Hypnotherapy Training

Hi,

Clinical Hypnosis Courses, Hypnotherapy training, NLP Courses and Counselling and Psychotherapy training in the UK is somewhat of a minefield.

If you have been looking for a course then you will know just that!

Some of the most important aspects of training can be overlooked by the plethora of training schools in the UK currently offering certificates and diplomas, most awarded by themselves with no validation as to their quality.

See http://www.contemporarycollege.com/ for more info about training or see Tom's top 10 Tips below ::

Tom's Top 10 Training Tips ::

1. Begin by knowing what you want to learn

2. Where are you going to learn

3. Validation, Accreditation and the Law

4. Your potential tutors

5. The length of time of established teaching

6. Classroom learning Vs. Distance learning

7. Post graduate support

8. Further education opportunities

9. The price

10. Support in going into 'Practice'See more at

http://www.tombarber.co.uk/hypnotherapy_training.htm

If you have any questions please do ask Tom at blog@tombarber.co.uk

Till next ...Tom.

Weekly Thought's - Stress & Anxiety

Stress and Anxiety - Teenage Years ...

In teenage years stress is very common and is generally about self-concept, E.g. ‘I hate my hair, I look fat in these jeans’. etc ... Stress can affect us just as much as food and exercise can. It can either help with problems or make them worse and it’s all to do with our emotional and physical demands. Everyone lives under stress. Before anyone can control stress they have to know what it feels like. Some of the feelings from stress are:

• Lack of sleep, which makes you tired.
• Mood change, for no apparent reason.
• Unable to concentrate.
• Getting emotional over minor things.
• Headaches.
• Nightmares.
• Becoming prone to accidents.
• Hungry all the time.
• No motivation to do anything.
• No enthusiasm.

These are some of the most common complaints that happen to most people when they are stressed and are often re-occuring. If you don’t know how to recognise and respond to stress you wont know that it’s affecting you.

Anxiety in some respect's can be helpful, as it alerts us and helps us to know if things are right or wrong. It also helps us to deal with difficult and dangerous situations. However if there is too much anxiety it can get out of control and stop us from functioning correctly, which is why we need to know how to deal with it. There is no accurate explanation of Anxiety but there are a number of emotional, physical and mental changes in the body that we can recognise, which will vary from person to person and may include:

• Vomiting or Diarrhoea.
• Dry mouth.
• Difficulties with swallowing.
• Sweating.
• Hot flushes, chills.
• Shortness of breath.
• Dizziness.
• Sleeping.

Hypnotherapy can help stress by helping you to recognise stress levels in the moment and also helps you to avoid these stress levels in the future. It helps the unconscious learn and teaches relaxation techniques and exercises to help you relax when a stressful situation arises. It also helps with positive thinking and assertiveness, which helps you to cope with stressful situations.

Hypnotherapy is an effective treatment for stress symptoms such as insomnia, muscle tension, rushing, worrying, etc and is also a great approach to dealing with stress and anxiety before the symptoms ever arise.

For more info see http://www.tombarber.co.uk/stress_hypnotherapy.htm

Till next,

Tom.

Shocking News Close to Home

The last few days have left me shocked.

Its one thing to read of stabbing's and shooting's around the world, but another to be less than a mile away, in a sleepy suberb like my home town, (my ... its not even a town) from a terrible incident that saw the sad death of a young lad of only 18 years old.

My heart goes out to the family of Dominic Barritt, of Clacton on Sea. Please let peace return to our world.

Till next,

Tom.

Banish that Phobia!

Phobias are an inappropriate fear. They are an exaggeration of something that is around you and you have built up in your imagination as harmful but which actually isn’t. If you have a phobia, you may realise that the fear is out of proportion to the true danger or threat, but you cannot control or explain it. Phobias can last a lifetime and they can cause minor problems and major disabilities.

There are 3 main types of phobias which include

• Specific or simple phobias
  
• Agoraphobia and


• Social phobia

Specific or simple phobias are very common in young people and infants, in this case they are thought of as normal but can lead to having this phobia when they get older. These fears might be:

Spiders, snakes, insects and mice, storms, heights, weather
Blood, injury, injections, enclosed spaces, lifts, and aeroplanes.

Agoraphobia is when someone has a fear of open spaces and it often starts in the adolescence stage and may occur more in women than men. Agoraphobia is a phobia where you fear to be away from your home and family, and the further away from home that you are the panic attack that you may have will become worse.

Social phobias happen when there is a heightened fear of social situations, for example small groups of people at parties. People with social phobia have no or low confidence with people they don't know, maybe fearing that strangers are criticising them. They may also fear that they will behave in an embarrassing way in public, such as shaking or blushing.

Hypnotherapy can help these phobias by using a range of therapeutic techniques such as desensitising you to the subject of the fear such as spiders, insects and other objects and learning new relaxed responses to overcome the fear in situations where the phobia may usually appear. Sometimes uncovering the source of the fear can help but isn’t generally necessary.

If you have a phobia then Hypnotherapy can help you to feel in control, so you can live your life free of fear.. For more information go to

http://www.tombarber.co.uk/phobias_hypnotherapy.htm

Till next,

Tom.

Usain Bolt Bejing 100 Metres Mens Final - WOW!

Incredible, awesome, amazing, a new Icon! The Olympic News is all about Usain Bolt, now the worlds fastest man on two legs. The hype was there, the crowd was there, all 90,000 of them and the world was watching and my ... did he deliver!

Watch the Video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7565572.stm

I have given hypnotherapy over the years with many athletes and all know the power of the mind when it comes to sports performance. Having worked many top Rugby, Golf and Tennis players I have seen first hand how hypnosis and hypnotherapy can take a well performing athlete and turn them into a force to be reckoned with.

See more about Usain Bolt's amazing 100 Metres Mens Final race in Bejing below (BBC report) or go to http://www.tombarber.co.uk/ to find out how sports hypnotherapy can dramatically increase your chances of success.

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News report from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/

You knew from the moment he stood by his blocks, seconds before the start of the most hyped 100m in history, and posed like a man messing about in a club with his mates.
It's the Olympic final. You're supposed to be shaking inside, aware that you're about to go through the 10 seconds that could define the rest of your life.

There are 90,000 people staring down at you from all sides of the stadium, billions more watching around the world on television.

Usain Bolt's performance on Saturday night was unbelievable, in the most flabbergasted, mouths-agape sense of the word.

These races are won by hundredths of a second, by dips on the line, by the width of a vest. They're not won by chasms.

When Bolt's world record time flashed up on the in-field scoreboard at the Bird's Nest, people actually started laughing.
It was that astonishing, that implausible.

This was only the ninth competitive 100m Bolt has ever run. He wasn't even sure if he'd be running in this race a fortnight ago, and that was when his coach told him that he would.
To explode down the track and run that time, not even trying for the last 15 metres, holding his arms out wide and virtually talking to the crowd, simply defies belief.
But, from the moment he walked out onto the brightly-lit stadium floor, Bolt looked ready to rip up the rule-book.

When pounding, portentous music was played over the PA system as the athletes peeled off their tracksuits pre-race, Bolt started throwing dancehall shapes even as Asafa Powell looked sick with anxiety.

When the starter called the finalists to their blocks and a total hush fell over the rammed-to-the-rafters stadium, the only noise the clattering helicopter overhead, Bolt appeared to be singing to himself.

As he flashed across the line a few seconds later, the fastest human being who's ever lived, he punched his chest, pulled up his bright yellow vest to show off his sprinter's six-pack and roared with delight as the steepling stands roared back at him.

You can try to put this run into context, but there isn't one.

The closest you can get is Michael Johnson's 19.32secs for the 200m in Atlanta 12 years ago, also done in golden spikes. But that was achieved by a man aged 29, at the peak of his powers, after years and years of running the event.

Bolt is 21. It's the first senior 100m final of his life.

The 100m world record isn't generally broken in Olympic finals. Of the last eight records set, only one came at an Olympics - Donovan Bailey's 9.84secs in 1996.
In Beijing, Bolt had a start that was at best average, with six of his opponents reacting quicker to the gun that he did.

There wasn't even a following wind, unlike in May, when he was blown along by a tailwind of +1.7m/s as he ran 9.72secs in New York.
On Saturday night, the Olympic flag hung limply from its pole.

How fast could he have run with a breeze at his back, pushing hard all the way to the line? 9.66? 9.65?
These are numbers that seemed utterly impossible even a few days ago. Now, for Bolt, they're within reach.

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. Bolt has been a sprinting phenomenon ever since he went through puberty, shot up to 6ft 5in and started running times that created waves far outside his native Jamaica.

As a lanky 15-year-old from Trelawny, he became the youngest ever gold medallist at the World Juniors, storming to the 200m title and repeating the trick a year later.
Injury delayed his progression a little, as did the depth of 200m talent at senior level and the careful nurturing of his coach Glen Mills, but for most judges it was simply matter of when, not if.
For Bolt's two great adversaries ahead of Saturday's showdown, it was a night to throw away and forget about forever.
Powell, for three years the fastest sprinter in the world, the man who's gone under 9.80 seconds more times than anyone else in history, once again failed to deliver in a major championship final.

Even in his worst nightmares he couldn't have imagined running 9.95secs in the Olympic final, not even finishing on the podium.
For Tyson Gay it was even worse. Despite his claims to be back to his best, he failed to even make it through the semis to witness his rival make history first-hand.
Bolt now stands head and shoulders above every other sprinter, both physically and metaphorically.

Like Michael Phelps, he came into these Olympics as a mere sports star but will leave them as a global icon.

And let's not forget - the event he considers to be his best is still to come

Tom Fordyce is a BBC Sport journalist covering a wide range of events in Beijing.

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Till next,

Tom.

Passing Your Driving or Theory Test using Hypnosis

Over one million people take the UK driving test each year. Driving instructors will tell you that many people fail their driving test not because of a lack of driving ability, but because of driving test anxiety or nervousness which builds up before the test even starts.

Conversely, many others pass the test even though their technical driving skills may be limited, they just get it right on the day!

For many people, the anticipation of the test, whether that be thier theory of actual practical, and the thoughts of what might go wrong, can be worse than the test itself. And of course, the more nervous you become, the more likely you are to make mistakes on the actual test - a Catch-22 situation!

Hypnotherapy can help in so many ways, giving you new thoughts and feelings associated with driving.

Dont be like my last client, on her 18th test! Do something about your mind now!

For more info see:

www.tombarber.co.uk

Till next,

Tom.

Hypnotherapy, Weight Loss & Eating Disorders

Hypnotherapy can help weight control in many different ways, including helping with obesity, anorexia and bulimia. Therapists usually start to help the client by improving their self-esteem and boosting their confidence. In the typical case of obesity the majority (95%) of people who diet often put the weight straight back on after stopping the diet, and usually more weight is gained in the process.

Weight loss is achieved more rapidly with hypnosis. Hypnotherapy can help you access and overcome your subconscious mind’s reasons for weight gain. The reason for people having problems with dieting is often because will power is used and will power is the result of the conscious mind. However, it is not your conscious mind that is in control, it is your unconsciousness, with all its past experiences, which is the reason for your behaviour. Hypnosis can help as it alters your subconscious reasons.

With Anorexia, the major trouble is that it doesn’t make you feel like you have a problem. You continue to feel in control of your weight and the food you eat and may even feel anxious if changes occur.

Being anorexic makes you feel unhappy and you know this, but in your mind you would rather be unhappy than put on weight, as that’s one thing your trying to steer clear of - and that is where Hypnotherapy can help you. You probably feel anxious most of the time and your self-esteem may be very low, which means that you don't feel that great about yourself. Hypnotherapy helps as it makes you feel more confident and more relaxed and also more in control as well as helping you to gain more self-esteem and self-respect.

Bulimia is an eating disorder where the client will binge on food and vomit afterwards. This is another situation where self-esteem will be low and you may have low confidence. Hypnotherapy can help bulimia, by giving suggestions to stop binge eating as well as also helping with levels of anxiety.

A Hypnotherapist will identify and discuss with a client the triggers of bulimia, which includes, loneliness, anger, personal life, depression and self-esteem. Hypnotherapists will also increase the client’s levels of confidence and self-esteem.

Whatever difficulties you are having with eating, therapy CAN help.

For more help see: http://www.tombarber.co.uk/uses_for_hypnotherapy.htm

Bye for now,

Tom.
www.tombarber.co.uk