Jonathan Lloyd |  |
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I’m Jonathan Lloyd and I’m a qualified hypnotherapist and counsellor. I can help with many issues.
Take smoking for instance; have you ever wondered why it’s so hard to give up? Have you tried everything? I am not surprised that you have struggled, as statistically only 6% of us can give up using willpower alone and it doesn’t get much better with Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT). It's the same for everybody else in Stockport, Cheshire and Greater Manchester!
Using counselling and hypnotherapy I have helped many people to stop. They have found it strangely easy to switch off the craving and not replace it with another one (eating comes to mind). The hypnotherapy process is very simple, and nothing like the stage shows. You enter a very relaxed state and the therapist makes the suggestion to the subconscious mind that the craving for tobacco is switched off, and reinforces what harm it was doing to you.
And what about stress - what are we like when we get obsessed about being in contact all waking hours and anxious if our Blackberry is out of signal? We have formed a deep attachment to material lifestyles, peer pressure and chasing the dream: “if only I could win the lottery that would make me happy!”
All this stress and anxiety caused by our own perceptions causes so many problems and can ultimately kill us.
Just talking it through with a counsellor can be extremely beneficial. Taking time to look at your whole life, where you spend all your time and energy and where your self-care is, can be useful. Also, there are techniques like meditation, mindfulness or self hypnosis that can help to restore calm and order.
It is time to take care of yourself; you are no use to others if you reach burn out!
Training, Qualifications & Experience
MA, DAHHyp, AHA (Reg Hyp), Dip Couns, MBACP.
Areas of hypnotherapy I deal with
Fees
£30 consulatation, £60 per session thereafter, £120 for one-off stop smoking.
Further Information
Probably the most asked question of all time in the Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis world apart from will you be able to make me dance like a chicken.
This is not such an easy question to answer as Hypnotherapy/Hypnosis is a personal state and can vary from person to person. Basically all hypnosis is, is an altered state of awareness with complete relaxation which is induced by the Hypnotherapist or on your own.
Imagine early in the morning when you are in your own comfy bed and in that relaxed state when you are not quite asleep but not fully awake either. The time in which you drift in and out of consciousness and when you dream your wonderful dreams. You are totally relaxed and at this point and in my opinion it is at this time that best describes how it feels to be hypnotised.
Let’s address the dancing like a chicken question whilst we are at it. This is another myth of Hypnosis as at no point during trance do you lose control despite what stage hypnotists might tell you.
At every point during your Hypnotherapy session you will be able to hear what your hypnotherapist is saying. If at any point your Hypnotherapist asks you to do something that is against your morals you would simply be able to open your eyes and stop your session. This is why during hypnosis stage shows they want people with no morals.
To summarise during a hypnotherapy session you are totally relaxed able to hear everything that is being said to you whilst remaining in complete control at all times. It would probably be the most enjoyable relaxing experience of your life and 99% of clients return time and time again it is that enjoyable.
For Hypnotherapy Stockport, Cheshire and Greater Manchester visit the Calm Minds website for more details
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