Effie Gardner, member of the General Hypnotherapy Register and validation board General Hypnotherapy Standards Council

Many therapies have their foundations firmly linked to hypnotic therapies and some are fairly obvious:

•        Hypnotherapy,

•        Aversion therapy

•        Focusing,

•        EFT - (Emotional Freedom Technique)

•        NLP - (Neuro Linguistic Programming),

•        Healing,

•        Guided meditation,

•        Visualisation,

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Even apparently unrelated (therapies) situations that are part of human behaviours and contain hypnotic elements to a lesser or greater degree. Absorption in an activity where hours fly by or a minute seems like hours. For example: Walking, Talking, Reading, Writing, All other routine daily activities we do and tend to take for granted that we can do them. We learn new things all the time, but the first time we do so we tend to concentrate very intensely, after mastering a task we commit this beneath conscious memory. We do complex tasks without relearning them each time we want, choose or have to perform them.

For example: Seeing a movie in early childhood can be recalled vividly many years later including the emotions we experienced way back then. 99% of humans go in and out of trance thousands of times, every day and night (throughout life). Many people like to indulge in trance as a means for passing the time, when time is fairly enjoyable and in everyday language it is called dreaming or day dreaming. We also spend time imagining what happens/happened, worrying about things in the future, remembering events we did not liked or enjoyed, regret, embarrassed, feel generally bad about.  In my profession these natural and normal human patterns are called positive or negative hypnotic trance experiences.

This ability to go in and out of trance is an indication that our brains are functioning to optimum capacity, for learning to do new and important tasks as a means of survival, well-being and happiness. We improve what we learn once and to keep out of danger simultaneously. Everything we do, see, hear, feel, smell or taste is recorded by the brain and can be retrieved instantly when/if needed. Because we go in and out of trance all the time and are so used to it, we rarely pay attention to it. However, if something becomes imperative for survival we would remember what we had for breakfast when we were six months old. Thankfully, we do not need most memories in consciousness, otherwise our mind would be overwhelmed, life experience would become uncomfortable, repetitive, stuck and very unproductive experience indeed.

Looking at tthis from another angle, if something scary occurred in infancy (we all had them) even if forgotten, they can still cause us to react in an unrelated way to people, situations or environments in a similar fashion as we did in the first encounter of the situation. When learn to respond to things as reactions in early infancy and that was an ingenious response with the limited information available or lack of it then. At twenty or one hundred years of age the same riposte (running away screaming from a spider) usually reflects a maladaptive, inappropriate and negative reaction. Phobias are an example of involuntary reaction.

As a hypnotherapist, I learn all the time by observing people carefully and their responses to verbal interchange, as this is an opportunity for devising steps to overcome problems, difficulties and incorporate situations in ways that the individual could find more productive. In therapy, while setting clear goals for creating desired outcome from treatment, you learn to know yourself better, know how you are motivated or hindered by the past and what may be created using your thinking to instigate balance that is leading you to manifest the life you want to live.

Observing people does not imply that their minds are transparent or that I spend time to read what is there. Therefore, in sessions it is useful for me and clients to take a little time to talk about concerning things.

ÿ   YOU CANNOT BE  HYPNOTISED AGAINST YOUR FREE WILL

Being in trance, is not the same as sleeping. Even for individuals who achieve exceptionally deep levels of trance (which is rarely required in therapy), they are able to hear, talk, think, move, act or open their eyes any time they want to.

Therapy with trance can greatly enhance our human awareness at all levels of experience. But, even the most forcefully proposed suggestion will not make you say or do things against your moral, religious, or self-preservation instincts. If such a suggestion could be given in therapy, you would refuse to comply, wake up and be rightfully angry with the person in front of you.

The more intelligent you are, the better your concentration and motivational ability to attain the beneficial and positive goals you are committed to achieving for yourself. Commitments to achieve therapy goals is fundamentally different from New Year resolutions. Well formed and chosen goals facilitate the person to reach their effective, successful and speedy conclusion of their treatment easily. As an ethical therapist, I actively discourage clients from selecting goals that could be counter-productive and the personalised CD prepared specifically for your needs will help you to:

1. Initiate relaxation, improve self-image, commitment, health and intuition, as well as overcoming limiting habits,  phobias, cope with stress, enable your body to fight off illness and slow down the aging process.

2. People who suffer pain (even debilitating symptoms) can learn to manage and control pain with self-hypnosis (for that reason that is an integral part in sessions with me).

3. Regular listening to your individualised CD will improve your levels of trance and facilitate positive experiences long, long after you are de-hypnotised. 

4. Hypnosis has no equal for advancing self-development. Within these sophisticated therapy styles you can effortlessly take charge of your present, past and future creativity, capacities and capabilities.

5. What your mind has created in the past, can be uncreated in the present only. Constant thinking about past, present or future resulted in your current reality. So changing your thinking is  essential for re-programming your inner wisdom, conscious, subconscious and unconscious minds for setting yourself free and to experience your life as a a healing, fun and enjoyable journey!

6. You don’t simply have a mind, you are mind and by practising some simple steps in therapy you can completely redirect your life’s purpose, choosing supportive and fulfilling future outcomes.

The most profound beliefs you hold about your life were learnt from others since birth. Unlearning unhelpful beliefs that might have been inadvertently created, will take a fraction of the time and improve every area of your life, e.g.: You have a tendency to blush in any social gathering and as an adult you decide to deal with this. In therapy, resolving this area of your life will assist you with other issues that are not working for you as a 'domino effect' in trance work. Therapy aims are to custom build your destiny, gain inner guidance, experience perception and understand what is the next step needed to support your highest good and heal your life. Therapies provided in sessions with me are excellent and have helped hundreds of people already. They can provide you with the tools you will need to direct your life, long, long after your therapy has been successfully concluded.

To find how you could improve your life, do not hesitate to call Effie on 0113-261 2658. After a brief and free initial phone consultation, it is up to you to decide when you would like to book that working appointment.

The list below comprises some of the issues which therapy presented on this web-site in particular are known to help people with, in order to reach successful outcomes and results by acquiring lifelong coping techniques. 

•        Stress management and/or control.

•        Overcoming all known exam, test, interview nerves and anxiety.

•        Increased relaxation and the elimination of tension.

•        Recovery from and elimination of stress, anxiety or depression symptoms.

•        Overcoming stage fright and public speaking nerves.

•        Promoting a positive mental attitude.

•        Resolution of work or relationship related stress.

•        Overcoming insomnia.

•        Harmony of body, mind and emotions.

•        Healing and recovery of the inner child.

•        Support for increased self-confidence and assertiveness.

•        Improved overall quality of life and intuitive awareness.

•        Improving the quality of personal and social circumstances inadvertently attracted into one’s life.

•        Resolution and Elimination of shyness, phobias, guilt, anger or panic attacks.

•        Improved decisiveness, memory and self-application.

•        Alleviation of allergies, hay-fever, asthma, nail biting, irritable bowel syndrome and stammering symptoms.

•        Increased focus and concentration.

•        Facilitation of a better career path.

•        Improved reflexes.

•        Pain control and/or management (including chronic pain).

•        Elimination of limiting habits, phobias and other self-defeating behaviour.

•        Increased self-organisation, motivation and efficiency.

•        Resolution of self-image conflicts.

•        Improved interpersonal relationships at home, work and socially.

•        Coping with and overcoming bereavement.

•        Elimination of allergies, skin disorders and headaches, including migraines.

•        Strengthening the immune system.

•        Elimination of jealousy, lack of self-esteem, lack of concentration.

•        Increased ability to earn and hold onto money.

•        Assisting, supporting and promoting the body's own self-healing capacities during or after illness.

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In short... everyone is able to heal their own circumstances and manifest the ways they want and choose to live. 

Resolving important issues is only part of the therapy process. In sessions you will be encouraged to set healing  goals as a means by which to live peacefully with yourself and others. At the initial consultation over the phone you are invited to set at least one positive goal before your first session. In this way, by the time you arrive to my office you will already be prepared to reach one successful outcome from treatment.

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