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stressfree.com.au Performance Coaching - Counselling - Hypnotherapy Daryl Wilkinson - Melbourne, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Counselling and Hypnosis can help you! Stressed? Anxious? Nervous? Fearful? Panicky? Can't see the wood for the trees? Maybe you can use some help. Almost every client I see is suffering from "stress" of some sort.
Counselling provides the client with a new perspective on their situation and their issues providing the opportunity to discover appropriate and creative solutions to what often can seem like overwhelming problems. Combining hypnosis with counselling has the further benefit of powerfully reinforcing the positive choices and directions and also maximising the speed and effectiveness of the solutions. Hypnotherapy and counselling can be applied to a wide variety of conditions and problems either as a primary therapy or as an adjunct treatment. For more see the following page: "Hypnosis Helps..." ON A LIGHTER NOTE..... Hypnosis can be used successfully to enhance the performance of both athletes and performing artists by helping them focus and eliminate negative and inappropriate stress, fears and self doubt. Hypnosis can also help remove creative blocks allowing the writer or artist to re access their creativity. So you could improve your game of golf or even access your own inner creativity using hypnosis! People from all walks of life, young and old, rich and poor have been helped by hypnosis. Hypnosis can help you too !
Mozart (1756-91) apparently composed the famous opera Cosi fan tutte while hypnotised. Rachmaninov (1873-1943) composed his Piano Concerto No 2 following hypnotic suggestion. Goethe (1749-1832) writer and scientist and Chopin (1810-1849) pianist and composer both took classes in hypnosis at the University of Strasbourg. Louis XVI of France appointed a committee to investigate the healing powers of 'mesmerism'. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92) repeated names to himself as a hypnotic mantra in order to access different states of consciousness in which whole poems came to him. Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud developed modern psychiatry as a result of learning about (and practising) hypnosis. Thomas Edison inventor, Henry Ford car manufacturer, Albert Einstein physicist, and Aldous Huxley, novelist all used trance states to develop their ideas. Jackie Kennedy-Onassis used hypnotherapy to 'relive and let go of' tragic events in her life. Rock star Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits reportedly beat his smoking habit through hypnosis. Film actor/director Kevin Costner flew his personal hypnotist to Hawaii to cure his sea sickness during the making of the film "Waterworld". Tennis great Jimmy Connors used hypnosis to win the U.S. Open Championship. Tiger Woods' mental coach, Jay Brunza hypnotizes him to block out distractions and focus on the golf course. Champion golfer Jack Nicklaus claims that his success is entirely owed to practising concentration and visualisation. Actor Sylvester Stallone after using a hypnotist finally got the courage to submit his "Rocky" script to a major Hollywood producer and while on location "would lie down and listen to a specially made subconscious motivation tape" Actor Matt Damon quit a 16 year smoking habit after three sessions of hypnosis. Actor Drew Barrymore and singers Britney Spears and Billy Joel also quit smoking through hypnosis. Actor Anthony LaPaglia quit smoking in four sessions with a LA hypnotherapist. Irish boxing heavyweight champion Kevin McBride uses a hypnotist to prepare him for fights. Former singer Helen Reddy (I am Woman) is now a practicing Clinical Hypnotherapist based in Sydney and is Patron of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists. Olympic record breaker and Gold Medalist Steve Hooker used hypnosis to help him win the pole vault event in Beijing.Click here to read the story. US Karate champion Billy Finnegan used hypnosis to overcome his fear of competing following a serious injury. He now considers his Hypnotherapist his "secret weapon". US Shooting Team members and Olympic Gold medal winners, Vincent Handcock and Glen Eller attribute their success to work they did with their Hypnotherapist / Performance Coach. The 2009 Superbowl winners, the Pittsburgh Steelers used the services of a Hypnotherapist to help with the team's mental preparation.
***************************************** Facts about hypnosis As sourced and published by: ***************************************** As of December, 2004 there are more than 5,000 clinical research studies having to do with hypnosis and its benefits currently beingconducted worldwide? (According to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) ***************************************** As of December 15, 2004 results from more than 3,000 clinical research studies are available showing positive benefits from hypnosis? (According to: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) ***************************************** According to studies done at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, suggestions given in a hypnotic state, even once, can produce actions in human beings that are the same type of actions that would have resulted from more long-term conditioning and practice. ***************************************** In a research study on Self-hypnosis for relapse prevention training with chronic drug/alcohol users, (Am J Clin Hypn. 2004 Apr;46(4):281-97), individuals who played self-hypnosis audiotapes "at least 3 to 5 times a week," at 7-week follow-up, reported the highest levels of self-esteem and serenity, and the least anger/impulsivity, in comparison to the minimal-practice and control groups. ***************************************** In a research study done with 60 college student volunteers (Spring of 2004 at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona), using hypnosis with ego-enhancement suggestions showed "significantly dramatic effects" in brain-wave patterns, subjective sense of self-confidence, and test scores. ***************************************** As reported by NewScientist.com news service: "Hypnosis is more than just a party trick; it measurably changes how the brain works," says John Gruzelier, a research psychologist at Imperial College in London. "Hypnosis significantly affects the activity in a part of the brain responsible for detecting and responding to errors, an area that controls higher level executive functions." The finding is one of the first to indicate a biological mechanism underpinning the experience of hypnosis. "This explains why, under hypnosis, people can do outrageous things that ordinarily they wouldn't dream of doing," says Gruzelier, who presented his study at the British Association for the Advancement of Science Festival in Exeter, UK. Gruzelier hopes it will also benefit emerging research showing, for example, that hypnosis can help cancer patients deal with painful treatments. ***************************************** Research using positron emission tomography (PET) scans, shows that hypnosis might alleviate pain by decreasing the activity of brain areas involved in the experience of suffering. Scientists have found that hypnosis reduced the activity of the anterior cingulate cortex, an area known to be involved in pain, but did not affect the activity of the somatosensory cortex, where the sensations of pain are processed. ***************************************** Clinical trials of therapeutic hypnosis confirm its potential benefits. Christina Liossi, a psychologist at the University of Wales in Swansea, recently conducted a study of 80 cancer patients aged 6 to 16. She found that those under hypnosis experienced far less pain during treatments than control children, who simply talked to the researchers normally. ***************************************** According to published results of clinical studies (American Journal of Clinnical Hypnosis. 2004 April), the use of hypnosis facilitates a more uncomplicated birth process. In a separate research study done by University of Florida counseling psychologist Paul Schauble, it was also found that women who learn hypnosis before delivering babies suffer fewer complications, need less medication and are more likely to have healthier babies than are women without hypnosis. Schauble's first study involved adolescents getting prenatal care at a public health clinic. A group of 20 patients who received hypnosis preparation were compared with 20 who were given supportive counseling and 20 patients in a control group who received only the standard prenatal care. None of the women who received hypnosis required surgical intervention in their deliveries, compared with 12 in the supportive counseling group and eight in the co! ntrol group, he said. "Patients who are prepared for labor and delivery in hypnosis are more likely to absorb and benefit from information because they are in a relaxed, highly focused state," he said. ***************************************** In an ongoing pilot study being done by University of Florida counseling psychologist Paul Schauble, preliminary results show hypnotized patients with hypertension are more easily able to make lifestyle improvements that can lower blood pressure. ***************************************** A study being done by a team of University of Florida researchers is finding that learning self-hypnosis gives a patient greater control over the stress, anxiety and pain of medical operations and childbirth, overall. "Training patients in hypnosis prior to undergoing surgery is a way of helping them develop a sense of control over their stress, discomfort and anxiety," says Dr. Paul Schauble, psychologist. "It also helps them better understand what they can do to bring about a more satisfying and rapid recovery." He also said, "We've found, in working with individual patients, that they often feel literally stripped of control when they go into the hospital. The surgeon may do a good job of explaining the surgery, but patients' anxiety may make it difficult for them to absorb or comprehend. This can result in undue apprehension that can create complications or prolonged recovery." ***************************************** "Children make excellent subjects for hypnosis because they spend more time using their imaginations," says Florida counseling psychologist Paul Schauble. "But with practice most adults can learn how to enter into a therapeutic hypnotic state quite easily as well." ***************************************** In 1998 Henry Szechtman of McMaster University in Ontario and his co-workers used PET to image the brain activity of hypnotized subjects who were invited to imagine a scenario in which they were listening to someone speaking to them, and who then actually experienced a scenario in which they were listening to someone speaking to them. The researchers noted that the act of imagining a sound, called hallucinating a sound, was experienced exactly the same as real hearing, both being experienced as coming from an external source. ***************************************** 18 separate studies found that patients who received cognitive behavioral therapy plus hypnosis for disorders such as obesity, insomnia, anxiety and hypertension showed greater improvement than 70 percent of the patients who received psychotherapy alone. *************************************************************
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HYPNOSIS HELPS WIN GOLD!! Australian Gold Medalist and Olympic record breaker Steve Hooker used hypnosis to help him to win the Pole Vault event in Beijing. Click here to read the story which was published on the eve of his big leap in the Melbourne AGE newspaper. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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