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Hypnosis used to be the last resort ...

... but now it is your first-step on the road to effortless, automatic and permanent personal transformation!

Hypnosis allows you to:

• Take control of the subconscious which is creating your reality

• Re-write it quickly and easily

• Achieve the health, wealth and happiness which has eluded you up until now

People who experience the benefits of hypnosis quite often describe the process as "magical" and, in a way, it is.  How else can you explain something that can transform the negative behaviours of a lifetime in a matter of days, hours or minutes?  (Read on by clicking 'contnue' below)

Is Laughter the Best Medicine? | The Natural Way to cure the Blues

When was the last time you had a really good laugh?  Do you laugh every day?  Once a week ... a month?  There's lots of evidence to prove how good laughter is for our health and wellbeing.

Where do you Start?

Where do you start if you're out of practice with laughter?  Where can you find inspiration?  Has life become too serious?  It’s easy to get into a pit of worry with all the doom and gloom news on the TV lately, so think what would tickle you.  Learning to laugh again takes practice.

The Excuses We Make!

Have you ever heard yourself saying anything like this?  – I have!

“They asked me to write a blog but I don’t think I can, I haven’t got the time to prepare for it you see … I’m  far too busy. 

"I will find the time if I can of course but  ... I am a perfectionist you see; to get it right will take far too much of my time.  I know that having to have things just right is getting in my way and it’s not that I don’t want to change I have tried everything but it’s just the way I am. 

"I am too old to change now.  I suppose I could try, but deep down I know I haven’t got the will power. I’ve always been that way, never could get down to things properly at school with all that Who Ha going on between Mum and Dad at home, I couldn’t cope then so I can’t expect to now.

"I’ll just have to wing it – if it’s not brilliant I am sure everyone will understand – in the circumstances.”

Excuses Excuses - What Are Excuses About?

We use reasons like these all the time to explain why we’re not making the changes in our lives that we need to.  They sound valid enough - we’re all pressed for time and money, and there’s a limit to what we can do surely?  But all too often they are simply excuses, a way of absolving ourselves of taking action. 

WEIGHT LOSS : Setting Goals for Success

In my last post on this subject I talked about how to keep your motivation powered up after your first enthusiasm for losing weight begins to wane.  (Click here if you missed it)

I promised that I’d help you with goal-setting which is another very important factor when it comes to maintaining that steady weight loss.

We often set a goal of X number of pounds or stones and this is useful up to a point.  For instance if you set your goal at 2 stone, it could seem too big a goal and too far away to be attainable.  Result : loss of motivation.

Chatter of the Mind Part 2

Have you spent some time sorting out that dusty attic in the mind and finding the clutter ready to decide what to do with it?

In my last blog about mind-chatter (here), I talked about how you need to notice you’ve got a problem before you can fix it.  There is no movement without action. Do you want to feel happier?  Have you sought out any unwanted negativity that’s lurking in amongst your more useful thoughts or found habits or behaviour or thinking that you now know are not serving you?

In that case, it’s time to dust away the cobwebs and take the next step:

Weight Loss | Motivation techniques

Have you tried to lose weight in the past ?  Did you set yourself a goal or a target weight loss? Did you start your diet well and then begin to flounder?

One of the reasons for this is the way in which we set our weight loss goals and the reason for setting them in the first place.  Our motivation.  I’m going to talk about setting the goals in another article but for now let’s start with studying a little about motivation.  ...

Quietening the Chatter of the mind | Part I : Preparation

Have you heard this expression before : “the chatter of the mind”?

What it refers to is the constant thought processes that we are running every day of our lives.

Because we cannot get into another’s mind, we have no idea if our chattering mind is normal or healthy.  It’s just the way we are; it’s what we are used to and, anyway, why would we want to quieten it?

We have many thousands of thoughts each day and much of the time we are not even aware of the thoughts we are thinking.  Can you remember 60 thousand thoughts from yesterday or the several thousand you had in the last couple of hours? ...

How to Handle a Woman : Part IV of Tony's blog on creating better relationships

How to handle a woman?

Richard Burton (of all people!) advised us in Camelot :

"How to handle a woman?
There's a way," said the wise old man,
…………………Mark me well, I will tell you, sir:
The way to handle a woman
Is to love her...simply love her...
Merely love her...love her...love her."

If only it were that simple hey fella’s?

You love her to bits, you tell her you love her every single day.  Then one day out of the blue she declares ‘you say you love me but how do I know you aren’t just saying that’

“Will I cluck like a chicken?”

My good friend and colleague Tamsen Garrie of Alpha Therapy recently published this article to describe what hypnosis is really all about.  As I couldn't have done it better myself, I wanted to share it with you just as it is ...

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Hypnosis. What does the word conjure up for you?  A spectacled bearded bloke swinging a pendulum?  A joss-stick wielding hippy?  Or, your mate George on that Blackpool weekend, frantically searching the stage floor for chicken feed? ...

Personal Development: Our gateway to Success

STOP not doing what you know you should do!

Powerful ideas are at the very heart of success and the single most useful tool in my personal development is, without doubt, the CD player in my car.  My glove compartment is never without a CD set by Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy or one of the stable of self development superstars. 

My regular commutes have become the gateway to success, my car provides an honors university education and my trunk holds a whole library of titles by the mentors who influenced and helped shape our unique brand of therapy at The Life Design Studio.

We have always believed that thoughts and ideas are our most powerful possessions.  An idea or a different way of viewing our life can change the way we look, act and feel at the blink of an eye...