If you’re reading this then it’s likely that you’ve got an interest in the science of the mind/body connection. An interesting thing you may have noticed, and it might be because of the way the term is constructed, is that most attention is paid to how the mind affects our body. Whole books are devoted […]
Genetic memory: A Scientific Basis for Past Life Regression?
Strange fact number 1: Scientists trained flat worms to curl up when exposed to light by electrocuting them every time the light was turned on. A pure Pavlovian, conditioned response. Even more unfortunate for the flat worms is their ability to regenerate themselves if cut in half . An amazing thing in itself; cut them […]
Cognitive Hypnotherapy as part of CBT
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is an umbrella term that covers a number of different therapies that share common elements, such as Cognitive Therapy, Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy and Motivational Enhancement Therapy. Cognitive Hypnotherapy is another approach that fits under this umbrella, which is pleasing having heard the news that the Government is going to spend £170 […]
Watch Yourself!
In Cognitive Hypnotherapy it’s taken as read that the way we imagine our future will influence the future we get. When we visualise, the same parts of the visual cortex become active as when we’re processing something we’re seeing in front of us. Our eyes and our mind’s eye share the same equipment. One of […]
The assumptions that drive our therapy
We all work from a set of assumptions – mainly without being aware of what they are. Here I talk about a recent insight that reminded me of the importance of raising them to our awareness.
Using Polya Patterns in your Suggestions
For many years I’ve worked on the principle that something doesn’t have to be true, it just has to be plausible – something I think I got from some research from Xerox into how we go about making buying decisions. I’ve found this to be very useful in therapy; the world we live in, and […]
What you’re listening for…
I’ve found that one of the hardest things people find when they begin working as a therapist is how to sort the information they gain from the client. In fact, even before then, how to hear what the client is telling them in a way that leads somewhere useful. It’s so easy to be overwhelmed, […]
The Bruce Lee Approach to Therapy
Everyone knows of Bruce Lee as a kickass martial artist. As a child I was mesmerised by his skill and dreamed of running away to the Shaolin Temple that Kwai Chang Caine waited outside in the TV series Kung Fu. Sadly my Mum wouldn’t give me the bus fare. Despite that inauspicious start I still […]
The Therapeutic Paradox
Miss X arrives in my office complaining that she never meets nice men. Investigation uncovers her fear of being hurt. How is it that with this fear she keeps ending up in abusive relationships? Mr Y finds himself increasingly isolated socially because he smokes, yet we establish that his unconscious motivation to smoke began when […]
Reconsolidation Theory and the Point of Therapy
Most of us have a sense of our own history, our successes, our failures, our ups and downs. Our memories form an intrinsic part of our self-identity; that elusive entity that helps to give us a feeling of coherence as we navigate through time. But how reliable is this sense of our past? Is who […]
