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What Will You Be Doing to Improve Your Life in 2017?

A new year approaches. I suspect many people will be glad to see the back of 2016 and will look forward to 2017 on the premise it can’t be any worse. But for all that the year about to end has brought tragedy, heartache and despair to many, what will you be doing to make your life happier in 2017?

New Year resolutions will be tripping off the tongue of many as the bells approach this weekend. Particularly as the festive period is now on the home straight and the realisation that too much food and alcohol has been consumed; the oft-repeated pledge to give up the fags will be taken again on 2^nd January; and the much-used ‘I’m definitely going to get a new job next year’ is, to use a social media phrase, ‘trending’ again. 

Sadly, as is so often the case, these pledges are usually thrown away along with the Christmas tree and cards during the cold, dark month of January. The winter blues set in and ‘you’re not really in the mood for change right now’.  

We are driven by habit. What we are used to doing on a daily basis, week in, week out until another year reaches its climax is our comfort zone. Although many people want to change their habits and therefore improve their lives, they are wary of doing so as they are stepping outside their comfort zone. 

How often have you heard these words? 

‘I need to lose weight. I’ll start the diet once New Year is out of the way’ 

‘I’m too stressed out right now to stop smoking but I will do it. Soon’ 

‘I haven’t had a decent night’s sleep for ages but I’ll just have to cope’ 

‘My family are always on at me about my irrational fear of spiders/mice/flying (add any phobia you wish here) but I promise I will do something about it in the New Year’ 

These words are repeated often at this time of the year but so many people don’t follow up their honourable intentions. Therefore, another year passes and they carry the same regrets and unresolved issues with them. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Imagine what your life could be like if you could harness the power of your habits for the better?

Imagine yourself as the subject of a television documentary. Think of yourself having achieved the targets you set. Look at the television screen and see the new you; that of someone who has lost weight; stopped smoking; rid yourself of that unwanted phobia or habit. See yourself as someone who has reached their fullest potential. Someone who has finally changed their unwanted habits and now has a full, healthy and successful life.

Are you thinking ‘Nah, it just doesn’t happen to me’? Or are you thinking ‘Actually, this fella has got me thinking’? 

Ask yourself what is it about your life you want to stop? What habit do you have that gets you thinking ‘I wish I didn’t do this’? Think about this for a few moments. Have you tried other methods but, so far, all else has failed? 

Hypnotherapy can help you get rid of these unwanted habits. Your old habits are replaced with new ones which will improve your life. 

Hypnosis is an altered and heightened state of awareness that is sometimes referred to as a trance state. But you are not put to sleep. Unlike stage show hypnotists, during hypnotherapy you are fully conscious and aware at all times. You will never be asked to do anything you don’t want to do – so there will be no flapping around the room believing you are a chicken!

Most of us slip in and out of trance states throughout the day in everyday life. Has anyone ever said to you ‘Hey – you’re away in a dream!’ in an attempt to get your attention? When you day-dream you are at your most relaxed and comfortable. This is often when the best ideas ‘pop’ into your mind – they certainly do in my case!

You may be aware there are two parts to the mind, the conscious and the subconscious. Many therapists use the term ‘unconscious’ instead of ‘subconscious’, and many describe the workings of the mind in great detail. My explanation is very simple: 

The Conscious

You are aware and in the present with your conscious mind. It’s the part of your mind that reasons and makes decisions and choices. It acts as a filter to thoughts and suggestions, deciding whether to keep them in the forefront of your mind, or put them ‘on hold’, or to dismiss them altogether. When a thought or suggestion is put ‘on hold’, it goes straight to the subconscious where it is filed away. 

The Subconscious

The subconscious is a container for your thoughts. Amongst other things, it houses all the information your conscious gives it to store, like memories and things it can’t deal with immediately. 

Hypnotherapy is about retraining your subconscious mind to act like your conscious mind and thereby overcoming issues that may affect your day-to-day living. 

So, dear reader, if you are someone who wants to lose some weight or stop smoking but find your willpower evaporates after a few weeks; if you feel a distinct lack of self-esteem or self-confidence; if you are someone who has a phobia whether this is of spiders, wasps, general ‘creepy-crawlies’; or even if you’re thinking about going on holiday to sunnier climes but have a fear of flying – contact me to arrange an appointment. After a free, no obligation initial consultation, we can decide together the best way to enable you to achieve your goals. 

Phone or text me on 07521353787 (24 hours) to arrange a date and time for an initial free consultation or email me at: mike.smith@mgs-hypnotherapy-services.co.uk

Home visits are available by arrangement. 

We have but one life – so why not try and change your life for the better? 

Mike Smith Hyp CS

Mind Generating Success

Christmas Greetings - Here's to Making Your Life Better in 2017

May I wish all my clients - those currently receiving my service and those who will be in the New Year - a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous 2017. Make the New Year the one where you will finally rid yourself of unwanted habits and disorders. 

I shall be checking emails and business phone messages throughout the Festive period so you don't need to wait until January if you want me to help you change your life for the better.

email: mike.smith@mgs-hypnotherapy-services.co.uk

Mobile: 07521 353 787 (24 hours)

New Year, New You - You CAN Do it!

Will you be making any New Year’s resolutions once the Festive period has come and gone? Do you want to lose weight, with the extra eating over Christmas and New Year exacerbating your need to lose a few pounds? Perhaps you will attempt to quit smoking? Or lose any unwanted habits such as phobias, eating disorders or lack of confidence or self-esteem?

 

The New Year can bring a new you. Let Mind Generating Success help you achieve what you want. I have proven success with clients who have lost weight, changed their unwanted eating habits, quit smoking, increased self-confidence and have conquered their fear of spiders and rodents.

 

Why not make an appointment with me to discuss what I can do for you? Contact me on 07521  353 787 (24 hours answering service) or email me at mike.smith@mgs-hypnotherapy-services.co.uk

 

Visit the Mind Generating Success website at www.mgs-hypnotherapy-services.co.uk for further information.

 

Take the first step to changing your life for the better.

Do You Need to Change Your Life?

Christmas and New Year. A time to reflect. Do you feel your life needs to change? Let Mind Generating Success help. Contact me today. email: mike.smith@mgs-hypnotherapy-services.co.uk

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Work-Related Stress

That's an incredible statistic. Nearly 13.5 million sick days every year are down to work-related stress.

Are you off work just now as a result of work-related stress? Can you see no way back? Or are you an employer who wants to consider helping those in your workforce?

Hypnotherapy can help stress-related issues - including work-related stress. So whether you are an employee or an employer, contact Mind Generating Success today to find out more about the benefits of hypnotherapy.  Whether it's to improve your well-being or, if you are an employer, to support your workforce as well as reduce the cost of sickness absence, please get in touch.

Visit my website: Mind Generating Success

Phone me on 07521353787 (24 hours) 

Email me at: mike.smith@mgs-hypnotherapy-services.co.uk

Weight Loss Going 'Exceptionally Well'

Client R wished me a Happy Christmas after our session this morning. He came to see me in September wanting to lose some weight. he had tried every kind of diet in recent years and while he usually started of well, his willpower would soon wane and he would be back to square one.

During our initial consultation session in September, R rold me he had tried hypnotherapy before but it didn't work. But he took advantage of my free consultation and he agreed to give Mind Generating Success a try. Nothing ventured, nothing gaines (if you'll pardon the pun)

His aim was to lose three stones in weight.

Now, less than three months on, he has lost almost two stones in weight - and will return to see me in the New Year wholly confident he will come through the excesses of the festive period unscathed. He has now changed the way he thinks about food; his eating habits; his snacking and eating when he wasn't hungry - it was just something to do.

People will have different reasons for wanting to lose weight. Depending on their reason for wishing to lose weight and information provided during the initial consultation session, suggestions for weight loss may include

• Visualising the body you want

• Imagining how you will feel with your new look and, as a consequence, new health.

• Imagining yourself reaching that goal effortlessly. No pills, just mental thoughts.

• Seeing how much you will have improved from when you begin hypnotherapy.

• Imagining how energised and confident you will feel.

• Realising, through hypnotherapy, that the more you exercise, the endorphins physical activity release means the more you will want to exercise, the easier it will become to do so.

• Whenever you get the urge to eat something unhealthy, or eat when you're not hungry, imagine not reaching your goal and think about how that will make you feel.

Visualisations like these – and there are many possibilities - are designed to empower you so that you can take control of your choices. With weight loss hypnosis you will learn to enjoy the taste of healthy food and stop craving sugary, fatty foods which you already know are unhealthy for you but you fall to temptation anyway.

R told me today he feels hypnotherapy this time around has gone 'exceptionally well'. He has already told his friends and family and the word is spreading fast.

Do you want to emulate R's success? Want to lose weight, particularly once Christmas and New Year is over? Why not contact me for a free consultation. After this, we can decide together the best way to enable you to achieve your goals.

Mike Smith Cert Hyp CS

Mind Generating Success

14-18 Hill Street

Edinburgh

EH2 3JZ

tel: 0752 135 3787 (24 hours) 

email: mike.smith@mgs-hypnotherapy-services.co.uk

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