Your Low Self Esteem Can Affect Your Relationships – 6 Steps To Overcome It

Nancy Ho — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:23:26 +0000

It is a very common problem that many individuals are affected by low self-esteem. They experience a feeling of worthlessness, inferiority complex, feeling small, incompetence and negativity towards oneself.

When a person is affected by low self-esteem, his or her belief system will cause the downfall of one’s life especially in intimate relationships.

If your confidence and your own abilities are low, having a fulfilling relationship can be difficult.

However, elevating or altering your self-esteem is achievable with some effort and right thinking.

The following are some tips to overcome your low self-esteem:

1. Do Not Self-Blame

Stop blaming yourself for feeling negative. No one wakes up one morning and decides to feel lousy about himself or herself.

Your self-esteem may have been affected by past experiences, especially those from your childhood experiences. There is no need to revisit the old stories but you need to decide to overcome it.

2. No One Is Perfect; therefore You Do Not Have To Be Perfect

Many people that have issues with low self-esteem tend to be hard on themselves. A fairly small mistake they make and they can beat themselves up.

You have to recognise that there is no need to be perfect; making mistakes allows opportunities to do it better the next time.

Seek excellence instead of perfection. You just get better and better each day. This simple mindset shift will make a big difference to how you feel about yourself.

3. Be A Giver – Be Helpful

One way to overcome low self-esteem is for you to feel valued and worthwhile. Be generous and offer your help to your friends or family members. Perhaps volunteer your time and effort to a charitable organisation.

Others will appreciate your help and generosity. This will in turn help you to feel good about yourself.

Accept compliments with grace.

4. Practise Positive Self-Talk.

Feed your mind with positive self-talk will bring about positive energy into your life. Use positive affirmation or auto-suggestions.

It is a great technique to reprogramme your subconscious and unconscious mind from negative thinking to positive. When you overwrite the negative with the positive ones, you naturally think positive.

Make it a point to read an inspirational or motivational book every week and associate with positive people.

5. Challenge Yourself – Mental Stimulation

Do not avoid situations that you think you may fail. Being in your comfort zone may make you feel comfortable but you deprive yourself of becoming more confident.

Mental stimulation allows you to feel charged up and energised.

6. Learn, Practice & Grow

Knowledge is key towards confidence and application of knowledge is power.

Go out of your comfort zone and pick up hobbies and learn new stuff to continue your quest towards success. With each achievement, you will gain more and more confidence.

Self-confidence doesn’t happen overnight but over time. Continue your quest with these techniques to overcome your lack of self-esteem and before long you will have more confidence than you ever imagined.

You May Want Professional Help To Accelerate Your Confidence

Hypnosis is an induced or altered state of consciousness, during which the person becomes receptive to suggestions.

Hypnotherapy is a powerful tool, and when coupled with the appropriate suggestions; it can affect effective changes in an individual. These changes can take on the character of altering and changing behaviours and attitudes.

Nancy Ho is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapy Instructor and a Life Coach. She works with individuals to develop the right mindset and attitude towards success in all areas in their life. You can work with her on a one-on-one basis or Skype.

Would You Want To Nurture A Better Relationship?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

Diets Don’t Work – The Secret To Being Slim And Healthy Permanently

Nancy Ho — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 06:10:16 +0000

Diets Actually Do Not Work!

Recall a time when you were on a diet and you had to abstain from your favourite food or foods that you were craving for.

If you could, you would eat the food you were craving for morning, noon and night. However, you wanted to lose the weight and hence convinced yourself that dieting was only for a short period of time. The excitement of having your ideal weight and size was more important.

However after a while, your mind started to think about your favourite food. The more you abstained from it, the more you think about it. In fact, you started to notice it more than ever.

How Does That Make You Feel?

It would make you crave the food even much more. Perhaps, you feel deprived of not having what you liked. You may have even felt sorry for yourself. At some point, you could not stand it anymore and convinced yourself that just one meal could not hurt. One meal led to another and before long, you were eating badly again.

You Do Not Have To Sacrifice To Be Slim And Healthy

If you are giving up foods you enjoy, that is a sacrifice. Being slim should be a happy experience because it is your dream and desire.

You can’t think of short-term punishment or deprivation to be slim permanently. This is the secret to being slim and healthy once and for all. You have to correct your thinking that leads to long-term changes in your behaviour.

“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”, said Albert Einstein… and he is right.

The same ‘wrong thinking’ that brought you to where you are now can’t be used to change your situation. You will keep getting the same bad results. For example: Diet – Lose Weight – Stop Dieting – Put Weight Back On – Diet Again. You will be stuck in this loop until you do something differently.

If you’re trying to change the symptoms of your weight gain instead of the cause of your weight gain, it won’t work.

This is BACKWARDS thinking!

You eat the wrong foods (or wrong amounts of food or at the wrong time) because of your thoughts, not because they’re the only options available.

Nobody ever forced you to eat those foods – you choose what you put into your mouth. If you crave for those foods, it is still in your thoughts.

It is not your willpower; willpower does not work when you engage in your wrong thinking. Willpower alone will not change your subconscious thinking No Matter How Much Of It You Use, especially when you feel weak.

Let me explain the makings of the mind:

Your conscious mind is what you use to make day-to-day decisions like what you wear, which route you take to work. It focuses on the Now.

Your subconscious mind is your motor of the mind and that keeps your body doing things automatically.

Learning a new hobby or sports is a good example of how your brain uses the conscious and subconscious parts of your mind. When you first learnt the technique, everything you learnt was at a conscious level – you had to be reminded by your instructor / trainer on the correct steps.

You did all of this using your conscious mind until these new habits or behaviours become a natural way – a habit. Then, you will start doing them without thinking… subconsciously.

This is the way ALL of our habits are formed – it becomes a habit when you automatically start doing something ‘without thinking’.

Look at what happens when you go on a diet. You consciously choose the healthy options while you’re concentrating on the diet but as soon as you stop the diet, your subconscious mind automatically starts choosing your old habit of the unhealthy snacks or foods that your mind is used to.

For example, you’ll automatically reach out for a chocolate bar or potato chips instead of healthy alternatives when you are hungry because you haven’t programmed your subconscious mind to automatically choose the healthy option.

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy are the most effective ways to work by re-programming your old unhealthy thought patterns and habits around food with new healthy ones which let you:

automatically Choose The Healthiest Foods

automatically Motivate You To Eat Less

automatically Stop You Eating For Emotional Reasons and

perhaps even the motivation to start your exercise programme

It does this by safely by relaxing you and letting your mind relax in an alert state. You are actually fully conscious and alert throughout and are always in complete control of yourself and your surroundings.

By being in this state of heightened awareness, your subconscious mind is readily more accepting of new and more beneficial ideas and suggestions.

It puts your critical and conscious mind on “pause” while your subconscious mind gets to listen, absorb and accept new ideas about yourself, your eating habits and your body.

Once you’ve programmed your subconscious mind to accept this new belief, you’ll find yourself automatically do the right things without having to use willpower and without having to make an effort to motivate yourself!

Hypnotherapy Is Reprogramming Your Subconscious Mind.

It’s probably the fastest way of getting rid of your old, negative associations with food and replacing them with healthy positive ones.

You can expect the following:

Gets Rid of Emotional Eating Patterns of Comfort Eating

Stops Food Cravings and Binge Eating

Gets Rid of Negative Thought Patterns

Motivates You to Choose Healthy Food Options

Automatically Motivates You to Enjoy Exercise

Would You Want A Healthier And Slimmer Body?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

Relationships Tips – How To Nurture And Make A Good Relationship Better

Nancy Ho — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:07:46 +0000

Some people think that LOVE is the key element to maintaining a successful long-term relationship and even in tough times or difficult patches, it is enough to sustain and support them. While this may hold true to a large extent but to make it even better will require way more effort.

There are many aspects to consider to achieving a satisfying relationship and make a Good Relationship Better.

Let us explore several of these factors:

Treat Each Other Well With Care

Doing things and noticing the needs and wants of your partner or sending a “sweet note” can make him or her feel special, attractive and valued.

Give Each Other Space

Some people believe in sharing with their partners from the content of every text message to bank accounts and to bathroom rituals. Others may find that level of intimacy too intimidating and value having their own time and space.

You have to respect each other’s opinions and manage a balance.

Spending Quality Time Together

You need to spend quality time together to build a close relationship. While it is important to share interests, build connections, memories and closeness, it is also important to compromise and participate in activities that may not appeal to you at times.

Being supportive of one’s partner demonstrates care and love as part of an important aspect of successful co-existence.

Respect Each Other

It can be easy to take each other for granted. Remembering to express gratitude regularly, this can improve the relationship and make each other feel valued and special.

It is also important to reciprocate. Going out of the way to do some chores that are not your role can add to the relationship.

Catch your partner doing something you appreciate. Tell him or her how much you appreciate the effort. Every one of us likes to be appreciated. Being appreciated is a great way to draw closeness.

Humour Adds To The Relationship

Learn to laugh with each other and not at each other. Laughter is one of the most attractive qualities. Being with someone who makes us laugh is a valuable bonus in a relationship. In the case of tension or stresses, it will soften it and keeps a relationship alive.

Open & Honest Communication

Being honest with each other is the best policy. However, you need to be sensitive towards your partner’s feelings and communicate at the right timing.

You may also like to ask your partner to fill in the blanks for the following statement:

“I feel closest to you when…………..”. This is another working list to help keep the relationship going.

Keep A List Of “Little Things” Of Your Partner’s Preferences

You then become mindful and work around these preferences of your partner.

Replicate The Things That Work

What were the things you did that brought the biggest smile and touch the heart of your partner’s the most?

Then, do these things again as much as possible.

Create Special Days

Find out from your partner “What would a perfect day look like for you?” and then go about to create together that perfect day as much as you can.

To make a good strong lasting relationship, it does not just happen – it requires effort and time to put them together and living it out.

Nancy Ho is a Clinical Hypnotherapist who works with individuals to elevate confidence and self-belief for couples in crisis to help improve their understanding and communication; with clients in businesses to help motivate and think out of the box to excel, both individually and with their teams.

Would you want to nurture a better relationship?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

Conquer The Fear Of Going Back To The Dating Scene

Nancy Ho — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:11:04 +0000

Dating women is one of the exciting things many men would love to engage on weekends. However, many men would rather spend a typical weekend by themselves for fear of going back the dating scene.

For those men, they feel going back to the dating scene can be nerve wrecking. After all, it means that there is a possibility of going into a relationship again. The vulnerability to experiencing pain again if the relationship does not work, freaks many men out.

While it is true there are no guarantees in relationships, but if you do not plunge into it and make the attempt, you will never know.

The following are tips to help get rid of your fear going back to the dating scene:

1. Prepare Yourself Mentally

Do not go on a date unprepared. You have already decided to let go of the past and look forward to the future. You are not affected by your past relationships and you are ready to love again.

2. Elevate Your Confidence

Self-confidence is one of the most important factors to attracting a woman. The more self-assured and at ease you are with yourself, the more they’ll find you appealing & attractive.

Be open to gain experience and be open to changes – love the challenges!

One way to bring your confidence several notches higher is to give yourself “Positive Self Talk”.

For example:

I am capable of love. It is my birthright to be loved. I let go of all useless thoughts that have no benefits to me. I deserve true love. I am attractive.

These positive messages will be embedded in your subconscious mind and become your truths. You regain your hope and stay optimistic.

3. Take Care Of Yourself

Put in efforts to make yourself look good. Execute an exercise programme. Eat an appropriate amount and at the right time. This will reflect your attitude and your self-respect. When you respect yourself, others will respect you too.

4. Gain Lots Of Experience

Go out and date, meet women, get to know each other’s interests, likes and dislikes. Be sociable, be friendly, be warm, be approachable. All these will help you feel comfortable and confidence.

5. Be Yourself

Do not create an image to impress women. Being real and being yourself makes a woman accept you the way you are.

6. Start With Being Casual Friends

Do not rush. It is important to get to know the person very well. Explore each other’s personalities to see if you can be in an alignment. Just in case it does not work out, you can still maintain the friendship.

7. Relax And Have Fun

Having fun stops the anxiety. Do not get so uptight and become focused in worrying how to impress her – relax and have fun! The more relaxed, calm and composed you are, the more the woman will be drawn to you.

8. Get Into The Social Scene As Much As Possible

Create opportunities to meet women besides those you date online. Get together with friends, attend parties, accept invitations to birthday parties, weddings, networking events. There are plenty of opportunities to meet women there. Get into action now!

Are You Still Wondering Why Men Have Fear Of Approaching Women?

If men still feel the fear of the opposite sex, there is a medical term for it called “Heterophobia”.

The root of this fear actually lies in the fear of rejection. Research has shown that one in every ten men and women has a fear of the opposite sex.

An effective way to get rid of this fear is through hypnosis audios to implant positive suggestions to override the old programming.

However, the most effective way is to book your session with a Professional Hypnotherapist who can certainly work on getting rid of this phobia for good and building your confidence.

Nancy Ho, Clinical Hypnotherapist is the most sought after hypnotherapist in this region and she is available to work with you in person.

Would you want to get rid of the fear that stops you from getting your “Real Love”?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

12 Steps To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality

Nancy Ho — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:53:43 +0000

The reason why you want to turn your dreams into reality is because you want to be happy. Life may not be a bed of roses. However, with the right philosophy, achieving your dreams can be a reality.

Although it may take some time to achieve your goals, but once achieved, there will be another list of things you desire. However, do not wait until you have these things to be happy.

One of the best ways to get an abundant and fulfilled life is to be happy right now by appreciating the process towards your realisation of your dreams and goals.

The following are steps that turn your dreams into reality.

1. Achieve with the right attitude and determination by setting targets, ambitions and goals

2. Have clear goals and know what you want with a real sense of purpose

3. Develop a plan or a blueprint by realising your inner thoughts and deepest desires

4. Banish any negative thoughts such as fears, worries and doubts

5. Remain positive and focus only on the things you want

6. Commit to the process leading to your goals

7. Accept changes and do not remain in your comfort zone

8. Learn to progress and grow as a person and take control of your life

9. Use creative visualisation to “make things happen”

10. Think happy thoughts; envision yourself being happy and fulfilled in your future

11. Belief that it is in your birthright to receive

12. Keep the right friends to retain a positive mindset

How Hypnotherapy Helps You To Achieve The Right Mindset

Having the correct mindset is the foundation to build your successes and turn your dreams into reality. Most people have the wrong mindset due to past conditioning, especially from childhood. Hence, non-medical help is the most effective in making mental and behavioural change.

Hypnotherapy is a type of non-medicinal, subconscious counselling that uses hypnosis to achieve positive results.

When a person undergoes hypnosis, he or she enters into an altered state of consciousness. This person becomes highly suggestible or open to suggestion. Hypnotherapy reconditions the mind and counteracts the old patterns that has inhibited a person from success to live life to the fullest.

It also helps to eliminate negative thinking patterns and build up a person’s confidence, mental prowess and natural abilities.

Many business owners, aspiring business owners and executives are turning to hypnotherapists today. Due to today’s competitiveness, the truth is you cannot succeed unless you allow yourself to succeed with the right mindset.

Hypnotherapy is what you need to help you to progress and excel in your business.

Nancy Ho, Clinical Hypnotherapist is the most sought after hypnotherapist in this region and she is available to work with you in person.

Would you want to live out your dreams and become really successful?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

3 Ways To Stop Social Anxiety

Nancy Ho — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:08:55 +0000

What Is It?

Social Anxiety Disorder or Social Phobia is so common. It is believed that it affects about 10% of the entire population in one form or the other. In fact, it can affect just about anyone – from housewives to movie stars.

When a person is affected by this social fear or phobia, there are physical symptoms accompanying this disorder. Some cases may include blushing, hyperventilation, trembling, increased heart rate, stammering, intense tension and nausea. In acute cases, the person may feel drowsy, dizzy, fainting and feel as though one is about to pass out. All this of course, adds to intensify the fear.

The undercurrent behind this particular disorder is often the fear of being judged negatively by others. And hence, this fear make and the individual become so terrified of doing anything that may make them embarrassed.

There are many different forms of fears; one of the most common social phobias is the feeling of social awkwardness.

You may find yourself caught feeling socially awkward many times in your life. These will stop you from getting your dates or making new friends and hence, resulting in the many lonely nights you experienced and this makes you feel low.

What Can You Do About It?

In order to get your dates or make new friends, you have to feel comfortable in your own skin in most environments.

These are 3 ways to stop social awkwardness and get your hot date easily or enter into new meaningful relationships.

1. Elevate your self-confidence and self-esteem. You have the power to change how you feel. The first step is to accept yourself, as this will make others accept you easily.

Stop listening to the little voice that criticise and remind you of the wrong things you have done. Shut down the “Pathological Critic” – the negative voice that attacks and judges us (coined by Eugene Saga, Psychologist). Don’t believe these criticisms by deleting them mentally.

2. During an interaction, focus on the person that you are talking to and make them feel comfortable by being interested in them. If someone feels comfortable with you, they become friendlier towards you. Thus, you are natural and the interaction is positive.

Accept the fact that no matter what you do, some people will like you more and others may like you less. This applies to everyone. Make it a point to spend time with only those who enjoy your company.

Be authentic and confident. If someone doesn’t think that you are good enough, drop them and go meet new people that are going to accept you and love your personality.

3. Don’t try too hard – be natural. There is no need to rush to date someone or make new friends desperately. Work on just “being”. Learn to be centred and grounded. Meditation works.

Spend a moment each day relaxing your mind and body by doing deep breathing and observing silence. In the silence mode, reflect upon all the positive qualities about yourself and appreciate your being. When you feel good about yourself, others will naturally warm up to you.

Finally, come to your realisation that there are lots and lots of people out there for you to meet and connect. Take your time to explore and enjoy.

After all, you want to meet and date the right people that are worth your time and effort.

However, if you find yourself still panicking even you apply the above suggestions then you may need to seek professional help.

The root of your problem usually stem from your childhood and if left unresolved, it may cause a person to use distractors such as drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and eating too much food to cope and feel better but these will lead to negative consequences.

Medication does not treat the root of the problem.

One good solution is psychotherapy usually comes in the form of CBT — Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. While this approach may provide a degree of relief, the emphasis is to manage the symptoms and therefore, it does not remove the underlying cause.

The most effective remedy is modern and advanced hypnotherapy techniques.

How Hypnotherapy Helps

The subconscious mind that stores our knowledge, experiences and beliefs has a protective part that protects the individual from danger by sending the alarm when we are faced with “stress”. Sometimes these may create feelings of anxiety and fear because the human mind naturally moves away from pain and towards pleasure.

However, the subconscious can get the wrong signal when it simply reacts on the stimuli based on the previous conditioning and that may not be appropriate.

With modern advanced hypnotherapy techniques, we make access into the deep level of the subconscious mind to where those negative feelings are generated. The hypnotherapist will then change the erroneous beliefs that keep the anxiety & fear ‘programme’ running.

When this is happens, the symptoms such as social anxiety, fear and phobia are disassociated and will not trigger any more in the conscious level.

You can go back to your core existence and release the fear for good. You can then meet lots of people and have a life.

Do you want to resolve your social anxiety issue and live a normal life?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

Treat Gambling Addictions

Nancy Ho — Tue, 03 May 2011 03:51:23 +0000

Gambling is any activity that involves staking a chance to gain money. It is also a form of taking calculated risks. Although we take chances and risks in life which can be a good thing to better ourselves, gambling addiction can become dangerous when they start to interfere with daily activities and responsibilities.

There are many forms of gambling addictions, from card game gambling, sports gambling, to horse betting and online video gambling. Gambling addictions are not limited to the examples noted. This distracting and risky behaviour has cost people their cars, homes, relationships and self-respect.

Many gambling addicts do not realise they have a problem and it often goes unnoticed because there are no visual symptoms. It would only become evident when the person’s life has started to unravel, resulting in negative consequences.

Out-Of-Control Behaviour

Gambling addiction is a habit forming and compulsive behaviour that has gone out of control. Thus, gambling addiction has psychological components.

For example, the person remembers the thrill of the last bet or lottery game, it creates biochemicals such as adrenalin, which are transmitted to the brain and relayed to the rest of the body. If the cycle is repeated continuously, it becomes a pattern where both the brain and body will on the constant search for the biochemical signals or that adrenalin rush.

The pull factor created is simply too great to resist and therefore the person becomes hooked no matter how hard he or she tries to quit, bringing about dire consequences. They may even resort to beg, borrow or steal to feed their gambling habit.

Some clues to look for are: being secretive about the gambling activities, large and increasing credit card debts, being defensive or creating excuses for gambling, persistent risk taking and the obvious constant search for money in whatever means available.

What Can Be Done About It?

It may be you have no one to turn to for help or it you may find it hard to admit to yourself that you need help. However, the first and most important step is to recognise that you have a gambling problem and you want to do something about it.

Denial is the key that prevents you from dealing with your problem. Denial is more than just saying, “I don’t have a problem”. It is denying one’s thoughts and feelings. You do not have to go it alone. You can also reach out for support from family or trusted friends for support.

Keep yourself occupied with productive and healthy activities because if you are busy, it will help to take your mind off gambling. Obviously, all this takes time and perseverance, but keep yourself going in the right direction. Another good way is to seek professional help such as from a qualified Hypnotherapist.

How Hypnosis Helps Overcome Gambling Addiction

As mentioned earlier, you will first need to recognise that you have a gambling problem and that you want to stop and overcome it.

Then, your hypnotherapist will be able to start to help you to re-examine your thought patterns that have produced the gambling habit. By changing your state of mind subconsciously, the brain will send the appropriate signals to the body, thereby breaking those old thought patterns and cycles, thus diminishing the emotional need and attachment to gambling.

Hence, it will just remain as a memory which will no longer affect you. At the same time, your hypnotherapist will help you replace the old patterns and behaviours with new positive ones, ensuring your success.

Various strategies such as guided imagery has also been proven helpful to increase self-confidence and self-control, as well as reducing the levels of stress hormones. What all these will do is to rewire your subconscious mind for success.

Would you want to kick your gambling addiction to take back control of your life?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

Overcome Exam Anxiety

Nancy Ho — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:09:06 +0000

Many people feel really nervous about taking exams of any kind. For example, there are many people that fear taking a driver’s exam for so much that they become a bundle of nerves and wind up failing the test because they can’t focus and this will affect their learning as well as performance. Although a bit of nervousness helps to stay alert mentally, too much of it becomes uncontrollable. This distressing experience can happen before, during and even after exams.

Even college and university students who participate well in class, do their homework, and have a good understanding of the material, their brains seem to go into lock mode when taking exams. Exam anxiety pressures can be so overwhelming that it creates heart palpitations, shortness of breath, nausea, diarrhoea, headaches, disappointment fears and in extreme cases, depression.

This is because there is a biological reaction to the stress. When the stresses become overwhelming, the brain ‘shuts down’ as a result, leaving the person nervous and unable to cope.

What can cause Exam Anxiety?

There are many reasons why this anxiety develops. It could be due to previous negative experience, bad study habits, lack of preparation and lack of confidence or perhaps a lack of self-esteem.

Exam anxiety is a human behaviour where one person can experience exam anxiety in one situation and not in another. Another person can experience exam anxiety in every situation that challenges their knowledge but in either case, exam anxiety is the result of one of two fears, the fear of failure or the fear of success.

What you can do

To lessen the effects of exam anxiety, it is good to lower your stress levels. There are a few ways to address that such as keeping a proper and food diet and staying away from excessive sugar content; have enough physical exercise and deep breathing techniques which introduces oxygen to help your body relax.

At the same time, there are stress management techniques which could be helpful too. Of course, proper preparation and organising yourself are always encouraged because when everything is organised, it allows lesser chances of doing things wrongly and at the last minute.

How Hypnotherapy Helps with Exam Anxiety

Exam anxiety is really a psychological issue and therefore psychological approaches are needed. Hypnotherapy is a very effective approach to overcome the anxiety. Hypnotherapy has been proven to successfully address underlying psychological fears associated with exam anxiety.

Your hypnotherapist will employ a number of techniques which will guide you along a thought changing path to reduce the associated stress that helps you to be in a calm and composed state. By being composed, it will help release your nervousness and fears, enabling your past erroneous beliefs and anxiety to be corrected. From there, new positive beliefs will be installed and reinforced to control and manage your stress and exam anxiety successfully.

Consequently, self-hypnosis can be taught to you to help improve your mental focus and to raise your determination to perform well in your exams at anytime and anywhere.

Would you want to overcome your examinations anxiety?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

Cultivate Good Study Habits

Nancy Ho — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:55:03 +0000

Good study habits are the prerequisites to learning and obtaining a good education. Unfortunately, many students have poor study habits and that contribute to poor results.

Developing good study habits is like developing any other good habit – it takes practice and perseverance but there could also be challenging issues like having a cluttered mind or poor memory. Apparently, research shows that low motivation and low self-esteem are two very provoking factors contributing to poor study habits.

On the more serious side, psychological issues could also inhibit the development good study habits. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) or Obsessive Compulsive Disorders (OCD) are just two examples that could make the development of good study habits all that more of a challenge.

How to Cultivate Good Study Habits?

Memory can be trained and utilised to remember details. By constantly doing so, you will be training and conditioning your mind to focus better, just like constant exercising which will increase your stamina and strength. Studying in short periods of time with short breaks in between will help your brain to retain information better than in one continuous long stretch. Of course, making your study environment conducive is equally important because that will help put you into a good state of mind and preparedness to tackle your studies.

Then it comes a time when all the measures you have taken are not producing the results you want, then you may want to explore how hypnotherapy will help you.

How Does Hypnotherapy help?

First, hypnosis offers a state of total relaxation, in which your hypnotherapist will help your subconscious mind to start cultivating good study habits. For example, your hypnotherapist may suggest studying at a specific time everyday from day-to-day or from week-to-week to enhance your discipline and concentration, and the studies be done in a specific location away from distractions. This will enhance your focus and concentration.

Second, you are more receptive and suggestible when in a hypnotic state. This is where hypnotic suggestions can be imprinted within the thought process as well as in-depth therapy which will be used to address any mental barriers and resistance that have been hindering good study habits cultivation. This will help you to focus your desire and retain the information that you need to know and use for your studies, thus improving your memory.

Third, hypnotherapy works to remove negative thought processes, past behaviours or whatever may be contributing to poor study habits, especially psychological issues. Searching out the origin of the negative thoughts involved and resolving them will definitely help to incorporate new and better motivation and behaviours to cultivate good study habits, effectively developing the mind positively.

Would you want to develop an effective study habits?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy

Improve Communication Skills

Nancy Ho — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:01:22 +0000

Having good communication skills is necessary for anyone wanting to be successful in life, relationship and business. Believe it or not, we can all improve our communications skills. Thus, everyone can improve their communication skills on one level or another.

The way we communicate is not only by using words, it is also by the gestures we make, our behaviour, the way we dress, etc. In fact, in every way we interact, it is a communication to others of how we are feeling or reacting to them. Therefore, good communication just means sending the right message across clearly and effectively. Communication breaks down when the wrong message is sent across, resulting in misunderstanding and frustration, amongst others.

Poor communication arise for various reasons. Some examples are shyness, negative thoughts, negative habits, lack of guidance and even failing to listen to other people. Without a doubt, these factors will be transmitted when communicating. Unfortunately, the speaker may not even realise the cause.

What can be done about it?

There are many different ways people can improve their communications skills. Some people improve their communication skills by going to communication school or taking communication classes at their local college or university. Others may hire personal communication coaches to teach them how to communicate with different or specific groups of people.

Another way that people can improve their communication skills is through hypnosis. Although this might sound like a strange thought to the average person, there is nothing strange about using hypnosis to improve communication skills. In fact, not only can hypnosis help improve general communication skills it can also be effective in treating speech impediments and difficulties due to psychological reasons.

How Does Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy Help Improve Communication Skills?

Hypnotherapy focuses on two things to help a person improve their communication skills.

First, your hypnotherapist will work on the mechanisms involved in the habit of poor communications and because it’s a habit, there is generally an underlying subconscious reason for it. All habits, good or bad, serve a purpose in our interactive lives but bad habits are the focus because we either don’t know any better or there is something deeper and is the root cause of your bad habit. Your hypnotherapist looks for the root cause and works with you so that they can be eliminated and replaced by more positive thoughts and ideas.

Second, hypnosis places you in a completely relaxed state. In this state of alpha brain waves, your hypnotherapist might suggest words that may be much better to use in everyday conversation, thus replacing the negative with the positive. For speech impediments, the hypnotherapist might suggest to you to speak much slower or walk you through the release of anxiety and fear that you may experience when talking to others.

In any case, your hypnotherapist will be the best person to guide you through to discover the real reasons behind your problem and help you to overcome and resolve the problem. Ultimately, this will help to elevate your self-confidence.

Would you want to communicate effectively?

Hypnotherapy is a very effective and permanent solution to your problems. When you require my assistance, please do not hesitate further and contact me.

There are 3 ways to contact me:
1. Call: +65 6272 7118
2. Email: nancyho@hypnosisoneonone.com
3. Skype ID: empowernancy