Through a mediation process, Channel 4 and the phoneline operator Eckoh yesterday reached an agreement and dropped legal action against each other in the Richard & Judy phone-in dispute.
A spokesperson for Eckoh said:
“Eckoh announces that they and Channel 4 decided to resolve their differences through mediation rather than through the courts. Following a successful mediation held on December 1, both parties have reached an agreement and all matters relating to this dispute are now settled.”
Channel 4 has said that Eckoh breached their contract in an effort to recover the £1 million fine it received from Ofcom when viewers were not able to have a chance of winning the Richard & Judy You Say We Pay competition on the show last year.
Eckoh had denied any liability and issued a counter claim against Channel 4.
There are no other details disclosed about the agreement reached via mediation between the two parties.
Mediation can be used as a process to reach a mutual agreement between any two parties, whether that is companies as in this case, or between two individuals as is often the case in family mediation.
First of all, hypnotherapy is perfectly safe. Hypnosis has had a bit of a harsh ride thanks to the media, films and television, however, it is not as is often portrayed.
Being in hypnosis is not like being sleepy or being in a daydream like state. As we have mentioned before, being in a ‘trance’ is perfectly normal and something that most of us do every day of our lives without even realising it, such as when we get really absorbed in a good book or when watching a film. Hypnotherapy is simply a way to get that trance-like state to work for you and all a hypnotherapist does is help you to guide you to help yourself.
When in hypnosis, you are aware of what the hypnotherapist is saying and if there is a fire alarm or any sort of interruption, you will immediately be wide awake and as normal. It is impossible for you to be left in hypnosis, even if something were to happen to the hypnotherapist, you would simply relax and come round in your own time.
Hypnotherapy is just as the name describes; it is therapy under hypnosis.
Sometimes people say they have the blues, and other times they say they are depressed, so what is the difference?
Naturally, there are different levels of low feelings. Perhaps you feel low because you got a parking ticket, or perhaps you feel low because you have lost a loved one. The feeling about the parking ticket is not the same as how you might feel when you lose a loved one.
It is natural to feel depressed when you lose somebody you love, because you have a serious illness or other such situation. This sort of depression is called reactive depression as you are reacting to an event or situation and can be helped with psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.
Clinical depression, however, is more serious and long term and psychiatrists label it long standing depression as it is often unrelated to a certain event.
Clinical depression could involve the loss of appetite, loss of pleasure, suicidal feelings occasionally or inability to sleep. It is very serious and requires urgent attention and it is best to seek help from a GP. A GP may refer a patient with clinical depression to a psychotherapist or psychiatrist.
The benefit of hypnosis is sport is outstanding and includes a wide range such as helping an athlete to stay calm, maintain their focus, get rid of distractions in their mind, improve their mental stamina and increase their motivation.
Here are just a few sports celebrities that have used hypnosis in one form or another to help their career:
Tiger Woods – since a young age, he has used hypnotherapy regularly and was introduced to it at just 13 years old. He has said:
‘We worked on a way to visualize the target and pull it back into my hands and body and let my subconscious react. That’s what’s best for me. It is inherent in what I do now.’
WBC heavyweight champion Frank Bruno has used hypnosis to perform at his peak.
In 1996, Steve Collins defeated WBO Super Middleweight title champion Chris Eubank, which he said was due to using hypnosis in his mental preparation work. He said he had worked on his mental attitude to programme himself to throw two punches to every one punch from his opponent and statistics from the fight show around 300 punches from Eubank versus more than 600 from Collins.
If you want to be at the top of your game, whether sports or anything else, hypnotherapy can help you enjoy yourself and get the results you want, making you a winner.
Nowadays, nearly all the top sports athletes, men and women and the most elite mental coaches working with them use some form of hypnosis to help them to perform their best, although it may not used under the name of ‘hypnosis’.
Using your unconscious mind, hypnosis is able to help sports people to push themselves for that extra effort and produce great results.
Hypnotherapy is just hypnosis used for positive results, and is often more commonly associated with weight loss, smoking cessation or overcoming phobias, but by harnessing a person’s unconscious mind to work with their conscious mind, people can achieve much more than that.
Hypnotherapy usually involves some form of imagery, asking a person to imagine themselves as a non-smoker, or as a slim person, or winning that race and these images embed themselves in the unconscious mind.
Hypnosis cannot make anybody do what they do not want to do and the way it has been presented in the media or on television is misleading in many ways. Hypnotherapy is only ever used for positive results and many top sports people have hypnosis to thank for helping them to become the best that they can be.
In Iran, obstetricians have recently performed the country’s second ever caesarean section operation using hypnotherapy instead of anaesthesia.
Obstetrician, Roya Khodai, said:
“The patient was subjected to hypnotherapy upon entering the operation room and was ready to have the C-section after 30 minutes.”
Khodai said the c-section took around 30 minutes and (more…)
Many people wonder what happens during hypnosis, even those who have experienced it may still be unsure of how it works. During hypnosis, the body relaxes, breathing becomes slow and deep, the pulse rate will drop and the metabolic rate will decrease. It has also been shown that there are changes in the nervous pathways and hormonal channels.
Although this state feels very relaxed, the person is actually in a special state of heightened awareness and concentration. Once a person actually taps into their subconscious, the subconscious does not realise the difference between what is real or what is imaginary and hence whatever it perceives to be true is believed.
Most people are responsive to hypnosis in some way or another; however, it often takes a couple of sessions for people to be able to experience real results, dependent upon the issue being tackled. Certain issues are faster to help than others, so issues such as many phobias can usually be tackled in as little as just the one session.
Hypnotherapy is a way of using hypnosis for positive results and to help a person achieve what they want to achieve. Often, this may be habitual issues, which is the most publicised and well known such as stopping smoking, but there are other physical or emotional issues that can also be helped such as pain relief or weight loss.
As explained in yesterday’s article, hypnosis can be used to help improve menopause symptoms and many women are turning to hypnotherapy to help them through this difficult phase of their life.
In fact, hypnosis can relieve almost any menopausal symptom through guided imagery, such as anxiety, insomnia, hot flushes, stress and more if it is done properly. Hypnosis is able putting mind over matter and the mind is capable of telling the body how it should and should not feel.
For example, in the case of hot flushes, a symptom that many women wish to relieve, estrogen has been proven to play a part in setting the temperature of the body in the brain. So when estrogen levels are low, the brain believes the body is getting how and starts to cool the body down through sweating and releasing that heat. As hot flushes are just a small malfunction in the brain, hypnosis can help train the mind to influence the body to cool down the hot flush.
Self hypnosis can be used to stop these hot flushes at any time. However, before a person attempts self hypnosis, it is recommended to see a person trained in hypnotherapy as a hypnotherapist can teach how to do this, make sure that the person knows how it feels and how to do it properly.
When it comes to the time of the menopause, exercise is recommended to help women keep their bodies strong and healthy, however, although it may improve or prevent symptoms in some cases, exercise is not always the best thing to relieve symptoms such as a sudden hot flush and it is for this reason that many women have been turning to hypnotherapy to help them.
Hypnotherapy uses hypnosis and the word can cause many people to feel worried because of inaccurate portrayals in the media or on television. Hypnosis is a way for people to achieve deep relaxation, which is actually a heightened state of concentration.
Under hypnosis, a person can be directed to tap into their subconscious and in this state of awareness they can be presented with positive thoughts and ideas through talking or imagery. Using hypnosis for positive, physical healing and development is known as hypnotherapy, and it can be used to help with the menopause and is effective for many people. Although self hypnosis is possible, it does take a lot of practice and many people find it much easier to see somebody skilled in hypnotherapy, otherwise known as a hypnotherapist.
In an article yesterday, we discussed different eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia and how hypnosis can help with all sorts of eating disorders.
As mentioned, the first session is an opportunity for the hypnotherapist and client to get to know each other. Often, self hypnosis is taught so that the client can use it themselves around the clock when the hypnotherapist is not there.
Another common method in hypnosis, used for many things, is mental imagery. Contrary to popular opinion, the hypnotherapist does not ‘control’ the client nor is the client put into a trance. In fact, being in hypnosis is being in a heightened state of concentration where the hypnotherapist guides the client to being able to help themselves.
Mental imagery is used to allow the client to envisage themselves improving throughout the hypnosis sessions. Many of those who have had eating disorders say that hypnosis really helps them to find out how to deal with the psychological and emotional part of the illness. Clients learn new eating habits and gain control over their life again.
Binge eaters and those with bulimia feel more in control and those with anorexic learn how to really see themselves and feel better about themselves. Comfort eaters learn how to deal with their emotions instead of turning to comfort eating.
Depending upon the severity of the eating disorder, clients may need four to eight sessions or more and each session lasts around sixty minutes. The advice of medical professionals should also be sought to ensure that a client is doing what is good for them. There are no side effects with hypnosis at all.