You can be confident of Success with Jon Hinchliffe Hypnotherapy
When you have a problem it can take a lot to talk to someone about it. Which of these qualities would you want to find in the person you talk to?
- Someone that is a good listener?
- Someone that is open and friendly?
- Someone that has been trained to the highest standards?
- Someone that can see issues from many different perspectives?
- Someone that works with you as an individual?
- That on repeat sessions assumes nothing and works with the new you each time?
- Someone that can help you through the current issue and leave you better equipped to deal with future issues or better still avoid future issues?
- Someone that can recharge and inspire you?
I am a hypnotherapist. The principles behind my work can be used with formal trance or in casual conversation. You are encouraged to take away the techniques I share with you and use them to enhance your whole life.
You might view hypnosis as guided meditation or just relaxed listening. All sessions are different and based on your needs and most will end with you knowing more about the special part of you that is your unconscious mind, your intuition or many other terms.
You will change your unconscious mind from something that seems to fight you into something this is your best friend always trying to help you. The changes you will make at an unconscious level will become automatic to you.
We all use our unconscious minds to help us but we don’t all know how to talk to it.
Driving is a good example of where we use our unconscious minds. Can you imagine what driving would be like if you still had to consciously focus on the gear stick, mirrors, steering wheel and foot pedals. When learning we are very conscious about controlling these things. As we learn we move each item into unconscious control and then when driving we can focus on our environment and safety. We no longer think now I must change gear so I need to move my hand and push the clutch in etc.
Not only can you expect a flexible, friendly, open and well trained hypnotherapist, you can also expect someone that personal experience of overcoming disability and pain. I have suffered with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME since 1994. From 1994 until summer 2009 I was a mobility scooter user. The medical world had long since lost interest in me. Now I am a runner again.
Helping people overcome issues is my passion. Please use the Free-Pre-Session button to ask me questions and discuss anything about what I do.
Dyslexia – How this hypnotherapist ticks
One of my all time favourite bands is Black Sabbath so when the former lead singer Ozzy Osbourne wrote his autobiography “I am Ozzy” it was a must have book for me.
Since it is approaching Christmas I have decided to take a break from reading Hypnosis books and I am therefore reading Ozzy’s book.
The hypnotherapist in me is clearly still very much at work however. I have just read the following:
“The only good thing about having dyslexia is that dyslexics are usually very creative people, or so I have been told. We think in unusual ways. But it is a very bad stigma to have, not being able to read like normal people can. To this day I wish I’d had a proper education. I think books are great, I do. To be able to lose yourself Read the rest of this entry »
Water Phobia
I was at a “Refer On” business breakfast in Sudbury Suffolk, this morning and I was asked “Can you help someone with a fear of water?”
The answer is “Yes”. Pure and simple. There are only two fears we are born with the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises.
This means every other fear is something we have learned through experience. The experiences where we learn a fear are often justified in the context and time in which they were created but like an over sensitive car alarm the problems occur when the fear is applied to situations outside that context. We can learn a fear as a child and that fear is no longer appropriate in an adult context. Consciously the person knows it is an inappropriate response but they don’t know how to over come the problem.
As a Hypnotherapist I help people change the reactions at an unconscious level. This is a relaxing, calm experience. The people I help are always in control of events they are experiencing. This is really important as this is how the reaction changes. While stressing someone out by making them “face their fear” can work some people can never get to that point. And why should people when fears can be changed comfortably and easily?
If you wish to discuss anything in this article please phone, e-mail or leave a comment. Your feedback is always appreciated.
Examples of thinking changes
Posted by jonhinch in M.E./C.F.S on 11 October 2009
At the time of writing I am 80% over my ME.
One of the key ways I have over come the illness is to change my thinking patterns.
Today I played with Essex Samba Band. I have no rythmn and very little sense of tone and I am therefore not an ideal member of the band but my wife loves it and since I have started I have loved playing too. Today was my first public performance on bottom surdo (drum). We played at an open air venue and I was really surprised how different the surdo sounded. Normally we practice in a hall and earplugs are essential due to the volume!
Since we were in the open air I made an extra effort to hit the surdo hard. I have my right hand in a plaster cast after being knocked off my motorbike so I had to do the whole performance with my left hand and I was very aware how tired it was. When I got home I tried to drink a glass of water and I was amazed at how badly it was shaking and at one point I felt in danger of dropping it.
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Can Hypnotherapy really reduce pain?
Hypnotherapy taps into the natural resources that each of us have. Are you aware of what your feet are currently feeling? The chances are you were not but you are now. Your awareness was focussed elsewhere. There was little change in the feelings felt by your foot so you didn’t notice it. Have you ever worn a watch or ring for a long time and then removed it? You then become aware of its absence and how much you interact with the item.
Have you ever had pins and needles in your hand or had your hands get so cold you could barely feel them?
These are all resources that can be used to help reduce pain.
Have you ever noticed how waiting 10mins goes quick when you are having fun but when you are cold in and the rain it can seem to take forever? This is another phenomena that can be used to reduce the sense of pain.
Pain is a signal for us to look after our bodies, however when everything that could or should be done has been done then the purpose of pain is removed and therefore the pain can go too.
If you wish to discuss anything in this article please phone, e-mail or leave a comment. Your feedback is always appreciated.
Cancer and Hypnotherapy
Cancer is a physical ailment in the body so what effect can Hypnotherapy, which is basically just talking, have on it? The brain is the control centre for everything we do. It controls our breathing, blood pressure, digestion, immune systems and all automatic functions. When asleep it monitors the surroundings to keep us safe. The brain is also like a car battery. When we experience an emotion that is not appropriate to show, for example our boss has really annoyed us but we want to keep our job, the energy is stored in the brain and blood pressure rises. At night or in quiet times during the day our brains slowly release this energy and frees up our systems. If the amount of stress exceeds what is currently being cleared the body slowly accumulates stress and emotions and these can hinder functionality and the physical performance of the body.
Hypnotherapy affects how these background processes work and can therefore help Cancer sufferers and/or their carers as follows:
Maximise the efficiency of the body’s repair systems.
Reduce and sometimes stop pain.
Help with coming to terms with the illness.
Help with staying focussed and positive on issues that still trouble us whether we have a cancer diagnosis or not.
All or nothing thinking causing limitations
Posted by jonhinch in Depression on 9 October 2009
I don’t tend to watch the news as I find it all rather focused on the negative and as a hypnotherapist I know the importance of focusing on the positives in life. One thing that I do enjoy however is reading people letters on Teletext.
This morning I read such as letter and the writer was talking about express tills in a supermarket, the sort where you scan everything yourself. They had used one and thought they had scanned their card to pay. They then left only to be stopped outside and told they had some unpaid for goods.
From this experience the person decided they would never use self-scan tills again. Here the embarrassment of being asked to return to the shop was so big that the person decided to avoid the situation at all costs. Their conscious mind resolved there was only 1 way to avoid the experience again and that was never to use the tills again.
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Help for ME Sufferers
Posted by jonhinch in M.E./C.F.S on 22 June 2009
I suffered from ME/CFS/PVFS (Myalgic Encephalopathy/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome) for 15 years and while at the date of writing I am not 100% I think ME is 80% in my past.
I believe I made an important break-through in helping myself and I believe the techniques I was taught in my hypnotherapy training were important in helping me recover.
The thought of other people suffering with ME because they lack of the knowledge of how to recover is something I would like to help correct so I am looking for ME sufferers to help.
If you know someone who suffers with ME in the North Essex area and they are keen to recover but unable to find the right help please pass on my name and website and get them to give me a call.
Let’s start helping people recover today.
M.E./C.F.S. – Why can hypnosis help?
Posted by jonhinch in M.E./C.F.S on 22 June 2009
What is ME/CFS/PVFS (Myalgic Encephalopathy/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome)?
ME is a very physical illness. It leaves the sufferer feeling like they have a cold all the time and can often debilitate them to the point they need to lay down most of the day.
Most ME sufferers have normally been tested for other illnesses and then when nothing shows up been classified as suffering from ME or one of it’s various other names.
Controlling Your Emotions – Article written for “The Higgler”
Posted by jonhinch in Published Articles on 2 April 2009
Hypnotic Corner by hypnotherapist Jon Hinchliffe
Have you ever felt your emotions control your life? Well here are a few tips to help you to control your emotions.
Would you like to be able to decide what emotion you will experience next? Don’t believe it is possible? Let me show you how.
First of all notice what you are feeling right now. Now think of the happiest memory you have. Think about what was happening in as much detail as you can. Now notice how this makes you feel. How much happier are you feeling now?
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