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Did My Nursing Career Train Me To Not Smell?

It was with some interest that I read on the BBC website this morning about a ‘smell’ study. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15770361 The sense of smell can be improved through training, a study on rats suggests. The study, published in Nature Neuroscience, also suggests if we do not use our sense of smell, we begin to lose it. [...]

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Stopping Smoking – Women Take Note!

Staying on the topic of stopping smoking I want to continue the subject by  going back to the article I mentioned in my post ‘Dr Mark Porter Blowing A Smokescreen Over How To Stop Smoking.’ In it he makes the point that women may be more susceptible to the damaging effects of cigarette smoke than [...]

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Gunners Or Goners?

Anyone that knows me personally will be aware that I am a Gunners fan (an Arsenal supporter aka Gooner for those of you uninitiated in the finer points of football) and their 8 – 2 defeat by Manchester United was the lowest point of my weekend.  Of course I received the usual reminders from friends, [...]

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Great To Be With Positive People So Why All The Negative Stuff

I just don’t get it – why are there so many negative people everywhere you go? It always amazes me in my business life when I see a really fired up positive speaker at a seminar or conference, just what a reaction he/she has on the audience.  They love it.  You could cook on the [...]

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Is Golf A Mental Game

So — Is Golf A Mental Game? Of course there are various possible approaches to this (no pun intended, golfers!). Is it a game of mind over matter? Are you nuts to spend so much time at it? Is it an exercise in intimidating your opponent into missing the putt? Actually, the answer to all [...]

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Miranda Was Great For My Health

Laughter is good for you – Clinical Hypnotherapist Karen Brown explains the relationship between laughter and mental health

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How To Learn About Hypnosis For Self Improvement

I knew very little about hypnosis – Adam new next to nothing about websites. However put together his wealth of knowledge from a llifetime’s work devoted to Clinical Hypnotherapy and my website work and together we have produced a website full of resources for anyone interested in hypnosis, NLP and self-improvement via the powerful mind.

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From Beginner To Therapist – Hypnosis Revealed

My introduction to the power of hypnosis and self-hypnosis goes back about six years now when I met Adam Eason a leading UK Clinical Hypnotherapist at a BNI network meeting.  As a former nurse I became fascinated by the physical changes that Adam was able to bring about in his clients just by using the [...]

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Why Does Inspiration Come When Your Mind Is Blank?

When do you get your “ah-ha” moments, your flashes of inspiration, your genius moments? If you are like me they come when: lolling in the bath relaxing on a beach or in the garden awaking from restful sleep enjoying a carefree walk in a trance during a self-hypnosis session In other words when you are [...]

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Why You Should Pursue Happiness TODAY – NOW!

I was talking to a friend yesterday who is going through a lot of stress and she basically was telling me how unhappy she felt. I noticed that she kept referring to when this happens I will be… If that happens I will be…

In other words happiness would happen at some time in the future given certain conditions.

As I was talking to her I recalled that I had a book on the subject that had helped me enormously when I was going through a similar period myself. [...]

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Strange – We Love Positive People And Yet Consume Negative Media

My wife Barbara is a Health Visitor and some time ago attended a series of NHS training sessions given by a guy called Chris Croft. As a result I often see laying around the house printouts from the his newsletter which I always find fascinating reading.

Now – I don’t know Chris (if you don’t count seeing him playing in a group once) but I feel as though I do.

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Self-Hypnosis, A Tooth Extraction And Parking Ticket

I had quite a surprising and amazing experience last week. This is a story I know Adam Eason will be interested in. I have helped produce a lot of Adam’s products (MP3 Self-Hypnosis Audio downloads) and set them up on his website. As a result – despite no knowledge of self-hypnosis originally I got to [...]

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