Have you ever tried a new form of therapy - be it acupuncture, osteopathy, reiki, massage etc and felt really good afterwards? Think back and then remember how long you felt different for. Was it an hour, a day, a week or maybe longer? Maybe if it was only a short while you discounted that particular therapy as "not working".

A good complementary therapist will no doubt have given you some aftercare advice. It may have been stretching, postural advice or de-stressing techniques. Did you take these on board and implement them. In many cases, for whatever reason, the answer if probably no.

The time spent on the therapists couch is only a small piece of the jigsaw puzzle. In any week you will spend one hour on the couch and another 6 days and 23 hours going about your everday life - doing things the way you've always done them.

As powerful as a therapy may be there is simply no way it can maintain magically transform you. Ultimately it is what you do once you are off the couch that really counts. It takes commitment, courage and dedication to make any sort of change.

So take the first step on your journey today and implement any aftercare advice your therapist gave you. You'll be amply rewarded.