Self Confidence 

 If you have been feeling that you can't express yourslf, and your confidence is suffering as a result, hypnosis can retrain your mind.  It may seem  that you can become a new person through hypnosis.   We can help change patterns of thought and influence belief systems.

  So many people have lost their livelihoods through the recession, and confidence has taken a battering as a result. Hypnotherapy can help.

 Do you have trouble meeting people for the first time, and is social / professional networking suffering as a result? Hypnosis could provide the answer.

Do you fear rejection at interviews? Hypnosis can give you a renewed sense of confidence.

  Once we have acheived the trance state, through  contacting the subconscious mind, we can boost self esteem, building motivation, and through teaching self hypnosis skills we can provide  lifelong tools for self enhancement.

We can train people to release  feelgood endorphins into their bodies, and feel absolutely fantastic all over. This can lead to physical body change.

NLP techniques are used to create a system of putting yourself into a totally calm, supremely self confident state. These help create instant rapport and trust, which can then be utilised for rapid change.

 The New Scientist ran an article, in September 08, stating that improvements in depressed people had been noticed when methods to slow heart rate variation ( HRV ) were applied, this has a tremendous implication for hypnotherapy.

 Stress Response 

  Today's world is geared towards stress, with the rushed pace of life.  According to a government report, in 2008, a third of the population is using alcohol to cope with stress. People who respond poorly to stress see their cholesterol levels rise, and risk heart disease. Stress also attracts cancer cells to grow.From the heart to the immune system, stress has a real physical effect.

 What makes us ill is social stress - the elements of everyday life which grind us down and we  feel powerless to change. At first we fight our situation, then we become resigned. We become anxious and depressed - our immune system is impaired, and recovery is stalled. 

 Continued stressful situations tend to lead to memory loss. Hypnotherapy can form an important intervention. Research at  The Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, has shown that stress prevents quick healing. The results, published in June 2010, suggest that learning a relaxation response is better for healing.

 Ther answer may be in vitamins - you can fight stress by taking B6 and B12 - or just a B complex. Another stress buster is Magnesium.

 Hypnotherapy can deal with past experiences, providing Anger Management, Stress Management and Forgiveness Therapy. Hypnotherapy can protect you against stress, anxiety and panic attacks.

Emotional Freedom Techniques

EFT is a meridean therapy - it is based on the same principles that govern Reflexology and Accupuncture - the philosophy that sees that balance in the body can be affected by tapping energy points.  This is an ancient Chinese idea. It suggests that there is a flow of enegy that runs throughout the body.

Meridean therapies put forward the idea that all negative emotions are caused by a disruption in the body's energy system, and that through manipulation of energy points we can enable people to change the way they feel about something. In Accupuncture it is done through needles, in Reflexology through manipulation of the pressure points. In EFT it is done through tapping the pressure points.

 EFT heals people on both physical and psychological levels, and this can take away addictions and cravings. Matthew often uses EFT in controlling addictions, and phobias.

 Thought Field Therapy is also used, in order to change people's attitudes.  Emotions can become bundled up into energies called 'thought fields'.TFT proposes that thought fields within the merridian points can become blocked by trauma or negative thinking, and that by tapping in a specific sequence we can remove these blocks. It does this by 'tapping' into the root of problems, to remove the energy blockages. An example of this is seen in Matthew's smoking cessation program - which will teach the TFT sequence to remove cravings.

Regression - Through regression in hypnosis we take people back to the root cause of their problems.  Once they are there, we can deal with these, though changing attitudes  and build a stronger character for the future.

Neuro Linguistic Programming changes submodalities, the minute parts of a phobia, so that the whole becomes less and less fearful - until it disappears.

 NLP is an amazing add on to hypnotherapy, introducing many techniques that are now commonplace - Timelining (useful with age regession )  Reframing ( useful with traumatic events and phobias ) Metaphor ( useful in reviewing learnings and exploring possibilities ).

 Matthew has skills in Traumatic Incident  Recovery, and uses this technique with post traumatic stress.

EMDR  - Eye Movement Dessensitisation and Reprocessing -is a very useful eye movement technique, that has been used with traumatised Vietnam Veterans. Combat - related Post -.Traumatic Stress Disorder can be a really dibilitating illness. But it is not always a permanent affliction.  Through a combination of  TIR, EFT, EMDR, NLP and hypnotherapy we can help to keep the 'demons' at bay.

Sufferers may feel that they are living in a state of red alert, being continually jumpy and anxious, with continual flashbacks.  EMDR therapy can involve bilateral stimulation of the brain to break the continual cycle

 The media reports, in October 08, that the "war on terror" had led to more people wanting drugs before flying. A service for those with fear of flying is available. HypnoCBT can teach systematic desensitisation to conquer this fear. If you have always had the jitters since you first experienced turbulance, and spend every night of your holiday dreading the return trip, then why not give hypnosis a try? Fly without fear

 Pain Management 

 We can see pain in different ways - there is short term pain, which can easily be medicated, chronic pain, which is a long term discomfort,  and acute pain , which is often the result of injury or disease.

Matthew can teach an effective way for anyone to  control their pain - fast.  This can be invaluable in helping peple with deeply rooted conditions. The human body is a magnificent healing mechanism, and people can be taught how to switch the healing on.

  As the subconscious mind does not judge suggestions, imagination and visualisation can be used to focus on thoughts and ideas that influence the body's reponses - promoting hypnotic anesthesia - total elimination of sensations of pain.

 Sports Enhancement 

 A large part of achievement in sport is believing you can do it. This works like a self fulfilling prophesy.

 Roger Bannister, the man who broke the four minute in the 1950's, said that it was easy once he had got his mind into a determined state. This set in process a shift in many people's belief systems - as many others were able to do it, once they believed it was possible.  His acheivement changed a belief, and their attitudes changed  -  their bodies responded.

 Many of today's top sportsmen and women use sports psychology, including hypnosis, to give them advanced performance. Tangible physical processes occur in the brain and body as a result of the athlete's thinking process. These can cause a change in physical performance. Part of this is learning the skills of self hypnosis in order to reach the state of singlemindedness that Roger Bannister had. You too can become a winner.

 Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus have used hypnosis for golf success. Jimmy Connors has used hypnosis for tennis success.

 As reported by the BBC, in August 08, Australian Gold Medalist and World Record Setter, Steve Hooker, used hypnosis to help him win Gold in Beijing.

 Exams 

 Hypnosis can be really useful in helping people to focus rather than panic when they come to exams. Matthew can teach people techniques to access the knowledge that they have stored in the marvelous computer of the mind, and to get it out in the concise and polished wrinting that is required. We can't help you to pass something that you haven't studied, but we can help you to make the most of what you have.

 Public Speaking 

 Many of the skills used in Sports Enhancement can be adapted to Public Speaking, which may improve job prospects, interview skills, and sales presentations. Many salesmen use techniques developed in NLP. Hypnosis will help you gain the edge.

 Hypnobirthing

 Matthew has some experience in pain free childbirth hypnosis. Whilst he does recognise that most women will go to a woman therapist for this, it has been reported in the media ( April 2010 ) that a male therapist helped someone to have a pain free birth through work done in a hospital ward.