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Official Guide for Hypnosis

Dr. Richard Bandler

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7 Popular Uses of Hypnosis

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

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Hypnosis And The Mind Control Game

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

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Covert Hypnosis – 3 Basic Techniques

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

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9 Steps to a More Relaxed Life

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

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How to Be a Good Partner

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

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How to Sell More by Using Conversational Hypnosis

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

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Down the Winding Stairs

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

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Tips For Dealing With Difficult People

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

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Are you stuck?

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

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Flirting Tips for The Modern Day Man

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

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Be the poem

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

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By Neil Harris
Hypnotherapy for weight loss - Can you really lose weight?

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

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Using NLP & Hypnotherapy to Increase Motivation

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

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7. The Shift of 2012

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

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6. The Six Third Density World Systems

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

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Goals

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

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How Can Hypnotherapy Help People Quit Smoking?

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

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10 Essential Keys to Emotional Well-Being: Part 2

Emotional well-being is not so mysterious when you can break it down to smaller steps. You can adopt a few new habits and questions some of your old ones to find all the answers you need for more balance and joy. Here are a few pointers, and you can find the first five in Part 1. Essential Key #6 Be grateful. Nothing

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Being Obsessive Can Be A Very Good Thing Indeed

Obsessions can be extremely good so long as the object of focus is of a positive nature. It is only when obsessions are negatively focused that they cause real problems. Obsessive tendencies can usually be seen in the most successful of people. Arguably it is their obsessive nature that propels them with such determi

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Turn your life around with convincers

Nothing is as convincing as your own personal experience. That's why before a hypnotist begins working on any change, he performs suggestibility tests, and may even elicit few hypnotic phenomena during the session, which act as convincers. You will never get as convinced that something is ...

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By Dr. Joe Vitale
Hypnotic Selling—or, Where's the Magic?

I love magic. I know many magicians and often attend magic conventions and shows. I haunt the dealer room, where magic tricks are sold. I'm looking for the tricks that make people gasp in surprise and delight. Unfortunately, most magic is on the level of a prank or kid's joke. That's not for me, so most magic that I see disappoints me.rnBut one day I met a magic dealer at a convention who was very friendly. He took his time with me, listened to my needs, and then responded wi

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Losing Weight with Hypnosis

Slimming down with hypnosis sounds so simple. You relax; the hypnotist speaks; and the excess pounds simply melt away, right? The truth is, natural weight loss was, is, and always will be a matter of calories in versus calories out. More calories must be burned than consumed. With or without hypnosis, in order to lose

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By Ian Richard Taylor
Getting Hypnotized to Stop Smoking - A Thoughtful Overview

Breaking out of an addictive habit is never easy. It is why people struggle so hard to lose weight, be more punctual at meetings or quit smoking. Although having the will power to say ‘no’ is crucial, it is not always enough. Most times, in order to break out of a habit, people will need the willpower to try and stop as well as a little extra push to strengthen their resolve. That’s where hypnosis comes in. In the case of smoking, studies have revealed that a large perc

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Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Fortune

Did you know... The Universe desires you to have everything you want to have. Nature is friendly to your plans. Everything is naturally for you. Make up your mind that this is true. ~Wallace Wattles and there's the trick.... making up your mind that this is true! Changing Your Beliefs fo

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Help To Boost Your Immune System

We are constantly bombarded with information about vitamins, supplements and complementary health ideas. Whether we act upon that information or not is a matter of individual choice. Some people are more health conscious than others. We have our own individual attitudes on the subject and prioritize complementary healt

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Overcome Alcohol Dependency

When you reach a point in your life that you realize that alcohol is creating problems, then you know that a change is required. Some people drink far more than the doctor recommends but are completely happy with the effect upon their life and their health, and that's fine; you are the person living you life and you ar

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Why We Should Put Others First

During the last two or three decades there has been a huge movement which encourages everyone to put themselves first. You hear many a person encourage another to look after number one or else nobody else will do so; or perhaps you will hear said that you have to look after yourself or you won't be able to look after a

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By Brian Snitgaard
Is It Possible To Learn Hypnosis Online?

There are a lot of sites making claims that they will teach you hypnosis right here on the spot. I Know because I run one of them. But can you really learn anything online, that doesn't involve online skills. You can read about blogging and become a reasonable blogger, while sitting in front of you computer. But can you also read about plumbing on the internet, and become a reasonable plumber. Think about it... Even if you read everything ever printed about plumbing would you

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Is Your Life Abundant Enough

Abundance The dictionary defines abundance in two ways, as affluence; a lifestyle with more then adequate material possessions, and as a fullness of spirit that overflows. When I speak of abundance most people think of an affluent lifestyle but I am actually referring to both meanings. I ...

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Are You Consumed By Social Envy?

Envy can be likened to a tape worm gnawing away uncomfortably at your inner emotions; and like this parasite which takes up residence in whatever host it can wriggle itself into, envy can feel like an alien being living within your mind and body. A tapeworm lives within the intestines and envy too has the ability to cr

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Better Golf is Unconscious Golf

Now I'm really looking forward to some unconscious golf at Doral over the weekend, but I’m not sure what sort of spectacle it’s going to be with players like Mike Weir allegedly “going unconscious” on the advice of Bob Rotella - doesn’t sound like a lot of action there.n I talk a lot in my golf ...

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Dreams Have No Boundaries

Have you watched the movie about Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? It is an interesting movie and, like most people who push past known boundaries, she was a very intriguing person. She followed her dreams, and certainly her belief was that there are no boundaries to one's dreams.

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