Self help and personal growth books do they work?
So many self help or spiritual growth books are written (sometimes badly) for the mass market. Some of them are no better than the scatter gun approach used by newspaper astrologers.For real help to grow spritually or personally you need to have someone reflecting yourself honestly back to you and helping you find strategies to grow and cope that relate to YOUR life and experiences. If they don't then you will often find temporary relief at best. I offer Hypnosis Hypnotherapy Hypnoanalysis guided meditation and NLP to help you change for the better. Read on:
Why do so many self help and spiritual growth books not work? Or only help us with self growth therapy and spirtual growth temporarily?
If self help books have helped you - then I am really glad. I always celebrate seeing someone surmount difficulties in their life or seeing spiritual growth or a new found faith that makes life make sense for you! However many self help and personal growth books peddle the same information re presented and reworked to sound like new. They are also often very generalised and won't engage in a dialogue with you to find out what is really bugging you or where you need to make those changes.
If you find general points of reference and strategies that make sense that is good - but the best way to make a change in your life is to get professional help to target the therapy precisely to your needs. That is my opinion. I don't feel that chasing around from place to place will get you there any faster - the answer always lies within - I believe that the subconcious is the place where effective changes can be made - the place where we remember EVERYTHING whether conciously or not. Locate it our subconcious and deal with it and we can stop our lives from controlling us and start to get control of our present and future.
There is absolutely no shame to seeing a therapist - it means that you have the courage to admit that you have some sort of minor or major problem that you want to change to stop it from ruling your life. It means that you finally want to dump the bag of crap that you have carried for too long. It means that you want to deal with the pain, the feeling of inadequacy, and the crippling symptoms. It means that you want a strategy to give you pain relief or to facilitate recovery from illness post operative - or even address pre - operative matters.
I see many people who come to be in acute misery - with Panic Attacks, low self esteem, stress, anger, relationship difficulties, bereavement. They come to me for weight loss and giving up smoking or other addictive behaviour associated with alcohol, alcoholism, drugs. They come to see me because they have lost their way or have finally got to that desperate place where they seek help for the many areas in their lives that are holding them back. People come to me for Past Life Regression to discover if Karma or karmic patterns are afflicting this life.
They come to see me because they know that I have been able to help other people using a combination of hypnotherapy, therapy, hypnoanalysis, inner child healing, regression (present and / or past) NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), guided journeys, and a good old dose of common sense allied also to my background as a trained Drama teacher, actor, director and writer. I mention these only because it means that I feel that I am able to intuitively get a sympathetic rapport with my clients. Actually I DO care!
How do I work?
My therapy sessions explore the "why?" of your present condition - whether you are giving up smoking, want to lose weight or have a fear (e.g of Flying or asserting yourself) phobia (e.g of spiders or birds or agoraphobia) or trauma (e.g. mental, physical or sexual abuse).
I will talk to you in total confidence for the first half hour for free to enable me to assess whether I can help you or if someone else would be better for you. I offer a treatment plan and it is your choice if you want to undertake it or walk away.
"You have nothing to fear but fear itself".
Change now - change for the better.
What is a session like?
We talk and discuss and I ensure that the treatments are working for your benefit.
I then induce hypnosis which is probably the most relaxing time that you will ever have enjoyed. The hypnotic trance state is not such that you will be doing the "funky chicken" or anything else inappropriate. Hypnosis is a recognised "other" state from sleep or wakefulness - brain scans show that it is its own state. Trance has been used since time immemorial to affect chenge from the Greek and Egyptian healing sleep temples .. and way before that. Hypnosis is still used in China instead of anaesthetic and Doctors in the UK are now being urged to learm hypnosis for pain relief.
Depending on the client the next step will use a combination of all the therapies mentioned so far - outlined in more detail on my other page. I record the session on CD or DVD if appropriate and give it to my client to keep and use to reinforce the session. The CD is inclusive in the cost.
People have come to me to make a change in their lives and, not being Tinkerbell, I cannot wave a magic wand and so I help them facilitate their own recovery.
What can I expect to follow?
Hopefully your unwanted behaviour will modify, you will be able to put the traumatic past behind you and take only the good things and lessons with you. You will be able to go forward with calm focussed confidence and many new tools and strategies to help you deal with the difficulties of Life.
It is like the oportunity to arive in a new place and start again - with little or no past to bother you and to live more in the present and plan well for your future and handle your life in a more honest and constructive way.
See my other page for more details or go to my main site
Graham Howes ASHPH NHR GHR registered and GHSC regulated
Edge of the World Hypnotherapy and NLP
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