers to the bone and go home – robots with nothing to offer except physical dexterity.

They pay for this gross omission with soaring absenteeism, zero loyalty, and ultimately of course, falling profits.  The move towards caring for the well-being of employees is rather slow at moving forward in the workplace here. People want to bring their whole selves to work-body, mind and spirit. They want to feel appreciated.

There is probably no dispute that companies who truly respect and listen to their employees get dramatically better performance from them. However, what employers think their employees want ­­and what employees really want can often reveal a huge gulf. What is also problematical is that so called ‘consultants’ and ‘coaches’ offer little to breach this gulf. They know a lot of training techniques and theory but are unable to efficiently evaluate what the real emotional status of the workforce is, or ascertain what they need.

According to Felce and Perry (1995), well-being:

” …comprises objective descriptors and subjective evaluations of physical, material, social and emotional well-being, together with the extent of personal development and purposeful activity, all weighted by a personal set of values.”

This is important because the definition recognises that an individual’s value set is a particularly important aspect of their well-being. Their value set is going

Spiritual Well-being At Work – Emotional Health By Many Companies – Does Any Person Care?

Hypnotherapy utilises the power of your unconscious mind to reprogramme your behaviour and overcome anxiety.
In a natural and easy ‘trance’ state, the mind powerfully chooses to make beneficial changes. Your thought patterns and the ‘fear’ responses have been conditioned due to previous experiences, usually painful and uncomfortable. In order to ‘recondition’ your thoughts and behaviour, hypnotherapy utilises the focused attention of your powerful imagination and conscious agreement to accept positive suggestions for change.

Our conscious minds are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to brain function. What many call the ‘unconscious mind’ (bearing in mind that this is not a definitive place in the brain but an analogy to higher consciousness), controls all of our bodily functions without our conscious mind being aware of the process. This higher consciousness also contains all our memories, and the way we react to various stimuli.

For example, let’s take a hypothetical subject and call her Mary. For the purpose of our analogy, let’s say that as a child Mary’s parent  had a slightly fearful reaction when finding a spider in the closet. Mary’s young brain figured out, without any conscious effort, that as this spider is a danger, however small, to this god-like adult, then it must be a *huge* danger to her! Mary’s brain, in effect, puts a rule into her subconscious mind “spider = danger!”  Of course the subconscious will always try to protect us, and therefore will seek to avoid this perceived danger. Whatever the mind perceives as ‘real’ IS real to us! It may not be TRUE, but it is our reality!

When Mary is an adult, that programmed response is still there, unchanged. Mary’s subconscious does not respond to a spider with analytical thought. It does not say “Oh, I am bigger now, and so that spider isn’t such a danger to me. Anyway, I now understand that it is much more afraid of me than I am of it, and it can’t harm me at all.” No, her reaction is still “EEEK!” In fact, each time she sees a spider over the years she has stronger and stronger reactions. Each incident builds up and reinforces the  programme: “spider = danger!”  The reaction is purely a conditioned response.

Mary does not challenge that deep-seated belief, and her fear of spiders becomes a full-blown phobia. Now let us say she decides to try  hypnotherapy to deal with this fear.

It may be necessary for the therapist to first access the reason behind the phobia, but very often all that is necessary is to ‘reinstall’ the programme or belief system regarding spiders. Let’s say that this is the case here. While Mary is in a relaxed and focussed state, she may be taken through a desensitising process (usually visualising the feared action while feeling

How Hypnotherapy Works For Fears And Phobias And Panic Habits