Les Miserables
I don't know whether, like me, you have been following Les Miserables in the present BBC television adaptation, but the character at the...
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Mark Brafield
- Jan 17, 2019
- 2 min
New Year's Resolutions
So we've got past Blue Monday, but how are those New Year's resolutions going ? It is easy to make resolutions, but not so easy to keep...
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Mark Brafield
- Jan 10, 2019
- 2 min
Always look on the bright side
A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (summarised in The Times on Tuesday of this week) reports a remarkable...
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Mark Brafield
- Jan 1, 2019
- 1 min
Towards a true balance
I wanted to start the year with the Exhortation by John Rogers, the father of a dear friend of mine, who passed away last year. A...
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Mark Brafield
- Dec 24, 2018
- 1 min
Find your nothing
I was at a yoga class earlier this week and the teacher was telling us about 'drishis'. A 'drishi' is a point that you focus on when...
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Mark Brafield
- Nov 16, 2018
- 2 min
Don't panic !
One reason that I was attracted to hypnotherapy was because of the remarkably wide range of conditions it can cure or help with. As I...
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Mark Brafield
- Oct 15, 2018
- 3 min
The placebo effect
A BBC Horizon programme* recently conducted a wide-ranging experiment to test the placebo effect. The results were extraordinary. We...
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Mark Brafield
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
Telling the story (continued)
The other day I was talking to some friends and we were discussing the television programmes we were watching and, in particular, how...
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Mark Brafield
- Sep 15, 2018
- 2 min
To tell my story
Therapy is where two people sit in a room. One talks and the other listens. So how does that work ? The therapist provides a defined...
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Mark Brafield
- Aug 23, 2018
- 3 min
Ouch !
So how does pain work ? We all know what pain is; you stub your toe and a lightning flash of pain streaks up to your brain. But is...
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Mark Brafield
- Jul 27, 2018
- 3 min
Any questions ?
I was recently asked to complete a questionnaire about my hypnotherapy practice. It made me think hard about my answers, and I hope they...
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Mark Brafield
- Jul 15, 2018
- 2 min
How to be perfect. And Harry Potter.
I often work with musicians to overcome performance anxiety, and for a lot of classical musicians in particular, this centres around...
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Mark Brafield
- Jul 6, 2018
- 2 min
Resistance is futile
Hypnotherapy can be a funny business. People often come and see me when all else has failed, desperately wanting something to work, and...
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Mark Brafield
- Jun 15, 2018
- 4 min
Mind the gap
‘So what do you want to achieve ?’ This is, almost invariably, my first question to a new client who comes to see me for hypnotherapy....
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Mark Brafield
- May 23, 2018
- 4 min
On giving up smoking
As a hypnotherapist I am regularly asked to help clients give up smoking - it is one of the most common enquiries I receive - so I wanted...
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Mark Brafield
- May 2, 2018
- 1 min
A bird in the hand
Once upon a time in a village far away there lived a wise old man. If anyone in the village needed an answer to a question that they...
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Mark Brafield
- Apr 13, 2018
- 2 min
Barbra Streisand, neuroscientist
In 2013 I heard Barbra Streisand sing, live. It was one of the great musical moments of my life, right up there alongside Bernstein...
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Mark Brafield
- Mar 28, 2018
- 2 min
A game of two halves, Krishna
A few weeks ago, a lifelong Manchester United supporter, I went to watch United play Crystal Palace at Palace's ground, Selhurst Park. It...
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Mark Brafield
- Mar 15, 2018
- 1 min
Look up at the stars
Today, I finally read something by Stephen Hawking that I could actually understand; 'One, remember to look up at the stars and not down...
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Mark Brafield
- Mar 13, 2018
- 2 min
In the eyes of the Buddha ...
'...in the eyes of the Buddha, everyone is a buddha. In the eyes of a pig, everyone is a pig'. Buddhist saying. I recently wrote about...
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