Lawrence Michaels
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Hypnotherapist and NLP Coach specialising in Anxiety Management and Performance Improvement Expert
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5 Simple tips to reduce anxiety
1. Regular relaxation
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Mental exercise on how to improve your performance in sports
One of the big conce s amateur or competitive sports people have is worrying how they will perform on the day. I imagine almost every performer, no matter whether they are at the highest level in their field or simply an enthusiast, will have days that go well and some where they feel could have gone better.
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Treating depression using a Solution Focused approach
In this article I will be covering in quite some depth an understanding of depression and what can be done to alleviate it, based on my learning taken from the pioneering Uncommon Knowledge and Human Givens approach. So it is first very important to understand how depression works and affects us before knowing what to do to break out of the cycle. One fact that has had a big impact on understanding the cycle of depression is that ‘depressed people dream up to three times as much as non-depressed people’.
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An exercise to improve public speaking nerves
To talk or perform in front of people is something most of us will do at some point in our lives and some of us do it far more often than that, usually in our work environments. What’s common to almost everyone is some form of nervousness or even excitement, whether that feeling might start just a minute or so before we are due to speak, or for others starting days or even weeks before.
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A look at understanding and controlling emotional eating
Most people who come to me for help with binge eating or emotional eating conce s feel that their eating is getting out of hand, making them unhappy, yet they can’t seem to stop. Or quite often there is a part of them that doesn’t want them to stop.
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Hypnosis and self hypnosis- part 1
This is the first of two parts where I am going to be talking about hypnosis and self hypnosis. By the end of this article you will know more about what Hypnosis is, why it can be so helpful and also gain a practical understanding of how to enjoy the benefits of self hypnosis. In part two I will discuss how you can use self hypnosis to improve specific areas of your life. So what exactly is hypnosis?
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Hypnosis and self hypnosis- part 2
This is the second article of two parts on self hypnosis, with a focus on the practical learning of how to use self hypnosis to achieve a specific outcome.
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The art of building empathy and rapport
We all will have heard the saying “to walk in someone elses shoes” when used as a metaphor for building empathy with someone. For most of us this is something we probably think we can do quite well. The friend who comes to us for advice, or reading a sad or shocking story in the news and then thinking how they would have felt.
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Self observation and awareness-the path to a more stress free life
We all know what it's like to have that internal dialogue going on inside our minds. For some of us it's there so often that we forget it's even happening. And it's worth noting that for most of the time this dialogue is focussed on something related to the past or the future.
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