Sharon's Self-Hypnosis Audio CDs & Therapy information
Sharon Shinwell Dip Couns. Dip HP. Dip Sup. MBACP
Improve your Confidence Self-Hypnosis CD
Self-Hypnosis Audio CDs
In an ideal world, face to face Hypnotherapy is the preferred way to use this form of therapy, but in today's fast moving busy life, few of us has the luxury of time or money to go for regular Hypnotherapy sessions. With the advent of new technology, understanding of hypnotic scripts and techniques, and the public's motivation for self-help and alternative medicines, Self-Hypnosis has become a very good alternative.
Self-Hypnosisis a powerful self-help tool for implementing change within your life. It is simple, effective, none invasive, produces long-term changes, and can be used by almost everyone. By using a Here To Listen Audio CD, you will have, at the touch of button, a full Hypnotherapy Session that can be used whenever you need to, as often as you need to.
Self-Hypnosiscan be used to relieve many physical, psychological, and emotional problems. It is often used to change behaviours, break unwanted habits, for overcoming fears and phobias, conquering pain, stress, anxiety, and panic attacks, improving health, or for personal development.
Soothing music accompanies the therapy at strategic points, helping the listener to relax, and absorb the information whilst the therapist guides you with gentle suggestions, positive language, and life changing imagery. You will always be in control at all times, able to awaken immediately should the need arise and attend to anything that you need to.
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Info about our Hypnotherapy Consultations
Hypnotherapy is a 2 step process; the first step is a fact-finding consultation, to gather information about your lifestyle and the problems you are experiencing. The 2nd appointment will be the actual Hypno-Therapy.
In-between these two appointments, a personalised script will be written for use in the Hypno-Therapy session. Though many therapists will offer on-the-spot therapy, l feel this is inappropriate and unethical. The more relevant the hypnosis "script", the deeper the hypnotic trance state is; this makes the therapy last longer and works far better for long-established fears, phobias and unwanted habits.
Ego Strengthening
Lowering blood pressure
Develop calmness, relaxation, and confidence
Develop insight and clarity
Establish self-control and direction
Generate new and productive behaviours
Challenge limiting beliefs and self-perceptions
Maximise resources and potentials
Generate awareness, options and goals
Unlearn and re-learn
Completion and Closure (catharsis/let go of blocked emotions)
Relaxation and stress management
Management of pain (physical manifestations)
Management – control of habits and compulsions.
Management – control of fears and phobias
Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis explained
When we talk about the conscious mind, we refer to the thoughts that are going through our heads right now, the ones that we are awareof as we think about something, the little voice on the shoulder or in the head, the one you can hear right now, as you think of your shoulder. The conscious mind is rather less significant than our unconscious mind. To make it clearer (or not as the case may be), if you compare your mind to an iceberg; an analogy that one of my lecturers favoured, then the tip of the iceberg that you see above the surface of the water is the conscious mind, and the larger more substantial part of the iceberg that is out of sight, below the water line (but supports the tip), is the unconscious mind, a significantly larger part.
The unconscious mind is the seat of our emotions, and directs nearly all our behaviour. Everything that has ever happened to us, and everything we have ever seen, smelt, touched or heard is stored away there for future reference. It contains all our wisdom and intelligence; it is our source of creativity. The number of activities our unconscious mind performs and controls for us is quite humbling and astounding. Whenever we need to remember something, a name, date, place, an instruction, an understanding or insight, up it pops out of our unconscious mind like magic, weather the conscious mind wants it to or not. Without ever being consciously aware of it, webreathe, walk, talk, drive a car and use complicated pieces of technology, never giving a second thought as to where all that knowledge came from. However, the conscious mind constantly takes credit for, and finds explanations for the activities of the unconscious mind, over which it actually has no control and about which it is unaware.
Over many years, the conscious mind becomes very good at this act so that it is able to offer such impressive rationalisations and explanations for its behaviour that we don’t even question it. Nevertheless, the unconscious mind is much more observant, wise, intelligent, adaptive, and skilful than the conscious mind could ever be; it is said that the conscious mind can only hold eight thoughts at any one time; usually in small chunks, which is why we tend to remember numbers more easily if they are in small bundles.
The unconscious mind can also delete information from our awareness. It would be impossible to process all the information we receive consciously, so the unconscious mind sorts it and then presents us with a summary of what is taking place. We have all heard anecdotal stories of extreme bravery when someone has badly injured himself or herself, but feels no pain and has no awareness of their own injuries until after the traumatic event. The unconscious mind had sorted through the information and decided what we need to know to help our actions at that moment in time. The interaction between the conscious and unconscious minds is going on all the time and we never give any of this process a second thought.
Our conscious mind uses questions to reason, our conscious mind; the voice in our head, is always evaluating - critically and analytically – by comparing, contrasting and noticing, but in hypnosis, and the hypnotic trance state, the conscious mind is dampened down and this allows excellent communication with the unconscious mind, and without it’s critical analytical partner, changes in core beliefs and behaviours can take place.
But this ability of the unconscious mind to accept without critical analyses has a downside, because it can just as easily hang on to negative experiences, so that whenever a similar event to that previously experienced occurs again in the future, the old feelings of discomfort that were felt the first time, are instantly brought back to the conscious mind in an attempt to protect us; this is how phobias start.
So to recap, during a hypnotherapy session, it is the unconscious part of the mind that is spoken to, where new ideas, concepts and affirmations can be implanted, and it is here that old limiting beliefs can be changed. Past phobias and learnt negative behaviours, feelings and concepts can be looked at and laid to rest, allowing the conscious mind to adopt a more rational positive outlook. The subconscious part of our mind has no critical awareness, and is only limited by our imagination.
Counselling information:
At some time in our lives, most of us could use the services of a good listener.
Someone who is not going to "tut-tut" and say; “I don't know how you could do a thing like that” or “I’ve done some silly things in my time but...!”. Someone who takes everything on board without judgement or prejudice is what is needed, and most of the time a good friend or relative will do. However, talking to even the kindest and most caring friend or relative is not the same as talking to a professional experienced therapist, and every now and again, it is the latter that is needed. Friends and relatives can be reassuring but a professional may be able to help change things.
We can all experience some degree of anxiety, confusion, and depression from time to time in our lives, and more often than not, these phases pass by and we move forward. But when these feelings become extreme, prolonged or affect our day to day living, help is often what is needed.
You may find a supportive Counsellor/Psychotherapist can help you through a particular crisis or a difficult patch in your life. No matter how impossible a situation may seem, there are always different ways of looking at problems, only sometimes, because you are so involved with that situation or issue, you cannot see the more positive options.
You may find it more helpful to talk after a crisis has passed to think about what happened and why and how you can move on.
Counselling gives you the space, time, and freedom to explore possibilities, to look at goals and how to achieve them, or to perhaps discover patterns and themes in your behaviour, or lifestyle, and look at where they came from or how to change them. You could be dealing with issues of low self-esteem, lack of confidence, feelings of isolation or being trapped in a situation you feel you can't get out of, or you may just need to sound-out aloud the route that you have chosen to deal with something, to check that it's the right one for you.
It’s important to realise though, that getting professional help is not a sign of weakness. If you had a painful foot, you would seek help, therapy is just the same but for a different part of the body. Therapy can be a last resort for some, when all else has failed, but it can also be used by anyone interested in self-knowledge and growth, who wants to get more out of life and make positive changes to the one they have .
Hypnotherapy is useful for a whole variety of issues, and you can find out all about this form of therapy on the Hypnotherapy page
As a qualified Supervisor, I offer supervision to Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Hypnotherapists, Nurses, Social Workers, Teachers, mentors and others in the caring and education professions. Supervision is mandatory for anyone who works professionally as a Counsellor or Psychotherapist, and for others in the caring professions; this ensures support and accountability for best practice, and safeguards the public.
If you require any further information about Counselling for individuals and Couples, Life Coaching or Sports Psychotherapy, either face to face or On-line using Windows Live Messenger - go to our website www.counselling-manchester.com.
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