In-flight hypnotherapy will soon be available to help passengers on British Airways flights start their journey to improved health and wellbeing from the comfort of their seats.
From March 1, customers on long-haul flights, including the airline’s business class-only service to New York from London City, can take time out to sit back and relax while listening to a series of five, 30 minute wellbeing programmes recorded by UK hypnotherapist Mark Bowden.
The programmes on the airline’s in-flight entertainment system cover how to lose weight, stop smoking, give up alcohol, eat more fruit and vegetables and how to develop a more positive mental attitude.
The programmes help passengers to ‘retrain’ the brain into new, healthier habits and behaviours.
Troy Warfield, British Airways’ director of customer experience:
“The wellbeing of our customers is very important and we’re thrilled to be able to offer the UK’s first hypnotherapy sessions in the air.
“This latest initiative emphasises our commitment to providing our customers with airline firsts and a huge breadth of content on our High Life in-flight entertainment channel.
“Our customers can enjoy over 1,300 hours of programmes, films and music, which includes Slow TV, our exclusive Tate channel, audio books for language learning, as well as TV box sets and the very latest movie blockbusters.”
Hypnotherapist Mark Bowden:
“It’s very exciting for an airline like British Airways to offer the benefits of hypnotherapy to their customers. Using my programmes they’ll be able to tune in and switch off in a way that enables them to both relax and focus at the same time.
“It’s a very effective way of changing human behaviour for the better so they can start making those life changes they’d like to make to improve their wellbeing. And listening to the audio regularly is like training a muscle – the more you do it, the more impact it has.”
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