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The Guardian
Home business innovation: Stepping Stone Hypnotherapy
The Guardian
I came up with the name for my business, Stepping Stone Hypnotherapy, while walking with my brother in a park not far from my home in 2011.

Contrary to some beliefs, hypnotherapy is not a “magic wand”, “mind control” nor is it “stage hypnosis” – you cannot, under any circumstances (including hypnosis for so-called entertainment, despite appearances), be made to do something that you do...

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Mind-forged manacles
New Statesman
Today, many people are discovering their beliefs and behaviour patterns to be rooted in subconscious programmes, imprints from early childhood.

"There is a motif, in fiction and in life, of people having wonderful things happen to them, but still ending up unhappy. We can adapt to anything, it seems—you can get your dream job, marry a wonderful human, finally get 1 million dollars or Twitter followers—eventually we acclimate and find new things to complain about.

 

If you want to look at it on a micro level, take an average day. You go to work; make some money; eat some food; interact with friends, family or co-workers; go home; and watch some TV. Nothing particularly bad happens, but you still can’t shake a feeling of stress, or worry, or inadequacy, or loneliness.

 

According to Dr. Rick Hanson, a neuropsychologist, a member of U.C. Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center's advisory board, and author of the bookHardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, our brains are naturally wired to focus on the negative, which can make us feel stressed and unhappy even though there are a lot of positive things in our lives. True, life can be hard, and legitimately terrible sometimes. Hanson’s book (a sort of self-help manual grounded in research on learning and brain structure) doesn’t suggest that we avoid dwelling on negative experiences altogether—that would be impossible. Instead, he advocates training our brains to appreciate positive experiences when we do have them, by taking the time to focus on them and install them in the brain..."

 

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