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How Can Life Coaching Help Me?

The problems clients bring to coaching are many and varied. Some people wish to focus on a very specific issue, whilst others have more far reaching concerns.

Here are some examples of issues which clients have successfully addressed via one- to- one coaching:

• Increasing confidence and self esteem
• Becoming more assertive
• Dealing more effectively with conflict
• Adopting a more positive approach to life
• Creating and maintaining a healthy lifestyle
• Increasing motivation levels
• Improving specific relationships
• Giving Confident presentations
• Chairing/Planning meetings effectively
• Managing finances
• Improving Time mangement & organisational skills
• Coping with change
• Planning succesful projects

The list is endless!

What is Life Coaching?

Life Coaching will help you to fulfil your potential - to be the best you can be!

It is basically about identifying exactly what you want and how to achieve it. Coaching can get you from where you are, to where you want to be.

Working with a qualified and experienced coach encourages you to set and maintain challenging but realistic goals, and helps keep you "on track", pre-empting and overcoming any possible obstacles in your way.

A coach can help you to be well-focused and clear thinking. You will become an effective problem-solver and may come to see yourself, your life and your relationships in a completely different way.

A qualified coach will be able to show you some creative and innovative techniques which will be truely life changing.

Where Does the Term 'Hypnosis' Come From?

In 1841 a Scottish physician living in Manchester attended a demonstration of the art of mesmerism by the Swiss magnetiser Charles Lafontaine. Although not initially impressed, putting the effects he witness down to trickery, James Braid, was sufficiently curious to attend a second performance a few nights later which served to dispel his former prejudices.

So much so in fact that he went on to undertake his own experiments with, among others, his own wife and to invent the word ‘hypnosis’ to describe the psychological state which up to this point had been known as mesmerism.

Braid derived the term hypnosis from Greek word ‘hypnos’ meaning sleep. He later tried to replace it with the word ‘monoideism’ to reflect his developing understanding hypnosis as a state of concentration rather than sleep in the true sense of the word. But the original word stuck and with it our modern conception of hypnosis was born.

What Is It Like To Be Hypnotised?

There is nothing magical about being hypnotised.

Hypnosis is an everyday experience familiar to us all. When we daydream, losing awareness of the world around us, we are in a state of mind that is very similar to hypnosis.

There is no loss of consciousness, even with the deepest forms of hypnosis.

Put simply, being hypnotised resembles that comfortable, easy, totally relaxed feeling we experience in the moments before we drift off to sleep.

Ask yourself the following questions. If you can answer YES to any of these, you have experienced what it is like to be in a kind of ‘hypnotic state’.

Have you ever:

• Been so absorbed in a book, television programme or activity, that you totally lose track of time?

• Been so fascinated by an activity, that you don’t hear someone calling your name?

• Driven a journey on ‘automatic pilot’ and been surprised when you reached your destination so quickly?

• Been transported back to a specific time or place from your past by a particular song, or even a distinct aroma?

• Noticed that you were automatically nodding in agreement when someone else was speaking?

• Been so completely relaxed that you found it difficult to start moving around again?

• Enjoyed yourself so much that time passed very quickly?

All of the above are merely examples of everyday hypnosis.

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You can do this by right clicking on the link below, you will also find it in the bottom left hand corner of every page of the site:

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