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- How to Increase Left and Right Brain Interaction and Solve Problems More Easily - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonMusic has a massive effect on our emotions, but not all music creates the same effect. Humans are not the only living beings to respond to music. Plants, animals and even water crystals can be seen to change depending upon what music is being played. Different types of music create different ...
Views: 1330 - Stop Blaming Your Tools - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2013 from Roseanna LeatonEveryone has heard reference to sayings relating to the importance of not blaming one’s tools for jobs that don’t turn out quite as one planned. It is inevitably more often the fault of the workman rather than his tools. There are many variations of this phrase such as, "It"s not the arrows, ...
Views: 1325 - Help To Overcome Fears About Surgery And To Recover Quickly Afterwards - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonIt is rare to discover a patient who really looks forward to surgery without having a few fears trying to hide themselves in the back of his or her mind. Some manage to keep those fears well hidden but others find this task a little more difficult to achieve. We all know that fears cause ...
Views: 1324 - Anxiety Is More Common In Women Than Men - by Submitted on Apr 12, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonResearch has shown that females are more prone to anxiety than men. Studies indicate that women are twice as likely to suffer from anxiety and that they have far more stress triggers than do men. Women it seems have on average four times more anxiety triggers than men. Through experience ...
Views: 1319(1 vote) - Help To Overcome Exam Stress - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonNot everyone feels good about going into exams. No matter how much you prepare in terms of learning and diligent study time, you also have to ensure that you remain calm and relaxed so as to ensure your memory and recall ability flows in an optimal manner. Competition to get into good ...
Views: 1316(1 vote) - Listen With Your Eyes and See With Your Ears - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonWhen you shut down one sense the others are provided with more focus and attention and they will thereby be enhanced. In language you will often hear phrases used with promote one sense or another. A beautiful painting might invoke in you a whole range of sound as well as visual ...
Views: 1307 - The Need To Give And Receive Attention - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonNot everyone likes to be the center of attention when in a large group of people, but we all do need attention in our individual ways. We need attention as a matter of survival. The need for attention is acknowledged by most and yet also feared at times. There are of course times in ...
Views: 1307 - Stroking a Fur Blanket Is an Easy Way To Cope With Stress - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonEveryone should have at least one fur blanket in his or her home. Have you noticed how these lovely soft and nicely colored accessories have seemingly appeared in every home store over recent years? And if you spend a little time being "a fly on the wall" in these stores you'll see that ...
Views: 1299 - Controlling Jealousy Before It Controls You - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonJealousy is a dangerous and destructive emotion which can override logical thought and motivate one to act in irrational ways. When you are feeling Jealous you can feel like you are caught up in a tornado which twists its way through your life, destroying everything in its path leaving you and ...
Views: 1298(2 votes) - How to Cope With Internal Conflicts - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonThere are two sides to every coin. In life we are provided with endless opportunities and an equal number of choices. Some choices are easily made; others can prove to be more difficult as they evoke conflicting emotions. Quite often the conflict involves a desire to have or achieve ...
Views: 1298 - Overcome Fear of Surgery With Hypnosis - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonThere are few people who do not feel a few nervous twinges when contemplating surgery, be it extensive or minimally invasive. The thought of having a routine blood test or vaccination can be enough to set many patients teeth on edge, let alone being subjected to anesthetic and a surgeon’s ...
Views: 1297 - Soul Searching - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonI watched the movie "My Sister's Keeper" yesterday. It's a great film which tugs away at your heart strings. I am really glad we watched it at home instead of going out to the movie theatre; I used more than my fair share of Kleenex! The film raised questions about death and what happens ...
Views: 1297(1 vote) - Finding The Best Stress Relief Technique For You - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonIn this day and age there seems to be a lot of chatter going on about the causes of stress, the ways in which you can relieve stress and manage stress, be it emotional stress, workplace stress, chronic stress, or whatever other terminology one might come up with. Stress, stress, stress! We ...
Views: 1295(2 votes) - How to Recover From a Broken Heart - by Submitted on May 15, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonHow many times has your heart been broken? The answer to this question will go some way towards predicting how easily you might recover or otherwise from your broken heart. How badly your heart has been broken will also assist in predicting the difficulty or ease with which you recover. ...
Views: 1293(1 vote) - Asking For What You Want In Relationships - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonSome people are really good about standing up for themselves and asking for what they want or need in a relationships. Others sit back and wait, relying on their belief that their partner should know what they want or need. Some would say that if you have to ask, you are potentially forcing ...
Views: 1289(1 vote) - Recipe For Good Relationships - by Submitted on May 10, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonA good relationship does not hinge upon a single key factor. Rather, a good relationship requires a cocktail of ingredients that blend together in the same manner as a good recipe. Like recipes there can be variations made to the balance of ingredients that have the ability to either enhance ...
Views: 1282(1 vote) - Help To Deal With Anger Better - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonAnger is an emotion that most people would prefer to avoid if at all possible. Anger makes us feel out of control. Perhaps I should actually reverse the order in which that statement is made? Certainly the two go hand in hand. Untamed and unchecked anger has the power to completely ...
Views: 1278 - How To Cure Your Fear Of Heights - by Submitted on May 03, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonA fear of heights can prove to be very uncomfortable indeed. You can avoid some situations but at other times you can be taken by surprise and become imprisoned by your fears. There is a potential easy and effective cure...hypnosis. A fear of heights can be extremely debilitating ...
Views: 1278 - Help To Feel Happy - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonHappiness is a state of being. You are happy or you are not happy. The question is what can you do so as to place yourself in a position whereby you are more likely to be happy than otherwise. Happiness is in fact a feeling that you are totally in control of, so long as you appreciate ...
Views: 1277 - Boosting Your immune System By Using Your Mind - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonWhen your body and mind are in a state of balance you will enjoy the best of health. Poor health, or dis-ease, reflects an imbalance; it is a physical manifestation of imbalance in some part of your life. It is easy to conjecture that the increase in viral disease and the speed with which it ...
Views: 1274(5 votes) - Help To Overcome Claustrophobia - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2013 from Roseanna LeatonAny phobia causes unnecessary discomfort, some more so than others. To suffer from a phobia means to experience abject fear in certain circumstances. In the case of claustrophobia this means that small or enclosed spaces are what constitute those circumstances. Each individual will ...
Views: 1251(2 votes) - The Secret of Being Happy - by Submitted on Oct 10, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonThe most important thing in life is finding happiness and promoting happiness to everyone you come into contact with. There are dozens of happiness quotes. One so often hears the phrase that "you cannot buy happiness"; it's true; you cannot buy happiness. But how do you go about the task of ...
Views: 1243(1 vote) - Do You Know The True Impact of Your Own Thoughts? - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonI read a passage in a book by Neal Donald Walsh which describes the impact of your thoughts in a very straightforward manner. The passage was entitled "A Thought Is Forever" and went on to describe how thoughts generate energy which then create an impact upon the surrounding world, the universe ...
Views: 1242(1 vote) - How To Find Your Soul Mate - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonSome people feel broken and empty when they are not involved in an intimate relationship, but these feelings may in actual fact get in the way of you finding your soul mate. The feelings of loneliness and being "broken" can effectively emit negative vibes which make you vulnerable to stepping ...
Views: 1240(2 votes) - Hypnosis Helps You To Sleep Well And Overcome Insomnia - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonWhen you haven't slept you simply do not feel quite right. Your energy levels are depleted and you feel like you are running on a low-grade fuel. Your body feels sluggish and your mind is equally not as sharp as you would like it to be. Sleep problems can be caused for many reasons. ...
Views: 1237(1 vote) - How Did You Get Where You Are Today? - by Submitted on Dec 04, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonWhat you do today inevitably affects what happens in your tomorrow, although at the time you can have little idea of the extent of that impact. We spend much of our lives planning for our future, imagining what we would like to achieve and hoping that we attain our goals and live our ...
Views: 1236 - Take A Step Back To Achieve Success - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonWe all know the metaphor about not being able to see the woods for the trees. To be able to achieve success in almost anything in life you have to be able to look at things from different angles. You have to be able to see the woods and the trees, not simply one or the other. Many ...
Views: 1233(1 vote) - Help Find The Right One By Becoming The Right One - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonA lot of people talk about their desire to meet their soul mate, their other half, or the right one. Whatever terminology is used the meaning is basically the same. You want to meet that special person who is your perfect partner. I happened to watch a dating program on the television ...
Views: 1227 - How to Deal With the Stress of Losing Your Passport - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonLosing anything is frustrating, but to lose your passport can be a particularly painful experience, depending upon where you might be at the time. We all, I'm sure, know of somebody who has experienced the stress of trying to work out how to get home, or how to go about replacing this essential ...
Views: 1226 - Want To Be More Confident? - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonHow would you like to feel a little more sure of yourself, or comfortable to speak in front of a crowd, or confident enough to speak up for yourself and disagree if you want to? A lack of confidence has the ability to affect one in so very many different ways. Most people worry about a ...
Views: 1219 - Help To Control Anger - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonAnger is a natural response that we all experience. Some of us feel this emotion more frequently than others. Similarly, some of us control our emotions better than others. Anger leaves a bad taste in your mouth in the sense that it transmits a lingering feeling of negativity. The ...
Views: 1216 - Help Yourself To Be More Confident - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonConfidence is King. The best gift you can give to your child is confidence. We hear such edicts every day, from all quarters. We know that it's true. Being confident makes almost every experience in life so much easier to deal with. Even so, not everyone is confident. Not everyone has ...
Views: 1213(1 vote) - Hypnosis Provides A Gateway To Your Imagination - by Submitted on Feb 21, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonNo imagination? Want to develop your imagination? Imagination is what is the precursor to reality, and so it is an incredibly important step when in pursuit of success. Do you feel that you lack in imagination or simply cannot seem to get your imagination working as you might wish? ...
Views: 1213 - Remember What Matters and Forget What Does Not - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonIn life it is easy to get this the wrong way around and remember all too easily the things that do not matter whilst overlooking the things that do really matter. We tend to tie ourselves up in knots when thinking about silly little things instead of focusing upon things that have far greater ...
Views: 1211 - Do You Want More? - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonHow many people do you know who are really content with their life, happy with their lot, completely satisfied with what they have got? I frequently find myself looking around in amazement as I perceive so very many people who seem to be unhappy and dissatisfied these days. Everyone wants ...
Views: 1203 - Visualizing Your Pain Away - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonRecent research by scientists at Johns Hopkins University has indicated that patients who undergo painful cancer treatments can experience pain relief by the very simple task of surrounding themselves with tranquil pictures of nature. A scene which was used frequently in this particular study ...
Views: 1200 - How to Use Audio to Improve Your Imagination - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonWe repeatedly hear that your imagination paves the way to your reality. This is a pretty well known fact. But this fact can also be a source of frustration to those who just do not have a very good imagination. They want to imagine great things happening in their lives, but simply cannot ...
Views: 1199 - Confidence is King - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonConfidence and self belief allow you to do more of what you want to do. Are you content with every aspect of your life? Is there a part of your life which you would like to change over or to improve upon? Many people suffer from negative effects carried forwards from past experiences which ...
Views: 1197 - Looking For Love? Or Swamped by a Feeling of Loneliness? - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonLove is all around you, or at least it seems to be when you are looking for it. Everywhere you go there seem to be couples strolling hand in hand, giggling together, kissing or smooching together. And there you are, on your own, feeling lonely. Even though you feel this way you are at least ...
Views: 1197 - Using Dreams Intelligently - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonPeople often scoff or laugh at their dreams, forgetting that the process of dreaming is an essential part of mental existence. Your dreams are important and are able to tell you a lot. Dreams can easily be interpreted if you really wish to put your mind to this task. Dreams can tell you ...
Views: 1192 - De-Clutter Your Mind Just For a Moment - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonIf you don't know which way to go, then stop for a few moments and listen to your heart. There are many times in life when you come to question where you are meant to be, what you are meant to do and what your real purpose in life is. In reality this only happens when your mind is too busy ...
Views: 1191(1 vote) - Help To Stop Being Negative - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonNegative people often find themselves wishing that they could change and become optimistic, positive and happier. They would like to stop seeing everything that might go wrong and instead be able to see what could turn out to be great and fantastic. Lets fact it; it's a nightmare when all you ...
Views: 1189(1 vote) - Discoverign Yourself Through Hypnosis - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonThe Movie "Eat Pray Love" is based upon an individual's search to find herself. A growing number of people spend much of their time wondering who they really are and what their real life purpose is meant to be. We in general live a life of luxury. There is little real hardship in the way ...
Views: 1187(1 vote) - Confidence Building Tips - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonConfidence is built by being systematic. Successful people are systemic thinkers. We are creatures of habit, and the key to building self confidence is to create routines and habits which work towards gaining self confidence. If you habitually do things which build your confidence then it is ...
Views: 1181(4 votes) - Curing Needle Phobia - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonSome people are really comfortable around needles, whilst others are overcome by a burning desire to run away to another planet when faced with the spectacle of a needle. You can also be perfectly ok with needles in one context and yet not at all comfortable when that needle is encountered in a ...
Views: 1180(2 votes) - Whether Work Or Play Put Everything Into It - by Submitted on Jun 03, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonOne major reason why successful people are successful is that they have harnessed the ability to focus 100% of their energy and attention into the things that they are doing. They see a vision and they focus their attention upon it. They are not easily distracted. Many of us are not ...
Views: 1179 - How To Best Develop Your Character - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonHaving a strong character is synonymous with winning and succeeding in life. This involves a high degree of self-awareness and a strong self-belief. Hypnosis can help people to develop both these attributes. Whenever you read books relating to the mental attributes associated with ...
Views: 1178 - How to Stop Entering Relationships Which Hurt - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonDo you find yourself entering into the same type of relationships again and again? Ones which just end up in tears leaving you feeling hurt and drained? Or perhaps ones which make you feel so low and down that it's hard to get out of bed in the morning? Or maybe relationships in which you ...
Views: 1177(4 votes) - Do You Know What You Are Looking For? - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonHow many people do you know who are dissatisfied with their life and yet at the same time they do not really know why? They are looking around for something but don't have a clear idea of what that something is. Similarly, how many people do you know who say their prayers at night, saying ...
Views: 1171(1 vote) - Writing Your Own Meaningful Marriage Vows - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonWhen you start talking weddings the most frequently asked question is probably something to do with the type of dress the bride is planning to wear. All of your girlfriends ask if you have chosen your dress yet, what style of dress you're looking for, how you're going to wear your hair, and so ...
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