Sleep restriction therapy entails forcing oneself to sleep only during a fixed designated time, and remaining awake at all other times. In this way, sleep is trained.
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The Hypnotic Art of Confusion
Whether you’re a hypnotherapist or not, the way confusional language affects the mind demonstrates beautifully how the human mind works.
4 Relieving Hypnotic Techniques for Pain Control
How to achieve analgesia and even anaesthesia without drugs.
How to Use Problem-Solving Therapy with Your Clients
All therapy is problem-solving therapy. Either we seek to help our clients ‘solve the problem’ by feeling and thinking differently about it, or we help them find ways to solve an actual practical problem (or both!).
How to Use Cognitive Restructuring with Your Therapy Clients
Cognitive restructuring consists of learning to identify and reframe troublesome cognitions. Here are four ways to help clients who suffer from limiting, but hidden, assumptions.
4 Tips for Eliciting Hypnotic Phenomena
Here are three approaches which, when combined, greatly increase your chances of eliciting hypnotic phenomena from your hypnotic subjects.
15 Core CBT Techniques You Can Use Right Now
Some of these tips for using cognitive behavioural therapy incorporate general techniques, while others are targeted to specific issues.
How to Help Your Clients Meet Their Missing Emotional Needs
Life can start to feel meaningless when our emotional needs fail to be met. When we feel empty, it’s because we are unfulfilled. Follow these tips to help your clients get more out of life.
Research Roundup 9: Forgiveness, Depression Genes, Nature and Stress, Hypnosis and Dementia, and Pre-Op Hypnosis
The latest instalment of recent psychology research looks at why we’re prone to forgive other people, research that seems to debunk the old ‘depression genes’ theory, exactly how often we need to feel connected to nature to lower stress, and how hypnosis can help alleviate symptoms of dementia and calm pre-op patients more than pills.
4 Ways to Use Behavioural Activation to Help Your Depressed Clients
Inspiring action in depressed clients as part of forming a road map out of depression is a vital part of treatment. And it can be useful for all sorts of other conditions as well.
