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Anglo European College of Therapeutic Hypnosis, Bournemouth (2026)

13/01/2026

Evidence based hypnosis meme of the week.

This 2025 study evaluated the effects of hypnosis on fatigue in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Individuals with MS and fatigue were randomly assigned to one of the treatment conditions for 28 weeks. Fatigue impact was assessed at 4, 16, and 28 weeks after random assignment.

Participants receiving hypnosis reported significantly greater reductions in fatigue impact, sleep disturbance, and depressive symptom severity than participants assigned to the TAU (treatment as usual) condition after 4 weeks of access to the audio recordings. These improvements were maintained for 16 and 28 weeks following initial access and did not result in any serious adverse events.

Authors conclude that the findings support the feasibility of hypnosis to have a significant beneficial impact on people with MS-related fatigue.

Link to study posted in my college Facebook group.

12/01/2026

Happy New Year!

Latest article: How to Forge Healthy Habits That Stick Using Psychology

This year, how about instead of resolutions, we forge healthy habits?

I've been quiet during the festive season and am just getting back into the swing of things here; new programme at the gym, healthier eating schedule, business goals, travel plans and a range of various things I've been focused on at the start of the new year and I'm now climbing out of my own brief hibernation and getting out in the world once again...

Every new year brings a familiar surge of motivation that we all see. Gym memberships rise, alcohol consumption dips, cupboards fill with healthier food, and diaries become crowded with good intentions. Yet for many people, these efforts fade within weeks. By February, old routines often return, leaving frustration, self-criticism, and a sense of failure in their wake.

The problem is usually not a lack of willpower. Psychology has shown repeatedly that habits are not forged through motivation alone. They are built through learning, repetition, environment, emotion, and identity. To forge healthy habits that genuinely stick, we must understand how habits work at a psychological level — and how to work with the brain rather than against it.

I thought I'd kick the new year off with an article exploring what habits are, why they are so difficult to change for many people, and how psychological science can help people forge healthy habits that last. The strategies outlined here are evidence-based, practical, and designed for people navigating the complexities of modern life. I recommend adopting a few of the processes and looking how to incorporate them into your daily life as you seek to affect change as the new year gets underway.

Link to full article in comments.

15/12/2025

Latest article:
Using the Festive Season to Reset Your Nervous System: What Psychology Actually Recommends

The festive season is well and truly upon us and often framed as a time to do more: more socialising, more travelling, more spending, more celebrating, more reflecting, more planning. Even rest is sometimes presented as another task to complete successfully. For many people, this creates a strange contradiction. The very period that is supposed to restore us instead leaves us depleted, overstimulated, and quietly dreading January.

Psychology and neuroscience offer a different—and more compassionate—lens. Rather than treating the holidays as a productivity gap or a performance test of happiness, contemporary research suggests something more modest and far more realistic: this period functions best as a transition phase for nervous system recovery, not reinvention.

Not a reset in the sense of self-optimisation or transformation, but a reset in the physiological sense: down-regulation, integration, and recalibration of systems that have been under sustained load (McEwen, 1998; Porges, 2011).

From a neurobiological perspective, most people do not end the year exhausted because they lack motivation, discipline, or resilience. They end the year tired because their stress systems have been active for too long.
Modern stress is rarely acute or short-lived. It is cumulative, anticipatory, and chronic: deadlines, digital overload, constant comparison, financial strain, emotional labour, and cognitive multitasking. Over time, this keeps the nervous system biased toward sympathetic activation, the branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for mobilisation, vigilance, and threat readiness.

Stress itself is not the problem. Stress responses are adaptive and necessary. The difficulty arises when recovery is insufficient.

The festive season is one of the few culturally sanctioned pauses in the year. Yet many people use this pause to maintain the same internal pressure—simply in a different context. Psychology suggests this is a missed opportunity, not morally, but biologically.

A nervous system reset is not about becoming permanently calm. It is about restoring the system’s capacity to return to baseline after activation, a core feature of psychological resilience...

Link to full article and references is in the comments.

08/12/2025

Evidence based hypnosis meme of the week.

This 2024 study explored the use of hypnosis for cognitive rehabilitation for brain injury.

Patients with chronic cognitive sequelae following acquired brain injury were randomized to two groups, who initially received hypnotic suggestions using classical hypnosis or mindfulness.

After eight sessions, patients reported outcomes(PROs)indicated large improvements with “same”(13%),“better” (44%), “much better” (18%), or “not a problem anymore” (25%). The reported “not a problem anymore” was exclusively reported following hypnosis, not mindfulness.

After a 7-week follow-up period both groups experienced a decrease in their need for sleep (~ 55 min/day).

Authors concluded that hypnosis is a promising method in cognitive neurorehabilitation following acquired brain injury (Kvamme et al., 2024).

Link to full study posted in my college Facebook group.

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27/11/2025

Latest article: : How to Adopt the Psychological Habits of Successful Individuals

What are the psychological habits of Successful individuals? They are practical, evidence-based habits you can build today to increase success, wellbeing and resilience.

One of the things that I really brought back with me from a wonderful UK Hypnosis Convention this year, was how important connection is. I could visibly see the positive benefits ongoing connection has upon other attendees both professionally and personally. Over this past year, for a number of reasons, I had neglected connecting and staying effectively connected with close friends, colleagues and family members and coming away from the convention, having taken time to truly reconnect with so many incredible people left me feeling rejuvenated despite how physically tired I was!

When I revisited the science on this topic, it gave a compelling case and is clearly a component part in the lives of those who are successful (by their own terms). It is what has led me to write today's article after a short hiatus while I've been so busy, all about how to adopt the psychological habits of successful individuals as supported by science.

It sounds obvious, doesn't it; that you can adopt the psychological habits of successful individuals....
Success is often presented as a mysterious mixture of talent, luck and timing. That story is comforting because it explains why many people may not achieve it — but it’s also misleading. A large body of psychological research shows that success (broadly defined: achievement, sustained performance, wellbeing, and social functioning) is strongly associated with repeatable mental habits and practices. The good news is that many of those habits can be learned and practised deliberately.

I use “successful” here in a broad sense: doing well at goals that matter to you, while maintaining health and psychological wellbeing.

Each of the psychological habits of successful people listed and detailed below contains the science, why it matters for success, and practical steps to adopt it.

Link to full article in the comments.

27/11/2025

Evidence based hypnosis meme of the week.

In this 2025 randomised clinical trial of 250 postmenopausal women, the hypnosis group experienced a significantly greater reduction in hot flash scores compared with the control group at week 6. The intervention group reported a significantly greater reduction in daily interference from hot flashes from baseline to week 6 and greater perceived benefits compared with the sham hypnosis group.

This study suggests that self-administered clinical hypnosis is an effective treatment option for reducing hot flash frequency and severity (Elkins et al., 2025).

Link to full study posted in my college Facebook group.

24/10/2025

Why The Hypnotherapy Field Needs Science: A Balanced Rebuttal

Bridging the Divide Between Art, Intuition, and Evidence
I saw a couple of posts just recently stating that science has no place in the hypnosis and hypnotherapy field and why it shouldn’t play a role, and I wanted to offer a rebuttal to some of that rhetoric with a video today.

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Here are my references for those interested:

Benedetti, F. (2014). Placebo effects: Understanding the mechanisms in health and disease (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press.

Jensen, M. P., Adachi, T., Tomé-Pires, C., Lee, J., Osman, Z. J., & Miró, J. (2015). Mechanisms of hypnosis: Toward the development of a biopsychosocial model. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 63(1), 34–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207144.2014.961875

Jiang, H., White, M. P., Greicius, M. D., & Raz, A. (2017). Neural correlates of the hypnotic state and suggestibility: A meta-analytic study. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 81, 75–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.014

Kirsch, I. (1997). Response expectancy theory and application: A decennial review. Applied and Preventive Psychology, 6(2), 69–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0962-1849(05)80012-5

Landry, M., Lifsh*tz, M., & Raz, A. (2017). Brain correlates of hypnosis: A systematic review and meta-analytic exploration. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 81, 75–98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.02.010

Lynn, S. J., Kirsch, I., Knox, J., Fassler, O., & Lilienfeld, S. O. (2021). Hypnosis and science: Theoretical, empirical, and clinical perspectives. American Psychologist, 76(7), 1062–1077. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000868

23/10/2025

Evidence based hypnosis meme of the week.

A 2024 review of the evidence suggests that hypnosis and hypnotherapy are effective in treating anxiety and may positively affect the heart and the cardiovascular system, reducing sympathetic activation and increasingparasympathetic tone, potentially preventing the onset of CVD related to increased sympathetic activation.. (Leo, Keller & Proietti, 2024)

Link to PDF of full review posted in my college Facebook group.

23/10/2025

Latest article:
How to Reduce Screen Anxiety and Feel Calmer Around Devices

It seems the need to reduce screen anxiety is increasing. Screens are everywhere in our lives these days: phones, tablets, laptops, TVs, smartwatches. For most of us they’re incredibly useful, but for a growing number of people screens are also a source of worry, tension and constant low-grade anxiety — a state I’ll call screen anxiety.

Today then, I'm explaining what screen anxiety is, why it matters for mental health, and am offering up a bunch of practical, psychology-backed ways to reduce it. Each strategy is evidence based and written for people who want concrete, everyday actions to feel calmer and happier in a highly connected world.

What is “screen anxiety”?
“Screen anxiety” is an umbrella term that describes the feelings of worry, unease, fear of missing out (FOMO), panic about being disconnected, social comparison, and physiological stress that can come with digital device use.

Link to full article and references is in the comments.

03/10/2025

This randomised, controlled trial (RCT) examined the impact of clinical hypnosis compared to usual treatment, pre- and post-surgery, on opioid consumption during hospitalisation as well as other measures among participants awaiting oncologic surgery.

Results indicated a significant opioid sparing effect of clinical hypnosis during the acute postoperative period. Hypnosis also protected against increases in pain catastrophising at one-week after surgery.

A perioperative clinical hypnosis intervention also had a sparing effect on opioid consumption in-hospital after major oncologic surgery.

Authors concluded that these findings extend the efficacy of clinical hypnosis as an adjunct tool for perioperative pain management (Rosenbloom et al., 2024).

Link to PDF of full study posted in my college Facebook group.

01/10/2025

Latest article: How to Strengthen Your Resolve

Strengthen your resolve, that is the topic today, it's a 'how-to' for building mental muscle that can lead to a happier life.

I recently ran an online course about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that included guidance on how to live a meaningful life according to your values. That requires resolve — the quiet, steady intention to act in line with what matters to you — and is one of the more useful psychological skills for wellbeing.

When life is busy, uncertain or emotionally draining, a well-tempered resolve helps you keep going with choices that improve your mood, health and relationships. My aim here today is to explain why it matters to strengthen your resolve, explain the science that supports the practical techniques I'm sharing, and offer up a bunch of evidence-based ways (with steps you can use today) to increase your ability to stick with what matters.

Link to full article in the comments.

30/09/2025

In this clip, I quote from the book of Meditations by Emperor Marcus Aurelius; "Survey the circling stars, as though you yourself were in mid-course with them [...]. Visions of this kind purge away the impurities of our earthbound life." (7:47)

I run a group meditation in class that is entitled 'The View From Above' whereby you engage your imagination and step outside of yourself and your usual life, it is a powerful form of visual dissociation. Within the process, you continue stepping back until you can imagine yourself floating above the world and seeing your life below from the position of the sky and then space. This visual form of dissociation allows the individual to see their life from a much broader perspective, and without the usual baggage that is typically carried around.

The main aim is to create a sense of perspective, a sense of mental calmness and a renewed sense of direction where possible and hypnotherapists can utilise a wide range of similar processes offering up ways to achieve these aims.

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