Mind Games, Men’s Health

I was delighted to feature in this Men’s Health article about hypnosis.

Here’s an excerpt from my interview with MH reporter, Tom Ward.

I make an appointment to see Dr Kate Beaven-Marks, an academic who balances research with work on hospital wards, hypnotising patients with conditions ranging from pre-surgery anxiety to needle phobia.

We meet at London’s salubrious Royal Society of Medicine. In person Beaven-Marks is warm and talkative, which makes telling her my woes all the easier. She says that the aim will be to re-programme how I react to given situations.

“For every event, our brain has a neural pathway it uses to carry out its response,” she says. “But we can change this response by consciously opening up new pathways - or new ways of doing things - which in time become our ‘go to’, while the old route fades away.”

You can read the full article below.