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- How To Keep Romance In Your Relationship - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonA lot of people complain that the spark has disappeared from their relationship, that they have become just an "old married couple". But, if you wish to keep that sense of romance and excitement in your relationship it's up to you to ensure that these feelings stick around. The romance ...
Views: 863 - How To Let Your Dreams Find You - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonDreams are wonderful things to have and to hold onto. Dreaming is the first step towards success and fulfillment. Without a dream you can find yourself floating your way through life like a boat without a rudder. As children we dream. We listen to fairytales and imagine that we are the ...
Views: 925 - How To Make Your Job Worth Getting Up For - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonWhat makes your job worth getting up for? I was chatting with a friend yesterday who had a slightly jaded look about him. His response when I enquired as to what was up with him was that he just wanted to retire. He was fed up with his job but it was a still a financial necessity. In his ...
Views: 1165 - How to Overcome Fear of Being Alone - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonThere is much evidence that we survive more easily and more comfortably when sharing our lives with other human beings than when we live life in a solitary manner. Research shows that we live longer and healthier lives when time is passed in the company of a loving spouse. Being alone does ...
Views: 1015 - How To Overcome Fear of Flying - by Submitted on Nov 01, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonA fear of flying is in this day and age extremely restricting. So many people these days enjoy a lifestyle which involves flying almost as frequently as we used to take taxis. Many jobs are dependent upon flying on a regular basis, be it a short internal flight or one which involves sitting on ...
Views: 974 - How To Overcome Fear of Lifts - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonA fear of lifts may take many forms. Sometimes this fear can be felt as a vague unease, whilst at other times these tingles of anxiety can morph into a full blown panic attack. Anxiety over anything does indeed tend to escalate over time; what begins as a vague feeling of discomfort turns into ...
Views: 3316 - How to Overcome Self Sabotage and Acquire Dating Confidence - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2009 from Roseanna LeatonSuccessful dating is all about confidence; confidence in how you look but more importantly confidence in who you are. You have to feel that you are "worth it" and that you have "value". If you do not have this sense of inner confidence or inner belief, your own emotions will sabotage your ...
Views: 2291 - How to Putt With Confidence - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonPutting with confidence tends to be a transient commodity in the life of a golfer. You go out one day and your putting just feels right, you see the line almost as if somebody has painted it on the green for you and you just know instinctively how to stroke the putt so as to achieve the perfect ...
Views: 1072 - How To Recover From Bad Shots In Golf - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonHow often have you found your game deteriorating after you hit that first bad shot? You were out there, hitting balls nice and sweetly, holing out well, mentally calculating your score and feeling pretty good. Then, out pops that stray shot, seemingly from nowhere, and it triggers a downward ...
Views: 1374 - How To Relieve The Stress Of Moving House - by Submitted on May 21, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonMoving house is always a stressful situation to find oneself in. It becomes even more stressful if the home that you are about to leave is one that you have built or lived in for many years. To part with your family home can feel like cutting away a large chunk of your past. The act of ...
Views: 1987 - How To Savor Each Moment As It Happens - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonDo you really notice what is happening as it is happening? Do you focus your attention upon what is happening at the current moment or is your attention turned towards the past or the future? Do you aspire to savor each moment as it passes and embrace all that life has to offer or do you ...
Views: 856 - How to See Beauty Everywhere - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonSometimes you will be in a place that is very obviously beautiful to the majority of people. At other times you will not be in such a fortunate place that has overtly physical beauty. But it is possible to find beauty in everything, depending upon ones mindset. What is beautiful to one ...
Views: 944 - How To Stop Allowing The Weather To Affect Your Mood - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonI suspect that almost everyone is affected by the weather. If you live in a place where the climate is almost always bright and sunny, you probably crave a spot of cool now and again. However, your moods will probably be less affected than those of people who live in darker and damper climes. ...
Views: 994 - How To Stop Getting Angry On The Golf Course - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonI was chatting with someone today who is a great golfer but admits to suffering a certain degree of anger issues when the game isn’t going his way. The last time he played he was one under after 10 holes, which in must amateur golfers books is pretty damn good. But the wheel came off on the ...
Views: 5132 - How To Stop Putting off The Inevitable - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonEverybody procrastinates from time to time, more so when you either don't want to do something or if you don't know how to set about doing it. But we do also know that procrastination predetermines failure and so it is extremely important to make a serious effort to overcome ...
Views: 2086 - How To Temper A Passion For Perfection - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonTo be a perfectionist can be a real blessing. The drive to achieve perfection can push you to achieve great things. Sometimes, however, it can be a hindrance or in extreme cases perfectionism can create a barrier that stops a person from even embarking upon a challenge. Steve Jobs had a ...
Views: 1418 - How to Train Yourself to be Assertive - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonTolerance is something which is becoming a relatively scarce commodity in today's world. In fact, it might be said that a state of intolerance abounds. But like anything, this depends on the particular circumstances or area to which the concept is being applied. In many ways we are more ...
Views: 1044 - 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: 1206 - How To Work Out What He Is Really Thinking - by Submitted on Apr 21, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonHow many times do you find yourself wondering what your partner is really thinking about? Do you find yourself second guessing where he or she is coming from or jumping to conclusions instead? You will usually find that if you are spending much time musing over these sorts of questions you ...
Views: 978 - How Travel Builds Confidence - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonThere's more than one way in which travel contributes to building confidence. The most obvious is that you have to step outside your normal day to day routines and familiar places and people to travel at all. Following on from that is the fact that travel opens your eyes to new things. ...
Views: 6354 - 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: 1224 - Hypnosis Speeds Up Recovery From Cancer Operations - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonAn article published in The Daily Mail on June 14th, 2011 caught my eye. It was entitled "Hypnotism 'speeds up cancer op recovery'." This article went on to discuss the positive results of some recent research conducted by a group of Belgium anesthetists with patients who were undergoing ...
Views: 1002 - If You Aren't Having Fun It's Your Own Dang Fault - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonYour life really is in your own hands. Life is a blank slate that you can do many different things with. Opportunities come and go and you choose to take them or leave them. How you respond and react to circumstances is almost entirely up to you. I was chatting with a few Octogenarians ...
Views: 911 - If You Have Nothing To Lose Then You Will Try Anything - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonWhen you reach a state whereby you feel that you have absolutely nothing to lose you are in that moment empowered. It is ironic that you only reach this state of freedom and empowerment once you think that you have lost that which you previously thought mattered to you. As you feel your ...
Views: 1143 - In Need Of Sleep - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2013 from Roseanna LeatonThe health benefits of sleep are both varied and well known. We all need to have an adequate amount and quality of sleep so as to be able to function as we should on both mental and physical tasks. Sleep is probably the best beauty treatment available to a person, allowing you to ...
Views: 1608 - Increasing Number Of Hypnosis Clinical Trials - by Submitted on Apr 20, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonHypnosis is real and medical research is proving its efficacy in many areas. There are an increasing number of clinical trials being carried out that involve hypnosis and this is great to see. Doubters in the reality or efficacy of hypnosis should take heed of the increasing number of ...
Views: 1346 - Intelligence Is A Learned Process - by Submitted on Mar 21, 2013 from Roseanna LeatonIntelligence is a process of learning as opposed to a thing that you are simply born with. You, like I, will no doubt have heard said (or perhaps you have yourself thought) that so and so is naturally intelligent, gifted or bright. But intelligence is still something that has to be ...
Views: 1136 - Is Emotional Pain or Physical Pain More Painful? - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonRecent research carried out by the Universities of Michigan and Columbia has discovered that the areas of the brain that respond to physical pain actually overlap with those responding to relationship break-ups. Thus this type of emotional pain would appear to trigger a similar form of pain ...
Views: 957 - Is Hypnosis Real? - by Submitted on Apr 03, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonThe subject of hypnosis is one that naturally seems to attract a high degree of dissention and controversy. Many people quite simply do not think that there is such a thing as hypnosis. They think that it is a trick show, a con, something which people just go along with for a laugh. But ...
Views: 1520 - Is The Grass Really Greener? - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonThis is a question which is only asked when a person is in two minds about something. If you really thought that the grass was greener you would either have already leapt over the fence and made a run for it, or you would be asking a different question, perhaps along the lines of querying how ...
Views: 1077 - Is Your Relationship Complicated? - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2010 from Roseanna LeatonHave you watched the movie "It's complicated"? It's a fun movie in which its stars, Alec Baldwin and Meryl Streep, are as good as ever at their jobs. They play fascinating parts which are all too frequently experienced in modern daily lives. When we watch a movie or read a novel we become ...
Views: 1134 - It's OK To Have Doubts - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonEveryone has an element of the "Doubting Thomas" within their personality. For some people this doubting and fearful part of their character has a high profile and filters everything through these potentially negative lenses. Others suppress this part of their focus and virtually turn a blind ...
Views: 1138 - Laughter is One of The Sweetest Creations in Life - by Submitted on Sep 20, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonLaughter is an antidote to pain and unhappiness. The power of laughter should never be underestimated. Laughter clinics have been set up in various places and research has shown that laughter is even an aid to recovery from ill health. When something makes you laugh, your spirits are ...
Views: 1013 - Learn To Like Your Looks - by Submitted on May 28, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonIt would seem that a growing number of people, teenagers and adults alike, are not happy with the way in which they look. I have noticed that a shocking number of parents are horrified when they discover that their teenage son or daughter totally dislikes their looks. One wonders why looks ...
Views: 951 - Learning to Attract Luck Kindness or Love Into Your Life - by Submitted on Mar 13, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonAlmost every child is furnished with a copy of Aesop's Fables to read and appreciate during the course of growing up. Some of those fables we remember vividly whilst others fade to the dim recesses of the backs of our minds. Some we appreciate immediately whilst others don't quite hit the mark ...
Views: 1400 - Learning to Say No - by Submitted on May 22, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonWhat can't you say no to? Some people cannot say no to chocolate whilst others cannot say no even when another person asks them to do something which is over and above the normal call of duty. These are two very different types of situations. The first is an example of a situation where one ...
Views: 1028 - Life Is Not Like a Novel - by Submitted on Dec 05, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonLife is not like a novel. There is never real closure. Yet closure is frequently what we seek. We like to have things come to a logical conclusion, to get things tucked into bed. Life is more cyclical than it is linear. As one door closes, another opens. Thus where a novel will ...
Views: 1035 - 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: 1316 - Long And Loose Or Short And Straight - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonVirtually all golfers seek a way in which they can hit the ball further. We all pursue the dream of hitting ever-longer drives down the middle of the fairway. Most discover that this desire turns out to be a quick recipe for a less consistent direction of ball flight. At this point many ...
Views: 909 - 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: 1205 - Making Yourself Do The Things You Don't Want To Do - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2013 from Roseanna LeatonThere are always going to be things in life that we just don't want to do. There are also things that we might want to do but for whatever reason feel that we cannot do them. Something gets in our way, be it doubt, fear, lack of self-confidence or whatever else. In such a situation what ...
Views: 1138 - Memory Lapses In Golf - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonIf you learned the basics of playing golf at a young age you probably find that you easily revert to your natural swing throughout later years. Other golfers who did not have the distinct advantage of learning whilst young do not have such a firm "memory" of their natural swing or ball striking ...
Views: 940 - One Bad Shot And Cannot Stop Thinking About It - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonA golfer told me the other day that his problem was that as soon as he hits one bad shot he finds that he just can't stop thinking about it. It then ruins his entire round. There are a lot of golfers who will identify with this feeling and share a similar reaction. I can't help wondering why ...
Views: 1003 - 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: 1307 - Overcoming Insecurity Makes Your Relationships Better - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonOvercoming insecurity is a challenge which many of us face. We can see the benefits of having high self esteem and high self worth quite clearly. We know that to build confidence and be comfortable in every way makes life a whole lot easier. Not only that, as you overcome insecurities and ...
Views: 3057 - Patience Is A Key Part Of Playing Great Golf - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonBeing patient on the golf course allows you to wait in position until luck swings your way. Being patient ensures you do not give in. Rather you dig deep and step up to the eve- present challenge that golf presents. Watching Tiger in the last couple of rounds at Memorial confirmed yet ...
Views: 3627 - Personality Is Not Impossible To Change - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2013 from Roseanna LeatonYour personality can be changed and adapted so long as you see it as a process to be worked upon. If you assume that it is something that is given, then you prevent yourself from expanding and growing. This is a vital point to appreciate, particularly if you think of yourself as socially ...
Views: 1136 - Predictability Versus Excitement In Relationships - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonPredictability or excitement; which are you more drawn towards? In reality most of us like a little of both, although the most important in the end is usually predictability. We are creatures of habit and routine, whether we like to think of ourselves like that or otherwise. We generally ...
Views: 972 - Proof That Hypnosis Recordings Are Effective - by Submitted on Feb 07, 2012 from Roseanna LeatonSome people fear hypnosis itself whilst others fear that it won't work. Research shows how easily hypnosis can be used and how a recording can be just as effective as a live induction. When you have a conversation about hypnosis there are several standard reactions that the average ...
Views: 1006 - Proof that Hypnotherapy Is Not Just Quackery - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2011 from Roseanna LeatonThere are a lot of myths about hypnosis, many of which instill great and unnecessary fear in one who could otherwise benefit greatly from its therapeutic potential. These fallacies range from a fear of being left in a hypnotic trance for days on end, to thinking that only those who are weak ...
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