Article in Newspaper

It's always good to get good results from the work that you do, especially when you happen to love the work that you do, but there really is something that makes you go all 'nice' and 'tingly' inside when others get to see and appreciate the powerful abilities of your work!!

Getting your work published in article form in a newspaper will do it for me every time!!
Tomorrow, Wednesday 25/01/12, there will be an article in The Midweek Herald covering Devon about a Stop Smoking session I did on one of thier reporters.

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you can also read it on my website
check it out!!

Karen Taylor

www.hypnotherapyworks.uk.com

What is REM and why is it so important to our good health?

REM or Rapid Eye Movement is a trance state and is used during dream sleep.  It takes up about 20% of our sleep pattern and occurs about every 90 minutes. We need to enter the REM state in order to assimilate information. It is a state when we are open to suggestions and when in the REM trance state we are able to alter people’s perceptions.

During the day we build up stress in the form of undischarged emotions, such as when the elderly lady runs into us with her shopping trolley and doesn’t apologise, we get stressed and want to say something, but we don’t. This pent up anxiety is undischarged emotion, we deal with this by assimilating the event during REM and change it into a narrative form that can be safely stored in the neocortex but without the emotional content.

All our days stress and anxieties are dealt with this way, in an attempt to empty our metaphoric anxiety bucket. If we don’t manage to deal with all the stress and anxiety during our REM sleep, we lose our intellectual control and more anxiety builds up, we then fall into bouts of anger, depression or anxiety.

Depressed people worry excessively which creates an overload of dreaming, in turn all the energy expelled trying to deal with the worry leaves a person exhausted in the morning. The brain may even shut down before all the excess anxiety is dealt with and this results in the person being woken up typically around 4 am, still tired and with an anxiety bucket already partly full, their bodies haven’t had enough slow wave sleep – a type of sleep needed for our bodies to regain energy and make repairs to the body. Our job is to stop the excessive worrying and to get the sleep patterns back to normal. We do this by creating REM in trance work and feeding new information to the subconscious mind, by replicating this system we can deal more effectively with trauma.

REM sleep is also important to help us find solutions to problems and for memory consolidation during dreaming or daydreaming.

Karen Taylor Hypnotherapy

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My Top 5 Tips for Warding off the January Blues

Well Christmas is over and what a lovely time we all had! but now we start to get on with life.

A lot of people suffer from the January blues and it can really drag you down. Here are my top 5 tips for warding off the blues.

1. Get back into normal routine as soon as possible
2. Make a list of jobs or tasks that you would like to complete and work your way through - by completing tasks we release more of our endorphins (happy chemicals!) in our brains.
3. As soon as you wake up, put on the lights, open the curtains and get out of bed and on with life - this will help reduce the natural 'sleepy' chemical our brains release in the dark to make us sleep at night.
4. Get out of the house - meet friends, go for a walk
5. Start an exercise routine - exercise again releases natural endorphins and makes us feel good.

                                                              Happy New Year!!!

                                                                    Karen Taylor