How does hypnotherapy work?

How does hypnotherapy work? M’reen

Well, everything is about something else and without any artificial interventions such as medication, together, we help your subconscious and conscious minds to communicate freely and sort things out 

for your greatest benefit.

There really is no need to be held back by your past,                                                                                                           let it gently go and develop your own bright future. 

My expertise + your willingness = success.

You simply lie back with your eyes closed and simply let it flow, with no need to look at the issue,

as I talk to you weaving suggestion, metaphor and energy therapy.

Suggestion therapy: you accept yourself as … Great for habits, public speaking and much more. 

Metaphor: brilliant as you take what you need to resolve wide-ranging concerns in your life.

Energy: fantastic as your mind works like biological washing powder reaching

the entrenched grime and allowing it to be washed away.

Analytical therapy: successful as we go to the source of the problem and gently heal.

Your solutions lie within you.

I help you find the bridge between your conscious and subconscious minds.

Your problems and solutions are unique to you.

I facilitate only as your mind will not allow me to direct it.

The connection is missing between the logic of ‘I know this is stupid’ and the feeling of ‘I’m terrified’

and it’s my job to help you make this link as you are not aware of its existence, nor can the most sophisticated  microscope find it as it is pure energy, it found a way in so there is an easy way out.

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

www.ourmindminds.blogspot.com               this takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others. 

www.turbochargedreading.blogspot.com      describes the steps to reading in the way your mind prefers.

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Phobic or Fearful?

Phobic or fearful ?

The biology:            The body’s chemical response is, incrementally, the same for 

                                      an inappropriate phobia as it is an appropriate fear.

Physical trigger.      Look sad and drop your shoulders and your sad body chemicals will

                                       respond appropriately.

Emotional trigger.  See/think of your fear and your chemicals will race you to anxiety

                                       or panic.

Physical trigger.      Whistle, laugh, and your happy chemicals can’t help but respond.

Emotional trigger.  Decide you can do it – but not like it.

                                       As you modify the emotions so you modify the physical reactions.

1.Physical trigger.  See your feared object, STOP, alter the emotion surrounding the fear

                                      or modify the physical response to modify the emotions.

2.Simple Fear         is rather akin to Simple Anxiety, it revolves around a temporary situation.

                                     Think of a child learning to use an escalator, this is seen as a reasonable

                                     fear/anxiety given the circumstances.

3. There are many things I prefer not to do or to experience, but if I had to do them,             

    then I would and with practice I would become accustomed to those experiences.                     

    I would feel a decreasing level of fear and anxiety until I had mastery/control or familiarity

    with the experience. This is called de-sensitisation (Behaviourism) it is easier in trance.

These three different words (mastery, control, familiarity) represent a different emotional response 

to the situation, as it was an emotional response that was causing the hesitation or fear in the first instance. Think of learning to drive a car; as you become more familiar with driving 

so you become more confident.

If the fear of escalators or driving continues then I may choose to work with the underlying emotional reasons and release the need or cause of that fear.         

The Behaviourists call ‘jumping in at the deep end’ of your fear ‘flooding’ and they call ‘getting used to it’ as ‘extinguishing’, they discount emotional responses. I prefer to use hypnotherapy and Emotrance with, maybe, NLP to assist you to find your own resources.

A Controlling Habit may be, or may become, a Phobia that may lead to Panic, or to an obsessive –compulsive reaction. This is something that is seen as inappropriate behaviour for the current circumstances, not only by the person themselves but also by others.

It is the fear of a fear - not of an actual danger. One is not afraid of the spider but of what the spider represents to you. There is a difference in being afraid (aware of the potential) when you see 

an actual spider and being on continual red alert for spiders. 

The phobia has become something of a compulsive habit.

 e.g. FLYING

Consciously

A 1985 CBS News poll found that 20% of callers were unable to fly and a further 24% 

were a little anxious. This means that 80% were able to fly and 74% were not anxious,

don’t those big figures now seem better. So, statistics don’t make you feel any easier,

the conscious mind may accept them but the subconscious mind does not.

I offer skills that will enable you to physically relax emotionally relax and mentally relax

and this will result in keeping your panic/phobic/fearful/stress chemicals in check as fear 

and relaxation are at the opposite ends of the scale. We then work on the underlying reasons.

First recognise and accept the signs of anxiety, stress, and/or fear as normal for you

at this time. You may recognise these feelings in other areas of your life and note how you successfully use the stress busting techniques I offer. You are now becoming in control

until you reach the stage of letting go of your fear and the need for these skills, all in your own time and in your own way. This may be achieved through understanding how your fear starts, 

how it builds and what you can do about it on a conscious level so leading to control.

Or your fear may become a thing of the past by simply flowing it all away in Emotrance 

or using some other energy intervention without examining the fear or even voicing it out loud.

As soon as you become aware of the first signs of stress, you can defuse it either consciously by using one of the stress busting skills given, or through our trance work together, or you may simply tell yourself to relax or give yourself a signal to relax. Sounds easy doesn’t it ?

Anything is easy once you know how and have practised the skill or recognised and accepted 

the experience. In any debate between the conscious and subconscious mind

the subconscious ALWAYS wins, that is why working in trance is so effective,

as we re-tape the memories or associations. Whatever happened, happened,

but your response to that event can change.

Emotionally

Sometimes a simple phobia that has been holding you up for years can be vanquished

in one session. Why and how the fear began and what made it grow may be tackles in ways which 

suit you so that e.g. flying may become just one of those things you do.

It may even rate the same stress level as travelling by car or train as long as the ‘flying’ fear 

has not spilled into these areas. (Just the travelling I mean, not the whole experience of being late etc.)

If you feel it is necessary, we can work on the time factor of flying, you can slow things down or speed them up, just think how long a boring visit takes and how time zips by

when you’re having fun. Let’s zip the time on that transatlantic flight.

But this should not be necessary once we’ve sorted out the cause, symptom and response.

Our last session could include a virtual reality flight, as you take your flight from first suggestion 

to unpacking when you get home. Your mind experiences this as real,

so you recognise this as a successful trip.

We could work on understanding the source of your fear if this is appropriate

and this can be done in a variety of ways.

You may wish to deal with the situation directly or indirectly the choice is always yours.

Should you choose to work with the incident that you think started your fear you may find that 

this might not be the original event; one client discovered a pre-school trauma

that he had blanked from memory. His parents verified this event.

One way to work is to work on a more positive perception of the incident or to re-record

the video/memory of the event. This is re-programming or re-framing of your understanding of the event and therefore your response to future events.

We could work on the emotions surrounding flying.

We could work on experiencing the different aspects of flying in a positive manner.

It is probable that we will touch on all the above areas in some way.

We could work with your dreams or if there is a Past Life reason

– which would be worked on as above.

It can be a struggle sometimes, but you are struggling with your chosen therapist

and that makes all the difference.

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

www.ourmindminds.blogspot.com               this takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others. 

www.turbochargedreading.blogspot.com      describes the steps to reading in the way your mind prefers.

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

The Powerful Magic of Bubbles.

                                                                  Light lightly alights.

The Powerful Magic of Bubbles.
M'reen Hunt (c)

My screen saver has drifting circles that change colour when their surfaces
share the same space but sometimes they change colour just because.
I find this to be gently fascinating and curiously relaxing as the bumping
bubbles mimic the random possibilities of beauty that our cares in life
often obscure from awareness.

As a hypnotherapist I’ve often used the power of rainbow bubbles and would now like to share

that skill with you. But first I must become the travel hostess and point out the safety features

for those of you who go into a deep trance state. Kick out the kids and cats and anything else

that might surprise you as they leap onto your lap, shut down your mobile and any other potential noisy disturbance and, should someone insist on an impromptu visit remember

that you are a bit spaced out and pretend that you are moving in the dark
and hang onto the chairs for support as you go to the door.
Otherwise in a real emergency you will automatically become fully alert and able.

Back to bubbles, first identify your ‘issue’ and recognise that it may consist
of many layers; and that for some people all those layers might blow away instantly
like tall towering clouds in a powerful and cleansing wind

but for others a gradual dissolving over some days is more appropriate.

Give your issue a value from a rather pathetic 1 to a dramatic 10
so that you will know if your issue has been dealt with completely
or if it needs another pass when convenient or in a few day’s time.

Close your eyes and relax either into what you recognise as a trance or a meditative sate.
If you are not practiced with these then you might like to try this relaxation skill called
Heart breathing; I teach this to Inner Mind Readers to enable them to enter the learning state.

To practice Heart Breathing: Put your fist over your heart, close your eyes,
breath in deeply and expand your chest, your spine elongating, your shoulders widening
and your head up and proud with your nose and chin horizontal to the floor.
Breathe out slowly allowing your body to curl down somewhat and say or think “Relax”.
When breathing in a second time my chest expands a little making my shoulders raise,

then I breathe out gently and my lower back seems to curl down while I say, “Soften”.
On my third breath, only my chest moves before I breathe out lazily
with my shoulders dropping and I remember to say, “Flow”.

Try this when you feel stressed or anxious – it works. 

I learned this when I did my Sports Psychology degree – so the next time you ‘know’ your golf ball 

is going in the opposite direction to your intention simply breath away that ‘knowing’.

Back to Issues: Picture your issue as the gung tangled in the magnified fibres of a clothes washing powder advertisement. Tip in your detergent and watch, and since I often can’t visualise these things I tell myself the story of the detergent releasing the bits of the issue as gung blobs that float 

to the surface of the water. How creative can your detergent be?
The more fun you have with something that is nasty the more power you have over it!

Maybe you have little tiny crabs nipping at the toes of your issue or maybe Nora the Nit Nurse

is combing them out. Why not share your best ones with me and others
– let’s have some fun and help each other cut these issues down to size.

The freed gung blobs then float to the surface of the water where the blobs,
break through and float into the air still as gungy and as horrible as ever.

Now is the time to blow some rainbow bubbles or switch on a bubble blowing machine
or invite your angels or even the BFG to blow bubbles from their magic horns.
These bubbles have the power of the colours, tones, hues and the full range
of vibrations outside of our awareness; they are filled with love, respect, freedom, joy
and everything we wish for each other. They have the ultimate power of the universe and are unconditionally supportive, they are just perfectly right for the issue that is rising out of the water. 

As the issue gung blobs rise they change colour when their surfaces share
the same space as the rainbow bubbles, sometimes they change colour
just because they are in such an accepting environment.
Keep blowing bubbles that embrace all the gung blobs thus breaking them down to their constituent parts; finally into something simply beautiful that is assimilated into the rainbow bubbles

that are blowing freely away into the skies,
your issue does not now have the form to reassemble and so it is gone forever.

You may not be bothered but at this point some of you might like to check the distress number

or value you gave regarding your issue and if there still is a number
you might like to play the bubble game in a day or so until you no longer feel the need.
Happy gung blob hunting.

M’reen

www.innermindreading.com My web based tuition is being created in MP3 and MP4 formats.

If you have a question, no matter how small, please pose it in the comment box below. Thanks.

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blog www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com

which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.

Grow to Accept People as they Really Are.

Grow to Accept People as they Really Are.

M'reen Hunt (c) 

Midnight thoughts without the wine!

‘Grow to accept people as they are and not as you need them to be’ was the thought that concluded 

my midnight oil musings as my mind’s eye had envisioned a partially formed shell person atop

a mound of cardboard cut out idealistic others.

Earlier I’d read a variation of the advice to surround oneself with people who love and support us, 

with those who are filled with joy and light; the converse being to avoid all others?

I understand the concept but wonder; would I like you as a friend?

Possibly not if that was all you were capable of being.

What about growing in the ability to appreciate and return a hundredfold the limited love a parent 

or lover is able offer to you, just because you are you?

The memory of hugging a stranger in the street as they cried after feeling you were someone

they could trust and talk to for a few sentences before continuing with their life?

Are you able to enjoy the time someone can share with you between their being tired or ill

or continuing with their demons? The list goes on for it includes us all at times whether during the day or during periods of our life. I think we all need training wheels as we grow into finding the confidence within to be the person who loves and supports our own self esteem and that of others.

I think we all need the wind beneath our wings so that our joy and light shines through us and spills out to those around us and to be content with whom we are as we make today a holiday in the balance of life. Please find support in your journey to inner calm using the resources on my home page at http://www.innermindreading.com. Look under the aeroplane and find:

Kinesiology – I’m a great fan. Art and Rudy, energy therapists who’s free sessions I actively use. 

Faster EFT – a tapping therapy. Or Inner Mind Read all the self help books you can find in the library; the effect of which is rather like your hair slowly growing as you naturally change

to become closer to the peace and joy that just radiates from the Dalia Lama.

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blog www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com

which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.