For the most part, hypnotherapy is about lying back and closing your eyes and listening to your hypnotherapist chatting on about some often weird and wonderful things. Sounds easy right? Well, yes and no. Whilst hypnotherapy is incredibly relaxing don't be fooled into thinking it's necessarily an easy option.

Sometimes it's obvious to us, as to where we want to go and what we want to achieve in life. But at other times we can feel a little or even totally lost, floundering round and round in our foggy thoughts. A bit like trying to find our way through a busy crowd, not knowing which way to go, feeling blocked at every direction and wondering if we're ever going to get out. This is when it helps us to go a little deeper, and hypnotherapy is perfect for just that ....going deep within your subconscious mind and drawing on all that information and experience you've been storing up for years for just this kind of situation.

So you've decided you're finally going to make that all important long overdue change in your life or perhaps you're going all out to achieve your craziest, far fetched, hair brained idea of a dream life ....but how do you actually go about getting there?

First IDENTIFY YOUR GOALS. Know where you ultimately want to get to and think about the details and the steps you need to take to get there. These may include tiny and seemingly inconspicuous goals at first or you may want to get a gigantic handle on all those fears and self-sabotaging behaviours. If it's something you want to achieve, make it your goal to achieve it.

Next ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS ........that's it, all done and dusted!

Hold on a minute ......... isn't there something missing? Is it really that easy? How did we jump from goals to dreams? Well that's where hypnotherapy can come in.

Hypnotherapy is a process of change which may be sudden or it may be gradual, depending on where you are in your decision to make the change. For example, you might really, really, genuinely want to make the change but perhaps it's nearer to wishing the change would happen rather than a wanting to do something about it. Having the want as well as the belief in the possibility of change, is the best place to be when starting out with hypnotherapy. By using the creative part of the subconscious mind, hypnotherapy can identify and release any blocks, increase focus, self awareness and motivation to realise the changes you desire. Hypnotherapy is a way to access the answers and the direction you're looking for.

However, it's not just a case of letting it happen to you, hypnotherapy is a two way process. As the hypnotherapist, I can guide you through the process, make suggestions, I can keep you focused, I can help you to understand why you might be feeling or behaving in a certain way. I can offer you coping mechanisms for dealing with difficult emotions or situations and I can show you new ways of thinking and help you visualise new options, but what I can't do is take the action for you.

Your job is to be curious, to wonder, to explore, to keep an open mind about things that don't always make logical sense and taking away the parts of the session that resonate with you. That maybe a new approach, thought, perspective or behaviour. Only you can know how and what things you discover can best fit into your life. We are all different, I can't tell you what's right for you, only you know that, and hypnotherapy acts as a way of accessing these answers for you. Put what you have learned into practice because that's when you see the magic happen and the changes start to make a difference in your life.

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