Hypnosis, guided visualization or guided imagery are different terms to describe a safe, natural state of relaxed, highly focused attention, in which you can more clearly visualize your goals, evoke positive emotions and mentally rehearse behaviour change. In this calm, but hyper-focused state, your mind is more easily able to accept helpful suggestions given to you by a therapist. You can think of hypnosis as like that of being guided through a specific daydream. You are awake, but lost in your own world, just as if you were completely engrossed in a gripping book, film or sports match. Hypnosis is safe. It is not magical and it doesn’t put you to sleep or render you unconscious. It’s not brain-washing, mind reprogramming or mind control. Most people are completely aware of everything that happens to them, they have full control and they only take on suggestions they are happy to accept. You can always move freely and you will never take on any suggestions or do anything you don’t agree with. Hypnosis is not passive. You will be asked to think and imagine along with suggestions given, but in a relaxed way, paying attention and responding without too much analysis or conscious thought. Under hypnosis, many people can often remember with perfect clarity, events that happened years, or even decades previously. The memories can feel very real as if they are happening right now and can include images, sounds, smells, sensations, tastes, pain and of course emotions. The clarity and depth of the experience differentiate it from a normal memory. Most people find a hypnosis session deeply relaxing and refreshing. Afterwards you will probably have a great night’s sleep and for a few days afterwards probably have a much greater sense of perspective over your life and its challenges.

Hypnotherapy can help with a wide range of life's challenges, including: Fears & phobias, Stress, anxiety & panic, Confidence & motivation, Weight issues & body image, Anger management, Relationship issues, Unwanted habits, Children's issues, Relaxation, Grief & loss, Health issues, Sexual issues, Skin issues, Childbirth, Sports performance, Business, communication skills & finance, Exams & studying.

Yes, pretty much! Entering into hypnosis is as easy as daydreaming. According to research (Golden et al, 1987), the majority of people are moderately hypnotizable. Hypnosis is essentially a matter of belief and imagination. You just need to be willing to listen to and imagine along with the suggestions given. The key to being good at hypnosis is actually to believe you will be good and to be patient, curious and open-minded, choosing to analyse the experience afterwards. The more confidently you expect it to happen, the faster and easier it will. Until in the end you can simply tell yourself. Everyone experiences hypnosis differently. Some people are visual and see clear images in their mind’s eye. For others, it’s sounds or smells. Some people experience sensations, emotions or just a sense of knowing. Many people will have a combination of these. Sometimes the sensations are strong and clear, other times more subtle. Just like we can train our minds over time to become better at learning a language or playing an instrument, so we can become better at hypnosis through practice. The more hypnosis you have, the quicker, easier and deeper the level of hypnotic trance you will be able to achieve and the more confident you will feel to trust whatever information comes to mind. Most people find they relax deeper and quicker in subsequent sessions and the information comes to them with more clarity. If you are new to hypnosis, listening to short relaxation meditations audios a few times before your first session is strongly recommended. This will help you to practice the skill of relaxing and letting go, helping you to get the most out of your first session.

Guided meditation or guided relaxation typically requires you to focus on a relaxing thought or object of focus, such as your breath, a sound, a silently repeated word or something physical such an apple or flower, etc. The experience is normally one-way; you simply listen to the words spoken. Although similar, hypnosis requires you to deliberately imagine something specific, such as remembering an event or dealing with a challenging situation. This allows you to safely practice it within your imagination first, before dealing with it in real life. Although hypnosis sessions may begin and end with some guided relaxation in order to calm the mind and body, during the main part of the session you will typically be required to interact verbally with the hypnotherapist. If you have experienced guided meditation or relaxation, such as yoga nidra in the past, hypnosis will not be too unfamiliar to you.

If there is no obvious cause in your current life for a particular fear or phobia, then past life regression may be worth exploring. Whilst you might think that you would have to re-experience a past life trauma in order to heal from it, the opposite could be true. If you have a phobia of dogs for example, past life regression could take you to a lifetime where you have loving, companiable relationships with dogs. It doesn’t necessarily need to be traumatic. The past life experience that you need in order to overcome those fears is decided by your higher mind. Similarly, if you are experiencing a great amount of life stress, you might regress back to a life of peace, giving you a new more peaceful perspective over your issues. Or, in contrast, you could regress back to a traumatic war situation, to help you put your current life issues into perspective. That is the beauty of past life regression. You really don’t know what you are going to get. But it will be the exact right experience for you.

For a simple case of overwhelm, a session that includes some tension release or Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR), followed by some suitable hypnotic suggestions, might be just enough to provide a short term reset and some greater perspective. But just as ‘feeling tired’ can have many different causes, so can stress and anxiety. Perhaps you are feeling fearful about your job or a relationship? Or perhaps you have low-esteem or confidence? Perhaps it’s social anxiety, not eating well, not sleeping well or not exercising or playing enough? Or maybe it’s an inner conflict of some sort? Once the root cause has been identified, hypnosis can be considered for many of life's issues.

Regression therapy is the term used to include both past life and current life regression.

Inner child work typically involves stepping into a current life memory as your current, older, wiser self in order to experience the situation from your adult mindset &/or to support your younger self. Perhaps for example, you were told to "shut up" or laughed at a lot as a child and this has seemingly affected your abilities to present well or speak up in meetings at work ever since. Inner child work would involve you re-experiencing that old memory, within a state of calm relaxation, but adding in your current self into the memory. How would you support your younger you? What would you say to your younger self? What would you say to those people who used to silence you, from the position of your current you? How would your younger self take comfort from having the support of your current self? Swopping places a few times in that memory, between your younger and current self has the effect of helping you to say what you couldn't say at the time or do what you couldn't do. The result is that it removes the emotional sting from the memory. Old negative associations can be replaced with healthier, more positive associations. It is these associations that form the basis of your automatic reactions. In this example, we might replace the feelings of humiliation at being "shut up" or laughed at, with claps, cheers or celebrations from the people that humiliated you, thus entirely changing the nature of the memory and the impact it has on you now.

That's ok. During a session, within a space of calm relaxation, your non-conscious mind will pick its own memory that is relevant for you to recall and explore. The memory will probably just pop into your head and it may be something that you haven't thought about for years. It may be a seemingly insignificant memory, such as not being picked for sports, or waiting outside of school for a parent who is late. Unless there is a particular memory that is troubling you, there's nothing you need to do to make this happen. Your inner mind is smart enough to know what it needs to process and release for your benefit!

Yes. Sessions can be recorded with the audio file sent to you after the session. You may wish to wait a few weeks before listening to it, to give time for further reflections to appear. Group sessions are recorded as well and an edited audio file sent out to all registered participants so that the visualizations can be listened to again.

If you're feeling uncertain about what you need, please book a free 15-minute consultation call with us. We'll help you figure it out together!

Hypnosis is not suitable for: Psychosis When taking perception altering medications Anyone with a perception altering condition After consuming alcohol or recreational drugs Past life regression is not suitable if you are pregnant, but other alternatives are available. Please ask.

Hypnotherapy is an educational and self-improvement process that helps you access your own inner resources, assisting you to resolve problems, increase motivation or alter behaviour patterns, to create positive change. Services such as Regression and Parts Therapy may involve you going into deeper or buried memories that could bring emotions to the surface. The truth of any memories that may come to your conscious awareness as a result of the sessions is for you to decide. AnnGP Therapy works to UK standards set through voluntary regulation in the hypnotherapy and regression profession itself and not by any country or state licensing requirements. We do not practice psychotherapy or medicine. None of the services offered are intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, psychological or mental health condition, nor be a substitute for medical treatment. Whilst AnnGP Therapy will do our utmost to help you to find your own inner resources, you are responsible for your own healing and growth. For any health concerns, you should always consult your own healthcare professional. Accessing the services available on this website implies your acceptance of this disclaimer

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Past life regression (PLR) uses a light level of hypnosis to take you back to an experience of a prior life, in order to re-live events, situations, traumas or a death, which may have learnings relevant to this current life. 'One of the remarkable features of past life therapy is that behind every chronic physical symptom that resists conventional treatment is an older story of disaster, deprivation or violent death embedded within the symptom itself ..' Woolger R, Other Lives, Other Selves. A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers past Lives. Bantam Books. 1988

The session you have depends on your experience with hypnosis and mediation. If these are new you we will probably begin with a brief discussion, followed by a guided relaxation and then aim to take you into a positive past life. We would go to a past life that is the source of your current issues in a second follow up session. This gives you more of an opportunity to get used to the experience of past life regression. Albeit, the mind will go where it needs to go for you greatest benefit. In all past life sessions, you will be asked to describe yourself and the significant events that you find yourself in (that your mind selects by itself). You will be asked to describe out loud what you are experiencing. You may see the event in your mind or feel or sense it in some way. You might experience explanations or sudden gut knowings just popping into your head, as if from nowhere. A key part of the experience is to explore the point of death and the emotions or thoughts occurring at that time. We may return back to any earlier significant events to ensure nothing of importance to that life has been omitted. An important part of the process, not covered by all past life regression therapists (hence why this session is longer than a standard 60 min session), is to reflect on the relationships with the main characters that occur in that lifetime. This can be a powerful, profound and healing experience. You may or may not recognize those characters from your current life. We conclude with some words of wisdom or guidance given to you by your spirit guide, higher mind or non-conscious (according to your own beliefs) and a short consolidating meditation. Afterwards we will briefly reflect on the experience and any patterns that might have relevance or meaning for your current life. If requested, you will receive your audio recording shortly afterwards. Note that at the start of the regression, your conscious mind may be quite chatty, giving you a running commentary as to the validity of the experience, whether you are making it all up or if you are doing it right (if you have images, thoughts, feelings, sensations or knowings, then yes, you are doing right!). Your conscious mind will always remain on throughout, but later in the session it will settle, taking on the role of quiet observer, rather than opinionated commentator.

Past lives can have links to current life issues, through recurring conditions, illnesses, or unexplained pains, as well as repeating situations or patterns of behavior. Re-experiencing the significant events of a past life within the safety of a regression session and identifying the learnings, may help resolve symptoms or issues in this current life. Past life regression can be immensely healing. Someone with unexplained recurring headaches for example, may find themselves regressed back to a past life where they had a traumatic head injury, which subsequently improves when the past life event is identified, addressed and released. Even those having past life regression just out of curiosity, often report feeling lighter and brighter as a result. The majority of our issues in life stem from our relationships with others. Past life regression can be helpful in establishing any ongoing soul contacts. These are considered by some to be joint agreements made with others before we all came into this life, in order to facilitate growth and learning. Having this understanding can help remove some of the emotion around certain individuals in our lives, replacing it with understanding and ultimately, forgiveness. In addition to going back to past lives in order to heal them and be released from them, we can also revisit past lives to re-connect with past skills, talents and wisdom. If you want to write a book in this life, then re-living the life of a writer in a past life may help your skills and creativity. Indeed, some people seeking to enhance their creativity experience past lives purely for this reason. Healing a single past life through regression often has positive unforeseen knock-on benefits in other areas of life. In hindsight, you may notice that undisclosed minor niggles seemed to have improved too. The benefits of past life regression can be far-reaching.

For normal day-to-day stress, anxiety and overwhelm, or for unexplained or unresolvable physical issues, hypnosis, guided imagery and past life regression is inherently safe and no more risky than daydreaming. Hypnosis is definitely not a state of mind control. You cannot be made to do anything against your will. In fact, you normally must want to accept suggested ideas and actively imagine responding, in order to experience their effects. Hypnosis is completely safe when used in a responsible and professional manner. Nobody has ever been stuck in hypnosis. If your hypnotherapist stopped talking, you would simply awake after a short while, as if from a nice nap. Comedy stage hypnosis has very little to do with therapeutic hypnotherapy and fosters many misconceptions. Take what you see on TV with a generous pinch of salt. Past life regression involves re-experiencing events and emotions, although those emotions are let go of rapidly. Afterwards, most people feel lighter, more free and much less burdened. They usually sleep better that evening and generally feel more relaxed and happier in the few days subsequent to the session.

Many people experiencing past life regression wonder if they are making it up. But consider your degree of concentration. Although you can consciously daydream about, say winning the lottery, you probably can’t sustain that daydream for longer than a few minutes (if that), before your mind gets distracted. In contrast, you could probably remain in a focused hypnotic regression for a good 1-2 hours, with little conscious distraction. Gradually as the session progresses, the conscious mind starts to dial down to the point of almost being set aside. No conscious effort is required to imagine or recall. Facts and information just seem to pop into the mind in an instant and there is an absolute knowing about the life and character. Emotions feel very real and create similar reactions. It is possible that you are making it all up, but if so, most people's minds have the plot writing ability of a Hollywood script-writer! Although that said, many past lives are quite mundane lives. If you were making it up, would you have chosen a life more glamorous than that of a rural peasant in the 14th century?

Just like a vivid dream can linger, a past life regression experience can stay with you. Typically, any feelings of unease fade within 1-3 days, though the memories remain indefinitely. During the first 3 days post-regression, the past life experience is still close to you. Unanswered questions may surface in your mind or dreams, so try asking additional questions mentally and observe the responses. It's highly recommended to jot down everything you remember immediately after the session to help make sense of it. Discussing the experience with supportive friends and family can also aid in understanding. Staying grounded is crucial immediately after and for the 3 days following the regression. Spend time in nature, eat well, and practice self-care. If you're new to grounding techniques, try imagining your feet are rooted into the ground or listen to short grounding meditations.

Hypnosis and past life regression is NOT recommended in cases of: psychosis altered mental states (where a person has trouble differentiating reality from imagination) when under the influence of any drugs (including alcohol) which may impact the state of mind or perceptions Past life regression which involves deep emotions from another lifetime, is not recommended during pregnancy but other forms of spiritual hypnotherapy are, such as connecting at a higher level to the spirit of your unborn child.

Parts therapy is a hypnotic therapy that aims to resolve inner conflict, caused by conflicting, self-sabotaging, inner motivations. It works on the basis that whenever your conscious mind and your subconscious mind are in conflict, the deeper needs of your subconscious mind invariable wins. Certain parts, especially those concerned with protection, can overpower others, leading to an imbalance, which can stop you achieving your goals, taking that promotion, joining the gym, moving house, eating better etc. For simplicity we call them parts, but you could equally call them inner drives, automatic habits or repetitive behaviours. An example might be someone who has tried and failed to lose weight. They may have a strong conscious desire to lose weight, feel healthy, wear nice clothes and look good etc, but also have a competing subconscious deeper, hidden need to hide away, be viewed as unattractive or go through life unseen. Having these conflicting drives can make any conscious efforts to change doomed to fail, frustrating or just plain exhausting. Just like in a normal negotiation, only when the two or more parts can agree on the same outcome, can the inner conflict settle and change occur. Parts therapy aims to create win-win outcome in your mind, so that all parts are integrated, working coherently and harmoniously for the benefit and happiness of you.

No, absolutely not! Multiple subconscious 'parts' are completely normal. We all have them, in the same way that we all have multiple roles in our lives. You may perform the role of wife/husband, mother/father, sister/brother, daughter/son or manager. Just like different life roles are different aspects of you, so different subconscious parts are different aspects of your inner mind. In Parts Therapy we are just seeking to rebalance particular parts that are overpowering other parts and stopping you from achieving your goals. Parts Therapy has no connection whatsoever to multiple personality disorder.

Parts therapy can be helpful for any competing inner drives, that result in self-sabotaging behaviours, such as: Wanting to lose weight or get fitter or healthier .. but unable to stop unhelpful habits Wanting a happy long-term relationship .. but unable to commit to healthy behaviours that would support that relationship Driven to earn more .. but unable to spend the money Wanting to awake feeling refreshed .. but unable to go to bed at a reasonable time Somehow blocking your own efforts to an optimal career, life, relationship, health or financial wellbeing, and having no idea WHY. Parts therapy is helpful if you have tried and failed to achieve change in your life, seemingly sabotaging your own best efforts.

Within a calm and relaxed state of hypnosis, the conflicting parts of your inner mind are identified and their reasonings explored. Just as in a negotiation, alternative ways of getting both parts to be motivated to work together to achieve the same outcomes, are explored. You will be answering questions on behalf of your conflicting parts, but the answers won't be coming from your conscious mind. Instead the answers will just pop into your mind as if from nowhere. They are coming from your subconscious mind. Once you're able to relax into it, it's actually quite fascinating to hear what your own mind really thinks, and often quite funny too.

Parts Therapy is worth considering if regular hypnotherapy, talk therapy or your own efforts have not achieved the outcomes you would like. If it seems to you that you have a deep hidden resistance to what you are trying to achieve, driving you in the opposite direction and you've no idea why, then parts therapy may be worth considering. Although regular hypnotherapy does talk to your subconscious mind, to achieve change we need to understand and explore the precise cause of the issue, because the same issue will have a unique cause for each person. Simply telling the subconscious to change isn't always enough, especially if there is a deep, hidden need. In fact, the subconscious mind may object to being told to change, hence why in the session, we negotiate gently with the mind!

Parts therapy works best for relatively straightforward inner conflicts, where you simply don't understand WHY you are behaving as you are. Situations where there seems to be no obvious reasons why your own actions go against your own goals. For more complex issues which generate very strong emotions and possible involve other people, current life regression, past life regression or psychotherapy/counselling may be more suitable. Conditions that are not suitable for parts therapy are psychosis, taking any form of mind altering medication and pregnancy. If you are seeking parts therapy to explore any ill health that you have, it vital that you have discussed this with your healthcare professional. We do not seek to remove pain, if doing so could mask an underlying condition. You are always welcome to book a free discovery call to discuss further.

There is no set number of sessions, as you and your issues will be unique. 1-4 sessions would be possible, 2-4 more likely. You will be the judge of how many sessions you need, based on how complete and resolved the issue feels after your session.

Because each client and each issue is unique, there is no easy, clear-cut answer. One client may achieve the change they are seeking, immediately after the first session. For others, the change may appear gradually over the next few weeks to months. Provided your inner mind was able to reach a satisfactory agreement and conclusion during the session, it is likely that when you look back 3-6 months later, you will see changes in hindsight. As humans, we adapt very quickly and often don't notice the changes as they are occurring. We only see them afterwards. Of course, your commitment and motivation to support the change are key elements too.

Current life regression aims to resolve issues by identifying and releasing events that may have occurred earlier in life. Such events may have been traumatic at the time or normal childhood events that were incorrectly encoded as traumatic by the brain at the time, i.e. getting lost in a shop as a young child may have contributed to fears of abandonment. Such past events can be buried deep within the non-conscious, making them hard to resolve through normal talking therapies. Identifying and re-living the event, but from the safety of a deeply relaxed state, may help reduce the impact or association, through desensitization.

Yes. In fact the combination works wonderfully together. Imagine that you are wanting to reduce general anxiety. We might start with a past life regression where perhaps, for example, you explore a past life of overwhelming responsibility or where you took no responsibility. Revisiting and releasing that life is likely to leave you feeling more relaxed, more grounded and more confident. Either in that same session (time dependant) or a follow-up one, we can then visit a few earlier life anxiety related (current life) memories that now be re-experienced from the new position and mindset of someone with much greater confidence and self-assurance. What would you have said and done in those old situations if you had had this new-found assertiveness. Role playing those old events from a new confident mindset can be very cathartic. Your inner mind will determine precisely which past events it wants to visit. Altering old events in this way almost rewrites your past, changing your associations and altering the way you automatically react now.

Future life progression is a way of glimpsing alternative possible futures that may await you. Most of us simply hope that things will work out in the future. We rarely take the time to consciously imagine all of our different options, how we might feel about them now or in the future and their likelihood of success. Our naturally distractible minds make all of this conscious thought just too effortful. Within the relaxed yet highly focused state of an Future life progression session, however, imagining all of your future options becomes effortless, fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable.

Future life progression allows you to mentally travel forward in time to see how certain life decisions or opportunities will pan out. It can be used across a wide range of issues, such as: Viewing 5 or 10 years ahead in your life Making confident and clear decisions Choosing between multiple career opportunities Identifying new areas of study or training Meeting future partners Exploring relationship challenges Making wise property investments Supporting healthy life decisions Exploring your next incarnation/lifetime Spotting watch-outs or potential pitfalls Motivating you to confidently take action, NOW!

Thoughts have power, whether positive or negative. Thoughts drive associations, reactions, responses, behaviors, actions and ultimately outcomes, often completely outside of our conscious awareness. Mentally trying on different future scenarios, within a state of deep relaxation allows you to mentally explore them, but bypassing the normal fear, emotions, avoidance or past associations, that make clear thinking a challenge. During times of change or confusion, an FLP experience can help you to make better, clearer and more confident decisions.