I don't know whether, like me, you have been following Les Miserables in the present BBC television adaptation, but the character at the...

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...

A paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (summarised in The Times on Tuesday of this week) reports a remarkable...

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...

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...

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...

A BBC Horizon programme* recently conducted a wide-ranging experiment to test the placebo effect. The results were extraordinary. We...

The other day I was talking to some friends and we were discussing the television programmes we were watching and, in particular, how...

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...

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...

I was recently asked to complete a questionnaire about my hypnotherapy practice. It made me think hard about my answers, and I hope they...

I often work with musicians to overcome performance anxiety, and for a lot of classical musicians in particular, this centres around...

Hypnotherapy can be a funny business. People often come and see me when all else has failed, desperately wanting something to work, and...

‘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....

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...

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...

In 2013 I heard Barbra Streisand sing, live. It was one of the great musical moments of my life, right up there alongside Bernstein...

A few weeks ago, a lifelong Manchester United supporter, I went to watch United play Crystal Palace at Palace's ground, Selhurst Park. It...

Today, I finally read something by Stephen Hawking that I could actually understand; 'One, remember to look up at the stars and not down...

'...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...