Anxiety and panic can limit and severely disrupt many peoples lives and their effects can damage our health physically and emotionally.

These feelings that arise, beyond any conscious control, can affect the way we do our jobs or form relationships, can influence the decisions we make in our social lives, where we go or what we feel comfortable or capable of achieving.

Smoking becomes a habit that is so well ingrained that it almost seems to be a reflexive action that is impossible to quit. And all the government or friendly advice to the danger can't seem to create the right mindset that quitting will cause anything but personal distress.

And perhaps you've tried many times before and have come to believe that you just can't do it. Your logical thinking part of your brain wants to successfully quit but the habits cause is way down deep in your unconscious and thats where hypnotherapy can effectively reprogram that need.

Stress is your body's way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences. When 'stressed' the body thinks it's under attack and switches to 'fight or flight' mode releasing a complex mix of hormones and chemicals to prepare the body for physical action.

Imagine a symphony orchestra getting out of control. The string section a few bars ahead of the brass, the percussion banging a beat from a different piece entirely and the conductor waving his arms twice as fast as the score demands. Eventually the musicians attempting to get in time with the chaos become more frenzied until they finally collapse.

Similarly as a person perpetuates stress, enduring excessive tension they too can experience an out of control overwhelming feeling and or suffer illnesses relating to that stress.

Hypnotherapy for weight loss takes a many pronged approach to the issue that faces a lot of us today. We all are aware of the potential and associated health risks of being overweight and yet somehow for a lot of us the ability to maintain a healthy eating regime remains out of reach.

And having someone tell us "Well, really it's ever so simple, just eat less and move more!" Does not help in the slightest, as if we were unaware of the simple mathematics of it all along.

There is no denying the effect of chronic disorders or chronic pain on our mental health.

Equally we are learning more and more about the physical effects that our mental health can have on the body.

The NHS describe a major portion of patient reported symptoms have no pathological cause yet patients continue to suffer stomach disorders, muscle spasms, tinnitus, headaches, colitis, to name but a few.

It is eminently known that positive mental health, attitude and expectation play a huge part in our self care and ability to heal.

Good sleep is essential to healthy functioning.

Insomnia or Insufficient sleep takes a toll on your energy as well as your emotional and physical stamina needed to get through the day. It is a product of and a cause of stress.

Tossing and turning, clock watching or falling asleep only to wake up after a little while and lie despairing all night can make life very difficult.

Phobias are described as irrational fears and the severity of their physical effect can range from mild to intense.

Even though fear in itself is a protective instinct that helps keep us safe, when they are not useful they can become a problem. Not all useless fears are harmful though.

A person with a useless fear that is magnified into a single phobia can often function quite well just by avoiding that one object or situation that stimulates that fear.

However when it does affect a persons emotional, social or work life then hypnotherapy can certainly help unlock that automatic response bound tight to that old trigger.

Self confidence and self esteem are born of experience and the major cause of poor self esteem is past negative programming.

Judgemental parenting, or emotionally unsupportive relationships can create a way of thinking about yourself that is highly critical.

You inherit that kind of 'thinking style' and acquire a harshly critical inner voice.

There is a broad area of therapies available to those looking to improve their academic or work performance.

For people looking for advancement, in developing creativity, alleviating anxiety etc.