Performance Hypnotherapy

15/12/2021

I was interviewed on the biggest online news site in Croatia '24 sata' regarding elite athletes. See below!

Mnoga djeca sanjaju o tome da postanu vrhunski košarkaši, nogometaši, vaterpolisti i slično, ali put do tog cilja nije brz niti jednostavan. Što je sve nužno za ostvarivanje vrhunskih rezultata, doznali smo od bivšeg profesionalnog sportaša

12/10/2021

“Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.” — Alain de Botton, British-Swiss Philosopher

https://www.performancehypnotherapy.com.au/blog/how-to-deal-with-insomnia/

Insomnia, or trouble with getting a full and rejuvenating sleep is the most common issue which comes along with both or either anxiety or depression. Trouble getting to sleep usually has to do with anxiety; Waking up early or in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep usually comes along with depression.

The problem with sleep disturbance is that it then exacerbates or amplifies any other issues you may have, and so getting in control of your sleeping processes is absolutely key for your overall health.

In addition to good sleep hygiene, there are three skills or aims which are the building blocks of good quality sleep:

1) Relaxation.
2) Decreasing repetitive thinking
3) Creating a set of pleasant thoughts and images to calm and soothe your mind body.

Several clinical reports have confirmed hypnosis as the most effective treatment for enhancing these aims. To achieve these aims there are five components which go into your treatment plan, although only is necessary for the purpose of this blog because it is the key distinction which allows you to have better quality sleep:

- Learning to distinguish the between useful analysis and useless over-analysis. The distinction is this: something is useful analysis when you convert analysis to action. What can you do about what you're thinking about? Hypnosis is an invaluable tool in teaching you to become more proactive in your approach to the inevitable problems of life and teaching you your own self-hypnosis skills in order to aim your thoughts in harmless and soothing directions before sleep.

This is a brief blog about a massive topic, it is my hope that by breaking it down into the main components you are able to have some clarity and increased hope that Insomnia is a disturbance that doesn't belong in your life. Good quality sleep is your right and you can reclaim it when you focus your mind in the right way - hypnosis is a marvelous tool for helping you achieve that.

28/09/2021

https://www.performancehypnotherapy.com.au/blog/how-to-address-anxiety/

The number of stressors that we face in everyday life has grown due to a rapidly changing environment, and those stressors look likely to increase even more for the next generation. It is perhaps for this reason that some people have called this the ‘Age of anxiety’.

These stressors cannot be prevented, but they can be managed and our ability to manage them will determine how calm we are in our day to day experiences. The key distinction is that we can’t control the stressors if we are to live a normal life, but we can control our internal reaction to them and this is the key in staying calm.

Studies with people who experience anxiety unnecessarily show that there are two thought processes that commonly show up: the tendency to overestimate the risk one faces; and the tendency to underestimate the resources one has to deal with that risk successfully. Learning better risk assessment skills and better coping skills is key for managing anxiety because these processes literally determine our reaction to a given situation.

This is where hypnosis and psychotherapy combined are so effective. Psychotherapy is geared at interrupting the ineffective risk assessment process you may be running in your mind and building a more realistic one; hypnosis is the context or ‘safe space’ within which these patterns can be developed more easily.

It’s empowering when you realise that you can take deliberate steps to shift your internal experience. The results are clearer thinking; better self-esteem; better time management; better job performance; better relationships and better just about everything.

19/09/2021

Do you feel stuck? Strategic Psychotherapy and Clinical Hypnosis combined is the most powerful combination of change work available.

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13/09/2021

This is a great resource for kids today.

These 5 Super Easy Coping Skills For Kids Aged 8-12. These Are The Strategies You Need To Help Your Child Process Big Everyday Emotions And Be Happier And More Confident.

09/09/2021

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07/09/2021

https://www.performancehypnotherapy.com.au/blog/turning-down-and-dissociating-from-your-critical-voice/

A critical voice is a very common and unnecessary process that people run in their minds.There are two factors to consider which greatly assist in being free from the negative side effects of having a critical voice.

1. The first is learning to 'turn down' the voice. Everybody holds the voice in their head in a certain space (inside the head, perhaps your left or right ear, from behind your head or in front of you or any pother space where people hold the voice) but few people focus or become consciously aware of where that space is. Once you identify the space you hold your critical voice you can move it - try shifting it now to your shoulder, then to your elbow, then to your wrist. Once you learn to do this strategically the voice will have a lowered impact.

This is a simple process you can do for yourself, with hypnosis you can greatly amplify this by also literally 'turning down' the volume of the voice and altering the tone of the voice in a way which benefits you positively.

2. The second factor (which builds on the first) is to learn to dissociate from the voice as a criticism and associate to it as information or a critique. The key question to ask oneself is 'How do I determine the difference between a self-criticism and a self-critique? In short, a criticism is destructive, a critique is constructive.

We know that what we focus on we amplify and through hypnosis, when we shift the focus on our internal voice as a critique which acts as information to benefit our lives - our mind becomes our ally.

Dissociation and association are cornerstones of clinical hypnosis and it is for these reasons that hypnosis is so effective at 're-framing' a critical voice. When combined with an effective psychotherapy, we have at our disposal the most effective form of organic change work available - facilitating how to learn to make your mind your ally.

05/09/2021

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." - Marie Curie.

https://www.performancehypnotherapy.com.au/blog/how-to-deal-with-a-phobia/

When it comes to phobia, the underpinning process going on for a person is that they feel a loss of control. If they're going on a plane the realization that they have no influence on whether the plane will have a successful flight from the point of view of flight mechanics triggers a phobic response for some people. For others, driving on a new road can be problematic, because the realisation that you have less control or certainty than you normally do increases the anxiety which acts as a base for a phobic reaction.

The solution is invariably to realise that you a far greater than your phobia. The phobia exists as a possibility in your mind. When you realise that it's only a miniscule process in the infinite complexity that you are as an existing and function human nervous system, the phobia simply falls away.

How do we do this? Psychotherapy is the science of interrupting the patterns in your mind which don't serve you and building new patterns and associations which do serve your life. The application of psychotherapy acts as a software upgrade to your mind. Hypnosis is the art of gently tapping into the deeper parts of your mind where your habitual thought processes are stored and then focusing your attention on what will serve you. The application of hypnosis acts as the password into your Computer.

The combination of hypnosis and psychotherapy combined is like having the password to your computer and a software program to update it - the most efficient software for your life situation.

Phobias are an issue of perception and an outdated software program that is no longer relevant to your life but people hold onto them because they think they serve some purpose, and sometimes they do. Most of the time though, there is no longer a purpose to the phobia and a simple software upgrade is all that's needed.