With NLP and hypnotherapy, as in all things worthwhile, the line between the two is blurred and indistinct – direct or indirect hypnosis? Eyes open or eyes closed? It really boils down to what feels right for you. I guess the question to ask yourself is this: what do I want to achieve? Begin with the end or desired outcome in mind. NLP or hypnotherapy? See? Does it matter? It reminds me of a piece of marketing advice that kept...

What’s your first thought upon waking in the morning? Joy? Relief? Dread? Press the ‘Snooze’ button on your alarm clock? If so, read on… Inventor, Mr Paul Sammut is a clever chap. He identified a lacuna in the western human experience – getting out of bed in the morning. He devised a deeply annoying alarm clock with lurid LEDs and a disconcerting arrhythmic bell that can only be turned off by inputting a daily...

A BODY TO DIE FOR? When did you or the person you care about first notice your weight gain? What did you put it down to at the time? Why are you looking at hypnotherapy and NLP to regain your old self, now? Overweight people, like you and me, often count the cost of weight loss treatments, yet rarely if ever, factor in the REAL costs. So, what are they? The cost of the excess food, drink and snacks that made you the way you no longer wish...

  I’ve become worried of late. I received a coffee table book (even though I possess no coffee table) cheerily titled ’501 Places to visit in the Uk and Ireland…BEFORE YOU DIE’. Lavishly illustrated with photographs of these amazing destinations, I totted-up how many I had actually visited in my decades of life. 42. FORTY-TWO! So, I have perhaps as little as forty years to fit in a further 459 destinations...