Never before have we been given such a variety of high calorific food to pick from. Advertising for snack food reaches far and wide and shelves of sugary sweets are often sold at supermarket tills to catch you on the last leg of your shopping trip. Hypnotherapist Karen Martin said: “My local supermarket in Tunbridge Wells is expert at inspiring shoppers to over-purchase and therefore to over-consume.”
For countless smokers, giving up can prove one of the most challenging endeavours they have ever undertaken. A lot of people manage to break the habit using sheer motivation yet, for numerous others, this strategy will not be enough.
Tunbridge Wells practitioner Karen Martin said: “Long before I became a hypnotherapist, I tried every method out there to quit smoking heavily. From cold turkey to NHS recommended Nicotine Replacement Therapy patches and gum, nothing worked for me except hypnotherapy. It’s one of the reasons why I now run a busy hypnotherapy practice and will never smoke again.”
It’s not just the bride who suffers from pre-wedding nerves. All she’s got to do is turn up on the day looking ravishing whereas the groom, best man and father of the bride have to stand up in front of a sea of faces and deliver flawless, witty and memorable speeches and this can generate significant wedding speech nerves.
Tunbridge Wells based Hypnotherapist Karen Martin helps needle phobic sports enthusiast Sam man up and get over a traumatic childhood experience.
What do the Dalai Llama and Kate Winslet have in common? They’re both afraid of flying. Variously described as aerophobia, aviatophobia, aviophobia or pteromechanophobia.
An estimated 500 million people worldwide have a fear of flying with 2.5 million of those in the UK. As many as 20-30 per cent of population are apprehensive about flying and between 2 and 10 per cent have a phobia. It’s more common in women and often starts in childhood or early adulthood.
So, on a Boeing 737 carrying 200 passengers, between four and 20 passengers will be really scared and more than a fifth will be quite worried.
No one is immune from an invisible killer which stalks silently through every office, factory floor and work-place. It doesn’t discriminate against age, sex, race or occupation and its grip tightens as the social and economic pressures of 21st century life increase.
An epidemic of workplace stress-related illnesses has driven unprecedented numbers of the population to bail out of the workplace. Countless others resort to antidepressants to help them face the day. So, just what is going on in this age of unparalleled prosperity and comfort?