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I woke up early today, excited over all I get to do before the clock strikes midnight. I have responsibilities to fulfill today. I am important. My job is to choose what kind of day I am going to have.

This piece by Oliver James in The Guardian, Saturday 2 January 2010 gives an interesting perspective on relationship councilling, and is one that as a cognitive hypnotherapist, has long been the way that we might approach ‘couples work’.

As I have mentioned before, I subscribe to a weekly email from a great coach called Michael Neill. I got this from him today, and thought it worth sharing with you. With his permission, here it is:

A couple of weeks ago, a marketing expert was shotgunning me with suggestions about what I needed to do to once people had signed up for Supercoach Academy. After listening to him for awhile, somewhat confused by the array of to-do's he was putting forward, I asked him why he thought I needed to do all those things.
THE PROBLEM WITH PROBLEM SOLVING

I came across this article recently which backs up one of the things I tell weightloss clients - EAT SLOWER! Here's the evidence to back up my reasoning.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2009) — According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), eating a meal quickly, as compared to slowly, curtails the release of hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full. The decreased release of these hormones, can often lead to overeating.

This is from the BBC News website today, and makes interesting reading about what the human mind is possible of - especially for children.

Children can be taught to use their imagination to tackle frequent bouts of stomach pain, research shows.

From The Independent Newspaper, Tuesday 6th October, this article, which may make many readers shudded with fear. If you are one of those that would be affected that way, read on to find out how it can be a thing of the past ...

Spiders are everywhere this autumn – and that means a living hell for arachnophobes. But they can learn to beat the terror, discovers Holly Williams

Feeling stressed? Then go mow the lawn, claims research. In an article in todays Telegraph online (www.telegraph.co.uk) it talks of how researchers have discovered that a chemical released by a mown lawn makes people feel happy and relaxed, and could prevent mental decline in old age.

I was told this story the other day. What are your thoughts?

I don't know who the original author of this is, but I saw it on a forum that I belong too, and have unashamedly pinched it to share with you. It made me chuckle, but also think how true some of it is. What do you think?

Regina Brett who is a columnist for The Plain Dealer, Cleveland Ohio, wrote this list a few years ago, and then republished when she turned 50 years old. Regina said, "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written."
 

I enjoyed reading what she had to say, and thought I'd share it with you, in the same way it has been shared with me.

I unashamedly pinched this post from The Quest Institute website because it so nicely illustrates one of the fundamental thoughts from Cognitive Hypnotherapy, namely that changes in the mind can happen quickly - therefore years and years spent in therapy might be put to better use seeing a brief therapy practitioner such as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist like myself.

This from Trevor Silvester, the founder of Cognitive Hypnotherapy:

I spent a very pleasant evening yesterday in the company of my peers of Cognitive Hypnotherapists at a talk organised by the company I did my training with, The Quest Institute listening to a talk by one of the graduates, Russell Davies, on The Five Love Languages. 

The Five Love Languages talk developed from the ideas of a book by the same name, written by Gary Chapman. The premise is that we all have a preference for the way we show love to others and the way we would want to be shown it by others. By communicating our love in a way that the other person can understand it we are more likely to be successful in getting the meaning of the communication that we want.

This isn’t the first time that have posted an article about this treatment plan, but this one, in the Mail on Line goes into so much detail about the procedure that I thought it was worth posting.

This article published on the website Globe and Mail gives an interesting insight into daydreaming and how it may be useful to us.

From The Telegraph Newspaper 7 June 2009 www.telegraph.co.uk

British surgeons should be taught to hypnotise patients to control pain for some operations rather than rely on general anaesthetics, according to a leading American academic.

From NaturalNews.com:

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 by: Steve G. Jones, M.Ed., citizen journalist
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Key concepts: Cancer, Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis

(NaturalNews) Cancer is an illness that affects millions of Americans, whether they are currently being treated or in remission. Two of the most common symptoms of cancer and cancer treatments are pain and nausea. Hypnotherapy has been proven to help cancer patients reduce the severity of their cancer symptoms including pain and nausea. It is important that alternative methods are explored in order to help people naturally improve their symptoms.

Monday, May 18, 2009 by: Steve G. Jones, M.Ed., citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) A lot is expected of today's college students. They are under an enormous amount of pressure to succeed in academics. The pressure comes from themselves, parents, professors, and friends. This causes a lot of stress for students. Success in college is a stepping stone to being successful in a career after graduation, so students feel the need to perform at their full potential. It is important for struggling college students to seek help in reducing their stress with natural treatments such as hypnotherapy.

The 'hairdryer' treatment and criticism may get quick results, but sportsmen respond much better to kinds words of encouragement and support, scientists have found.

Long term research into what makes a marriage a happy one also claims to be able to predict who will be divorced later in life just by looking at childhood photographs. Is it really that easy?

From the BBC News website, this is something that you might like to know if you are trying to manage your weight, and you drink alcohol...

Many people are unaware of the calorie content of alcohol, a survey shows.

Four in 10 did not know a glass of wine has the same calories (120) as a slice of cake, or that a pint of lager and a small sausage roll have 170 each.

Interesting how after all the research done on the subject, we don’t really know what the key to happiness is. It would seem that we can’t just put it down to one or two things, but it looks like we might be getting closer to knowing … This article from Psychology Today explains the latest findings.

From Psychology Today, this article might help many parents understanding their teenage ofspring's sleeping patterns a little better ...

Here's a new twist on the 'money doesn't make you happy' senario from Startribune.com. It would certainly stand to reason that experiences have the possibility to make us happier, simply because memories last longer than material things generally - but do they need to be 'good' experiences? I suppose they do ...

With so much bad press for video games and the people who partake in them, this article from Miller-McCune makes a refreshing change.

If violent video games encourage violent behavior, as a series of studies suggests, do prosocial games — those that reward helpful behavior — inspire players to act in more constructive, cooperative ways? A newly published paper, featuring studies of three different age groups in three different countries, suggests the answer is yes.

This interesting article on learning styles, published in Science Centric on 26 March 2009 demonstrates why, as an NLP Learning Coach, I realise how important it is for us to learn in our prefered style. If a visual person only ever hears the voice of their teacher telling them the things they need to know, the visual person has to convert that teaching into visual images before they can fully understand it. This makes twice the work. Alternatively, the student may just loose interest in learning at all ...

Did you know that if you are entitled to a grant of £190 if you are 25+ weeks pregnant after April 2009?

Interesting article from The Independant

It makes our clothes smell, turns us into social outcasts – and we know it's killing us..

By Jane Feinmann
 

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This article was published in The New York Times and makes some interesting reading into what dreams might actually mean.

From The Times

February 21, 2009

Women struggling to have a baby are being told their problem may be all in the mind, with some happy results Rachel Carlyle Sophia Mackintosh is all too aware that she is a walking stereotype.

From examiner, posted on 11/02/09

First-of-its-kind study shows how brain connections strengthen during sleep

PHILADELPHIA – If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists are beginning to understand why.

London cabbies’ brains grow on the job. According to studies by scientists at the University College London Institute of Neurology — the first published in the April 11, 2000, issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with follow-up research presented in 2006 and 2007 — these professional drivers have a larger posterior hippocampus, the brain region tied to learning and navigation.

As published in Searcharticles.com

By Michelle Beaudry

Golfers make me grin. It's fun helping them get the edge on their competition. Lucky for me, my practice is in Orlando, Florida where golfers abound. And whenever I meet one, that grin just pops right up.

This was posted on PsyBlog, as a way of reducing cholesterol without medication. Makes interesting reading, and is actually quite a nice thing to do for it's own sake!

This email came to me recently from Micheal Neill - the Genius Catalyst - and is reproduced here with his permission. I hope you find it interesting.

 
A few months back my best friend and his wife had a baby named
Kai.  When we went to visit baby Kai in the hospital, I was
struck as I often am when in the presence of extremely young
children at how peaceful and almost blissed out he seemed to be.
In fact, it was difficult to look at him without falling into a
state of wellbeing myself.

I have to admit to watching the repeat of this programme just the other evening. It's not my usual viewing, I confess, but someone had mentioned something about it, which meant it had my interest.

Lisa Butcher is one of the presenters of the BBC's What Not To Wear. She recently began a new monthly column in the Mail on Sunday magazine, You. In it she reveals that she visited a Quest-trained Cognitive Hypnotherapist to boost her confidence in front of camera.

According to a recent article posted by Trevor Silvester of The Quest Institute, a recent study has found that hypnotherapy is more effective than nicotime replacement therapy for helping smokers to quit.  The article is reproduced in its entirity below. You can find more information about Cognitive Hypnotherapy at www.questinstitute.co.uk. 

This is a blog article written by Trevor Silvester of the Quest Institute on CBT and how Cognitive Hypnotherapy fits into its model. Trevor is a Director of The Quest Institute - the home of Cognitive Hypnotherapy who train therapists to an extremely high standard. More infomation is available at www.questinstitute.co.uk.

From Newspost Online 4 March 2009

It seems that reseachers from the University of Ansas have found that positive emotions are critical for and upkeep of physical health for people worldwide.