Do you or do you know of anyone who suffers from this affliction known as humouroids? What is it, I hear you ask. Well, humouroids is the hardening of the humour/laughter arteries that can lead to piles of problems in love, in life and at work.

Signs and symptoms
• a face that looks as though one is perpetually sucking on lemons
• corners of the mouth looks weighted down like this.
• lips in a grim, straight line, straight back, rigid posture, stern look etc.
• inability to have fun, dear, dear misery guts.

Adeline’s prescriptions for humouroids

A huge dose of laughaxative every day. This could be in the form of keeping company with happy, upbeat people, sharing and telling jokes, watching/listening to comedies. Even if you can’t laugh, Smile for it is infectious. Smile is the yoga of the mouth, practise it as often as possible.

Taking yourself less seriously. A wise one once remarked that if you cannot laugh at yourself, someone will do it for you. Do you have to pay for this service, I wonder?

Make peace with yourself. Travel light, clear the emotional baggage. Like who you are and what you are. Change what is possible and accept that which you cannot change.
Hypnoanalysis helps one to safely release the past, live adaptively in the present whilst reaching out confidently for a bright and happier tomorrow.

Have fun, enjoy life, love lots, be passionate, give 100% to happiness. As D. H. Lawerence once said ‘Life is too important to be taken too seriously.

Why we need laughter

Laughter is good exercise as it also massages the internal organs, releases the happy hormones to bring on the feel good factor. It’s one way to being popular without extra cost. Laughter relaxes, it relaxes both the body and mind.

Laughter is 100% natural, a bit like hypnosis, has no calories, is gm-free but can be rather infectious, contagious and addictive. Warning: Could seriously affect your health and happiness.

Spring is here, time to lighten up

Light it up with your smiles and laughter, relax and enjoy being with loved ones, with nature … this time of the year.

Unable to lighten up because emotional baggage is dragging you down?

Call or Text Adeline on 07931 378 197

www.adelinekam.com

Prior to having hypnosis treatment or arachnophobia, it would not be an exaggeration to say that I had a pathological fear of spiders. Not just live ones but plastic toy ones, pictures in books and images on film. I had been like this since childhood but recently when a rather large spider appeared on my wall, I had one of the worst panic attacks that I can even remember. I decided to seek professional help through hypnosis. After only two sessions I could look at a plastic spider without any hesitation or fear. After the third session I picked it up and when my hypnotherapist suddenly and unexpectedly held a different one in front of me, I simply took it from her hand as though she were handing me a sweet. After my fourth and final session, I felt like a different person, I had completely shed the anxiety that spiders created in me and gained control of my life. Later that evening, I actually picked up, albeit a half dead one but a real spider nevertheless and dropped it into a waste bin.

Hello we are looking at phobias or irrational fears now. There are as many phobias and some quite uncommon like barophobia: the fear of gravity, cacophobia: the fear of ugliness, kyphophobia: the fear of stooping to name a few.

Luckily the clients who come for therapy are those who are afraid of spiders, insects and flying. Clients are usually aware that their fears are irrational but cannot do anything about it. They can rationalise about it yet cannot get rid of it. Its something within themselves but outside their control.

Phobias like anxiety and mild depression are usually the result of repressed emotions. Emotions that have been repressed give rise to symptoms in the form of phobias, anxiety and panic attacks, feeling low and having a low self esteem as well as a lack of confidence.

Phobias respond well to hypnoanalysis, neuro-linguistic programming and inner-child therapy.

If would you like to come and talk about your phobias and see whether this therapy is for you do give me a call to arrange for a 20 minutes free no obligation consultation in Muswell Hill but hypnosis with neither be used nor demonstrated.

I would like to comment on the power of suggestion and belief as a hypnotherapist/hypnoanalyst.

The power of hypnosis/ trance/ relaxation, whatever you want to call it, is the power of belief. Let me share with you Dr. Barber’s explanation of the power of hypnosis: “We found that hypnotic subjects are able to do surprising things only when convinced that the hypnotist’s words are true statements … When the hypnotist has guided the subject to the point where he is convinced that the hypnotist’s words are true statements, the subject then behaves differently because he thinks and believes differently.”

As trance is an everyday experience, I wonder how many suggestions you give yourself every hour of everyday? These suggestions may come subliminally from the media in the form of advertisements or it could be an idea that has been accepted by yourself, from teachers, from parents, from friends or any other source. If you are firmly convinced that the idea is true, it has the same power over you as the hypnotherapist’s words have over the hypnotised subject.

Our well-being, health and happiness is strongly influenced by our internal dialogue with ourselves. What we tell ourselves has the greatest impact on our emotional state and behaviour. Research carried out in the States found that the poor grades in school are in almost every case due to some degree to the student’s negative beliefs and low self esteem. For example, if a child is continuously told he won’t amount to much and that suggestion is repeated every so often from adults he respects or holds a position of authority in his young eyes and said with a lot of feelings, then this negative statement will take root in his subconscious mind and externalise itself in his behaviour.

Theoretically, positive feelings and a healthy self-image and well-being can be ‘installed’ too. Remember this hypnotic programming gains permanence by coming from an authoritative source, through repetition and through intensity of emotions. Now when someone you respect compliments you, would you carelessly brush it aside as if it was of no consequence or would you take it out and savour it daily, remembering too all the emotions associated with that compliment?

What will you be telling yourself from now on as you get in touch with the power of your own mind? As Napoleon Hill once said, “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can always achieve.”

If you are reading this because you are curious about trance or are afraid of the trance experience because you have seen people doing funny things on stage, then let me assure you that this is indeed a very safe, pleasant experience. And no, most of us, there might be some whom I do not know about, do not work with swinging watches.

What is hypnosis?

Firstly, let me reassure you that hypnosis or trance is an everyday experience. It has been described as a state of relaxation and concentration at one with a state of heightened awareness induced by suggestion. A very pleasant experience is how most clients describe it. Self-hypnosis can be learnt very easily and quickly.

Daydreaming, losing track of time when engrossed in an interesting conversation, film or book, going on autopilot - these are a few examples of hypnosis in our everyday lives.

Milton Erickson, considered to be the father of modern clinical hypnosis, said that trance is a common experience. He cites the example of a football fan watching TV. The football fan is aware of the game but not aware of his body sitting in the chair or his wife calling him to dinner.

What is hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is the therapeutic use of hypnosis to bring about a positive change for the client and can be divided into 2 very distinct categories.

Change usually involves:-

• Stopping an undesirable behaviour or habit
• Breaking free from limiting and negative beliefs
• Resolving internal conflicts that tugs and pulls us in different directions
• Releasing emotional pain that sometimes gets trapped in parts of the body
• Leading a more active, productive and healthy lifestyle with more energy
• Being happy, content and accepting of ourselves and others

Most of my clients have tried other means of self-help and hypnotherapy is usually their last resort. Most are pleasantly surprised and pleased when change starts to take place rather quickly.

Hypnotherapy, the use the therapeutic use of hypnosis for positive benefit can be divided into 2 very distinct categories

Suggestion therapy is a straightforward technique that is used for simple problems such as smoking, nail-biting, pre-test nerves, relaxation, public speaking etc., and requires between 1 to 3 sessions with perhaps a booster later on. This therapy is used in conjunction with creative visualisation and neurolinguistic programming.

Analytical therapy also called hypnoanalysis is used to discover the causes of emotional problems. Hypnoanalysis can be summarised briefly as the therapy of cause and effect: every effect (i.e. symptom) must have a cause. Hypnoanalysis reveals and thus removes the cause and consequently relieves the symptom.

Phobias, anxiety and panic attacks, mild depression, lack of confidence and self esteem respond well to hypnoanalysis.

The use of analysis in hypnosis dramatically speeds up therapy and results can be achieved in a matter of weeks rather than years as in the case of conventional analysis.