Neil Dolan
MSc (clin.psych.), BSc (Psych), Dip Hyp, Dip NLP, CP Coach, MBPsS
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Harnessing the Power Within: How Anxiety Hypnotherapy Can Set You Free
Feeling overwhelmed by anxiety? Struggling to break free from the grips of this debilitating condition? Look no further than anxiety hypnotherapy, a powerful tool that can help you regain control of your life and find lasting relief. In this article, we will explore how anxiety hypnotherapy harnesses the power within you to overcome your fears, anxieties, and phobias.
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Creating Confidence From Within: 7 Actionable Steps to Grow Your Confidence
Does it sometimes appear like everyone around you is confident and sure of themselves? Chances are, they have doubts just like you. So, what did they discovered about how to be confident? They know that confidence is not something you have, it’s something you create from within yourself. Being confident is nothing more than holding a firm belief in yourself around your capabilities. It’s the feeling of certainty that you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to. Confidence comes from within, and you can find ways to be more confident at any time.
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Understanding Self-Harm & Tips for Talking to Someone About Self-Harm
The sensations surged up from deep inside, like a geyser about to blow: a mix of sadness, anxiety, and shame that would overwhelm anyone, especially teenagers. “I took out the blade from a pencil sharpener and cut myself”, a secondary school student told me. “I didn’t know if it would help. I just knew that it was something people did at my school. I remember feeling out of control and this gave me the control back.” She felt relief as the behaviour served to dissolve her emotional distress. “I would do it for 5 to 10 minutes and afterwards feel calm and relaxed.”
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Living Aligned to Your Personal Values, Creates Intentional Decisions & an Abundance of Inner Wealth
A couple of days ago, a friend got in touch for some advice, and we met up. He stated to me, “I’m not sure what to do about a new career, because what I’m currently doing just isn’t working for me anymore, I’m not getting anything from it!” To which I replied, “If you’re not getting anything from it anymore, then what is it that you do want?” He looked at me bemused and said, “I’m not sure, I suppose I want that sense of achievement, satisfaction and success again”. To which I then replied, “How do you define success?”
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Procrastination and Time Management: But Not in the Way You Think. How to Really Understand and Tackle Procrastintion
Procrastination is something we all do at times. Have you ever sat down to complete an important task and then find that your distracted thinking of a different task? Or perhaps you suddenly realize that the dog needs to be fed, emails need to be read, or that you need to check your phone. It’s the smaller tasks that replace the bigger tasks. Bigger tasks require more time and commitment and place us at risk of failing, feeling emotionally bruised and looking foolish. Tasks like looking for a new job, confronting something that weights us down, or pursuing a long term goal.
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Anxiety and Language: How to Ditch the Negative Self-Talk
Language is the architecture of our minds. It is the builder of our psychological experiences. If we think and talk positive, we will feel good, motivated and optimistic. But if our thoughts and internal dialogue are grounded in anxiety and fear, this is how we feel. We will feel apprehensive and scared, we will behave anxiously, and we will reinforce and grow further anxieties because we are feeding and seeding it at its core. This leads to cognitive distortions in our perceptions and interpretations of experiences, whereby we develop a negatively biased view of ourselves and the world.
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Self-Esteem and the Concept of Self; What You Need to Know to Boost your Self-Esteem
Self-esteem is important because it heavily influences our choices and decisions. Self-esteem serves a motivational function by making it more or less likely that we will take care of ourselves and explore our full potential. When you value yourself and have a healthy level of self-esteem, you will feel secure and worthwhile, and have positive relationships with others.
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How to identify and shed unhelpful psychological rules that are sabotaging your happiness
What are psychological rules? Psychological rules are laws that dictate our options, decisions and actions. They are like a rule book, that directs how we function in our world. They shape how we perceive ourselves, how we perceive others, and how we perceive and understand the world around us. Our psychological rules provide the guiding principles that drive our behaviours, and fundamental coping mechanisms which we use throughout our lives. Psychological Rules and Beliefs
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Work Depression: How to take care of your mind on the job
If you feel down and depressed when working, you’re not alone. Stress, anxiety, sadness, difficulty concentrating, loss of motivation, and boredom are just a small range of the things you may be feeling if you’re experiencing depressive symptoms at work. Depression impacts upon over 6 millio UK adults and 17 millio American adults each year, and these figures nearly doubled during the pandemic last year.
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