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I remember reading a poster in Athena years ago which said "ships are safe in the harbour but that's not what ships are for". and more recently in a Ben's Brother track I heard the line "is it that you want me to change so you can stay the same". Change is a natural process and the world is constant moving and changing; in fact standing still causes stagnation and we all know what that looks and smells like. The great +Gregory Bateson wrote that we can't step into the same river twice yet so many of fight change at all cost and try to hold onto something however painful it maybe. Management of Change is just that 'managing' taking charge of rather than being swept along by. Don't fear change but embrace it with excitement. Oh the joy of learning from new possibilities

Do you get that Monday feeling? is it nervousness or excitement? whats the difference between the two? Hears is a fun exercise to set the frame for the day, give it a go. 1) image butting on a coat that created a whole state of being and mind set and this coat was called "Mondays fill me with dread, I dont know how badly the day will go, I have so much to do I dont know where to start and that worries me.... How does that make you experience Monday? 2) next but on this new wonder coat "WOW Monday.... I'm really curious what will happen today, it will be fun and exciting and even a challenge is a new oportunity to learn and learning is fun!! which do you prefer? You choose from now on

As the end of April approaches so the carboot season begins..... The urge to get up early on the weekend to rush to an open field or large carpark in search of a hidden treasure in amongst somebodys old junk. Whether you're there to buy or to sell you cant deny the draw. In France it is called Vide Grenier which translates as 'empty attic' and is a great description. I am an addict and as I write this blog I'm looking forward to our first real opportunity of the year to get up at 7am and rush off to Studley carboot near Redditch. Do you suffer from buysomecrapaphobia - the fear that when you get home with that fantastic item and unpack it that in fact all you've done is added to the stockpile of junk you'll have to load into your car and sell at another carboot in the vain hope that some fool feels they need it as you foolishly did. The best cure for this phobia is the technique known a 'flooding' or buying so much stuff that you emotionally and/or f...

I realise blogging on social media about effects of social isolation seems a strange thing but   +Mark Peters  talked about it recently in a radio interview and the white paper on #GAD (generalised anxiety disorder) by the #NHS is poiting more and more to this as a growing problem. face-to-face connection is losing over cyber-connection but as less than 8% of communication is actual words where does this leave us? +Donna Blinston  runs a great radio show called the NLP View where this and other subjects are discussed. Rapport is King and rapport is built on trust. Maybe its time to make #NLP a requirement in resolving social phobias

here at West Midlands Hypnotherapy Centre we are seeing more and more people for #anxiety and #panic attacks , but why? the brain is a wonderful thing but it can't tell the difference between imagination and reality which sounds strange but when you think about it thats what enables us to really enjoy films and books because they seem really real when you're sucked into a good one.... This does mean also that when we have stresses and worries about what if's, our brain takes them as actually happening (not just might happen) and reacts accordingly with the flight-or-flight process - increased heart rate, breathing changes, evacuation of fluids etc etc. hence an anxiety state as the engine is revving with no where to go! Lookily you can learn simple and effective techniques to bring it all back into control 

not so long ago when the world was though flat, at the edge of the known maps it said THERE BE DRAGONS. We now know The Map is Not the Territory based on a personal limiting construct. What about in the wizard of Ox when at the end he says “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”. To overcome fears and phobias we need to dispel the unconscious myth of potential danger and think “what will I gain when I am free of this?” What will you gain when you are free? With NLP you can really be free and remove those limits to open up new opportunities

I seem to see more and more people with #anxiety and they have been through CBT without any real lasting help. It seems nobody asks "how do you know you are anxious not just excited?" when we were kids we all had nervous curiosity and fear-excitement but as adults that seems lost somehow. Through eye movement therapies and NLP change can happen quickly and the fun can start again. Be free from the limits of fear and anxiety, be free to have nervous excitement again and the excitement of new possibilities