Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training

25/04/2026

AUTO-PILOT

Did you know that most people are operating on auto-pilot most of the time? And do you realise that many people, at best, simply have a knee-jerk reaction to life’s circumstances and, at worst, have explosive responses when the cage is rattled?
The reason for the auto-pilot is that we are driven by our unconscious mind inherited from the caveman era rather than any cool logic. Logic goes out of the window when the primitive limbic system (the unconscious mind) kicks in and dominates our mindlessness and our automatic responses. Much of your auto-pilot, furthermore, manifests in your vulnerable early years when you were trying to survive and to understand the world.

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Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training offers hypnotherapy training courses for potential practitioners and seasoned professionals.

19/03/2026

Humankind is a herding animal. We have survived because there is safety in numbers and our ultimate instinct in life is to survive at all costs. We need to survive because we endeavour to strengthen the herd. The inter-dependent cycle, hence, is for the individual to strengthen himself/herself in order to strengthen the herd. Survival is, consequetly, an inherent genetic necessity which has existed for as long as humankind has inhabited the planet.

Survival

Survival of the individual depends on oxygen, nutritious food, clean water, shelter, adequate sleep, rest, exercise and the expulsion of toxins. We also have an in-built need to procreate in order to ensure the continuance of the species. A lack of intense and ongoing stress will greatly assist all these basic survivalist needs.

If you, for instance, eat unhealthy junk food, drink too much alcohol, live in unsavoury conditions, become a couch-potato, burn the candle at both ends, cannot commit to a relationship and generally lead an over-stressed life, then you are basically killing yourself. And perhaps you should ask yourself why?

Herding instincts

Evidence of herding instincts can be observed in your own behaviour and that of others. There are many personal traits and circumstances which may indicate that you are happily an integral part of the herd or else an unfortunate misfit.

Do you have a need to keep up with fashion and perhaps spend too much time worrying about your appearance?
Do you worry about what others think of you and fear that you might alienate yourself from the herd?
Do you make lame excuses for the those who misuse or abuse you because you do not want to upset the status quo?
Do you ruthlessly want to become a leader of the herd by building your own empire and perhaps riding roughshod over the feelings of others?
Do you just want to follow others and jog along nicely with the rest of the herd?
Do you have a conventional family unit and you want to keep it that way at whatever cost to yourself?
Are you over-interested in self-preservation at the expense of others?
Do you dread being criticised, misjudged or unfairly treated?
Are you attention-seeking or needy and do you desperately turn to others for assistance?
Have you learned to be outspoken, stroppy and antisocial because you generally loathe people?
These factors throw up many stressful and traumatic issues and may, indeed, result from long-standing childhood issues. Today’s unmanageable and unwanted stress stems from the past not the present. Why not do yourself a life-enhancing favour and iron out some of your bad habits, unhappiness and self-punishing syndromes?

Why not resolve your childhood issues?

All our JMHT practitioners are able to assist you to resolve your stress/trauma because the practitioner will be fully equipped to help the client from a position of in-depth personal insight. The analytic approach focuses on identifying, investigating and naturally resolving the client’s distress from the root cause of the issue rather than merely treating symptoms or providing a coping-strategy.

Visit the “Find a Practitioner” page at www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk in order to resolve your distress and suffering.

15/02/2026

GROWING UP

What is the cost of growing up?

No one ever makes it through childhood without suffering from some degree of stress or trauma which will be retained in the inner mind where it can cause some trouble, at best, or really wreak havoc in many instances. But the majority of people are totally unaware of this phenomenon.

A baby is born as a helpless and an utterly immature being who is wholeheartedly dependent on others for his/her survival. If your childhood was reasonably happy and uneventful in terms of stress or trauma, then you may lead a satisfactory life without having to contend with too much psychological upheaval.

If, on the other hand, your childhood experiences were less than somewhat, then you will pay the price in some way until you can pacify your troublesome unconscious reactions and your unwanted motivations in the therapeutic context.

The child with a difficult start in life will, as a result, either suffer from a degree of stunted emotional development or else will be plunged into the adult world and forced to grow up too early. You might, therefore, profitably ask yourself either whether you are still stuck in childhood or whether you had to sacrifice your childhood for the sake of your own survival.

Whichever way you lean, your stance will have been adopted without your conscious awareness as an instinctive and survivalist stress-trauma response. And you are unfortunately stuck with this burden until you decide to resolve it with the help of a therapeutic practitioner. The best you can expect will be that your mind has unconsciously chosen a middle path but few people fall into this category.

Are you under-grown-up or over-grown-up?

The big question to ask yourself will be whether you are still an under-grown-up child or whether you are an over-grown-up child now that adulthood has arrived.

Being under-grown-up

The under-grown-up individual in adulthood, for instance, may exhibit many of the following traits:

may display a degree of helplessness
be needy and demanding of others
could expect others constantly to rescue him/her
might not show much initiative or independent thinking
be indecisive and vague generally
may need a wet-nurse or look for a mummy-substitute
Perhaps you can add a number of traits to this list of under-grown-up adults?

Being over-grown-up

The over-grown-up individual in adulthood, for instance, may exhibit many of the following traits:

may be intolerant of the perceived incompetence of others and fiercely independent
might need to be in control of the actions of others and always need to be the boss
might be dictatorial and inconsiderate of others
may be hyper-active or a workaholic
may be over-industrious or an over-productive high-achiever
may feel the need to be highly organised and ultra-efficient
Perhaps you can add a number of traits to this list of over-grown-up adults?

Why not resolve your childhood issues?

All our JMHT practitioners are able to assist you to resolve your childhood issues because, as part of our training and the trainee’s self-investigative process, the practitioner will be fully equipped to help the client from a position of in-depth personal insight. The analytic approach focuses on identifying, investigating and naturally resolving the client’s distress from the root cause of the issue rather than merely treating symptoms or providing a coping-strategy.

Why not visit the “Find a Practitioner” page at www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk in order to resolve your distress and suffering as a result of your upbringing and your childhood experiences?

Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training offers hypnotherapy training courses for potential practitioners and seasoned professionals.

01/01/2026

LABELLING

Have you succumbed to the habit of sticking a label on your own head?

How many people do you know who might say, for instance, that

“I have clinical depression”

“I suffer from extreme anxiety and paranoia”

or

“I have been told by my doctor that I am pre-diabetic and my health will deteriorate rapidly”

We should not lose sight of the fact that all these labels are complete rubbish!

Labels are the result of a system which thinks in terms of a diagnosis explicitly so that a suppressive drug or a given treatment regime can be prescribed. But this way of thinking by the conventional healthcare system will only treat symptoms and not the underlying root cause of the problem. The medical practitioner is hence playing god when labelling and judging his/her patients.

The cognitive-behavioural therapist, for instance, will, at best, simply make you more aware of your own suffering but, at worst, will merely help you to manage and to cope with your emotive malaise.

The orthodox medical practitioner, moreover, will only view you in terms of a collection of symptoms in order to prescribe a chemical drug, to give you time off work or to refer you to a so-called specialist. By this means, your medical practitioner may avoid being sued because he/she has followed a strict code of practice which hopefully will stand up in a court of law when you realise that you have been cheated.

Could you now not start thinking in terms of the originating cause rather than the superficial effect?

There is a wealth of information about the corruption in the medical profession and the influential drug barons who have a vice-like grip over the medics and successive governments worldwide who dangle the tantalising carrot of free healthcare before the eyes of the voters.

Are you choosing to ignore these established facts?

Many people thus think that another – supposedly authoritative and knowledgeable person – always knows best. And so the patient can blithely hand over his/her thinking-power to someone else for safe-keeping.

Nothing could be further from the truth but perhaps we have become blinded and brainwashed by what the majority of people believe. And are you too inclined to need a parent-substitute when trouble strikes?

A feeling of anxiety, for instance, may simply be the result of ill-treatment in childhood or rather unsympathetic parents or carers, for instance. A diabetic condition, furthermore, may be the result of a poor diet, an unhealthy lifestyle, too much stress and, almost certainly, an excess of toxicity in the system which can easily be cured by naturopathic means.

Why not address the cause rather than the effect of your ill-health?

All our JMHT practitioners have not adopted the labelling habit because, as part of our training and the trainee’s self-investigative process, we find no need to slap a label on any client or to make any prescriptive judgement. The analytic approach focuses of identifying, investigating and resolving the root cause naturally and not merely treating symptoms with an unhelpful label. The power is thus in the hands of the client as it should be and not the practitioner.

Why not visit the “Find a Practitioner” page at www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk in order to resolve your distress and suffering without the need for a diagnosis?

Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training offers hypnotherapy training courses for potential practitioners and seasoned professionals.

11/12/2025

INTELLECT

What is the role of the intellect in the therapeutic equation?

Humankind is different from other mammals in that we have a cerebral cortex – or thinking brain – which can perform amazing and mind-boggling feats which, in turn, is a great advantage for the survival of the species.

Intelligence, however, can be a disadvantage when you perceive and interpret life experiences and then psychologically react adversely to such events.

The role of perception

Your perception of events can trigger emotive reactions which are highly unpleasant and can cause havoc in the primitive limbic system known as the unconscious mind. Your limbic system will processes emotional malaise via the fight-flight-freeze phenomenon according to the way in which you perceive stress, pressure or danger in your immediate environment.

Your perception can sometimes interpret events in an over-the-top manner but you will also need to perceive real danger or threat to your existence in order to be able to survive.

The fight reaction

Your perception can engender indignation, rage, cynicism and/or aggression when anger is triggered.

The flight response

Your perception can make you feel uncomfortable, inadequate, insignificant and/or terrorised if fear creeps into the equation.

The freeze response

Your perception can create numbness, immobility, depression and/or pessimism when grief takes hold.

How can your emotive responses be resolved?

When you react adversely to a situation according to your perception or your existence is under threat or endangered by your life experiences then you will be able to find a remedy. Many people find that certain experiences in life and particularly in childhood are damaging and hence will retain a lasting legacy of suffering.

The answer, of course, is not to analyse your intellectual reactions via cognitive-behavioural therapeutic approaches but to pacify your emotive distress held in the limbic system via root-cause analysis and resolution methodology.

Once the limbic system has had a chance to release emotive distress in a relaxed state your mind's next step will be to pacify the memory of your unpleasant experiences and to dispel any misconceptions by applying a soupçon of intellectual understanding. By this means your cerebral cortex will then do its job effectively without any misguided perception.

Everyone has the capacity to access the limbic system in order to resolve emotive distress and, subsequently, to make enlightening intellectual realisations naturally as part of our survival abilities.

Why not contact one of the JMHT practitioners for assistance and relief from perhaps a lifetime of emotive and unresolved distress by visiting the "Find a Practitioner" page at www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk? Your own rescue-operation is in your own hands?

Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training offers hypnotherapy training courses for potential practitioners and seasoned professionals.

25/09/2025

TO LOVE AND BE LOVED

What’s all this about love?

We are put on this earth to love and be loved as an inherent part of our survival. The instinctive need to seek a mate persists so that we can love and be loved and hence procreate as part of the herd. If the majority of people find a mate and procreate humankind will secure the greatest chance of averting extinction.

As herding animals – of which humans are a prime example – we are genetically programmed, moreover, to find safety in numbers as social animals. The immediate and the extended family unit is an integral part of this principle as are friends and acquaintances.

The ideal world

WHAT HAPPENS IN AN IDEAL WORLD?

A little love goes a long way and will result in a happy life for the individual.

You will love your mate and the family which you have together created. You will love your children so that you will instinctively nurture them, provide a comfortable standard of living for them, educate them and provide safety. You will love your pets and your friends as an extension of the family circle.

A child will instinctively love his/her parents and other carers because this ploy will be his/her only means of survival. The child will love his/her siblings in order to preserve the integrity of the family unit. Your children will thus learn to love their friends and their future intimate partner and so the human species can safely continue.

The less than ideal world

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THINGS GO WRONG?

Love for and from a partner

What if you do not find a partner or your partner turns out to be unloving or unlovable?

What if you are incapable of giving or receiving love from a spouse or a partner?

What if your love is not returned by your partner or your love is unrequited?

What if your unhappy union causes squabbling between siblings and the family unit is ripped asunder?

What if you lack friends as a substitute for a close family unit?

Any lack of love in your world may be a recipe for disaster and/or can spell dire unhappiness for you for the rest of your life. The divorce and separation statistics testify to the fact that relationship failures and breakups are rife in society and, if you contribute to one of these statistics, you could feel rather unfulfilled and dissatisfied with your existence.

Love for and from a parent

A lack of love for a child can mean a life of psychological upheaval for that individual in adulthood.

Children are predisposed to adore those responsible for their upbringing and survival and the child will hence inevitably be blind to the faults of his/her carers as a result. A parent may be negligent, cruel, uncaring or heartless but the child must accept this raw deal in order to survive. The tragedy of the age is that the couches of most psychotherapeutic clinicians are lined with grown-up children who were not loved by childhood carers.

The knock-on effect of a loveless childhood will be disastrous and may culminate in a series of dysfunctional relationships in adulthood and even an inability to love and to adequately care for one’s own children. An additional result of a harsh childhood may be an inability to make friends and so social isolation will be the order of the day for the unloved child.

BUT DO NOT SUFFER IN SILENCE!

Help is at hand from a JMHT practitioner

If you feel that you are or have been in any way unloved and, as a result, your happiness and physiological health has inevitably suffered, then please visit the “Find a Practitioner” page on the JMHT website (www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk). All JMHT practitioners have undertaken their own personal therapeutic investigation and, therefore, are ideally placed to assist the client with root-cause analysis and resolution.

11/08/2025

ARE YOU KILLING YOURSELF?

In our toxic world the killing formula is simple – adopt an unhealthy lifestyle, harbour too much stress and rely too heavily on medical intervention and this regime will equal disaster for you.

The majority of the population take the “who cares and so what” attitude to both psychological and physiological health. If you are ill, for example, do you take the attitude that “these things just happen and I am very unfortunate” or “Well, we’ve all got to die sometime, haven’t we?”

But have you ever stopped to wonder whether there is another way? And have you ever considered that things can be reversed with just a little effort on your part? The body-mind system knows how to do it and so why not give it a chance and stop taking a defeatist attitude?

Our self-healing ability

The human system possesses a phenomenally powerful self-healing system for natural recovery far more potent than any orthodox medical intervention. This self-healing mechanism applies to both physical health and emotional well-being.

The body-mind is equipped with hundreds of genes which are designed to help you to survive. But this mechanism has not evolved for approximately 3.5 million years since the cave-dweller hunted for sustenance and experienced periods of food shortages as part of life. And yet in our high-tech age of so-called advancement most people rely on the quick-fix and fast-food route and then adopt the devil-may-care approach which is utterly contrary to our genetic inheritance.

Psychological healing

Psychological health can be treated with a little help from a qualified analytical hypnotherapy practitioner who is versed in root-cause analysis and resolution methodology. Emotional well-being can then be easily coupled with the adoption of a healthy lifestyle and a positive-thinking mindset.

The abandonment of unhealthy habits (such as eating sugar, consuming processed foods, drinking alcohol, taking chemical drugs and indulging in substance abuse), together with the ability to minimise stress, will then naturally complete the picture.

Physiological healing

Physiological health can normally be successfully aided by a naturopathic or homeopathic practitioner, for example, who will encourage your body to rid itself of toxic stress and help you to cure your own disease pattern or potential disease picture.

We live in a toxic world whereby questionable farming methods, medical drugs, a polluted environment and numerous unenlightened people can cause infinite damage. You might find, consequently, that if you rely on too much medical intervention you might be signing your own death warrant.

Treating symptoms or causes?

The benefits of alternative healthcare is an unsung story much maligned by so-called conventional medical wisdom into which most of the populace has bought on the basis that someone else knows best. It is as if the majority of people obey others unquestionably simple because they have learned to react in this way from childhood and schooldays onwards.

Ask yourself why you follow the crowd and why you are influenced by propaganda from money-grabbing drug-barons, sugar-laced processed-food suppliers, the sensational media and corrupt politicians? As well as medics whose training is limited and antiquated in the extreme. The NHS in the UK, for instance, came into being as a cheapskate means of treating mass ill-health and attracting votes for politicians and now exists by adopting a follow-the-rulebook regime so that medical practice cannot be questioned or sued.

Conventional western medicine, which handles physiological health, thrives on merely treating symptoms with harmful suppressive drugs or surgery but certainly does not address – or even recognise – any underlying originating causes. Psychological health, moreover, has been formerly regarded by the medical practitioner as a nuisance-factor, at best, or the province of the hypochondriac, at worst.

The cognitive-behavioural practitioner, who administers to psychological health, will merely treat surface-level symptoms and will ignore the root-cause of the client’s emotive malaise. Is this approach taken up because of crass ignorance or avoidance of self-investigation on the part of the practitioner who works in this area? Yet, in professional terms, such a practitioner will actually be unqualified to deal with other people’s psychological distress. The adage of “physician heal thyself”, consequently, takes on a whole new perspective.

A bit of open-minded and lateral thinking on your part will often result in enlightenment and freedom from entrenched and outmoded beliefs which, in turn, will assist your psychological and physiological health and will reap untold benefits.

Help from a JMHT practitioner

If you wish to remedy both your psychological and physiological ill-health and discard your inhibitors to survival, then please visit the “Find a Practitioner” page on the JMHT website (www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk). All JMHT practitioners have undertaken their own personal therapeutic investigation and, therefore, are ideally placed to assist the client with root-cause analysis and resolution.

Jacquelyne Morison

Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training

06/07/2025

THE ADULT CHILD

An adult can prominently display childish characteristics as an integral part of his/her psyche and these traits will be noticeable by others who may become a target as a result.

Childish traits in the adult can include those of the demanding child, the manipulative child and the helpless child or, perhaps, all three by turns. Often this individual will either have been well and truly cosseted in childhood and has not matured adequately or, alternatively, he/she was somewhat neglected and is still crying out for help from others in order to survive.

The adult who exhibits childish traits will frequently be completely unaware of his/her actions and this situation may then stretch the patience of those in his/her immediate circle. Such behaviours are, of course, a cry for help but the danger lies in the fact that those in the adult-child’s inner circle may find it difficult to cope.

The demanding child

The demanding child is the one who in adulthood expects others to cater for his/her emotional and physical needs.

This individual’s unconscious motto is “I want and I expect you to provide” because he/she is the one who is still depending on others to do his/her bidding. The demanding adult-child will always assume that someone else will instantly come to his/her aid because perhaps he/she has learned to play helpless in the unshakeable belief that others will come running.

The manipulative child

The manipulative child is the one who in adulthood will use subtle tactics in order to control the behaviour of others.

This individual’s unconscious motto is “I will get you to do what I want by relentlessly badgering you until I get my own way” because he/she has learned that more subtle tactics are needed than simply making demands which will be instantly obeyed. The manipulative adult-child may not have been well served by his/her childhood carers and hence he/she has only managed to survive by manipulating others in order to get his/her needs met. Sometimes this individual will employ aggressive tactics initially in order to get what he/she wants but, if this ploy fails, then whining and wheeling will be brought into play as a manipulative tactic.

The helpless child

The helpless child is the one who in adulthood appears to have given up and will expect others to rescue him/her whenever difficulties in life occur.

This individual’s unconscious motto is “No one cares for me and so I shall simply give up and perish” because he/she has perhaps been ignored by childhood carers and feels, consequently, no incentive to help himself/herself. The helpless adult-child has been taught to take an irresponsible attitude to life because there is no point in making any effort as this action will have no effect.

Do you know an adult child?

Is there someone in your life who displays the childish characteristic of the demanding child, the manipulative child or the helpless child? If so you might ask yourself about this person’s upbringing in order to work out why he/she behaves in this way. You might also want to consider the impact on you and examine the way in which pressure is being exerted on you and thereby hampering your existence. And are you going to tolerate it for ever? When will your patience and understanding finally snap?

Help from a JMHT practitioner

If you wish to remedy both your psychological malaise as a leftover from your childhood or to free yourself from the demands of an adult-child, then please visit the “Find a Practitioner” page on the JMHT website (www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk). All JMHT practitioners have undertaken their own personal therapeutic investigation and, therefore, are ideally placed to assist the client with root-cause analysis and resolution.

Jacquelyne Morison

Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training

25/06/2025

PARENTS SHOULD BE GAGGED

The role of a parent

Parents, grandparent, guardians and teachers are those carers who are responsible for helping the child to mature into adulthood in a healthy manner, to enter the social world and to eventually carve out an existence as an individual no longer dependent on the help of others for survival.

Mother Nature, consequently, has designed the world so that the child will be totally dependent on his/her childhood carers, will believe that his/her carers are infallible and will studiously ignore any failings his/her guardians may exhibit in the interests of his/her own survival. Our parents and/or parental substitutes, hence, should be nurturing, helpful, understanding, encouraging and supportive at all times – although this may rarely be the case.

The parental role in practice

Often a parent will act inappropriately and to the detriment of the child – albeit unwittingly. Have you, for instance, observed a parent making impossible demands on a child who is merely living in his/her own world, reprimanding him/her for merely being a child or imposing his/her own outmoded or inappropriate beliefs on the infant?

Don’t dawdle and hurry up!

Do as I say at once!

Stop daydreaming!

Don’t make a noise!

Stop whimpering because you’re just being silly!

Pick up your toys and tidy your room!

I’m warning you not to do that again or else!

Don’t bite your nails!

In these instances the parent is asking the impossible of the infant who is simply living in a child’s world. The parent has, at best, not got the imagination to understand the child and, at worst, is treating the child with a lack of consideration or even cruelty. The child, in many instances, will not even understand the words being said and he/she will then waste much mind-space in trying to comply with his/her parents incomprehensible wishes and impossible demands. The consequences for a carer’s lack of consideration, thoughtlessness and inappropriate dictates, therefore, will be destructive for the child in adulthood.

The result of inappropriate nurturing

If a parent does not bring up his/her children with an adequate degree of care and consideration, then the result for the adult can be difficult and/or devastating. No parent has ever got it totally right, of course, but a lack of thought and a dearth of imagination is often the culprit when it comes to parents who should be gagged in order to prevent psychological malaise in their children.

If, at an impressionable age, the child receives negative and disturbing messages this brainwashing will exercise a detrimental hold over him/her for perhaps the rest of his/her life.

Can you imagine that a child may start to believe psychologically distressing thoughts?

My parents don’t love me!

I am unlovable!

No one understands me!

I am not good enough!

I cannot cope with life!

I am bad and wicked!

I should be punished!

If the child gains the impression that his/her parents are uncaring then the result will be a lack of self-confidence, a low self-esteem, a poor self-image and a feeling of being unloved or unlovable. And, of course, the final outcome will be the likelihood of forming a string of unhappy relationships in adulthood and perhaps even treating his/her own children in a similarly heartless manner.

If the child is reprimanded too frequently and maybe asked to achieve the impossible then he/she will consider that he/she is inadequate or a total failure in life. The adult may then suffer from a need to self-punish by taking drugs or adopting unhealthy habits or he/she may simply stop trying to achieve anything.

For the child who is warned of danger or threatened because he/she is labelled as badly behaved in the eyes of his carers, then these emotive consequences will result in manifestations such as anxiety, phobias, rage episodes and depression and perhaps the merciless ill-treatment of others.

Help from a JMHT practitioner

If you wish to remedy your psychological malaise as a leftover from your childhood, then please visit the “Find a Practitioner” page on the JMHT website (www.jmhypnotraining.co.uk). All JMHT practitioners have undertaken their own personal therapeutic investigation and, therefore, are ideally placed to assist the client with root-cause analysis and resolution as a result of the insight gained.

Jacquelyne Morison

Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training