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Why do people seek out a Professional Counselor or Hypnotherapist for help? There are many reasons a person may seek help. Some people would like to understand themselves better, while other may have a particular issue or self-defeating behaviors they want to address. Perhaps change is needed because the behavior is h

HYPNOSIS, DEVILS WORK?nnToday, I was Universally blessed to be brought face to face with resistance to hypnosis and metaphysical practices by the Christian community. Timing could not be more perfect since I was trying to figure out how to discuss a controversial issue in this magazine. As a hypnotist, I’ve been told by other hypnotists that a portion of the Christian community views Hypnosis as “devils” work. Yet, I’d never been exposed to it firsthan

Depression can be hell. Basically three scenarios contribute to depression. The first is an identity crisis. Example: John, my client, (referred to me by his doctor), sheepishly looked at me and said, \"I just can't get the energy to get up from bed in the morning. As I look at my 90 yr. old ...

The effects of long term stress are not to be taken lightly. Stress can lead to serious physical, as well as mental health problems. Managing our stress levels is very important if we wish to remain happy and healthy.

HYPNOTHERAPY – PERSONAL TRAINING FOR THE MIND? \ A lot of people like to use hypnotherapy to fix something specific they wish to change in their lives: to quit smoking, lose weight, overcome chronic pain or anxiety etc. \ But hypnotherapy can also be used in another way, in a more holistic and ...

Now that we are well into the middle of May, I imagine that most New Year’s Resolutions have long since been forgotten. In fact, a majority of these promises we make to ourselves are broken by the time we are purchasing candy hearts and flowers for Valentine’s Day. Did you set a certain goal ...

The 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 literally look younger overnight. Thi

1. Managing and coping with situations Remember that almost everyone feels anxious at times so the best way to help them is to help them manage and cope with anxiety and not feel they have to eliminate it altogetherrnr

Losing weight is often a difficult struggle; of course, most people are always searching for fast and easy ways to shed some pounds. The Cabbage Soup weight loss trend is known to many dieters as a popular \"fad diet\" that offers a fast way to lose weight, but does it really work? The diet plan ...

Why would I say that all healing begins within? How can that be true? nnPhysically, healing is an automatic response to injury isn't it? If you cut your finger, the body immediately goes into healing mode and repairs the wound in a matter of days. It is something that comes from inside us. What about emotionally and spiritually?nnScience has shown that we consciously perceive at most 10% of what is going on around us. 90% is filed in the subconscious where it influences our t

When you use conversational hypnosis it is vital that you recognize subconscious or 'unconscious' signals that indicate your subjects frame of mind or 'state.' In particular you need to pay particular attention to the signs of 'open trance.' The open trance is essential if your suggestions are to take root in the subje

Emotional eating can ruin your life with dozens of extra pounds. Emotional Overeating can affect your self worth causing you to contribute to low self esteem, constantly sell yourself short, and miss out on a social life. \ The good news is that when you know how to deal with emotions effectively, emotional overe

Jackie characterized her Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) symptoms as a panic attack of the bowels. Sudden, explosive episodes of diarrhea had her confined to her house. She had tuned over the grocery shopping to her husband and had not been on an outing with her family in three years. \ Since ...

Global Warming, Climate Change, Economic Recession, Middle East Unrest, Political Turmoil………the list continues. It seems that after couple of years BBC will start their news headlines like that “this is xyz, and you are watching bbcBADnews.com”! But isn’t there any solution? Isn’t there any way to get rid

What do Jim Carrey, Permanent Weight loss & 10 million bucks have in common? Drum roll... They are all achieved by the power of visualization. You see long before Jim Carrey (Whether you are a fan or not hang in it is good story!) was ever in the TV show In Living Color, or made 20 million dollar pay day as Ace Ve

It appears that the various weight loss companies who previously encouraged calorie counting and their own brand of food are now realising the eating is all in the head and are offering various ways to deal with “emotional eating”. Hypnotherapy for weight loss has always gone for the fact that the way we eat is a h

There are two ways to build self worth—the old way and the new way. The old way was the one I was taught. I was taught how to improve self worth by making myself better—like I was defective and needed correction. Self worth only became an issue in my high school years. In fact I really didn't know much about self w

Do you have a phobia? If you do try and imagine facing that phobia right now. It could be a spider, it may be a glove or it could be walking under a bridge. Whatever it is try and picture it right now and focus on how it makes you feel. This little exercise goes to prove a few of things. Firstly if you now feel shaken and disturbed then you almost definitely have a phobia. Secondly it goes to show how powerful the mind is, just from thinking about your phobia it elicited a re

Shall I? Shan’t I? It goes round and round in your mind, constantly occupying space and time that would be far better used for something more worthwhile. Same old thing. Same old arguments! Don’t underestimate the stress of indecision It can literally become a nightmare when the issue penetrates your dreams. Or it

We all need positive energies like we need food. If food feeds our body, positive energies feed our whole being. Anything that makes us feel good about ourselves and about life in general is a positive energy. In fact, it may come from food, from friends, from successes, from daily experiences, from prayers, from greet

What is the difference between a wish and a prayer in your personal growth and personal change program? Maybe they are the same. But those who don't believe in God, since they relate prayer with some kind of religious experience, would not agree. For that matter, could you say a goal is a wish? Could you say a goal is

As much as twenty percent of people identify a chronic problem with procrastination. That is a lot of potential work gone down the drain. \ It is likely one of the biggest problems we face as individuals and yet it is not treated nearly as seriously as it should be. \ Dr. Ferrari identifiest three basic reaso

Earlier this week I received this message in my in-box; Your Effort Is A Portrait of Yourself. It got me thinking about a lot of things. I remember reading that Colonel Sanders knocked upon one thousand doors before the recipe behind KFC was recognized as having potential.

When the sun shines most people notice that their mood is enhanced. Scientists have also noted the automatic physiological response in our brains and bodies as endorphins are released when we are bathed in sunlight; endorphins which provide us with a soothing feel-good factor. r

If you think about hypnosis, surely the first thing that comes to your mind is a person with closed eyes, as if asleep, in an absolute state of relaxation and concentration. However, none of this occurs in the so-called conversational hypnosis, a therapy that has the same purpose as conventional hypnosis (the suggestion of the patient) but differs in technique. Then we tell you the essentials of this discipline. You already know the power of words to influence others. By mean

Hypnosis is an experience of mind expansion where the unconscious mind may be integrated with the conscious mind. My layman's theory is that we are typically only aware, consciously, of thirty percent of our mind's activity. So what is happening with the other seventy percent? It's all still happening...but on an uncon

Did you know that... "The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this- decide what you want." \ Ben Stein \ Can you really make significant and positive changes in your life? Can you really have the success that you desire? The answer is yes! And the first and most fundame

The use of hypnosis as a viable therapeutic method is becoming more accepted today than ever before. This allows you to use the natural power of your subconscious mind to make positive changes in your life.nnThe most common uses are:nn1. Smoking Cessation nIt is widely known that hypnotherapy for smoking cessation has the highest success rate of all the stop smoking methods. In most cases, smoking cessation can be accomplished in just one session.nn2. Weight Loss nMost people

I have often wondered how mind control works, and if is it at all possible? So the purpose of this article is to explain mind control, while at the same time dispelling any of the myths that surround hypnosis. When we speak of mind control in a hypnotic sense, what we are really talking about is using the power of suggestion to create a positive (or maybe even a negative?) outcome. Understand that when we talk about hypnosis, we are not talking about what you see on televisio

There are many techniques that one masters in hypnosis and can use in order to communicate with his patient. Among these techniques, some are named Covert Hypnosis. These types of techniques allow you to cast a certain “spell” over an individual’s mind without that person understanding or realizing it. But make no mistake! We are not talking about forceful techniques! There are many ways in which you can influence a person in a very non-invasive way. Many politicians, a

Stress is pervasive on our society today, job worries, concern over finances, the rising cost housing, food and higher education, the anniversary of 9/11 and the holidays coming up. People are “stressed out”. They often look for comfort in things like food or drinking and smoking which don’t really help but add t

The ability to learn from your bad shots and release them from your mind is one of the keys to winning golf. You only have to look at the world's greatest ever golfers to see this. I don't ever recall seeing the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Nick Faldo dwelling for any length of time over a bad shot or allow

The essential elements required which serve to position you as a good partner are similar in both business and personal arenas. Empathy is probably one of the most important assets - the ability to put yourself into the other person's shoes. How are they feeling? What are they thinking? r

It’s not all about addiction! In fact some so-called ‘experts’ claim that nicotine isn’t really addictive and that it’s more about the habits and rituals around smoking that keeps us doing it. I believe these habits and rituals are an important factor but to deny that nicotine is addictive seems to fly in the

In sales, you will learn many techniques in order to be successful. However, there is one particular technique that is not only effective, it is also quite intriguing to use. Are you familiar with conversational hypnosis? Do you know how you can take advantage of it in terms of gaining higher sales rate? Otherwise called covert hypnosis, conversational hypnosis is applied while you communicate with a potential customer. While it is being used by many professions and for a var

Down the winding stairs, Rebecca stepped carefully. In the darkness, she was afraid she might fall and tumble down the steps into the eerie tomb below. Reaching the bottom, she noticed the old woman sitting at the table in the corner, a small lamp providing a light so dim, it did not even cast a shadow. The haggard wom

Gerry was sixty-eight and Sonia was sixty-one and they came for sex-therapy because Gerry was having trouble with sustaining an erection. He felt mortified because he was a high performer in his life and was not used to failing. Sonia had two marriages previously where she had been a victim of violence. She had never l

Some people have prickly personalities and you need to know how to deal with them so as to avoid getting unnecessarily upset. It may seem to be a difficult task, but in reality it is something that you can do without too much effort. It is a matter of altering your perspective. Not every person is easy to deal with. Fa

Many times in life you can get stuck in a way of thinking that is no longer serving your purpose or your goals. You no longer receive any positive benefits from your efforts, yet you continue to utilize these same tired methods to achieve your goals and create the kind of life you seek. At one point in your life, those

Most guys would love to have the "gift of the gab" when it comes to approaching girls with the intention of dating. You'd love to be able to deliver all of those funny and effective pick-up lines in a smooth and cool manner. But the reality is that very few guys manage to do this naturally. Your greatest fear is of mes

One day I was quoting David Carradine on my Facebook – “If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” Some people were puzzled and asked, “What does it mean?” Likewise, in my ever first Video Blog, I said something like, “You are not a person with wisdom. You are the wisdom.” It seems to be puzzling for some peo

Is it really possible for you to lose weight with hypnotherapy? Well a lot of people have tried it and they say that it has worked wonders for their weight loss efforts. If you are getting sick and tired of dieting and you still have nothing to show for it, then hypnotherapy for weight loss is most probably your best solution. Most overweight people try to deal with their extra pounds by dieting, and if you are one of them then you have firsthand knowledge on just how difficu

Sometimes we find ourselves low in motivation. The causes can be varied from having to do a simple task that we find boring to embarking on a new stage in our lives that we find challenging. Whatever the task, big or small, we need to get on with it! The task will be done quicker, better and with more enjoyment if we c

As you may or may not know, the Mayan calendar ended on December 21, 2012. Many thought that date marked the end of the world. Others interpreted this as the end of an age of consciousness and a shifting to a new one. In my opinion, there is a shift upon us, it’s a shift in consciousness and it started somewhere in

In the fourth article in this series, I asked the question: “What’s holding me back?” In that article, I enumerated a number of influences that are holding our vibration down, preventing us from expanding our consciousness and from developing our spirit¬uality. In the fifth article, I elaborated on the role of t

If you ask the Success Gurus, e.g. Tony Robbins, Brian Tracey, Ken Blanchard, etc. most will state that goal setting is the number one success tool. If not number one, then close to it. Back in the 1950s, Peter Drucker introduced Management by Objectives and through the 60s and 70s George Odiorne and others did much to

Hypnotherapy is commonly known to be an effective aid to help people permanently quit smoking. This article will give you a bit of background as to what hypnosis is, and show you how it works to help people quit smoking. \ The therapeutic use of hypnosis is known as hypnotherapy. It actually has little in common w

Are you worried that your bout with wintertime sadness is lasting longer, or is more intense than you have previously experienced? How can you tell whether this is just a short-term issue, or whether you may be facing an actual problem with Seasonal Affective Disorder(SAD)? Should you get counseling? Find out about the

There were some amazing golf and putting psychology lessons on show with Phil Mickelson's stunning win at the Tour Championship at East Lake the other week. Yes I know Tiger won the FedEx Cup and the $10 million with an amazingly consistent series of results. But given Phil's year, both on and especially off the course

Choosing positive thinking quotes, positive sayings and other encouragement quotes can be fun when you know a few simple tricks to making them fit for you. This article gives you three tips for choosing which positive quotes are good quotes that find happiness inside and are the best ones for you. r