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TWO DAY ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN HYPNOSIS AND COUNSELLING IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER AND OTHER ...

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:03:56 +0100

TWO DAY ADVANCED CERTIFICATE IN HYPNOSIS AND COUNSELLING IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER AND OTHER CHRONIC ILLNESS

Date: Saturday 3rd September and Sunday 4th September 2011

Location: Bristol Conference Centre, Bristol

Delivered by: Darren Page

Profits from this course will be donated to Marie Curie Cancer Support.

During this 2 day workshop, you will learn:

- Therapeutic uses of hypnosis

- Medical terminology

- Common problems faced by seriously ill clients

- Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI)

- Specific types of inductions suitable for seriously ill clients

- Pain management techniques

- How to help your client face the end of their life

- How to deal with your own emotions

- Bereavement and the family

- Self care as a therapist

And so much more.

Who Should Attend

Anyone with an interest in hypnosis and NLP. No previous training in hypnosis is required to attend this course.
Students training to become NLP practitioners, hypnotherapists, counsellors or psychotherapists.
Qualified and experienced therapists, wanting to gain additional knowledge and techniques, and CPD.

About Darren Page

Darren is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner, with many years of experience of working within the NHS, private practice and voluntary sector. He currently works in the Marie Curie Hospice, Penarth, and the Teenage Cancer Trust, Cardiff, as well as helping clients in association with the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Darren is passionate and knowledgeable about this area of work, and is excited about sharing his expertise with other therapists.

For your investment in this weekend, you will receive:

Two full days of training - 9.30am - 4.30pm.
Refreshments and lunch for Saturday and Sunday.
Handouts and scripts to enable you to immediately help clients in this area of work.

At the end of the weekend, you will have earned yourself:

11 hours of continued professional development (CPD), validated by the General Hypnotherapy Register
An Advanced Certificate in Hypnosis and Counselling in the treatment of Cancer and other Chronic Illness

Your investment

Weekend entrance - £250, including handouts certification, refreshments and lunch.

Numbers are limited, so early booking is advisable.

To reserve a place, pay £50 deposit now and the remainder by a week before the event at the following address: http://www.sue-preston.com/Cancer---Chronic-Illness.html

You can also pay be cheque or cash - contact Sue for more details!
Telephone: (01639) 638033

Email: info@sue-preston.com

High blood Pressure

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:51:28 +0100

High blood pressure, what is it?

High blood pressure is the same thing as hypertension. It is when the blood is putting more pressure on the arterial walls and the cardiovascular system. Blood vessels tightens and constrict making your heart beat harder to circulate blood. In short, your blood moves through your body at a higher pressure than is normal or healthy.

Does smoking affect blood pressure?

A few lines higher I mentioned how blood pressure constricts when blood pressure is high and vice versa, well smoking or using tobacco products does the same thing and as such blood pressure is extremely likely to increase. Smoking also makes you heart beat faster, again a temporary boost of blood pressure. Quitting smoking is of course a nobrainer if you have high blood pressure but also to prevent it… why smoke anyway? And if you say because it relaxes you, well it is actually the deep breaths you take that do that, nicotine is only felt after 20 minutes of smoking…yeah that’s right, when you say “time for another cigarette I feel stress coming back” you are actually starting to feel the tension caused by nicotine in your blood stream. Now if breathing deeper helps you relax, imagine if you took the cigarette out of the way when you do it!

What if I start to exercise and lose weight?

Bravo, this is a good start, in fact in some cases the cause of the high pressure might have been caused by the stress caused on your system due to the extra weight. What will really do it is maintaining the healthy weight once it is achieved. Regular exercise is the real ticket when it comes to lowering and maintaining a healthy weight and blood pressure. Consult your General practitioner before major changes to your lifestyle as too much too soon can also be detrimental to your possibly weakened cardio vascular system as well as demoralizing and discouraging. Taking things slow will let your system get use to it and allow you to realize your full potential.

What does sodium have to do with it?

Sodium is well known to increase blood pressure in some people and if you have heard that sodium does not affect everyone in the same way, well you are right but it’s like playing Russian roulette, the firearm would not affect all players the same way yet you don’t have to think long before deciding not to play that game do you. So instead of thinking that you can choose what you think affects you, how about you try cutting back and see if it helps. Having a low sodium diet is a wise dietary choice for everyone but even more important for people who already have a high blood pressure, the elderly and people with cardiovascular problems. It is said that people with a healthy blood pressure should stay under 2,300mg of sodium intake per day, while people afore mentioned should limit it to 1500mg per day. Consult your physician about limiting your sodium intake as it might be suggested you limit it further or in some cases that you increase your intake. (remember there is such as thing as low blood pressure) Here is an example I like…

Last year a food chain specializing in friend chicken, will not be naming them, came out with a chicken sandwich composed of no bread, I repeat, no Bread! Bacon, cheese and a fatty salty sauce, apparently very tasty too, all of this sandwiched in between two deep fried chicken breasts as stand-ins for the bread. This had become a permanent menu item in the states as part of a combo with fries and a drink while it was available in Canada for a month only while it was tested to see if the Canadian palette would care for it. This sandwich was a fatty beast of course and made the word Junk food seem healthy, I suggest using the world Ultimate Junk food, this intensely oversized meat monstrosity obviously designed to feed a small family of bears before hibernating over the winter months boasts a 2500mg of sodium per serving! Holy Hannah! Meaning that if you ate one on an empty stomach without having the combo or eating anything else that day you would be over the maximum! If you decide to try it, ask without the bacon on it’s own and eat nothing else that day, I will have oatmeal!

Of course avoiding foods high in sodium is easy, or is it? Junk food like French fries, chips etc is easy but what about the foods that high sodium yet have a healthy reputation? Bread may have a great PR because it is often high in sodium, canned food is also a not so obvious culprit, soups, cheeses and some diet pops (sodas, colas) can all increase your sodium intake while you think you are doing fine avoiding the obvious junk foods. Read your labels and get to know how much sodium is in your food! Medications can also be high in sodium, ask your pharmacist. And of course, don’t add salt to your food, it usually already contains a lot of salt, any processed food will usually be high in sodium so no salt, your arteries will thank you…for a long bloody time!

I heard that drinking alcohol is good for the heart; do I need to stop drinking?

The saying is that one glass of wine a day is good for your health and indeed it is, not all people react the same way to alcohol, for some it will increase blood pressure, for some it will not.

Limiting yourself to one drink a day, be it a glass of wine of 4 to 5 ounces, a beer or a shot of hard liquor. If you see that it does not increase your blood pressure then you are home free, if it does however, forget about alcohol altogether as it is not doing you any good.

Can stress or anxiety affect someone’s blood pressure?

You bet, we see it all the time, like partners in crime. Although stress can affect everyone in different ways, one of the thing stress does is pump adrenaline in your system to make your heart beat faster to be ready to react to dangers or predators. Now you may be saying, work is not a predator, why am I stressed at work? Well to you work is no predator but to your body, it is. Listen to your body! Over time a constant flow of adrenaline will cause damage to your circulatory system by increasing your blood pressure. Of course since stress can cause high blood pressure means one thing, relaxation and stress relief can reduce it!

So don’t just count on medication to do the work while you keep smoking, stressing out and eating poorly, get involved and be proactive! Make changes to your lifestyle!

What Lifestyle changes can you make to reduce High blood Pressure?

Quit smoking and never use any tobacco product ever again! Need I say more?
Be light on your feet! Shedding those extra pounds is not just good for your wardrobe, wallet or self esteem but also your circulatory system.
Relearn how to eat! A Nutritionist can be your best bet to learn how to include more fruits and vegetables to your diet; they are fat free and nature’s fast-food!
Reduce your caffeine intake as well as sodium and alcohol.
Introduce physical activity in your life; your heart is a muscle, make it stronger!
Learn relaxation techniques such as self hypnosis, yoga, meditation etc. Seek help for this.

Feeling the Stress and Anxiety, how to take control

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:07:56 +0100

Stress and anxiety sure feel like they cannot be helped or avoided. Why would they? Would it be possible that all of a sudden you no longer have to pay rent, fill your car with gas or run for the bus to work? Perhaps it should be that work should magically be easy and worry free or that by taking the one action you might get this amazing promotion where you somehow don’t have to be as overworked or pressed for time as you are now? Let’s be honest though it is not as if you are out of options. It is easy to take control, you are in control right now, you can choose to change, to let go of stress. Realizing that you are in control is in fact the first step to releasing your burden that is stress and anxiety.

Stress reduction is about taking control, taking over your mental state, your emotions, your thoughts, even your day to day schedule and your living environment. It is about policing your attitude towards the outside and inside sources of stress in your life and to learn to hold up to pressure as you get better and better at dealing with the unexpected sources of stress and anxiety so that you can deal with them.

Identify what causes your stress levels to be high

Stress reduction must always begin by finding where the stress comes from, be it in your personal or professional life. Now this is not always obvious or in plain sight. Too often we tend to blame the usual suspects for our stress and we overlook our own stressful thoughts and ideas. Of course one of the usual suspects is work, work, work, work! But the stress is usually too high for than the work would justify. We can also blame ourselves for badly managing our own time, or procrastinating to avoid having to face the stress only to have deadline stress later on.

Your best bet to identifying the cause of your stress is to give your thoughts, habits, behaviors, you may not like the next two: excuses and justifications, a good look.

Do you tend to say that you are going though something temporary that is causing that stress? (“it’s just this project that is driving me crazy”) when in fact you can’t remember having let go completely.
Do you feel that stress is part of work and is something that could not be separated from it at any point? (“this place is crazy”) or that stress is part of you that perhaps you are a worrier?
Do you sometimes blame your stress on other people or outside events? Do you think high stress is normal and everyone has it?

Your key to controlling your stress is to simply admit to your responsibility for maintaining it, for allowing it to build up unchecked sometimes for creating it by stressing about things that do not matter in the big scheme of things and to decide to change, act differently by learning to reprogram your response to stress.

Dany Leblanc Ch, Nlp

Hypnotherapist

Modern Day Stress and Anxiety

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 03:36:24 +0100

I see stress all around me every day.

People driving like maniacs and shouting their heads off, people panicking over spilt milk, not the expression here, literally spilt milk making people lose their cool. I ask, why is it that people can't seem to get perspective anymore, why is it that stress is now the main condition we live with, in some cases a certain amount of pressure can help us, motivate us but in this day and age of constant contact when we never disconnect from work, friends, tweets, chats, txts, blackberries, IMs, it just seem like we never turn off, never disconnect from the pressure. We change from work to home life without changing moods, keep thinking about work at home and home at work.

When we do take some time for ourselves and decide that perhaps some time at the spa might do us some good, we struggle with road rage on the way, get there late, finally make it and relax physically for a while and start all over.

When does your mind get to rest in this, sleep? Most dreams are of daily events, no wonder our subconscious chooses not to remember them.

For the mind to let go, it needs a spa of it's own, a place to go, things to see, imagine. A place that will make it relax and let go completely. This place needs to be untouchable, unreachable from the outside world. Training your mind to make this happen is like creating an inner pressure valve to release tension, stress and anxiety.

This is one component of self hypnosis and is a way to start releasing superfluous emotions, stress and anxiety.
I teach self hypnosis as part of every hypnosis session I do, it is important to work on shutting out the stress of work after the work day instead of bottling everything up day after day.

A hypnotherapist trains you to release your physical and mental tensions and gives you the tools to reproduce this intense relaxation on your own for maximum benefit.

Call now to find out how to let go!

Dany Leblanc Ch, Nlp
Hypnotherapist

Chosing to smoke, to quit and enablers

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:53:24 +0100

Since I have been in this profession I have heard every possible reason in the world why my clients start smoking, If there is something we see often is poople who foolishly picked up smoking in their youths for all the wrong reasons. Pier pressure being one of those reason's, doing like your favorite movie start might be an other. We sometimes hear stories about kids starting with friends and siblings in their teenage years against their parent's wishes.

Now this sound like a typical story we hear all the time, yes?
Now here is one that we do not hear that often. How about when a parent makes their kid smoke? How about making them smoke, enabeling the habit by buying the cigarettes and worse... pimping out the child as a tourist attraction as being the "Smoking 2 year old" as a man did in this video:

Now, we may not agree with the reason's people have to smoke, but I think we can all agree that making someone smoke, even if it would be that typical making your child smoke a whole pack in one sitting to make him sick of it is questionable at best. The father's claim that the child will cry if he does not enable his addiction is rediculous.

I bet he cries not to go to sleep too yet, I'm sure he sleeps fine after a little while.
I think that there is the financial aspect of the dad using his kid as a tourist attraction that plays into this of course but lets not forget that people will do things to buy the peace and cut through arguments by enabling the smoker.
This is one of the ultimate example of this.

When it comes to an adult or a teenage kid, IT IS THE EASIEST THING IN THE WORLD TO NOT ENABLE!
Take a stand, stop buying the cigarettes, stop allowing smoking in your personal space. So many things can be done to say that you will not make smoking easier. The easiest way being not helping the process, something you can do from your current position in front of the computer.

We all make excuses for everything in life and the truth is that when someone has free will, not including this kid in this equation as he may have taken to the habit but his dad turned him on to smoking in the first place, deciding to quit remains your decision, being ready is something only you can do and wanting to quit does not equate to being ready.

When you are ready however, now is the time to get the people around you into this process. Ask them to refuse should you ask that they give you cigarettes. Ask them to remind you about your commitment to quit smoking. Ask that they remind you about how good you are doing every now and again as you become the healthy non-smoker you deserve to be.

Danger in medication to quit smoking?

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:23:21 +0100

One of my clients came to see me after seeing statistics on the use of Smoking cessation drugs such as Chantix and Zyban. Apparently in the US there was 98 suicides directly linked to side effects of Chantix and 188 attempted suicides! It went on to say that Zyban, Wellbutrin and other generic equivalents were tied to 14 suicides and 17 attempts!

I found this to be the reason the Food and Drug Administration requires Chantix and Zyban to have what they call a (black box warning) to let people know that side effects may include suicidal thoughts and depression.
Please do keep in mind that those drugs are antidepressants that had been found to help some people quit smoking.

Now I much prefer the odds of a completely natural and safe way to rid yourself of such a filthy habit!
Hypnotherapy of course! Using the minds natural abilities to reach your goals! Oh and guess what:

Side effects may include:

Relaxation
Better Sleep
Better Focus
Better ability to taste
Better Health
More money in your pocket!

Nutritional Issues

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:51:33 +0100

I was reading and article on Nutritional issues today when I read something that reminded why I do what I do. The quote is as follows:

"Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of all mental illnesses, with 10% to 20% eventually dying from complications"

Since I started studying Hypnotherapy I have had one mission, To make life easier for every client I cross path with. This philosophy has led me to specialize my services in two areas. Nutritional issues as well as Pain and Chronic pain management. I have helped so many people with unhealthy eating habits get over problems that could easily have caused their deaths yet, I feel like I have only scratched the surface. I wish everyone with such an issues could be helped of course but often people suffer alone.

The first step is to talk about it, to understand what is happening to you and to share it. It may have taken you a long time to realize what you have been doing or it might have been obvious to you from the start but one way or the other help is still available to you. Organizations such as NEDIC (National Eating Disorder Information Centre) are there to help you find a great deal of information on the subject.

But for now I would love for everyone to know what to look for, being vigilant could save a life, maybe even your own. Looking for simple signs if a start so here are some of the obvious ones:

Periods of withholding food (starvation) followed by eating binges ("pig outs").
Eating binges in response to a stressful or disappointing event.
Binge eating followed by purging, either by induced vomiting, or regular use of laxatives.
Guilt and "self punishment" (in the form of starvation) after a binge.

Should you decide you have had enough; a simple phone call to my office can help you decide your next move. With your General practitioner in the loop we will help you get to the bottom of this issue so that you can climb back on top and finally free yourself from all this pain.

I wanted to end this post with a ray of sunshine from one of my clients:

"I decided to consult with a Hypnotherapist when I started purging again, like I had when I was younger. Then it got worse and more than once a day. I was stuck and I felt like I no longer had control over my emotions and my stress and the quantity of food I would ingest. My bulimia was affecting every aspect of my life. As much on my life as on the image I had of myself... I did not like myself and could not find the motivation I needed to do what I needed.

After only a few sessions, I started noticing a difference! Also, I finally found the motivation and determination needed to finish my high school after several failed attempts.

Today thanks to the Dany's help, I completely stopped purging; I now find it easy to manage my stress which was causing my bulimia attacks and no longer ingest enormous quantities of food. The self hypnosis techniques learned with the Hypnotherapist really helped me. I now have a great self image and no longer have self-destructive behaviour.

I feel like I now live again and it had been a while since I felt so good about myself!

Thanks Dany!

Pascale

Ottawa, On. "

Dany Leblanc Ch, Nlp

RenaissanceHypnosis.Com

819-420-3891

Hypnosis for Healthy Weight Management

Sat, 22 May 2010 02:09:56 +0100

Hypnosis for Healthy Weight Management

Hypnosis used to keep people motivated in their own weight management and health goals!

Often enough people contact us to help them achieve healthy weight goals. Something that is equally often is that those same people do not have all that they would require to achieve those very goals.

To defuse any explosive rebuttal, allow me to explain.

People who want to reach a healthier weight do genuinely desire to get on with it; now the language is important here. The “desire to get on with it”. Too often will people come see us for a Weight management session and not return after about 2 sessions or so because they did not see a change?

I have studied several of those cases from my own cases and my colleagues and there is an agreement to the fact that people use hypnosis solely and expecting weight changes when in fact we are doing sessions for the purpose of motivation towards reaching your weight goal. When I or a colleague of mine starts a Weight Management session, we inform the client of the process we are there to help them by motivating them with there weight management program. We can often suggest a weight management plan or several in order to get them on their way. Often enough we hear about the client’s progress and although they really desire the change, the next most important ingredient is to be ready to do what it takes!

Reaching a healthy weight is renewing your commitment to do something about it now. Unfortunately

The common reaction clients have had was to fight to have a session to later notice that maybe they lacked the readiness to go for it and do it.

One solution that I decided to go with was to introduce my own means of a physical component. Some may have decided to go with exercise, some with a diet plan; however I cannot monitor these till I’m later told that these modalities were not explored in parallel to the motivational Hypnosis sessions that we were providing. To put it mildly, the time it takes for us to have sessions designed to keep them in the gym or on their diet plan, we would find out that the person is yet to start using those methods. Keeping in mind that our session were designed to keep them doing what they are doing (supposed to be doing) people end up making the suggestions work against them for having told us they were already doing all that they could. When a client does that it’s not in bad faith but rather expecting to start doing those important things within the process, often feeling guilty about having expected hypnosis alone would immediately MAKE then melt away. Unfortunately this behavior has been the main cause for the good old technique of motivating the client to exercise and eat properly to not carry much weight on its own… or shed much weight to be more on topic.

The Solution

As I mentioned was plain and simple, to have them use a weight management modality that I can monitor all the while using hypnosis and suggestion for the purpose of staying motivated while on the plan. Something that would make them experience change early on and in a safe manner. I found that a range of products by Canagenix.Com was the best to get fast results while being motivated to stay on the plan using the hypnosis sessions. Nowadays when I get a weight management client what I do is I suggest one of the Isagenix solutions chosen based on the weight goals of the clients with an appropriate amount of hypnosis sessions. Feedback has been very positive. Some have had even better results when combined with a regiment of physical activity. This is the way that is the more advantageous for both Renaissance and the clients for the simple fact that it’s an easier commitment for the client, more economical and has a higher likeliness of getting you to reach your ideal weight in a safe way, while maintaining a steady rate of change that will be easy to maintain.

Why is it so good?

It’s not about the hypnosis or the product as much as the specific use of suggestion to keep you motivated and adhering to the plan. See usually we motivate someone using a broad range of suggestions for the purpose of having someone stay on track with an exercise plan, a complicated diet, suppressing bad eating habits, emotional eating, binge eating, laziness etc. That would be working on too many things at once and narrows the chances of success because the client’s subconscious focus is divided. Like anything, focus can be diluted until it might as well not exist; having something that will take care of several of those aspects while hypnosis is used to work on the rest of the things that may slow you down. Your success simply enhances itself naturally.

Dany Leblanc Ch, Nlp

Certified Hypnotist and NLP Practitioner

RenaissanceHypnosis.Ca

819-420-3891

Addictive Behaviours

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:08 +0100

Addiction is hard wired into us as a survival tool that would get us coming back to food source and to reproduce even. Those never stopped being used actually, we might think we no longer are led by these impulses but we actually see their impact still. People who have unhealthy relationships with food are an example, dependence to pornography or sex is another. When we think addictions we usually think of drugs, cigarettes or alcohol but in fact the basic and animal addictions are sex and food.

But how can we get rid of an addiction?

Well addictions never go away!

It is the amount of control we have over it that changes. To put this in to perspective, this is the reason that rehabilitated alcoholics can never drink socially. All that can be done really is to get over the cravings and habituate mind and body to life without. Now how can you know you are addicted to something?

Here are a few questions to ask yourself if you think you might be addicted to drugs, medication, stimulants, alcohol, coffee, cell phones, internet and texting even. (Apply this to any activity or product you might be surprised)

These simply help you figure things out; saying no to all of those does not mean that you don't have an addiction simply that no test is perfect and every situation of addictive behaviour can be different. But here they are and I suggest you answer them with a friend that knows you well enough to also know the answers and that is honest enough to tell you if you are in denial. Make sure the friend is not himself addicted to the same things and in also in denial! Of course that would be the worst case scenario but I'd rather have my bases covered! Here are the questions:

Do you need more than you use to?
Do you think about it at times you would normally not, like when doing something else?
Do you continue to use despite knowing impact of your life?
Do you feel uneasy or do you have any additional symptoms such as Nausea, Anxiety, Trembling, Sweating, insomnia when going without?
Do you get irritable and moody when you go without?

Think about it, really think about it now, answering yes to even one can mean a lot!

How can Hypnosis help?

Hypnosis works by helping you control emotional and physical cravings while starting to change the behaviour. It allows you to reach your goals and "lock" the new habit into place. It could be to have a better relationship with food, stop repetitive behaviours like nail biting or hair pulling, or perhaps problems with substance abuse like drugs, cigarettes and alcohol. The thing of the matter is that what you need is to want, hard enough to fight the addiction without having to fight yourself on top of it!

We help you, we don't make you do anything with hypnosis as this is not where the power of hypnosis rests but rather it increases what positive desires are already there. You have to be honest about wanting! We can help you enjoy freedom from addictive behaviours through one on one sessions, CD Sets or downloadable mp3 sessions to start the process from home.

819-420-3891

Hypnotists Soothe Today’s Stress of Flying: Key Strategies for Enjoying Air Travel Revealed

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:09:28 +0100

By Dany Leblanc Ch, Nlp

Remember when air travel was actually fun and exciting and you looked forward to the adventure? Remember when blankets and pillows were free, and having to pay extra for excessive luggage weight was unconscionable? Rising fuel costs and profit margin pressures have changed everything. The glamour is gone, replaced by stress!

Let’s face it. Airline travel isn’t what it used to be and it will never return to those days when people got dressed up in their Sunday best for travel. Those days are long gone! Airline travel is certainly no longer a new phenomenon and while many travelers still face their fears of flying, today’s airline traveler must cope with the more prevalent challenges of the increased stresses associated with air travel. Consulting hypnotists find themselves in helping the public in applying stress reduction strategies to make their adventure more palatable. The economy, the on-going threats of terrorism, the shear number of travelers today and new security rules all contribute to greater stress for the passenger preparing to fly. This article presents some of the key strategies that enable the

stressed traveler to manage and minimize their stress levels and make the flying experience pleasant for themselves and their traveling neighbors.

While hypnotists around the world have been helping travelers cope with their fear of flying, today’s jet setters face an increasingly stressful experience in the air and on the ground. The travelers in coach as well as the first class passenger are all on edge due top the stresses of air travel. At the 2008 National Guild of Hypnotists convention, a group of consulting hypnotists reported a rising demand for air travelers seeking assistance in managing stress associates with flying. According to Dr. Dwight Damon, President of the National Guild of Hypnotists, “we are seeing a sharp increase in demand for hypnotists who can assist today’s airline passenger manage their stress of flying. The anticipated stress of flying is causing many people to avoid flying altogether or to delay their travel plans until absolutely necessary but for the business flyer especially, travel is unavoidable.” Dr Damon cited several potential stress creators that can put a traveler over the edge. “The check-in process, going through the security checkpoints, dealing with extra fees for luggage, and simply being among other stressed out travelers whose behavior impacts everyone – all contribute to a potential disaster if the traveler isn’t ready to manage his or her stress.”

Consulting hypnotists are going beyond the process of helping people prepare to address their fear of flying. By focusing on several key strategies to help the air traveler manage the stress they experience throughout all aspect of flying, from planning their trip and packing properly, to airport procedures, and during their flying experience, they are helping to make air travel the pleasant experience it once was for the traveler.

First of all, travelers should make a conscious decision to do everything they can to make the flight a positive experience. “In spite of the added measures today, he air traveler still has many aspects of their experience still within their control,” said Dr Damon. “It starts with picturing a positive experience, and with having personal strategies for dealing with the myriad issues that are bound to arise during the travel experience. How you decide to react to a situation that arises will heighten or lessen your personal stress, and the stress of those around you.”

Secondly, proper planning for the flight is crucial, with consideration of all aspects of the flight. Nobody looks forward to the new challenges of today’s airline regulations. Is sufficient time being allotted to pack, get to the airport on-time and get through security comfortably? The proper planning makes it much easier for the traveler to apply known hypnotic strategies to their journey. With a focus on the destination, and a pleasant as possible flight experience, the traveler can focus on breathing techniques, positive affirmations throughout the stress points, and in working toward the positive outcome of the flight.

Finally, it helps if travelers can identify in their minds – or on paper – specific trigger points that will help them manage their stress. Personal awareness of anxiety levels, fatigue, and impatience – with preplanned strategies for coping with these factors go a long way to reduce stress. For example, focusing on the ‘clicking of the seatbelt’ can trigger deep relaxation for the traveler so the goal becomes arriving at your seat with a smile, a sigh of relief and the anticipated relaxation. With this in mind the traveler works toward this positive picture and manages stress in order to reward him or herself with the positive outcome.

By creating the scene of a positive travel experience in your mind, you become more steadfast, in control, and the stress points along the way – from packing to boarding to being seated and through to arriving at your destination – will minimally impact your journey.

At RenaissanceHypnosis.Ca is about helping people cope with difficult situations brought on by everyday things such as flying but also other fears such of that of confined spaces, spiders, snakes and so many other things that can be scary in a given context yet shouldn't be in an other. Using Hypnosis you can learn to free your mind from such irrational fears and it would be a pleasure to help!

Visit our page dedicated to fear of flying or contact us to determine when we can meet with you and help you start the journey!