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| Introduction | |
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| About This Book | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| Why You Need This Book | |
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| How This Book Is Organised | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| Understanding Hypnotherapy | |
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| Examining Hypnotherapy | |
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| Getting to Grips with the Basics of Hypnotherapy | |
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| Discovering the differences between hypnosis and hypnotherapy | |
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| Sliding into trance | |
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| Examining states of mind | |
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| Getting Past that Old-Style Hypnosis | |
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| Finding Help with Hypnosis | |
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| Understanding the Therapy Part of Hypnotherapy | |
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| Hypnosis plus counselling | |
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| Hypnosis plus psychotherapy | |
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| Techniques: The Tools of a Hypnotherapist | |
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| Choosing a Tool from the Hypnotherapist's Toolbox | |
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| Giving It to You Straight and Not So Straight: Direct and Indirect Suggestions | |
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| Getting direct suggestions | |
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| Going the indirect route | |
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| Blending both | |
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| Safely Splitting Your Mind with Dissociation | |
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| Minding your associations | |
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| Associating hypnosis and dissociation | |
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| Adding the Sum of Your Parts: Parts Therapy | |
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| Communicating and negotiating with a part of you | |
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| Bringing it all back together again: The importance of reintegration | |
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| Travelling in Time | |
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| Going back in time: Age regression techniques | |
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| Going forward in time: Age progression techniques | |
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| Altering time: Time distortion techniques | |
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| Scanning a Variety of Other Common Techniques | |
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| Visualising, imagining, or pretending change | |
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| Finding out how to forget | |
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| Substituting a memory | |
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| Telling stories | |
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| Preparing for Hypnotherapy | |
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| Keeping Your Individuality in Mind | |
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| Identifying Your Problem | |
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| 'I'm not exactly sure what my problem is' | |
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| 'I know my problem but haven't been able to solve it' | |
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| 'I have more than one problem' | |
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| Communicating Your Problem | |
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| Prioritising your problems | |
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| Providing as much information as you can | |
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| Setting SMART Goals and Checking Your Motivation | |
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| Using your SMARTs to set your goals | |
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| Examining your motivation | |
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| Negotiating Your Goals with Your Hypnotherapist | |
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| Breaking down bigger goals | |
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| Winning the goal game | |
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| Considering How Hypnotherapy Can Help | |
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| Making the Mind-Body Connection | |
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| Understanding the Mind-Body Connection | |
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| Fitting up the connectors: Your nervous system | |
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| Making the connection with hypnosis | |
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| Considering How Your Emotions Affect You | |
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| Depressing the effects of low moods | |
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| Stressing about fear and anxiety | |
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| Fighting or fleeing: Facing the fear response | |
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| Integrating Hypnosis into the Mind-Body Connection | |
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| Relaxing mentally and physically through hypnosis | |
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| Manifesting the mind through the body | |
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| Breaking Away from Old Habits | |
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| Examining Habits and How to Change Them | |
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| Quitting Smoking | |
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| Preparing to quit: What to do before visiting your hypnotherapist | |
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| Addressing your fears about quitting | |
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| Using hypnosis to become smoke-free | |
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| Managing Your Weight | |
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| Taking the safe route to the body you want | |
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| Eating yourself thin | |
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| Getting a Good Night's Sleep | |
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| Solving your insomnia | |
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| Trance strategies to help you to sleep | |
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| Sweet dreams are made of this - turning your nightmares into nothing | |
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| Sorting out snoring - for both you and your partner | |
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| Controlling Your Words: Stammering | |
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| Stumbling over anxiety | |
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| Relaxing your speech through hypnotherapy | |
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| Reaching a Nail-Biting Conclusion | |
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| Touching on Body Matters | |
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| Letting Go of Pain | |
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| Experiencing pain | |
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| Perceiving pain | |
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| Relieving pain | |
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| Helping Your Skin Look Good | |
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| Scratching away at psoriasis and eczema | |
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| Stop kissing frogs: Treating your warts | |
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| Easing skin problems with hypnotherapy | |
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| Relieving the Pressure of Hypertension | |
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| Taking a Pregnant Pause for Childbirth | |
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| Conceiving options | |
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| Delivering the goods | |
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| Improving Irritable Bowel Syndrome | |
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| Dealing with your IBS anxiety | |
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| Coping with constipation and diarrhoea | |
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| Loving the Dentist! | |
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| Drilling away at your problem | |
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| Grinding down your bruxism: Teeth-grinding and hypnotherapy | |
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| Dealing with Problems with a Psychological Basis | |
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| Obsessing about change: Obsessive compulsive-disorder (OCD) | |
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| Beating bulimia | |
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| Feeling Good | |
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| Conquering Performance Anxiety | |
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| Playing the starring role | |
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| Feeling your star fade | |
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| Acting your way to a better performance | |
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| Regaining your lustre | |
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| Summing up your parts | |
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| Taking the Confidence Trick | |
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| Feeling ten feet tall (when you're used to feeling like a midget) | |
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| Changing your self-talk | |
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| Putting your confidence into practice | |
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| Sorting Out Your Anxieties | |
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| Beating the Blues | |
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| Understanding the different types of depression | |
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| Working your way out of that black hole | |
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| Stress Busting! | |
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| Cooling yourself off and hypnotherapy | |
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| Responding with stress | |
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| Reframing your stressed-out world | |
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| Making a molehill out of that mountain | |
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| Accessing Your Creativity | |
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| Tapping into your endless well of creativity | |
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| Unblocking your creative flow | |
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| Touching on Sexual Problems | |
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| Considering the Limits of Hypnotherapy | |
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| Realising That Hypnotherapy Helps, It Doesn't Cure | |
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| Accepting Hypnotherapy's Limitations | |
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| Setting yourself up for success | |
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| Highlighting the importance of your motivation | |
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| Letting Go May Be Harder Than You Think | |
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| Facing the fact that you may want to keep your problem | |
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| Overcoming your secondary gains | |
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| Sabotaging your own therapy | |
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| Examining Your Hypnotherapist's Ethical Responsibilities | |
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| Looking at Your Hypnotherapist's Legal Responsibilities | |
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| Expanding the Reach of Hypnotherapy | |
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| Your Kids and Hypnotherapy | |
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| Considering Ethical Issues | |
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| Noting the Differences in Hypnotising Children | |
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| With eyes wide open | |
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| Trance through imagination | |
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| Helping Your Child with Therapy | |
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| Making the decision to seek therapy | |
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| Listening to your child's hypnotherapist | |
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| Understanding Some Common Childhood Issues | |
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| Hiding behind sofas: Dealing with your anxious child | |
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| Solving bed-wetting | |
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| Visiting Your Former Selves | |
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| Examining Past-Life Regression | |
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| Beliefs about PLR | |
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| Reasons to revisit past lives | |
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| Journeying to Your Past Life | |
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| Revealing any past-life memories | |
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| Choosing a route | |
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| Reaching a dead end | |
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| What to Expect during Your PLR Session | |
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| Setting the scene | |
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| Visiting those important times | |
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| Being present at your death | |
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| Healing past hurts | |
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| Completing the journey and returning to the present | |
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| Removing Your Phobias | |
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| Rationalising the Irrational: Defining Phobias | |
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| Explaining phobias | |
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| Comparing phobias to plain old fear | |
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| Pointing out triggers | |
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| Examining the Various Types of Phobia | |
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| Specific phobias | |
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| More complex phobias | |
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| Removing Your Phobia through Hypnotherapy | |
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| Starting with the basics | |
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| Approaching the trance | |
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| Picturing your life without your phobia | |
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| Confronting Your Phobia: A Contract for Action | |
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| The Practical Stuff | |
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| Finding a Hypnotherapist | |
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| Looking Out for a Hero | |
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| Knowing what to look for | |
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| Believing adverts - or not | |
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| Cruising the information superhighway | |
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| Relying on word-of-mouth | |
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| Looking Into Your Hero | |
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| Researching by word-of-mouth | |
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| Making sure your hypnotherapist is professionally trained | |
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| Talking to a few therapists | |
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| Asking the right questions | |
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| Selecting Your Therapist | |
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| Your First Hypnotherapy Session Step by Step | |
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| Entering the Office | |
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| Caring enough to pay your own way | |
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| Knowing how many sessions it may take | |
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| Starting Your Hypnotherapy Session | |
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| Getting acquainted with your hypnotherapist | |
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| Creating a working relationship | |
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| Teaming up with your hypnotherapist | |
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| Supplying a Case History | |
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| Going Into a Trance | |
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| Inducing a trance | |
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| Homing in on what a trance feels like | |
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| Taking you in and taking you deeper | |
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| Experiencing the Actual Therapy | |
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| Choosing the best approach for you | |
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| Receiving post-hypnotic suggestions | |
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| Strengthening Your Ego | |
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| Adding the feel good factor | |
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| Bolstering a weak ego | |
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| Waking Up | |
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| Coming completely out of trance | |
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| Continuing therapy while you're coming out of trance | |
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| Doing Your Homework | |
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| Practising Self-Hypnosis | |
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| Connecting to Your Unconscious | |
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| Setting Your Goal | |
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| Hypnotising Yourself | |
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| Inducing your own trance | |
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| Deepening your trance | |
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| Trusting your unconscious mind to carry out your suggestion | |
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| Strengthening your ego | |
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| Waking yourself from trance | |
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| Examining the Pros and Cons of Self-Hypnosis | |
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| When self-hypnosis is appropriate | |
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| When self-hypnosis isn't appropriate | |
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| Developing Your Own Scripts | |
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| Ongoing Self-Hypnosis | |
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| Making your hypnosis work | |
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| Establishing a routine | |
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| Improving your effectiveness | |
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| Meeting the Family: Some Cousins of Hypnotherapy | |
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| Looking at Reasons to Use Something Other Than Hypnotherapy | |
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| Asking why your hypnotherapist isn't using hypnotherapy | |
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| Making sure that you understand what your hypnotherapist is doing | |
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| Gazing at Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) | |
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| Eyeing EMDR's theories | |
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| Wagging a finger: EMDR in action | |
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| Tuning into Thought Field Therapy (TFT) | |
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| Feeling Out the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) | |
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| Talking about Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) | |
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| Digging into the name | |
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| Looking at NLP in practice | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Common Misconceptions about Hypnotherapy | |
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| Hypnosis Is Magical and Mystical | |
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| You're Under the Power of the Hypnotherapist | |
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| Hypnosis Is Dangerous | |
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| Hypnosis Makes You Cluck like a Chicken and Lose Control | |
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| You Have to Keep Your Eyes Closed and Stay Completely Still | |
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| Hypnosis Is Therapy | |
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| You May Not Wake Up from Trance | |
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| You Go to Sleep during a Hypnosis Session | |
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| Some People Can't Be Hypnotised - Even if They Want to Be | |
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| You Don't Need a Hypnotist - You Can Hypnotise Yourself | |
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| Ten Pioneers of Hypnosis | |
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| Franz Mesmer (1734-1815) | |
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| James Braid (1796-1860) | |
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| Hippolyte Bernheim (1837-1919) | |
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| James Esdaile (1808-59) | |
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| Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-93) | |
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| Pierre Janet (1859-1947) | |
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| Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | |
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| Clark L. Hull (1884-1952) | |
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| Milton Erickson (1901-80) | |
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| Ernest Rossi (1933-present) | |
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| Ten Qualities to Look For in a Hypnotherapist | |
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| Confidentiality | |
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| Honesty | |
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| Well-Trained | |
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| Empathy | |
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| Ethics | |
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| Experience | |
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| Tidiness | |
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| Punctuality | |
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| Non-Judgemental | |
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| Active Listening | |
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| Ten Tips for Choosing a Hypnotherapy Training Programme | |
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| Making Sure the Institution Is Accredited | |
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| Training for Clinical Hypnosis, NOT Stage Hypnosis! | |
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| Looking at Length of Training | |
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| Going through the Interview Procedure | |
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| Sitting Still for Classroom-Based Training | |
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| Checking the Experience, Background, and Variety of Lecturers | |
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| Getting Help from Tutorials | |
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| Talking to Previous and Current Students | |
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| Offering Continuing Professional Development | |
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| Supporting You After Training | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hypnotherapy Organisations | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| United States | |
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| Canada | |
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| Australia | |
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| Training Institutions | |
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| United Kingdom | |
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| United States | |
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| Canada | |
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| Australia | |
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| Malaysia | |
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| Portugal | |
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| Spain | |
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| Useful Books | |
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| The Handbook of Hypnotic Metaphors and Suggestions | |
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| The Wisdom of Milton Erickson: The Complete Volume | |
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| Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis - 3rd Edition | |
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| Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis | |
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| Training Trances: Multi-Level Communication in Therapy and Training | |
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| Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson, Volume 1 | |
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| Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy with Children, 3rd Edition | |
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| Time Distortion in Hypnosis: An Experimental and Clinical Investigation | |
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| Ericksonian Approaches | |
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| Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis | |
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| Code of Ethics | |
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| Index | |