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Full hypnosis download Confidence for children
Self confidence and a healthy level of self esteem are vital for children, enabling them to feel they can explore their world by learning, without having to worry constantly about how they compare with other children or how they might ‘fail’. Lots of situations can knock a child’s confidence, from being bullied to going to a new school or moving area, or going through a family break up. Early school years can be challenging and attitudes such as pessimism, defeatism or low self-worth can all too easily be ‘caught’ from others.
The new hypnosis session for children uses hypnotic story telling (the ideal way for a child to learn), to enable children to absorb attitudes of resilience and habits of self confidence that can not only help them as children but also throughout life. To be able to trust your own opinions and feel you are okay in having them, to feel able to focus your attention positively on work and play and not be overly swayed by ‘group think’ or be too prey to worrying about what others think of you – these facets of living are important to all of us. And a great time to develop them is when you’re young.
We’re really excited about the new Confidence for children now available at hypnosisdownloads.com
All my best
Mark
Published by mark.tyrrell January 26th, 2012
in Children.
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Full hypnosis download Your life story
We all build up a narrative for ourselves, weaving it out of selected instances that stand out to us from our past, or in response to ‘narrative feeds’ from others. Sometimes we feel we are the hero or heroine of our narrative, sometimes the victim, and sometimes even the villain of the piece. Much of this narrative may be unconscious. But we all have a sense of the coherence of our lives and the narratives we weave about ourselves and others are a primary source of identity. As such, they have the power to shape (and reshape) our sense of self.
We are all storytellers, even if we just tell stories to ourselves about the roles we have played (or are playing or will play) in our own and other people’s lives. Some stories damage us (such as the narrative that goes “I have always been unlovable/unlucky/dysfunctional”) and some have the power to ennoble us and help us be resilient ( such as “I have always found a way to make things work – I never give up!”).
When we become fully our own ‘authors’ rather than allowing ourselves to be ‘authored’ or ‘scripted’ by others then we start to truly become individual. We start to live more comfortably in our own skin, to feel we are living through our own eyes and not trying to be some character someone else has invented.
The new Your life story download will help people become more flexible around who they believe they ‘are’ in relation to what they have done or what has happened to them. If we condemn ourselves to some negative or minor character role in life then we miss out on giving ourselves the best of all chances.
All my best
Mark
Published by mark.tyrrell January 24th, 2012
in Enjoy Life.
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Full hypnosis download Placebo primer
Placebo is incredibly powerful – because expectation is incredibly powerful.
A placebo is an inert (that is, inactive) substance or ritual that we believe will cure us. It’s the belief that forms the expectation of future wellness that then produces that wellness. People have been relieved of great physical pain by taking placebo, and placebos are as effective as antidepressants in lifting symptoms of depression. It’s the expectation that is key.
But here’s a thing. It was long believed that for placebos to work the person taking them had to believe they were real drugs. But it’s now been established that we can know quite well that a placebo is just a placebo but it can still work for us. This is astonishing. For example, in one study people were given pills that were clearly labelled as ‘inert substances/placebos’ for irritable bowel syndrome and still showed significant improvement. (1)
Now it’s important to understand that when placebos ‘work’ it’s not because the person wasn’t ‘really’ ill or couldn’t have had ‘real’ pain. What happens is that taking a placebo prompts a very real healing response within the patient’s body. When a real drug works, it will work even better when someone expects it to work well. So placebo medicine might be a significant part of all (or at least some) medical treatments.
We see the placebo response as a form of post-hypnotic suggestion. So it makes perfect sense to use hypnosis to ramp up your expectation that whatever medicine you are taking is going to be super effective for you. The new hypnosis download Placebo Primer is designed to do just that. When your subconscious and conscious expectations become more positive then you are much more likely to experience more of those positives.
All my best
Mark
Note
(1) See: Kaptchuk TJ, Friedlander E, Kelley JM, Sanchez MN, Kokkotou E, et al. (2010) Placebos without Deception: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Irritable Bowel Syndrome. PLoS ONE 5(12): e15591. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015591
Published by mark.tyrrell January 22nd, 2012
in Health Issues.
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Full hypnosis download Enjoy your work
As with many other things in life, it’s not so much about what work you do as what state of mind you are in when you are doing it. What we expect to experience from some piece of work before we do it can also be the deciding factor in how much we procrastinate (because we see it as boring or routine, or overly challenging and therefore too stressful).
But when you are in a certain state of mind, when you engage wholeheartedly in work – be it cleaning, checking tax returns or writing a novel – without reluctance, expectations or perfectionism, then you experience flow in your work and you can ‘get into the zone’ with any kind of work. A kind of Zen-like state of being ‘one-with-your-activity’ can be achieved washing the dishes or interviewing a prospective employee. What’s more, there are any number of creative ‘tricks’ for doing this, from the woman who pretended she was on a cookery show when cooking to focussing on writing all your entries in your very neatest handwriting when filling out forms. These are all ‘gateways’ enabling the transition from everyday consciousness to ‘work-Zen’ to happen more easily. The new Enjoy your work download is designed to help people help themselves feel more focussed while doing any kind of work and have less narrow expectations from their work.
All the best
Mark
Published by mark.tyrrell January 20th, 2012
in Learning Job Skills.
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Full hypnosis download Method acting
I haven’t acted professionally myself since… well… ever, to tell the truth! But I’ve had the pleasure of working with a number of actors.
Our new hypnosis download Method acting isn’t just for professional actors. It’s for anyone who does – or is going to do – any level of acting, from appearing in a college play (something I did do!) to treading the boards on, just off, or nowhere at all near Broadway. So you could be a stage or TV or even a movie actor, or a new recruit to an amateur drama group, but the point is you want to ‘get into character’ and you want to do it well.
Personally, I like my actors to really be actors. I don’t specially enjoy watching some ‘personality’ playing themselves over and over. And I really admire the ability of some actors to ‘become’ the character they are playing and make you believe for a while that they really are the person they are portraying.
This new hypnosis session is for anyone who acts (and even for those who would just like to feel what it’s like to inhabit another ‘identity’ for a while). Hypnosis is a brilliant way to learn how to leave yourself behind for a while and inhabit a character in its totality – moving, thinking, looking and being as they are for a while.
All the best
Mark
Published by mark.tyrrell January 18th, 2012
in Help with Learning.
