Posts in Hypnotherapy
We Can Change Our Habits

We can change our habits and hypnotherapy is a great tool to do this with. Hypnotherapy works with the subconscious mind where our habits are stored. Being able to access that powerful part of our minds and make the changes we want with the help of a hypnotherapist, helps us to replace old unwanted habits into new more beneficial ones.

Autobiography in Five Chapters by Portia Nelson

ONE

I walk down the street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
I am lost…I am hopeless
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

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HypnotherapyKaren TaylorPortia Nelson, hypnotherapy
A Good Nights Sleep

A bit about sleep

Rapid eye movement or REM sleep is responsible for the rest and rejuvenation we get from sleep. It is thought that this is the sleep phase where dreams occur and it is important for our mental and emotional health. Bursts of REM sleep are said to last for about 30mins and occur on average five to seven times a night.

The pattern of sleep in human beings varies during different ages. Sleeping mostly at night starts as early as the first few weeks of life and continues most of our life. In old age the pattern begins to break down as people sleep less at night and nap during the day.

Sleep deprivation has huge impact on our life leading to loss of wellbeing. It may start with irritability, stress, loss of concentration and fatigue and progress to more serious issues. Too little and too much sleep are both associated with an earlier death. Both the quality and the amount are important, with between five to nine hours correlating to the longest lifespan.

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HypnotherapyKaren Taylorhypnotherapy, sleep, bed time ritual, night routine, nigh ritual, reiki
New Years Resolutions – Dream Building and Self Hypnosis

As you might be able to imagine, I love doing my New Years Resolutions. I generally like dream-building type of exercises as they’re fun to do. I like to look back on my New Years Resolutions and am amazed how many of them are now a realitI have written up a couple of simple ideas below that have worked well for me over the years. The first is a dream building exercise to really let your creative juices flow in all directions. What do you feel enthusiastic about, what makes you feel motivated, fulfilled, and happy? Be specific or unlimited but really create some positive energy around it. The second is a simple self-hypnosis tool that is great for focusing on one thing that is most important to you at this time.

Dream Building Ideas

If such as time and money etc were no object, write down all the things that you would most like to do, be or to have. You can do this for the coming year, the next 5 years or 10 years. I like to do it for all three. I also split it into the different aspects of my life such as my dream family life, relationship, career, personal development, fitness, travel and perfect place to live.

Some of the things in the 10 year list were things I could not really believe would happen when I started this 12 years ago. They were so far from my reality then, but many of them have now come true. The power of the written word and focusing your mind on what you want instead of what you don’t enables you to achieve these things. It’s hard to reach your goal if you don’t have them clearly laid out and your brain is set up to work towards what you are focused on.

So that’s a great first step, to know what you want, and that can be enough. If you want to take it further with some of your most important or trickier goals, you can do the simple, short self-hypnosis below.

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HypnotherapyKaren Taylorhypnotherapy, new years resolutions, dream building