Jane Fox Hypnotherapy

22/10/2025

Have you ever been so absorbed in something that hours passed in what felt like minutes? That’s the magic of getting into the flow.

This deep state of focus, allows you to perform at your best effortlessly. Mastering this can improve creativity, efficiency, and overall well-being.

To achieve flow, we must create an environment that allows for deep focus. Keep steps to a flow state include:

💚Setting goals (remember to use SMART goals, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound)
💚Removing distractions (turn off notifications on digital devices, move to a location where you won’t be distracted)
💚Ensure activities match your skill level (choose tasks that are neither too easy nor too difficult, allowing for growth without frustration)
💚Make the challenge meaningful (choose tasks that align with your values and personal goals to maintain motivation)

Achieving flow is not only about improving productivity but also about increasing fulfilment and happiness. The more frequently we can enter this state, the greater our sense of purpose and engagement with life becomes.

21/10/2025

Low self-esteem develops mainly in childhood, but can develop throughout life, here are some examples:

Comparison with siblings – a child with low academic success may compare themselves unfavourably with siblings who have high academic achievements. This feeling of inadequacy can continue into adult life and, however successful they may be in their own sphere of work, they will always consider themselves to be a fraud or a fake.

Parental abandonment – a child feeling abandoned by parents due to them leaving home, or detaching emotionally, can leave them as an adult feeling not good enough and unlovable. This can produce relationship problems in adult life.

Abuse – physical, mental, sexual abuse can leave a child or adolescent feeling as though they are ‘damaged goods’ and not worthy of a happy life. They become used to feeling helpless or powerless.

Bullying – shyness or physical differences can lead to a child (or adult) being bullied. In adult life, this also can lead to feelings of inadequacy, despite any successes they may have.

Relationship breakdown – being left by a partner as an adult can lead to feelings of uselessness or feeling like a loser and can lead to ‘needy’ behaviour in subsequent relationships.

Low self-esteem comes from Emotional Conditioning, which is a learning process. When two things take place at the same time, they automatically become associated in our minds. This association means that we react emotionally and not logically, and we react quickly so we don’t gather all the relevant information before we make a judgement or decision.

The good news is that we can do something about it. We have techniques in Hypnotherapy that can help to remove the associations between the past events that triggered the original emotional conditioned response. Interestingly, the mind does not know the difference between what is real and what is imaginary. We can use this to our advantage when planning a different way of behaving in the future.

20/10/2025

My latest ‘horrifying’ article for our local Moor Mag …

Does the Halloween season fill you with dread? Or do you embrace its ghoulishness with glee? Hypnotherapist Jane Fox Hypnotherapy explains why we react differently to 'horrifying' situations in her latest article for MOOR. Read it on page P38 of our autumn editions - or in the online mag here: https://digital.magmanager.co.uk/Reader/Index/2795581 /1

16/10/2025

Solution-focused hypnotherapy can help you get back to living your life.

Here is how one of my clients described it:

"I started seeing Jane after a flare up of abdominal problems left me with pain and nausea, spending most of my spare time on the sofa. Jane hasn’t cured my tummy problems, but she’s taken the worry away.

I’m now back to living my life; exercising, running around after my kids, and feeling positive.

The abdominal problems are still there but they don’t hold me back any more. Jane has taken me from couch to running 5k again within the space of a few weeks with her treatments, it’s been amazing!

I would recommend her to anyone who is feeling overwhelmed by negative emotions or physical symptoms. She has turned my thinking around and helped me put everything in perspective so my problems no longer rule my life."

15/10/2025

How are you sleeping at the moment? Could you use a good night's sleep?

I have something for you to listen to on my website that will help you fall asleep here: https://www.janefoxhypnotherapy.com/listen/

Sleep is a very important process – the brain uses this time to process the information gathered during the day and leave us refreshed for the next day.

Positive thinking encouraged by the hypnotherapy, you can get a good night’s sleep. Even those clients that do sleep well report a better quality of sleep with hypnotherapy.

Hopefully my tracks will help you drift off into a peaceful night.

14/10/2025

Just a little reminder to start our week. Especially in this grey and cold weather.

Winter feels like it's coming already and this can affect our mood. We want to hibernate and curl up under blankets.

And that's okay, we can do this but we don't want to dwell there for too long. Here are some tips to help you get through the darker days:

✅Take advantage of natural light – get out during the daylight hours every day
✅Stay active – even a short brisk walk will help your mood
✅Plan pleasurable activities – arrange to meet with friends, family or arrange trips out
✅ Introduce more Vitamin D into your diet – include oily fish, eggs, cod liver oil, or try a Vitamin D supplement.

Rest is important as well as encouraging our brains and bodies to move through the winter months.

13/10/2025

11/10/2025

Ready for Module 8 here in Bristol.
We’ll be covering Improving Performance, and more Neuroscience - love it!

11/10/2025

10/10/2025

I’m on the train to Bristol to teach Module 8 of the hypnotherapy training course this weekend. I was recommended this book and it’s great reading. This placebo stuff makes my brain fizz!!

10/10/2025

Our last tip for World Mental Health day is...

Tip 3: Take a break from the news
While it might feel useful to keep on top of global events and feel informed, we know the news is skewed to focus on the negative stories as this is what keeps us engaged. However, we know that this is only a small picture of what is really happening every day.

Decide how much news feels useful and when it starts to make you feel anxious or low, create some time off, perhaps only looking at the headlines once a day and turning off your notifications or removing it from your phone.

Taking time out doesn't mean you are not responsible and you won't be left behind, it will make you feel better and enjoy what is going on in your life today.

10/10/2025

Our next tip to look after your mental health this World Mental Health Day is...

Tip 2: Have a screen mini-break

You don't need to go away to have a break from your screen, and the break doesn't have to be a break-up. Instead schedule some time away from your screen and the notifications, use that time to go for a phone free walk or do a body scan (where you notice the physical sensations in your body and become more aware of how your body feels).
Doing this regularly will help to improve your mood and concentration, you can use this time to do some of those small positive actions you created that will make a difference to your day.