MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'hypnotherapy'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:41:04 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4945320&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FJk1BEo7wsLA%2F I genuinely hope I’m wrong, but my gut feeling is that you’re highly likely to massively underestimate the power of what I’m about to tell you. In fact, you may already be aware of the information at a conscious level because it’s something I mention to almost every Life Coaching client and have written about it both here and in How To Be Rich and Happy. However, if this is your first exposure to Continue reading... (Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone :) Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4945320 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:40:41 +0100 4945320 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4724295&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2Fnqw1UoPf1o4%2F The importance of rapport building is something that has come up no less than 3 times with Life Coaching clients in the last week alone. Then I was recording a module on sales for the Life Coach Marketing course and it came up again there. Even though I have written on the topic a couple of times before, I was shocked to realize the last time was almost 2 years ago. So I thought now would be a great time to dust rapport building down and drag it into the light of day again. Before I do that though, this is your very last chance to get 16 Ways To De-Stress Your Life for free. From Wednesday 20th the only way you’ll be able to get it is from my store. Not only that, but on the advice of two people that know what they’re talking about I will be upping the price. So you can get it now for ... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4724295 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:36:00 +0100 4724295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4532596&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FZ_loxP5RuIg%2F Before I kick off I have two really cool announcements to make at the bottom of this post. If you are a Life Coach that is struggling to generate as many clients as you would like. Or you’re about to embark on a career in Life Coaching and want to be beating salivating clients away with pointy sticks because you’re so busy, hang around till the end. The other is some exciting news I have about my forthcoming book NLP: Science Not Magic. ————- Have you ever read on a Life Coaching blog or heard some motivational speaker or self development guru tell you that happiness is a choice? I seem to come across this on a regular basis and it frustrates the hell out of me, because it’s crass, glib and to a large extent, inaccurate. Not to mention it’s incredibl... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4532596 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:07:23 +0100 4532596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4501835&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2F6i0LzfGQpEo%2F As you probably know I’m currently writing my latest free ebook, an introduction to Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). I’m still some way off finishing the book as I totally underestimated how much new material I needed to write, but I’m still hopeful if I don’t get it out with my March newsletter, it  wont be far behind As a taster though I thought I’d share the (unedited) intro with you today because if this doesn’t inspire you to want to learn more, then I doubt the book itself will. BTW, I still have no idea what to call it, so if you have any ideas I’d love to hear them in the comments. And yes, there are some affiliate links in this post. Note: Unlike my other free ebooks, this one will only be available to my newsletter subscribers and via a handful of other sources, ... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4501835 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:44:36 +0100 4501835 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4433344&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FnClyFLBx9Bk%2F I have had two interesting conversation recently with clients about confidence. Both people claimed to lack confidence in certain areas of their life and needed me to give them some more. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but unfortunately the extreme weather has shut down the confidence factory and my shipments are on back order. I scratched my head in desperation unsure of what to do, when all of a sudden a thought came to me out of the blue. What if both clients already had lots of confidence, but had merely misplaced it? I used to go rock climbing when I was in my twenties. I was never any good at it, but I enjoyed it nevertheless. On the occasions I foolishly agreed to follow my friend, Shep, up a route that was way over my head I would invariably end up being dragged up the fina... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4433344 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:06:36 +0100 4433344 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4377810&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FhNgywGcH5_o%2F I was planning on running a guest post today from Carl Harvey on binaural beats, but I’ve had a last minute change of plan. Instead, Harvey and his cheeky Cockney wit will have to wait until Monday because I want to share something important with you. When I put up the gift card for the best reframe on my ‘Is Realism A Death Sentence?’ post I knew I would get some cracking responses, but I wasn’t prepared for how good some of them were going to be and how difficult a task it would be to choose a ‘winner’. Just in case you didn’t enter and now think this post doesn’t apply to you, let me say, step away from the mouse and avert your gaze from the back button. It absolutely does apply to you as well as the other 6.8 billion people on the planet, so go and get them too. I can w... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4377810 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:03:12 +0100 4377810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4361343&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FD03EUsxez2o%2F My last post ‘Is Realism A Death Sentence‘ was all about the massive, life-changing power of reframing. How it can hugely improve the quality of your life, if that is, you take the time to master it and then use it on a regular basis. To encourage people to try it I’m going to give a $25 Amazon gift card to the person that can come up with the best positive reframe in the comments section of that post before 20th January. Within minutes of me hitting publish on that post things started to go wrong. To begin with, I knocked a full cup of coffee over my keyboard and mouse mat shortly before I was due to start a client session. Initially I thought I’d saved the keyboard and even tweeted the reframe that my mouse mat was history, but at least my keyboard survived to tell the ta... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4361343 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:03:11 +0100 4361343 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4300730&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FfZlOYbqT0hA%2F Ok, ok, so I said I probably wouldn’t be posting again this side of 2011, but I’m a fickle fella. So I decided to succumb to self-indulgence and share with you what I think are the best 10 posts I wrote for the A Daring Adventure blog this year. I know it says the 10 best post of 2010, but come one, I think we both know if I’d have called it my best 10 of 2010 you probably wouldn’t be reading now! Before I cut to the chase a quick apology to my newsletter readers. When I ran my free Life Coaching offer I said there would be two runners-up prizes and I completely forgot. So I will announce the runners up in next months newsletter. By the way, if you fancy some free Life Coaching, get signed up in the box at the bottom of this post as I plan on running it again in 2011. 10. P... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4300730 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:48:42 +0100 4300730 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266332&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FuP8R2GSoEFs%2F After my previous post on the 10 best self development books of 2010 I’ve had a few people ask me what my my top self development books of all time are, so today I thought I’d take a stab at answering that. The following books are the ones that have stand the test of time for me, and me alone.  What I mean by that is that I am fully aware that books like The 7 Habits, Flow and Think And Grow Rich were/are classics, and indeed, I enjoyed all of them. However, I happen to think that there are now better, more accessible books out there, and as such none of the above make my list. Although, it has to be said, they would have done if I was writing a list of the 20 most influential self development books ever written. As would, almost certainly, The Power Of Now, How To Make Friends and In... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266332 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:54:48 +0100 4266332 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3994419&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FKtFzvBHbTOM%2F If I could show you a way that would absolutely guarantee you have the power to positively change how you think about any situation, would you want to know about it? And no, I’m not talking about anchoring, reframing or the need to consume large amounts of alcohol. Well I can. I can show you a process that can move you from nervous to confident, or from uninspired to motivated, or between more or less any two states you choose. Today I’m going to explain to you how you can use one of the most powerful tools NLP (neurolinguistic programming) has to offer. This post cannot be scanned and requires your total attention if you want to get anything out of it of value. If you have a copy of How To Be Rich and Happy you may already be familiar with submodalities as we talk about them in the bo... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3994419 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:11:23 +0100 3994419 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3726813&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FOuLxt1lxDEI%2F A massive thanks to the dozens of you that offered your words of self development wisdom in response to my last post “What’s Your Best Piece of Advice?” Some time on Saturday afternoon I was starting to think it wasn’t such a great idea posing the question after all.  Not because the answers were terrible, but because they were so good and I had no idea how I was going to decide on which I could confidently declare was ‘the best’ and handing over the book and $25 gift certificate. After all, something like this as subjective as whether a joke is funny, a song great, or a politician honest. No matter what I do some people are going to disagree with me, in fact, I’m guessing most people will disagree with me. Prior to the post I had given my newsletter readers the ... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3726813 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:23:04 +0100 3726813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3695848&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FQrYxaHATkVk%2F If you have spent more than 5 minutes on this site or watching any of my videos you’ll have heard the word reframe at some stage. Reframing is possibly the single most important self development tool I have in my bag. And not just for work with clients either, because I use it myself on a daily basis. What you possibly don’t know though, is reframing isn’t an only child. Sure it’s the most famous and good looking of the framing family, and it no doubt looks down on it’s less successful younger siblings, a bit like the Baldwins do with Stephen, but that’s not to say it deserves all the glory. After all, even the weasel-faced Stephen Baldwin made ‘The Usual Suspects’, so every dog has its day. Today I thought I’d take a deeper look at framing in all it’s guises and show y... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3695848 Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:16:59 +0100 3695848 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3079406&cid=t_199904_111_f&fid=34834&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FMentalNurse%2F%7E3%2FlwDdhqYfPLE%2F The mental health charity Mind have their own blog, and I’ve got a guest post on it, talking about the Derek Gale case and the need for regulation in psychotherapy. Also on the Mind blog is a post about how lax standards by some psychotherapy organisations enabled one pet owner to register his pet cat as a hypnotherapist with the British Board of Neuro Linguistic Programming (BBNLP), the United Fellowship of Hypnotherapists (UFH) and the Professional Hypnotherapy Practitioner Association (PHPA). I asked my cat what he thought about this, but then he started staring into my eyes, waved his paw across my face….and the next thing I knew it was ten minutes later and the fresh rainbow trout I’d been planning for Sunday lunch had mysteriously moved from the fridge to the cat&#8... Mental Nurse blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3079406 Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:33:28 +0100 3079406 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3056927&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FVuQ1-brLakI%2F Before I get into the post I want to ask you a quick question. What do you want from The Discomfort Zone? I have now written in excess of 500 posts on life coaching, self development and random nonsense going back over 3 years. Yet as another year draws to an end I’ve been wondering whether I’m giving people what they want. The reason being that I’m really struggling to come up with areas that I have never touched on. Of course I can deliver new slants and reintroduce topics as new readers come onboard, but I have to feel like I’m adding value. I’ve started asking for guest posters on topics I don’t feel qualified to talk about it. With that in mind I have posts coming up in the new year on EFT, time management, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, but what else are you interested... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3056927 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:12:36 +0100 3056927 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2967567&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2FxB_44oKNDCU%2F Before I kick off let me ask for a favor if I may be so bold. If you know somebody that wants to quit smoking or you think would quit with the right help, send them this post or a link to this post. There really is no need for anybody that wants to quit not to be able in this day and age. I got an e-mail from somebody that reads The Discomfort Zone recently asking about advice on quitting smoking. I have touched on the subject once or twice in the past, but never in any great detail and not for some while. I think the reason primarily is because not only is it not something I do these days with clients, but it’s such a tough subject to cover off in one blog post without the risk of missing stuff out and I feel sure I  will do that, so feel free to add your tips in the comment field. Ho... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2967567 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:09:49 +0100 2967567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2474549&cid=t_199904_180_f&fid=38619&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FALifeCoachsBlog%2F%7E3%2Fd8ICXXYm-NU%2F Let me start this post by saying this about hypnosis: Hypnosis is a very common state and you drift in and out it many times per day. Are you shocked? Did you imagine hypnotic states were something associated with men in black capes waving pocket watches around, whilst telling their clients they were under their spell and to stop smoking immediately, or risk being made to cluck like a chicken for the rest of their life? Have you ever driven for a period of time and suddenly realized you can’t remember passing through the previous town or even how you got to be where you were? What about being so engrossed in an activity that you lost all track of time? I don’t mean you think you have been doing whatever it is for twenty minutes and it turns out to be thirty, but you ‘lose’ two or ... Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2474549 Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:24:29 +0100 2474549 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1770456&cid=t_199904_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F09%2F06%2Firritable-bowel-syndrome-and-the-mindgut-connection%2F Although we’ve all heard allusions to the “mind/body connection,” Western medicine still tends to downplay or ignore the effect people’s attitudes and emotions can have on their overall health. In her recent New York Times article “Let the Mind Help Tame an Irritable Bowel,” Jane E. Brody discusses an even more specific connection: that of the mind and the digestive system. “The gut,” she writes, “has been called the body’s second brain, containing 95 percent of the body’s neurotransmitter serotonin and direct nerve connections to the brain.” For patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (I.B.S.), a disorder characterized by medically inexplicable diarrhea, constipation, or a cycle of the two, these findings are provocative to say the least. …learning to mi... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1770456 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:13:50 +0100 1770456 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1738968&cid=t_199904_125_f&fid=34820&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dentalblogs.com%2Farchives%2Fadministrator%2Fhypnotherapy-to-alleviate-dental-fear%2F Many people are scared of the dentist, and while no hard, fast statistics are available, it is estimated that 20-50% of people avoid dental visits because of fear. The phobia can stem from bad dental experiences in a patient’s past, control issues, or simply fear of needles, pain, or the unknown. Oral conscious sedation, meaning nitrous plus anxiolysis, has swept the dental industry and helped many people overcome their dental stress. Here at DentalBlogs, we have posted articles about little things that make patients feel more comfortable, from ergonomic chairs and spa dentistry to the use of sign language for patients to communicate with doctors during procedures. Lately, we seem to be hearing more and more about hypnotherapy as a means to overcome dental fear. A few months ago, ... dental blog for dentists about dentistry blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1738968 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:32:40 +0100 1738968