Trance Cafe

On a lazy Saturday morning, watching the slow turn of Autumn raining down leaves with warm colours piqued with earthy scents, I am reflecting in my thoughts. This is a season of great change.

Right now, as I write, I am thinking about this week coming ahead. I am seeing friends, have at least two walks arranged and of course this Wednesdays practice group. The topic of exploration ‘I, Identifying and Identity.’

These three topics have no direct physical reality basically this is the stuff of thought that both affects and effects our experience like filters in or out in both positive and negative ways. What we actually experience is shaped by our expectations!

Thankfully, there are lots of creative and successful ways to change something you want to change about yourself. Most of everyone’s knowledge is unconscious and a gentle and poignant reminder of what you already know can go a long way. What this has a great deal to do with is the unconscious beliefs ( or anticipations for the future ) we have; which can be explored and changed – with effort!

OK, so the topics for explorations are how we ‘perceive ourselves’ how others ‘perceive us’ in that this all influences who we are; potentially answering that tricky question – who are you? How is it possible to know, accept and change what we are identifying with in order to accept and integrate our shadow into what we are.

Lots of ideas and concepts from various fields – which is this – information which can turn into knowledge that becomes the updating stories about and in our lives. Hope to see you there!

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday September 6th

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

ONLINE BOOKING ONLY!

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!

Anxiety is worry about an event, situation or potential future outcome that ranges from undesirable to calamitous. Sometimes for ourself, sometimes for others or both. We can as people be in similar situations yet have completely different responses. You may be cool as a summer cucumber and I could be as anxious as a long tailed cat in a rocking chair factory.

Anxiety has some things to do with fear, aggression, control, environment, genetics … the list goes on. Yet we most likely all have had some direct experience of anxiety so we understand the term. And most of the time its not pleasant and can feel very disempowering because of emotions and thoughts of helplessness.

There are arrays of pharmaceutical companies creating a variety of drugs that are targeted at the fairly large array of ‘anxiety disorders’, over 100 books on how to beat anxiety yet its still a problem.

Perhaps the real cause of psychological anxiety could be found in Budhism, Zen, Hinduism or any of the contemplative spiritual traditions where the ‘illusion of a separate self’ or an individual ‘I’ is the cause of suffering. We can also ponder that anxiety is a learned behaviour in both thinking gone wild, out of control and equally the bodily stress response which can support and fuel it.

As an idea, if you could not separate, lets say frustration between your mind-body, that is being that experience, would you still feel-perceive frustration or could you just be frustration? Now, depending on how you reacted emotionally to that idea, you have either become open or closed to that possibility of change.

Our responses, your willingness to explore an idea has some relationship to your fixed ways of thinking and being in the world. Fixed ways of thinking and being in some sense define our current potential. So this Trance Cafe, exploring psychological change and hypnotherapy will be exploring how strong positive emotions can affect some real change.

Facilitator : Nigel Hetherington

Entry Level : Open To All

Places are limited to 24 so book in advance to guarantee your place

Wednesday September 6th

Come join in and explore in a warm, comfortable purpose built training environment.

The Newcastle NLP and Hypnotherapy Practice Group, The Trance Cafe meets at

St Oswalds, Coleman Education Centre, Regent Avenue, Regent Centre, Gosforth. NE3 1EE

ONLINE BOOKING ONLY!

tea / coffee & biscuits included
7-9pm for only £10.00 book online now!