How To Overcome Fear of Swimming

A fear of water or fear of swimming can be extremely frustrating. But if you are one of those people who would like to be able to take a dip there are ways in which this type of fear can be overcome.

There are very few people who do not like watching the natural movements of the ocean. It is a vista which is always moving and ever changing, presenting to the viewer an amazing cacophony of colors. Blues, greens, turquoise and grey all mix and blend together in this wonderful body of endless and seamless motion. Sometimes that water shines and sparkles and almost seems to dance before your eyes. It is brilliant, amazing and awe inspiring.

The sights and sounds of the ocean can stir up a lot of different emotions. It can induce a sensation of peace and tranquility sometimes and yet equally the ocean has the power to uncover sensations of restlessness and fury. The water moves and changes and presents many different faces to us, some of which may be sensual and others which may be daunting or forbidding. The ocean could be seen as a prison by some or a delicious freedom by others. But to some people, water induces a huge and instinctive sensation of fear and anxiety.

Water simply doesn’t stay still and static. If you have ever watched a droplet of water as it balances upon a leaf you will know that eventually it will cause the leaf to bend beneath its weight. It’s on the move, again. This perhaps is one reason which underlies a fear of water or fear of swimming; water just doesn’t stay still. In this sense it is unpredictable.

Another reason perhaps is the all enveloping power of a body of water; it can seem so strong and make a human being by contrast feel weak and vulnerable. Some people have simply had a bad experience in water, or their fear may be less about the water and more about sinking or being unable to breathe.

Swimming pools of course are no way near as daunting as a natural and unpredictable expanse of ocean. You know exactly where the bottom lies and what it is made of; you can even see all of the way to the bottom. You can touch the bottom with you feet, whilst keeping your head above the surface. You also know that the human body has a natural tendency to float.

But all of this does little to sooth the emotions which instinctively surface in the person who is afraid of water or afraid of swimming. We all know that we should have a healthy respect for water, but we equally know that there is no need to be fearful of water in a swimming pool. There are no rough waves or dangerous currents and no surprising changes of depth.

This type of fear anxiety is therefore known to be illogical and also extremely annoying and frustrating. Something, somewhere in the back of your mind must be creating this “miss-cue” of emotional response. Hypnosis is very handy in helping one to overcome their fear of water and to gain swimming confidence as it provides access to the inner workings of the mind. A little bit of rewiring, with the help of hypnosis, and you will find that more comfortable emotions will be triggered and your fear of swimming will be overcome.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis mp3 downloads to overcome fears and phobias and promote well-being.

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How To Overcome Fear of The Dark

A fear of the dark is very debilitating and a constant nuisance. If you no longer want to sleep with the light on each night there is a way in which you can overcome your fears.

What is it about darkness which can set a person’s heart beating faster and trigger sensations of anxiety which have the ability to spread like a grey cloak of mist throughout your physiology? Stories about the “bogey man” come to mind and are instantly dismissed as being completely illogical; even so, the coiled sensation of fear remains. Your logical mind and your emotions agree to differ and each attempts to pursue its own course.

The emotional mind is the one which tends to win. It has an intensity which overrules logic like a steam roller flattening everything which lies in its path. Every time the logical mind raises an arm and makes a rational observation about there being no need to fear the darkness, fear and anxiety surfaces in greater volume of intensity, and uses its force to pull that arm of reason quickly back down once more.

There is one undeniable fact about darkness, which could shed some light on why so many people suffer from such fear. In the dark one cannot see like they can throughout the day or when a light is on. Being unable to see can induce a feeling that one’s control has slipped away; if you feel out of control this in itself gives rise to an awareness of vulnerability, or threat. When your brain perceives something which it construes as threatening, the instinctive fight or flight response is triggered – fear takes over.

Thus some people may be predisposed to a fear of the dark as a side effect of perhaps feeling a loss of control in another aspect of their lives. Others may have developed a fear of darkness due to a bad experience in the past. But no matter what has caused your fear of the dark, it is your brains perception of darkness as being threatening which triggers the fear anxiety response.

With hypnosis you can access the inner workings of your mind and alter the way in which you respond to these types of triggers. Hypnosis is fast becoming known as the very best way in which one can overcome a fear or cure a phobia. Hypnosis is easy to use and easy to learn with the help of a fear of the dark download.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis downloads to help overcome fears and phobias and to promote well-being.

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How To Overcome Fear of Lifts

A fear of lifts is debilitating and also unnecessary. Phobias are learned responses and what is learned can be un-learned, so long as you know how.

A fear of lifts may take many forms. Sometimes this fear can be felt as a vague unease, whilst at other times these tingles of anxiety can morph into a full blown panic attack. Anxiety over anything does indeed tend to escalate over time; what begins as a vague feeling of discomfort turns into a completely debilitating phobia.

New buildings all over the globe are getting ever taller, each architect or construction firm competing for the title as creator of the highest building or tallest structure. To have only sixteen or twenty floors in a building is now seen as being relatively small as compared to skyscrapers which extend to over one hundred floors. And lift manufacturers have the task of inventing lifts which are bigger, smoother, faster and more elegant. But to the person who suffers from a fear of lifts, no amount of smoothness or elegance helps to entice them within those four walls.

A journey up the stairs is infinitely more preferable than stepping inside that lift and watching the doors slide closed. Getting out of breath whilst running up the stairs is nothing as compared to the tightness experienced in your chest when even simply weighing up the possibility of stepping across the threshold of a lift. But those who suffer from a fear of lifts will all agree that their fear is EXTREMELY inconvenient! Most will also agree that it doesn’t really make much logical sense; the likelihood of getting stuck is pretty minimal after all.

Anxieties, fears and phobias escalate over time as a result of the way in which the human mind works. Each time you think about something with a strong emotional attachment your brain records it as if what you were thinking about did in fact really happen. A person who suffers from a fear of lifts will create pictures in their mind of feeling trapped, or short of breath, or panicky AUTOMATICALLY every time they think about lifts; your brain records this extra episode of panic and this is added to the store of panic which is already associated with the concept of a lift.

To stop the cycle and overcome a fear of lifts, you have to learn to think about lifts in a different way, and create pictures which elicit a different emotional connotation. This is actually easy to do with the help of fear of lifts hypnotherapy. Hypnosis is what is needed to access the part of your mind which triggers automatic thoughts, beliefs and behaviors, which of course includes fear and phobic reactions.

You can learn to use hypnosis easily with the help of hypnosis mp3 downloads and train your mind to overcome your fear of lifts.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis downloads to help overcome fears and phobias and promote well-being.

http://www.RoseannaLeaton.com

How To Have Driving Confidence On Unfamiliar Roads

Driving abroad can present a challenge to even the best drivers. What can be done to maintain driving confidence when in an unfamiliar environment?

With an increasing number of vehicles traversing the highways of the world a higher degree of driving confidence is required to enable one to step out of their usual comfort zone. To drive on an unfamiliar road can be very daunting to many a driver. Roads and road systems can be very different from one side of a town to another let alone between different countries or continents.

I am very aware of this reality as I regularly drive in both the UK and California. Driving in the UK varies a lot. On the Isle of Man, roads are generally small and relatively free of traffic; there are no caravans and few articulated vehicles. But, and this is a big BUT, there are a lot of tiny roundabouts; the ones I mean are those that are denoted simply by a white circle painted on the tarmac. I know many a visitor whose driving confidence has completely escaped them when faced with one of these little roundabouts which we locals find far less daunting.

In the UK in general there is also no intuitive aspect to road directions, in contrast with many American roads which run upon a grid system. Whereas roundabouts can be the nemesis to some, four way junctions, seven lane highways or carpool lanes can present a few surprises to a person who is visiting and driving in California. Confidence comes from feeling comfortable and familiar with something. Driving confidence is certainly challenged when presented with these types of unfamiliar situations.

There are challenges to be met in any new road system and driving confidence is required if you want to get from A to B safely. Whether you are going from an area where you are used to heavy traffic and high speed to a more rural area or vice versa, there will always be differences. And then there is also the potential ultimate difference in that you may be required to drive on the other side of the road. Driving is challenging and driving confidence can often diminish, particularly when faced with an unfamiliar environment.

There are many things which you can do to help yourself and prepare for driving abroad. First, you can find out about the local rules. In this way you will know what otherwise unfamiliar signs mean, or how you are meant to deal with four way junctions or roundabouts and so on. If you know that you know how you should respond you will have far greater driving confidence.

Second, before you drive anywhere, familiarize yourself with your directions; don’t just set out and hope to see a signpost. Have a good look at the map, and better still key in your destination to an automated navigation system. In this way you won’t have to think about signs or directions and all of your attention can be focused upon the task in hand – that of driving with confidence, in accordance with the local rules on the correct side of the road.

If you haven’t had much driving practice then the very act of driving can be fear inducing in itself. In this case hypnosis can be very helpful in accessing your subconscious mind and mentally rehearsing driving and creating a positive emotional attachment to those rehearsals. With this type of mental rehearsal, each session of visualization is recorded by your brain as if it were a real experience, thereby building driving confidence again and again. With the help of a hypnosis download you can easily learn to use hypnosis and train yourself to have complete driving confidence.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis downloads to promote health, success and well-being.

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What Is Your Key To Success?

When one is in pursuit of success it can become easy to overlook some of the things with matter most. A balanced approach to success is in reality what is required.

There are many steps to success in life, be it in business success, financial success or relationship success. One factor which is at the heart of success is that of perseverance. Most people think of success in terms of their business or acquisition of wealth, although ultimately most will agree that the one thing which matters above all else is to find happiness in ones relationships or personal life.

It can be difficult however to live a balanced life when in search of business success. The ease of communication in this day and age provides greater opportunities to achieve success whilst at the same time creating more opportunity for competition. Thus an increasingly high demand is placed upon one’s time, abilities and talent. Conflict is often felt whilst in the pursuit of success.

New developments generally mean that one has to find different ways to act so as to adapt and benefit most from a change in circumstances. The ability to get noticed upon the internet or to make money on line has opened up a whole new way in which it is possible to live. Many more people are working from home, and this has both its plus and minus points. Many people choose to work from home as a way of seeing more of their family only to find that their new form of work becomes more consuming an activity than they had originally expected.

If one considers that the primary aim of humans throughout evolution is to pass on ones genes and procreate, then one can see that the creation of a stable family life is all important. But the provision of wealth so as to thrive is also a necessary ingredient. Balance has to be achieved. The human race has evolved and thrived more than any other animal; it is thought that the benefit of learning to walk on two feet instead of four is what gave us our competitive advantage. By walking on two feet, arms became free to gather food and bring it home to the family.

Had our ancestors lost sight of the necessity for procreation as a primary goal they would not have been successful in the evolutionary stakes. In modern times the internet provides us with a huge opportunity to adapt our ways, become successful and make life easier, so long as we keep an eye on everything that matters to us and do not fall into a routine of “all work and no play”.

As we all know “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” and this is what in modern times leads to relationships fracturing and ultimately failing. The prevalence of broken family units is probably more of a threat to our long term success as a human race than anything else in the modern world. We have succeeded as a human race by banding together and working together. Success takes perseverance but it also requires balance and togetherness.

To achieve all round success, one needs to know when to work and when to stop. There is an art to learning how to persevere effectively and to learning how to switch off. Hypnosis is a great help in both of these tasks. Hypnosis is a state of relaxation and in learning to use hypnosis you learn how to switch off and change state. But hypnosis also provides access to your inner mind and enables one to make the road to success both smoother and quicker.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis mp3 downloads to provide your key to success.

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How To Overcome Fear of Flying

A fear of flying is debilitating and also unnecessary. Phobias are learned responses and what is learned can be un-learned, so long as you know how.

A fear of flying is in this day and age extremely restricting. So many people these days enjoy a lifestyle which involves flying almost as frequently as we used to take taxis. Many jobs are dependent upon flying on a regular basis, be it a short internal flight or one which involves sitting on an airplane for up to twenty hours.

A fear of flying can take many forms; one individual may be quite comfortable on a small plane but petrified on a jumbo, whilst the opposite may be true for another person. The symptoms experienced can vary from a tension which is bearable (just) to full blown panic attacks which even prevent a person from going anywhere remotely near to an airport. You may feel less uptight in an aisle seat, whilst someone else will only contemplate flying if a window seat is guaranteed. Sometimes the sounds which a plane makes can trigger anxiety, whilst at other times it may be the sensations or the sights.

Everyone’s fear of flying is different in terms of what triggers it and how you instinctively react. The degree of anxiety or panic experienced varies from one person to another. I have met people who could not even bear to look at a plane in the sky without experiencing a knee jerk reaction which sent them in search of a place to hide.

However you experience your fear of flying phobia, it is something which is very uncomfortable and it places undue stress upon both your psyche and your lifestyle. No matter how deeply you experience a fear of flying phobia, this response can be changed. A phobia is something which is learned, not something which you are born with. It is the result of an automatic program which is running at the back of your mind.

This is why fear of flying hypnotherapy is so successful. With hypnosis you gain access to the inner workings of your mind and deep rooted beliefs, habits and phobias can be changed with relative ease. Hypnosis is easy to learn and easy to use with the help of a hypnosis recording. You can learn how to retrain your mind to overcome your fear of flying and feel comfortable on airplanes with the help of hypnosis.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis downloads to overcome fears and phobias and to promote well-being.

http://www.RoseannaLeaton.com

How to Overcome Self Sabotage and Acquire Dating Confidence

Successful dating is all about being comfortable and confident in your own skin. Successful dating techniques can be learned through the correct use of mental rehearsal.

Successful dating is all about confidence; confidence in how you look but more importantly confidence in who you are. You have to feel that you are “worth it” and that you have “value”. If you do not have this sense of inner confidence or inner belief, your own emotions will sabotage your attempts at dating.

Self sabotage isn’t a new concept. It is something that many humans are extremely good at. We can stop ourselves from achieving our hearts desire in so very many different ways. A lack of dating confidence may cause one to act in extremely different ways.

Some people will not even make an attempt to date. This person may have a tendency to justify their position by reiterating that they are “happier single” or that they “don’t like dating” and so on. This person appears to be confident and totally in control, sophisticated and worldly wise. But underneath they will probably admit that their “I don’t care” attitude to dating is more there as a matter of self protection than due to a real desire to be alone. If you consider that a human beings primary instinct is survival of their line, then one knows that to be single is diametrically opposed to this purpose.

In this case the self-sabotage is presented as a form of self-preservation. The belief of “If I don’t try I cannot get hurt” does ultimately hurt far more in the long run. To rebuild dating confidence sometimes one has to look at why confidence was lost and seek ways in which to rebuild confidence and learn new dating techniques.

Another form of self sabotage could just as easily be to react in a way which presents an exterior of being a victim. In this case, the person doesn’t appear to have stopped trying; rather, they often will be observed actively seeking dates and opportunities to date, but nothing seems to work out. Their own inner beliefs of “nothing ever works for me” or “I don’t really deserve to be happy” or whatever else are transmitted into the dating situations subconsciously and a self-fulfilling prophesy ensues.

These are clearly extreme examples of why perhaps dating confidence can be elusive to some and not to others. There are many different reasons why dating confidence can be lost.

For a lot of people it is merely a lack of practice; they have been in a long terms relationship which has ended and are simply feeling rather rusty when faced with flirting once again. Even this however may end up sabotaging your attempts at feeling attractive and enjoying the dating game. Without practice in anything in life, the results will not normally be as good as they would have been with adequate rehearsal.

Rehearsal is the key to success in almost everything in life. The great news is that this rehearsal may not have to be real live practice; it could instead be carried out in ones imagination. Whatever you imagine you create. In the examples of self-sabotage noted earlier, the imagination is what triggered the chain of events which led to the lonely result experienced. If you imagine being rejected, you will ensure that rejection does take place.

This is why confidence lies at the heart of successful dating and overcoming the various forms of self sabotage which abound in dating techniques. If you don’t think you are a good conversationalist this creates a barrier to dating. If you do not consider yourself attractive or “worthy” this again puts a rather large spanner in the works.

Dating confidence is actually easy to acquire simply by learning how to rehearse the correct things in your imagination. Correct mental rehearsal is the key to success and you can learn to do this with the help of hypnosis.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis mp3 downloads designed to provide you with dating confidence.

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How To Lower High Blood Pressure and Help Relieve Stress on Your GP

If you break your leg and take pain killers so as to numb the sensations, would you still embark upon a five mile run? With high blood pressure, why take tablets to lower it but not change the way in which you live?

There is a natural link between relaxation and the lowering of blood pressure. It follows that if you think that your blood pressure is higher than it should be, one of the ways in which you can earn to help yourself is by learning the art of relaxation.

It is extremely important to meet the medical profession half way and to do what you can to look after your own health. It is far too easy to just make an appointment to see your GP and simply hand over complete responsibility for your health to him or her. This is not fair upon the already overloaded medical profession, but more importantly, you are not doing the best you can for yourself.

I have been asked many times why I sell hypnosis recordings to help lower blood pressure. People point out that there is already an adequate remedy available to everyone in tablet form. But to me, this misses the point.

When your body presents you with a symptom this should be seen as a form of communication between your body and your mind. A physical symptom like that of high blood pressure tells you that your body is overloaded or compromised in some way. The symptom is effectively trying to tell you to take a step back, and revise the ways in which you are doing things.

If there were no tablets, pills or potions available, our only option would be to seek a different way of living; we would look for natural ways in which to reduce stress or tension and so on. But the majority of people in the Western world tend to take the tablet and continue living in the same reckless way, donning blinkers so as not to see the long term consequences.

But the human body does give way in the end. If you keep ignoring symptoms, it will produce more and different diseases, until it becomes increasingly more difficult to ignore the messages which your body is transmitting. Think about it in this way for just a moment; if you had a broken leg and you took morphine or some other pain killer so that you no longer felt the pain, would you still set out for a five mile jog? The answer here is clearly a resounding “no”. So why would a person with high blood pressure, just take tablets to lower that pressure, and yet continue living life in exactly the same way as before? Surely an intelligent person would seek to look at the cause and try to find a way in which to relieve that trigger to disease?

More and more people are aware that they have lost the ability to relax. But relaxation is a natural ability and one which can easily be relearned. Hypnosis is particularly useful in the area of mind and body communication. With hypnosis you can learn to relax and thereby benefit from the natural relaxation response, including that of lowering high blood pressure. But this is not all that hypnosis can do to assist you in looking after your health.

Hypnosis provides access to your inner mind, your subconscious mind, and suggestions can be made to assist your body to self heal and to promote well being. For those people who would like to meet the medical profession half way and to take greater responsibility for their own health, hypnosis is undoubtedly a very useful tool to use.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis mp3 downloads to help lower high blood pressure and to promote good health and well-being.

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How To Hit A Straight Drive

The secret to the longest tee shot and keeping it on the fairway is that you have to play within yourself; within the capabilities of your mind and your body.

It is interesting to see what questions are most frequently asked about the game of golf. The question at the top of the list must be about “how to hit the longest tee shot” or “how to hit a straight drive“. Is there really such a secret about how to hit your driver straight? Seemingly there is a hidden secret about how to hit an accurate tee shot which every golfer would dearly love to discover.

A “Google” search of this topic will provide you with thousands of answers as to what the secret is. I think however, that the secret to you hitting your driver straight is not to be found on Google; rather, I think that the secret to hitting your longest tee shot is within yourself. When I say “within yourself” I mean this to encompass more than one sense:

1. You will only hit a perfect tee shot if you swing within the limits of your mechanical control of the club. As you hit the ball within your control your tee shot will go farther than it will by trying to hit it harder. A golf ball, when pointed in the right direction will make its way there. You don’t have to beat it into submission!

2. You will also only hit a long straight drive if you do so within your mind as well as your body. You have to see it to believe it. By visualizing the perfect tee shot first in your mind, you are allowing your mind to direct your body, and the club, and finally the ball to the exact point where you want it to go. If you do not first clearly see where you want the ball to go, your body will swing the club mindlessly and the ball will respond accordingly.

3. This leads me to the next way in which one should interpret the term “within yourself”. You have to see it to believe it. The act of visualizing yourself hitting the longest tee shot does more than just creating a clear plan in your mind which then directs your body to act accordingly. As you visualize the perfect tee shot your mind begins to believe it. Research has shown that the human mind does not know the difference between something real and something vividly imagined. Thus your visualization builds belief about where the ball will go. As you no doubt know, good golf happens when you feel confident. As you believe that you are going to hit an accurate tee shot, there is a far greater chance that you will do just that.

4. There is one more interpretation of “within yourself”. Your idea of hitting a perfect tee shot will be unique to you and to the actual hole you are playing. You may want to draw the ball or to create a gentle fade. To create that shape of shot, and thereby hit the perfect tee shot that you desire, you also need to understand how the clubface impacts upon the ball, and how spin is created. You can only intentionally shape your shot from within this knowledge, and also from practicing to gain proficiency at such shots within a basis of this understanding.

This to me is the secret to hitting an accurate tee shot. The secret lies within yourself; within your mind as well as the physical and mechanical abilities of your body. A lot of golfers overlook the input of their mental processes when they play golf. This is a great shame as good golf is 90% in the mind.

If you would like to hit long straight drives down the middle of the fairway, you can get a head start in doing this with the help of a little golf mind training.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in golf hypnosis mp3s to get you hitting the longest tee shots.

http://www.roseannaleaton.com

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Looking For a Flirting Technique?

Whether you want to chat up the girls or flirt with the guys, it’s tempting to think that there might be a “flirting blue-print” which can be learned and put into practice. How can you find the perfect flirting technique?

There are nearly three million websites on the internet which use the phrase “flirting school” in advertising their products. What is it about flirting that can be so elusive to some and yet it comes naturally to others?

Flirting is in fact just one aspect of a bigger issue. Good relationships seem to be harder to find and more difficult to keep in this day and age. The ease of travel and ease of communication of the modern day tempt one into thinking that it should now be easier to meet that perfect person in a pond which is so much bigger than before. There is far more choice and far more opportunities can be accessed because of the way in which we are able to live.

But there is a flip side to this coin. In days gone by it was possible to be a “big fish in a small pond”. You could feel comfortable and confident in your familiar surroundings and feel secure in the knowledge that you were in all likelihood a “pretty good catch”. But now that pond has merged with many, many others, and all those fish are competing for mates and unsure of their “ranking” in this huge ocean of opportunity. It is all too easy to feel out of one’s depth.

Even if you are one of the biggest fish, a fear of sinking is not good for one’s confidence. We are creatures of habit and we feel more comfortable when we know our routines and know our boundaries. These days it would seem that there are no boundaries. In times of change, an underlying sensation of fear is experienced. And in times of fear we instinctively seek a mate with a greater sense of urgency. More pressure is inadvertently placed upon the issue of finding that mate. Hence the number of people seeking a guide to flirting.

Great flirts are comfortable and confident in themselves. They know they are attractive and they know their value. They don’t say so; they know so. They are not arrogant, spoiled or conceited; rather, they are simply comfortable in their own skin. The best flirting tip that can be given is therefore to be comfortable in your own skin; to be comfortable with who you are is the key to acquiring a great flirting technique.

You can learn chat up lines, or flirting body language and this may help you get onto the flirting ladder, but the real key is to become confident within yourself. As you become more confident and comfortable you will find that you automatically magnetize people to you without having to do anything at all. You may well be offered fast flirting tips, and they have every chance of working for you, but don’t omit to work on your overall confidence levels as well. You can only ever flirt from the platform of you, the person.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis mp3 downloads to help build confidence and assist in your flirting technique.

http://www.RoseannaLeaton.com