Multi-talented Jennifer Saunders’ accomplishments since first
bursting onto our TV screens with Dawn French are impressive – or maybe
Absolutely Fabulous.
Her professional CV plus her personal achievement in
overcoming cancer suggest a formidable determination – quite as formidable as
that of Lady “Connie” Keeble – her recent role in the BBC’s adaption of
Wodehouse’s Blanding stories.
But Jennifer Saunders has admitted to a problem she urgently
needs to overcome; a serious tendency to procrastinate. This is preventing her pushing
ahead with the script for a big screen film.
Her solution is a course of hypnotherapy – which naturally
Help Yourself! warmly endorses.
She is far from the first “celebrity” to recognise the
ability of hypnotherapy to bring about far reaching changes.
At the very beginning of the 20th century the
Russian composer Rachmaninoff was overcome by writer’s block. Following four months of hypnotherapy
he penned his Second Piano Concerto, now recognised as a masterpiece.
Not long afterwards W B Yeats used a method of self-hypnosis
to practice automatic writing.
Coming up to date in the 21st century, it is not uncommon for
one or other of the tabloids to run a story about some “celeb” who has turned
to hypnotherapy to deal with a personal difficulty.
Again that is all quite splendid and endorses the potential
of hypnosis to provide effective help.
What is slightly depressing however is that after more than
a century of such stories the use of hypnotherapy is still regarded by much of
the media as unusual, strange and newsworthy.
If some big name finds his or her sight deteriorating, a
decision to consult an optician does not make headlines. If a “celeb” finds the kitchen sink is
leaking and phones for a plumber it is not news.
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