I was in my late 20s when I finally began taking driving lessons, mostly out of a lack of necessity and desire. When I started learning to drive, I would describe my level of fear of driving as relatively normal for any new driver. Over time my fear of driving began to snowball. I have… Continue Reading
Understanding vs Experential Understanding
This is an interesting subject I have been contemplating it the last 5 years of my journey down this most interesting path of Hypnotherapy and NLP! Especially in my business at Synergy Hypnotherapy Melbourne, of which I had no idea I would be travelling. In society so much emphasis is placed on learning facts by… Continue Reading
What are Emotions
Emotions are made of a few different components first off they are made up of thoughts and meanings in the form of “talking to self, pictures, movies” in your mind and then the second component is feelings. Feelings are physical sensations in the body and all emotions have a corresponding feeling in the body which… Continue Reading
How Do We Get Problem Behaviours
What an interesting thing to consider how did I get to this point in my life where I am having problems with alcohol, drugs, weight, smoking hypnosis, phobia’s and various other issues. Well there are a few factors we need to look at to explain this properly which are emotions/feelings, beliefs, thoughts and the conscious/unconscious… Continue Reading
Thoughts on Meditation
I have been meditating for over a 2 years now and I have some thoughts on it and its use. As a hypnotherapist I have used it to help me see my clients who come for various things like depression, anxiety, weight loss and smoking hypnosis to name a few in my practice in hypnotherapy… Continue Reading
Emotions and Your Body
So what are emotions? Well lets see emotions are a combination of thoughts, beliefs plus feelings or physical sensations in the body together they form emotions. The next thing you need to know about emotions is because they are a combination of thoughts and physical sensations in the body, you have to learn how to… Continue Reading
Phantom Pain
This article is following on from my previous one about “Remembered Pain” so maybe you might want to read it first. That article dealt with actual physical injuries that never seemed to heal. From my experience in practicing in hypnotherapy helping clients with problems like smoking hypnotherapy, Depression/anxiety hypnotherapy etc here at Hypnotherapy Melbourne. So what… Continue Reading
Remembered Pain
Remembered pain what is that? Well it is really an interesting thing I have come across in my work and studies over the past few years, both personally and professionally helping people in my hypnotherapy practice with all types of various things like smoking hypnotherapy, anxiety/depression hypnotherapy etc here at Hypnotherapy Melbourne. Remembered pain is where… Continue Reading
Empathy and Hypnotherapy
Ok does empathy have a place in hypnotherapy? The short answer is no it has no place at all. Lets begin with a definition of empathy. “Empathy – the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.” Dictionary.com I would like to clarify the definition above a little it… Continue Reading
Does Positive Thinking Work?
Interesting question as a hypnotherapist practicing hypnotherapy at Hypnotherapy Melbourne I have a different view on this than others may have. First off let me say I practice it and it works for me! Saying that I am an NLP Master Practitioner and Hypnotherapist so I do lots of work on my self in different ways to… Continue Reading
