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Michael Hadfield - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Michael J. Hadfield is 54 years old, born in Liverpool, England. In 1996, after many years spent in the computer industry, he developed an interest in psychology and trained as a clinical hypnotherapist and has since helped many people to live a normal life again after struggling with psychological problems such as phobias, stress, chronic anxiety, over-eating, smoking, stammering, shyness, low self-esteem and lack of confidence.
Michael also has a well-developed interest in spirituality. This ... [More]
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- Irritable Bowel Syndrome - Relief is at Hand
[Health-and-Fitness:Home-Health-Care] Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a major health problem affecting the western world. But there is nothing physically wrong with sufferers that doctors can find. Stress is a factor, but not the whole story. Diet is a factor but not the whole story. Much medical research has proven that Hypnosis is by far the best treatment because hypnosis taps into the mind-body connection and can bring about changes that on the surface appear miraculous...
- 7 Reasons Why Diets Don't Work
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Diets don't work because they are based on a false premise. The false premise is that body weight is purely a consequence of the calories you eat and expend. If you eat more than you use the excess is stored as fat. If you eat less than you use, the body burns excess fat to make up the shortfall.
- Are Painkillers As Safe As They Seem?
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] 45 million Americans take painkillers for chronic headaches. 32 million Americans regularly use them for arthritis. Most of them have been available for years and you can even buy them in your local supermarket. Surely they are safe to take? If you regularly take painkillers, and especially if you are female, then you need to know this...
- Pain - Is it Really Just All in the Mind?
[Health-and-Fitness:Pain-Management] Pain is something we all suffer from. Sometimes it's useful, like reminding you it's not a good idea to hit your finger with a hammer; sometimes it's not, like when it never ever stops.
- Seven Easy Steps To Re-Size Your Photos In Photoshop
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] As cameras get better with more pixels, the image sizes are far beyond the resolution of monitors to display them. They also take forever to download, and they clog up Inboxes. Resizing images is the answer and it is easy. So easy that seven simple steps see the task completed. It takes only moments and gives you a feeling of control.
- Seven Easy Steps To a Sepia Toned Print
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] Ever wanted to have a go at Sepia toning with Photoshop but not quite sure how to go about it? Here are seven easy steps that require only a basic familiarity with Photoshop.
- Taking Panoramic Photographs - Digitally and Inexpensively
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] Ever felt you just couldn't really convey the spectacle of a scene with just one shot? Find it difficult to fit everything into the frame? Need more space - sideways? Here's how to do it and no one will ever see the joins.
- Three Easy Ways to Improve Your Photographs
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] Ever wonder why some people's pictures seem so much better than yours? Could be that they are just following three simple rules.
- Photography Made Simple
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] Are you disappointed with your pictures? Photography just too complicated? Here are three easy steps, requiring no technical knowledge or ability, that will definitely improve your pictures.
- Digital Cameras Made Easy
[Arts-and-Entertainment:Photography] Want a new camera? Does all that talk of megapixels, CCD’s, and digital zooms put you off? Read this and find out what it all means. Then you can buy that camera with confidence.
- Can Hypnosis Cure Cancer?
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] A cure for cancer is the Holy Grail of medicine, but maybe, just maybe, they are all looking in the wrong place. Perhaps the answer lies within - Does Hypnosis tap into that place and release the Genie within?
- Is Nicotine Really Addictive?
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] The one single factor that makes it difficult to give up cigarettes is the belief, by the smoker, that they are addicted to nicotine. They believe this because when they smoke they sometimes find it pleasurable. They find other things in their lives pleasurable too, but they don't regard themselves as addicted to those. Why? Because no one is telling them they are addicted to other pleasurable pursuits. So who is telling the smokers this and why ...
- Nicotine, Addiction, and Stopping Smoking
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] The people with the loudest voices don't always know what they are talking about. The people with the most money don't always know what they are talking about. People who have a proven ability to bring about desired change might be worth listening to. Giving up smoking is about regaining your freedom. It isn't about chaining yourself to yet another product because the people who are making money out of you just don't want to let you go.
- Stop Smoking - You Can Do It If Only You Believe You Can
[Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] Giving up smoking is, for some, the most difficult thing in the world. But that's because they are trying to give up the wrong thing. They try to give up cigarettes. Instead they should be giving up.
- The Easy Way to Stop Smoking - use a Hypnosis CD
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Many smokers have such a tough time with the idea of giving up smoking that they don't even try. Here's a look at some of the Fears that get in the way of success and how to overcome them.
- Losing Weight with a Hypnosis CD
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Fed up with diets? Want a genuiinely easy way to lose weight? Try listening to a hypnosis CD. It couldn't get ay easier...
- Hypnosis: Five Things You Might Not Have Realised Hypnosis Can Do For You
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Hypnosis is generally associated with entertainment and stopping smoking - yet it is capable of so much more. Discover how hypnosis can be used to enhance your enjoyment of life and assist you in enjoying the good things you deserve.
- New Year's Resolutions and How to Keep Them
[Self-Improvement:Success] New year's resolutions are made and rarely last out to the end of January. Here's how to make them a permanent part of you so that 12 months later you can feel that wonderful sense of achievement that say 'I did it'.
- Wishful Thinking - the Fulfilment of Desire
[Self-Improvement] Does your livelihood create within you a sense of fulfilment and satisfaction? Are you doing what you love to do? If not, then read on...
- Hypnosis - Not Quite Utopia
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] There are many misperceptions surrounding hypnosis - this one is possibly the worst.
- Self-Hypnosis Vs One-to-One Treatment
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Which is better - DIY treatment or seeing a professional? Can Self-hypnosis achieve the same results as being treated by a hypnotherapist? Read on to find out more...
- After the Affair - Part 2
[Relationships:Affairs] Time to make choices. Making chocies is difficult. Knowing what to do for the best. If only I could see into the future...
- After the Affair - Part 1
[Self-Improvement:Grief-Loss] Has your world fallen apart? How do you deal with infidelity? Can this relationship be rapaired? A look at trust, betrayal, and love in relationship.
- The Other Sort of Self Hypnosis
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Is your self-hypnosis failing to produce the results you expected? Read this to find out how easily you can be undoing all your good work.
- Food - An Alternative to Emotions
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Eat or feel, that seems to be the uncomfortable choice for many with a weight problem. It doesn't have to be that way...
- How To: Self-Hypnosis
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Self-hypnosis is a wonderful way to bring about change in your own life. Here is a simple easy to follow set of instructions for achieving this.
- Keys to Happiness - No 2: Self-Acceptance
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Happiness is often elusive. Here is the second key that will allow you to discover the joys within yourself.
- Why You Can't Not Worry
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] You've got a problem, you're worried sick, you share it with a close friend, they respond "Don't Worry"...
- Hypnosis and the Magical World of Words
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Words are the only tool a hypnotherapist has to bring about change. So why is hypnosis so different from normal conversation?
- Food - Master or Servant?
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Has food taken over? Does food make your eating choices for you? Are you really in control of what you eat, or do you just fool yourself? Taking control is easy, there are just two things you have to do.
- Smoking - The Myth of Addiction
[Health-and-Fitness] Nicotine has been reported as being more addictive than heroine. Is it true, or is this a myth created by those who need smokers to believe they are powerless to give up.
- Health! Whose Responsibility - Yours or Theirs?
[Health-and-Fitness] Ever been to a hospital and felt like you were caught up in a big uncaring machine? Or sat in a doctor's waiting room for an hour only to walk out five minutes later, prescription in hand, feeling that no one listened to you and that what you wanted didn't matter?
- Resistances to Change
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] We want so much for things to be different. What gets in the way? Sometimes the people who 'love' us turn out to be the biggest threat to self-improvement.
- Keys to Happiness: No. 1 Self-Appreciation
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Happiness is often elusive. Here is the first key that will allow you to discover the joys within yourself.
- Seven Steps to Good Mental Health
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] If you already have good mental health then taking these steps will move your sense of well-being to new heights. If you don't then these steps will, almost immediately, start to improve and increase your sense of well-being.
- The Trouble with Tranqs
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Tranquillisers are frequently prescribed, despite knowledge of ease of addiction, and withdrawal symptoms that are frequently worse than the original anxiety. Are they truly necessary? is there an alternative?
- Can I Be Hypnotised?
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Many people who consider hypnotherapy as a possible solution for their problem worry about whether or not they can be hypnotised. Hypnotherapy, however, is not just about guiding someone into an altered state. The question they should really be asking is 'How suggestible am I?'
- Who Am I?
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Three words that can re-configure your Universe around you. Three words that have the power to create a new reality. Three words that have the effect of a compass when you are lost.
- Hypnosis and the Treatment of the Agoraphobic Eleven
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Agoraphobia is more than just a fear. There are eleven contributory factors. The treatment of these factors is essential if freedom from the Fear is to be achieved for the sufferer. Hypnosis is an excellent tool to accomplish this.
- Why Don't I Get What I Want?
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Metaphysical 'law' suggests that we create our own reality. Frequently we can clearly see we are not getting what we desire. Self-sabotage from the subconscious mind is the cause, but what is the answer?
- Hypnosis, Weight Control, and The Thought That Won't Go Away
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] The popularity of weight-loss 'clubs' and branded foods, suggests that losing weight is a little more difficult than just a simple choice to do so. One fo the problems is the difficulty of controlling and overcoming thoughts about forbidden foods. Hypnosis can be used to assist with this difficulty and make weight loss a pleasurable expreience rather than a chore.
- Health - It's All in the Mind
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] I feel lousy - isn't that great! Illness probably isn't a random and meaningless event caused by a random and meaningless encounter with a germ or two. Illness could be your body/mind trying to get your attention and tell you something.
- Lost is a Spiritual Problem
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Sometimes life just seems to have led us down a dead end. This can be experinced as bad relationships, depression, low mood state, poverty and so on. There seems to be nowhere to go, no way out, and our dreams and desires are further away than ever. There is a way out. There is a way to get back on track.
- Hypnosis for Weight Control - Why Diets Don't Provide a Long-Term Solution
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Weight loss is about much more than the food you put in your mouth. This is why diets alone don't work. There has to be a subconscious shift in perception too. This is where hypnosis enters the picture.
- Hypnosis CD's vs One-to-One Treatment
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Hypnosis for the treatment of personal problems is generally available as either a one-to-one session with a hypnotherapist, or by listening to an hypnosis CD designed to help with a specific problem. This article looks at tbe benefits both have to offer and assists you in making your choice.
- Hypnosis - What Exactly is it?
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Hypnosis is surrounded by an air of mystery and social myth. It is a simple, yet completely natural, state of mind that can be utilised by a skilled practitioner to bring about positive change simply and effortlessly.
- Hypnosis for Change
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Discover the true world of hypnosis. Explore what exactly hypnosis is and discover what it can do for you. This is essential reading for anyone considering hypnotherapy to help them with their difficulties.
- Phobias Keep You Safe
[Health-and-Fitness] Many people suffer from debilitating phobias for most of their lives, yet phobias are one of the easiest psychological problems to fix permanently. Yet phobias aren't always just unwelcome intruders. There could be purpose behind their terror.
- Seven Steps Towards Freedom from Panic Attacks
[Health-and-Fitness:Mood-Disorders] Panic attacks can have a devastating effect on the lives of those they impact. This article looks at what is actually happening and highlights seven gentle steps that may help a sufferer to journey back to normality.
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