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CALLING ALL APHP STUDENTS By Louise Carter Being a student of the Royal Berkshire College of Clinical Hypnosis (RBCCH) and half way through my studies, I recently attended my first APHP seminar. I found the experience so professional and worthwhile that I feel compelled to tell all other fellow students about it. C. Devin Hastings [...]

More and more frequently in our UK hypno psychotherapy practice, we are seeing clients who present with symptoms of extreme anxiety and panic attacks. These feelings can and do have a really profound affect on a person’s life, often seriously curtailing his or her ability to function normally in their personal, work or social life [...]

Hypnotherapy is easily the best established of the “magic-wand” cures. To lie back and let someone into your head to deal with your problems for you is the ultimate passive response to anxiety, panic, and phobias. It sounds great and has been alluring to sufferers of phobias and anxiety for decades, not least because it [...]

According to the National Mental Health Association, anxiety-related disorders cost the United States $42 billion a year in work-related and medical losses (NIMH, 1999). About 11 percent of adults over age 55 have an anxiety disorder (USSG, 1999), and about 13 percent of children between 9 and 17 years old have an anxiety disorder (USSG, [...]

Imagine a life controlled by fear and anxiety, where every movement is scrutinized and even the smallest decision is agonized over. Hours are spent examining daily tasks or situations that most people endure easily. According to the National Institute of Health, approximately 40 million adults in the United States who suffer from anxiety disorders live [...]

Q: What is hetero-hypnosis? A: Hetero-hypnosis is hypnosis performed on one person by another. Hetero is derived from the Greek meaning other. The person performing the hypnosis is generally called the operator and the person being hypnotized is called the subject. Q: What is hypnosis? A: Hypnosis is the by-pass of the Critical Factor of [...]

The better question is, “For what can’t hypnosis be used?” In actuality there’s nothing for which hypnosis can not be used. For every known type of operation–even open heart surgery, hypnosis has been successfully used at least once in lieu of anesthesia. Hypnosis is used to control bleeding and facilitate speed of recovery. The more [...]

When people talk about hypnosis, the first thoughts that usually come in the mind of people is the state by which a person may be in or put into a “trance”. This is done through hypnotic induction. Although there is much debate on hypnosis and its efficacy and suitability in use, it is undeniable that [...]

Eliminate your anxiety once and for all with the help of hypnosis! Do you suffer from the agonies of anxiety? Can you feel your heart pounding when you walk into a room? Do your hands shake when you’re forced to speak to someone you don’t know? Do you find it hard to catch your breath [...]

Mental Health and Hypnosis Hypnosis — or hypnotherapy — uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance. The person’s attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored. In this [...]