Our beloved meditation app has gone through some updates including enhanced meditation stats, iphone X compatibility and design improvements. For this occasion I thought I put out a little intro to the app for those who are unfamiliar with it and would like to know more. Meditable empowers you to create your own tailor-made guided […]
In this article I would like to highlight some of the practical implications of what psychology knows about the function of self-talk. I will include some useful tips for using coping statements to help ourselves deal with challenging situations. It is not going to be a guide to cure anxieties, or stronger emotional reactions or […]
I would like to share some quotes from Albert Ellis’s book: The Myth of Self-Esteem, to introduce two different psychological positions we can take, in our relationship with ourselves and our performances: Self-rating: Rating and labelling ourselves based on our performances Self-acceptance: Accepting ourselves as globally ok and worthy while limiting our tendency to rate […]
The therapeutic use of hypnosis can involve a wide range of versatile subjective experiences. We can think of hypnosis as a state of heightened suggestibility (receptiveness) with increased absorption in inner experiences. Consequently, the subjective experience of hypnosis will be determined by the nature of the inner work that the therapist and client engage in. […]
Many of the ‘big moments’ in our lives are related to events of success and failure. We often experience how powerfully these moments shape our self-esteem and emotional states. When we succeed, we feel strong, worthy and generally good about ourselves. When we fail, we may feel inferior, flawed, frustrated or down. However, If we […]
London Group of Relaxation, Hypnosis & Culture Seeking Let’s get together to learn relaxation techniques, to discuss interesting topics of psychology, hypnosis and culture to cultivate a more balanced, stress-free and intellectually stimulating lifestyle. We started this group to share evidence-based relaxation methods and useful psychological knowledge with anybody interested in reducing daily stress, improving […]
I would like to share with you a Stoic evening meditation that I’ve come across and found very interesting. Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65) gives an account of this meditation, initially promoted by an other Roman philosopher called Sextius (fl. 50 BC). So it goes like this: ”Every day, we must call upon […]
In this article, I would like to describe the main characteristics of depersonalization and derealisation experiences and some of my findings resulting from my research during my postgraduate studies with regard to depersonalization among drug users and meditators. Definition / Phenomenology First of all, what is a depersonalization (DP) experience? According to the DSM V, a major, […]
I would like to briefly describe the currently most established psychological treatment approaches to depersonalization that I also use in my work when treating the symptoms. These approaches are based on Cognitive-Behavioural and Acceptance and Commitment therapy interventions. I apply these within a hypnotherapy framework. Cognitive interventions We have seen how important the personal interpretation of a […]
We can classify the different approaches to hypnotherapy using roughly three big categories: Cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapies, Ericksonian hypnotherapies and Psychodynamic hypnotherapies. In this brief discussion, I will describe the main characteristics of these approaches and the most prominent differences between them. Cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy (CBH) uses hypnosis partly as a facilitator, a therapeutically ideal context when applying CBT interventions. CBH also uses […]