As level-headed human beings, we tend to believe that we are fully aware of what we’re doing and why we’re doing it, rationally and consciously living life in the here and now, making informed decisions based on available facts. Nevertheless, the latest scientific understanding of how the human mind works demonstrates that this is not the case and that the vast majority of what we think, feel and do is automatically driven by a part of our mind that we have no conscious access to – the unconscious mind. Based on our experiences of life, we form templates of behaviour that become our automatic responses to specific situations. Without realising we’re doing it, we can find ourselves ‘sleepwalking’ through life, robotically repeating behaviours that actually make our lives worse, leaving us feeling dissatisfied, uncomfortable and ineffective, but not understanding why.
Stop Existing, Start Living: Help Yourself Take Control Of Your Life Through Hypnotherapy is a self-help book aimed at adults who are fed up with feeling
uncomfortable and dissatisfied with their lives. The focus of this book
is not to equip the reader with strategies to best manage the symptoms of their
dissatisfaction. Instead, through the proven techniques of hypnotherapy, Stop
Existing, Start Living… guides the reader step by step through a complete
process of change to address the causes of the dissatisfaction.
Given the many
misconceptions surrounding hypnotherapy, I take time to demystify the practice of hypnotherapy, explaining
its processes, and dispelling the myths around it. I address a
wide range of issues, including: Attitudinal barriers toward change, setting
attainable goals and building motivation to achieve them, uncovering and
transforming unhealthy belief systems, the impact of the past on the present,
the potential of forgiveness to heal the past, and the development of self-understanding through self- knowledge. The book concludes with a
chapter on self-hypnosis, promoting self-reliance in future problem resolution.
Stop Existing, Start
Living… is designed to help
the reader take control of and responsibility for their own life. With this in
mind, a key aspect of this book are the questions that are placed within its
chapters, questions deliberately aimed at encouraging the reader to become
actively involved in their own change process through directed
self-reflection.
Central to the book are
10 downloadable hypnosis audios, recordings of the author’s voice backed by
relaxing music. Each audio has been meticulously designed to facilitate
observation, understanding, learning and change. Once downloaded, the audios
can be listened to from the comfort of the reader’s own home, at a time
convenient to them, as often as they choose.
I have tried to make my approach
throughout the book as supportive as possible, compassionate and, at times, light-hearted,
yet thought-provoking, empowering and goal-directed.
About the author:
Christine Woolfenden DCH DHP MBPsS reg CNHC GHR SQHP has been a practicing clinical hypnotherapist
since completing her training with the Institute of Clinical Hypnosis in 2006,
now known as the ICH Clinical Hypnosis Training. She is the founder and
director of Echelon Associates Clinical Hypnotherapy Practice
(www.echelonassociates.co.uk). She holds a BSC Hons first degree, a Graduate
Diploma in Psychology, a Diploma in Clinical Hypnosis, and an advanced Diploma
in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. Christine is a member of the British
Psychological Society (MBPsS), the General Hypnotherapy Register, and the
Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. She continues to take further
instruction in her field of work to broaden and refresh her knowledge-base and
skills. Formerly a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, she lives in
Oxfordshire.Stop Existing, Start Living is currently available in paperback, priced £9.99. It will be available as an eBook shortly.
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