Ways To Manage Your Anxiety Anxiety really sucks! For many, the feeling of anxiety can be so unpleasant that it is almost as physically uncomfortable as living with chronic pain. Chronic pain is a horrible feeling that the sufferer wishes would go away; anxiety is also a horrible feeling that

Anxiety & The Relaxation Response Up until very recently, we humans lived in the big outdoors!  In biological terms, it is only a split second ago that we were hunting wild animals and finding our own water to survive. Yet now (moments later in evolutionary terms), most of us have

Balancing An Under-Aroused, Depressed Brain Life is all about balance. Our brains are no different, just like our physical self, our mental self also requires balance. But how is our mental health including conditions like depression and ADHD possibly impacted by having an under aroused or unbalanced brain.  You could

Brain Waves And Our Mental Health What are Brain Waves? What involvement do our brain waves have on our mental health, our moods, reactions and interactions? We have five different types of brain waves; our brains cycle through all five of the brain wave types at various times of the

How Do I Quieten My Mind? BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ – is this the sound that wakes you each morning? Is your first instinct to reach for your phone and check your messages? Are you inundated with notification beeps when your phone is off silent mode? Do you plug yourself into

Hypnotherapy Alternative In Wellington The enduring popularity of hypnotherapy as a quirky but effective alternative to counselling and therapists no doubt speaks to the significant number of people who have experienced tremendous benefits from seeing hypnotherapists over the many years since its inception. Hypnotherapy was developed way back in the

Is Your Brain Stuck? Have you been living with anxiety or stress for a while? Do you wake at 3am worrying? Are you living in a permanent state of anxiousness? Have you forgotten what a calm state feels like? Did you know it’s possible for your brain to get a

Managing OCD and Insomnia Symptoms Sleep can, at times, evade all of us. We could be worried or excited about something, or we could have consumed alcohol or too much caffeine. However, there has been research to show that those with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have higher-than-normal rates of insomnia.  A

Maximising Your Mental Health Through Alpha Brain Waves In this blog we explore how to maximising Your Mental Health Through Alpha Brain Waves. If you take a high-level look at the activity in your brain, you’ll find oscillations (or brain waves) bouncing back and forth between large groups of neurons.