Is Blue Monday a real thing?
January 17, 2025
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Whether it’s managing your weight, keeping fit, maintaining a tidy house, gaining a qualification or improving your work/life balance, hypnotherapy can help you achieve your goal.
As a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist I employ techniques designed to help clients visualise their ‘preferred future’. By asking specially formulated questions, I help people to describe how their future will be when they have achieved their goal. I encourage them to provide as much detail as possible so that they can create a vivid mental image. This visualisation exercise is followed by a session of hypnosis, a relaxed state in which the mind is more receptive to ideas and suggestions. I am keen to reassure clients that they don’t need to be creative or artistic to be able to visualise a scenario and if people are worried about this aspect, I ask them to describe their wedding day, or tell me what their kitchen looks like. Visualisation is no more difficult than that.
It’s important for people to understand that Hypnotherapy is not a magic wand that can change a person’s behaviour without any effort on their part. Will power and determination are still needed, but hypnotherapy can be enormously helpful in maintaining a client’s motivation, and giving people that bit of time out to allow them to really explore what, why and how they can achieve all of the wonderful things they wish to achieve.
Most New Year’s resolutions involve changing ingrained habits. We may habitually eat more than we need to be comfortably full, we may leave the dishes on the draining board until morning, or we may believe that we can’t leave work until we’ve dealt with all the emails in our inbox.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapy works by helping clients to see an alternative behaviour, one that benefits them. We know that habits are created through repetition. The more we employ a new behaviour, the more automatic it becomes. By helping clients to imagine having achieved their goal, Hypnotherapists are helping them to create healthier habits of thought.
Neuroscience demonstrates that when we imagine doing something, similar changes take place in the brain as if we are actually doing it. So we can accelerate the formation of new habits by simply thinking about the way we want to be. The deeply relaxed state achieved during hypnosis helps the mind to absorb the positive mental image.
If you feel you need help to maintain motivation for following through on your New Year’s resolutions, contact me either through my website www.edvhypnotherapy.co.uk or call me on 07795 561905/ 01278 788394
