Text Box: Consultations available at:- Whistlewood Heath Lane Upper Hale Farnham Surrey GU9 0PR 10 Harley Street London W1G 9PF The Odiham Clinic 2 High Street Odiham Hampshire RG29 1LG Redwood Health Therapies 11 Bridge Street Winchester Hants SO23 0HL The Fountain Centre St Lukes Cancer Centre Royal Surrey County Hospital Egerton Road Guildford Surrey GU2 7XX Home or business consultations possible by appointment. Complementary lectures and talks given to interested groups and organisations. British Society Clinical Hypnosis Surrey LogoText Box: Who do we see and which areas do we cover? We are able to help patients worldwide in improving their lives with general and personalised self help products. We also arrange personal consultations with patients who travel to us from all over the UK, Europe and the Middle East (such is our reputation) and these include household names, top international sports people, world names in industry, doctors and nurses, forces personnel, business men and women, housewives, teachers, students and public sector employees. In fact we help people from just about every walk of life. Most of these come to us from personal recommendations from colleagues or friends that have visited us before or from GP’s or other health care professionals. However, it is fair to say that the majority of our patients are from the following areas:- Aldershot Alton Andover Ascot Bagshot Basingstoke Berkshire Bordon Bracknell Camberley Crowthorne Chobham Cobham Eastleigh Egham Fareham Farnham Farnborough Fleet Frimley Godalming Guildford Hampshire Hartley Wintney Hook, London (Harley Street) Odiham Petersfield Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Southampton Staines Surrey West Sussex Weybridge Whitehill Winchester Woking Wokingham Surrey, Hants, Berkshire, West Sussex, Central and Greater London. Text Box: All contents of this website copyright 2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010 Garry Coles / Release Hypnotherapy Text Box: Latest News Update Garry Coles, Principal Consultant with Release Hypnotherapy recently held a very popular and successful Master Class in overcoming performance anxiety and stage fright at the world renowned Academy of Contemporary Music. Text Box: Hypnotherapy treatment for Public speaking, Stage Fright and Performance Anxiety. The American comedian Jerry Seinfeld once observed that since stage fright is the most common fear, and death is the second-most common, then a person at a funeral should feel more pity for the person giving the reading than the person in the coffin. Text Box: What is Performance Anxiety? Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia which you feel when you are about to perform in front of an audience, even when sometimes the audience is not ‘live’ at the time, foe example when performing in front of a camera on in a recording studio. Performance anxiety may often be seen among such public performers as athletes and sportsmen, actors and musicians. Here it appears as a fear of "underperforming" (whether in the eyes of the viewing public or that of later critical reaction). Quite often stage fright arises in a mere thought of a performance, often a long time ahead. It has numerous symptoms: fluttering or pounding heart, tremor in the hands and legs, diarrhoea or vomiting, facial nerve tics, dry mouth. Stage fright may be observed in people of all experience and background, from beginners to professionals. Performance anxiety is a fear of negative evaluation and is typically seen in activities such as acting, public speaking, performing (sporting or artistic), driving tests, examinations, sexual activity etc. A confident person will maintain an external focus. However, a person experiencing performance anxiety will maintain an internal focus and therefore may: Monitor bodily symptoms. Be aware of negative self-statements. Regress to a negative past experience. A ‘fight or flight’ response will then be triggered, as the performance is then perceived as being threatening. Text Box: Hypnotherapy treatment for Public speaking, Stage Fright and Performance Anxiety. Hypnotherapy can be highly beneficial in the treatment of public speaking, stage fright and performance anxiety. The treatment is tailored for each individual, but is broadly as follows:- Our approach to public speaking, stage fright and performance is to use advanced analytical hypnotherapy to ascertain the original cause(s) or triggers of your anxiety problems. In this way we aim to resolve them at the point in time that they first occurred. We also look for the ‘parts’ of the subconscious that get ‘satisfaction’ from these anxiety’s, thoughts and behaviours and resolve them.  Powerful suggestion therapy would then be used to overcome any residual 'learnt habit' problems along with feelings and behaviours that may have 'snowballed' over the years. Further powerful suggestion and NLP techniques would be used to ‘anchor’ positive feelings and to ‘rehearse’ confident scenarios. Please contact us now for further details or to make an appointment. 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