At our clinic here in Southern Spain we continue to attract clients from across Europe and even a few from the USA; each one arrives interested in our own treatment package which we call 'Life Architecture'. You could substitute the name for 'Change,' because quite simply, that's what we strive to do; to help people bring about both major and minor change in their life. At the clinic our goal has always been for the treatment to end with the individual ready to move forward, to take control, and to become the true architects of their own life, a scenario that the clinic believes should be everyone's birthright.

The Life Architecture treatment has been used to demonstrate to clients how they can implement rapid change in their life, simply and without too much effort. In its purest form, it has been used to help someone to change and understand the art of being able to really forgive, how it's possible to learn to love, unconditionally. The therapy works perfectly at instigating change in a person, allowing them to move from being a smoker to a non-smoker, from being overweight to slim, from being sad to happy, from being old in their outlook on life to being youthful.

We accept that no one is born an alcoholic, or a smoker, and no one comes into this world suffering from panic attacks or with an emotional hang up with food. The fact is all of these negative actions have been adopted for some reason or another, and they have had to be painstakingly learned, just like the positive habits we learnt as children, such as being able to recite the alphabet, or tying our shoelaces. Any bad habit, or learned pattern of behaviour, can be changed, or "unlearned", and in time, people can quickly learn different, more beneficial ones instead.

We find clients visiting the clinic to undertake change in their lives for many different reasons; some because they are scared, or lonely, others believe they have reached a crossroads in their life and feel it is inevitable; some just wake up one morning and decide that they want more from life. One version of the treatment ends at the point where the client sits before an imaginary sheet of brilliant white paper with a pencil in their hand and the therapist suggests: "Ok, let's sit down together and design it exactly the way you want it to be."

Of course it is relatively simple to change many habits and thoughts in life, admittedly some more easily than others. A critical element is always the individual's motivation and desire for it to happen; commitment is required and a certain amount of energy needs to be invested. At the clinic we have observed that sometimes just showing someone that change is possible is all that's necessary to turn a person's life around, and the effect can sometimes be dramatic. When people see and understand, maybe for the first time, that just about any change in life is possible, and that it can be achieved relatively easily, it's like opening Pandora's Box; all of a sudden life holds unlimited new and exciting prospects for the future.

A simple example of Life Architecture and its benefits is when it is used with weight control, which is usually incorrectly treated by putting a person on a diet. Everyone knows that dieting only treats the symptoms of being overweight, never the cause; it is impossible for dieting to ever eliminate a person's subconscious need for excess food. An overweight person usually overeats because they have somehow learned the negative habit of eating to try and fill an emotional void, or to stave off boredom, rather than eating for basic, nutritional reasons, out of simple, physical hunger.

With the therapy the reasons for the misuse of food can be uncovered and explained, and then a simple strategy of introducing change, incorporating new eating habits is often all that is required. The rapid and positive effect on the dieter, who has spent years, incorrectly striving to control his or her weight by deprivation, can be highly emotional.

The 'Life Architecture' treatment contains little that is new, but its approach and methodology is certainly different. At the clinic we have adopted our very own mixture of therapies, which we call 'Triple Therapy'; it incorporates the merging of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Hypnotherapy and NLP, and is underpinned with our own 'Diagnostic Questioning' process, which we designed to ensure we find and treat the primary cause of the problem, rather than the symptoms.

Helping clients to let go of a habit or a phobia can sometimes be a challenge: we are aware that all clients are individuals with varied emotional and behavioural needs, and each person requires a unique and flexible approach.

We have a very real interest in the development of Life Architecture as either a stand-alone treatment/therapy, or alternatively as a therapy that can be utilised for 'underpinning' other treatment protocols. We are therefore happy to welcome therapists at the clinic who maybe interested in undertaking a short two or three day introduction to 'Life Architecture'.

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