NHS Choices - join the mental health blog

CBT has shown to be a highly effective treatment for depression and anxiety. If you have suffered or are suffering from depression or anxiety you will know how isolating and debiltating living with the illness can be. NHS Choices have an excellent guide to cbt and how it can help you feel better as well as providing excellent support and an online community where you can talk to others who have shared similiar experiences. Visit NHS Choices for more information.
If you want to find out how cognitive behaviour therapy can help you visit the Whitelight Hypnotherapy Centre for more information and a free consultation.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomniacs with depression

The benefits of cognitive behaviour therapy are many but did you know it could also help with insomnia as well as depression? Read more...

If you are looking to increase your confidence, combat depression or anxiety, feel happier and more in control of how you would like to feel, learning some simple cbt techniques can be a highly effective way of restoring emotional and mental balance. Visit The Whitelight Hypnotherapy Centre for more details.
Contact Pam for a free consultation at enquiries@whitelighthypno.co.uk or call 07895 258 481.

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - The common sense approach to happiness

In the Scottish Borders they are trying out a new and quite unusual kind of medicine - happiness.

Now it is claimed that happiness could be more important than smoking in determining your health. As a therapist Find out more....

As a therapist I know the benefits of using cognitive behaviour therapy is significant resulting in fewer relapses in depressive and anxiety disorders, empowerment for my clients in the form of techniques they can practice for life and restructuring of thoughts resulting in a happier and more relaxed way of life. If you are interested in receiving cognitive behaviour therapy please contact me for a free consultation on 01484 328 622.

New Website Coming Soon?

That's right I am creating a new site for all my clients and anyone else who is interested in learning more about self healing and the spiritual aspect of therapy work. I often get asked many questions such as how do I meditate or relax?, how does reiki energy work?, how can I get the best out of our therapy sessions? These and many other questions will be answered! The site will include useful exercises such as effective meditations and how to use self hypnosis and much more...

Have a fantastic New Year!

Best wishes

Pam

A must read for over the festive period

Are you at home, bored, eaten too many mince pies, watched too much telly....need a bit of mental stimulation? Then here are some highly recommended books to add to your knowledge and personal growth:

"Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss" - a true story about a psychiatrist and his patient's fascinating account of how their journey into past and between lives regression was to change both of their lives for ever!

Cosmic Ordering ordering service" by Barbel Mohr" - the original best selling book on how to cosmic order just about anything in life from getting a parking space to finding your ideal relationship and how the process really works!

Enjoy!

Best wishes
Pam

Whitelight Hypnotherapy Centre

Part 4 Value Elicitation - Finding the perfect job

We all have times when we want to change a significant part of our lives for the better or simply overcome a destructive habit, lose weight or negative mindset.  We may want to change careers, attract a fulfilling relationship into our lives or overcome a destructive habit such as smoking.  The first thing we need to do is find out what we truly value in our lives.  Values are our core beliefs, values are what we hold to be true is in our world and anything that conflicts with these strong beliefs will create tension and stop us moving forward or make us unhappy or unfulfilled.  Say for example you want to change career start with the following:

1. Make a list of 10 enjoyable job situations where you note down what you were doing (behaviour), what did that job give you (ie purpose, social interaction, etc) and why that job was important to you.


2. The next thing you to want find out is if all these values were present in a job what would be the thing that causes you to leave that job - you may come up with 1 or 2 values - these are the boundary conditions and these are also values that are important to you to include in your list.

3. Next number the list in terms of importance with number 1 being the most important to you. 

4.  You will end up with a hierarchy of values these are things that are important to you so if you went for a job where you worked alone and you had  'social interaction'  in your top 5 list of values, this job would be going against your values and you would probably find yourself on the look out for something else!


5. To make sure you get the job you want, bring these list of values with you to your job interview and check against them when completing your application form.

6. Now the last step once you have these list of values and you know what really is important, you have in effect a shopping list of things you want your job to be.  I want you now to imagine yourself in this job with at least the top 3 values present, step into that experience, seeing, hearing and feeling all the wonderful sensations when you think of these top three values.  You turn up these feelings, make the colours brighter and make sounds lounder.  Completely emerse yourself in this experience and you know how important these values are to you and this will make your feelings of motivation stronger and therefore you will put yourself in a positive, relaxed frame of mind and make it so much easier for the job of your dreams to become your reality!

7. You may want to repeat the experience before you go to sleep at night and you will find your unconscious mind will act on that experience in helping you to attract the job you really want!

For more information on how NLP can help you visit The Whitelight Hypnotherapy Centre

NLP Tips Part 3 - Become an excellent learner

Many people have problems with learning certain things and believe they have to struggle or take a lot of time to learn something new.  One of the most powerful ideas about NLP is that if you really can change your belief and develop new beliefs about learning, imagine if you could naturally be a good learner, how different would your life be right now?  Well, thats the key change your belief and change how you learn and be good at NLP,  hypnosis  whatever you really want to do.  You will still need to practice at whatever it is you want to learn but once you feel its well within your abilities you will find it easier to learn and therefore enjoy the experience of learning so much more!

Follow the steps below to becoming an excellent learner!

1. Find the belief that stands in your way of learning new things easily.  See, hear and feel yourself trying, but not accomplishing your objective.  You will probably be able to find many examples from when you were a child at school.  Notice all the things you see, hear, feel  about these times when you underperformed, writing them down.

2. Find a strong and useful belief about something in which you already excel.  It doesnt need to fall into the same category as NLP but something you know you can do really well and like the above step record your feelings, what you see and hear about this experience.

3. Compare the two experienes, noting the difference between the 2 images, is one bigger than the other, where are positioned in your mental space, do they have any movement?

4. Push the limited belief far off into the distance, until it is the size of a pinprick, shift it across to line up with your positive belief and then snap it back towards you to into its new position, shifting all the original submodalities to match these of supreme confidence and proficiency.  Feel yourself go into a deeply relaxed state in which you absorb information easily and are committed to explore and practice your skills with deep committment.
6. You can deepen this state by making the image brighter, bigger, turning up the sound of your beliefs and pay particular attention to these feelings of being an excellent learner.  When you have identified a particulary good feeling, anchor it by pressing a spot on your body such as an earlobe or knuckle, so you acess this state at a later date by pressing or firing your anchor and remember as fully as possible the experience you created in step 4.
7. Slowly come back to the room that you left behind, bringing all these learnings with you, knowing that you can repeat this experience as many times as you like, knowing that you can double the experience each time.