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Gambling Addiction – what’s the cost?

by Dan Regan | Nov 1, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Gambling Addiction – what’s the cost?

There have been a few stories in the media recently about gambling addiction such as the story of the student who lost £5,000 in 48 hours on fixed bet gambling machines and a Government Review looking at the possibility of reducing the maximum stake for fixed-odds betting terminals.

According to the BBC report, at the moment, people can bet up to £100 every 20 seconds. That’s a staggering amount that can be gambled and lost in no time at all.

And from working with people who struggle with a gambling addiction, there is no doubt that, for some people, it’s easy to get caught up in an ever deepening and desperate spiral of debt and financial loss. My clients will often describe how they go into a sort of trance where they are fixated on the next bet, getting a high from any wins and becoming desperate to recoup any losses. And of course, whilst many use machines of head into the local bookmakers, the easy access to online gambling means that you can bet on practically anything you like twenty four hours a day.

The lure of riches, the buzz of the risk and the high of any wins all play a part. There can also be issues of stress, depression, anxiety and low self esteem that contribute too.

Family Fun in King’s Lynn & The Joy of Getting Away From It All

by Dan Regan | Oct 30, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

This past weekend I took the family for a weekend away – all the way to King’s Lynn in Norfolk (about 45 minutes away in the car). Soemtimes it can seem like we are all so busy day to day with work and school that having a longer period together as a family only seems to happen at Christmas and on our summer holiday.

So after my early morning boot-camp, off we all went up the road to have a fun packed time in Norfolk.

After checking in at our hotel, the first stop for me and my girls was to head to the museum there. I absolutely love taking my kids to visit new museums and (I think) that they enjoy it too! Somehow or other this was the third half term museum we visited after a trip to Cambridge to the Fitzwilliam museum (which didn’t seem to engage my two that much) and then the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (which houses a pretty impressive three plus storey high totem pole).

We all had a great time there with the girls making bracelets, drums and puppets (yes I succumbed and made a puppet too!). We loved being creative together there. We also popped into the book shop where the children’s section housed a pretty impressive book igloo all set up for Halloween.

The Hypnotic Mindset – Are You In Control Really?

by Dan Regan | Oct 24, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

The Hypnotic Mindset – Are You Really in Control?

Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a client about the issue of control. Because of all the myths surrounding hypnosis and hypnotherapy, questions about being in control or fears of being out of control tend to be the ones that pop up most frequently.

For most people, their only familiarity with hypnosis is from stage show type formats where the whole thing is designed around the perception of the hypnotist making people do silly stuff over which they have no control, or from TV/movie portrayals of hypnosis being used to assist a storyline. And I’m sure there are some people out there who think hypnotists still swing the old watch in front of their eyes or do the whole ‘look into my eyes, not around my eyes, look into my eyes’ type thing (just like Kenny in ‘Little Britain’ – “Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don’t look around my eyes, look into my eyes, you’re under” – and if you’ve no idea what I’m talking about watch this You Tube clip from the show).

But who really has the control within hypnosis and hypnotherapy?

Is your inner critic keeping you anxious and stuck?

by Dan Regan | Oct 10, 2017 | Confidence and Self Esteem

Is your inner critic keeping you anxious and stuck?

Are you your own best friend or our own worst enemy? Whether we realise it or not, all day long we are running a self-talk commentary in our heads of what is going on within us and around us. If you have learnt to be self-critical in your thoughts then you may spend your time telling yourself that you aren’t good enough, or talking yourself out of doing things you want to do, or convincing yourself that you’ll probably fail or make an idiot of yourself.

It’s a bit like having a little devil on our shoulder all day long who delights in highlighting your perceived inadequacies, flaws or in naysaying any signs of confidence, hope and progression.

When I used to struggle with anxiety, I’d told myself I wasn’t good enough so many times that I’d stopped even noticing that I was doing it. It became so habitual that I just assumed that the stuff I was telling myself was fact and reality. I was sure that other people would think I was rubbish or boring or an idiot. I was always living on edge at some level in case I was ‘found out’ for being inadequate. I lived with a mind crammed full of inner criticism which projected my anxiety into each and every situation. I avoided things, I ducked out of things and I prayed no one would notice.

End Your Struggle With Anxiety – World Mental Health Day 2017

by Dan Regan | Oct 9, 2017 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

End your struggle with anxiety – World Mental Health Day 2017:

Ahead of World Mental Health Day 2017 (on 10th October 2017), I’m delighted to appear in the Cambridge News giving my advice on how to strengthen your mental well-being.

In the article you can read my 7 tips to help you start ending your struggle with anxiety.

One in Six Adults Battling Anxiety & Depression

by Dan Regan | Oct 2, 2017 | Anxiety Stress and Panic Attacks

One in Six Adults Battling Anxiety & Depression:

Around one in six adults in England are struggling with anxiety and depression problems according to figures from NHS Digital (and as reported by the BBC recently).

The figures from their survey also show that women are more likely than men to have ‘common mental disorder’ symptoms (which comprises of different types of depression and anxiety) and women are also more likely than men to report severe symptoms.

And in another report, NHS Digital cite that prescription items for anti depressants showed the greatest numeric rise in 2016 (for the fourth year in a row), with 64.7 million anti depressant items dispensed. As they report, “The number of antidepressant items has more than doubled in the last decade. In 2016, there were 64.7 million antidepressant items dispensed – 33.7 million (108.5 per cent) more than in 2006, when there were 31.0 million.” (Prescriptions Dispensed in the Community 2006-2016, NHS Digital).

This video is worth watching…

by Dan Regan | Sep 28, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

I love learning of my client successes following our sessions together, whether it’s a musician free of his old anxiety on tour, receiving a postcard from a client who had avoided flying for decades, a client who can now eat pain free because they overcame fear of the dentist, or any other or hundreds of other positive outcomes that have allowed people to get on with what they want to do.

Back in June, my client Beth very kindly did me a video testimonial following our sessions which dealt with her night time anxiety (watch it here).

Now Beth has her own You Tube channel where she talks about many things, including her journey from anxiety to confidence. I think you’ll agree that for someone to go from being unable to order a drink in a cafe or answer the phone at home to confidently putting it out there in the world on video is pretty special indeed.

While all of Beth’s videos are worth watching, I really liked one she did last month all about how you shouldn’t be afraid to ask for help if you need it.

Check it out here:

Quit Smoking and Stop Being a Social Smoker

by Dan Regan | Sep 28, 2017 | Quit Smoking Hypnosis

Quit Smoking and Stop Being a Social Smoker:

With Stoptober upon us once again, thousands of people will be attempting once again to successfully quit smoking. And, knowing the detrimental impact of cigarettes, I applaud each and every person attempting to take back control over their life and end their habit.

As part of all the advertising, there is a huge push towards stop smoking medication, patches and, more recently, e-cigarettes. Yet there is often much less emphasis on the mindset and habit aspects, aside from suggesting replacing one nicotine habit with another or telling everyone about your attempt and asking for their support.

It was a little disappointing that the NHS should have decided to push e-cigatettes as the answer to all smoking ills. After all, whilst they are considered to be a better option that cigarettes, they still leave you at the mercy of nicotine and the habits that go with it (and that’s even if we overlook that no one is quite sure what the long term health impacts of e-cigarettes may be).

Surely it would be far more benefical to teach people how to end their smoking and nicotine habit completely?

Where does the time go? Are you doing life your way?

by Dan Regan | Sep 14, 2017 | Hypnotherapy Hypnosis and NLP

Where does the time go? Are you doing life your way?

If you’ve been on Facebook for any period of time then you’ll be familiar with their ‘on this day’ notifications whereby they tell you what you’ve posted on the same day in previous years.

And while I’m not overly interested in what I posted on that day seven years ago, I do love seeing my photos from yesteryear. A lot of these are running related from my marathon and other races but what I love more than anything is seeing pictures I posted of my daughters. These are full of happy memories and key milestones and I love to show them to my girls and talk about their memories of those family days.

It being September, a whole load of these pictures have been school related milestones, like the manadatory ‘first day back for a new school year stand in front of the doo’r variety. If you have children, or any of your social media friends have them, then you’ve probably been scrolling through a bunch of these recently.

Today, some photos appeared from my eldest daughter’s first day of pre-school. Wowsers! I mean, she’s in year 5 now! Where did the time go!

Which is something I hear a lot from people I speak to – where does the time go?

This Fear of Flying no Longer Takes Off!

by Dan Regan | Sep 14, 2017 | Phobias and Fears

This fear of flying no longer takes off!!

Nothing makes me even more motivated and determined to help people than hearing about my clients who are now getting on with stuff that worried and stressed them before.

Take fear of flying for example. How many people avoid going on holiday and enjoying new experiences simply because their panic, fear and anxiety about getting on that plane is overwhleming?

So I was overjoyed when I got inot the office today to find a postcard waiting for me from one of my clients, Beth, telling me what a great time she was having in Menorca.

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