IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING ANY THERAPY PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE CAREFULLY AND PASS IT ON

IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING ANY THERAPY PLEASE READ THIS MESSAGE CAREFULLY AND PASS IT ON
When you have finished reading this post, please give it a like and a share, as it may save someone vulnerable from being taken advantage off or worse.
In the last 24 hours, I have had 2 major concerns within the therapeutic community. The first was when I was contacted by a young lady who asked me how many sessions she would need to help her with a nail-biting habit. I informed her this would take only 1 session, or 2 if I found any underlying issues within the first session. She then informed me that another therapist told her that she would need between 3 and 6 sessions. They told her this without even meeting with her!!! I offer a weight loss package that deals with all arear`s of health, weight loss, motivation and that is only 4 sessions.
The second concern came about when someone who required very specialist help was faced with a bewildering array of therapists all offering their services to deal with a specific concern. Many of the theses therapists would have lacked the required care and clinical background to help and support this person with the required changes.
Several weeks ago I put up a post outlining the good qualities that you should be looking for within a therapist and over 3000 people within the Norfolk area read it alone. I think that it is again worth going over some of the things you should be looking for when hiring any kind of therapist.
1. Quality of their training. I was lucky and trained under the most qualified person within the county. The training that I received was over 12 months and I have to face a vetting process before they would even take me on. I had standards of excellence to achieve and reach. I had papers to submit and a constant appraisal of my skills through live sessions, best practise groups and cases. Before I could practise I had to have all of my written case notes, standards and learnings presented and passed before a governing body. I also had to present and pass a live session with 2 assessors. I am not ashamed to admit that was daunting and not everyone was successful. So please be aware of those who have a certificate that was obtained in a very short time.
2. Background. Now not everyone can have a medical or clinical background and for certain issues that may not always be necessary. But please be aware when dealing with the subconscious mind, you are dealing with that part of your brain that carry’s all of your memories both good and bad and for the inexperienced, it is a psychological minefield. I have a 10-year background within the clinical world, care and mental health and I was fortunate to receive excellent mental health training to conduct this work. I pride myself on good clinical excellence and being able to deal with more challenging psychological concerns.
3. Professional approach to their work. I often hear strange tales from people telling me that therapists have asked then to meet them in out of area locations, not even working where they claim. Or when they have arrived, the therapy was conducted in a lean too; a friends bedroom and someone told me they have visited therapists who work from an outdoor shed!!! Therapy is all about feeling relaxed and opening up your mind. To do this, you need to feel comfortable and relaxed and know that someone`s dog or family member is not going to walk in halfway through the session. I have a dedicated therapy area that is warm, comfortable and relaxing. It is within a safe location and there is safe off road parking. I choose the location, so people could leave and attend discreetly and feel calm and relaxed within the session. I also work within the area that I advertise on my website. 4. Ethical standards. Within my first ever therapy lesson, I was taught one thing that has always remained with me “Do, no harm” Therapy is not just about qualifications, it is also about adopting the correct attitude to those who choose to come and visit me. It is about caring for those who need help, ensuring they are provided with the correct therapy and putting their emotional and mental health first. I always end my therapy sessions with my clients by asking them if they felt the session was of value and if they “wish” they can choose to return.
I have never told anyone that they will “Need” 4 -6 sessions and I always warn anyone please be aware of who tells you that you do. If I see someone and they feel that 1 or 2 sessions were all it took, I could not be happier. If anyone ever tells you that you need numerous sessions without having met you and conducted a session, I would love to know how they are aware that this many sessions are required. I do offer packages such as weight loss as this is a major area of our lives and it is never about food so there will be more than one area to work on. Smoking can be stopped within a 90 minutes session. Recently I did two 60 minute sessions for a client which effectively allowed them to reduce their stress and anxiety levels so they were able to return to work. It did not take 6 or 8 sessions. Any therapist that conducts more sessions than is necessary is working out of integrity.
So if you are thinking of using any therapist, please check the above areas and ensure they offer a free consultation and do not charge you for this as part of your therapy, consultations are free. Also, make sure they have good referrals and have a solid background within the area you require.
If you know of anyone who is considering any kind of therapeutic support please pass this on to them and give it a like and a share, you may be saving someone vulnerable from being taken advantage of.
Kind regards Jason Edwards HYPN DIP MNLP

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YOU REALLY CAN STOP SMOKING FOR GOOD AFTER JUST 90 MINUTES OF THERAPY

I have just had one of the most incredible emails ever from one of my first every Hypnotherapy clients.

In the email, he reminded me that he came to see me nearly 10 years go to help him stop smoking. After a 90-minute hypnotherapy session with me, he stopped and never started again.

But what is even more incredible is that he calculated that in the last 10 years he saved over £27,000!!!!!!!!!
Even I was blown away by this £27,000, that is an absolutely staggering figure. I often talk to people about the cost of cigarettes to their health and wallet and I do a rough calculation, but this guy had really done the maths. He told me that the figures were correct as he put the money away and saved it in a separate account. He actually just set up another account and had the money filter in each month. He was smoking between 25-30 cigarettes a day and when he came to see me, it was starting to affect his health. He recalled that when he met me that he was not that bothered at the time about the financial saving. His focus was on still being around for his wife and children in 10 years and after giving up he is still here and much the richer as well.
So how do I help people to stop? Most of the time we will never give up something negative as we do not fear the consequences of it. We feel that it is too far away, so we do not bother about what will happen if we carry on smoking or not taking care of our health. This will then cause a huge lack of motivation on our behalf, as we may hold the thought “Yes I might get cancer, but that will be when I am old”. As you can see, here lays one of the main reasons for not stopping smoking. The negative consequences are just not a reality for you.
Now in life we are controlled by two emotions (Please and pain) we move towards those things that we perceive are pleasurable and away from those things that we perceive as painful. So when a negative thought about smoking rears its head, we either ignore it or shout it down. We also cannot even entertain a positive thought about stopping smoking either so people become stuck, not able to move forwards or backwards and then see continuing to smoke as the only answer. Some people may attempt a substitute (Vaping anyone) but this always just leads back to smoking.
The reason I have such a high and long-lasting success rate is that I use a powerful therapy technique where I take your conscious and subconscious brain to those places you do not always want to venture. Now that may sound a little daunting, but with smoking, you have very few alternatives. As another successful client once said to me, it should say on your webpage “If you come and see me, you are going to change”
Within my non-smoking package, I offer people a chance to see and live the alternatives and this has a huge effect on the mind and the decision-making process. If you actually knew and felt how good it was to give up smoking or lose weight, you would start to do everything you could to move towards that new you. Have you ever worked hard on something and started to see and feel the difference and it really spurred you on to keep going? That is the effect that I gave you within my one hypnotherapy sessions. I help to create those positive emotions and bring the reality of being a non-smoker into your conscious brain. So Instead of being controlled by pleasure and pain, I help people to make them work for them so they can take back control of their minds and their lives.
Just to end this blog, as a point of interest I have just been on a calculation site that shows how much you can save if you stopped smoking today.
If you smoke between 20 and 25 cigarettes a day and you gave up today in 10 years you would save around £54,750!!!!!! (UK GOV Source) You may have your reasons to carry on, but I can think of 54,750 reasons to stop.
Always remember 10 years may seem a long way off, but in 1999 so did 2019. You will get to 2029, and wouldn’t it be better to get there with a healthy body and an extra £54,000

STOP SMOKING TODAY AND IN JUST 90 MINUTES

HOW TO BURN BODY FAT QUICKLY AND THEN KEEP IT OFF

Is this going to finally be the year you make those lasting weight loss changes? 

Last year I set a goal for myself. I wanted to lose enough body fat to be able to see my Ab muscles. I had never achieved this my whole life and I wanted to achieve it before I was 49.
But in just 8 Weeks I totally transformed my body!!! I did it all without going to the gym, running or taking any special pills, drinks or magic beans. I bought no special food and actually discovered that I saved money on my weekly food bill by following my Magic Bullet Weight Loss program. It was very easy to do and anyone can have this same level of success, no matter what your age.
It all started after I gave a talk, which becomes known as my Magic Weight bullet Loss Talk and Inspired by my success several people asked me how I achieved it so quickly. I sent out some tips and what I had done to lose so much weight so quickly to several people which helped them lose weight.
After the talk, I was also asked if I could produce a book for those people to far to come to my therapy practice so I set about creating The Magic Bullet Weight Loss Bullet.
The Book includes everything that I did to transform my own body in just 8 weeks. It also deals with the psychology of weight loss and reveals some amazing unknown diet blockers which you may not have realised have prevented you from losing weight. The book also includes the routine that I followed to burn fat, which did not involve going to the gym or having to run. It is now available on Amazon and a great way to kick start your New Year weight loss goals. 

Just click on the link below to get your copy.

DISCOVER THE MAGIC BULLET TO WEIGHT LOSS

 This was me in September 2019

 This was me in November 2018

Looking to burn body fat. Age is no longer a barrier. Discover The Magic Bullet of Weight Loss:

Recently I gave a talk on weight loss to a room full of people. The talk became known as my “Magic Weight loss bullet talk” After this talk, I started work on an actual “Magic weight loss bullet” and expanded on the talk that I gave. I looked at all of the real and practical ways that the body really loses weight. I also focused on those barriers to quick and lasting weight loss and perfected the Weight Loss Magic bullet system. I followed this new system and was amazed by how quickly I personally shed nearly 2 stone of just body fat in a matter of weeks.  Now you can have this same success that myself and my other weight loss clients have experienced by using the Magic Weight Loss Bullet system.  

This system uses tried and tested methods that always bring results and give you long-lasting weight loss. The magic weight loss Bullet looks at the 5 main areas of weight loss and how we can easily change them.

1.       Eating: Find out the one real secret to weight loss 

2.       Exercise: What exercise to do and what not to do and when to do it

3.       Lifestyle: How your lifestyle prevents weight loss

4.       Psychology: Learn the psychology of weight loss and what really prevents you from losing weight

5.       Barriers: Overcoming weight loss barriers

Before we go any further with this I just want to confirm the following facts.

ü This is the ultimate fast fat burner

ü Age is no longer a barrier to losing weight and looking toned and trim or having a six pack.

ü You do Not need to go to the gym

ü You do Not need to go running

ü This system gave me the body that I had always wanted all my life

ü I dropped nearly 2 stone of body fat in a matter of weeks

ü There are no special pills, beans or magic potions.

ü You do not need to buy special food

ü You do not need special equipment or to join a gym

ü You just need to follow this plan

Also before I go any further with this I really want to just reinforce the following as these are the questions that I am often asked.

1.    No I did not go running.

2.    No I did not join a gym.

3.    No I took no magic weight loss pills or beans

4.    No I did not drink muscle growth potions

5.    No I have not had surgery

6.    No I did not lift weights

7.    I Just ate regular food no special diet

8.    No I did not go low fat

9.    No I have not starved myself

10.          Yes my weight really came of this quickly and stayed off

11.          Yes I really accomplished this in this short amount of time.

All that it takes is time, dedication, the creation of your vision and following this really simple system.

THIS IS HOW I LOOKED IN SEPTEMBER

THEN 8 WEEKS AFTER FOLLOWING 

THE MAGIC BULLET

I NOW TAKE A SIZE 30 INCH IN MY SKINNY JEANS 

If you are interested in achieving the same results as I did, then discover The Magic Bullet Weight Loss System. 

The Magic Bullet Weight Loss System

Why you can not fail to lose weight if you just do these two things.

Successfully losing weight is only ever about doing 2 things that everyone can easily achieve and I am about to reveal the great secret to weight loss in just one paragraph. I will then tell you why you never stick to it and then I will show you how you can.

Many years ago Paul Mckenna (You may have heard of him) wrote a book called “Change your life in 7 days”. Within the book, he told you how to change many areas of your life with one noticeable exception, weight loss!! He only wrote one line regarding how to lose weight and I have always remembered it. “If you want to lose weight eat less and move around more” Now he actually could have stopped there, but what he did was go on to write 3 more books on weight loss. The reason he could have stopped there is that is all you ever need to do if you want to lose weight. The secret is just eating less than you normally would and become more active than you usually are!! Now if you do this over a sustained period of time, I guarantee that the weight will fall off. In a nutshell, that is it that is all you need to do. It does not matter, what you eat or drink or what kind of exercise that you do if you are burning more calories up than you are putting in, you will lose weight. There you go the easiest no-fail weight loss method in the world, Ta Da simple yes?. Well no not really because there is a problem isn’t there?

The problems are we don’t stick to just eating less and moving around more until we have lost the weight we need to and that is because of just one thing. The thoughts and beliefs that you hold around eating less and being more active keep getting in the way, don’t they? If our thoughts and attached beliefs did not stop us, then everyone would just be really healthy and super fit.

Let me paint a picture for you. Everyone who has ever attempted to lose weight will be familiar with this story. You start off with good intentions to lose weight, you clear out the cupboards, fill it with low-calorie healthy food, join a gym or a weight loss club, start a new activity. You may then goal set and feel really great and what happens yes amazingly you lose weight. You are on a high and do so well for those first few days/ weeks and lose several pounds, but then something happens, doesn’t it?

It usually goes like this, you might have a bad day, or you get on the scales and you don’t get the results you want. Or the weekend arrives and you go out and eat and drink too much. You tell yourself “I have to treat myself because it’s the weekend”, Or maybe you have a bad day at work, or you have an argument with a partner. Then your children, pets, friends, the news makes you stressed and then you see an advert for your favourite food on special offer at the supermarket. Basically, any one of a million things can come knocking at your door. Then very soon you are back to where you started and you start to fall back onto one of your old thoughts such as “Well I just love food, I guess”, or “my parents were both big so it’s in my genes”, or “I am too old now to lose weight”. Or you may even fall back on my old personal favourite, “I have tried everything and nothing ever works for me”.

So here is the real problem, life and the way you choose to respond to it. Not food or drink or being active, but life. Life and events just happen and we respond with negative thoughts and then beliefs. But these thoughts are nothing but, lies lies and more damn lies. Now I am not saying that these experiences are not true for you, but the main thing that prevents you from losing weight is what you choose to tell yourself and the beliefs that you hold around yourself and weight loss.

But it is ok as I have developed a really simple and easy idea that will stop all of this. It takes quite a bit of practice, but it will definitely work. OK here goes; you just need to……Stop thinking! There, really simple, eat less, move around more and stop having all and every negative thought around food and drink and being more active. There is a slight problem though, have you ever tried to just not think at all? There are thousands of thoughts going around your brain each and every day. Now while some people can reach an incredible state of calm through meditation where they totally clear their mind, you cannot always hold onto that state all day. So maybe this idea is not that practical after all.

However, we are on the right lines here to achieving long-term weight loss. Because the real secret to long-term weight loss is actually about taking control of your thoughts and then challenging them and the beliefs attached to them. This may sound difficult, but it is so much easier than you “think!” You see we often spend so much of our time with our thoughts projected into the future or stuck in the past, that we fail to stay in the moment and connect with our current thinking. Within his book the “Power of now”, Eckhart Tolle writes about how we can all achieve much more happiness if we keep our thoughts focused on the moment. As when we keep our thoughts out of the past and future, we realise that we don’t actually have any problems in the present second. This is the same for weight loss unless we take full control of our thoughts we are very much at the mercy of our perceived past failures and our future anxieties of failing again. Now, this is actually what demotivates us and drives us back to our old beliefs and habits.

So how do we achieve this, well we are all hardwired from our early years with unconscious beliefs that we pick up from parents, teachers, television and these days social media. Now, these negative beliefs will come out through our thoughts and we respond to them with negative behaviour. So the first thing that we need to do is stop and listen to the thoughts that we are having. You see we never stop and think about our thoughts, but the minute we do this things start to change. As when we focus on a thought, we become aware of it and then it becomes a conscious thought. When the thought moves to our consciousness, we can then start to examine and challenge it and when we do this we actually start to destabilise the belief. For example, we might say to ourselves, “Walking for 30 minutes will not burn off enough calories to make a difference. You need to work out in a gym every day for an hour to see any difference and I am really tired after working all day”, but what if we flipped that belief? With “Well sitting down for an additional 30 minutes will certainly burn even less”. Or how about “A 30 minute walk will build up my energy levels so I will find it easier to walk 30 minutes tomorrow as well, then by the end of the week I will have done an extra 2 and a half hours exercise and that will make a difference” Notice the difference in the internal communication and how it starts to shake the belief system. Every time you get a negative thought around food or drink or being active you have to stop and notice the words, make them conscious and bring up the opposite thought to flip it.

For a long time now I have noticed that the work that I have been doing with people to help them lose weight or stop smoking always comes to rewiring the false beliefs that they are carrying around. I also then help people through hypnosis to become more consciously aware of the thoughts. These days I can always spot when someone who I have been working with has shaken off their old beliefs as they become so much happier and are managing to keep their thoughts in the present moment.

I know that some people will still turn to special diets, or become addicted to weight loss clubs and the low-calorie foods being pushed. The other day on Facebook someone was actually selling “Magic Beans”, that promised to do all sorts of incredible things including helping you lose weight!!

But always remember the simplest and easiest method of losing weight long term really is and always will be eating less and moving around more. If you do this, you cannot fail to lose weight. So the next time you are about to make a poor decision around food or drink and why or how it can’t be done, challenge your thoughts and ask whose beliefs or influences are you acting under.

If you would like to make any positive changes to your life, please click the link below to go to my website to find out more.

Make positive changes to your life today

How you can reduce the causes and effects of Stress and anxiety yourself

THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT HAS HAD OVER 48,000!!!! COMBINED VIEWINGS
ON FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE AND THIS BLOG. 

Everyone will have some stress and anxiety in their lives. The video below shows how you can reduce the root causes and effects of stress and anxiety yourself.

Due to the huge popularity of this video, I now created a brand new FREE from Stress and anxiety program. Please click on my site below for more details

Hypnotherapy in Norwich

or contact me on 07919102191

How I discovered the real secret to long-term weight loss. It`s not about going on a diet or to the gym.

As a weight loss therapist, I always focus on what is effective and actually works to help people achieve their weight loss goals. So when I set out to create some brand new weight loss therapies. I wanted to create something which would actively promote easy and long-term weight loss. I decided to look at the bigger picture and focus on those who lost weight easily and kept it off.  This would not be not short-term weight loss where people would lose a few pounds and put it back on in a month.

I first noticed that my most successful weight loss clients were the ones who made small lasting changes. These clients saw the changes as a new lifestyle and not just a temporary fix or going on a diet. They were the people who wanted to change their lives and not just drop a few pounds before they went on holiday.  

Quite simply they did not see weight loss as a quick fix but approached it with a view to making a long-term and lasting change.

So I set about writing this brand new weight loss system based on my most successful client's experiences that had lost weight after visiting me. What I discovered was quite incredible and had a lasting effect, but not only on my clients but also on myself!!   

You see as I was researching and writing these new therapies I noticed that every day I was starting to change my own lifestyle and without making any effort I was starting to losing weight!!

 I certainly was not dieting nor did I join the gym!!  I was not even thinking about it consciously. The changes just came naturally and everyone was starting to notice how different I was looking. People were commenting on how much weight I had lost.   

So checking the scales I was surprised to find out that I had lost half a stone in 2 weeks and it stayed off!!  I was shocked as I was not even trying to lose weight, just living my life by these new lifestyle changes.

Then it occurred to me, as I was creating and reading these new therapies back to myself I had started to change my own thoughts and beliefs. These new beliefs helped make all of these unconscious changes to my own lifestyle. I realised that there was even more to long-term weight loss than I had considered. It was not just about food or exercise, it was about the way we thought and lived. My whole lifestyle changed almost overnight.

Suddenly it became clear why so many people were not able to lose weight or had lost weight and could not keep it off. They were holding the wrong thoughts about themselves and the whole idea of staying thin. It did not have to be painful or involve sweating in the gym. All I was doing was a daily walk and just making sure that I was staying active.

As I lost more weight I could see that it actually had less to do with food and exercise and a lot more to do with the thoughts I was holding. As we always make the changes to our thoughts first, you have to lose weight in your mind before you lose it in your body. The new therapies I was creating helped me to focus on several key areas of my life that I had not thought about for a while.

As I continued my work and research I realised that I had more and more energy and motivation to go out and do different things and achieve more. I was enthused to live a new lifestyle and I really wanted to stick to it.

Within a month I had lost over a stone!!

I was amazed as I had not been hungry, dieted or still set foot in a gym. All of the smaller changes that I had made to my mindset had set me off on a new path. I just wanted to live a healthy lifestyle now.

But here was the real surprise I maintained my new healthier weight and none of it went back on, I just stayed the same. I felt as though I had discovered some real long-term secrets to weight loss.

2. So what were the changes I made and how did it happen?

Ok first let me ask you a really important question about weight loss.

What is the same thing about every attempt you have ever made to lose weight and keep the weight off?

Is it Food? No, as we try fad diets

Is it Drink? No,

Is it Exercise? No, again we attempt the latest exercise craze time and time again and then give up.

I will tell you. The same thing about every diet and weight loss regime you have ever undertaken is…….YOU.

There is really only one reason why you have not made the permanent changes to your life that you would have liked. That reason is you, as you are still making the wrong choices and not living the correct lifestyle.

To make the changes, first, you have to change your unconscious beliefs about who you are, what you believe and how you can live every day.

It has to become a naturally unconscious way of life to lose weight, stay healthy and anyone can do it!!

Just imagine it like this. If you were attempting to learn a whole new language such as French and you decided to only spend 1 hour a week studying it. How long do you think it would take you to become fluent and conversational?  It would most likely take you a very long time and you would struggle to master it. But what if you actually went and lived in France, where you immersed yourself in the culture and lifestyle and everyone around spoke French. You would learn the language quicker and retain your ability to speak it as you were doing it every day.

The secret to long-term weight loss is the same as learning a new language. It is not something you practise, it is something you live. You have to immerse yourself in the lifestyle of a thinner and healthier person. 

The truth of the matter is that anyone at any age can lose weight this way and keep it off. You just need to start living a different life and holding some new beliefs and thoughts about food and being active. But most of all you need to create and hold onto some new thoughts and beliefs around yourself.

These changes are not something that you can get from a weight loss club, attending the gym or just stopping eating your favourite foods for 8 weeks.

These changes have to be made in the mind and affect every area of your life.

This is something that will stay with you and enable you to feel great about yourself and who you are. It will help you build a positive body image and keep motivated. This will enable you to live a completely new lifestyle.

Now you may have noticed how I keep stressing the word lifestyle that is because going on a diet does not work!!!!! Diets can provide you with a quick fix and you may lose some weight, but you will then find this weight will quickly go back on, the minute you stop dieting or attending the gym.

In order to really be successful with your long-term weight loss, you need to make permanent changes. These changes you need to make are just very small ones, which will help you obtain you your longer-term goals.

It works the same as the aeroplane theory. If you were an aeroplane starting out on a journey, if you changed your course by 1 degree at the start you would end up in a totally different part of the world.

So you only have to make a handful of small changes to your life to end up at your ideal weight and stay that way forever.  

3. So what stops us from losing weight?

Unfortunately, we do!!!  We are always the cause of all of our own issues, as we are in control of the choices and actions we take, we just choose to take the wrong ones.

Over the years we have programmed ourselves to do the wrong things, we tell ourselves the wrong stories and then we act upon them.

Have you ever noticed how an old belief or idea used to stop you doing something until you were told differently and then found that you could achieve what you wanted to? None of us gave up on talking or walking at an early age, did we? No, we gained a new belief that we could do it and suddenly our world changed.

You have to change the unconscious beliefs about who you are, what you believe and how you can live your life every day.

So after seeing the changes that my most successful weight loss client’s had made, I broke it down into 4 unconscious core principles. Then taking these core principles I devised 4 simple weight loss therapy sessions that help you to change your 4 principle unconscious principles and thoughts about losing weight.

4. The 4 unconscious principles that help us lose weight

 Session 1: How you see yourself and your goals

 Session 2: Making empowered choices every day

 Session 3: Overcoming old beliefs and obtaining new thoughts

 Session 4: Balancing and maintaining your new lifestyle

When you have these 4 unconscious principle beliefs working for you, you will find that you can start to live that healthy balanced new lifestyle.  But the changes have to be lasting and permanent, which is why you need to be living them consciously and unconsciously.

This is why those people who are unable to lose weight and attempt yo-yo dieting and fads make no long-term changes to their health and weight. They are not living the life of a thinner healthier person.

It does not actually matter what age you are or what your current weight is, making these changes will set you off on a new path that will give you the results that you want. 

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20% DISCOUNT ON ADDICTION AND PTSD THERAPY FOR THE ARMED FORCES COMMUNITY

Over the years I have worked with many people who have suffered from the effects of trauma and PTSD and I have been very proud to watch them gain resilience and recover. The work that I have done with military veterans has always held a special place for me.

So as a way of giving something back I will be reducing my fee for trauma or addiction work by 20% for any members of the Armed Forces community (Ex or current servicemen or woman)
My Father was an ex-serviceman and I have had many good friends over the years who have served their country in all branches of the forces.

We are fortunate in that we live in a time of relative peace and this peace is afforded us by those who serve in defence of our liberty and freedom.

Below is a brief explanation of PTSD and how I work alongside people to support them. 

Post-traumatic stress disorder or (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder. It is caused by distressing, stressful or frightening events that have become stuck in a repetitive cycle within a person’s mind. Someone who has PTSD may often relieve a past traumatic event through a flashback or nightmare. The wider reaching implications of PTSD can be insomnia, isolation, anger, lack of concentration or an inability to function within work or social settings. It has also lead many people into self-destructive patterns of behaviour resulting in alcohol and drug addiction. If left untreated PTSD can lead to further enduring, long-term poor mental health issues. 
Many believe PTSD is something that only military veterans suffer with after prolonged exposure to combat. But this is not the case as many people have visited me and been suffering from the symptoms of PTSD after a road accident, prolonged abuse (Physical, mental, or sexual) or a singular traumatic incident that has stayed with them.
The people who I have worked with over the years have found the effects of hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro linguistic programming) very effective for reducing and in many cases eliminating the effects of PTSD. Within my NLP therapies, I use a proven technique developed by Dr Richard Bandler, which safely disassociates those suffering from the effects of trauma and allows them to find a safe and relaxed place of calm. The work I conduct is very similar to EMDR and CBT, but gets to the root cause more effectively and is also effective as it is a deep healing therapy.
If you believe that you may be suffering from the effects of PTSD please call me for a confidential chat. My telephone consultations are completely free of charge. 

The best and most shocking reaction I have ever had to telling someone I was a Life Coach.

Why would I go for a life Coaching session again?

We have all heard the term Life coach or Business coach, but have we ever considered what they do. 

I was made to think about this last week when I was in the middle of Norwich and a business contact asked me for my mobile phone number. I gave her my business card and she read it with some fascination, as the card said Life Business Coaching and NLP practitioner on it.

Your and what!!!! she said and they do what again !!!!! she asked as if I had just stated that I was about to reverse who whole Brexit process single-handedly. 

I was going to present the lady with a list of the usual things that I help people to achieve, such as: Finding it easier to make decisions when they feel stuck, improving motivation and confidence, help with careers choice and progression, even personal and relationship issues that affect our lives. But then I stopped and instead started to tell her about my most recent clients

My clients had moved to Norfolk and settled in Norwich. Not having many contacts they wanted to start their own business but were not sure where to begin. Feeling lost they Googled ( Life and Business coaching in Norwich and found my website. 

They visited me and we began to discuss their lives and aspirations. After several sessions, they found some answers as to not only where they wanted to go with their life and new business venture, but also just how they were going to achieve it. 

I helped them to find their inner resources and how to tap into their personal power and obtain the confidence and motivation, to take those first few steps. 

Soon they were racing along their new life path and checking off goals as they went. On their last session, I asked them what they felt they had achieved. They looked at me and smiling said: Finding the ability to make a change and enjoying the freedom that it brings. 

When I had finished telling the lady this story, she just looked at me and said “WOW, I totally get it, you help people to fix their own, we will change the word for the sake of this post to "STUFF"!!

Yes, I replied I help people to find ways to fix their own "STUFF" :) 

 It was sometime after when I was thinking about her last that the importance of explaining to someone just how you can help, is so much more important than explaining, what you do and how you do it.

If you would like help any area of your life, please call me for a telephone consultation on 07919102191

www.hypnotherapy-in-norwich.co.uk

Jason Edwards

Keep changing what you do until you get the results you want.

Free Relaxation Hypnotherapy

FREE RELAXATION HYPNOTHERAPY SESSION.

This is for those of you who may need to de-stress, relax and unwind. Or for those of you who are struggling to sleep. If you would like to experience a relaxing hypnotherapy session, then please click on the youtube video below.

The right way to deal with PTSD and Trauma.

Please read this fascinating account of how one of my clients learned to deal with PTSD and in their own words “Kick its ass”

Hello. I have written this for anyone suffering out there. Don’t, as you do not have to. Please read what I have to say. I am no writer so excuse the way I talk, I just write as it comes. 

I had not realised that the subconscious mind can store and hold onto painful memories and then bring them back at the worst and most unexpected moments. When I was much younger I had suffered abuse as a child and never spoke about it or attempted to deal with it. I buried it deep. 

As a teenager, I was in a horrific accident that nearly took my life. My body healed, but my mind was forgotten about and the incident never discussed. People said it would be too painful for you to go over it again. So I buried it deep. 

When I faced daily stress and anxiety in pressurised situations I was told to “get on with it” and talking was not encouraged. Once more I buried it, very deep. 

Then tragedy struck and I had to deal with both loss and grief at the same time. The trauma of what I had born witness to was beyond compare. This time there was no burying it and sinking to my knees I could take no more. My mind strangely decided it was time to bring forward every painful experience from my childhood to present day all at once. I could function no longer and I kept having flashbacks at random times. I feared the worse and thought to myself, I actually cannot cope or go on.

 A friend visited who said I should go for therapy. This went against everything I believed that I needed or had ever been suggested to me. At this stage, I would have tried anything. I found certain types of counselling difficult as I did not want to go over these things again, so I gave up. 

So I decided to do my own research. In a library, I found a book by a man called Richard Bandler.  I read bits about how we think and getting over things, but I could not make sense of it. I knew what he said was right, but I could not make it work. Throwing the book down, I gave up. 

Then I spotted a web post about PTSD and NLP and it occurred to me that other people used this as a therapy to help others.  This made sense that I need to visit a professional who could help. I phoned up a chap, who seemed to know his stuff and booked in. That is when I made the breakthrough. I say I made the breakthrough as this is what he taught me, we often rely on others to take stuff away from us. We need to do it for ourselves. He talked and listened in a different way and I found if I saw my world differently then I could safely view all of those elements of my life, even the bad ones. I knew they were part of something bigger, my pathway and journey. 2 sessions in and the anxiety and trauma stopped. We did something called double dissociation and pattern disruptions. I realised that whenever I hear a car door shut or I heard something else loud it would trigger memories and bring stuff back.  

I could see the sessions were doing me good and I was becoming happy to return to my old life. I held on to positive anchors and really felt I could on.  By the fourth session,  I felt I had all the skills I needed to kick this things ass now. I read some more books and practised all the NLP techniques I had been taught.  

I urge everyone out there to get out, buy a book, find a therapist that knows this stuff. I have got my life back and I am forever grateful. Go kick the ass of whatever is bothering you :) 

The Key to succeeding in anything. Why it really is time to change and find your Authentic Self

I have recently been working with a client who has had a debilitating issue regarding social and work relationships. It had become so acute that it was starting to destroy the whole fabric of her life to such a degree that she had stopped socialising or communicating with others. She had developed a fear that this issue would take hold and she would act upon her compulsions. A friend who she confided in, was currently visiting me for confidence coaching suggested that she come and see me. Her friend was aware that I also work with people who suffer from stress anxiety and other issues such as addiction and compulsion.

 After talking to the lady for a short while it became apparent that this compulsion within her had not come from any traumatic or emotional past event. She had led a successful and happy life and been brought up in a happy and loving family. She was in every sense of the world a successful lady, except for this one area of her life that was starting to become all-consuming. We worked through some NLP techniques and then regressed her through hypnotherapy to a time before she had this issue. After coming out of the trance, she suddenly had a revelation of something that she had been said to her by an ex-partner on a frequent bases. What they had said had not been negative or disparaging, but they always said the same thing during a time when she was in a high state of emotional awareness. Unfortunately, this repetition of words had created what is known in therapeutic terms as a "negative anchor" and something had recently triggered this within her causing her to have a very controlling negative self-belief around her emotions and subsequent actions.

 On discovering this it was a very easy matter of creating some new beliefs and destroying or collapsing the old belief. Also, the realisation of where it had all started also played a major role in helping her.  My client changed instantly and was amazed by how something so simple could have been causing her to have such a strong compulsion to act so strongly out of character.

This started me thinking about just how controlled we often our by the words and images that unconsciously hit our senses. These images and beliefs then become embedded within our thought process and then start to shape who we are, by distorting our beliefs.

Just stop and think about the amount of input that goes into your brain each day, most of which you are not even aware of. Also, consider those strong influences and voices from your early years that formed your opinions of the world around you and how you believe that you should act and behave within it. Its no wonder that when we hear something negative about our self that may have been reinforced from a young age, that we start to believe it and act in a way that is not authentic.

Just imagine for a moment that you could take yourself back to a very young age before the world got to you. A time before you had not taken on board any negative or distorted thinking that was given to you by parents, family, friends, television and the all-encompassing and damaging social media.  Now without all of those negative and distorted beliefs consider what are your thoughts on yourself? You might not actually have even formed any yet, but as a young child seen something that really appealed to you and thought. I want to do that and be like him or her? Was this dream then supported or were you told something like "don't be stupid, you cant do that"  causing the very young you to give up, lower your head and conform to a life of mediocrity.

But what if you could go back now and go completely clear on these thoughts. Or better still imagine if you received positive thoughts on yourself and your dreams had been supported and encouraged. How would this have shaped you and your life? Or would you have discovered who you really are and meant to be, it's such a powerful and empowering question. Ask yourself a better quality of question and get a better quality of answer. For example, what do you really like and what do you want to do with your life?


The good news is that no matter what age you are it's not to late to still hold these thoughts. I once worked with a victim of childhood abuse who very much came to terms with their abusive past and was actually able to re-frame the most traumatic period of their childhood. I will always remember they said to me in the last session. "It's not to late to have had a happy childhood, no matter how old you are".

Have you ever been away from a negative person either at work, home or in a relationship and suddenly noticed that you start to do different things and hold new thoughts and beliefs about yourself; its almost as if you have been reborn.

I always remember sitting down many years ago and watching an episode of Dr Who with my son. It was the first episode that David Tennent stared in and he had regenerated but not sure who he was yet. At one point someone asked him "Who are you" and he replied. "I don't know yet" he then went into a whole list of possibilities of who he could possibly be, considering each one he liked and dismissing those he did not. A few minutes later he committed a spontaneous defensive act that saw the evil alien leader plummet to Earth from his ship, he then declared "No second chances, that's who I am" We should be shaped by our true feelings and responses that are of our own creation and choosing, not those that are fed to us from others.

So maybe its time that we all looked to regenerate and start finding our authentic self again. Finding and discovering the person who we were all really born to be. The person who has not had a lifetime of negative sounds and images piled upon them and attempted to gloss over these. Its time to reach down, wipe off the negativity and find out who we really are. Why not start this pathway by unplugging from all of the negative people and elements in your life. Give yourself a week away from the negative elements of social media, the negative thoughts of others and start to rediscover your authentic self.

Then make a list of those true qualities that you believe that you hold and how you could use them to them in the best possible way to pursue your dreams and purpose.

You will be amazed at the power that this will give to start truly believing in yourself, growing and fully developing into the person you were born to be.