I wonder sometimes if there is something deeply rooted in the human psyche that believes in magic? When I first studied and trained in NLP there was a lot of talk about change being instant, that change took no time. And I got it (and still get it) on at least two levels. First, the [...]
People practising hypnosis and self-hypnosis are sometimes asked whether it is the same as meditation. It is a question that interests me because a lot of my work seems to cross the boundaries between the two. There are many similarities, but there are also differences. Meditation, as it is traditionally described and practised is distinct [...]
In 2008, Peter Whorwell of the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom published an article in Journal of Psychosomatic Research entitled “Hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome: The response of colonic and noncolonic symptoms”. In it, he outlined a lifetime’s research in the use of hypnosis in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome, a disorder [...]
