HYPNOTHERAPY... is not new. It also has been known about since the start of recorded history, in communities all around the world.
DISPELLING MYTHS:
Hypnosis is NOT sleep.
Awareness is NOT lost.
You will NOT be out of control.
Hypnotherapy is an altered state of awareness.
FACT: you can expect to be conscious of feeling relaxed - deeply relaxed - but remaining completely in control of all aspects of your being.
Hypnosis can be used to ... “greatly depress or prodigiously exalt” ... the arousal of selected parts of the nervous system.*1
It can be defined as a naturalistic alteration of the level of activity of systems of the mind and body for a therapeutic purpose.*2
It has been known about since Wong Tai, the father of Chinese medicine (2600B.C.), and the Hindu Vedas (1500B.C.) mentioned hypnosis and hypnotic procedures.
Although it stems from the Greek word ‘hypnos’ meaning sleep - it is not sleep. If you were wired up to an EEG machine measuring brain-waves, this could be proved. It is an altered state of awareness - where you remain deeply relaxed but conscious of all that is being said and happening around you.
Importantly, you remain completely in control of ALL aspects of your being.
It is routinely used for a wide range of condition-specific therapeutic purposes: anxiety, depression, pain-management, stress, etc., - allowing the individual to take control and manage their wellbeing for their own good.
Stan Gerard offers healing, hypnotherapy, regression therapy or counselling for ALL illness, stress or injury.
He is registered within the following General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) Special Interest Registers:
Allergies & Skin Conditions
IBS & Gut Related Disorders
Pain Management
Performance Enhancement
Phobias, Panic & Anxiety States.
Anxiety and depression scales are routinely monitored.
He works with:
Children & Adolescents, and
Female Issues:
i) PMT & Menopausal Symptoms
ii) Childbirth Coaching
Additionally, he is trained in:
Working with Couples
Neuro Linguistic Programming
Meridian Therapies (TFT)
Stress Management
Regression Techniques:
i) Regression Within Current Life,
ii) Forensic Hypnosis, and
iii) Past Life Regression
He is well practiced in regressing people through 'this-life' and has
a particular interest in "past-life recall".
First appointment (1-11/2 hours): £50.00 with FREE relaxation tape (or recording of past life recall) included.
Second appointment (1-11/2 hours, including teaching of self-hypnosis): £50.00
Subsequent appointments: £50 per hour.
How many appointments? It would be unusual for there to be a need for more than 4 for current conditions, in my experience. As my average over the past few years has been between 2 and 3 visits per patient you could consider that as the best "starting indication" that I could suggest before we meet. We could discuss this - we can review things as you feel is right for you. Appointments are at your invitation. I'm helping you to help yourself.
Forensic Hypnosis is available to Principle Investigating Authorities. Fees are available on application to Stan Gerard, as above, or on 01224 - 59 4774
[Updated: 10.12.2006]
*1 Dr James Braid (1795-1860), a Scottish eye-doctor (born in Perth, trained in Edinburgh; based in Manchester) in his book: Neurypnology or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism (1843).
*2 Dr Dylan Morgan. Systematic hypnotherapy - what is hypnosis? Journal of the Hypnotherapy Research Society. 1998:1;23-30.
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