Rather than just offering a one-off cure we aim through our sessions to equip clients with a set of skills which can help them in the long-term to deal with stress and worry in their lives.
Central to this is the cultivation of the ability access a sense of inner calm and resourcefulness and the development of brain states that promote 'mindfulness'.
Neuroscience is now showing that a mindful state can help to change a person's brain chemistry permantly, resulting in lower stress and anxiety levels and more positive patterns of thinking.
Neuropsychologist Rick Hanson offers the following description of mindfulness: 'Being mindful simply means having good control over you attention: you can place your attention wherever you want and it stays there; when you want to shift it to something else,you can.
'When your attention is steady so is your mind: not rattled or hijacked by whatever pops into awareness, but stably present, grounded, and unshakeable.
'Attention is like a spotlight, and what it illuminates streams into your mind and shapes your brain. Consequently, developing greater control over your attention is perhaps the single most powerful way to reshape your brain and thus your mind.'
Long-Term Solutions
As you would expect, most clients coming for hypnotherapy are seeking a solution to a particular problem. But conditions such as stress, anxiety and lack of confidence, though they become intensified at certain times in our lives, leading in worst case scenarios to depression and panic, are long-term conditions which require long-term solutions.
This does not mean staying in therapy for the rest of your life, but seeking the kind of therapy which can help to provide you with the psychological skills which will be useful to you in the long-term.
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