Aspire Therapy

Are You In Control Of Your Thoughts?

Are you in control of your thoughts or do you allow your thoughts to control you? We like to think of ourselves as autonomous, independent, self-sufficient beings and yet all to often we play the victim when it comes to our own state of mind.

This is particularly the case when we are suffering from loss of confidence, low self-esteem, depression or lack of self-belief. The thoughts we have about ourselves can seem unalterable and inescapable.

But negative, self-critical thinking can be challenged or diminished through a process of careful self-questioning, or by letting the thoughts become objects of detached contemplation. These are two approaches that we use in hypnotherapy.

Therapy A Better Alternative To Drugs, Say Government Ministers

The debate about the effectiveness of anti-depressant drugs has again hit the headlines in the last few days.

Health Secretary, Alan Johnson, has announced that 3,600 therapists are to be trained during the next three years in England to increase patient access to talking therapies, which ministers see as a better alternative to drugs.

This follows news that a team of researchers at Hull University concluded that new generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit in all but the most severe cases of depression - findings which have been disputed by the makers of Prozac and Seroxat.