Choose what you let affect you - YOU create your own stress and anxiety!

One of the biggest issues that I get clients present for is for symptoms relating to STRESS and ANXIETY. Lets face it with what is going on in the world, and more closely around us everyday, is it any wonder that it can sometimes be difficult to manage our own thinking properly? How many times have any of us said - "those people really make me stressed"? How many times have we made decisions based on "how people are making us feel crap"? We may have also regretted those decisions as when we look back we may have actually been blowing things out of proportion - catastrophising, or we may have been getting a bit paranoid about what we assume others may be thinking or doing behind our backs? Truth is WE create stress and anxiety - others dont make us stressed. If you think that then you think of yourself as a victim, feeling powerless. Its all about how we react to what's going on around us - how we CHOOSE to let ourselves be affected by our surroundings ie other people and other things.

We all have to manage our thinking properly - yes even us therapists. I have been known sometimes to say to my self "My head is killing me" when obviously its not. So I get some perspective on it... "Actually I just have a headache. If I take two paracetamol, a glass of water in 10 minutes it will be fine". Now if I had gone all morning thinking me head was killing me, or it felt like an electric cattle prod was banging away in my head, I would have spent the morning feeling stressed and anxious - and chances are my headache would have worsened.

We can all of us develop negative thinking styles from a very early age or from an event or episode in our lives - thinking styles such as paranoia, catastrophising, obsessing, helplessness, black/white thinking,hypervigilence, perfectionist etc - very easily but it can be a challenge sometimes to keep them managed and keep perspective on whats going on around you.

Its very easy sometimes to lose that perspective - be so close to something that you just cant see the wood for the trees. You dont necessarily have to have low self esteem or be socially phobic to take your eyes off the ball. But if you recognise that you are letting things "get on top of you" then take a step back and re-appraise what exactly is going on and how can "I" manage things differently.

The good news is that I can help you get that perspective back into YOUR life - and it doesnt matter if you run a multi-million pound company or if you work in the corner shop. Its important that we ALL manage our thinking... Call me now on 01234 313186, or email me at greg.coyne@purehypno.com or visit my website HERE.

Christmas is here - is IT a disaster for your weight loss plans?

Speaking to a few Ex Hypno-Band clients recently its amazing how quickly your thinking can change when you start to take a bit more responsibility about what you eat.

Take Xmas for example - Im sure many of us have the Christmas tree and decorations up already and are trying to get in to the Christmas spirit, sorting out Secret Santa gifts, hiding pressies away from the kids ( even kids who are 20+ years old), and generally just starting to feel really good about things and looking forward to what the New Year will bring.

That is until you start thinking about your weight and how much you will be putting on over the Xmas period, how drinking so much will cause your weight loss plans to fail once again... After all IT always goes wrong at Christmas doesn't it !!

Well IT doesn't all go wrong for my Hypno-Band clients as they realise that IT didnt used to make them eat too much Xmas lunch, and it didnt force down those extra Mince Pies as they were so yummy, and IT didnt force them to drink just one more pint of lager or glass of wine ... there is no IT that makes you do any of those things. YOU have to take responsibility for what you eat and drink over Christmas.

The Hypno-Band way of eating is to eat ONLY when you are hungry and to stop eating when you recognise you are starting to become full. You eat healthy food in sensible portion sizes and you do some exercise. In addition you recognise your "triggers" and take the appropriate action. Now if you did that the Christmas period would be pretty similar to any other week...

So if you do over indulge on one day DONT chastise and berate yourself and think that ITS all going wrong. Just treat it as a blip, take responsibility and kick that backside into gear to make up for that small lapse over the following days - just get it back on track. You should all enjoy Christmas and everything about Christmas and that includes the food and drink but just take responsibility as in the past ITS never all gone wrong at Christmas - you have just slipped up and eaten too much!! Choose not to this Christmas !!

Thats why it doesnt matter if you decide to lose weight now or wait until after Christmas... but there is no time like the present. After all what bonus could you possibly get from starting a new weight loss Hypno-Band programme after Christmas? Well I am offering a £50 reduction on the normal cost of the Hypno-Band Programme for the month of January only!! But anyone who books between now and the New Year can start now AND receive the New Year bonus price.... So you have no excuses at all!! Call me now on 01234 313186 or email greg.coyne@ntlworld.com to book your first Hypno-Band session/consultation to get your reduced rate of £350 for all SIX sessions. You can find further details of the Hypno-Band Programme on either my main WEBSITE or one of my Hypno-Band specific Websites...