Changing States Hypnotherapy: Bill Frost

16/02/2026

🗓️ Weedless Wednesday!!

🚭 Take 24 hours off w**d. Notice what changes.

🧠 • Do you feel clearer?
😬 • Are cravings less than expected?
😴 • Is your sleep better?
⚡ • Do you feel more energetic?

📊 A short pause can reveal a lot about your relationship with w**d.

🔎 Awareness is the first step. 24 hours can give you the space the think more clearly.

🧾 Use this tool to see how drug use is affecting your life:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/forms/dast20.php

📅 Book an appointment to change your relationship with recreational drugs:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/appointment-booking/

💬 Learn more about Weedless Wednesday
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/w**dless-wednesday/

01/02/2026

🧠 Anger can feel sudden and overwhelming, but it is often a sign that your nervous system is under strain rather than a personal failing. When anger takes over, clear thinking and emotional balance are harder to access.

⚠️ Many people try to manage anger by suppressing it or pushing it away. This usually increases frustration over time. Understanding how anger affects your brain and nervous system can help you respond more effectively.

🛠️ In this article, you will learn practical ways to interrupt anger before it escalates. The approach focuses on awareness, regulation and constructive action rather than avoidance or outbursts.

🌿 If anger feels automatic or difficult to control, therapeutic approaches such as Clinical Hypnosis, NLP and EMDR can help address the underlying patterns that keep this response active.

👉 Read the full article here:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/how-to-stop-being-so-angry/

📅 Book an appointment to resolve your anger issues:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/appointment-booking/

Appointment booking form and T&Cs for Bill Frost, provider of expert hypnotherapy, NLP, CBH, biofeedback and EMDR therapy in High Wycombe

25/01/2026

🌿 The Buteyko Breathing Method focuses on changing how you breathe so your body feels safer and calmer. It was developed by Dr Konstantin Buteyko and is widely used with asthma, anxiety, panic attacks and chronic stress.

😮‍💨 Many people with anxiety or panic breathe too fast or too deeply without realising it. This over-breathing lowers carbon dioxide levels in your blood. When CO2 drops, your nervous system can trigger symptoms like air hunger, chest tightness, dizziness and panic.

🌬️ Buteyko teaches you to breathe more lightly and slowly. You practise breathing through your nose, reducing breath volume and pausing gently after breathing out. These changes help settle the breathing reflex and reduce the feeling that you need to gasp or sigh.

⏱️ One simple measure used is the control pause. You breathe out normally and hold your breath until the first clear urge to breathe returns. As breathing improves, this pause gradually lengthens. It gives a clear signal of how calm and regulated your breathing system is.

🧠 For anxiety and panic sufferers, the method helps retrain the nervous system. By learning to tolerate mild air hunger safely, your body stops interpreting breathing sensations as danger. Over time, panic responses soften and confidence increases.

🩺 For asthma patients, regular practice can reduce symptoms, improve breathing control and in some cases lower reliance on reliever inhalers, always alongside medical advice.

🌙 Many people also notice better sleep, less night-time breathing disruption and fewer stress spikes during the day.

🏠 You can practise Buteyko at home with short daily sessions. Progress comes from consistency. The aim is calm, quiet breathing that feels controlled and comfortable.

🔗 More info here:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/what-is-the-buteyko-breathing-method

🗓️ To request an appointment visit...
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/appointment-booking/

24/01/2026

🤔 𝗪𝗵𝘆 “𝗲𝗴𝗼” 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻!

🗣️ In everyday speech, ego means arrogance, pride or insecurity. People use it as a judgement about personality.

🧠 In ego state hypnotherapy, ego refers to parts or states. Each part holds memories, emotions and roles shaped by experience.

🛠️ In clinical hypnosis, ego strengthening builds confidence, emotional control and decision making under stress.

📚 In psychology, especially Freudian theory, ego is the mediator. It balances instinct, morality and reality.

Context changes the meaning. When you know which one is in play, conversations about self and behaviour make more sense.

📚 To learn more visit...
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/why-does-ego-seem-to-have-many-meanings/

🗓️ To request an appointment visit...
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/appointment-booking/

21/01/2026

🧬 New research points to a possible root cause of chronic inflammation.

Scientists identified a natural anti inflammatory brake in the body called epoxy oxylipins. These lipids help switch off inflammation once it has done its job. In some conditions, this brake gets broken down too fast.

🧪 The enzyme inhibitor GSK2256294 may protect this brake.

The substance blocks an enzyme that breaks down protective epoxy oxylipins. By slowing this process, the body may regain control over runaway inflammation instead of staying stuck in an inflamed state.

🔥 Why this matters for CFS / ME and Fibromyalgia (FM)?

Ongoing inflammation links to pain, fatigue, brain fog, and post exertional symptoms. This research supports the idea that ME CFS and FM may involve failed inflammation resolution rather than an overactive immune system alone.

💡 What this could mean for symptoms.

In theory, protecting epoxy oxylipins could help:

• Reduce chronic pain
• Lower background inflammation
• Ease fatigue and immune stress

This is not a treatment yet. It is a biological explanation that fits many symptoms.

📚 Source.

Epoxy oxylipins direct monocyte fate in inflammatory resolution in humans.
Nature Communications, Volume 17, Article 431.
Published 16 January 2026.
Free full text on PubMed Central:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12811254/

🔗 For more information.

Learn how hypnotherapy fits into CFS/ME/CFS care visit:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/issues/chronic_fatigue_syndrome.html

18/01/2026

⏰ Do you struggle with anxiety? Is your life controlled by your fears? Are your fears holding you back? Is sleep a nightly battle?

☎️ Change your life today! I am an expert therapist with more than 20 years experience and can help you to safely resolve anxiety, phobias, depression, panic, trauma, PTSD, stress and many other issues...

☯️ Book an Online or High Wycombe based appointment today https://www.changingstates.co.uk

15/01/2026

Had a great time last weekend teaching a group of international Clinical Hypnosis students how to treat and manage a pain issues including headaches, dysmenorrhea, psychometric and chronic pain. Followed of course by a refreshing ice bath for me (which was genuinely covered in ice for a change)!

09/01/2026

📊 New meta study shows that weight loss and health benefits are lost rapidly when GLP-1s stopped.

A new BMJ meta-analysis looked at 37 studies and over 9,000 people using weight-loss medications, including GLP-1 drugs. Around 50 percent stopped treatment within 12 months. On average, weight returned to baseline in about 1.7 years after stopping. Regain happened fast, around 0.4 kg per month. Health benefits such as blood sugar and blood pressure also faded within about 1 to 1.5 years.

⚠️ Medication can help with weight loss. However, it does not necessarily create lasting change on its own. When treatment stops, appetite and old eating habits often return unless something deeper has changed. This is why weight regain is common, even after large losses.

🏃‍♂️ What actually supports long-term weight control? Whether you use GLP-1 medication or not, lasting results depend on daily behaviours.
• Regular movement that fits your life
• Stress management so eating is not your main coping strategy
• Better sleep to stabilise appetite and energy
• Healthier food choices that are sustainable in the longer term

🧠 Hypnosis helps you change the drivers behind behaviour.
• Emotional eating
• Automatic habits
• Stress responses
• Motivation and follow-through

This work supports sustainable lifestyle change, not short-term control. That matters if medication is reduced, stopped, or never used.

📅 If you want support building habits that last, you can book an appointment here:
Book an appointment https://www.changingstates.co.uk/appointment-booking/

Here is the meta-study reference:

West, S., Koutoukidis, D.A., Jebb, S.A. et al. (2026). Weight regain following the cessation of medication for weight management: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The BMJ, 392, bmj-2025-085304. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2025-085304

08/01/2026

🧊As temperatures reduce with some -4c nights so the ice begins to build up. Temperatures in the ice bath always remain just above zero C under the ice layer.

ℹ️ To learn more about the ongoing cold water exposure therapy research to reduce stress and anxiety visit:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/cold_water_therapy/

04/01/2026

With 1.1c / 34f in the water and 0c / 32f in the air the UK is now officially in ice water territory, with natural ice as well! Movement in the ice bath emulates swimming and prevents the water next to the body from warming up.

ℹ️ To learn more about the ongoing research visit:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/cold_water_therapy/

28/12/2025

🧊 Final lake swim of 2025 with a water temp of 6.1c / 42.98f and air temp at 6c / 42.8f, followed by an onsite wood fired sauna and food / drinks if required! Great conditions today at Westhorpe Watersports, near Marlow UK, with excellent water purity.

🥶 To learn how to approach cold water swimming safely visit Sue Lord Open Water Coaching for training sessions.

🧑‍🔬 In a recent FMRI based study findings linked regular cold-water immersion with increased positive mood and measurable changes in brain connectivity. (Yankouskaya et al., 2023)

ℹ️ To learn more about the ongoing research visit:
https://www.changingstates.co.uk/cold_water_therapy/

27/12/2025

🧊 Finally at ice water temperatures for the first time this winter in High Wycombe UK with water temperature at 3.9c / 39.02f! (Officially ice water is