Oh baby!
- By Fiona Shaw
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- 08 Jan, 2019
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With a new Royal baby on the way in spring it has been reported that the Duchess of Sussex has been reading up on Hypnobirthing techniques. While this is great news for Hypnotherapists as it helps to raise awareness, it’s also frustrating as it only highlights one use of hypnosis in the whole journey, when in fact hypnotherapy can aid the entire process before pregnancy, through to well after a baby is born.
Over the next few weeks we’ll aim to cover some of the different stages but as with everything we explore, we can’t cover everything so please feel free to email any questions or give us a call.
So, let’s start with the ‘ideas’... maybe you like the idea of having children, maybe you don’t or maybe you’re just not sure. Hypnotherapy can help you explore this before you make any decisions.
In January 2018 the BBC aired Baby Love, a program about perspectives on motherhood, featuring West End Star Connie Fisher. Connie was facing constant questions about her intentions to start a family with her husband but was unsure if it was for her, without really knowing what she felt or why. She had been a twin but unfortunately her twin brother had died at birth and although she had known this for a long time, she had never linked it with her own fears of motherhood. During a hypnotherapy session to explore her uncertainty, she was able to identify the link between the loss of her twin and her fears of having children herself, which she hadn’t realised had affected her so much.
Our minds process so much information that it’s impossible to hold everything consciously at the forefront and sometimes it’s easier to keep the ‘difficult’ things hidden away to make them less painful. The downside of this of course is that however hidden, they are still there, we still hold the information therefore it can still affect us just like anything else we know although harder to pinpoint.
Using hypnotherapy we can not only help to uncover these pockets of information, we can help you process them and accept them, removing any hold they have over you and allowing you to move forward.
Hopefully you’ve found it a really positive experience and are looking forward to the future smoke free.
For many though, this is the start of a sometimes lengthy process, with lots of ups and downs.
Maybe you just can’t get rid of that craving no matter how hard you try or maybe that’s no longer a problem but you find yourself wondering what to do with your hands now they’re not occupied with a cigarette? If you used smoking to help you relax or cope with stressful situations you might find yourself feeling more anxious than normal or just generally feeling less able to cope.
These learnt behaviours can be a real bugbear, especially when you’re trying so hard to do such a great thing for your health, so consider giving hypnotherapy a try. Many people think hypnotherapy just makes the act of smoking an unpleasant one but actually we can do so much more.
Using hypnosis we can make smoking something you don't enjoy but we can also stop those behaviours in their tracks so you no longer need them or rely on them. We can teach you techniques to handle difficult situations, keep you calm and use coping mechanisms that don't require cigarettes. Also, if you want to use other methods of support, like patches, at the same time then there's no reason why not.
It’s also never too late, so don’t be disheartened if Stoptober came and went without you. Ask yourself if you want to quit smoking and if you can answer an honest ‘yes’, then you can do it! If you’re not sure, then maybe now just isn’t the right time for you, so ask again in a month or two.
Sounds simple?
That’s because it can be, it’s worked for many people before so why not give it a try and see if it works for you?
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It's a small action that can turn into something incredible.
Check out www.dkms.org.uk for all the details, you can register there and they'll send you a little swab kit you can do yourself at home.
Once you're done, give yourself a big pat on the back, you could be on the way to changing the life of someone who needs your help along with the lives of all their friends and family.
One small thing guaranteed to boost your mood!
A lot of people are curious about this and it’s a recurring question both in and out of the therapy room.
Regression, or looking back into your own past, is often used during hypnotherapy sessions as it helps us explore the route of a problem and create deep and lasting changes from this initial starting point. This is such a powerful and useful technique, I feel there would be a huge part of the hypnotherapy toolkit missing if we didn’t use it and for the majority of clients, the benefits are huge.
Sometimes it can be a daunting prospect if you’re anxious about something from your past, but this is discussed at length beforehand and we wouldn’t use any form of regression unless you were comfortable with it.
Now, that’s about this life and things that have happened in our current lifetime, so why would we be interested in a ‘past life’?
Well ... for exactly the same reasons.
Occasionally, a client can struggle to reach the initial cause of a problem or sometimes they can identify the root but it doesn’t appear to sit well along their current timeline. Wherever it’s found, we can deal with it in the same way and again the benefits can be enormous.
Of course, some clients are just curious and want to participate in a session specifically exploring a past life to find out who they were or might have been previously and for those people that's absolutely fine.
So, I suppose my point is ... why are we concerned if a past life is real or not?
It is and will continue to be a fascinating and widely debated topic but my own opinion is this ...
... Whatever your thoughts on past lives and past life regression are, if it helps some people, which it most definitely does, does it actually matter?
