Apparently up to about 80% of our thoughts seems to be verbal rather than visual or emotional – at least according to recent research at the University of Nevada. This finding emerges from a field of study that’s looking at the power words have to influence our perceptions – i.e. the way we see the […]
A new idea for working with cancer
Experiments have shown that a great deal of the sense we have of ourselves, of the feeling of the kind of person we are, is gained from our interpretation of our surroundings. If we continually find ourselves in a negative environment we tend to become the kind of person you find in such a place […]
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 […]
Regression and Barabasis Law
The dictionary describes a network as “a system of interlinking operations“. By that definition we are surrounded by them. Social networks, business networks, even the ecosystem which keeps us alive are examples. In fact, we ourselves can be described as a network, we are probably the most complex organic network we currently know of. Recent […]
What is Cognitive Hypnotherapy?
Adapted from an excerpt of Wordweaving volume 2: The Question is the Answer by Trevor Silvester. When we’re approached by someone interested in hypnotherapy training this is the question that we have to answer most often. And it’s not surprising; the term clinical hypnotherapy is used by many hypnotherapy courses which teach very different syllabuses, […]
