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Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a flexible, liberating and empowering therapy that offers you greater control over yourself and your life by tapping into the power of you unconscious mind and using it to change your life for the better. With hypnotherapy, it's possible to resolve and process negative and self-limiting memories, thoughts, feelings and beliefs safely and effectively, access your inner resources, develop skills, establish positive 'self-talk', create a vivid mental blueprint of the future you want, and access whatever inner resources you need to perform, think and feel at your very best, with confidence, motivation and focus. By dealing with problems and issues at their root cause, hypnotherapy can help to bring about deep emotional, psychological and spiritual healing, and help you to feel the benefits in all aspects of your life.
Cognitive Behavioural Techniques
When we have a negative experience, we will use any positive and negative information learned from this event to form beliefs, thoughts and feelings about ourselves and the world around us. When that experience has been traumatic, the effects can be long lasting and damaging, and the negative learning can lead to fear, anxiety, insecurity, anger, lack of trust and depression. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on working with these learned thoughts, feelings and beliefs, finding ways to change them to more positive ones. It also looks at changing behaviour, because positively changing our behaviour can make us feel and think more positively, too. In practice, we use CBT alongside other psychotherapeutic techniques, as it is much more effective when the underlying memories and associated trauma have been resolved and released.
Gestalt
Gestalt is a holistic therapy focusing on the 'now', using knowledge of the past but focusing on the present. A significant and well known tool within Gestalt therapy is the empty or open chair technqiue, where you sit opposite an empty chair and imagine the person you're having problems with sitting there, and begin a dialogue. The open chair technique can be powerful and enlightening and bring about a liberation in awareness and understanding. In hypnotherapy the open chair technique is visualised with equal success.
EMDR
EMDR is a powerful therapeutic technique used successfully in the treatment of intense stress, anxiety and trauma. It's been used in treating trauma survivors - from accident and rape victims, to war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. But it can also be used wherever there is a severe emotional response, such as with severe anxiety, phobias and anger. EMDR stands for 'Eye-Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing'. It involves a series of eye movements, tapping or alternating sounds while focusing on a specific series of thoughts, feelings and beliefs. Depending on the nature of the trauma, strong emotions can be released and processed, but relief is felt very quickly.
EFT
Emotional Freedom Technique - or EFT as it is commonly known - is a simple, easy to learn tapping technique involving tapping specific points on the body's meridians to release negative energy and put the body into a state of balance. We have found EFT so successful, we often use it on ourselves, clients and animals, and can easily teach you how to use it yourself.
Muscle Testing
If you think of something negative or sad, your energy drops and your body goes into a state of weakness. If you think of something positive and joyful, your energy increases and your body becomes stronger. This is the basis of muscle testing (used in Kinesiology), which seeks to bypass the conscious, rational mind by using the body's unconscious 'right' or 'wrong' responses instead. During muscle testing, a question is asked (verbally, mentally or, in the case of testing a substance for example, by holding an object) and then pressure is applied to a muscle group, such as an extended arm. Depending on the answer, the arm will either stay firm and strong, or the energy will weaken and the arm will lower. This has been proven to be effective when done correctly, bypassing conscious will and strength and tapping into the origins of whatever is causing weakness in the body.
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