Hypnotherapy is a remarkable tool that professionals use to provide relaxation to their clients.

If hypnotherapy seems to be appealing to you, then read on to know the types of hypnotherapy and when and how it heals.

Below are some common types of hypnotherapy and how it may benefit you.

Ericksonian Hypnotherapy

Ericksonian hypnotherapy is in the name of one of the most prominent psychiatrists, Milton Hyland Erickson. This hypnotherapy has become a revolution in the hypnotherapeutic industry, and most of the hypnotherapists nowadays use this type in various ways to their clients.

This hypnotherapy is an indirect therapeutic method to bring positive behavioral changes in the clients. The therapy is all about giving indirect suggestions to the clients, storytelling, usage of metaphors, and confusion techniques.

A hypnotherapist is likely to use complex topics and handshake induction to distract their conscious mind and bring progress in behavior. This therapy is ideal for those clients who would like to try something different from the conventional types.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy

The second is cognitive hypnotherapy. Cognitive hypnotherapy is an influential mixture of various disciplines and techniques to create a tailor-made approach for the client.

Cognitive hypnotherapy has been receiving a great response for it celebrating the uniqueness of every client. It deviates from the path of the conventional approach, saying a single size can fit all.

The cognitive hypnotherapy includes variation in therapy- from cognitive-behavioral therapy, acceptance, and commitment therapy to a mindful approach.

This flexible hypnotherapy changes how the client thinks and responds towards a particular issue. Because of its flexible approach, it tries to uproot several concerns like anxiety and phobia.

Analytical Hypnotherapy

In order to uproot a problem, we need to know and understand the root cause of it. Analytical hypnotherapy is one such therapy, which helps to recognize the problem of the clients or why they are doing in a certain way or what they are doing.

This is a great therapy to give an insight into the clients and the clients themselves. We often have the answer to the problem but fail to be aware of it.

So, with the help of this therapy, the hypnotherapists analyze the problem to make the client aware of the solution.

Hypno-Psychotherapy

As the name suggests, it is an integration of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy. This relaxation therapy helps in overcoming anxiety and stress-related health concerns, pain, and unwanted habits.

The Hypno-psychotherapist creates an empathetic and supportive relationship with the client. The Hypno-psychotherapist set up a safe and comfortable environment to provide a remedy to the client’s problem.

Again, Hypno-psychotherapy manages any deep-rooted problems. Not only has that, with this therapy, the hypnotherapist boosted the confidence of the client.

Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy

Solution-Focused hypnotherapy is basically client-centric hypnotherapy. Here, the hypnotherapist uses a questioning technique to bring out the hidden solution.

The hypnotherapist helps the client to set a goal and serves the role of a facilitator. By doing so, the hypnotherapist guides invoke the inner strength of the clients.

The hypnotherapist, with the usage of solution-focused hypnotherapy, uncovers their core beliefs to find a way out of the challenging situation.

Hypno-Counseling

Just like Hypno-Psychotherapy, Hypno-Counseling is a blend of both hypnotherapy and counseling.

First, the hypno-counselor builds rapport and counsels the client to talk and vent out their issues. This is followed by the part of working on the emotions.

Then the hypnotherapy part comes in to improve self-recognition, self-esteem, and confidence and provides relaxation. When you work on these domains, it heals the concern and accomplishes a far-reaching optimistic effect on the client.

Clinical Hypnotherapy

Clinical hypnotherapy is a more intricate therapy that the hypnotherapist handles under a clinical setup.

This therapy helps to serve medical conditions like psycho-sexual disorders, obstetrics, pain, or any other medical disorders. A clinical hypnotherapist, along with other healthcare providers, forms a team to take care of the overall management of the client.

Regression Hypnotherapy

Regression hypnotherapy often comes into consideration as a final approach of the hypnotherapists. In this type of hypnotherapy, the client travels back to their past events that may be the reason for the ongoing problem.

It is important to note that a well-qualified hypnotherapist might use regression hypnotherapy at the very beginning of the session. Suppose you have a phobia that is inside you because of a childhood event.

So, the therapist takes you back to that past event to remove the dread you were dealing with for a long time. It is not necessary to always enter into a past adverse event. It can be used for accessing favorable memories also.

Past-Life Regression Hypnotherapy

The past-life regression hypnotherapy is suitable for those clients who have faith in past lives and impacts their current troubles.

When these clients go through the past life memories experience, they attain insights into their problems and the cause of it.

Other Hypnotherapy and Techniques

Apart from these few hypnotherapy types, there are a few more therapies and techniques such as Standalone hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming technique, timeline therapy, etc.

These types of hypnotherapy lend as tools to hypnotize the clients directly or indirectly to give rise to a positive change in their behavior.

A well-trained hypnotherapist will provide an elaborate description of the hypnotherapy and why they are using it.

Curiosity is a definite motive behind the urge to gather knowledge and information. Most people often wander around in the quest of their life objective, work, health concerns and family.

Dolores Cannon has thought of developing a type of hypnotherapy through which the clients can take a journey of consciousness. Through this hypnotherapy, the clients will be able to find all the answers to their queries and heal from inside.

Dolores Cannon came with a new creation in the field of hypnotherapy and named it as Quantum Healing Hypnotherapy (QHHT).

What does it stand for?

Quantum Healing Hypnotherapy is a journey to gain consciousness of life. Clients come in to take this healing session to achieve clarity in their lives.

Yes, when people yearn for having a better conception of why their life prevails like this, they come to take Quantum Healing Hypnotherapy sessions. Also, they come to acquire information on how they can improve their lives and move forward in a promising way.

Quantum Healing Hypnotherapy helps to rehabilitate its clients who come up with a curious mind. They may have questions regarding God, the Universe, or Sources and their association to it. Some may think that they need to do something else. But they do not have clarity.

With a desire to make their life satisfactory, Dolores has developed this technique to incite the person through visualization in the somnambulistic trance state.

What is Subconscious?

Firstly, it is important to mention that the subconscious mind is a powerful store-house of the experience, beliefs, skills of one’s life. It acts as a guiding system with all the life information that is presently not in the conscious mind.

The Subconscious possess the ability to influence the thought process and shape an individual’s behavior.

How does it help in Quantum Healing Hypnotherapy?

Through the Quantum Healing technique, the hypnotherapist communicates with the subconscious level of the client’s mind to work on their problems.

The developer of the Quantum healing hypnotherapy claims that the subconscious is keen on working with only those who have true intention.

Healing Technique

The hypnotherapist gets explanations from the subconscious mind of humans of the occurrence of past or present incidents that cause the problem. The subconscious mind has the potentiality to detect any physical ailments within the body.

After receiving the explanation, the hypnotherapist asks the client’s subconscious mind if healing is possible or not. In this case, the healing is conceivable without the need for surgery, pain or medications.

If you know the root cause of a disease or understand the reason behind the emotions you are experiencing, then healing is almost achievable.

But it is worthy to note that healing is possible to only those people who want to heal themselves. Then only the hypnotherapist can be successful in eliminating the problem from the sub-consciousness.

On the other hand, if you have agreed to experience the problems, then your sub-consciousness would not allow for healing. In short, everything is achievable with an optimistic imagination.

The motive is not to persuade or convince anyone to believe and disbelief anything that he or she is willing to regard. It is a simple technique to give you a platform so that you can understand the working process.

Psychological problems including conditions said to be due to CHEMICAL CHANGES IN BRAIN are as treatable as physical disease. Wait no longer, get well now. 

Hello and warm greetings. I am Dr S K Sharma, practicing in the field of psychology in New Delhi, India since 1994. Before we proceed, I would like to share about my growth in this field. I completed my basic medical education from Delhi University. While I was undergoing training, I was moved by seeing people’s suffering both physical and psychological. As I studied more and more about psychiatric diseases and psychological problems, I was fascinated about the working of human mind and its enormous abilities. This led to my journey of exploration of psychological problems and sickness. After long years of studies, training and research, I am finally able to reach a state where I am able to help people with psychological problems in less time and more effectiveness.

Mental Health Assessment

Any health practitioner who is desirous of helping a person in difficulty or treating a sickness can not deny the fact that most important task is to assess or diagnose the condition. And this diagnosis must be characterized by following:

• Complete but quick

The assessment must be complete. It must take into account all factors which could have led to present status as well as complete assessment of person’s psychological status. At the same time it should not be hasty but reasonably quick so that the main purpose of assessment should not get lost in the long process.

• Correct

Everyone will agree that assessment must be correct and no mental health professional would like to make an incorrect assessment. But this occurs due to many factors like haste in assessment, preconceived ideas about condition, lack of knowledge, lack of effort, even lack of desire to go deep into complexities of condition. Needless to say that incorrect assessment can only lead to incorrect treatment.or management.

• Not just to give name of sickness

It should not be the approach on part of mental health professional to somehow fix a name to the condition. There are cases where one may not be able to reach any conclusion. It would be much better on part of the mental health professional to seek second opinion.

• Meaningful for suitable effective remedial action

Mental health assessment is not meant to fill pages for records. It should be meaningful assessment which could prove useful towards correct management and treatment of the condition.

How I found many cases on wrong medication

Over these years I have come across a large number of cases where people were on wrong medication due to incorrect assessment. Strange but true some of them required no medicine at all. There were people who got better in no time only by change in certain behavior patters or coping skills. But for years they were on medications because they were labeled as patients of depression or anxiety. And unfortunately, there is other extreme as well. Many cases which are actual psychiatric diseases are too not correctly assessed. This leads to either wrong medication or even no medication.

Complaints

Psychological Complaints people suffer from can be divided into following types:

• Difficulties or disorder in perception like delusions, illusions or hallucinations.
• Difficulties or disorder in cognitive functions like thinking pattern, concentration, memory, calculation, reading, writing, learning etc
• Difficulties or disorder in emotions like mood disorders, anger, sadness, fear, grief etc.
• Difficulties or disorder in behavior including behavior towards self and behavior towards others.

Solutions

Management or treatment of psychological complaints requires a comprehensive approach. I use following techniques depending on their suitability and applicability in a certain case.

• Counseling
• Psychotherapy
• Homeopathic Psychiatry
• Hypnotherapy
• Lifestyle management
• Life Management 

My focus of management is :

• Immediate relief.
• Long term sustained benefit
• Prevention of relapse
• Better abilities to defeat further problems

Negative effects of anger

• It hurts your physical health. Chronic anger makes you more susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol levels, a weakened immune system, insomnia, and high blood pressure.
• It causes lasting scars in the people you love most and gets in the way of your friendships and work relationships.
• It consumes huge amounts of mental energy and clouds your thinking, making it harder to concentrate, see the bigger picture, and enjoy life.
• It can also lead to stress, depression, and other mental health problems.

How to manage anger

• Simple relaxation tools, such as deep breathing and relaxing imagery, can help calm down angry feelings. Deep, slow breathing helps counteract rising tension
• Identify the negative thought patterns that trigger your temper
• Avoid people, places, and situations that bring out your worst
• In the heat of the moment, it’s easy to say something you’ll later regret. Take a few moments to collect your thoughts before saying anything
• As soon as you’re thinking clearly, express your frustration in an assertive but nonconfrontational way. State your concerns and needs clearly and directly, without hurting others or trying to control them.

Symptoms

• Have difficulty sustaining long-term relationships
• Not be able to control their anger
• Break the law repeatedly
• Not show guilt or remorse
• Often be angry or arrogant
• Being irritable and aggressive
• Disregard the safety of self and others

People with antisocial personality disorder typically have no regard for right and wrong and often disregard the rights, wishes and feelings of others. Someone with antisocial personality disorder will typically have an antisocial or alcoholic parent, and will have grown up with harsh, inconsistent parenting.

This behaviour becomes most extreme and challenging during the late teens and early 20s, and may improve by the time the person reaches their 40s. It is very difficult to treat. A mental health provider can question individuals who are over 18 years about past and current behaviors. This will help detect signs and symptoms that could support a diagnosis of ASPD. The main treatment is psychotherapy, which involves talking to a trained therapist about feelings that the person has about themself and other people, particularly family and those close to them.

The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive.

Symptoms include:

• Persistent impulsiveness
• Deep feelings of insecurity
• Confused, contradictory feelings
• Anxiety or mood disorders
• Causing deliberate pain by cutting, burning or hitting oneself
• Binge eating or starving; abusing alcohol and other drugs

The exact causes of BPD remain unknown, although the roles of both environmental and biological factors are thought to play a role in people who develop this illness.

It is diagnosed by mental health professionals following a comprehensive psychiatric interview that may include talking with a person’s previous clinicians, reviews of prior records, a medical evaluation, and when appropriate, interviews with friends and family.

The most effective treatment usually involves a combination of, psychological therapy, medication and support. Psychological therapies that have been found to be effective in the treatment of BPD are Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). During IPT, a person learns new and effective ways to relate to significant people in their lives. DBT helps people learn to handle their emotions better and re-learn the way they typically respond to situations and other people.

There are processes and techniques to improve decision-making and the quality of decisions. Decision making techniques can be separated into two broad categories:

• Group decision making techniques
• Individual decision making techniques

The method used depends on the nature of the decision to be made and how complex it is.  The method described below follows seven stages.

The stages are:

1. Listing all possible solutions/options.
2. Setting a time scale and deciding who is responsible for the decision.
3. Information gathering.
4. Weighing up the risks involved.
5. Deciding on values, or in other words what is important.
6. Weighing up the pros and cons of each course of action.
7. Making the decision.

When trying to make a good decision, a person must weight the positives and negatives of each option, and consider all the alternatives. The decision maker(s) may face a problem when they try to rank alternatives in terms of how attractive they are when all the criteria are considered simultaneously. Time and emotion also play a role in the quality of decision making – the more time, the more deliberate the decision making process. Secondly, the more that is at stake, emotion will come into play, rising as the decision making timeline is reached.

Symptoms 

• Inability to make decisions, even everyday decisions like what to wear, without the advice and reassurance of others.
• Feelings of helplessness when alone
• An inability to disagree with others
• Avoidance of disagreeing with others for fear of losing support or approval.
• Inability to start projects or tasks because of a lack of self-confidence.
• Oversensitivity to criticism.
• Urgently seeks another relationshipas a source of care and support when a close relationship ends
• Willingness to tolerate mistreatment and abuse from others.
• Having problems expressing disagreements with others

Like most personality disorders, dependent personality disorder typically will decrease in intensity with age, with many people experiencing few of the most extreme symptoms by the time they are in the 40s or 50s.

Talk therapy is considered to be the most effective treatment. The aim is to help people with this condition make more independent choices in life. Medicines may help treat other mental health conditions, such as anxiety or depression that occur along with this disorder. This type of therapy helps individuals develop new ways of thinking, behaving, and communicating.

Who Are The Victims?

Domestic violence can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion or gender. It can happen to couples who are married, living together or who are dating. In general, anyone can be a victim of domestic violence. Male, female, young, old, Asian, African-American, Jewish, Catholic, rich, poor, highly educated or not, everyone is a potential victim. Some people have a higher risk than others. It affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Men are sometimes abused by partners, but domestic violence is most often directed toward women. Domestic violence can happen in heterosexual or same sex relationships.

Domestic violence is not limited to obvious physical violence. Domestic violence can also mean endangerment, criminal coercion, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, trespassing, harassment, and stalking. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes:

• Physical Abuse: Hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, biting, hair pulling, etc are types of physical abuse.
• Sexual Abuse: Coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact or behavior without consent is sexual abuse.
• Emotional Abuse: Undermining an individual’s sense of self-worth and/or self-esteem is abusive.
• Economic Abuse: making or attempting to make an individual financially dependent by maintaining total control over financial resources, withholding one’s access to money, or forbidding one’s attendance at school or employment.
• Psychological Abuse: Elements of psychological abuse include – but are not limited to – causing fear by intimidation; threatening physical harm to self, partner, children, or partner’s family or friends; destruction of pets and property; and forcing isolation from family, friends, or school and/or work.

Domestic violence is a major public-health problem. It affects millions of people and often results in physical and emotional injuries and even deaths.

People may go on to develop mental illnesses as a result of their gambling, most commonly depression as they lose control of their finances, relationships fail etc., which can put them into the next classification.

Depression and a deterioration of physical and emotional health are general signs and symptoms of a gambling. The gambler becomes moody, withdrawn and irritable and preoccupied with gambling, winnings of the past and getting hold of more money with which to gamble.

Here are some suggestions to keep gambling from becoming a problem in your life:

• Allocate money for necessities first
• Budget your income
• Never use more than 2% of your income for gambling
• Avoid temptation – do not go to casinos or associate with gamblers
• When you gamble, do not carry with you more money than you can afford to lose
• Never borrow money to gamble
• Don’t lend money to a gambler

The more significant the loss, the more intense is the grief. However, even subtle losses can lead to grief. For example, you might experience grief after moving away from home, graduating from college, changing jobs, selling your family home, or retiring from a career you loved.

The five stages of grief:

• Denial – In the denial stage we refuse to believe what has happened. We try in our mind to tell ourselves that life is as it was before our loss
• Anger – The anger can manifest itself in many ways. We can blame others for our loss. We can become easily agitated having emotional outbursts
• Bargaining – Bargaining can be with ourselves or if you are religious with your god. Often we will offer something to try to take away the reality of what has happened.
• Depression – Depression is a very likely outcome for all people that grieve for a loss. There can even be thoughts of suicide.
• Acceptance – it is the final stage of grief. It is when you realize that life has to go on. You can here accept your loss. You should now be able to regain your energy and goals for the future.

Some people have found the stages to be a helpful way to think about grief; others have not. Grief counselors and researchers point out that the stages describe grief as a passive process. In the decades since Kübler-Ross’s work, people who work with the bereaved have learned that grief is an active process. Many people find it empowering to know that they are resilient. They take comfort in actively processing their feelings and memories and creating ways to honor and celebrate their loved one.

Benefits of happiness

• Happy people manage their money well.
• Happy people spend their money on life experiences instead of material items.
• Happiness is good for our relationships
• Happiness is good for our health
• Happy people think about the past fondly.
• Happy people live in a great community.
• Happy people are more creative and are better able to see the big picture
• Happy people “catch” the emotions of others.

Once you learn to have confidence in your own mind and once you discover the virtues that make it possible for you to achieve your values and that make your life worth living, then you will experience the result – an earned pride and a genuine self-esteem and of course happiness.

Measuring Intelligence

The measurement of intelligence is dogged by controversy and disagreement. While there are a number of different methods for measuring intelligence, the standard and most widely accepted method is by measuring a person’s ‘intelligence quotient’ or IQ. Based on a series of tests which assess various types of abilities such a mathematical, spatial, verbal, logic and memory. The results from such tests done on a group that is representative of the wider popular shows the classic ‘bell-shape’ distribution, meaning that most people are of average intelligence with a few at the extreme ends of the scale.

Successfully intelligent people discern their strengths and weaknesses, and then figure out how to capitalize on their strengths, and to compensate for or remediate their weaknesses. Successfully intelligent individuals succeed in part because they achieve a functional balance among a “triarchy” of abilities:

Within the discipline of psychology, various approaches to human intelligence have been adopted. The psychometric approach is especially familiar to the general public, as well as being the most researched and by far the most widely used in practical settings. Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but has also been observed in animals and in plants. Artificial intelligence is the simulation of intelligence in machines.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder involves arrogant behavior, a lack of empathy for other people, and a need for admiration-all of which must be consistently evident at work and in relationships. People who are narcissistic are frequently described as cocky, self-centered, manipulative, and demanding. People with narcissistic personality disorder are not interested in the feelings of others – they lack empathy; they are unable to feel or appreciate feelings which are not their own. When you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may be little or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may have a sense of entitlement. And when you don’t receive the special treatment to which you feel entitled, you may become very impatient or angry.

Many people with narcissistic personality disorder don’t seek out treatment. A diagnosis for narcissistic personality disorder is made by a mental health professional comparing your symptoms and life history with those listed here. They will make a determination whether your symptoms meet the criteria necessary for a personality disorder diagnosis.

Treatment of narcissistic personality disorder typically involves long-term psychotherapy with a therapist that has experience in treating this kind of personality disorder. Medications may also be prescribed to help with specific troubling and debilitating symptoms.

Symptoms of paranoid personality

• Doubt the commitment, loyalty, or trustworthiness of others
• Are generally cold and distant in their relationships with others, and might become controlling and jealous
• Concern that other people have hidden motives
• Expectation that they will be exploited (used) by others
• Inability to work together with others
• Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others

Paranoid personality disorder is more prevalent in males than females. Like most personality disorders, paranoid personality disorder typically will decrease in intensity with age, with many people experiencing few of the most extreme symptoms by the time they are in the 40s or 50s.

Treatment

People with Paranoid personality often do not seek treatment on their own because they do not see themselves as having a problem. The distrust of others felt by people with PPD also poses a challenge for health care professionals because trust is an important factor of psychotherapy (a form of counseling). As a result, many people with paranoid personality do not follow their treatment plan. When treatment is sought, psychotherapy is the treatment of choice for PPD. Treatment likely will focus on increasing general coping skills, as well as on improving social interaction, communication, and self-esteem.

Tips for positive psychology of parenting

Parenting is perhaps one of the most difficult responsibilities most adults face.  Here are some of the tips for good parenting.

• Be optimistic – Losing hope and becoming angry for even minor mistakes of children and trivial failures is the wrong way of parenting. Constantly train the kids and be optimistic to expect the results in the long run.
• Positive emotions – Control negative emotions like anger, violence etc when dealing with kids. Be graceful to children when communicating.
• Empowering children – empower children with positive attitudes and essential values of life. Academic skills and knowledge, artistic skills, problem solving abilities, arguing, defending and protecting self dignity etc… are few of the aspects where parents need to empower kids with valuable real life lessons.
•  Respect your children – Children have feelings and their feelings are easily hurt. Saying ‘sorry’, ‘please’, ‘thank you’, and ‘excuse me’ work wonders on building our children’s self-esteem.

Improve your parenting and provide your children with the tools they need to succeed so that they can enjoy a strong sense of well being and contentment throughout life.

Symptoms

• Prefer being alone and usually choose solitary activities
• Prize independence and have few close friendships
• Feel confused about how to respond to normal social cues and generally have little to say
• Feel little if any desire for sexual relationships
• Feel unable to experience pleasure
• Come off as dull, indifferent or emotionally cold
• Feel unmotivated and tend to underperform at school or work

The disorder manifests itself by early adulthood through social and emotional detachments that prevent people from having close relationships. People with it are able to function in everyday life, but will not develop meaningful relationships with others.

Many people with schizoid personality disorder don’t seek out treatment. A diagnosis for schizoid personality disorder is made by a mental health professional comparing your symptoms and life history. They will make a determination whether your symptoms meet the criteria necessary for a personality disorder diagnosis.

Treatment of schizoid personality disorder typically involves long-term psychotherapy with a therapist that has experience in treating this kind of personality disorder. Medications may also be prescribed to help with specific troubling and debilitating symptoms.

Symptoms

• Being a loner and lacking close friends outside of the immediate family
• Discomfort in social situations
• Peculiar, eccentric or unusual thinking, beliefs or behavior
• Dressing in peculiar ways
• Belief in special powers, such as telepathy
• Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
• Suspicious or paranoid ideas, hypersensitivity, and constant doubts about the loyalty and fidelity of others
• Flat emotions, or limited or inappropriate emotional responses
• Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

Schizotypal personality disorder typically is diagnosed in early adulthood and likely to endure, though symptoms may improve with age. Medications and therapy also may help. Psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, may help people with schizotypal personality disorder begin to trust others by building a trusting relationship with a therapist. Psychotherapy may include, for example, learning specific social skills and behaviors (behavior therapy) or identifying and changing distorted thought patterns (cognitive therapy). Treatment can be more effective when family members are involved (family therapy). Seeking professional counseling as a group may help reduce fighting or emotional distance and improve trust in the home.

Shyness is most likely to occur during unfamiliar situations, though in severe cases it may hinder an individual in his or her most familiar situations and relationships as well. Shy people avoid the objects of their apprehension in order to keep from feeling uncomfortable and inept; thus, the situations remain unfamiliar and the shyness perpetuates itself. Shyness may fade with time; e.g., a child who is shy towards strangers may eventually lose this trait when older and become more socially adept.

Symptoms of shyness

• Blushing
• Sweating
• Upset stomach
• Tendency to withdraw from social interactions

Shy people think more than all other people. They analyze everything that happens, keep thinking about the comments they hear and over think everything.

Shyness can be treated. The following is a list of tips that can help you overcome shyness:

• Build your self confidence
• Control your self talk
• Get rid of inferiority
• Practice talking to people that you don’t know well

The symptoms of psychological stress

• Lack of judgment
• Problems with memory
• Worrying all of the time
• Inability to concentrate
• Negative thinking
• Trouble thinking clearly

Psychological stress also has a physical impact on your body. Headaches are common for people under a lot of stress. People often feel muscle tension and stiffness, nausea, insomnia, chest pain and rapid heartbeats, hives, loss of sex drive, and frequent colds.

Stress can be reduced and even eliminated before it becomes a chronic problem. There are many things you can do for natural stress relief. The two primary ways to relieve your stress include:

• Exercise – Exercise is known to make anyone feel better after they have a good workout.
• Eat healthy – It is important to eat healthy and get all of the supplements your body needs in order to have proper stress relief.

Psychological stress may also have evolved from a real event that caused an emotional disturbance in the past. Counseling can help people to accept the initial stressful event and rationalize the subsequent stress inducing thoughts.

            Yoga – ‘Must’ for healthy living

                              What is Yoga             

                                    History

                             Schools of Yoga

                  Yoga for Body Mind and Soul

                         The Science of Yoga

           Yoga for Treatment (Therapeutic Yoga)

                   Yoga for weight management

                     Yoga for healthy pregnancy

                                  Precautions

The effects and results of Yoga are so profound and almost incredible that it is fast becoming a ‘must’ for healthy living. It is there for ages but recent scientific research has reconfirmed its beneficial effects on health, psychological state and even on improving the entire quality of life. Therefore it is not surprising that in today’s stressful life, people are making Yoga a part of life to keep healthy both physically and mentally.Yoga – ‘Must’ for healthy living

What is Yoga

The word Yoga has different meaning for different people. For some it is a type of exercise to keep healthy. For others it is a way to develop spirituality or mental peace. Yoga gives both but it is much more than these. Yoga refers to Yog derived from Yuj which in Sanskrit means ‘to unite’. Yoga or Yog Sadhna is the holistic unification of Body Mind and Soul with internal and external harmony. It is a systematic process to bring about transformation of physical fitness, mental calmness & function and spiritual awakening to enable one to live in good health of body & mind and to pursue higher purpose of living. By breaking physical barriers (of sickness & poor health) and mental barriers (of mental weakness & distress) it opens up new horizons of self awareness, self control & self growth. In short it is the way of good living.

History

Yoga was originated in India about 5000 years ago. The ancient scriptures in India are replete with text on Yoga. Vedas, Upanishad contains yogic teachings which give the background philosophy of Yoga with explanation of atman (self), karma (deeds), dharma (duty) and brahma (the ultimate reality). It tells that higher purpose of living is to perform duty and transcend self to ultimate reality. . It is not possible for someone to live in happiness and progress if one is sick. Yoga is the stepwise process of doing this and helps to achieve required mental & physical health and harmony for the purpose of higher living

Schools of Yoga

There are various paths (types) of Yoga. The goal is same but these different paths have different philosophy and methodology. Some of them are – (1) Bhakti Yoga – The Yoga of devotion (2) Jnana Yoga – The Yoga of knowledge (3) Karma Yoga – The Yoga of rightful deeds (4) Kundalini Yoga – The Yoga of awakening dormant energy or kundalini. (5) Tantra Yoga – Yoga of wholeness (6) Sahaja Yoga – Yoga of being spontaneous (7) Hatha Yoga – Yoga of Energy balance and  (8) Raja Yoga – The Royal Yoga also called Classical Yoga, the Yoga of self awareness & self realization. Of these Raja Yoga is the one which is most popular and being studied as a mean to attain good health of body and mind. Its most popular text is given by sage Patanjali in Yog Sutra (aphorism). Patanjali Yog Sutra focuses on means and stages of achieving ultimate liberation through Samadhi (ultimate unification & consciousness) through Ashtanga Yoga. Ashtanga means eight limbs, Ashtanga Yoga gives eight progressive steps of Yog Sadhna. Every step is thoughtfully developed to improve one’s present state and prepare for next stage.

Ashtanga Yoga

The eight stages of Ashtanga Yoga are :

1. Yam – The code of conduct. It incorporates Ahimsa (Non Violence), Satya (Truth), Asteya (Non Stealing), Brahmcharya (Control over senses), and Aparigrah (Non Greediness).
2. Niyam – The Self Regulation. It contains Shouch (Cleanliness), Santosh (Contentment), Tap (Austerity), Swadhyay (Study of scriptures), Ishwar Pranidhan (Devotion & surrender to God)
3. Asana –  Postures of health and harmony.
4. Pranayama  –  Control & balance of Prana (life force)
5. Pratyahara  –  Control of senses and going beyond them.
6. Dharna  –  Awakening concentration
7. Dhyana  –  State of meditation
8. Samadhi  –  Ultimate oneness, consciousness & liberation.

Yoga for Body Mind and Soul

Yoga transforms & harmonizes body, mind and soul. Its effects and benefits are seen at physical, mental and spiritual level.

At physical level, it improves health by improving the functioning of all body organs & systems. It increases flexibility, strength and stamina. It is one of the rare therapies which have the capacity to improve functioning of hormonal glands like pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, pancreas & sex glands. It improves body metabolism and chemical equilibrium. By improving physiological functions, it removes toxins from the body. It increases resistance to diseases by improving immune system. It increases life force and gives vigor & vitality. It gives a youthful appearance. It shows beneficial effect on investigative tests like cholesterol, creatinine, ECG etc and is found helpful in treatment of various diseases.

Physiological Benefits of Yoga

• Balance pulse & blood pressure
• Better coordination of opposing muscle groups
• Breathing becomes deep & rhythmic
• Eye-hand coordination improves
• Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) increases
• HDL cholesterol increases LDL cholesterol decreases
• Hematocrit & Hemoglobin increases
• Joint mobility and range of motion increases
• Pain tolerance increases
• Posture improves
• Reaction time improves

At psychological level, it decreases stress, balances mood & relaxes mind. It improves mental calmness, concentration and mental control. It gives mind a positive outlook, creates internal harmony and self acceptance. It helps in personality growth. It gives freedom from addictions. It sharpens mental faculties like attention, memory, learning and creativity. It has shown beneficial effect in treatment of psychological disorders.

At spiritual level, it gives inner harmony & peace, creates understanding of self & life and gives humanistic outlook. It helps in self growth and self realization. It also helps in unleashing yogic energy. Finally it helps in attainment of ultimate consciousness and liberation.

The Science of Yoga

Yoga refers to complete wellness & harmony of body, mind and soul. It has been scientifically arranged in a stepwise manner so that every step takes care of your present status and prepares for the step ahead.  For example attaining state of meditation is not easy for those who are not prepared because of physical sickness or mental distress. Therefore the initial steps prepare by improving physical and mental health with better control over body and mind. In Yoga the complete wellness and harmony of body, mind and soul is achieved by activation of energy centres called Chakras which parallel the axis of body along spine (Sushumna Nadi). These chakras represent and controls different aspects of physical, mental and spiritual being. The chakras must remain in balance and activated for good physical & mental health and heightened spiritual consciousness.

There are seven chakras in body :

First Chakra : Muladhara
Location: Base of the spine. It is seat of base energy.
Responsible for : Survival, stability, solidity, identity and self-sufficiency, energy and strength.
Controls : Bones, teeth, nails, anus, excretory functions, and muscular system
Element: Earth / Colour: Red / Sense: Smell / Mantra: LAM
Physical Complaints : Excretory dysfunctions like constipation, eating disorders, tiredness, poor sleep, lower back pain, sciatica, obesity.
Psychological Complaints : Fear, insecurity, greed, excess desire for comfort.
Postures that balance first Chakra : Tadasana, Parsvakonasana, Virabhadrasana, Uttanasana, Setu Bandhasana

Second Chakra : Svadhishthana
Location: At the level of genitals and the sacrum. Seat of instinct & unconscious mind.
Responsible for : Life energy, sexual energy, creativity, sensual consciousness, emotional identity, procreation, and personal relationships.
Controls : Sexual and reproductive organs & functions, menstruation, lymphatic system.
Element: Water / Colours: Orange / Sense: Taste /  Mantra: VAM
Physical Complaints: Sexual & reproductive dysfunctions, lower back pain, sciatica, urinary problems
Psychological Complaints: Addictions, lust, vanity, jealousy, guilt, lack of creativity& morality
Postures that balance second Chakra : Prasarita Padottanasana, Upavista Konasana, Baddha Konasana, Supta Baddha Konasana

Third Chakra : Manipura
Location: At the level of umbilicus corresponding to solar plexus. It is seat of expansive consciousness.
Responsible for : Sense of belonging, confidence, will, ego, self control, intelligence, self-esteem.
Controls: Digestive organs and functions, upper abdomen, gallbladder, liver, middle spine, kidney, adrenals, small intestines, stomach
Element: Fire / Colours: Yellow  / Sense: Sight, form and colour / Mantra: RAM
Physical Complaints : Diabetes, indigestion, adrenal imbalances, arthritis, colon diseases, liver disease
Psychological Complaints : Poor self-esteem, timid, depression, poor self image, fear of rejection, indecisive, judgmental, perfectionism, hostility
Postures that balance third Chakra : Suryanamaskar, Virabhadrasana, Matsyendhrasana, Dhanurasana, Navasana

Fourth Chakra: Anahata
Location: At the level of cardiac plexus in the region of the heart. It is the seat of love.
Responsible for : Love, compassion, altruism, devotion, trust, forgiveness.
Controls: Heart & circulatory system, blood, lungs, respiratory system, diaphragm, thymus gland, breasts, esophagus, immune system.
Element: Air / Colors: Green or pink / Sense: Touch / Mantra: YAM
Physical Complaints: Heart complaints, hypertension, upper back and shoulder problems, asthma, lung disease like pneumonia
Psychological Complaints: Feeling of lack of love, lack of hope, hatred, grief, envy, jealousy, anger, anxiety.
Postures that balance fourth Chakra : Ustrasana, Bhujangasana, Matsyasana, Pranayama like deep breathing, kapalabhati, anulom vilom.

Fifth Chakra : Vishuddha
Location: At the level of the throat. It is seat of pure consciousness.
Responsible for: Communication, creativity, sense of responsibility for one’s own needs, faith, truthfulness, self-knowledge, intuition.
Controls: Throat, thyroid gland, parathyroid gland, trachea, cervical vertebrae, vocal cords, neck, mouth, hearing.
Element: Sound or ether  / Colors: Blue  / Sense: Hearing  / Mantra: HAM
Physical Complaints: Thyroid & parathyroid dysfunctions, sore throat, hearing problems, stiff neck, mouth complaints.
Psychological Complaints: Lack of faith, communication & expression problems, poor decision making, criticism.
Postures that balance fifth Chakra : Matysasana), Ustrasana, Setu Bandhasana, Halasana.

Sixth Chakra  :Ajna
Location: Situated between the eyebrows (Third Eye). It is the seat of mental consciousness.
Responsible for : Insight, intuition, self-knowledge, wisdom, intellect, clairvoyance, visualization.
Controls: Brain, eyes, ears, nose, pituitary gland, pineal glands, neurological system
Element: Light  / Colors: Indigo  / Sense: Extra sensory perception  / Mantra: AUM or OM
Physical Complaints-Headaches, complaints of eye and ear, nightmares, epilepsy, hormonal disbalance.
Psychological Complaints: Learning disabilities, complaints of judgment & evaluation, distortion of reality, confusion, panic, depression, lack of concentration
Postures that balance sixth Chakra : Yog mudra, meditation, balasana.

Seventh Chakra  : Sahasrara
Location: Crown of the head. It is the seat of supramental consciousness.
Responsible for : Spirituality, peace, emotional freedom, integration of the whole, heightened awareness & consciousness.
Controls: Brain, nervous system, pineal gland
Element: Thought  / Colors: Violet/white   / Sense: Empathy, unity  / Mantra: silence
Physical Complaints: Lack of energy, nervous disorder, sensitivity to light and sound, poor coordination.
Psychological Complaints: Lack of purpose, loss of identity, lack of trust, apathy.
Postures that balance seventh Chakra : Yoga Mudra

Yoga for Treatment (Therapeutic Yoga)

Those who are unable or disinclined to embrace Yoga in totality can still benefit from it to get relief from physical & psychological complaints and diseases. Research has confirmed the ability of Yoga in improving health and treatment of various diseases. Different conditions and status of patient require assessment and selection of a specific program. One should not diagnose one’s sickness and try Yoga treatment himself / herself either by reading books or watching TV. It must be done under supervision of a trained Yoga Therapist. The components of Yoga which are used in treatment of sickness are :

• Yogic Shuddhi (Cleansing)
• Yogic Asana
• Yogic Relaxation
• Pranayama & Bandha
• Yogic Mudra

Yoga is not intended to replace ongoing medical treatment. Yoga improves overall health and has proved beneficial in treatment of various conditions like :

Physical Sickness – Diabetes, hypertension, allergy, asthma, hypothyroidism, digestive complaints, obesity, back complaints, arthritis, sciatica, nervous weakness, menstrual disorders, rheumatism, piles, headache etc.

Psychological Disorders –  Stress, mental weakness, anxiety, depression, phobia, psychosomatic & psychosexual complaints.

Yoga for weight management

Overweight and obesity have become one of the major health concerns today. It could be because of poor lifestyle, overeating, thyroid dysfunction, genetic condition or even virus infection as indicated in one recent study. Cause may be any but the damage it causes is too big to ignore. Apart from psychological and social problems, it makes one prone to many life threatening diseases like hypertension, diabetes, ischemic heart disease etc. One way of losing weight is diet control and exercise. These are helpful and good for health but most of the times are not sufficient and some people find them very tedious. Yoga offers an effective solution to this. It improves body metabolism, balances hormonal system, removes water retention and keeps the skin healthy as one loses weight. One looks younger with yogic weight management. As Yoga becomes part of life, there is no slipping back and one continues in good shape and health. Yoga is equally good for underweight conditions and can bring body to good shape naturally.

Yoga for healthy pregnancy

Pregnancy is a unique phase in a woman’s life. It has physical, emotional and social implications. It can be a period of bliss if it is well planned & managed. But if it is not, it can be a stressful period & detrimental to health. Regular medical checkup & medication, diet and guided physical activity helps in having smooth and healthy pregnancy. Yoga is very helpful in having healthy and pleasant pregnancy. It helps by :

• Prepares the body for pregnancy and delivery.
• Keeping mother in good health during pregnancy.
• Keeping mother mentally stress free & relaxed.
• Keeping the baby in right position.
• Healthy development of baby.
• Keeping energy levels high.
• Reducing water retention.
• Making delivery normal, smooth and incident free.
• Promoting early and positive recovery after delivery.
• Preventing hormonal disbalance.
• Promoting sufficient lactation.

Precautions

• Yoga must be done under supervision of a trained therapist. There is a trend now a day to get into Yoga after reading books or watching TV. This can harm instead of helping. Yoga requires assessment of the health so that proper precautions may be taken. Certain conditions contraindicate some asana and pranayama. Secondly if Yoga is not done in right manner, it will harm the health in place of helping.
• Yoga must be done in a stepwise, regular manner. There should be no hurry. Asana may take 4 – 6 months to perform fully. Hurry will only injure the body tissue and organs.
• Yoga must be done with a calm mind. There should be no distraction. One must get fully involved to get good benefit. Do not mistake Yoga for any ordinary exercise.
• Yoga must be done empty stomach. Early morning is the best time to do Yoga. Otherwise it can be done in the evening and there must be a gap of at least .2 hours after a meal.
• Select a calm, clean place for Yoga. It must be done on floor where one can use a mat. Wear light & loose / stretchable clothing.
• Do it gently, take breath through nose except when indicated.
• Avoid Yoga during acute illness.
• Adopting positive lifestyle with light & nutritious diet helps in getting greater benefit from Yoga.

Mental Disorders in today’s world

Recognize early

Conditions in which Psychotherapy helps

Some commonly used Psychotherapies

Psychotherapies developed by Dr S K Sharma

Life Management © therapy

Benefits of Psychotherapy

The Process of Psychotherapy

What is Psychotherapy?

Psychotherapy is the process of non medicinal intervention by trained therapist (psychotherapist) to treat people suffering from mental illness or psychological disorders of thoughts / feelings / behavior and to help people in improving mental control & functioning for a better life. In short it is the therapy which helps to achieve sound & positive mental health.

There are many methods / techniques which are used by psychotherapists today. (See types of psychotherapies) They have both diagnostic and therapeutic (curative) value. These therapies differ in origin, underlying principle, working methodology, professional training and usefulness in treating disorders.

Mental Disorders in today’s world

Mental disorders are fast becoming very common. The common causes, apart from biological causes, are setbacks in life, grief, poor coping skills, faulty upbringing, high pace & high demands of modern life, complex social structure, rapidly changing human values, lack of role models, poor support system, influence of media etc. The psychological disorders affect people’s ability to think, feel, act and relate in effective manner. They affect the happiness and progress in life. Their early detection and treatment is crucial to save person from long term suffering. (Also see Counseling for early intervention).

Recognize early

It is possible and helpful to recognize the changes early. Look for the following changes / symptoms in yourself or your loved ones.

• Changes in personality
• Problems of behavior
• Inability to function effectively.
• Persistent stress & inability to cope
• Extremes of mood and mood swings
• Unwanted strange / troublesome ideas / thoughts
• Inability to relate and have satisfactory relationships
• Persistent distressing feelings like sadness, anxiety etc
• Marked non specific changes in body functions like sleep or appetite
• Addictions and substance abuse like alcohol / drugs / sex / gambling etc
• Non specific physical complaints like weakness, bodyache, headache etc.

Conditions in which Psychotherapy helps

According to a recent survey for mental illness, approximately 26.2 percent of adults (over 1 in 4) are affected (or likely to be affected) by some type of mental illness.  Here are some of the common mental illnesses that psychotherapist work with:

• Anxiety disorders like stress, non specific anxiety, health anxiety, social anxiety etc.
• Behavior disorders like uncontrolled anger (IED), impulsive gambling / stealing / pyromania / sex & pornography.
• Childhood disorders like attention deficit disorders (ADHD), autism etc.
• Cognitive disorders like amnesia, delirium, dementia etc.
• Dissociative disorders like depersonalization, identity disorder etc.
• Eating disorder like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating etc.
• Factitious disorders like feigning sickness.
• Mental disorders due to medical condition and sickness
• Mental retardation and poor development, specific or general.
• Mood disorders like depression, mania, bipolar disorder etc.
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Panic disorder like cue attacks, situational attacks, spontaneous attacks etc.
• Personality disorders like anti social /avoidant / paranoid personality
• Phobic disorders like phobia of animals, accidents, water, crowded place etc.
• Post-traumatic stress disorder
• Psycho social disorders like isolation, problem with social group or occupation.
• Psychosomatic disorders like psychosomatic pain, conversion disorder, hypochondriasis, body dismorphic disorder etc.
• Schizophrenia with delusions, hallucinations etc
• Sexual & gender identity disorders like exhibitionism, fetishism, disorders of sexual desire / function, painful sex etc.
• Sleep disorders like insomnia, sleep walking, nightmares etc.
• Substance abuse (alcohol/drugs/nicotine)

Some commonly used Psychotherapies

• Adlerian Psychotherapy
• Behavior Therapy
• Cognitive Therapy
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy
• EMDR Therapy
• Emotional Freedom Therapy
• Emotionally Focused Therapy
• Existential Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Hypnotherapy
• Integrative Therapy
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Mind Body Therapy
• Neuro Linguistic Program Therapy
• Person Centred Therapy
• Primal Therapy
• Psychoanalysis
• Rational Emotive Therapy
• Spiritual Therapy
• Transactional Analysis
• Expressive therapy
• Narrative therapy
• Emotionally focused therapy

Psychotherapies developed by Dr S K Sharma

• Life Management Therapy

A comprehensive therapy for better management of life.

• InnerVoice Therapy

A therapy based on ‘Inner Voice’ for diagnosis and treatment of various psycho emotional disorders.

• MasterMind

A unique Mind Development Program to excel in life.

• Bliss Emotional Healing and Happiness Therapy

A therapy for emotional release, freedom from negativity, development of emotional intelligence and attainment of stable inner happiness.

• Symbiosis Dynamic Relational Therapy

A therapy for development of positive & healthy social relations.

• Healthy Sex Therapy

A program to develop healthy and strong sexuality.

• One to One Couple Hypnosis

A very special program for couples to attain true love and strong relationship.

• Three Step Self Hypnosis

Safe simple yet powerful self hypnosis to attain better personality, better performance & results, reduce anger & anxiety, remove conflicts & bad habits and improve relationships.

• Love Therapy

A therapy for development of ability to give and receive love. It helps in attainment of state of abundance, high spirits & joy.

• Real Life Yogic Psychotherapy

A therapy for development of ‘higher inner self’ and harmony between Yogic life and real, practical world.

• Clinical Psychotherapy for psychological diseases

A therapy utilizing different mental mechanism for treatment of various psychological diseases.

• Complete Psychotherapy

A comprehensive therapy for better mental health. It incorporates –

1. Core of reference
2. Consciousness
3. Cognition
4. Emotions
5. Behavior
6. Physical Feedback
7. Life Management

Life Management therapy

It is a holistic psychotherapy which aims to treat mental sickness and strengthen positive mental health for mental calmness and efficient mental functioning. It has following components.

• Free Consciousness of Self, Environment and Life Facts.
• Life Skills Training.
• Positive Living.

Life management therapy has short and long term strategies for both acute and chronic complaints. It removes distress & negativity and promotes mental control & effective mental function. The highlight of life management therapy is the fact that it does not stop at treating mental sickness but continue to promote positive mental health.Read More

MasterMind

It is a unique Mind Development Program for children & adults for development of mind.

• It helps in development of mind & brain.
• It improves functioning of mind like intelligence, concentration, memory, study & learning skills, creativity etc.
• It improves efficiency of mind and helps in multitasking.
• It improves self control & gives emotional stability. It prevents and helps in psycho-emotional complaints.
• It removes mental conflicts and complexes.
• It creates organized, calm, efficient, sharp and powerful mind.
• It helps in achieving confidence, success and in realizing best of self potential.

Benefits of Psychotherapy

• It decreases mental distress and helps in overcoming mental illness.
• It improves mental calmness, control and functioning.
• It improves job stability and helps in growth.
• It reduces socially unwanted behavior.
• It helps in getting freedom from addictions.
• It decreases dependence on psychiatric medicines.
• It reduces suffering and even treats psychosomatic diseases.
• It decreases discords and improves satisfaction in relationships.
• In addition to patient it improves the atmosphere of patient’s family.

The Process of Psychotherapy

Apart from professional skills of therapist, psychotherapy (like counseling) works in an atmosphere of privacy, confidentiality, trust, respect and warmth. It is entirely confidential and it is not necessary for the patient to reveal his / her name, address and place of work. The initial sessions are about information gathering which are crucial for correct assessment and which form the basis of direction of psychotherapy. Patient’s can safely reveal his / her mental anguish and thoughts / feeling / behavior howsoever strange they may seem to be. On the basis of assessment the psychotherapy schedule is mutually decided. The schedule is need based and takes into consideration state of sickness, patient’s life and responsibilities and the effect of sickness on patient’s life and life of those related to him / her.  Through the use of different psychological techniques, patient understands his / her sickness, gains mental control & functioning and learns various strategies to keep mental health positive and strong. In terms of benefits and reduced suffering, psychotherapy is a very cost effective treatment option.

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Psychotherapy consists of a series of techniques for treating mental, emotional and some psychiatric disorders. It involves undergoing regular meetings or sessions with a psychotherapist During this process, a trained psychotherapist helps the client tackle a specific or general problem such as a particular mental illness or a source of life stress.
There are many specific types of psychotherapy, each with its own approach. The type of psychotherapy that’s right for you depends on your individual situation

Psychotherapy can be helpful in treating most mental health problems, including:

• Anxiety disorders,such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), phobias, panic disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Mood disorders,such as depression or bipolar disorder
• Addictions,such as alcoholism, drug dependence or compulsive gambling
• Eating disorders,such as anorexia or bulimia
• Personality disorders,such as borderline personality disorder or dependent personality disorder
• Schizophreniaor other disorders that cause detachment from reality (psychotic disorders)

Types of psychotherapy

There are many forms of psychotherapy. Some are:

• Psychodynamic therapy – it focuses on how life events, desires, and past and current relationships affect your feelings and the choices you make.
• Humanistic therapy – This approach emphasizes people’s capacity to make rational choices and develop to their maximum potential. Concern and respect for others are also important themes.
• Cognitive behavioral therapy – it can be used to alter difficult behaviors, such as smoking, procrastination, or phobias, and can also help address conditions such as depression and anxiety.
• Group therapy – it involves one or more therapists working with several people at the same time. This type of therapy is widely available at a variety of locations, including private therapeutic practices, hospitals, mental health clinics and community centers.

Psychotherapy is a form of treatment for emotional problems. Skilled therapists such as psychologists can work with individuals to pinpoint the life circumstances that contribute to their problems, and help them understand which aspects of those problems they may be able to solve or improve.

Talking with a qualified psychotherapist can support you through difficult times and help you create change in your life.

Psychotherapy can be used to treat a wide range of mental health conditions, including:

• Depression
• Anxiety disorders
• Abuse or trauma
• Borderline personality disorder (BPD)
• Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Long-term illnesses
• Relationship breakdown
• Eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, bulimiaand binge eating
• Drugs misuse

Psychotherapy can help you

• Understand your illness
• Define and reach wellness goals
• Overcome fears or insecurities
• Cope with stress
• Make sense of past traumatic experiences
• Separate your true personality from the mood swings caused by your illness
• Identify triggers that may worsen your symptoms
• Improve relationships with family and friends
• Establish a stable, dependable routine
• Develop a plan for coping with crises
• Understand why things bother you and what you can do about them
• End destructive habits such as drinking, using drugs, overspending or unhealthy sex.

If you have psychotherapy, you will meet your therapist regularly, usually once a week. However, in some cases, more frequent sessions may be needed.

Primary tools for communicating in online therapy include:

• E-mail – It offers the convenience of not having to leave home, the privacy of not being seen or heard and the added advantage that you can choose to write in your own time.
• Instant Messaging (IM) – Instant message software such as Skype and Windows Messenger makes it possible to participate in therapy without being seen or heard.
• Phone – Most common as it is everywhere available and provides direct connect.

Online psychotherapy has the advantages of being convenient to provider and client, user friendly, and utilizing the latest technological procedures to provide confidential. It is usually affordable. When a client does use the modality of e-therapy, it allows for a sense of privacy that may not be capable of attaining through traditional therapeutic means. Also, e-therapy allows the client the ability to get to their point much quicker than traditional therapy. The client does not have to deal with social and non-verbal cues, embarrassment, shyness, and other behavioral barriers that can sometimes impede progress in a traditional counseling atmosphere.

Online psychotherapy is suitable for those with problems like anxiety or depression, relationship issues, sexuality concerns, confidence, shyness, addiction, career problems or burnout or difficulties with life direction and purpose.

Psychotherapy is a very specialized treatment which requires substantial amount of skill, effort and energy on part of psychotherapist. In a very short time psychotherapist has to understand the unique mental functioning of the individual patient in context with his or her circumstances of life and has to design a suitable psychotherapy treatment protocol. All this requires in-depth education, training and experience. In addition, the psychotherapist must have himself or herself grown as a human being, must have integrated personality and must have understood the dynamics of mind and dynamics of life.  His treatment must be based on sound theoretical background of psychotherapy and also practical enough to be easily and effectively applicable in patients every day life.

After completing medical training from Delhi University Dr S K Sharma further obtained post graduate education in human psychology and psychotherapy. Since 1994, he has been helping people with psychoemotional complaints to regain positive mental health. His successful working on mind mechanism has resulted in sustained betterment in people’s life as they come up stronger with better mental harmony and mental abilities.

Understanding psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is not one therapy. It is a broad term used to refer to all such non medicinal therapies which are used to help people in achieving better mental health.  Commonly used psychotherapies are counseling psychotherapy, cognitive behavior psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, gestalt psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, integrative psychotherapy, play psychotherapy, family psychotherapy, narrative psychotherapy, hypnotherapy etc. There are three main aspects of psychotherapy. One is the person who is seeking help for some difficulty, second is the psychotherapist who is qualified and trained to undertake such therapy and thirdly which is the most important is the rapport, the bond or the relationship between the person and the psychotherapist. This relationship is based on trust, confidentiality and mutual regard. This provides the platform on which one can explore one’s deepest difficulties without any fear or inhibition.  Psychotherapist then uses his or her skills to explore solutions and develop better coping skills towards a positive mental health and efficiency.

Conditions successfully managed by Dr S K Sharma using psychotherapy:

• Addictions and Alcoholism
• Anger and violence
• Anxiety
• Behavioral problems
• Depression and Bipolar disorder
• Eating disorders
• Failures and disappointments in life
• Fear and Phobias
• Low self esteem and self confidence
• Marital or Family discords
• Obsessive compulsive disorder OCD
• Personality disorders
• Post traumatic stress disorder PTSD
• Problems from sexual abuse
• Relationship and Emotional crises
• Schizophrenia
• Sexual disorders
• Sleep disorders
• Stress
• Suicidal tendency

Dr S K Sharma helps you to :

• Control and correct involuntary thoughts, feelings and behavior
• Break old and ineffective habitual patterns of thinking and behavior
• Discover creative and effective ways of thinking and behavior
• Find new ways to cope and better coping skills to solve problem
• Unload emotional burden and get “unstuck” from past
• Heal old psychological wounds
• Improve communication skills
• Improve your self esteem self confidence
• Increase your ability to love yourself and love others

You may visit Ethos or opt for phone / online psychotherapy. Contact Us for details.

Anger is an emotional state that has a bad rap. It can be a sign of serious psychological diagnoses such as major depression or bipolar. People who have been experiencing anger for a long time may have lost the ability to see that there are different levels of anger and a professional will help you readdress this imbalance and recognize the difference between, for example, irritation and fury.
Psychotherapy is a valuable tool for people who need help controlling their anger. With psychotherapy, a person who struggles with anger can learn what lies at the root of their frustration and rage. It empowers a client to face uncertain and stressful circumstances with control and emotional balance that benefits their mental and physical health and the well-being of those around them.

Negative effects of anger

• It hurts your physical health. Chronic anger makes you more susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol levels, a weakened immune system, insomnia, and high blood pressure.
• It causes lasting scars in the people you love most and gets in the way of your friendships and work relationships.
• It consumes huge amounts of mental energy and clouds your thinking, making it harder to concentrate, see the bigger picture, and enjoy life.
• It can also lead to stress, depression, and other mental health problems.

How to manage anger

• Simple relaxation tools, such as deep breathing and relaxing imagery, can help calm down angry feelings. Deep, slow breathing helps counteract rising tension
• Identify the negative thought patterns that trigger your temper
• Avoid people, places, and situations that bring out your worst
• In the heat of the moment, it’s easy to say something you’ll later regret. Take a few moments to collect your thoughts before saying anything
• As soon as you’re thinking clearly, express your frustration in an assertive but nonconfrontational way. State your concerns and needs clearly and directly, without hurting others or trying to control them.

The benefits of psychotherapy for anger

• You may feel happier and more confident
• It helps to improve relationships
• It enables you to learn specific skills to help you manage triggers for anger effectively.
• Gain  understanding which enables you to act more effectively in challenging situations
• It teaches you how to relax, how to stay calm and be peaceful when you feel a surge of anger.
• It helps you learn some problem-solving techniques.
• It fully embrace your life

Through anger psychotherapy you can experience a non-judgmental, honest clear and supportive approach which opens the door to experiencing yourself in a different way and using anger constructively, in a way which empowers you to live your life.

Anxiety is an unpleasant state of inner turmoil, often accompanied by nervous behavior, such as pacing back and forth, somatic complaints and rumination. Anxiety disorders include obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder (PD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder/social phobia, and specific phobias, such as fear of the outdoors (agoraphobia) or confined spaces (claustrophobia).

Anxiety disorders can severely impair a person’s functioning in work, family and social environments.

Two common forms of psychotherapy utilized for treatment of anxiety disorders are:

• Behavioral therapy – It examines how you behave and react in situations that trigger anxiety. The therapist will help the patient to combat undesirable behaviors which often come hand in hand with anxiety
• Cognitive therapy – It examines how negative thoughts, orcognitions, contribute to anxiety. The therapist helps the patient to adapt his or her problematic thought patterns into those which are healthier.

Other forms of psychotherapy, include emotion-based psychotherapy (EBT), psychodynamic therapy, or “talk” therapy, deal more with the roots of anxiety and usually, although not always, require longer treatments. They include interpersonal therapy, supportive psychotherapy, attention intervention, and psychoanalysis.

Treatment needs to be tailored to the needs of the patient and to the type of disorder, or disorders, from which the individual suffers. The psychotherapist and patient should work together to assess whether a treatment plan seems to be on track. Anxiety disorders are chronic and recurrence is common, even after successful short-term therapy. Some patients with anxiety disorders may require long-term or intensive therapy of at least a year or more.

There are processes and techniques to improve decision-making and the quality of decisions. Decision making techniques can be separated into two broad categories:

• Group decision making techniques
• Individual decision making techniques

The method used depends on the nature of the decision to be made and how complex it is.  The method described below follows seven stages.

The stages are:

1. Listing all possible solutions/options.
2. Setting a time scale and deciding who is responsible for the decision.
3. Information gathering.
4. Weighing up the risks involved.
5. Deciding on values, or in other words what is important.
6. Weighing up the pros and cons of each course of action.
7. Making the decision.

When trying to make a good decision, a person must weight the positives and negatives of each option, and consider all the alternatives. The decision maker(s) may face a problem when they try to rank alternatives in terms of how attractive they are when all the criteria are considered simultaneously. Time and emotion also play a role in the quality of decision making – the more time, the more deliberate the decision making process. Secondly, the more that is at stake, emotion will come into play, rising as the decision making timeline is reached.

Psychotherapy is often the first form of treatment recommended for depression. The role of psychotherapy in treating clinical depression is to help the person develop good coping strategies for dealing with everyday stressors.

Benefits of Psychotherapy for depression

• It can help reduce stress in your life.
• It can give you a new perspective on problems with family, friends, or co-workers.
• It can make it easier to stick to your treatment.
• Regain a sense of control and pleasure in life.
• Helps to learn how to cope with side effects from depression medication.
• You learn ways to talk to other people about your condition.
• It helps catch early signs that your depression is getting worse.

Types of Therapy for Depression

• Individual therapy– This therapy involves only the patient and the therapist. You can discuss new strategies to manage stress and to prevent your depression from worsening or coming back.
• Group therapy– 2 or more patients may participate in therapy at the same time. Patients are able to share experiences and learn that others feel the same way, and have had the same experiences.
• Marital/couples – This type of therapy helps spouses and partners understand why their loved one has depression, what changes in communication and behaviors can help, and what they can do to cope.
• Family therapy – Because family is a key part of the team that helps people with depression get better, it is sometimes helpful for family members to understand what their loved one is going through, how they themselves can cope, and what they can do to help.
• Interpersonal therapy– It focuses on how your relationships with other people play a role in your depression. It focuses on practical issues.

Who Are The Victims?

Domestic violence can happen to anyone of any race, age, sexual orientation, religion or gender. It can happen to couples who are married, living together or who are dating. In general, anyone can be a victim of domestic violence. Male, female, young, old, Asian, African-American, Jewish, Catholic, rich, poor, highly educated or not, everyone is a potential victim. Some people have a higher risk than others. It affects people of all socioeconomic backgrounds and education levels. Men are sometimes abused by partners, but domestic violence is most often directed toward women. Domestic violence can happen in heterosexual or same sex relationships.

Domestic violence is not limited to obvious physical violence. Domestic violence can also mean endangerment, criminal coercion, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, trespassing, harassment, and stalking. Domestic violence can be physical, sexual, emotional, economic, or psychological actions or threats of actions that influence another person. This includes:

• Physical Abuse: Hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, biting, hair pulling, etc are types of physical abuse.
• Sexual Abuse: Coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact or behavior without consent is sexual abuse.
• Emotional Abuse: Undermining an individual’s sense of self-worth and/or self-esteem is abusive.
• Economic Abuse: making or attempting to make an individual financially dependent by maintaining total control over financial resources, withholding one’s access to money, or forbidding one’s attendance at school or employment.
• Psychological Abuse: Elements of psychological abuse include – but are not limited to – causing fear by intimidation; threatening physical harm to self, partner, children, or partner’s family or friends; destruction of pets and property; and forcing isolation from family, friends, or school and/or work.

Domestic violence is a major public-health problem. It affects millions of people and often results in physical and emotional injuries and even deaths.

Eating disorders are serious health conditions that can be both physically and emotionally destructive. Certain psychological factors predispose people to developing eating disorders. Most people with eating disorders suffer from low self-esteem, feelings of helplessness, and intense dissatisfaction with the way they look.

Psychotherapy as treatment for eating disorders will most often be delivered by a psychologist however; psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counselors, and social workers may use aspects of these approaches in their treatment of eating disorders. the psychologist identified important issues that need attention and developed a treatment plan. It helps the patient replace destructive thoughts and behaviors with more positive ones.

To ensure lasting improvement, patients and psychologists must work together to explore the psychological issues underlying the eating disorder. Psychotherapy may need to focus on improving patients’ personal relationships. And it may involve helping patients get beyond an event or situation that triggered the disorder in the first place.

Many different types of psychotherapy have demonstrated effectiveness in treating eating and food issues. Some of them are:

• Cognitive analytic therapy – it can gain insight into how eating disorder fits into their experience of life and their early relationships.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – it aims to adjust unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior in people with eating disorders.
• Interpersonal psychotherapy – it focuses on a person’s relational skills and how they contribute to their eating disorder
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) – it is based on an emotion regulation model of eating disorders.
• Ego-oriented individual therapy – it focuses on building coping skills and developing the identity and autonomy of the adolescent with the eating disorder.

Gambling consists of making a bet on the outcome of some event. Gambling has been a popular source of entertainment for many centuries and across many cultures. Gambler is someone who is unable to resist his or her impulses to gamble. This leads to severe personal and, or, social consequences. The urge to gamble becomes so great that tension can only be relieved by more gambling. The main symptom of this is denial and the major characteristic is loss of control. There is also a tendency to take bigger and bigger risks as time goes by.

People may go on to develop mental illnesses as a result of their gambling, most commonly depression as they lose control of their finances, relationships fail etc., which can put them into the next classification.

Depression and a deterioration of physical and emotional health are general signs and symptoms of a gambling. The gambler becomes moody, withdrawn and irritable and preoccupied with gambling, winnings of the past and getting hold of more money with which to gamble.

Here are some suggestions to keep gambling from becoming a problem in your life:

• Allocate money for necessities first
• Budget your income
• Never use more than 2% of your income for gambling
• Avoid temptation – do not go to casinos or associate with gamblers
• When you gamble, do not carry with you more money than you can afford to lose
• Never borrow money to gamble
• Don’t lend money to a gambler

The more significant the loss, the more intense is the grief. However, even subtle losses can lead to grief. For example, you might experience grief after moving away from home, graduating from college, changing jobs, selling your family home, or retiring from a career you loved.

The five stages of grief:

• Denial – In the denial stage we refuse to believe what has happened. We try in our mind to tell ourselves that life is as it was before our loss
• Anger – The anger can manifest itself in many ways. We can blame others for our loss. We can become easily agitated having emotional outbursts
• Bargaining – Bargaining can be with ourselves or if you are religious with your god. Often we will offer something to try to take away the reality of what has happened.
• Depression – Depression is a very likely outcome for all people that grieve for a loss. There can even be thoughts of suicide.
• Acceptance – it is the final stage of grief. It is when you realize that life has to go on. You can here accept your loss. You should now be able to regain your energy and goals for the future.

Some people have found the stages to be a helpful way to think about grief; others have not. Grief counselors and researchers point out that the stages describe grief as a passive process. In the decades since Kübler-Ross’s work, people who work with the bereaved have learned that grief is an active process. Many people find it empowering to know that they are resilient. They take comfort in actively processing their feelings and memories and creating ways to honor and celebrate their loved one.

Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. The emotion of happiness is not caused simply by entertaining your obstacles. Happiness is not merely a life lived by accumulating moments of pleasure. On the contrary, happiness is a long lasting enduring enjoyment of life; it is being in love with living. It is your reward for achieving a good character and personal rational values in life. Some important values are a productive career, romance, friendship and hobbies.

Benefits of happiness

• Happy people manage their money well.
• Happy people spend their money on life experiences instead of material items.
• Happiness is good for our relationships
• Happiness is good for our health
• Happy people think about the past fondly.
• Happy people live in a great community.
• Happy people are more creative and are better able to see the big picture
• Happy people “catch” the emotions of others.

Once you learn to have confidence in your own mind and once you discover the virtues that make it possible for you to achieve your values and that make your life worth living, then you will experience the result – an earned pride and a genuine self-esteem and of course happiness.

Intelligence has been defined in many different ways such as in terms of one’s capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning,emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving. In the popular sense, intelligence is often defined as the general mental ability to learn and apply knowledge to manipulate your environment, as well as the ability to reason and have abstract thought.

Measuring Intelligence

The measurement of intelligence is dogged by controversy and disagreement. While there are a number of different methods for measuring intelligence, the standard and most widely accepted method is by measuring a person’s ‘intelligence quotient’ or IQ. Based on a series of tests which assess various types of abilities such a mathematical, spatial, verbal, logic and memory. The results from such tests done on a group that is representative of the wider popular shows the classic ‘bell-shape’ distribution, meaning that most people are of average intelligence with a few at the extreme ends of the scale.

Successfully intelligent people discern their strengths and weaknesses, and then figure out how to capitalize on their strengths, and to compensate for or remediate their weaknesses. Successfully intelligent individuals succeed in part because they achieve a functional balance among a “triarchy” of abilities:

Within the discipline of psychology, various approaches to human intelligence have been adopted. The psychometric approach is especially familiar to the general public, as well as being the most researched and by far the most widely used in practical settings. Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but has also been observed in animals and in plants. Artificial intelligence is the simulation of intelligence in machines.

Parenting is the process of promoting and supporting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development of a child from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the aspects of raising a child aside from the biological relationship. Parenting is to be positive always. If parents adapt positive parenting styles, the reaction will be positively responding, mature and responsible kids.

Tips for positive psychology of parenting

Parenting is perhaps one of the most difficult responsibilities most adults face.  Here are some of the tips for good parenting.

• Be optimistic – Losing hope and becoming angry for even minor mistakes of children and trivial failures is the wrong way of parenting. Constantly train the kids and be optimistic to expect the results in the long run.
• Positive emotions – Control negative emotions like anger, violence etc when dealing with kids. Be graceful to children when communicating.
• Communication – Listening and talking is the key to a healthy connection between you and your children. Focus on your child’s feelings rather than your own during your conversation.
• Respect your children – Children have feelings and their feelings are easily hurt. Saying ‘sorry’, ‘please’, ‘thank you’, and ‘excuse me’ work wonders on building our children’s self-esteem.
• Empowering children – empower children with positive attitudes and essential values of life. Academic skills and knowledge, artistic skills, problem solving abilities, arguing, defending and protecting self dignity etc… are few of the aspects where parents need to empower kids with valuable real life lessons.

Improve your parenting and provide your children with the tools they need to succeed so that they can enjoy a strong sense of well being and contentment throughout life.

Shyness is the feeling of apprehension, lack of comfort, or awkwardness especially when a person is in proximity to other people. This commonly occurs in new situations or with unfamiliar people. Shy people often desperately want to connect with others, but don’t know how or can’t tolerate the anxiety that comes with human interaction. If you are shy you will tend to avoid talking or interacting with people as much as possible so as not to get embarrassed or say something that people may not like.

Shyness is most likely to occur during unfamiliar situations, though in severe cases it may hinder an individual in his or her most familiar situations and relationships as well. Shy people avoid the objects of their apprehension in order to keep from feeling uncomfortable and inept; thus, the situations remain unfamiliar and the shyness perpetuates itself. Shyness may fade with time; e.g., a child who is shy towards strangers may eventually lose this trait when older and become more socially adept.

Symptoms of shyness

• Blushing
• Sweating
• Upset stomach
• Tendency to withdraw from social interactions

Shy people think more than all other people. They analyze everything that happens, keep thinking about the comments they hear and over think everything.

Shyness can be treated. The following is a list of tips that can help you overcome shyness:

• Build your self confidence
• Control your self talk
• Get rid of inferiority
• Practice talking to people that you don’t know well
• Seek psychotherapy

• Lack of judgment
• Problems with memory
• Worrying all of the time
• Inability to concentrate
• Negative thinking
• Trouble thinking clearly

Psychological stress also has a physical impact on your body. Headaches are common for people under a lot of stress. People often feel muscle tension and stiffness, nausea, insomnia, chest pain and rapid heartbeats, hives, loss of sex drive, and frequent colds.

Stress can be reduced and even eliminated before it becomes a chronic problem. There are many things you can do for natural stress relief. The two primary ways to relieve your stress include:

• Exercise – Exercise is known to make anyone feel better after they have a good workout.
• Eat healthy – It is important to eat healthy and get all of the supplements your body needs in order to have proper stress relief.

Psychological stress may also have evolved from a real event that caused an emotional disturbance in the past. Counseling and psychotherapy can help people to accept the initial stressful event and rationalize the subsequent stress inducing thoughts.

Behavioral therapy is a treatment that helps change potentially self-destructing behaviors. Behavior therapy does not involve one specific method but it has a wide range of techniques that can be used to treat a person’s psychological problems. An important feature of behavioral therapy is its focus on current problems and behavior, and on attempts to remove behavior the patient finds troublesome.

When it comes to treating specific behavioral issues, behavioral therapy can often be more effective than other approaches. Phobias, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder are examples of problems that respond well to behavioral treatments.

The two basic principles that contribute to behavioral therapy are:

Classical Conditioning – Classical conditioning happens when a neutral stimulus comes right before another stimulus that triggers a reflexive response. The idea is that if the neutral stimulus and whatever other stimulus that triggers a response is paired together often enough that the neutral stimulus will produce the reflexive response. Examples include:

• Systematic Desensitization
• Aversion Therapy
• Flooding

Operant Conditioning – Operant conditioning has to do with rewards and punishments and how they can either strengthen or weaken certain behaviors. Examples include:

• Token Economies
• Contingency Management
• Modeling

Behavioral therapy is a treatment that helps change potentially self-destructing behaviors.

Psychotherapy refers to a variety of techniques and methods used to help children and adolescents who are experiencing difficulties with their emotions or behavior.

Child psychotherapists treat a variety of normal adjustment issues such as dealing with anxiety of a move, a new sibling, loss of a family member, fears, nightmares, peer difficulties, social skill problems, school avoidance or school performance, sibling rivalry, self-esteem issues or dealing with dating, parent-child issues and adolescent conflict.

Psychotherapy is often used in combination with other treatments (medication, behavior management, or work with the school). The relationship that develops between the therapist and the patient is very important. The child or adolescent must feel comfortable, safe and understood. This type of trusting environment makes it much easier for the child to express his/her thoughts and feelings and to use the therapy in a helpful way.

Goals of child and adolescent psychotherapy often depend on the nature of the presenting problem.  The goal is to carefully evaluate and diagnose children’s psychiatric problems and to develop treatment plans to alleviate the suffering these conditions can inflict on the children and their families.

Psychotherapy can help in many ways. One such therapy is called cognitive behavioral therapy. Cognitive behavioral therapy, also known as CBT, describes the process where you work with a psychotherapist in several sessions with the objective to change your way of thinking, turning negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Cognitive behavioral therapy is common practice for treating adolescents, particularly those having anxiety issues and depression. CBT is a great way to acquiring techniques for dealing with stressful situations that teens may come across.

How CBT works

Cognitive Behavior Therapy works by helping you make sense of overwhelming problems by breaking them down into smaller parts. It helps you stop these negative cycles. It aims to break down factors that are making you feel bad, anxious or scared so that they are more manageable. It can show you how to change these negative patterns to improve the way you feel. The main focus of CBT is that thoughts, feelings and behaviours combine to influence a person’s quality of life. It aims to teach people that it is possible to have control over their thoughts, feelings and behaviours

CBT focuses on changing unhelpful or unhealthy thoughts and behaviours. It is a combination of two therapies:

• Cognitive therapy – The aim of cognitive therapy is to change the way the person thinks about the issue that’s causing concern.
• Behaviour therapy – The aim of behavior therapy is to teach the person techniques or skills to alter their behaviour

The belief of both these techniques is that healthy thoughts lead to healthy feelings and behaviours. They can help you manage your problems them in a more positive way.

The Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, is the psychological acupressure technique.  It is a powerful and rapidly emerging technique for the transformation of your stresses, traumas, blocks and many other emotional challenges, as well as helping with the areas of performance and achieving your goals. It works by releasing blockages within the energy system which are the source of emotional intensity and discomfort.

EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments. It involves the use of fingertips rather than needles to tap on the end points of energy meridians that are situated just beneath the surface of the skin. The treatment is non-invasive and works on the ethos of making change as simple and as pain free as possible.

Benefits of emotional freedom therapy

• Remove Negative Emotions
• Reduce Food Cravings
• Reduce or Eliminate Pain
• Implement Positive Goals
• No drugs or equipment needed
• Usually rapid, long lasting relief from symptoms

Emotional freedom techniques restores awareness and trust in the natural healing abilities of our mind and body, providing ground-breaking opportunities to achieving physical and emotional well-being in a faster time frame.

Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) is a short-term (8-20 sessions) structured psychotherapy approach to working with individuals, couples and families. EFT is being used with many different kinds of couples in private practice, university training centres and hospital clinics and many different cultural groups throughout the world. EFT therapy is a method of treatment that works uniquely with the operation and function of the emotions within the context of the human experience.

EFT has been proven effective for individuals suffering from moderate depression, the effects of childhood deprivation or abuse, and a variety of general “problems of living”, including interpersonal problems.  also has demonstrated effectiveness for distressed couples..

EFT works on the basic principle that people must first arrive at a place before they can leave it. Therefore, in EFT an important goal is to arrive at the live experience of a maladaptive emotion (e.g., fear and shame) in order to transform it. The transformation comes from the client accessing a new primary adaptive emotional state in the session.

Goals of Emotionally Focused Therapy

• To expand and re-organize key emotional responses – the music of the attachment dance.
• To create a shift in partners’ interactional positions and initiate new cycles of interaction.
• To foster the creation of a secure bond between partners.

Emotionally focused therapy is aimed at providing the correct guidance and perspective thereby showing clients how to properly control, handle and dictate their emotional input.

Existential therapy is not about pathologising and considering people to be sick but struggling with the very problem of living and making sense of their particular circumstances. It does not focus on personality differences and approaches in trying to understand a client’s behavior. In fact, existential psychotherapists are not there to understand their clients – they assist their clients in understanding their own worlds and use themselves as an instrument to reveal that to clients.

Benefits of Existential Therapy

• It encourages the person to evaluate their values, beliefs and situation
• It acknowledge their limitations as well as the possibilities for their lives
• It emphasizes the individual’s inherent worth and dignity.
• It helps to find meaning and purpose in their lives
• It develop more effective ways of communicating
• It empowers the individual to make choices and take responsibility for his actions.

Existential therapy can be highly effective for youth and adults who are struggling to make healthy life choices.

Some common types of expressive therapy include:

• Art therapy
• Dance therapy
• Drama therapy
• Psychodrama
• Music therapy
• Writing therapy
• Therapeutic Recreation
• Horticultural therapy

All these expressive therapists share the belief that through creative expression and the tapping of the imagination, a person can examine the body, feelings, emotions and his or her thought process. They can give you a richer vocabulary to work, play and grow a life you love living.

Expressive Arts specializes in working with people who are afraid of doing art or need to unblock or reconnect to artful expression in their lives. it is the practice of using imagery, storytelling, dance, music, drama, poetry, movement, horticulture, dream work, and visual arts together, in an integrated way, to foster human growth, development, and healing

It is a family-focused and individualized approach that is unique to each client and his or her family’s needs. It deepens and transcends traditional talk therapy by acknowledging that each client’s process is unique. While on one hand a client might like talk therapy, another might prefer to use journaling, movement, art, or a combination of different experiences during therapy.

Family therapy is a type of psychological counseling (psychotherapy) done to help family members improve communication and resolve conflicts. It is designed to address specific issues that affect the psychological health of the family, such as major life transitions or mental health conditions.

Family therapy addresses the problems people present within the context of their relationships with significant persons in their lives and their social networks. It enables family members, couples and others who care about each other to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, to understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on strengths and make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.

Family therapy is often used to address

• Step-family issues
• Divorce or separation
• Sibling issues
• Child discipline issues
• Eating disorderof a family member
• Adoption concerns
• Multi-generational family concerns

The Benefits of Family Therapy

• It deepens family connections
• It promotes understanding and collaboration among family members
• Teaches ways to handle conflicts and changes within the family differently
• Assists in identifying conflicts and anxieties and helps the family develop strategies to resolve them.
• It also helps reduce symptoms such aseating disorders or alcohol use problems
• It enables people to talk, together or individually, often about difficult or distressing issues, in ways that respect their experiences, invite engagement and support recovery

Gestalt therapy is an exploration rather than an attempt to control a person’s behavior,
feelings, or thoughts. The only goal is growth and autonomy through an increase in
awareness. It teaches people to become aware of significant sensations within themselves and their environment so that they respond fully and reasonably to situations. The focus is on the “here and now” rather than on past experiences.

One method utilized in Gestalt therapy is the empty-chair technique. The chair serves an important function.   When the client sits opposite an empty chair and then mentally places into that chair someone significant, who has caused them pain or trouble. Thus, the “empty chair technique” stimulates your thinking, highlighting your emotions and attitudes.

During this therapy the client is encouraged to bring out hidden feelings. It can give rise to emotional scenes, and the previously buried emotions which need to be handled carefully.

The objective of Gestalt therapy is to enable the client to become more fully and creatively alive and to become free from the blocks and unfinished business that may diminish satisfaction, fulfillment, and growth, and to experiment with new ways of being.

During your first visit, you will be asked about your medical history and what condition you would like to address. The hypnotherapist may explain to you what hypnotherapy is and how it works. You will then be directed through relaxation techniques, using a series of mental images and suggestions intended to change behaviors and relieve symptoms. For example, people who have panic attacks may be given the suggestion that, in the future, they will be able to relax whenever they want. The hypnotherapist will also teach you the basics of self hypnosis and give you an audiotape to use at home so you can reinforce what you learn during the session.

Benefits of hypnotherapy

• Manage stress
• Quit smoking
• Accelerate healing
• Control pain
• Improve sleep
• Overcome phobias, fear, anxiety
• Develop self- esteem
• Increase motivation
• Enhance memory
• Healing physical, mental or sexual abuse
• Losing weight

During hypnosis, your body relaxes and your thoughts become more focused. Hypnosis can actually teach people how to master their own states of awareness. It can affect their own bodily functions and psychological responses.

Integrative Therapies offers a multidisciplinary approach to patient care in a friendly and comfortable environment. Integrative therapy is not seeking to change the person. It seeks to recall all the wholesome and healthy parts of the self and re-integrate them into the functional self. This is a uniquely individual process and, rather than changing you, it seeks to make you more you.

Benefits of Integrative Therapy

• It helps identify the causes of current concerns
• It helps to identify factors that perpetuate problems, and also help patients become aware of fears or hurts that limit their psychological freedom.

Practitioners in this field embrace an attitude towards the practice of psychotherapy that affirms the inherent value of each individual. It is a unifying psychotherapy that responds appropriately and effectively to the person at the emotional, behavioural, cognitive and physiological levels of functioning. The aim of integrative psychotherapy is to facilitate wholeness so that the quality of the person’s being and functioning in life is maximized with due regard for each individual’s own personal limited and external constraints.

IPT is a type of time-limited psychotherapeutic depression treatment which focuses on recent life stressors of losses, changes or conflicts in current relationships that underlie distress. Examples of the types of interpersonal problems for which this treatment approach can be helpful include disputes with significant others, grief and loss, and social role transitions, such as retirement or divorce.

Techniques of interpersonal therapy include:

• Identification of Emotion— helping the person identifies what their emotion is and where it is coming from.
• Expression of Emotion— this involves helping the person express their emotions in a healthy way.
• Dealing with Emotional Baggage— often, people bring unresolved issues from past relationships to their present relationships. By looking at how these past relationships affect their present mood and behavior, they are in a better position to be objective in their present relationships.

The primary goal of this therapy is to improve communication skills and increase self-esteem during a short period of time. It usually lasts three to four months and works well for depression caused by loss and grief, relationship conflicts, major life events, social isolation, or role transitions.

Mind-body therapies are treatments that are meant to help the mind’s ability to affect the functions and symptoms of the body. They are designed to enhance the mind’s positive impact on the body.

Types of Mind-Body Therapies

Mind-body therapies use various approaches. Some of them are:

• Biofeedback
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Creative and expressive arts therapies (art, music, or dance)
• Dialectical behavioral therapy
• Guided imagery and self-hypnosis
• Heart-centered practices
• Massage
• Meditation
• Mindfulness
• Prayer
• Progressive muscle relaxation
• Support groups
• Tai chi
• Yoga

How does mind-body therapy works

When you are physically or emotionally stressed, your body releases stress hormones that can affect all your systems and organs. For example, stress related to hostility and anxiety can result in disruptions in heart and immune function. Similarly, depression and distress may diminish the body’s natural capacity to heal. The goal of mind-body techniques is to get the body and mind to relax and to reduce the levels of stress hormones in the body, so that your immune system is better able to fight off illness. Mind-Body Therapy enables you to cease the stress process, creating an empowered mind and body that become resilient to the effects of daily life. It enable you control of the autonomic nervous system to decrease the stress response. Many mind-body therapies focus on becoming more conscious of mental states.

Narrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counseling and community work, which centers people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives.

The narrative therapist focuses upon narrative in the therapy. The narrative therapist is a collaborator with the client in the process of developing richer (or “thicker”) narratives. In this process, narrative therapists ask questions to generate experientially vivid descriptions of life events that are not currently included in the plot of the problematic story

Narrative therapy works by helping people ‘deconstruct’ unproductive stories in order to ‘reconstruct’ positive ones. In the process of re-storing experiences, especially where unhappy emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety and depression dominate, new and more empowering events can restore lives.

Narrative Therapy can:

Improve Personal and Family Relationships

• Provides an environment for respect and value to flourish.
• Create positive interactions
• Transform negative communication or responses into more accepting, non-judgmental and meaningful exchanges.

In Narrative therapy a person’s beliefs, skills, principles, and knowledge in the end help them regain their life from a problem.

NLP techniques provide new ways of dealing with emotional problems such as low self esteem, anxiety, lack of confidence, destructive relationship patterns and are successful in effective bereavement counselling. It is suitable for business professionals, teachers, sales people, counselors and therapists.

Advantages of Neuro Linguistic Program Therapy

• Improves management skills
• Improves Communication
• Increase motivational and leadership skills
• Develop the right attitude and behavior in dealing with illnesses or other medical condition.
• Improve the personality for better interpersonal relations with co-workers or with family members.
• Help people to improve and attain success in any area of their lives.

Neuro Linguistic Program Therapy is designed to provide expedited results and to provide comprehension to a person’s behavior and cognitive patterns.

Psychoanalysis is a treatment approach based on the observation that individuals are often unaware of many of the factors that determine their emotions and behaviour.

Psychoanalysis, as a treatment method, is based on concepts concerning unconscious mental processes originally developed by Sigmund Freud and further developed by a considerable number of experienced psychoanalysts who have followed.

The aim of the practice of psychoanalysis is to assist clients in achieving a greater self awareness of hidden emotions and patterns of thinking that could be influencing current behaviors and other emotional processes. It is commonly believed that most behavior comes from the subconscious or unconscious mind. Since behavior is determined by subconscious thought, the analyst attempts to reach the patient with concepts such as free word association. This helps to bring out things that may be hidden from the conscious mind. The objective is to allow individuals to continue to speak in a comfortable and non-judgmental environment where hidden thoughts and emotions are gradually brought to the conscious awareness.

Psychoanalysis is commonly used to treat

• Depression
• Anxiety disorders

Psychoanalysis is an effective treatment for many people with moderate to severe difficulties and who have had unsuccessful attempts with briefer therapies. Many people come to analysis because of a pattern of repeated failures in work or in love. Others recognize self destructive patterns of behavior they are unable to change. Others need analysis because the way they are their character substantially limits their choices and their.

Psychoanalysis can take years of regular therapy sessions. If you are suffering with a great deal of emotional distress and have no clue as to why, you may benefit from psychological therapy.

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is a form of psychotherapy and a philosophy of living. It was one of the very first types of cognitive therapies. Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) is based on the concept that emotions and behaviours result from cognitive processes; and that it is possible for human beings to modify such processes to achieve different ways of feeling and behaving. REBT was originally called ‘Rational Therapy’, soon changed to ‘Rational-Emotive Therapy’ and again in the early 1990’s to ‘Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy’.

REBT has been successfully used to help people with a range of clinical and non-clinical problems,

• Depression
• Anxiety disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias, generalized anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, etc.
• Eating disorders, addictions, impulse control disorders
• Anger management, antisocial behaviour, personality disorders
• Sexual abuse recovery
• Adjustment to chronic health problem, physical disability, or mental disorder
• Pain management
• General stress management
• Child or adolescent behaviour disorders
• Relationship and family problems
• Personal growth
• Workplace effectiveness

The Basic Steps in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

• Identifying the underlying irrational thought patterns and beliefs
• Challenging the irrational beliefs
• Gaining Insight and Recognizing Irrational Thought Patterns

The goal of REBT is to help people change their irrational beliefs into rational beliefs. Changing beliefs is the real work of therapy and is achieved by the therapist disputing the client’s irrational beliefs.

Spiritual Psychotherapy is a kind of therapy to deal with life issues through the perspective of your spiritual world. it reveals the basic rule that how you relate to yourself is how you relate to others.  Therefore, how others are relating to you and how you feel about it, offers a good reflection of how you really are relating to yourself. It helps you attune to and release bound emotional pain from the body, energy system and causal level of consciousness.

Benefits of Spiritual Psychotherapy

• Release guilt, shame, humiliation, disappointment, resentment, fear, anxiety, anger, sadness and grief.
• Resolve inner conflicts; find personal integration and inner peace.
• Develop Self-Love, forgiveness, compassion and acceptance, as well as inner strength and personal empowerment.
• Heal relationship, sexuality and intimacy issues and learn to develop healthy relationships.
• Find deep meaning & spiritual perspective during times of crisis, change & life transition.
• Create the life and relationships your heart most deeply desires.
• Live your life as a Sacred and Meaningful Journey

Therapists may inquire about a client’s spiritual beliefs and encourage clients to connect with their spiritual communities. They may also point out areas where spiritual beliefs, practices or relationships seem to be causing, not relieving unnecessary suffering, or seem to contradict a value, goal or belief the client has expressed.

Technique of Transactional Analysis

Transactional analysis utilizes the ‘parent adult child’ theory and is applied throughout many fields, including medical, therapeutic, communications, business management, clinical, organizational, behavioral and personal.

• The Parent, which consists of what a person does and tells others to do because they were told it was the right way by authority figures, such as their parents, teachers, and government.
• The Adult, which consists of thoughts and behaviors resulting from reason, careful consideration, and the intellect.
• The Child, which consists of purely emotional thoughts and behaviors, such as anger and humor.

 Uses of Transactional Analysis

Transactional analysis is used by counselors and clinicians who strive to address the present problems. It is also used widely in the educational arena and provides a vessel through which educational principles and philosophy can be transformed into the daily lives of students. It can be used in any field where there is a need for understanding of individuals, relationships and communication.

Massage therapy is the most common form of massage. It involves the use of fingers, the thumb, the elbows and even the feet to put pressure on designated parts of the body. The professional masseur, or the person who does the massage, will add massage oils, lotions or creams to your body to create soothing contact to the skin during the massage session. There are different ways in which someone can experience massage therapy. They can be in a massage chair or even lying on the floor where a mat is provided. A typical massage therapy session is between 40 and 90 minutes. Most people feel calm and relaxed after a treatment. Occasionally, people experience mild temporary aching for a day.

Benefits of massage therapy

Massage therapy treatment benefits people of all ages. It can be used in the treatment of both acute and chronic stages of conditions. Following are some benefits:

• Relieve stress by releasing tension
• Relieves tired and aching muscles
• Increases flexibility and range of motion
• Strengthens the immune system
• Improves concentration
• Enhances skin tone

There are many kinds of massage therapy. Some popular therapies are listed below:

Swedish massage Therapy – This massage is primarily meant for relaxation. It is most popular and common type of massage.

Hot Stone Massage – It is good for relieving muscle tension. It helps to loosen and warm tight muscles

Thai Massage – Compressions and stretches are used in the performance of this massage. It improves the range of motion and flexibility.

Aromatherapy Massage – One or more plant oils or essential oils that have a pleasant aroma are added to the massage. It is most suited to relieving emotion related stresses.

Deep Tissue Massage – It is used for recovery from injury, postural problems, repetitive strain, painful or tight muscles.

Pregnancy Massage – reduces anxiety, stress and depression, relieves pains and aches and decreases swelling.

Sports Massage – It increases flexibility and loosens muscles. It is effective in preventing and treating injury and enhancing athletic performance.

Shiatsu – It uses finger pressure in a rhythmic sequence on what are known as acupressure points that are on the body.

Reflexology – This massage is done on certain specific points on the foot. It is good for people who spend most of their time standing

Back Massage – This massage is done on the muscles of the back and the neck to relieve aches and pains of the back and the neck.

Some of the materials employed include:         

• Absolutes: Fragrant oils extracted primarily from flowers or delicate plant tissues through solvent or supercritical fluid extraction (e.g., rose absolute). The term is also used to describe oils extracted from fragrant butters, concretes, and enfleurage pommades using ethanol.
• Carrier oils: Typically oily plant base triglycerides that dilute essential oils for use on the skin (e.g., sweet almond oil).
• Essential oils: Fragrant oils extracted from plants chiefly through steam distillation (e.g., eucalyptus oil) or expression (grapefruit oil). However, the term is also occasionally used to describe fragrant oils extracted from plant material by any solvent extraction.
• Herbal distillates or hydrosols: The aqueous by-products of the distillation process (e.g., rosewater). There are many herbs that make herbal distillates and they have culinary uses, medicinal uses and skin care uses. Common herbal distillates are chamomile, rose, and lemon balm.
• Infusions: Aqueous extracts of various plant material (e.g., infusion of chamomile).
• Phytoncides: Various volatile organic compounds from plants that kill microbes. Many terpene-based fragrant oils and sulfuric compounds from plants in the genus “Allium” are phytoncides, though the latter are likely less commonly used in aromatherapy due to their disagreeable odors.
• Vaporizer (Volatized) Raw Herbs: Typically higher oil content plant based materials dried, crushed, and heated to extract and inhale the aromatic oil vapors in a direct inhalation modality.

Some of the ways in which aromatic plant oils can be used include:

• Massage – Aromatherapy massage is a technique for helping to move the lymphatic fluids which is beneficial for your body as the lymph system moves the toxins. Applications of the essential oil on the skin can actually make your skin soft.
• Inhalation – Inhale essential oils directly. Simply smell them straight from the bottle. You can also pour hot water into a bowl and add a few drops of essential oil. Lower your face a few inches over the bowl and cover your head and the bowl with a towel, then breathe deeply and slowly.
• Compress – It is highly effective method for pain relief. Put 4-6 drops of oil into very hot or cold water. Use a folded piece of absorbent material and soak up the oil, wring out excess oil and apply to the affected area. Finally cover the area with the towel.
• Vaporizers and Oil burners – Add 6 drops to water and vaporised in a burner. Never leave a candle oil burner unattended, as it is a fire risk. Electric vaporisers are available and are safer to use when asleep or near children.
• Bath – Bathing can be helpful when used in combination with massage oils. Always take a bath first and then apply massage oil.

How aromatherapy works

Aromatherapy is the treatment or prevention of disease by use of essential oils. It also helps in pain and anxiety reduction, enhancement of energy and memory, stress reduction and relaxation, hair loss prevention, and reduction in itching. It works in two ways. One is the influence of aroma on the brain, especially the limbic system through the olfactory system. The other is the direct pharmacological effects of the essential oils. Clinical studies of aromatherapy in combination with other techniques show positive effects. Aromatherapy helps the body to find a natural way to cure itself and improve immune response.

Benefits of Aromatherapy

• It can be useful for stress relief and relaxation
• It helps in relieving minor discomforts
• It boosts the immune system
• It also helps in boosting respiratory and circulatory systems
• It helps in mood enhancement, balance and well being

Essential oils can also be used in household and laundry cleaners. Some oils act as a natural insect repellent and pesticide. Citronella essential oil is the ingredient in the candles that is responsible for repelling the mosquitoes.

Ayurveda has developed a unique category system for each individual based on three main principles or doshas which are present in every person.

Vata Dosha – Vata dosha is connected to the nervous system. It is the most active dosha, responsible for perception, thought, speech, circulation, elimination, and all bodily movement. There are lots of food substances that can balance the Vata Dosha and to name some include the ghee, rice, corn and all sweet fruits.

Pitta Dosha – It is the energy that controls the body’s metabolic systems, including digestion, absorption, nutrition, and temperature. To balance Pitta, we need to make choices that are cooling, sweet, and stabilizing. The person has to consume lots of milk, mild spices like coriander and olive oil that are good to pita people. The foods that this person should avoid include fried and spicy foods.

Kapha Dosha – Kapha comprises all our cells, tissues and organs. Kapha molecules tend to stick together to form dense masses and give the body a chubby shape. People with kapha dosha have to include more light and dry food. Kapha imbalance can develop diseases like lung disorders and other heart diseases so these people have to consume lots of dry fruits.

Ayurvedic treatment involves more than 20 types of treatment, but the most commonly prescribed includes

• Pranayama
• Abhyanga
• Herbal medicines
• Rasayana
• Yoga
• Pancha karma

Benefits of Ayurveda

• Ayurveda is the way of living life naturally.
• Ayurveda integrates and balances the body, mind, and spirit.
• Ayurveda balances three energy systems Vata, Pitta and Kapha.
• The goal of Ayurvedic medicine is to prevent diseases.
• Ayurveda also help reduce plaque and reverse the thickening of artery walls known as atherosclerosis in both healthy adults, as well as adults at high risk for heart disease.
• Combining yoga with a certain Ayurvedic herbal remedy may reduce pain and disability in people with arthritis.
• Ayurveda is a whole medical system, meaning that it is based on theories of health and illness and on methods of preventing and treating health conditions.

Bach flower remedies are dilutions of flower material. The remedies contain a very small amount of flower material in a 50:50 solution of brandy and water. As all the Bach Flower Remedies are pure and harmless there is no fear of giving too much or too often, though only the smallest quantities are necessary to act as a dose.

How to use Bach flower remedies

• The ‘glass of water’ method – For short-term moods and problems put two drops of each selected remedy in a glass of water. Sip as often as required until relief is obtained. You can use this method for longer-term problems as well. Just sip from the glass throughout the day, at least four times a day.
•  Directly on the tongue from the stock bottle – The Bach Flower Essences can be dropped neatly onto the tongue without diluting them. It can also be rubbed behind the ears or on the temples and wrists. Take 2 to 4 drops of concentrate 4 times a day.
•  Adding to bath water – Flower Essences may also be added to bath water (16 drops per use).
•  Adding to lotions or oils – Dilute ten drops of each chosen essence (no more than ten essences) in a 100 ml bottle of lotion or oil.

One of the greatest advantages to Bach Flower Remedies over other types of treatments however is the fact that there are no known side effects or negative reactions and as such Flower Remedies can be used by everyone safely. The remedies work in a positive way, flooding the body with the energy required to re-establish balance within the person. the Flower Remedies to be used successfully in combination with other forms of treatment, weather it is complementary practices, talking therapies, physical work or prescribed medications, without any concern of interference. Bach flower therapy is positive and harmless therapy.

Bach flower remedies are also benefitted for children. It helps to enhance their attention and focus. It can also control jealousy among children which is quite common. Though, the use of Bach flower essences can address a full repertoire of emotional needs in children, it should only be used after a consultation with mental health professionals.

The chiropractic measures and procedures are not painful. In many cases, such as lower back pain, chiropractic care may be the primary method of treatment. Chiropractors are specially trained to perform spinal adjustments. These adjustments use a specific force in a defined direction to release the vertebra back to its normal position. These adjustments are safe and pain-free. Chiropractic treatment is one of the most reliable help for people of old ages while others who seek help from a Chiropractor suffer from headaches, ear infections, joint misalignment, arthritis, muscle and back pains, and others. It Manipulates, or adjust the affected joint and tissues, restores mobility, thereby alleviating pain and muscle tightness, and allowing tissues to heal. Treatment of the whole person and seeking out the root cause of a physical ailment makes much more sense than taking harmful drugs and submitting to invasive (expensive) surgeries.

Techniques of Chiropractic

• Spinal Manipulation
• Extremity Manipulation and Extremity Adjusting
• Activator Methods Chiropractic Techniques
• Thompson Chiropractic Techniques
• Gonstead Chiropractic Techniques
• Cox Flexion / Distraction Chiropractic Techniques

Chiropractic helps in:

Asthma

Bed-wetting

Colic

Coughs and colds

Decreases stiffness and muscle tension

Digestive issues

Ear infections

Eczema

Improves blood flow

Improves immune system

Improves mobility and range of motion of joints

Improves spinal alignment

Improves vitality and overall health

Infertility

Menopausal symptoms

Menstrual pain

Preparing for giving birth

Realigning the spine and pelvis after birth

Rebalancing hormones and emotions

Reduces disc degeneration

Relieves pain

Restoring normal range of motion and decrease symptoms of osteoporosis

Sleep issues

Treats the cause not just the symptom

• Violet – It relates to Crown chakra. It is good for kidney problems, tumors and can even work to suppress the appetite.

• Indigo- It relates to Brow Chakra. It helps ones connect to their spirituality and enhance creativity.

• Blue – It relates to Throat Chakra. It lowers blood pressure, decreases respiration, helps induce sleep and enhances communication.

• Green – It relates to Heart Chakra. It helps calm nerves, relax both mentally and physically, it promotes self control and harmony.

• Yellow – It relates to Solar Plexus Chakra. It is effective in reliving depression and headaches and improves memory and awareness.

• Orange – It relates to Sacral Chakra. It regulates circulation, metabolism, helps defeat chest and kidney diseases and it has an ability to energize.

• Red – It relates to Base Chakra. It is powerful in healing blood disease, circulation problems, increasing blood pressure, depression and enhancing confidence and willpower.

Color therapy is one of the best therapies to increase your sense of well being. Your color practitioner will use light filters, meditation, colored silks, waters, crystals and or color breathing. The method of choice will be based on your first consultation. a color therapist can help to balance the flow of the energy that surges through the body. It can be used to enhance the spiritual positive energies or calm the negative ones. A color therapist can work to help focus on the physiological effects that colors have on us so that we can learn how to achieve great physical and mental health by just changing the colors that we see on a daily basis. A trained color therapist can help us to work on balancing our emotional lives as well as healing our stress, tension and physical symptoms due to anxiety, fear and more. Color therapy is a very pleasant and safe therapy that is good for people of all ages.

Detoxification therapy includes a variety of techniques. The major detoxification therapy categories are: fasting, specific diets, vitamin therapy, colon therapy, chelation therapy, and hyperthermia.

• Fasting – Fasting is generally done for a limited, specific number of days. All fasting regimens permit water to be consumed, for it is essential to prevent dehydration. Others allow juice as well, although purists consider this to be food.

• Specific diets – There are many different types of detox diets, most are based on eating organic rather than processed foods.eat less meats and more fruits and vegetables, and drink only filtered water.

• Vitamin therapy – Vitamins, such as C and E, are antioxidant nutrients capable of neutralizing certain toxins called free radicals. A free radical is a particular type of atom or group of atoms that can damage cells and impair a person’s immunity system.

• Colon therapy – This procedure is performed by a trained therapist who introduces from 5-25 gal (19-941 l) of water, or other cleansing agents, directly into the rectum using a tube and nozzle. It removes toxic stool that remains in the folds of the intestine.

• Chelation therapy – It involves the use of a chemical agent that is recognized as being able to effectively treat heavy-metal poisoning like lead or mercury. The synthetic drug ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is administered intravenously or orally and binds to heavy metals in the blood. The toxic metals are then flushed out naturally through the kidneys.

• Hyperthermia – It uses a sauna or a steam bath to sweat out toxic chemicals from fat cells. It is also known as heat stress detoxification

Benefits of detoxification

• It strengthened the immune system
• It enhances mental clarity
• It helps to increase vitality
• It also reduces blood fats
• It helps to reduce blood pressure levels
• It also improves hormone functions
• It improves psychological wellness

Detoxification therapy can be dangerous for people who are underweight, or who have diabetes, hypothyroidism, or hypoglycemia. Anyone with a compromised immune system, including those who are recovering from surgery, should also avoid detoxification. It is best to seek professional help when determining a form of therapy.

Herbs are considered very safe when they are prescribed by a practitioner who has had the proper training. Herbal medicines do not have adverse side effects when prescribed properly.
To use an herbal product as safely as possible, you should follow the instructions given below:

• Consult your doctor first
• Do not take a bigger dose than the label recommends
• Take it under the guidance of a trained medical professional
• Be especially cautious if you are pregnant or nursing

Herbal medicine could better be described as plant based medicine, since it includes the use of all forms of plant life, including tree bark, roots, flowers and all other plant forms. Using plants as medicine provides significant advantages for treating many conditions. Herbal medicines are sold as tablets, capsules, powders, teas, extracts and fresh or dried plants. The tea is said to ease both the pain and the damage that can be the result of a heart attack in a matter of minutes. Leaves, stems and sometimes roots are dried and ground into fine powders that can then be ingested as capsules or used topically on the skin. Herbal aromatherapy is also a specialized type of herbal therapy which involves simmering fresh or dried herbs in water to release the scent. Herbal therapy is also used to treat severe ailments such as cancer and diabetes. Diabetic herbal therapy aims at aiding the body in processing carbohydrates more effectively, thus preventing spikes in blood sugar levels. It is used to treat a wide range of disorders such as anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, insomnia, migraine, nausea, skin problems such as eczema, poor blood circulation, hormonal imbalances and arthritis etc.

Herbal medicine is the oldest and still the most widely used system of medicine in the world today. It is used in all societies and is common to all cultures.

Antisocial personality is a type of chronic mental condition in which a person’s ways of thinking, perceiving situations and relating to others are dysfunctional and destructive. Someone with antisocial personality disorder will typically be manipulative, reckless and not care for other people’s feelings. People with antisocial personality disorder typically have no regard for right and wrong and often disregard the rights, wishes and feelings of others.

Symptoms

• Have difficulty sustaining long-term relationships
• Not be able to control their anger
• Break the law repeatedly
• Not show guilt or remorse
• Often be angry or arrogant
• Being irritable and aggressive
• Disregard the safety of self and others

People with antisocial personality disorder typically have no regard for right and wrong and often disregard the rights, wishes and feelings of others. Someone with antisocial personality disorder will typically have an antisocial or alcoholic parent, and will have grown up with harsh, inconsistent parenting.

This behaviour becomes most extreme and challenging during the late teens and early 20s, and may improve by the time the person reaches their 40s. It is very difficult to treat. A mental health provider can question individuals who are over 18 years about past and current behaviors. This will help detect signs and symptoms that could support a diagnosis of ASPD. The main treatment is psychotherapy, which involves talking to a trained therapist about feelings that the person has about themself and other people, particularly family and those close to them.

Benefits of Music Therapy

• It refreshes the mood of the listener
• It stimulates a relaxation response
• It reduces the anxiety and stress level.
• It helps in easing muscle tension
• It controls blood pressure, respiratory rate, hear rate.
• It encourages verbal as well as non verbal communication
• It promotes socialization and development of self expression and motor skills.
• It helps a lot in improving cognitive thinking and mental abilities.

Children with developmental and learning difficulties, children and adults with autism spectrum disorder or special needs as well as the elderly and dementia sufferers have all been shown to benefit from music therapy. Music therapy is used to help people suffering from conditions such as psychiatric disorders, medical problems, sensory impairments, developmental abilities and other health related ailments. Patients suffering from post surgical problems, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease get positive result using music therapy. Music therapy should always be conducted by an expert registered therapist to get maximum benefit out of it.

Natural Therapies are those modes of treatment which works according to Nature’s Law of Health. These therapies create internal order and stimulate body’s internal disease fighting ability. It should not be confused with Naturopathy. Naturopathy is one form of Natural Therapy and there are hundreds of others. These Natural Therapies have existed for thousands of years in different parts of the world and have successfully helped mankind in living healthy. Fortunately with the progress of understanding of health and sickness, these natural therapies are again being recognized and accepted as effective modes of treatment.

Some of the most effective and popular Natural Therapies are :

• Acupressure
• Acupuncture
• Aroma Therapy
• Ayurveda
• Herbal Therapy
• Bach Flower therapy
• Chiropractice
• Colour Therapy
• Counseling & Psychotherapy
• Detoxification Therapy
• Dietetics & Nutrition
• Exercise Therapy
• Homeopathy
• Hypnotherapy
• Lifestyle Management
• Massage Therapy
• Medical Astrology
• Meditation
• Music Therapy
• Naturopathy
• Panchkarma Therapy
• Physical Therapy
• Reiki & Pranic Healing
• Vaastu & Fengshui
• Yoga

List is endless but these are the most effective and popular ones.

Why Natural Therapies should be part of treatment plan ?

The reasons are simple to understand.

• These are natural so creates harmony of our body and mind with nature.
• These are safe & non toxic with no side effects.
• These are effective even in severe chronic diseases.
• These are proactive & preventive. These do not wait till disease occurs and damage the body.
• These are positive. These therapies improve the health status thereby giving vigor to live.
• These are complimentary. There is no contradiction with allopathic medicine. These can be integrated well to work in a synergistic manner.

Precaution with Natural Therapies

There are some precautions before you start with natural therapies.

• Do not jump to any therapy. Select natural therapies judiciously. Different therapies will have different effect varying from person to person and from sickness to sickness.
• Do not start many therapies simultaneously. This will cause more harm. There should be scientific integration.
• These therapies are very safe and effective in expert hands. But save yourself from quacks and self trained therapists.
• No self treatment. Never try this unless you have received minimum basic training. Never take health casually.
• Do not avoid regular medical check up.

Borderline Personality is a mental disorder.  It is a serious emotional condition, typically with a tendency towards unstable and turbulent emotions, heightened anger, feelings of emptiness, and fears of being left alone. This disorder occurs in most by early adulthood.

The main feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and emotions. People with borderline personality disorder are also usually very impulsive.

Symptoms include:

• Persistent impulsiveness
• Deep feelings of insecurity
• Confused, contradictory feelings
• Anxiety or mood disorders
• Causing deliberate pain by cutting, burning or hitting oneself
• Binge eating or starving; abusing alcohol and other drugs

The exact causes of BPD remain unknown, although the roles of both environmental and biological factors are thought to play a role in people who develop this illness.

It is diagnosed by mental health professionals following a comprehensive psychiatric interview that may include talking with a person’s previous clinicians, reviews of prior records, a medical evaluation, and when appropriate, interviews with friends and family.

The most effective treatment usually involves a combination of, psychological therapy, medication and support. Psychological therapies that have been found to be effective in the treatment of BPD are Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). During IPT, a person learns new and effective ways to relate to significant people in their lives. DBT helps people learn to handle their emotions better and re-learn the way they typically respond to situations and other people.

Dependent personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people depend too much on others to meet their emotional and physical needs.  This personality disorder is a long-term (chronic) condition in which people depend on others to meet their emotional and physical needs, with only a minority achieving normal levels of independence. Individuals with Dependent Personality Disorder are often characterized by pessimism and self-doubt, tend to belittle their abilities and assets, and may constantly refer to themselves as “stupid.”

Symptoms 

• Inability to make decisions, even everyday decisions like what to wear, without the advice and reassurance of others.
• Feelings of helplessness when alone
• An inability to disagree with others
• Avoidance of disagreeing with others for fear of losing support or approval.
• Inability to start projects or tasks because of a lack of self-confidence.
• Oversensitivity to criticism.
• Urgently seeks another relationshipas a source of care and support when a close relationship ends
• Willingness to tolerate mistreatment and abuse from others.
• Having problems expressing disagreements with others

Like most personality disorders, dependent personality disorder typically will decrease in intensity with age, with many people experiencing few of the most extreme symptoms by the time they are in the 40s or 50s.

Talk therapy is considered to be the most effective treatment. The aim is to help people with this condition make more independent choices in life. Medicines may help treat other mental health conditions, such as anxiety or depression that occur along with this disorder. This type of therapy helps individuals develop new ways of thinking, behaving, and communicating.

Naturopathy is a system of primary medical treatment and healthcare which use the power of nature in your healing and treatment of illnesses and conditions. Naturopathy can be effective for a wide range of acute or chronic medical conditions as well as a general practice for living well. The naturopathy doctor will discuss your diet, exercise, stress levels and all of the environmental issues that could be contributing to poor health. The information that you can gain from a naturopathic doctor can be very beneficial in showing you the areas where you can make improvements to your health. It used to treat a variety of conditions such as allergies, arthritis, depression and anxiety, digestive problems, infertility, menstrual issues, reduced immunity, skin conditions, weight loss, high blood pressure and high cholesterol, insomnia, Irritable bowel syndrome, fibromyalgia, tennis elbow and many more.

Naturopaths prefer to avoid invasive surgery or synthetic drugs, instead using “natural” remedies. There are varieties of techniques that are used in the naturopathic treatment. Some of them are discussed below:

• Dietary advice – a balanced diet is an essential component for a healthy body
• Herbal remedies – traditional remedies utilised for hundreds of years for healing
• Massage – the manipulation of the tissues of the body for healing and relaxation
• Nutritional supplements – especially useful when immunity is compromised by illness
• Osteopathy – manipulation therapy concerned with the musculo-skeletal system
• Homeopathy – the practice of treating like with like in diluted remedy form
• Hydrotherapy – the healing power of water
• Iridology – analysis of the iris for diagnosis of health issues

Benefits of Naturopathy

• It involves non-invasive treatments that minimize the risk of harmful side effects
• It is less expensive than other treatments
• it can also tackle illnesses that cannot be wholly healed by allopathic treatment such as sinusitis, asthma, eczema, dermatitis etc.
• The treatment focuses on the patient`s entire body and not just a particular part.
• It is used for maintaining wellness once the initial condition is rectified
• It is safe and effective for both adults and children

Naturopathy is considered as one of the best alternative therapies for patients. It suggests prevention of the illness as the best cure for any disease or illness. It utilizes methods and medicinal substances which minimize the risk of harmful effects.

Narcissistic personality is a personality disorder in which a person is excessively preoccupied with personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity, mentally unable to see the destructive damage they are causing to themselves and to others in the process. People with this disorder often believe they are of primary importance in everybody’s life or to anyone they meet.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder involves arrogant behavior, a lack of empathy for other people, and a need for admiration-all of which must be consistently evident at work and in relationships. People who are narcissistic are frequently described as cocky, self-centered, manipulative, and demanding. People with narcissistic personality disorder are not interested in the feelings of others – they lack empathy; they are unable to feel or appreciate feelings which are not their own. When you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may be little or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may have a sense of entitlement. And when you don’t receive the special treatment to which you feel entitled, you may become very impatient or angry.

Many people with narcissistic personality disorder don’t seek out treatment. A diagnosis for narcissistic personality disorder is made by a mental health professional comparing your symptoms and life history with those listed here. They will make a determination whether your symptoms meet the criteria necessary for a personality disorder diagnosis.

Treatment of narcissistic personality disorder typically involves long-term psychotherapy with a therapist that has experience in treating this kind of personality disorder. Medications may also be prescribed to help with specific troubling and debilitating symptoms.

• VamanaKarma (use of emetics) – Vamana Karma is used for ‘Kapha’ disorders like Asthma, Cold, Bronchitis and sinus. It is used to eliminate the Kapha which is causing the excess mucus. It removes Kapha toxins accumulated in the body and the respiratory tract.
• Basti Karma (medicated enema) – Promotes emission in the colon and thus ensures a good health. It is highly beneficial in cleansing and detoxifying the body. It relieves constipation, distention, chronic fever, cold, sexual disorders, kidney stones, heart pain, backache, sciatica and other pains in the joints.
• Virechana(use of laxatives) – Virechana Karma is used to treat pitta disorders like Hyper acidity, skin disorders, Digestive disorders, ulcer, and Constipation which result in rashes, skin inflammation, acne, chronic attacks of fever, vomiting, nausea and jaundice
• NasyaKarma (Nasal administration) – Inhalation of herbal steams through the nose, which clears the nasal passages and lungs. It cures the diseases related to head, eyes, nose, etc. it improves brain and sensory function
• RaktaMokshana (blood-letting) – it is used to cleanse the blood. In this treatment impure blood from the body is removed by using surgical instruments. This will help to remove the toxins in the blood.

Lifestyle changes during Pancha Karma

• Diet should consist of light, nourishing, and easily digestible foods such as steamed vegetables and kichari.
• Daily activities are necessary to insure the greatest results.
• Meditation and prayer are encouraged according to one’s own spiritual or religious practice.
• Sensory input from computers and T.V. should be minimal if at all.
• Reading should be done in moderation.
• Strenuous activity and exercise should be avoided

Panchkarma is the most important and effective therapy to rebuild the healthy lifestyle. It is a very special Ayurveda treatment requiring proper guidance from a highly trained and skillful Ayurveda practitioner. It is recommended for healthy persons and also as a preventive treatment to keep physically and mentally fit and energetic. It works best in conjunction with a healthy lifestyle.

Paranoid personality is a mental health condition in which a person has a long-term pattern of distrust and suspicion of others. Individuals with Paranoid Personality Disorder are generally difficult to get along with and often have problems with close relationships. They lack trust in others, they have an excessive need to be self-sufficient and a strong sense of autonomy.

Symptoms of paranoid personality

• Doubt the commitment, loyalty, or trustworthiness of others
• Are generally cold and distant in their relationships with others, and might become controlling and jealous
• Concern that other people have hidden motives
• Expectation that they will be exploited (used) by others
• Inability to work together with others
• Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others

Paranoid personality disorder is more prevalent in males than females. Like most personality disorders, paranoid personality disorder typically will decrease in intensity with age, with many people experiencing few of the most extreme symptoms by the time they are in the 40s or 50s.

Treatment

People with Paranoid personality often do not seek treatment on their own because they do not see themselves as having a problem. The distrust of others felt by people with PPD also poses a challenge for health care professionals because trust is an important factor of psychotherapy (a form of counseling). As a result, many people with paranoid personality do not follow their treatment plan. When treatment is sought, psychotherapy is the treatment of choice for PPD. Treatment likely will focus on increasing general coping skills, as well as on improving social interaction, communication, and self-esteem.

Physiotherapy is also known as physical therapy. It also promotes movement and reduces pain. It is a form of healthcare which is designed to cure a number of injuries and illnesses using a number of different methods and movements.

Physiotherapy is an effective form of treatment for a wide range of conditions. It is used to help ease the pain associated with joint discomforts, pains in your bones, conditions of the heart, lungs, mind, and conditions from childhood and due to old age. The primary goal of physiotherapy is to restore normal body function by using different treatments, including exercising, eating balanced diet, massages, electrotherapy techniques and airway clearance techniques.
The three different types of physiotherapy include:

• Musculoskeletal – it is used to treat muscles, bones and joints. Common conditions treated include back pain, sprains, strains, arthritis, bursitis, workplace and sports injuries, problems with posture, incontinence and reduced mobility. Rehabilitation after surgery is also offered.
• Cardiothoracic – it is used to treat disorders of the cardio-respiratory system including asthma, emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Rehabilitation after thoracic surgery can also be offered.
• Neurological – it is used to treat disorders of the nervous system including acquired head injuries, stroke, spinal cord injuries, Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. Rehabilitation after brain surgery can also be offered.

Different techniques used by physiotherapists

• Manual therapy techniques – it involves the use of the hands to mobilise joints and soft tissues. It improves movement of different parts of the body and relieve pain and help relaxation.
• Aquatic therapy – this therapy is carried out in water, usually a warm, shallow swimming pool or special hydrotherapy pool. It improves blood circulation, relieves pain and relaxes muscles.
• Movement and exercise – it uses therapeutic exercises designed to strengthen the affected body area. Gentle activities such as walking or swimming may be recommended if you are recovering from an operation or sports injury that affects your mobility.

Benefits of Physiotherapy

• It improves joint mobility
• It increases strength and coordination
• It improves cardiorespiratory function.
• It eliminates or minimizes the pain
• It increases function at work and play
• Being able to sleep uninterrupted

How does Reiki works

In a Reiki treatment, a Reiki Practitioner uses his hands to send and transmit the Universal life force to those people, places, and things in need of Energy Balancing and Alignment. This allows those people, places, and things to either regain or maintain a healthy state. The Reiki practitioner does this by placing their hands either directly on or above the person receiving the healing session. Reiki stimulates the receiver’s own healing energy. The receiver’s body uses the Universal life force to accomplish self-healing.

How does Pranic healing works

During a pranic healing session, negative energy is moved away and positive energy is moved into the body. The practitioner does not need to touch the individual, but uses their hands to move the energy around the aura. During a healing session, the individual lies down or sits comfortably in a chair. The patient is asked to relax and keep her mind open. The practitioner stands over her, and uses hand movements to sense imbalances and manipulate the energy throughout the aura. Several sessions might be required to bring about complete healing.

Benefits of Reiki and Pranic healing

Both reiki and Pranic healing are holistic forms of therapy that uses energy techniques to re-energize and heal the body. Both are excellent forms of healing hands. Both are unique although the healing benefits and outcomes are similar in many ways.

• Both modalities acknowledge that the body can heal themselves, and are an open channel for self healing.
• Both heal the Aura or sometimes called the energy body which results in increased physical health.
• They help to relax the mind and body thus relieving stress and improve sleep.
• They also assist people with depression.
• They also improve circulation, digestion and the elimination of toxins from the body.
• They treating and prevent diseases by allowing the flow of energy to all areas that have experienced blockages, bringing balance, harmony and strength to one’s overall being.

Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, and apathy. It affects more males than females. If you have schizoid personality disorder, you may be seen as a loner, and you may lack the desire or skill to form close personal relationships.

Symptoms

• Prefer being alone and usually choose solitary activities
• Prize independence and have few close friendships
• Feel confused about how to respond to normal social cues and generally have little to say
• Feel little if any desire for sexual relationships
• Feel unable to experience pleasure
• Come off as dull, indifferent or emotionally cold
• Feel unmotivated and tend to underperform at school or work

The disorder manifests itself by early adulthood through social and emotional detachments that prevent people from having close relationships. People with it are able to function in everyday life, but will not develop meaningful relationships with others.

Many people with schizoid personality disorder don’t seek out treatment. A diagnosis for schizoid personality disorder is made by a mental health professional comparing your symptoms and life history. They will make a determination whether your symptoms meet the criteria necessary for a personality disorder diagnosis.

Treatment of schizoid personality disorder typically involves long-term psychotherapy with a therapist that has experience in treating this kind of personality disorder. Medications may also be prescribed to help with specific troubling and debilitating symptoms.

In vaastu, the preparation of site, commencement of building, layout of building, disposition of rooms in the building, kitchen, worship room, bed room, living room, walking space in rooms, verandahs, Doors and windows, woodwork, well, compound around building, toilet are all very important. Similarly, Feng Shui ensures improved health, better sleep, harmonious family relationship, longevity, active sex life, wealth, fame.
Both Vastu and Feng Shui are practiced to remove obstructions for the flow of energy. Vastu and Feng Shui both comprises of five elements.

Elements of vaastu

• Earth
• Water
• Fire
• Air
• Space

Elements of Feng Shui

• Wood
• Water
• Fire
• Air
• Metal

Similarities between Vaastu and Feng Shui practices

In both practices, obstructions to main doors caused by pillars, poles, trees, thorny plants and sap producing plants are considered harmful; square and rectangular properties are considered auspicious; properties close to graveyards and prisons are considered inauspicious; and having prayer rooms and toilets beneath staircases is considered inauspicious.

Difference between Vaastu and Fang Shui practices

Both Vaastu and Feng Shui are ancient sciences from India and China respectively, and attempt to attain the common objective of harmonizing nature with the living. The objective is the same, though the method is different. In Vastu Shastra, the cooking stove in the kitchen should generally be placed on the right while the sink should be placed on the left. In Feng Shui, the basic principle on the cooking stove and sink is that they must not be facing each other.

Moreover, in Vastu Shastra, sleeping with head pointing to the South or East directions is considered auspicious while as in Feng Shui, the sleeping direction should generally be in accordance to the person`s auspicious directions. In Vastu Shastra, big or heavy furniture like sofa, TV etc should be placed at the South or Southwest sector of a house. This will leave more space in the North and East area – considered to be auspicious. In Feng Shui, this furniture should generally be placed at the North sector, directly opposite the auspicious South sector.

Symptoms

• Being a loner and lacking close friends outside of the immediate family
• Discomfort in social situations
• Peculiar, eccentric or unusual thinking, beliefs or behavior
• Dressing in peculiar ways
• Belief in special powers, such as telepathy
• Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
• Suspicious or paranoid ideas, hypersensitivity, and constant doubts about the loyalty and fidelity of others
• Flat emotions, or limited or inappropriate emotional responses
• Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self

Schizotypal personality disorder typically is diagnosed in early adulthood and likely to endure, though symptoms may improve with age. Medications and therapy also may help. Psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, may help people with schizotypal personality disorder begin to trust others by building a trusting relationship with a therapist. Psychotherapy may include, for example, learning specific social skills and behaviors (behavior therapy) or identifying and changing distorted thought patterns (cognitive therapy). Treatment can be more effective when family members are involved (family therapy). Seeking professional counseling as a group may help reduce fighting or emotional distance and improve trust in the home.

What is hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is type of psychotherapy in which a deep relaxed & focused state of mind is induced by the hypnotherapist. This state is called Trance. The state of trance is used for diagnosis and / or treatment of psychoemotional complaints. It can also be used for better mental health, better control over mind and better mental functioning. It is a powerful technique which can enable one to think, feel and act better. Hypnotherapy is a strong technique as it uses the enormous power of mind.

How hypnotherapy works

Human mind has enormous potential most of which remain untapped. Mind is like an iceberg, 90 % of which remain hidden. The 10% visible part is the conscious mind which helps in perceiving environment, short term memory and thinking. The remaining 90 % is the subconscious mind which is responsible for long term memory, learning, emotions, habitual patterns, learned behavior etc. Subconscious mind stores memories and associated emotions. This helps mind in ‘learning’ how to feel and behave in a particular situation. It even influences conscious mind. Our past learning and memory affects our present thinking and behavior.

Positive mental health, mental calmness, confidence, correct thinking, positive habits, emotions & behavior all this depends on how well this subconscious mind is organized. The better this subconscious mind is organized, better is its growth with age with minimum or no conflicts. But in case of some disorganization due to poor learning or some traumatic incidents, the conflicts because of this results in deficient mental functioning or undesirable behavior. This is where hypnotherapy comes to help. It helps in better reorganization of subconscious minds thereby eliminating conflicts, past traumas and negative learned patterns. It separates unhealthy emotions & behavior from past memory and replace with healthy emotions & behavior. The outcome is positive thinking, healthy emotions and desirable behavior.   

Is hypnotherapy scientific

Hypnotherapy has been proved to be scientific. There has been extensive research and its results are seen to be significantly positive. It has been accepted and recommended by world’s most reputed healthcare organizations like American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, National Institute of Health, USA. Research studies have been shown to have positive effect on human mind and body. Some of the positive changes observed are brain imaging changes, physiological changes, immunological changes, EEG changes, Neurotransmitter changes etc.

Types of hypnotherapy

The basic working of hypnotherapy is same but over the years many types of hypnotherapy have become popular among psychotherapists around the world. Different types of hypnotherapy are based on different techniques of psychotherapy. Some are more focused on analysis of subconscious mind while others are more focused on its reorganization. Some are:

• Traditional Hypnotherapy
• Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
• Hypnoanalysis
• Cognitive behavior Hypnotherapy
• Time regression Hypnotherapy

Yogic Hypnotherapy

Yogic Hypnotherapy is a unique type of hypnotherapy sequence developed by Dr S K Sharma. This is a short therapy in which hypnotherapy stimulates the Chakras in body and helps in development at both mental and physical level. It gives benefits of Yoga without going through years of Yogic Sadhna.. It is result oriented therapy in physical diseases, psychological complaints and achieving heightened performance at both physical and psychological levels.

Couple Hypnosis

One to One Couple Hypnosis is one of its kind hypnosis sequence developed by Dr S K Sharma to help couples in attaining the state of true love. It helps in creating better understanding, better communication with a stronger bond. It removes conflicts & discords.

Three Step Self Hypnosis

Safe, simple and easy to do yet very powerful self hypnosis sequence developed by Dr S K Sharma. You can learn and do it yourself. This is much more effective then self hypnosis cd’s & audio’s since it will directly involve you.

This can power you to :

• Achieve better personality
• Reduce anger and anxiety
• Get better performance better results and success
• Learn various skills
• Remove phobias and bad habits
• Improve relationships and much more

Benefits of hypnotherapy

There are many unique and profound benefits of hypnotherapy like:

• It treats cause as well as complaints
• It gives better control over mindand life
• It helps in better understanding of self and world around
• It gives deeper insight into present and past
• It increase control over own thinking, feeling and behavior
• It helps in living a fearless life
• It eliminates stress and increase enjoyment of life
• It increase ability to do things currently found difficult or impossible
• It increase performance and achievements in life
• It increase ability to do new things and make changes in life at will
• It eliminates fear, panic, anxiety and embarrassments
• It improves relationships and home atmosphere
• It helps in avoiding transfer of traits to children in family
• It helps in eliminating negative patterns and creating positive patterns
• It helps in achieving mental clarity, calmness and peace
• It improves creativity and higher learning
• It helps in achieving better self confidence and self esteem
• It helps in gaining optimistic outlook towards self, circumstances and life
• It improves mental flexibility and gives broader vision
• It helps in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual healing
• It remove past trauma and negative learning
• It creates harmony in body, mind and spirit

Most common uses of hypnotherapy are:

1. Hypnotherapy for fear, phobia, anxiety or panic attacks.
   • Hypnotherapy for social phobia, anthropophobia
   • Hypnotherapy for aerophobia, fear of flying
   • Hypnotherapy for entomophobia, fear of insects
   • Hypnotherapy for acrophobia, fear of heights
   • Hypnotherapy for necrophobia, fear of death
   • Hypnotherapy for claustrophobia, fear of enclosed spaces
   • Hypnotherapy for glossophobia, fear of public speaking
   • Hypnotherapy for mysophobia, fear of germs or contamination
   • Hypnotherapy for molysmophobia, fear of infection
2. Hypnotherapy for self esteem and self confidence.
3. Hypnotherapy for pain and disease management and better immunity.
4. Hypnotherapy for addiction treatment and deaddiction like alcohol addiction, smoking nicotine addiction, drug addiction etc.
5. Hypnotherapy for better mood and emotional freedom, recovery from past painful memories, anger or grief.
6. Hypnotherapy for habit breaking.
7. Hypnotherapy for better sexual abilities, desire and performance.
8. Hypnotherapy for eating disorders, obesity treatment, slimming and weight loss.
9. Hypnotherapy for pain free natural child birth.
10. Hypnotherapy for better relationships.
11. Hypnotherapy for better memory, performance & achievements in study, exams or work.
12. Hypnotherapy for stress management.
13. Hypnotherapy for better sleep.
14. Hypnotherapy for speech problems , stammering

Myths about hypnotherapy

Some people are not clear about what happens during hypnotherapy sessions. This leads to many myths and unwanted fears about hypnotherapy. Few facts about hypnotherapy sessions are:

• Will I go to sleep?

The person under hypnotherapy does not sleep. He or she is fully awake and aware of self and surroundings.

• Will I be under control of hypnotherapist?

The person under hypnotherapy is never under control of hypnotherapist. Self control remains throughout the session and after.

• Will I be made to do things which I do not want?

Hypnotherapy can not make you do anything against your will.

• Can I get ‘stuck’ and not come out?

There is no question of ‘not coming out of hypnotic state’ because one is never in a state which is not normal. Trance is not like sleep or unconsciousness from which one is required to ‘come out’. It is a state of higher mental awareness and concentration which is a normal awakened state.

• Will I be able to get hypnotized?

Almost everyone can be hypnotized but no one can be hypnotized against will.

• Can it harm me?

Just like any other treatment, if it is done by ‘quacks’ unqualified & badly trained persons, it can cause harm. See precautions and past life regression therapy above. There are many commercial unscientific ‘uses’ for which hypnotherapy is getting exploited. In contrast it is a very safe and powerful therapy if done by well qualified and trained mental health professionals.

• Will it change my judgment and value system?

It is a matter of choice what one wishes to change in his or her subconscious   mind. It is not possible to change one’s morals, beliefs, values or identity.

Hypnotherapy is a verbal interaction between the therapist and the client during hypnosis. Hypnosis is a state of mind in which your subconscious is able to communicate with your conscious mind. It is a wonderful way by which we may access our inner potential. The basic idea behind hypnotherapy is simple and that’s to make ‘suggestions’ directly to the unconscious mind. When you first meet with your therapist and talk about the issues you want to work on they will work out a programme of treatment with you and gives you an explanation that what will happen next. In a typical hypnotherapist’s period, the therapist will ask the questions about previous history, overall health and lifestyle. Hypnotherapy is a way of reaching the subconscious mind. It helps a person to relax the body and relax the conscious mind by healing the mind body connection. The therapist is able to reinforce the positive ideas and views. It simply allows you to enter into a relaxed state of mind. It helps you to change your negative thought processes, break and change old habit patterns and help you overcome phobias and fears.

The most important thing is that a patient should be convenient and at ease with the therapist. This is particularly important in Hypnotherapy, in which the value of the treatment is greatly improved when there is confidence in the practitioner. An individual cannot be hypnotized unless he or she agrees. During a hypnotherapy session, you are able to hear everything being said, can respond easily, and can actively participate in the session. You are the one who chooses whether or not to follow the suggestions of the hypnotherapist. If at any point during the Hypnotherapy session the patient feels uncomfortable with the process, he or she immediately come out of the session simply by opening his or her eyes.

Hypnotherapy treats a variety of medical problems like bed wetting, weight control, stomach problems, gynaecological problems, skin problems, pain control, dentistry, sexual problems, aches and pains, nail biting, smoking, substance abuse etc. it can also be applied to a wide range of psychological problems which includes worries, stress, tension and anxiety. Hypnotherapy has no side effects as it is a natural state, between sleeping and waking. The role of the hypnotherapist is to help you in finding understanding, and utilizing these inner resources in order to bring about effective, long-term results. It is safe, gentle and enjoyable way to change your unwanted habits and negative behaviour through your subconscious mind.                                    

From ages people have been saying that it’s all in mind. Be it creation of problems or secrets of success. Mind creates all. Einstein told us that we use about 10 % of our brain and a large part of it remains unexplored. It has the potential to perform wonders and achieve bigger things. It is true that we all are using our mind and applies it in different situations of life. Is there a way to explore that ‘unexplored’ potential of mind which can help us to grow by leaps and bounds? The answer is yes and it is hypnotherapy.

The word hypnotherapy or hypnosis reminds us of advertisements like ‘quit smoking in 20 minutes’ or ‘eliminate phobia in one day’. These look unbelievable to many but are true. They are nothing else but hypnosis at work and is not magic. It is based on working of mind. That means it uses mind mechanism to do what otherwise was proving difficult or even impossible.

Hypnosis

According to American Psychological Association Hypnosis is a procedure during which a health professional or researcher suggests that a client, patient, or subject experience changes in sensations, perceptions, thoughts, or behavior. The hypnotic context is generally established by an induction procedure. Although there are many different hypnotic inductions, most include suggestions for relaxation, calmness, and well-being. Instructions to imagine or think about pleasant experiences are also commonly included in hypnotic inductions. People respond to hypnosis in different ways. Some describe hypnosis as a normal state of focused attention, in which they feel very calm and relaxed. Regardless of how and to what degree they respond, most people describe the experience as very pleasant.

Some people are very responsive to hypnotic suggestions and others are less responsive. A person’s ability to experience hypnotic suggestions can be inhibited by fears and concerns arising from some common misconceptions. Contrary to some depictions of hypnosis in books, movies or television, people who have been hypnotized do not lose control over their behavior. They typically remain aware of who they are and where they are, and unless amnesia has been specifically suggested, they usually remember what transpired during hypnosis. Hypnosis makes it easier for people to experience suggestions, but it does not force them to have these experiences.

Hypnosis has been used in the treatment of pain, depression, anxiety, stress, habit disorders, and many other psychological and medical problems. In addition to its use in clinical settings, hypnosis is used in research, with the goal of learning more about the nature of hypnosis itself, as well as its impact on sensation, perception, learning, memory, and physiology. Researchers also study the value of hypnosis in the treatment of physical and psychological problems.

There are different types of hypnotherapies.

Traditional hypnotherapy – This mainly employ direct suggestion of symptom removal, with some use of therapeutic relaxation.

Hypnoanalysis – Freud and Breuer used hypnosis to regress clients to an earlier age in order to help them remember and correct supposedly repressed traumatic memories.

Ericksonian hypnotherapy – Erickson used a more informal conversational approach with many clients and complex language patterns, and therapeutic strategies.

Cognitive/behavioral hypnotherapy – Some workers combined hypnotherapy with elements of cognitive and behaviour therapy.

New Age hypnotherapy – There are many New Age or pseudoscientific approaches to hypnotherapy which actually resemble Mesmerism.

Research

In 1995, the National Institute for Health (NIH), in the US, established a Technology Assessment Conference that compiled an official statement entitled “Integration of Behavioral & Relaxation Approaches into the Treatment of Chronic Pain & Insomnia”. This is an extensive report that includes a statement on the existing research in relation to hypnotherapy for chronic pain. It concludes that:

The evidence supporting the effectiveness of hypnosis in alleviating chronic pain associated with cancer seems strong. In addition, the panel was presented with other data suggesting the effectiveness of hypnosis in other chronic pain conditions, which include irritable bowel syndrome, oral mucositis [pain and swelling of the mucus membrane], temporomandibular disorders [jaw pain], and tension headaches. (NIH, 1995)

In 1999, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a Clinical Review of current medical research on hypnotherapy and relaxation therapies, it concludes,

• “There is strong evidence from randomised trials of the effectiveness of hypnosis and relaxation for cancer related anxiety, pain, nausea, and vomiting, [side effects of chemotherapy] particularly in children.”
• “They are also effective for panic disorders and insomnia, particularly when integrated into a package of cognitive therapy (including, for example, sleep hygiene).”
• “A systematic review has found that hypnosis enhances the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy for conditions such as phobia, obesity, and anxiety.”
• “Randomized controlled trials support the use of various relaxation techniques for treating both acute and chronic pain, […]”
• “Randomized trials have shown hypnosis to be of value in asthma and in irritable bowel syndrome […]”
• “Some practitioners also claim that relaxation techniques, particularly the use of imagery, can prolong life. There is currently insufficient evidence to support this claim.”

In 2001, the Professional Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society (BPS) commissioned a working party of expert psychologists to publish a report entitled The Nature of Hypnosis. Its remit was ‘to provide a considered statement about hypnosis and important issues concerning its application and practice in a range of contexts, notably for clinical purposes, forensic investigation, academic research, entertainment and training.’ The working party then provided an overview of some of the most important contemporary research on the efficacy of clinical hypnotherapy, which is summarized as follows:

• “There is convincing evidence that hypnotic procedures are effective in the management and relief of both acute and chronic pain and in assisting in the alleviation of pain, discomfort and distress due to medical and dental procedures and childbirth.”
• “Hypnosis and the practice of self-hypnosis may significantly reduce general anxiety, tension and stress in a manner similar to other relaxation and self-regulation procedures.”
• “Likewise, hypnotic treatment may assist in insomnia in the same way as other relaxation methods.”
• “There is encouraging evidence demonstrating the beneficial effects of hypnotherapeutic procedures in alleviating the symptoms of a range of complaints that fall under the heading ‘psychosomatic illness.” These include tension headaches and migraine; asthma; gastro-intestinal complaints such as irritable bowel syndrome; warts; and possibly other skin complaints such as eczema, psoriasis and urticaria [hives].
• “There is evidence from several studies that its [hypnosis’] inclusion in a weight reduction program may significantly enhance outcome.”

Meta-analyses

In 2003, perhaps the most recent meta-analysis of the efficacy of hypnotherapy was published by two researchers from the University of Konstanz in Germany, Flammer and Bongartz. The study examined data on the efficacy of hypnotherapy across the board, though studies included mainly related to psychosomatic illness, test anxiety, smoking cessation and pain control during orthodox medical treatment. Most of the better research studies used traditional-style hypnosis, only a minority (19%) employed Ericksonian hypnosis.

The authors considered a total of 444 studies on hypnotherapy published prior to 2002. By selecting the best quality and most suitable research designs for meta-analysis they narrowed their focus down to 57 controlled trials. These showed that on average hypnotherapy achieved at least 64% success compared to 37% improvement among untreated control groups. (Based on the figures produced by binomial effect size display or BESD.)

According to the authors this was an intentional underestimation. Their professed aim was to discover whether, even under the most skeptical weighing of the evidence, hypnotherapy was still proven effective. They showed conclusively that it was. In fact, their analysis of treatment designs concluded that expansion of the meta-analysis to include non-randomized trials for this data base would also produce reliable results. When all 133 studies deemed suitable in light of this consideration were re-analyzed, providing data for over 6,000 patients, the findings suggest an average improvement in 27% of untreated patients over the term of the studies compared with a 74% success rate among those receiving hypnotherapy. This is a high success rate given the fact that many of the studies measured included the treatment of addictions and medical conditions. The outcome rates for anxiety disorders alone, traditionally hypnotherapy’s strongest application, were higher still (though a precise figure is not cited).(Flammer & Bongartz, “On the efficacy of hypnosis: a meta-analytic study”, Contemporary Hypnosis, 2003, pp179 – 197.)

How it works:

Hypnotherapy is the focused state of attention like laser in place of ordinary light. It works in three steps.:

1. Induction of trance
2. Suggestion
3. Post hypnotic suggestion

Hypnotherapy is a safe and secure therapy where you are always in management of what is occurring and you are never created to do anything that you don’t want to do. To understand how hypnotherapy works, we first need to understand about the conscious and subconscious mind. The mind is made up of two parts known as the conscious and the unconscious. The conscious mind is the logical, rational mind that analyzes the situations and responds by taking control of everyday decision making while the unconscious mind rules over our emotions and intuition and responds to the way it has been programmed usually in earlier life.

Hypnotherapist works by causing a trance-like state within an individual in which they are fully alert of what is happening in their surroundings but only concentrating on the hypnotherapist’s voice. Nothing can be done that’s against your will. In this hypnotic trance you will be aware of everything. If an emergency arises you will be able to break out of it immediately. Once you are in a trance state, there are a couple of options. The first option is that the hypnotherapist helps you to terminate all your old suggestions and influences and substitute them with the new, better and healthier options that you desire. The second option is for the hypnotherapist is to find the cause that triggered the problem. Once he found the cause, the hypnotherapist has different techniques and ideas to help you explore the experience, heal, and gain a new perspective or a new viewpoint, strengthened by good and positive suggestions. Once in a state of hypnosis, a person is open to different kinds of suggestion from the hypnotherapist. He or she may be able to take control over any involuntary thoughts, negative behaviour or feelings taking place in the unconscious mind.

It helps us to bypass our conscious mind and our ego’s so we can get out of our own way and can teach our unconscious mind new ways. And most importantly, with hypnotherapy, we can have access to all the special resources we might not have even known were there. The amazing thing about hypnotherapy, and why it is so effective, is that once a suggestion is given, it is visualized or imagined in the subconscious mind, it will be accepted as if it were true. For example, a person who has been smoking for years can become and non-smoker and never again feel the urge for a cigarette.

Hypnotherapy has a long-lasting effect. Hypnotherapists use an induced trance-like state to treat their patients. It enables them to overcome their problems. It helps people boost their overall well-being and health. Hypnotherapy can help you with a huge range of problems. It can help with a whole range of emotional problems, compulsive obsessions and habits, and mental health problems. Other problems are nail biting, enuresis, eating disorders, relationship problems, skin problems, sleep problems, arthritis, memory problems, fear, relaxation, self-esteem, blushing and shyness, addictions, phobias, headaches, pain, stress, anxiety, depression and panic attacks etc. There are a number of benefits along with the permanence of hypnotherapy. The benefits of hypnotherapy go beyond what most people might imagine. Various benefits of hypnotherapy are:

• One of the most commonly known benefits of hypnotherapy is that It helps the patients live a healthier life. It has a long track record of success for helping patients change the negative aspects of their lives easily. It helps in increasing self-esteem and helps in having a better outlook on life.
• Hypnotherapy helps you relax. It can help them reduce your stress levels. Relaxation techniques are used which lowers your heart rate/blood pressure resulting in ease of mind. It helps you physically as well as psychologically. It provides a feeling of detachment and extreme relaxation.
• Another benefit of hypnotherapy is expenditure. Hypnotherapy healthcare costs are less than any other treatment, thus resulting in a lot of money being saved.
• Hypnotherapy does not involve any type of medications like any other treatment. It only uses an induced trance-like state to treat their patients. It is only a talk therapy and no medication is taken by the patient. So, there are no side effects of the treatment.
• Hypnotherapy helps in achieving the relief from persistent pain. It also deals with the problem of insomnia. It prevails over phobia. It also helps in treating the migraines and in controlling weight.
• Hypnotherapy is more long-lasting than orthodox methods of treatment. Orthodox methods only provide immediate relief but hypnotherapy changes the psychological framework while providing relief.

There are some common misperceptions about hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and some of these can make people nervous about trying hypnosis. The following are some common myths and facts about hypnotherapy.

• Myth: Hypnosis is an unnatural process.

Fact: Hypnosis is a naturally occurring mental and physiological process which happens periodically and spontaneously throughout the day, for virtually all of us, all by itself.

• Myth: A person is asleep during hypnosis.

Fact: A person is totally awake during hypnosis. A hypnotized person is fully awake and aware of what is going on around them and they are supposed to be.

• Myth: A person can get stuck in hypnosis and be unable to wake up.

Fact: A person will never get stuck in hypnosis and be unable to wake up. It could be possibly happen that you drift into natural sleep, and after 5 or 10 minutes you wake up naturally.

• Myth: Hypnosis is dangerous

Fact: Hypnosis is actually a safe and effective set of techniques you can use to enhance your life, feel better, and accomplish more. Hypnosis is a naturally occurring, beneficial, positive state.

• Myth: Hypnosis can be bad for health

Fact: it can never be bad for your health, because it’s a naturally occurring state. The problem is that a lot of doctors say to people “you need to learn to relax” but they never really give them the tools for knowing how to relax. So, if you want to feel in balance within yourself and the world around you, hypnosis is the best state to be in.

• Myth: Only the mentally challenged people can be hypnotised

Fact: the people who can concentrate well and have a creative imagination go into hypnosis easier and deeper than anyone else. So it’s really not true that people who are hypnotized are mentally challenged or weak minded.

• Myth: Hypnotists have special powers

Fact: the hypnotists do not have any special powers. They just have knowledge and experience of humans. With sufficient effort and practice most people could probably induce hypnosis.

• Myth: Hypnosis is magic

Fact: Hypnosis has nothing at all to do with magic; it is not inherently mystical. No, instead hypnosis is a set of techniques and skills.

• Myth: Hypnosis is ineffective

Fact: Hypnosis has been proven to bring positive results by people working in the field as well as in controlled studies done by researchers.

How it works

Self-hypnosis for a better life uses positive suggestions to appeal to the unconscious mind, promoting feelings of self worth and well being. By keeping the body and mind relaxed and reducing stress, negative thoughts and emotions are eliminated and positive suggestions are focused on. It lets you shift the thought processes locked in your subconscious so you can stop smoking, never overeat and get rid of those fears that haunt you. When the positive suggestions are magnified, the self-hypnotist begins to accept it as the truth, applying it to his life after the self-hypnosis session is over.

How to Perform a Hypnosis Session on Yourself

• First of all, find a quiet place to sit or lie down. Make sure that your legs are not crossed.
• Make sure that you will not be disturbed for at least half an hour, preferably an hour.
• Close your eyes and take 10 slow deep breaths – in through the nose, and out through the mouth. Say to yourself the word ‘Relax’ on each outward breath.
• You can also concentrate on an object, such as a flickering candle or a pendulum while keeping your eyes on the object. Feel yourself getting deeper and deeper relaxed.
• Once you have achieved complete relaxation, vocalize your positive suggestions in your head, and concentrate on it for a few minutes.
• Enjoy the state of hypnosis for as long as you like.
• Remember to be patient and give those suggestions time to work.

The manifestation of the desired effects of hypnotherapy varies greatly from one person to another because people respond to self-hypnosis differently. The effect also depends on the person’s willingness and ability to accept suggestions. Self hypnosis can help you with the solutions to many of your problems. You can perform it on your own time. There is no need to worry about making and keeping appointments.

 Mind Therapy for Blissful Relationships

Who doesn’t want to love and be loved. But :

• Do you share a happy and satisfying relationship?
• Are you happy with your level of intimacy?
• Do you feel passion and desire for each other?
• Do you spend quality time together?
• Are you making deep communication with ease?
• Do you feel comfortable sharing your feelings and expressing your needs?
• Do you feel appreciated in his / her eyes / voice / body language?
• Does your relationship have companionship, togetherness, meaning and purpose?

If your answer is no then it could be due to two reasons. You could not create a positive bond and you are carrying burden of unhappy events. Loving relationship is the most prized possession of any human being. World and life looks beautiful if you have someone whom you love and get loved. Unfortunately some of us miss the bliss. But there is no need to be in despair. Dr S K Sharma brings to you unique Couple Hypnosis to help you ignite the spark. So what is Couple Hypnosis and how it helps?

One to One Couple Hypnosis is a unique sequence of hypnosis sessions developed by Dr S K Sharma done with both partner together. Since most of our unhappiness and events related to them are stored in subconscious mind, we are unable to get rid of them. This leads to generation of negativity in relationship and as a result there are discords, fights, neglect or hurting behavior. Couple hypnosis reaches the subconscious mind and helps in removing the impact of past negative events. In addition Couple hypnosis helps in creating a positive bond between partners.

It benefits include following:

• It create love
• It create happiness, mutual regard and positive feelings
• It create feeling of oneness and companionship
• It stimulates intimacy, passion and desire for each other
• It improves mutual understanding
• It improves communication & behavior
• It helps in expressing forgiveness & gratitude
• It helps in removing negative past memory
• It helps in solving conflicts and discords
• It helps in removing obstacles and barriers between relationships

Couple Hypnosis is a wonderful technique to create happiness in your relationship and life.

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How hypnotherapy works

Is hypnotherapy scientific

Types of scientific hypnotherapy

Yogic Hypnotherapy

Couple Hypnosis

3 Step Self Hypnosis

Benefits and uses of hypnotherapy

Myths and fears about hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy process at Ethos

Super Specialty Hypnotherapy

What is hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is type of psychotherapy in which a deep relaxed & focused state of mind is induced by the hypnotherapist. This state is called Trance. The state of trance is used for diagnosis and / or treatment of psychoemotional complaints. It can also be used for better mental health, better control over mind and better mental functioning. It is a powerful technique which can enable one to think, feel and act better. Hypnotherapy is a strong technique as it uses the enormous power of mind.

How hypnotherapy works

Human mind has enormous potential most of which remain untapped. Mind is like an iceberg, 90 % of which remain hidden. The 10% visible part is the conscious mind which helps in perceiving environment, short term memory and thinking. The remaining 90 % is the subconscious mind which is responsible for long term memory, learning, emotions, habitual patterns, learned behavior etc. Subconscious mind stores memories and associated emotions. This helps mind in ‘learning’ how to feel and behave in a particular situation. It even influences conscious mind. Our past learning and memory affects our present thinking and behavior.

Positive mental health, mental calmness, confidence, correct thinking, positive habits, emotions & behavior all this depends on how well this subconscious mind is organized. The better this subconscious mind is organized, better is its growth with age with minimum or no conflicts. But in case of some disorganization due to poor learning or some traumatic incidents, the conflicts because of this results in deficient mental functioning or undesirable behavior. This is where hypnotherapy comes to help. It helps in better reorganization of subconscious minds thereby eliminating conflicts, past traumas and negative learned patterns. It separates unhealthy emotions & behavior from past memory and replace with healthy emotions & behavior. The outcome is positive thinking, healthy emotions and desirable behavior.   

Is hypnotherapy scientific

Hypnotherapy has been proved to be scientific. There has been extensive research and its results are seen to be significantly positive. It has been accepted and recommended by world’s most reputed healthcare organizations like American Medical Association, American Psychological Association, National Institute of Health, USA. Research studies have been shown to have positive effect on human mind and body. Some of the positive changes observed are brain imaging changes, physiological changes, immunological changes, EEG changes, Neurotransmitter changes etc.

Types of hypnotherapy

The basic working of hypnotherapy is same but over the years many types of hypnotherapy have become popular among psychotherapists around the world. Different types of hypnotherapy are based on different techniques of psychotherapy. Some are more focused on analysis of subconscious mind while others are more focused on its reorganization. Some are:

• Traditional Hypnotherapy
• Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
• Hypnoanalysis
• Cognitive behavior Hypnotherapy
• Time regression Hypnotherapy

Yogic Hypnotherapy

Yogic Hypnotherapy is a unique type of hypnotherapy sequence developed by Dr S K Sharma. This is a short therapy in which hypnotherapy stimulates the Chakras in body and helps in development at both mental and physical level. It gives benefits of Yoga without going through years of Yogic Sadhna.. It is result oriented therapy in physical diseases, psychological complaints and achieving heightened performance at both physical and psychological levels.

Couple Hypnosis

One to One Couple Hypnosis is one of its kind hypnosis sequence developed by Dr S K Sharma to help couples in attaining the state of true love. It helps in creating better understanding, better communication with a stronger bond. It removes conflicts & discords.

Three Step Self Hypnosis

Safe, simple and easy to do yet very powerful self hypnosis sequence developed by Dr S K Sharma. You can learn and do it yourself. This is much more effective then self hypnosis cd’s & audio’s since it will directly involve you.

This can power you to :

• Achieve better personality
• Reduce anger and anxiety
• Get better performance better results and success
• Learn various skills
• Remove phobias and bad habits
• Improve relationships and much more

Benefits of hypnotherapy

There are many unique and profound benefits of hypnotherapy like:

• It treats cause as well as complaints
• It gives better control over mindand life
• It helps in better understanding of self and world around
• It gives deeper insight into present and past
• It increase control over own thinking, feeling and behavior
• It helps in living a fearless life
• It eliminates stress and increase enjoyment of life
• It increase ability to do things currently found difficult or impossible
• It increase performance and achievements in life
• It increase ability to do new things and make changes in life at will
• It eliminates fear, panic, anxiety and embarrassments
• It improves relationships and home atmosphere
• It helps in avoiding transfer of traits to children in family
• It helps in eliminating negative patterns and creating positive patterns
• It helps in achieving mental clarity, calmness and peace
• It improves creativity and higher learning
• It helps in achieving better self confidence and self esteem
• It helps in gaining optimistic outlook towards self, circumstances and life
• It improves mental flexibility and gives broader vision
• It helps in physical, mental, emotional and spiritual healing
• It remove past trauma and negative learning
• It creates harmony in body, mind and spirit

Most common uses of hypnotherapy are:

1. Hypnotherapy for fear, phobia, anxiety or panic attacks.
   • Hypnotherapy for social phobia, anthropophobia
   • Hypnotherapy for aerophobia, fear of flying
   • Hypnotherapy for entomophobia, fear of insects
   • Hypnotherapy for acrophobia, fear of heights
   • Hypnotherapy for necrophobia, fear of death
   • Hypnotherapy for claustrophobia, fear of enclosed spaces
   • Hypnotherapy for glossophobia, fear of public speaking
   • Hypnotherapy for mysophobia, fear of germs or contamination
   • Hypnotherapy for molysmophobia, fear of infection
2. Hypnotherapy for self esteem and self confidence.
3. Hypnotherapy for pain and disease management and better immunity.
4. Hypnotherapy for addiction treatment and deaddiction like alcohol addiction, smoking nicotine addiction, drug addiction etc.
5. Hypnotherapy for better mood and emotional freedom, recovery from past painful memories, anger or grief.
6. Hypnotherapy for habit breaking.
7. Hypnotherapy for better sexual abilities, desire and performance.
8. Hypnotherapy for eating disorders, obesity treatment, slimming and weight loss.
9. Hypnotherapy for pain free natural child birth.
10. Hypnotherapy for better relationships.
11. Hypnotherapy for better memory, performance & achievements in study, exams or work.
12. Hypnotherapy for stress management.
13. Hypnotherapy for better sleep.
14. Hypnotherapy for speech problems , stammering

Myths about hypnotherapy

Some people are not clear about what happens during hypnotherapy sessions. This leads to many myths and unwanted fears about hypnotherapy. Few facts about hypnotherapy sessions are:

• Will I go to sleep?

The person under hypnotherapy does not sleep. He or she is fully awake and aware of self and surroundings.

• Will I be under control of hypnotherapist?

The person under hypnotherapy is never under control of hypnotherapist. Self control remains throughout the session and after.

• Will I be made to do things which I do not want?

Hypnotherapy can not make you do anything against your will.

• Can I get ‘stuck’ and not come out?

There is no question of ‘not coming out of hypnotic state’ because one is never in a state which is not normal. Trance is not like sleep or unconsciousness from which one is required to ‘come out’. It is a state of higher mental awareness and concentration which is a normal awakened state.

• Will I be able to get hypnotized?

Almost everyone can be hypnotized but no one can be hypnotized against will.

• Can it harm me?

Just like any other treatment, if it is done by ‘quacks’ unqualified & badly trained persons, it can cause harm. See precautions and past life regression therapy above. There are many commercial unscientific ‘uses’ for which hypnotherapy is getting exploited. In contrast it is a very safe and powerful therapy if done by well qualified and trained mental health professionals.

• Will it change my judgment and value system?

It is a matter of choice what one wishes to change in his or her subconscious   mind. It is not possible to change one’s morals, beliefs, values or identify

Be Born Again

How many of us often think and want to be born again and undo and redo many things of life. Many of these became part of our personality during early years of our life and even later. They shape our personality and life in a negative manner. They do not allow us to live a complete life and develop a wholesome positive personality. The result is we are deprived of happiness, good relationships, success and even good health for no fault of ours. True, we can not undo events of life. But we can definitely undo and redo our experience, thoughts and emotions associated with our life events. We can get rid of negative experiences, thoughts, feelings, habits and personality patters developed since our birth. This is possible through Hypno Rebirthing.

Hypno Rebirthing is the technique which incorporates mind body and psyche, their organization and reorganization to create healthy mind body system. This involves our thinking, our memories, emotions, behavior patterns, habits, personality traits, our experience and skill related to the world we live in.

Benefits of Hypno Rebirthing

• Get rid of negative experiences and negative memories
• Get rid of emotional pain, stress, anger, anxiety, sadness
• Get rid of unhealthy habits and negative habitual behavior
• Get rid of low confidence and low self esteem
• Recreate positive and successful personality
• Develop confidence and positive self esteem
• Reshape relationships into positive ones
• Develop successful personality traits and earn social reputation
• Be more happy and successful in life

Components of Hypno Rebirthing

• Release – Letting go of unwanted accumulated negative experiences
• Restructure – Recreating positive and desired personality

Techniques of Hypno Rebirthing

Some of the techniques of Hypno Rebirthing are:

• Imagery – Development of better insight and deep exploration of self
• Therapeutic Dialogue – Analysis and recreation of effective internal dialogue to develop healthy self
• Perception – Restructuring internal and external perception
• Somatic Identity – Exploring the bodily perception and developing positive identity
• Emotional Identity – Exploring relations and emotions and recreating positive emotional identity
• Reality – Analysis of subjective reality and restructuring it into positive one
• Kinesiology – Using kinesiology to restructure body movements and body language

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An addiction Treatment is an obsessive, uncontrollable and often damaging attachment to an activity, behaviour or substance. Hypnosis can be an effective tool in the early stages of addiction as well as in the recovery process. It’s important to understand that hypnosis is not a cure-all for addiction, but it can definitely serve a role in a comprehensive course of treatment. It’s particularly useful in helping recovered alcoholics stay on the right track.

Hypnotherapy aims to get to the route of the addiction by inducing a state of heightened awareness in the patient. In this relaxed and open state, the patient becomes more susceptible to suggestion, which the hypnotherapist can take advantage of by talking over different ideas about the substance or activity the patient is addicted to.

When a person is under hypnosis, a hypnotist can directly communicate with their subconscious mind bypassing the conscious or critical mind that would question the validity of a particular suggestion. a good hypnotist will neutralize or help eliminate the root cause and then give direct suggestions to create images that become permanently anchored within the subconscious mind.

Hypnotherapy can be useful during the post withdrawal phase of treatment. The hardest part of recovery is often staying off of the drugs after the initial treatment period and hypnotherapy can be used to reinforce positive changes to break the addiction. Hypnotherapy can also help an individual to learn new behavioural responses to live without the addiction.

Anger is a normal human emotion and most people have experienced it at some point during their life. Feeling angry all the time can feel like everything or everybody is conspiring against you to make you react angrily. Anger can be caused by both internal and external events. Some of the most common causes of anger include frustration, hurt, threats, annoyance, harassment and disappointment fatigue, hunger, hormonal conditions and sexual frustration. The emotion ‘anger’ can be destructive in many ways. It can affect your health. It causes high blood pressure, heart attacks, acid reflux and heartburn, premature skin ageing and strokes. Both personal and professional relationships are also seriously affected by anger. Hypnotherapy for Anger management can be one of the most effective methods of getting a grip on your anger. The goal of anger management is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger produces.

Hypnotherapy can help an individual to change the way they think or behave in situations that cause their anger to flare up. It helps convert the negative energy you have into something positive. It can directly access your subconscious mind and make you think and feel differently. Anger’s negative emotions are deep in the subconscious part of the mind. Hypnotherapy induces a hypnotic state whereby you can explore the subconscious and identify the root cause of your anger. Through working on your subconscious, hypnotherapy takes care of the triggers which cause anger. It teaches you to be calmer and more relaxed, and this takes care of any situations which might have flared you up earlier. You will look at things in a different light, and make light of the situations which angered you before.

Once the anger is harnessed by hypnotherapy, it can result in positive outcomes. Hypnotherapy goes to the very core of the anger and identifies its root cause. By taking hypnotherapy sessions, you will be able to argue better and achieve the outcomes you want much more often than you do with just feeling angry. The number of hypnotherapy sessions can vary from perhaps one to six depending upon the person’s ability.  It gives you a new lease of life and become the person you really want to be.

Anxiety can be experienced at different levels. It is the most common mental health problem. The more anxiety and worry you experience the worse it becomes. Anxiety disorders are severe and can disrupt the day-to-day life of an individual. Anxiety has several forms. It can manifest itself as phobias, adjustment disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder. The physical manifestations of anxiety include fatigue, chest pain, headaches and stomach-aches. Also anxiety causes issues with falling asleep and staying asleep as well.

Hypnosis is one of the most effective pill-free methods for treating anxiety. Treating anxiety with hypnosis can be a great way for sufferers of anxiety to find some relief. Hypnosis can treat the symptoms and reach them at the root where they start. It involves treating the root cause of the problem. As a result, the patient is able to get rid of all the tension, worrying and stress accumulated in his mind.

Hypnosis allows people to enter into a really deep and concentrated state of relaxation which brings feelings of calm and tranquility. A patient can choose to undergo professional hypnotherapy or try self-hypnosis.

Professional Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapists will use a variety of techniques such as relaxation techniques and visualisation, which is aimed at producing often quite deep levels of relaxation. Visualisation involves asking you to imagine a feared situation or object while you are in a deep state of relaxation. You are then asked to use positive visualisation to manage how you are feeling and to imagine the experience in a positive way. By teaching you relaxation techniques, calm self-confidence and using visualisation exercises whilst under hypnosis you’ll find anxiety and stress related to particular situations is finished – as well as lowering of general anxiety levels and tension in the body.

Self hypnosis

• Find a comfortable place
• Visualize the most relaxing place you can think of
• Feed yourself information to create the scene
• Start counting, breathing deeply with each count
• Stay relaxed for a little while
• When you want to return, just imagine yourself turning around and walking back

Through self-hypnosis, forget all about the tension and stress in life. After you come back to reality, you will have left all your worries and pressures behind.
The main goal of hypnotherapy is to change these thought patterns because they are the fuel for the anxiety the person experiences. In the place of these negative thoughts, hypnosis can place positive thought patterns.

Humans are naturally creatures of habit. Everyone has at least one bad habit that they are aware of and would like to get rid of. You may consciously want to change a hurtful habit but feel stuck and unable to change the self-defeating behavior patterns. Habit is controlled by the subconscious part of your mind, and the subconscious is not as easily communicated with as is the conscious mind. Thus, the subconscious may not know that it needs to change the behavior that it controls.

Hypnosis is a very effective tool for changing bad habits. There are a number of different habits that hypnosis can address  such as nail biting, thumb sucking, skin picking, hair pulling, daytime and nocturnal bruxism, nervous tics, problem eating patterns ,problem drinking, smoking, and procrastination.   Hypnosis is really more of a vehicle or tool that can be used to help people arrive at a better state of mind or at healthier life conditions. Before actual change can occur, the procedure first leads the person into a deep sense of self realization regarding the root cause of persistent bad habits. Moreover, the process also involves realizing that something can and must be done to save or improve oneself.

During the initial stages of the hypnosis, your subconscious mind is primed to receive and accept suggestions. Depending on your goals these suggestions could help you to quit smoking, lose weight, and stop biting your nails or whatever else you wish to change. The hypnotist makes these suggestions and repeats them until they’re satisfied that they’ve got the message across. The subconscious is a very deep level of your mind which holds yours deepest desires. So by making suggestions to this part of your mind you are changing yourself at the core of your being.
The great thing about hypnosis is that it allows access to the unconscious part of the mind where the cause of the habit and urge can be located, leading to elimination of the urge and habitual behaviour. Ceasing any habit then becomes so easy.

• Patience
• Open mindedness
• Motivated

Hypnotherapy and self hypnosis can actually be used to help your business flourish. Hypnotherapy for business development shows fast and effective results. It works on the subconscious mind to look at the positives and build self-confidence. A person with confidence is motivated, and a motivated person can perform better, be it while making presentations, pitching for new business or when performing the role of a team player. it helps to stay calm and composed especially when making crucial decisions. Visualization is an another self-hypnosis trick where you get yourself to believing that your business will be what it is and will look the way it will look once you are done with it. It helps in increasing the basic communication skills of businessmen and works on personal development. These personality changes can positively affect a manager’s negotiating and leadership skills, while making them effective communicators.

Benefits of hypnotherapy

• Improves your general communication skills
• Improves your communication skills in relation to specific business areas e.g. presenting, executive and business coaching, sales, consulting, leadership and negotiation
• Personal development and generative change

Hypnotherapy, self-hypnosis and hypnosis can indeed play a positive role in your business development plans. Knowing how to use these tools in your future business ventures can be had with a little reading and research to better understand how you can self motivate yourself towards success.

Hypnotherapy for childbirth is known as hypnobirthing. Hypnothearpy childbirth is one of the best ways to deal with the labor pains and to eliminate the fear of pain in a natural manner. It is helpful for mothers who have had a previous bad birthing experience and also for those who are anxious about giving birth. It is both as helpful for the mother as it is for the newborn baby. The pain related to the childbirth and pregnancy sometimes become unbearable and thus has to be taken care off. HypnoBirthing has been recognized as an easy way to handle the difficulties related with childbirth. Hypnobirthing is a specifically designed program for birth, which uses the principles and techniques of hypnosis and self-relaxation. There are also powerful suggestions to eliminate pain and fear. It teaches you to work with the contractions and learn about breathing. It also teaches deep abdominal breathing and total relaxation, enabling the laboring mother to work in harmony with her body and her baby. It is a brilliant option when getting rid of pregnancy related illnesses. Using hypnosis for childbirth is a way of giving the woman full control over her mind and body. Now days, It is a very popular and successful method of handling pregnancy. Most people will need about 4 or 5 teaching of hypnotherapy sessions during their second half of pregnancy. Doctors, psychologists, and dentists all over the world use hypnotherapy for child birth because it has number of benefits.

Benefits of hypnobirthing

• A calm, peaceful birthing experience.
• Women using hypnosis are much calmer and more relaxed during labor
• Labor time is reduced as the muscles are more relaxed
• pain-free and more controlled labor process
• Lower risk of pregnancy complications during labor
• Mother is more energetic after giving birth
• Breech and posterior babies can be turned using hypnosis
• Less risk of side effects on mother and baby as few or no drugs are used.
• Reduced stress and anxiety
• Positive thinking regarding pregnancy and Childbirth
• It is cheaper than other methods

With hypnotherapy, mothers can successfully have a fast, relaxed and safe childbirth. They give birth with comfort without or with minimum use of any drugs.

Creativity aids in all aspects of your life from dealing with children, handling romance, even preparing meals. You need to be able to fully use the side of your brain that controls your creative nature. Emotions, negative thoughts and different circumstances in life can often hinder a person’s natural creativity. Hypnotherapy is often used to relax someone to the point where their unconscious mind finds it easy to access those times and places where creativity just flowed.

During a creativity hypnotherapy session you will be guided into a trance-like state, and your consulting hypnotist will have full access to your subconscious mind. That’s important because your subconscious mind is where most of your thoughts, feelings, and actions come from. These hypnotherapy sessions gives you the following benefits:

• Remove any negative emotions or thoughts that inhibit your creative ability
• Tap into all memories stored in the subconscious to draw inspiration for creative purposes
• Understand how to ‘live in the moment’ when creating to set your mind free
• Become more aware of your dreams, and the ideas they contain, and how to remember the ideas later
• Helps how to promote the flow of information between your subconscious and conscious minds
• Helps how to flow with the momentum of ideas and inspiration when you set aside time for creative work
• Create a switch like a remote control to automatically tap into your superconscious mindset when you need to create
• It helps how to put a creative thought into action to produce a creation

Hypnosis is easy to do, is relatively inexpensive, and there have been no negative side effects associated with it. It is useful for people who have trouble putting their ideas into action. It also helps people who have mental blockages that prevent them from reaching full creativity.

We all make decisions everyday of our lives, at home, at work, at play, even at the supermarket. For many people, making even simple decisions can be a very difficult thing. They worry about just about everything that is attached to the decision. the fear of making a bad decision makes it difficult to settle for one decision. Many people doubt themselves, and worry themselves sick about whether they will make the ‘right’ decision. This can lead to feeling powerless and like you have no control over your own life. If you have trouble making decisions, the help of a trained hypnotherapist will help you. When in a “trance” state, which is simply a state of deep relaxation and heightened awareness, you will quiet and subdue your conscious mind, so the subconscious can be accessed and changes made on a deep level.

The hypnotherapist will talk with you about why you find it difficult to make decisions and what fears and emotions you have surrounding that. They will also point out that there are different types of decisions that can be made – the smaller decisions that have no real impact, and the longer term decision making that can be harder to change. Ultimately, the hypnotherapist will help you realise that no decision is too big or too daunting to make.

Hypnotherapy enhances your analytical skills and logical thinking by getting to the root of your subconscious and effectively “massaging” this part of your mind. Think of it as a workout for your decision making skills. Your intuition will improve as a result, and you will begin to feel more relaxed and at ease with the whole decision making process.

Many people have trouble making decisions because they don’t want to disappoint or be criticized by other people. The hypnotherapist will help you to realise what makes you happy and what you need. By being able to recognize this, you will be able to more clearly see what decision will bring you to where you need to be.

When experiencing depression treatment it can feel as if there is nothing in the world that will make life happy and enjoyable. It disrupts the whole life of an individual. Depression treatment is very common. Almost anybody can develop it. Depression comes in many different forms, and from a wide range of causes. Stressful life events, such as losing a job or a relationship ending, may cause depression. It can also be caused by physical illnesses, drug treatments and recreational drugs. Depression treatment affects the body, mind and feelings of a person. The cost of depression in human suffering cannot be over stated. Depression treatment can lead to many problems such as difficulty sleeping, headaches, digestive disorders and chronic pain. It also affects the appetite of an individual. People with depression experience low self-confidence, negative thoughts, feelings of hopelessness and guilt. In extreme cases, depression can also result in thoughts of death or suicide. Depression treatment problems are found to get even worse as a person ages. Finding the root of the depression is the most important step in the treatment.

Depression hypnotherapy is a very effective form of ‘talk therapy’. The most important benefit is that hypnotherapy does not require any kind of drugs or medications at all. It is highly effective in the treatment for overcoming depression. It can assist the individual in finding the events, situations or sources of their depression. The hypnotherapy sessions are usually very relaxing and comfortable.

During a hypnotherapy session, a therapist will guide you into a hypnotic trance and offer powerful suggestions to encourage your thought patterns to become more positive. By entering into the hypnotic session the person is able to safely explore the reserves and stores of the memory. The number of sessions will depend upon person to person. It can be one or in most cases, it can be several. In these sessions, one will learn how to manage his or her stress better. It helps individuals understand the source of their own unique emotional difficulties. It helps to identify the causes and origins of the depression. It replaces the negative thoughts with the positive ones and increased confidence and a brighter outlook on life. It helps the individual gain control of their feelings. It allows a person to experience a greater sense of control over his or her depression and health. It will help you to understand the impact of your past and to concentrate on the present in order to work towards the future you desire. This talking therapy relieves stress, frustration and anger which obstructs your life. It replaces your depression with joy and happiness.

Drug addiction is an uncontrollable craving that needs treatment to overcome. It usually consists of physical dependency and psychological dependency. Physical dependency means the body has become accustomed to the drug and withdrawal symptoms will be felt without it. Common withdrawal symptoms include sweating, tremors, insomnia, vomiting and headaches. Psychological dependency means the mind relies on the effects of the drug and its absence will initiate cravings.

Hypnotherapy can help free you from drug addiction. It is a great way of overcoming drug abuse and drug problems. It is an uncontrollable craving that needs treatment to overcome. Drug addiction usually consists of physical dependency and psychological dependency. Physical dependency means the body has become accustomed to the drug and withdrawal symptoms will be felt without it. Common withdrawal symptoms include sweating, tremors, insomnia, vomiting and headaches. Psychological dependency means the mind relies on the effects of the drug and its absence will initiate cravings.

Hypnotherapy can help in conditioning the minds of patients undergoing drug rehabilitation and it involves releasing habitual problems that are embedded into the subconscious mind of the patients. It encourages behavioral changes so that the person can enforce kicking their habit. Once a person can eliminate behaviors that lead them to addictions, then they can begin to make positive changes and kick their addictions.

Benefits of Hypnotherapy

• It is one of the safest, fastest and reliable treatment methods available.
• It eliminates the effects of withdrawal symptoms rapidly. helps to minimize the effects of stress that are often responsible for triggering the urge to take drugs
• It replaces old, and negative behavioral solutions with newer, efficient and healthier ones, thereby eliminating the need for drugs.
• It involves programming the brain to become more focused, open and accepting of positive input while tapping various sources of healing and inspiration.

The number of hypnotherapy sessions may vary from person to person but clients begin to notice significant changes soon after beginning hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy need your full commitment to succeed but it may well help you survive the transition more easily once you have decided to stop taking drugs.