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      The HypnoBook self-help, self-hypnosis series

Diverting from Depression

SUSIE ROTCH  Psychologist
BA, TSTC, DipCrim, MACE, MAPs

A guided self- hypnosis course to help master depression
and overcome it's effects

The HypnoBooks are a brilliant new development of image-based, self-help courses

The Diverting from Depression HypnoBook is a manual and DVD to help you plan and achieve a life free from the effects of depression - a course of action where you consciously transform the thoughts of depression to make a better life.

The best long term solution to depression is to learn the thinking skills that allow you to view your life in the best possible terms. Psychology is one means of gathering ideas about successful human behaviors - psychotherapy is then using that knowledge to heal and grow.

The Contents of the Manual / Journal include:

1. WHY YOU NEED THIS PROGRAM
   What is depression?
   How can we overcome depression?
   Why does self-help work so well with depression?.

2. YOUR SELF-HYPNOSIS TOOLBOX
   Some strategies for using the program
   Understanding the way your mind works
   Creating new habits

3. GETTING THE MOST FROM THIS PROGRAM
   Introducing the procedure to use

4. SETTING YOUR GOALS
   Why goals are Important
   Setting clear, achievable goals
   Reviewing your goals

5. USING YOUR MIND TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
   Focusing your mind
   Harnessing your memory to achieve your goals
   Using your imagination to achieve your goals
   Using your imagination to strengthen your goals

6. TAKING ACTION TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
   Achieving your goals a step at a time
   And the good news Is ....

7. SOME MORE ACTIONS TO TAKE TO HELP YOURSELF
   Developing thinking patterns that can increase wellbeing

8. YOUR STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS TO USE THE DVD
   Reviewing your goals

9. CELEBRATING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS
   
   Reading Guide & References

Please note the DVD components are also available in
PAL ( European standard TV ) and NTSC ( US standard TV )

$49.95 + P&H  

ISBN 1 87 6687 35 5
Published 2005  

The introduction from Chapter 1

If it is part of our nature to feel positive, enabled, and powerful, then it must also be part of our nature not to feel like this.

To feel incapable, unfocused, helpless. Why do people swing between these two styles of self awareness? How can it be that at one time a person can be a powerhouse of energy and yet at another time feel completely powerless?

Depression can have physiological and or psychological causes. This program addresses the psychological causes and psychotherapeutic solutions that can help you master depression and overcome it’s effects.

Diverting from Depression is a unique program that has been designed to combine both the healing powers of self-awareness and the power of the unconscious mind.

The research, psychological theories and principles upon which the program is based, recognize that you already have an array of personal resources to explore and enhance your natural ability to effectively manage and avoid depression. These include the ability to relax and to choose what you pay attention to.

This program offers the techniques to methodically establish, reinforce and achieve your conscious goals and a unique DVD resource to help you recognize and remove the unconscious blockages to your desire to improve the quality of your life.

Together, book and DVD - dvBook - combine to offer a process for Diverting from Depression. You will learn how to reconstruct your habitual ways of operating, to make other aspects of your life more satisfying too.

How this program works

The research, psychological theory and principles upon which the program is based, recognise that you already have an array of potential resources to recover the ability to envisage and enjoy wellbeing. These personal resources include the natural ability to relax and an ability to choose what you pay attention to.

The program also includes a revolutionary new development. For the first time, the known ability of moving images on a screen to focus attention is harnessed in this way for therapeutic ends to increase your ability to learn and use self-hypnosis to give you that wonderful sense of wellbeing that you crave.

Why use a DVD?

Moving images on a screen together with the spoken word are known to be a powerful hypnotic medium. Millions of people for a hundred years now have gone to the movies and willingly suspended their belief in a public yet very private place and let their imaginations soar. You can respond to and weave many messages on many levels through the flow of images and words. And that’s why there is a DVD component to this program.

This program will teach you to recognise, extend and actually enjoy applying skills you already have. It will also help you to learn new skills and apply them. I estimate that by the time you have successfully completed the program you will have gained as much as you would have from attending ten to twelve individual therapy sessions. This will be at a vastly lower cost in time money and frustration. And you learn how to be your own therapist in the process!

With this learning you can handle your life more effectively to divert from depression and the personal satisfaction that you aspire to in your life. You can use your internal resources to change the counter-productive habits that stop you from managing your moods. As part of this process the program can help you to review other habits and develop ones that increase your sense of mastery over, and overall satisfaction with your life.

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