These are just some of the many ways Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy has helped others and can help you:

One to One Hypnotherapy Sessions
At Freethink there are no pre-recorded tapes or CD’s. All sessions are one to one between the hypnotherapist and the client. Sessions are custom designed for each individual because everyone is unique.

An initial session will last up to two hours and involve some background discussions about you and what you want to achieve from the therapy.

Our service is quite unique in that the whole of the hypnotherapy session is recorded and you get a copy on cd to take away with you. We have found this to be very useful for our clients to reinforce the messages and to enhance and lengthen the effects of the therapy session work.

Weight Loss
Hypnosis is a proven way to change old habits! Your hypnotherapist will take the time to learn about you and how you relate to food as well as any other issues related to your problem.

Your hypnotherapist will then talk with you to formulate a plan that will work for you as an individual with your own likes and dislikes.

The Freethink team does not believe in a “one size fits all” approach. Everyone is different and has different likes and dislikes that need to be considered in any weight loss plan.

Freethink does real hypnosis. Your hypnotherapist will work with you one-on-one and you will see the same hypnotherapist each time. Freethink does not use pre-recorded tapes! You will experience real hypnosis with suggestions customised for you.

Here is how it works. There are two main factors that contribute to weight gain:

1. Bad habits such as eating too much, or eating the wrong kinds of foods. These bad habits can be picked up during childhood or at other times. These bad habits can be difficult to break on your own. Hypnosis makes it much easier.

2. The association between food and emotions. Most of our clients can make the connection between food and emotions. For example many people have felt bored and opted for a snack to fill in the time. Or some people eat because of stress. Others are emotional eaters and don’t even know it.

Freethink’s approach will enable you to experience a proven hypnotherapeutic process that will help you take back control over those bad habits and emotional eating, so you will positively change your relationship with food.

Bad habits removed with Hypnosis!
First, your hypnotherapist will listen to you and learn about the history of your struggle with controlling your weight. Then, they will answer any questions that you may have about hypnosis. Your hypnotherapist will also ask you about your history with weight and eating patterns. Finally, you will be asked about what you have tried before so that a customised hypnosis session can be designed just for you.

Then, you will be guided into hypnosis. It is a cooperative state, in which your hypnotherapist gives you the suggestions that were customised for you. You only need to follow instructions so that a sufficient level of hypnosis can be obtained to make the changes that you came in to make.

Dissolving the emotional link that causes over eating and weight gain!
Your hypnotherapist is more than just a hypnotist. They have been trained to help you overcome the old hang-ups that have stressed you out and caused you to over eat if that is the case.

This process along with a little bit of education will greatly reduce the desire to eat when you are not truly hungry.

As part of the educative process, you will learn about the “Secret Language of Feelings,” and how taking back control of how you feel emotionally, greatly improves your ability to control the quantity and quality of the food you eat!

Hypnosis can help you lose weight when diets have failed!
Most people have tried many weight loss programs before trying hypnosis. They have been on every kind of diet and exercise program.

They have been looking for that “missing something” that can finally help them to succeed. Weight loss is simple. Just consume less food than your body uses and you will definitely lose weight. You probably already know that. The problem is to figure out a way to make that simple process work for you, and then when the weight is off, to keep it off. These changes need to be made at the subconscious level of the mind where emotions and habits reside. This is done with hypnosis.

Will I have to be put on a highly restrictive diet?
Each client is different in this respect. It depends on many factors such as: how much weight you want to lose, how quickly you want to lose it and whether or not exercise makes sense given your physical condition, etc.

Many hypnosis clients report that they never had to diet to reach their weight loss goal. Others lost most of the weight they wanted to lose without having to diet, and then used a diet to get off the last few pounds.

There are also those individuals who may need to follow a formal diet while they are using hypnosis to lose all the weight they want to lose. With hypnosis, clients have been successful because they were able to stay on the diet long enough to be successful.

Hypnosis leads to success, when other approaches have failed because you can get the feeling of being in control that you have always wanted. If you need to diet to reach your goal, with hypnosis you can both stay on the diet until the weight is off and then maintain your weight so that you can keep the weight off in the long term.

Hypnosis can be your tool for success!
We encourage you to call FREETHINK and ask us questions about hypnosis and our services. We enjoy the opportunity to answer any questions.

For an appointment or more information call: 01606 42668

Stop Smoking
Hypnosis has helped millions stop smoking.

Hypnosis is a tool that can help you, just like it has helped millions of other people, to take back control and stop smoking for good.

When you are ready to quit for good, then you are ready for hypnosis. All the Freethink team are professional Certified Hypnotherapists who want to help you stop smoking.

Will I gain weight?
Gaining weight when you quit smoking is not inevitable. If you are concerned about gaining weight when you stop smoking, let the hypnotherapist know so they can provide you with the proper hypnotic suggestions and information so that you will be able to stop smoking without gaining weight!

Two customized programs to choose from.
FREETHINK offers two programmes because we believe that a “one size fits all” approach does not provide the effectiveness of offering a more flexible and customized approach.

Your hypnotherapist can, help you decide which program is best for you. One approach that FREETHINK offers is called the Accelerated Stop Smoking Programme. This program requires 2 sessions to complete, which provides a much greater effectiveness than can be provided by any one-session stop smoking programme.

Our other programme takes a more thorough and therapeutic approach. It takes more into consideration than the aspects of smoking, which are mere habits.

Most smokers recognise that their habit is more than just a habit, and that stress and other emotions can play a major factor. When these smokers are under stress or experience other emotions, the drive to smoke can become much stronger.

The Stop Smoking Hypnotherapy Programme is designed to help reduce the level of stress you feel in your life, while at the same time provides you with powerful hypnotic suggestions that will make it easier for you to stop smoking.

You will also learn about “The Secret Language of Feelings” which will help you to better understand how habit and emotions interact. With this approach you will have what it takes, so that you will know what to do when life’s stresses arise. Once you have quit smoking, you won’t need to go back to smoking in order to cope with the ups and downs of life. You can finally be free for life.

With this more therapeutic and educational approach, your hypnotherapist can also offer you the opportunity to learn the FREETHINKING Path Self-Hypnosis. By learning self-hypnosis you can be confident that you can reinforce the work done with your hypnotherapist if ever you are tempted in the future.

As a bonus, once you learn self-hypnosis you can use it to make any kind of positive changes you want to make in the future, such as: removing other bad habits, improving motivation, improving sleep, and much more.

The Accelerated Hypnotherapy program may be right for you if:

• You have quit in the past with little difficulty.
• You have successfully quit smoking by using hypnosis before.
• You are highly motivated to stop smoking.

• The Hypnotherapeutic Program may be the right choice for you if:

• You tried to quit before but failed because you became very irritable or emotional.
• You tried to quit before but failed because you gained a substantial amount of weight.
• When you think about quitting smoking, it makes you feel nervous or emotional.
• Quitting smoking is like giving up an old friend.

• There is no need to decide before you call. It is best if you call Valley Hypnotherapy and we can decide together which program is best for you.

Hypnosis can help you succeed when nothing else has worked!
Hypnosis has helped so many people stop smoking when nothing else has worked.

If you have tried and tried again to stop smoking without success, then give yourself the opportunity to learn more about how hypnotherapy can help you to stop smoking for good, so that you can finally be free of the old self- destructive habit.

Who will hypnotise me?
It is now commonly accepted that all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis. When you follow the instructions of a certified hypnotist, you will actually be hypnotizing yourself.

Your FREETHINK hypnotherapist is a highly trained and qualified hypnosis professional with multiple qualifications in hypnotherapy and the appropriate insurance. Your hypnotherapist is bound by the code of professional ethics formulated by the British Institute of Hypnotherapy and by English law.

Your hypnotherapist has also obtained a NHS provider number and is available for therapies as prescribed by your doctor.

Call today and we will answer any questions you might have so you can learn more about hypnosis and hypnotherapy. This will enable you to decide whether hypnosis and hypnotherapy is right for you.

Hypnosis can be your tool for success!
We encourage you to call FREETHINK and ask questions about hypnosis and our services. we enjoy the opportunity to answer any questions.

Forgiveness Therapy
Forgiveness is very important to one’s happiness. If you are holding onto grudges you are only hurting yourself. An intelligent kind of forgiveness is a forgiveness that you do for yourself, not for someone else. When you learn the power of forgiveness you will find true inner peace.

An intelligent kind of forgiveness does not mean that you condone what that person did. It doesn’t mean what they did is OK. Forgiveness is something that you do for yourself. Forgiveness does not mean that you have to forget what they did. Also, when you forgive someone it doesn’t mean that you have to tell them that you have forgiven them. Remember that this is an intelligent kind of forgiveness that you do for yourself! What you are doing when you forgive someone is setting yourself free of all those hurtful feelings so that you don’t have to carry them around anymore!

Hypnotherapy can help you through the forgiveness process. Don’t hold on to those grudges any longer. If you do you are only hurting yourself. Learn the power of forgiveness and set yourself free!

Stress and Anxiety Management
Although you may not realise it, we all manage stress in the course of our day-to-day lives. For example, if after having an argument with someone you then watch TV or go for a walk to put it out of your mind, you are actually practicing a form of stress management. These kinds of activities are also known as coping strategies. We are basically dealing with the external pressure before it ever becomes actual stress.

Stress is a medical condition. Many of us function under some amount of pressure most or all of the time, but if you find that you are suffering from regular or chronic stress, then you must see a doctor. They will be able to advise you on appropriate and effective techniques and treatments for alleviating your stress. Anxiety is also a medical condition, and again, if you are feeling anxious every day then we strongly recommend that you speak to a medical professional for advice. The ideas discussed on this web site in relation to stress, are aimed at helping you with the type of day-to-day pressures that everybody recognises. Our therapists do have a NHS provider number for prescribed solutions

Anyone can learn stress management techniques, which include yoga, self-hypnosis and meditation. You can attend classes, or buy books, CDs and DVDs to learn and develop these kinds of stress management techniques, but there are also some very simple relaxation techniques that you can find out about with one session at our centre, and which can be practiced in your own home.

Positive Attitude and thinking
Not everyone agrees that positive thinking is a good thing! Negative thinkers often think they are being 'realistic' and that positive thinkers are merely deluding themselves.

But the fact is that thinking positively, no matter what happens, means you are far more likely to succeed in life because you don't give up so early. The longer you try the more probable it is you are going to succeed. Simple logic.

Positive thinkers don't always expect everything to work out, but they do know how to apply a positive spin when things go wrong. They know how to add an 'at least' when stuff fails to go as planned: "I didn't get the job but at least I know what to say at the next interview when I go for a job like that!"

Positive thinking is a huge personal asset. There are always positives in superficially negative experiences, such as what you learnt from your mistakes or the way hard experiences can make you stronger. Positive thinking enable people to see the positives where others cannot.

Reams of research has shown positive thinking to be good for your health. Optimists have better immune systems and tend to live longer and happier lives.

And as Winston Churchill said: "The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." Positive thinking puts you on the lookout for the possibilities in new situations, rather than just the potential pitfalls.

A positive attitude can be learned. The techniques and attitudes of positive thinking can be absorbed and learnt at a deep level. When you instinctively start to see set backs as temporary and positive outcomes as inevitable then you'll have picked up the positivity habit.

Hypnosis is the best way to instinctively program yourself to have a world beating positive attitude.

Improve mood
Everybody experiences different moods, pleasant and unpleasant, throughout their lives. Many people imagine that a mood is something over which you have no control, like the weather. They imagine that you just have to put up with it. So if they find themselves feeling constantly irritable or miserable, they believe that there is little they can do about it.

They are wrong.

A session at FREETHINK will explain some of the basics of emotional intelligence that help us master our moods. It also spells out some simple and effective strategies for making a difference to mood - as well as pointing out what kinds of strategies will be counter productive.

The induction session is itself an object lesson in mood alteration. Making changes to perception changes the way we feel, and this is gently explored in a delightfully relaxing way.

The lesson learned through the induction is then extrapolated into other situations, and the art of modifying feelings by changing perception is rehearsed in a number of scenarios. This helps to instill the skill and establish confidence in deploying it at will to improve mood.

Increase self confidence
Before presentations, meetings, social events - whatever stresses you out - relax deeply to this self confidence building session and feel your confidence levels soar!

A CD will be prepared with you to understand what it is that dents your confidence. We will lead you through a powerful hypnotic rehearsal, preparing your mind and body to respond the way you want.

So instead of nerves making you self conscious, stumble over your words, or perform below par, you'll do yourself justice wherever you find yourself.

All you need to do is pop on your headphones at your computer, or plug into your CD or mp3 player. The CD is made with you and for you

You will experience a wonderfully relaxing, self confidence building hypnosis session that will dramatically increase your faith in your own abilities and improve your performance in the situation itself.

Sleep well
We all have a nights when we can't sleep. Often it is easy to know why. Perhaps you are excited, stressed, or had a nap during the day. This is common and the insomnia usually stops after a couple of nights.

However, a few people have night after night of sleepless nights. If this is you, then a session or two at the FREETHINK centre may be perfect for you.

We will try to understand the reason(s) why sleep is difficult for you. We will conduct a relaxation session and record the whole thing for you to play again if you are having trouble sleeping afterwards. There will be some specially designed background music on the CD that will help you drift off to sleep.
 

Discontinue bad habits
Our habits are stored and operated by the subconscious mind, which is like a computer. It records everything we experience, but it doesn't reason like the conscious mind. It just reacts. And over a period of time as we continue a habit (good or bad), it gets the idea that the habit is suppose to be a part of our nature. The habit became difficult to break.

Through hypnosis at the FREETHINK Centre you will be able to call on the power of your subconscious to end negative bad habits, and even replace them with new, positive, healthy ones.

The causes for some "bad habits" are rooted in memories or perceptions that may be forgotten by the conscious mind but retained in the subconscious. Hypnosis helps to access the subconscious and change those habits quickly and easily.

Your reactions to things are based on experiences in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious actually feels your bad habit is good because it has stored the feeling of satisfaction you receive from the habit. Your subconscious is only able to refer to emotions you have already experienced, and it will automatically trigger you to feel these emotions when you see or think of a particular behavior. Up to now, your bad habit has given you some form of pleasure or you would not have been doing it.

By using the powerful tool of hypnosis, we are able to make the subconscious aware of all the negative qualities of the bad habit, and of all the positive benefits of stopping that habit. Then the next time you would have done the bad habit, your subconscious will quickly change your state of mind so you no longer even want to do the bad habit, because this time the subconscious no longer refers to the positive feelings you formerly were getting from the bad habit. Soon the bad habit will no longer even exist for you.

Examples of Bad Habits are:

• Nail Biting
• Procrastination
• Grinding teeth in sleep
• Pulling your hair

Habits are often very individual, for that reason it is not possible to name all the bad habits here. Since you have come to this section of the web site, you probably have a bad habit you would like to remove from your life. This will be easily done through hypnosis, and when called for, you will just as easily replace it with a positive, healthy one. Through hypnosis this can be quickly accomplished and you will no longer have your bad habit, but will be free of it easily, and effortlessly, forever.

Improve study habits
Hypnosis can help you dramatically improve your study skills. Discover how here.

How are you doing in your university, college, school or any other learning efforts:

• OK, but have a nagging feeling that you could really do better but not sure why you don't?
• Totally overwhelmed, feeling that it's all sliding out of control?
• Really wanting (needing?) to improve your grades but don't know how to?
• Know that you have learned your material but go to pieces in the exam?

It is very common for students to experience any of these types of reactions during their learning years. What you, and most other students, don't know is that you could most likely radically improve your study skills and results quite easily by using hypnosis to do so.

Sports Improvement
Hypnosis can help sports performance. You don’t have to be a champion to use hypnosis. Anyone can learn and perfect simple, self-hypnosis techniques for:

• Mental imagery and future rehearsal of success (including effective techniques from areas like NLP)
• Focusing on success, strategy (how to get into the success zone when you need to)
• Overcoming mental blocks and barriers
• Reinforcing self-belief, motivation and positive thinking

The largest percentage of sports people coming to visit hypnotherapists tends to be those wishing to improve at golf. However, hypnosis can be equally useful with all kinds of individual and competitive sports. The greatest of champions and athletes also tend to be the ones who have learned to think successfully, they have mastered the psychology of their individual sport.

Grief Therapy
If you are experiencing grief, sorrow or sadness for any reason, know that these are normal feelings. Allow yourself to go through the grieving process. If you are having a hard time grieving but want to, or if you feel you have been grieving too long and would like help finding closure, hypnotherapy can help you. Remember, in hypnosis we are dealing only with the subconscious mind – which is the feeling mind. Feelings and emotions reside in the subconscious mind. With hypnosis it is much easier and quicker to access your true feelings, making the healing process quicker.

EFT – Emotional Freedom Technique
If you would like to greatly reduce negative feelings and emotions, decrease urges or cravings, or let go of habits or fears, then EFT is for you! EFT is a quick and easy form of energy therapy that consists of tapping on specific points on your body using two fingers. EFT can be used for many different things. If you are interested in learning this simple technique, ask your hypnotherapist!

“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system”, according to Gary Craig.

Tapping on the energy system while being tuned in to an emotional problem can provide extraordinary healing.

This technique works with the human energy system, which circulates through our body & mind in channels or meridians. You tap on specific points to stimulate the free flow of energy through the meridians. As you tap on a point, neuro-receptors under the skin convert the pressure to an electrical impulse that is transmitted to the brain. This is combined with the power of the mind or intention. As you focus on a specific problem, you send out your intention for healing it.

Thoughts are constantly creating patterns of electrical energy that result in emotional experiences through the release of hormones, neurotransmitters and other chemicals in the body. Thoughts change the body’s electrical state. When there is a disruption in the body’s electrical flow, we feel it. When the electrochemical disruption is removed, the distress stops. The tapping processes neutralise disruptions in the body’s electrical system, which then stops the chemical chain reaction and frees you from emotional and physical discomforts.

Reduce fears
Do you ever feel that your thoughts and emotions control you, rather than the other way round?

Sometimes, you can feel as if something bad is about to happen for no apparent reason. As if you are about to have to do something, but you don't know what.

You also may have a fear about heights, spiders, the dark etc. which can restrict your enjoyment of life.

This sort of general anxiety or fear is usually generated by an unconscious response to the 'misuse' of the imagination. Basically, the 'back part' of the mind is getting the message from the imagination that something bad is going to happen, and so creates a state of readiness in the mind and body: anxiety.

This can partly be due to experiences in the past, or a lack of an ability to tolerate uncertainty - not knowing what is going to happen, but whatever the reason, the mind can learn to relax and take things as they come.

And this is how this fear and anxiety session works. By enabling you to enter a calm and relaxed frame of mind, the unconscious mind can learn to 're-set' its responses to things back to normal, allowing you to enjoy every day with less anxiety, and more comfort.