Katharine Warner joins Salus Wellness

We are pleased to announce that Katharine Warner, an NLP Practitioner based in Cambridge, has joined Salus Wellness, the complementary health centre located in the hearth of Cambridge city.

Katharine specialises in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), but will also incorporate Coaching and Clinical Hypnotherapy into her sessions where appropriate. NLP is a method of influencing the way the brain works through the use of language to allow the brain to be re-programmed, so that new and better behaviours can be achieved. She will work with you, training you to manage your thoughts, moods and behaviours more effectively.

Passionate about the importance of health and wellbeing in preventing and combatting illness, Katharine has experienced the power of NLP and Clinical Hypnotherapy by making a full recovery from a severely debilitating viral illness.

Katharine is experienced with resolving issues such as anxiety, confidence, exam performance, obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD), public speaking and many more. She has a particular interest in addictions, stress and pain management.

Katharine commented:

“I am very much looking forward to joining Salus Wellness. I will be working alongside a great existing team of highly qualified therapists, coaches and health care practitioners in a peaceful, professional and welcoming location in the heart of Cambridge.”

Kate Jacobs Joins Salus Wellness Clinics

We are pleased to announce that Kate Jacobs, an NLP Master and Hypnotherapist based in Cambridge, has joined Salus Wellness; the complementary health centre which recently opened in Cambridge.

Kate specialises in working with people who want to change the way they think or feel.  Whether this is personal confidence or belief or to release themselves from experiences that limit their lives now.  Living with fears or phobias, a lack of self belief or confidence caused by past trauma or experience inhibits the choices we make for now and the future. Working with Kate with enable you to change the way you think and feel and empower you to make the right choices and decisions for yourself having learnt from your past but not being defined by it.

Kate commented:

“I am really looking forward to working at Salus Wellness alongside other Pracitioners with a strong reputation.”

For more information about Kate Jacobs, click HERE or call us now on 01223 300 222

Salus Wellness collects £155 to help Japanese recovery

The devastating combination of natural calamities which hit Japan last month is, without doubts, one of the most dramatic moments in our recent history. With estimated damages in excess of 200 billion dollars we should all consider what we can do to help those who survived this terrible tragedy and found themselves with no house or other possessions.

At Salus Wellness we organised a successful fundraising event on Saturday 9 April.  The event, called Complementary Health for Japan, managed to collect £155 all of which was paid to Oxfam toward their Japan’s Earthquake/Tsunami Appeal.

During the day, several practitioners from Salus Wellness offered free taster sessions lasting between 20 and 30 minutes and accepted a voluntary donation. Treatments included:

• Sport and Remedial massage
• Hypnotherapy
• Energy Healing
• Reflexology
• Reiki

Luca Senatore, Sales Director at Salus Wellness commented: “we hope that the day we dedicated to this cause can make a difference, however small, to somebody affected by this terrible disaster. We very grateful to all practitioners that donated their time and expertise to help people with their treatment and enabled us to create this event.”

Lynn Baxter Joins Salus Wellness Clinics

We are pleased to announce that Lynn Baxter, a Midwife and Clinical Hypnotherapist, has joined Salus Wellness, the complementary health centre which opened in late 2010 in Cambridge.

Lynn specialises in Hypnosis for Childbirth, and has extensive experience in this field.  She uses research based hypnosis that maximizes each woman’s potential to have a satisfying birth experience. The core technique she uses has been clinically researched and is proven to improve birth outcomes of all kinds.

Uniquely, because of her Midwifery background, she is able to help women prepare for labour by giving them useful and relevant information and advice; this information can be valuable in preventing complications that may affect the progress and outcome of labour. She enjoys helping women approach labour in a confident and informed way; for many women, she is the one professional who provides continuity of care throughout pregnancy.

Lynn also has the Certificate in Sports Hypnosis, and enjoys helping athletes to overcome physical, mental and emotional blocks in their performance.

Lynn commented:

“I am very excited to be working at Salus in such a professional environment and among other highly trained and qualified therapists.”

For more information about Lynn Baxter, click HERE or call us now on 01223 300 222

Adele Richmond Joins Salus Wellness Clinics

We are pleased to announce that Adele Richmond, a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner based in Cambridge, has joined Salus Wellness, the complementary health centre based at 47 Norfolk street.

Adele specialises in treating anxiety disorders, phobias and helping women achieve a positive experience of childbirth through her work as a Confident Childbirth Practitioner.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy combined with NLP is a modern approach to a powerful means of helping people. It uses the latest techniques and understanding of how the brain works to provide a flexible approach that can achieve results in a relatively short space of time.

Adele trained with Trevor Sylvestor at the Quest Institute in London, an internationally recognised training school that provides cutting-edge training that exceeds the National Occupational Standards set for Hypnotherapy. She has also taken additional training as a Confident Childbirth Practitioner and NLP Learning Coach.

Adele commented:

‘My passion is in helping you transform your life so that you can live a more authentic, positive and peaceful existence.  I’m really looking forward to meeting and working with you at the Salus Wellness Clinic.  The Clinic provides a private, comfortable and safe environment for us to work together to help you achieve the positive changes that you desire. ”

For more information about Adele, click HERE or call us now on 01223 300 222

Sarah Turner Joins Salus Wellness Clinics

We are pleased to announce that Sarah Turner, a Hypnotherapy practitioner based in Cambridge, has joined Salus Wellness Clinics.

Sarah Turner is a qualified and accredited practitioner with a diploma in Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy and a Business Diploma in NLP.  She receives regular one to one supervision as well as attending CPD (Continued Professional Development) training seminars and workshops with other therapists which means that she values the importance of regularly refreshing her skills and keeping up to date with the latest techniques within the field.

Sarah trained with one of the leading Hypnotherapy Training Centres globally, Uncommon Knowledge which, is accredited by The General Hypnotherapy Register. She has a special interest in working with Weight Loss, Anxiety, Smoking Addiction and Depression.

Recently Sarah commented:

“I am very excited to have just joined Salus and will be working there on Saturday mornings. Had my first session there on Saturday – it was great. Think I’m going to like it here!”

To find out more about Sarah and see how she can help you achieve your goals, see here full profile HERE.

A Healthy New Year’s Resolution

A new year just started and again how many of us decided to loose weight on top of the list? Many of us are constantly thinking of trying to lose a little weight and shape up for the new season ahead.  However dieting can be a daunting task and can turn out in a disaster for many as they lose a little weight in the short term, only to put it straight back on again once they finish the diet (or even sooner).  Diets can work in the short term, then once the target weight has been reached, the dieter will begin to eat normally and the weight will go straight back on. It is a never ending battle.

So, what is the alternative? Hypnotherapy can help with weight loss by addressing the issue from a more mind related viewpoint.  Many people have reported a weight loss of up to 6 pounds per week using Hypnosis, Neuro Linguistic Programming and Time Line Therapy.

How easy would it be if temptations are not temptations anymore? What if your stomach could feel full with less food? Hypnotherapy does just that; by reaching the unconscious mind, hypnosis can clear reasons for emotional eating such as stress, sadness, boredom etc. It then establishes alternative behaviours and resources which will cause a natural new approach to food in general and a complete new attitude and the weight stays off. Most people who undertook hypnotherapy to lose weight, reported improvements in other areas of their lives whilst losing weight.

So how does it really work? It’s simple really: when we see, hear, touch or even just think of something, that something creates a certain thought, image of feeling in our mind. This then produces a state of mind and consequently a sensation, mood and/or behaviour.

So if for example you are trying not to eat chocolate (which you like very much), you think that you don’t want to eat chocolate. It must be mentioned that the mind cannot process negative statements and therefore when we think “I don’t want to think about chocolate” we are already thinking about chocolate in the first instance and this alone creates a focus on that thing we do not want to focus on.

When we think about chocolate, we make a certain representation of it; whether this is an image, a sensation or a feeling (this changes from person to person).

For this example, let’s say that when you think of chocolate you get an image in your mind, now that image, which is normally in vivid, bright colours, creates a certain thought and consequently a feeling or sensation which is normally making that piece of chocolate even more compelling. This is, in a nutshell, why it is so hard to resist that temptation and, after a struggling internal battle, you end up biting that piece of chocolate with intense emotions, either passionate love or frustration and revenge.

For many people this can cause a vicious thinking pattern that creates guilt for having given in and therefore, now that we failed, we may as well eat the all block of chocolate. Sounds familiar?

Now stop and think: what would happen if chocolate would create a different set of images, emotions and feelings in our minds? What would happen if this representation would not be that appealing anymore? I guess that we would probably not be attracted to chocolate that much, would we?

This, added to letting go of any emotional issue which may have caused you to look for comfort in food and eat when your body didn’t really need it, generate a natural motivation to exercise and perhaps use the immense power of the unconscious mind to provide you with the sensation that your stomach shrank and that you therefore no longer can eat as much as before even if you wanted and you have found yourself a brand new behaviour, attitude and personality which will help you lose weight like no diet could ever do. And the best part is that all of this will feel ever so natural to you.  Happy dieting now

I have decided…. have you?

Have you ever heard someone say: “Oh, I will quit on Monday! That’s it, I truly had enough on this junk! Let the weekend go buy and then I will quit” or “From January I will change, I will go on a diet and get myself down at the gym” or “That’s it, from tomorrow I will stop drinking at night”?

Seriously, think about all the people who made these kinds of statements and see if you can recall any of them who actually acted on that statement. Chances are that if you have caught anybody say anything similar to the above, none of what wad said has ever come to reality. The person who said “Oh, I would so like to lose some weight” whilst eating a pizza, is still overweight and the person who said that cigarettes will no longer control his life whilst blowing the smoke out, still coughs in the morning while he looks for the lighter.

This is down to one simple but very significant fact: none of the above statements constitute a decision; none of them is structured as a decision nor is it meant as one. They are simply verbalization of preferences, verbalization of what these people would like to have happen in their lives, they would like life to just give them those things but they are not willing to do anything about it.

A true decision is always, with no exception, accompanied by an action; immediately. That means that one must do the most that one can do the moment the decision has been made. This concept represents the most effective way to start, and consequently complete, anything and seems very simple. In some ways in fact, it is simple although, maybe because of its simplicity, many people fail to apply it and thus fail to reach their goals whether that is quitting smoking, losing weight, getting a new job, making money etcetera.

The power of decisions is responsible for the success of people like Thomas Edison who decided that “every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward” and, straight away, carried on seeking the right way. Edison decided that he will keep on trying until he found the right way and he did carry on until he did. Henry Ford who decided that he wanted an 8 cylinder engine mounted in one piece and invested time and money persuading his employees, who declared the project to be impossible, to find a way. Ford decided that he wanted such engine and took action right away. Silvester Stallone decided that he would have been Rocky and even when the 2000 agencies he went to refused him 3 times each, he still persisted. His wife left him, he had no money to eat, he had to sell his dog because he was no longer able to look after him and still, when the one of the agencies he went to, decided to offer him $60,000.00 for the script as long as he gave up on the desire of wanting to play Rocky, he refused and walked away with nothing. He refused and he persisted until the agency accepted with the condition that Stallone would have only received nominal pay and a cut of the profits because they would not believe that a guy who, at least to them, did not look good, did not sound good and simply did not have the right presence to be an actor, could drive Rocky to be a successful movie. They were right: Rocky was not a good movie; Rocky turned out to be a legacy!

Of course, persistence, drive, motivation, ambition, vision and desire all played key roles in the monumental achievements of Edison, Ford and Stallone and others like them, but it all started from a true decision; a decision to accept nothing less, nothing different from the dream they have carefully designed, not even the smallest compromise.

All these amazing outcomes above were once ideas, like the ones that many of us have, like the ones that remain in one’s mind and eventually become regrets. Unless we take these ideas and turned them into Decision and the one and only way known to turn ideas into Decisions is to take action; not tomorrow, not in one hour but right now. This is, symbolically as well as practically, the equivalent of giving the big wheel the first push; it makes the second spin almost inevitable.

“A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided.” – Anthony Robbins