RMB Hypnotherapy and Mindfulness - Birmingham
Catch me on social media
  • Home
  • Hypnotherapy
    • Booking - One to One Hypnotherapy / Mindfulness Appointments
    • Stress and Anxiety
    • Hypnobirthing
    • Stop Smoking
    • Driving Test Anxiety
    • Try self-hypnosis for yourself right now
  • Mindfulness
    • Booking - Official Mindfulness Now 8 week Programme
    • Issues that Mindfulness may help with
    • Try mindfulness for yourself right now
  • About Rachel
    • My Qualifications
  • Recommended by...
    • Hypnotherapy Testimonials
    • Mindfulness Groups Testimonials
  • Contact

In2 minds

Welcome to my blog page, called In2 minds because that's what I was in when I started it!
Snippets that I hope you might find interesting, fun or helpful to do with mental health and well-being, and sometimes not!

Home

Attention!

22/1/2015

0 Comments

 
My first contribution to my blog is called ‘Attention!’ a) because I wanted to get yours and b) because that’s what I find myself saying over and over again, in one way or another in my work as a hypnotherapist and teacher of mindfulness. I hasten to add that I don’t say it as a sergeant major would! I never say it as an instruction but always as part of a sentence: “Simply notice where your attention takes you,” “You might find yourself paying attention more and more to what your body is telling you,” “And when you’re ready, you can bring your attention back to the here and now.”  

We are always attending to something – whether that’s a particular situation, how our body is feeling in any given moment (especially if we’re experiencing pain or discomfort), or our thoughts. In fact, 9 times out of 10 we get ‘caught up’ in our thoughts without acknowledging what’s really going on – judgments, self-criticism, worries, these are often the main contributors to stress.  

Hypnotherapy works with your thought processes in order to make a desired change – it may provide a new and refreshing way of looking at things; it may help someone to revisit past trauma and come back to the present with an altered view of things; it can help to overcome phobias and addictions; it can even help transform pain, or should I say our experience of pain, into something that is more acceptable.  

Mindfulness works in completely the opposite way – it doesn’t aim to ‘do’ anything but in so-doing changes do occur. For relaxation, we don’t aim to stop our thoughts – in fact we may focus on them even more, observing them as the transient things that they are, knowing that they will come and go, as they always have done. We don’t aim, necessarily, to have a quiet environment – we focus even more on any sounds we hear, and just let them be. In so-doing our overall experience can become ‘quieter’. When treating pain or discomfort, we have no specific aim of changing it but rather we acknowledge it fully, observe it, give it our full attention, breathe into it – and rather miraculously changes can occur.  

Our experience of life depends on where our attention goes and, ultimately what we choose to do with it.


0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Rachel Broomfield
    Clinical Hypnotherapist and Teacher of Mindfulness

    Categories

    All
    Helping Children
    Hypnotherapy
    In The Media
    Mindfulness
    Stop Smoking
    Weight Management

    Archives

    April 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015

    RSS Feed

IMPORTANT: IF IN ANY DOUBT PLEASE SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE FIRST
No hypno-therapeutic or mindfulness techniques should ever be regarded as a substitute for professional medical care. They should always be seen as complementary.
DISCLAIMER: RESULTS MAY VARY FROM PERSON TO PERSON
Website Disclaimer    -    Privacy Policy    -    Cookie Policy    -    Terms and Conditions    -    Therapy Disclaimer
Thanks for visiting!

Copyright 2023 Rachel Broomfield.
All photos have their own attribution.
Graphic design in headers courtesy of http://freepsdfiles.net/
Proudly powered by Weebly