Working with Emotions and Beliefs

Healing the Heart and Mind

Do you feel as though you are carrying emotional baggage from the past around with you? Do you struggle with difficult memories, feelings, or behaviours which you haven’t been able to completely resolve? Perhaps you’re living with chronic health issues which leave you feeling isolated and misunderstood, as though you barely can muster the strength to carry on some days?

True healing requires that we address all aspects of the problem. Even if your symptom seems to be physical in nature, there may be unresolved emotional experiences, traumas, thoughts and belief patterns that are affecting your healing.

You might feel as though the life you want is out of reach, or you might even sabotage yourself when things are going well, because you harbor limiting beliefs about yourself or what’s possible for you. Often we don’t know why we do the things we do. Identifying and reprogramming our limiting beliefs is crucial if we want to escape the repeating cycles of sameness and to create a life to thrive in.

Are any of these thoughts familiar to you?

I can’t possible give up eating ice cream
This isn’t going to work. It’s not possible for me to heal
My family struggled with this, so will I
People don’t like me
I can’t do anything right
I’m too old to change career
People don’ support me
Good men don’t choose me…etc etc

Healing the Broken Heart

If that isn’t enough, then there’s all the betrayals, the trauma, and the disappointments that take their toll on our hearts. We go through our lives, from event to event, not fully integrating the big and small tragedies we experience. Often the energy of these experiences are suppressed below the level of our conscious awareness, but the body will highlight them through kinesiology because they impede the flow of energy. You may get tension and pain in certain areas as this intense energy gets trapped in particular parts of the body.

It’s often easier to change our diet or take a supplement than it is to fully feel the pain of our losses, betrayals, humiliations, and shame, but processing and resolving our emotions and limiting beliefs is an essential part of our healing.

How I Work

Using a range of powerful tools and techniques, I will help you process and clear emotional residue from the past, as well as trauma and limiting beliefs, so that they don’t blur your view of the world and what is possible for you.

We do shadow and light work. In shadow-work we carefully dive into the deeper aspects of your experiences to discover whatever it is that needs to be seen, felt or released in order to move on. In light-work we build your strengths, cultivate healthier approaches and beliefs, and get you ‘in the flow’ to create whatever it is you desire in your life.

Using elements from Cognitive or Transpersonal Hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time-Line Therapy, Positive Psychology and coaching, I will gently and effectively aid you in rewiring your unconscious mind and stop it driving the unwanted behaviours, thoughts and emotions that create your problems. A few of the modalities I use are outlined below.

Emotional Freedom Technique – EFT

EFT, also referred to as psychological acupressure, is an effective self-development tool which helps to gently get to the emotional and psychological root of any problem. Combining conventional talk therapy with an understanding of the energetic aspects of the human body as revealed in oriental medicine, the technique is powerful for releasing trauma, suppressed emotion, memories and beliefs.

EFT is a powerful technique for releasing trauma, suppressed emotion, memories and beliefs. The approach involves working through the feeling and beliefs whilst tapping gently on specific acupressure points on the face and body.

“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.”

Buddha

Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy combines focused relaxation with powerful words and suggestions that are easily absorbed by the unconscious mind, and that helps bring about positive changes.

In the deep state of hypnotic relaxation we are relaxed and focused to the exclusion of everything around. This is a natural state that we access multiple times during the day without realising it. As much as 90% of the day we are in this ‘awake but elsewhere’ alpha brainwave state – for instance when we drive, watch TV or daydream. We can be consciously doing one thing whilst unconsciously, our mind is actively absorbing information from around us (hence why we are so susceptible to advertising and marketing).

In hypnotherapy we use this state to harness the power of the mind for healing.

It is nothing like stage hypnosis which is done purely to shock and entertain audiences. Nobody goes to sleep – the purpose is to help you become MORE conscious and awake so that you STOP going into trance-loops, doing those behaviours which cause your problem.

Clinical studies show that hypnotherapy can be successful for weight loss, fears, phobias, depression, anxiety, learning, stress management, wound healing, improving immune function and pain control. Hypnotherapy is also recognised as a possible treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome (IBS) by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). It is also used in surgery instead of anesthetic and for a painless childbirth.

“Hypnotherapy isn’t about putting you to sleep. On the contrary I want to help you become more awake so that you stop going into autopilot and doing those things which cause your problem”.

The Guardian, 2008

Cognitive Hypnotherapy provides overworked minds with the toolkit they need to fix their own stresses and strains. It is based on modern psychology and neuroscience and, don’t worry, there’s not a pendulum in sight… “ Read the full article here

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 2007

Cognitive Hypnotherapy for Depression: An Empirical Investigation – Patients treated with Cognitive Hypnotherapy produced 6%, 5%, and 8% greater reduction in depression, anxiety, and hopelessness, respectively, over and above the CBT group. The effect size was maintained at 6 and 12-month follow-ups. This study represents the first controlled comparison of hypnotherapy with a well-established psychotherapy for depression, meeting the APA criteria for a “probably efficacious” treatment for depression. Read the full article here

Which? Guide to Complementary Therapies, 2002

“”Hypnotherapy is supported by more scientific research than any other complementary therapy”

“When you no longer split your energy with contradictory thoughts, you will know your power.”

Abraham Hicks

Emotion Code

Emotion code is a simple but powerful tool for identifying and clearing the energy of emotions which were trapped and suppressed in the body during intense emotional events.

The approach harnesses the innate wisdom of your body to show us what needs to be addressed through kinesiology, our intention, and the ancient principles of Chinese Medicine.

Heartspeak

Heartspeak is a powerful tool for processing and resolving stuck or bottled-up feelings as well as learned fight, flight or freeze responses throughout the body.

Using simple exercises and techniques, Heartspeak uses embodiment to break these old, futile patterns so that healthier, more expansive patterns can emerge. It allows you to reveal answers about repeated patterns of behaviour by listening to and working with your heart and your emotions, rather than through simple analysis.