Change & More

I am now delivering Slim Change, my popular weight loss programme as a stand-alone package. In five easy sessions I support you to become healthy and happy in your body without dieting. Cravings are banished and emotional eating is tackled in weekly or fortnightly sessions.

For more information please call 07545 871 504 or email me. You can also read more about Slim Change here.

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I am now offering appointments in Collingwood Street in Newcastle city centre, just 200m from Newcastle Central Station.

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I will be assisting my colleague James Stokes at a series of regular Personal Enhancement Evening Sessions.

We will run them at 40 Beak Street for a group of around 10 - 20 people. Each evening will be different, starting at 6pm and finishing around 8pm.

The evening will consist of an open talk with questions, followed by a trance of some kind. The focus of each talk will be something around enhancing your life / yourself / the way you run your brain. We will also take requests from the audience for future areas to cover. The idea is that you will have an enjoyable evening, learn something, and trance out / meditate.

If anyone is interested, please contact me for further details of dates and costs.

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February in London can be pretty tough going can’t it? It’s the relentless grey that just makes me want to head out to Heathrow and escape somewhere warm and sunny. No question of that though. Far too frivolous. So what to do? After consultation with ‘the gang’ we decided to visit the Royal Academy’s Modern British Sculpture exhibition in the hope that it would be both uplifting, and dare I say it, improving.

I mean, after all, how heavy-gravity could viewing some of the finest masterpieces of sculpture in the world within the august surrounding of Burlington House be?

Incredibly, hideously heavy-gravity it turns out!

Coming upon Damien Hirst’s Let’s Eat Outdoors Today was initially rather like the time I accidently sprayed Cillit Bang in my face. When I forced my eyelids open again after the initial shock, I slowly began to take in the reality of the maggots, flies and rotting meat in front of me as a my throat constricted and a queasy feeling spread throughout my stomach. It wasn’t long before I was feeling thoroughly nauseous. This is a classic example of how a small, even unconscious, trigger can build strong negative states (what we often call ‘fears’ or ‘phobias’). In fact, I was feeling so unwell that if the priceless Chinese pottery on show had not sensibly been housed in a glass cabinet, I might have thrown up in it.

Don’t get me wrong, it was not the blood oozing from the decapitated cow’s head that turned my stomach. I am a five star gold-plated triple platinum carnivore and like my steak done, as the French say, bleu. It was rather the sight and sound of the flies that were having a detrimental effect on me. Swarming flies trigger a state in me that is strong, negative and unresourceful. However, little would I have ever imagined that it would be thanks to Damien Hirst and the Royal Academy that I would have the opportunity for some first-class exposure therapy. A quick way of ridding ourselves of unresourceful states, and something I use a lot with clients, is regression (time line) therapy. I decided to use it on myself there and then. Because Time Line work requires the trance phenomena of Regression and Positive Hallucination a trance state is achieved quickly without the need for an induction, and in my case with Sensory Distortion (feeling sick) also present in the mix it was an even quicker slide into trance. 

As most other visitors had their eyes closed in disgust I did not attract anyone’s attention as I slowly journeyed back in time, following that feeling of nausea all the way back to the very first time I had felt it. Suddenly I accessed a memory in great detail that I had forgotten about: I could see myself as a six year old boy at my grandparents’ house in Anglesey. I am in bed yelling blue murder as a swarm of horrid black flies swarm around me. I see grown ups come into the room, telling me to be quiet and stop making such a fuss about a ‘few harmless flies’ as my mother pulls a dead rabbit from out under the bed where the dog has thoughtfully (not!) hidden it. As I see the dead rabbit crawling with maggots I am sick.

Observing this past event, I do a quick bit of reprocessing, make sure it feels better, and then bring myself back to the present and count myself back into the room. OMG! I love it. I love Time Line and, yes you’ve guessed it, I now love (well, perhaps not quite!) Damien Hirst’s Let’s Eat Outdoors Today.  I calibrate the results there and then: The feeling of nausea has cleared, and I am just looking at a work of art, experiencing it in the moment. Whatever other emotions are being triggered by viewing it the physical feeling of sickness is now no longer one of them. It just goes to show how easily we can change our state from unresourceful fears, phobias and anxieties when we can access the right (probably buried) memory and tap it on the head.

So, anyone with a fly (or maggot) phobia, get down to the Royal Academy for some first class exposure therapy!

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