J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Friday, 4 June 2010
Monday, 24 May 2010
Powerful beyond measure
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Friday, 7 May 2010
Client Testimonial
Emma contacted me a while ago seeking help for a problem that has been bothering her for a number of years. We concluded treatment and shortly Emma sent me this testimonial.
" My name is Emma, and I contacted Resolve Hyponotherapy a little while ago with a problem that had been bothering me for quite a few years. My problem is that I get really wound up & frustrated & angry with the sound of dogs Barking. It all stemed back from living next door to 2 barking dogs a few years ago, as they would bark non stop for approx 8hrs a day. This problem was really getting not only myself but also my husband down, as when we would go anywhere for a day out, holiday or even work there would be dogs barking there all the time and it got me really angry that i would shout & scream all the time for this to stop.
My husband came up with the idea of Hyponotherapy a few weeks ago, and i found the number for Rebecca @ Resolve Hyponotherapy on the internet, so i made contact and got an appointment for the following day.
When i arrived at the house, i was made to feel very relaxed & welcome which was great, because i did feel a little nervous. The appointment lasted 1.5 hrs, but just flew by, Rebecca listened to my problem in great detail and suggested EFT to start with as it was possibly a great way of getting very positive results for my situation. I was very surprised to see results from the very first session, Rebecca told me how EFT can work by doing the actions and the talking by myself whenever i was affected by the noise of barking dogs. So of course i tried this once i got home and it absolutly worked, i did a couple of cycles and really noticed how much calmer i was after just 5 mins.
I went back for a 2nd session, again doing the EFT, but also this time we did a little hyponotherapy which was very calming & relaxing. Rebecca would come up with key words that related to me on the EFT that really made a difference to my situation, and really helped me to become calmer.
I have recently been on holiday where i knew there would be barking dogs, and the difference was really great, i obviously still heard the dogs barking, but they ofen just became back ground noise, or after a few minutes i would think to myself "Oh the dog is not barking anymore", and i did carry out a couple of cycles of EFT with my husband as the noise a couple of times was going on for about 30 minutes, but again, after a few minutes i felt alot calmer, and my husband certainly noticed a great difference in me.
All in all, the experience that i have had with Rebecca has been excellent, i would thoroughly recommend for anybody to contact Resolve Hyponotherapy."
" My name is Emma, and I contacted Resolve Hyponotherapy a little while ago with a problem that had been bothering me for quite a few years. My problem is that I get really wound up & frustrated & angry with the sound of dogs Barking. It all stemed back from living next door to 2 barking dogs a few years ago, as they would bark non stop for approx 8hrs a day. This problem was really getting not only myself but also my husband down, as when we would go anywhere for a day out, holiday or even work there would be dogs barking there all the time and it got me really angry that i would shout & scream all the time for this to stop.
My husband came up with the idea of Hyponotherapy a few weeks ago, and i found the number for Rebecca @ Resolve Hyponotherapy on the internet, so i made contact and got an appointment for the following day.
When i arrived at the house, i was made to feel very relaxed & welcome which was great, because i did feel a little nervous. The appointment lasted 1.5 hrs, but just flew by, Rebecca listened to my problem in great detail and suggested EFT to start with as it was possibly a great way of getting very positive results for my situation. I was very surprised to see results from the very first session, Rebecca told me how EFT can work by doing the actions and the talking by myself whenever i was affected by the noise of barking dogs. So of course i tried this once i got home and it absolutly worked, i did a couple of cycles and really noticed how much calmer i was after just 5 mins.
I went back for a 2nd session, again doing the EFT, but also this time we did a little hyponotherapy which was very calming & relaxing. Rebecca would come up with key words that related to me on the EFT that really made a difference to my situation, and really helped me to become calmer.
I have recently been on holiday where i knew there would be barking dogs, and the difference was really great, i obviously still heard the dogs barking, but they ofen just became back ground noise, or after a few minutes i would think to myself "Oh the dog is not barking anymore", and i did carry out a couple of cycles of EFT with my husband as the noise a couple of times was going on for about 30 minutes, but again, after a few minutes i felt alot calmer, and my husband certainly noticed a great difference in me.
All in all, the experience that i have had with Rebecca has been excellent, i would thoroughly recommend for anybody to contact Resolve Hyponotherapy."
Monday, 15 February 2010
EFT in the Daily Telegraph
EFT is to be found everywhere and has seen a huge surge in popularity over the last few years, even finding it's way into celebrity circles, as discovered in this article published in the Daily Telegraph by Beverley Turner...
Singer Michael Ball was seen doing it on a daytime TV chat show. He learnt it from the late singer, Stephen Gately, who used it to calm his own performance nerves. Lily Allen's weight loss was attributed to its efficacy. American PGA players have been spotted doing it around the golf course. And Norwegian pole-vaulter Rens Blom credited his unexpected 2005 World Championship Gold to its powers. The internet reveals millions of anecdotal accounts of its success on phobias, addictions and anxiety. So nearing the end of my own two-year psychotherapy training, I wanted to discover what this mysterious "tapping" business is all about.
So I signed up for a day course at the EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Academy in London's Regent's College, with Richard Mark, an advanced EFT practitioner and certified trainer, who has worked as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for 12 years. My fellow students are a mixed bunch of mental health professionals, lawyers, physiotherapists, trainee counsellors and full-time parents. Unafraid to challenge, the students are surprisingly curious and sceptical rather than gullibile. There isn't a sandal or kaftan among them.
Although it doesn't rigidly follow his teachings, Mark's course is based on the EFT therapy developed by American, Gary Craig in 1997. Craig had studied Dr. Callaghan's Thought Field Therapy in the 1980s, an evolution of John Diamond's Kinesiology, both of which were rooted in ancient Eastern "meridian energy" theories of acupuncture and Shiatsu, codified since at least 1000BC.
These therapies claimed that our bodies contain invisible energy pathways – meridians – and identified hundreds of acupoints at junctions along these interconnecting highways. They can be disrupted by life's vicissitudes; in extreme cases, resulting in not only mental but also physical problems.
EFT works by a person tapping on just nine of these acupoints, while speaking aloud. And this is where it becomes a little weird. Working in pairs we identify a minor physical ailment and repeat the phrase, "Even though I have this sore knee / headache / lack of energy, I deeply and completely accept myself," while tapping on the meridian points: the soft part of the hand beneath the little finger, crown of the head, around the eyes, beneath the nose, the chin, near the clavicle and beneath the armpit. I just about resist the urge to "ooh ooh" like a monkey.
A key part of the therapy is calibrating the intensity of either physical or emotional pain, which allows both therapist and patient a tangible scale by which to measure success. Mark explains that EFT is "especially effective in clearing traumatic memories: accidents, abuse, violence, childhood memories; or even clearing persistent negative messages from family or key people in our lives."
We move onto emotional problems, selecting a memory that is difficult, but manageable in the limited time available, and within a classroom environment. Using the "Movie Technique," we must make a mental movie of a specific event, giving it a title and running it in our mind's eye, marking its intensity between 1 – 10, before tapping with the mantra, "Even though I have this playground bullying / car accident / illness diagnosis movie, I deeply and completely accept myself." In extreme cases of trauma, the patient can merely imagine the units of distress without running the movie in their head, gradually moving towards the scene at a safe pace.
In spite of – or perhaps because of – the adrenaline from feeling like a bit of a wally, when using the "Movie Technique" myself my own memory of witnessing a violent assault twenty years ago, does indeed fade in its intensity. But I'm not a prime candidate. EFT has impressive results on a whole spectrum of emotional issues but is arguably making its biggest impact on those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Treating such patients, Marta Krol, a Polish clinical psychologist who trained under Mark and has returned to Poland, has found EFT's effects "amazing". She recounts a 12-year-old Chechnyan girl suffering speech and anxiety problems as a result of witnessing, aged six, her uncle's dismembered body brought into the family home and laid on the kitchen table by hysterical relatives. The child did not speak at all for the following 12 months.
"We had worked together for six months with little progress," says Krol, "Then I tried EFT. She pictured herself watching the terrible scene on TV but through another TV and so on until she was five levels removed and even then she saw herself watching from behind the curtains. But after six weeks she was talking fluently and could recount the event with no anxiety. I honestly believe I could not have helped her do that without EFT."
Emma-Leigh Johnson, a London-based drugs counsellor is unequivocal about its benefits, "By the time clients come to me they have had lots of therapy. They know what to say, the games to play and boxes to tick. EFT is so unusual, they don't know what you want to hear."
Few therapies allow a patient to say aloud that they accept themselves despite their rape / abuse / addiction, while dealing with the emotions that arise simultaneously. Johnson explains, "lots of therapy separates the issue and the human being. With this you can change how you feel about something, but accept that you can't change what happened – that's the emotional freedom. I see bigger shifts using EFT than any other therapy."
Some clients prefer to be 'tapped upon' by the therapist; others will mirror their actions; but perhaps more than any other therapy, EFT equips the individual to take away the skill to use at any time.
EFT is still ripe for ridicule. Having explained it in broad terms to my husband, he can now be heard muttering, "I may not have unstacked the dishwasher but I deeply and completely accept myself." But I have no doubt that the sound of tapping is here to stay. And it's only going to get louder.
Singer Michael Ball was seen doing it on a daytime TV chat show. He learnt it from the late singer, Stephen Gately, who used it to calm his own performance nerves. Lily Allen's weight loss was attributed to its efficacy. American PGA players have been spotted doing it around the golf course. And Norwegian pole-vaulter Rens Blom credited his unexpected 2005 World Championship Gold to its powers. The internet reveals millions of anecdotal accounts of its success on phobias, addictions and anxiety. So nearing the end of my own two-year psychotherapy training, I wanted to discover what this mysterious "tapping" business is all about.
So I signed up for a day course at the EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Academy in London's Regent's College, with Richard Mark, an advanced EFT practitioner and certified trainer, who has worked as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for 12 years. My fellow students are a mixed bunch of mental health professionals, lawyers, physiotherapists, trainee counsellors and full-time parents. Unafraid to challenge, the students are surprisingly curious and sceptical rather than gullibile. There isn't a sandal or kaftan among them.
Although it doesn't rigidly follow his teachings, Mark's course is based on the EFT therapy developed by American, Gary Craig in 1997. Craig had studied Dr. Callaghan's Thought Field Therapy in the 1980s, an evolution of John Diamond's Kinesiology, both of which were rooted in ancient Eastern "meridian energy" theories of acupuncture and Shiatsu, codified since at least 1000BC.
These therapies claimed that our bodies contain invisible energy pathways – meridians – and identified hundreds of acupoints at junctions along these interconnecting highways. They can be disrupted by life's vicissitudes; in extreme cases, resulting in not only mental but also physical problems.
EFT works by a person tapping on just nine of these acupoints, while speaking aloud. And this is where it becomes a little weird. Working in pairs we identify a minor physical ailment and repeat the phrase, "Even though I have this sore knee / headache / lack of energy, I deeply and completely accept myself," while tapping on the meridian points: the soft part of the hand beneath the little finger, crown of the head, around the eyes, beneath the nose, the chin, near the clavicle and beneath the armpit. I just about resist the urge to "ooh ooh" like a monkey.
A key part of the therapy is calibrating the intensity of either physical or emotional pain, which allows both therapist and patient a tangible scale by which to measure success. Mark explains that EFT is "especially effective in clearing traumatic memories: accidents, abuse, violence, childhood memories; or even clearing persistent negative messages from family or key people in our lives."
We move onto emotional problems, selecting a memory that is difficult, but manageable in the limited time available, and within a classroom environment. Using the "Movie Technique," we must make a mental movie of a specific event, giving it a title and running it in our mind's eye, marking its intensity between 1 – 10, before tapping with the mantra, "Even though I have this playground bullying / car accident / illness diagnosis movie, I deeply and completely accept myself." In extreme cases of trauma, the patient can merely imagine the units of distress without running the movie in their head, gradually moving towards the scene at a safe pace.
In spite of – or perhaps because of – the adrenaline from feeling like a bit of a wally, when using the "Movie Technique" myself my own memory of witnessing a violent assault twenty years ago, does indeed fade in its intensity. But I'm not a prime candidate. EFT has impressive results on a whole spectrum of emotional issues but is arguably making its biggest impact on those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Treating such patients, Marta Krol, a Polish clinical psychologist who trained under Mark and has returned to Poland, has found EFT's effects "amazing". She recounts a 12-year-old Chechnyan girl suffering speech and anxiety problems as a result of witnessing, aged six, her uncle's dismembered body brought into the family home and laid on the kitchen table by hysterical relatives. The child did not speak at all for the following 12 months.
"We had worked together for six months with little progress," says Krol, "Then I tried EFT. She pictured herself watching the terrible scene on TV but through another TV and so on until she was five levels removed and even then she saw herself watching from behind the curtains. But after six weeks she was talking fluently and could recount the event with no anxiety. I honestly believe I could not have helped her do that without EFT."
Emma-Leigh Johnson, a London-based drugs counsellor is unequivocal about its benefits, "By the time clients come to me they have had lots of therapy. They know what to say, the games to play and boxes to tick. EFT is so unusual, they don't know what you want to hear."
Few therapies allow a patient to say aloud that they accept themselves despite their rape / abuse / addiction, while dealing with the emotions that arise simultaneously. Johnson explains, "lots of therapy separates the issue and the human being. With this you can change how you feel about something, but accept that you can't change what happened – that's the emotional freedom. I see bigger shifts using EFT than any other therapy."
Some clients prefer to be 'tapped upon' by the therapist; others will mirror their actions; but perhaps more than any other therapy, EFT equips the individual to take away the skill to use at any time.
EFT is still ripe for ridicule. Having explained it in broad terms to my husband, he can now be heard muttering, "I may not have unstacked the dishwasher but I deeply and completely accept myself." But I have no doubt that the sound of tapping is here to stay. And it's only going to get louder.
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
What is covered in the training?
Just some of the subjects covered in the Hypnotherapy and NLP practitioner training will be;
Defining Hypnosis
Evidence and History of Hypnosis
Code of Conduct and National Occupational Standards
The Science of Hypnotherapy, as defined by The Skills Council
States of Trance : Physically Observed and Electronically Measured
Outcome Frame versus Blame Frame
Law of Equivalence of Form with Introduction to NLP Mirroring
Induction Techniques
A study of hypnotic linguistics, Erickson and Bandler
NLP Representational Systems
Rapport building inc. Pacing and Leading
Mirroring and Eye Accessing Cues
The Presenting Problem
Elman Induction
Anaesthesia Induction
Physical Commands Induction
Catalepsy
Mind Body Connection
Negative Commans and the Unconscious Mind
State Dependent Behaviour
Counting Induction
Analysing Deepening Suggestions
Ideo-Motor Finger Signals
Arm Levitation Induction
Control Panel Method
Rapid Inductions and Post Hypnotic Suggestion
Working with Resistance
Media and Corporate Influence
Psychotherapeutic tools
Abreaction & Contraindications
Defining Hypnosis
Evidence and History of Hypnosis
Code of Conduct and National Occupational Standards
The Science of Hypnotherapy, as defined by The Skills Council
States of Trance : Physically Observed and Electronically Measured
Outcome Frame versus Blame Frame
Law of Equivalence of Form with Introduction to NLP Mirroring
Induction Techniques
A study of hypnotic linguistics, Erickson and Bandler
NLP Representational Systems
Rapport building inc. Pacing and Leading
Mirroring and Eye Accessing Cues
The Presenting Problem
Elman Induction
Anaesthesia Induction
Physical Commands Induction
Catalepsy
Mind Body Connection
Negative Commans and the Unconscious Mind
State Dependent Behaviour
Counting Induction
Analysing Deepening Suggestions
Ideo-Motor Finger Signals
Arm Levitation Induction
Control Panel Method
Rapid Inductions and Post Hypnotic Suggestion
Working with Resistance
Media and Corporate Influence
Psychotherapeutic tools
Abreaction & Contraindications
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