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How does Online Hypnotherapy work?

By Dave Sturt • 11 Feb, 2021
A guide to getting the most out of Online Hypnotherapy

Covid19 & Online Hypnotherapy

By Dave Sturt • 10 Feb, 2021
& how we took our therapy online.

Stop Smoking therapy

By Dave Sturt • 08 Mar, 2020
We wish success to everyone who desires to quit smoking. If anyone struggles to kick the habit, we urge them to consider hypnotherapy. The Woodside Practice Stop Smoking therapy is a comprehensive session, naturally it includes hypnosis, but also provides much more. We explain the hows and whys of smoking, like how we nurtured a habit that we knew all along was bad for us – and then why we struggle to give up. This understanding of how our mind works in relation to smoking is of paramount importance and combined with hypnotic suggestion is the ideal start for your smoke free life. In addition, we provide a post session hypnotic track, to reinforce your session and help you in the future should you ever struggle, or to help you with other non smoking related future challenges. Informative literature to take away is also provided to help you remember the information provided. The cost of our Stop Smoking therapy is £180.00 and typically takes 1.5 to 2 hours. I had hypnotherapy in 2004, a single session of hypnotherapy only, that cost me £50.00 – thankfully it worked. (Actually, it was this event that later inspired me to train as a hypnotherapist.) The cost of 20 cigarettes back in 2004 averaged a mere £4.32 – compared to £12.40 for 20 Silk Cut today (in Tescos) - so pro rata the cost for smoking cessation today is very similar with the comprehensive Woodside Practice session compared to my 2004 session. If you smoke 20 Silk Cut a day, you will have spent £180.00 in the last 15 days. And another £180 in the next 15 days. In the last year £4526.00 would have gone up in smoke! Does £180.00 for hypnotherapy seem so much in comparison if it helps you kick the habit? We are committed to helping you stop smoking and put a lot of energy into the session. From feedback received our success rate is excellent. If you, or anyone you know, wants to give up and is struggling – then please contact us to discuss how The Woodside Practice hypnotherapy could help.

How do we create Anxiety?

By Dave Sturt • 25 Feb, 2020
If you would imagine a bucket sitting inside your brain, it doesn’t have to be huge, but we’ll use a bucket because it has a capacity limit – and when it’s full it will overflow. So put the bucket thoughts aside and now we’ll move on to anxiety. How is it created? The simple explanation is we create anxiety by thinking negatively. That’s it! And those negative thoughts are converted into anxiety…… and stored …… in that bucket you were thinking of earlier. We’ll refer to it now as the Stress Bucket. Negative thinking can be mulling over past events wishing you could change them for the better, or future forecasting things - saying things like “I’ll never be able to afford that”, or “the flight will be delayed”. Or, maybe even in the present time just thinking your glass is half empty not half full. So, imagine a day full of negative responses and thoughts, steadily filling up our stress bucket. When do we get this bucket emptied? The good news is that in ‘normal’ circumstances it’s emptied overnight whilst we’re sleeping. Whilst we sleep we have several phases of sleep, one of the phases is REM sleep, which stands for the Rapid Eye Movement phase – which is the point where we usually dream. During REM we re-run the events of the day and we move them from an emotional memory within our primitive minds to a narrative memory in our intellectual minds. Which loosely means we take the emotional bits away and just file the event in a huge bookcase in our brains. This emptying of our buckets / daily event register goes on all by itself without any additional input from us – every single day and night. However we throw a spanner in the works when we overfill our buckets and/or don’t allow ourselves the correct proportion of REM sleep. The REM sleep phase usually accounts for around 20% of our total sleep. If we regularly deviate from around that figure, it’s fair to say, we will get ourselves in a bit of a pickle which can lead to symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. In the next blog I’ll explain a method of ensuring we don’t put too much in our stress buckets and a way that we can produce some totally natural chemicals that make us feel great. Thanks again for reading, and as always - if you would like any more information or to arrange an initial consultation either telephone 07746 727989 or fill out the enquiry form on our contacts page. Thank you, Dave.
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