Almost half the people in the UK on sickness benefits are suffering from mental health problems. Mental illness benefit claims up The number of people...
Here are some facts that I've just unearthed for your digestion... 1. In the UK, the NHS base their smoking cessation practice on the guidance drawn up by...
i had some sort of breakdown in my twenties and was hospitalised the diagnosis was hysterical amnesia ive never regained my good memory and can find no real...
I appreciate this is slightly off-topic as it's a story in today's Guardian newspaper about controversial "nutritionist" Gillian McKeith. However, I think it...
Picture smoking warnings 'best' Pictorial health warnings on cigarette packets are more likely to encourage smokers to quit, a study says. The University of...
Young smokers 'risking' blindness _BBC NEWS | Health | Young smokers 'risking' blindness_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6325333.stm) The British Journal...
... adress or passwords That's an old Victorian psychiatric term; it's not used anymore. The symptom is now called psychogenic or dissociative amnesia. It...
I have had hypnotherapy music composed for me. It turned out to be the most remarkable hypnotic music I have ever come across. The results of my hypnotherapy...
Is this a sales pitch? Can I do one? Try the Kundalini yoga music it's gorgeous with far more going on but still glorious to meditate to. Snatam Kaur is...
As a matter of interest - on a recent workshop Michael Yapko was asked what he thought about using music with hypnosis. His view is that anything which ...
... asked what he thought about using music with hypnosis. His view is that anything which distracts the client from his words is not a good thing, and so he...
Speaking personally, as a former opera singer and musician, I find that music played to me during hypnosis distracts me completely. I get very irritable with...
It is a hard call. When I first created tapes I didn't have music but do now on my CD's. I had a mixed response of comments - some loved the quiteness others...
I agree with Don that drones, or ambient music, is the way to go if you are going to use music. The point that Michael Yapko makes is that music can de ...
... but do now ... quiteness ... into the ... have ... I've had a mixed bag of results, but one prompted me to drop music altogether. One particular tune...
Now I have heard all sorts of reasons why not to use music. Someone once said that using music detracts from what he was doing? He was simply using the wrong...
I use background music in all my patients and none of them but one complaint to it. That one was already resisting to hypnosis and trying to concentrate...
Everyone is different. People, as Jules, I drop the music and go for nature sounds or as stated, white noise. Also heart beat or some other non specific...
This is an excerpt from a recent book on evidence-based hypnotherapy. Thought this might inspire some discussion as it highlights the traditional mismatch...
Thank you for that wonderful resource! Sincerely, Steve G. Jones Clinical Hypnotherapist, M.Ed. (Candidate) http://www.SteveGJones.com 912.897.9799 Board of...
[I'm sending this out to lots of people, if anyone wants to publish it let me know and I'll provide an edited draft. Also, let me know if you can see any...
I used to have a broad range of music and backing sounds available but many of these were only useful for targeted creative visualisations. For general...
Dear Don I'd be careful about citing Kirsch as authority for anything. This is the abstract from Kirsch's oddly-titled paper 'Remembrance of Hypnosis Past',...
I strongly recommend you sign this petition on the Downing Street website We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to consider other psychotherapy...
... is so flawed as to be useless, and only someone who has no experience of hypnotism could conclude that you cannot do anything with hypnosis that you...
Barry, Could you expand on your statement that Kirsch's research is so flawed as to be useless. That is a very sweeping statement about somebody who has...
Dear Don Just so we can be clear, are you saying you agree with Kirsch that "all of the phenomena produced in hypnosis by suggestion also can be produced by...
... wrote ... can be produced by suggestion without the induction of hypnosis"? I agree that virtually all can. I don't want to generalise beyond my current...
Dear Don I'd prefer not to rely on an idea having held sway for a length of time as prima facie evidence of it's correctness. After all, people unquestioningly...
Hello Everyone, An Open Invitation From HypnoShaker My name is Steven. I just recently finished creating, what I believe to be, the internet's first hypnosis...