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The Myths and Truths about Positive Thinking

Why we are failing to develop a positive attitude and the key to happiness still eludes us.r We keep hearing about the importance of the power of positive thinking. All motivational gurus tell us that being positive is an essential to our success and finding happiness. It is necessary for our daily stress management. T

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Why Diet and Exercise Alone Won't Work!

Why did you create TruSage and how does it work? Dr. A: I created TruSage because almost everyone knows what they should do but they have not been able to make themselves do what they know they should – specifically as it relates to losing weight and keeping it off. When it comes to losing weight and other goals, i

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Angels with Dirty Faces

Isn’t it great to be alive? I have just come back from Coventry, where I was born and raised. I went because it was my uncle Josey’s 70th birthday. He left County Mayo fifty years ago but, fair play to him, you’d never know that to listen to him. His accent remains the same, and the simple country philosophy and

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10 Tips to help You Stop Smoking

Smoking is considered both a habit and an addiction. The good news is that if you can go for three days without a cigarette you have beaten the addiction to nicotine. The nicotine takes approximately seventy two hours to leave your body no matter how long you have been smoking or how many cigarettes per day you usually

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The Smart Ass

Isn’t it great to be alive? Life is all about choices. Some are easy. Some are difficult. Often we have no choice in the amount of crap life will throw at us. How we react to, and deal with it, though is definitely our choice. It is not a question of whether we will all face challenges… it’s a matter of when. So

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What Hypnosis is and What it is Not

There are still many unfounded myths about hypnosis which need to be dispelled so that more and more people can take advantage of this powerful and safe way of healing body, mind and spirit. The following points should help all those who approach hypnotherapy for the first time to understand its real nature and appreci

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Hypnosis for Depression

DIAGNOSIS KILLS Hypnosis has been around for as long as consciousness itself, much longer than depression, which is relatively new on the scene. If we are stuck in a mood it is as if we have been hypnotized. When we absorb information, whatever it might be, it is because we have taken it in through a process that is ef

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The Inner Mate: Key to Loving Relationships

Perhaps you are single and looking for a love relationship. You might be married and looking for a way to make your relationship work more smoothly for you. Or you might be enduring the heartache of a painful separation. If any of these situations sounds like yours, your Inner Mate could provide the love, security and

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Does Hypnosis Work For Alcoholism?

Hypnotherapy or hypnosis may or may not be an effective treatment for people with drug or alcohol problems. The main success factors are one, the extent to which the patient is receivable for hypnosis and two, to what degree the patient is willing to do what it takes to quit alcohol. So, it is impossible to generalize an issue like this. The success of hypnosis, without doubt varies from person to person. nnCan Hypnosis Treat Alcoholism Successfully?nnTo be honest, there hasn

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Highly Contagious Skin Parasites

There are several highly contagious skin parasites and once you are unfortunate enough to catch them, even your doctor won't know what to do. \ You can catch these skin parasites by trying on clothing, sitting in a chair, or as one person claims from sitting across from an infected person. ...

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Boosting Your immune System By Using Your Mind

When 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 can spread right across the

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Conversational Hypnosis: How To Hypnotize Women.

There's no point being shy about this is there? There are plenty of red blooded men, and some women to, who would love to be able to hypnotize women. However it should be said that hypnosis is not gender specific. These techniques would work just as well for women who want to seduce men or gay men. However, for our pur

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Smoking Questionnaire

Therapeutic Questions For Quitting Smoking \ If you wish to give up smoking then this questionnaire can help. If you answer these questions honestly, they can reveal your subconscious drives to smoke – some of which you may not have realised! They can help you understand why you smoke, which can greatly enha

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Top 10 Benefits of a Positive Attitude

What are the benefits of a positive attitude? When you develop a positive attitude, you have a certain power in your life - the power to find happiness. Although it can take some time to eliminate negative thinking and to develop a positive attitude, you'll find that there are many benefits to having a positive attitud

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Mesmerize People With The Power of Your Hypnotic Eyes

Some people are naturally blessed with hypnotic eyes. Women are praised in songs and poems because of the way they can make men swoon over their beauty by simply looking them in the eyes. However, when it comes to mesmerizing a person with the use of hypnotic eyes, there is a different form of power being used, and it is not the power of beauty but rather the power of hypnosis. Hypnosis is the process of putting someone into a mental trance. Once an individual is hypnotized,

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Borderline Personality Disorder and Hypnotherapy

Borderline Personality Disorder is a mental illness that affects a person’s behaviour. BPD is considered by medical practitioners to be a severe psychiatric disorder. It is recognised as such by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV).nnThe term “Borderline” was first coined by Adolph Stern in 1938. This name was used to describe patients who were on a ‘borderline’ between neurosis and psychosis. However, the symptoms o

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By Brian Lagoni
How To Learn Hypnosis Online: Step By Step Guide

You can only learn so much from reading and watching others. At some point you will have to get your feet wet, so why not jump in at the deep end. This guide will not teach you to become the worlds greatest hypnotist all at once, but it will give you a simple 4 step process that will leave you as a novice hypnotist if you follow the instructions and perform them IRL. If you boil pretty much any hypnotic induction down, it will consist of these 4 steps: 1. Induce trance.rn2. D

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Improve Your Eyesight The Natural Way

Many people's eyes begin deteriorating in later life. It seems that very little is done to help prevent this. Excuse my cynicism, but the opticians do absolutely nothing to help this. They merely keep testing peoples visions until they have deteriorated to a point where they deem they need glasses or contact lenses. Th

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The Medical Benefits of Hypnosis

Many people recognize the potential benefits of using hypnosis for stress management. Some even know or have used hypnosis to stop smoking, eliminate phobias or lose weight. However, few understand or have benefited from its uses in the medical arena. \ A current review of The National Library ...

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Pendulum Dowsing - Easy To Learn Techniques

Pendulum Dowsing is a very fun and simple way to begin to measure energy fields. Since we all live in a world that is comprised of energy, and since we all have energy in and around our physical bodies, the ability to recognize and measure energy can be valuable and useful. In order to begin to ...Pendulum Dowsing is a

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By Steven Qaresma
Feminizing Yourself Through Feminized Hypnosis

Feminization is a process to habituate oneself to adapt feminine characteristics. It is a conscious effort to transform a male to a female by installing feminine traits, mannerisms and qualities. It is an expression of personal satisfaction. One example of this is cross-dressing where men wear women's clothing and accessories to look and act like a female. In today's world of few inhibitions, this is becoming popular among transsexuals, transvestites and transgendered. They d

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Hypnosis For Finding Lost Items

Among many uses of hypnosis, one is for finding lost items. Whether its been recently lost or it has been missing for years, you may have consciously forgotten where the item is, but your subconscious remembers. Please note that if what has been lost fell out of your pocket, then neither the ...

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How To Write An Effective Hypnosis Script.

So You Want To Write Your Own Hypnosis Script... As hypnosis continues to gain popularity today, a lot of information about this act of heightened suggestibility can be found online. Central to a successful hypnosis session, however, is a strong hypnosis script. When a subject goes through a hypnotic state, it is up to

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3 Reasons Why Self Hypnosis Will Do You More Harm Than Good

Self hypnosis is the practicing of hypnosis on your own by yourself. Hypnosis itself is a mental state where a subject’s subconscious mind is dissociated from the conscious mind in an effort to reprogramme or heal a certain mental condition. During this state of mind, the patient or subject is under the instructions or suggestions from the operator or the person inducing the hypnosis. By hypnotizing your mind, you open doors into your deepest thoughts or points in your brai

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How to Win the Lottery

“I never won anything until I changed my mind about winning” \ Some time ago at a party, I met a guy, Alberto, who developed a habit of winning the lottery jackpots. First he won $816,000, then about six months later he won $2.2 million, then a year later he won another $6.1 million - all playing ...

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What Does It Feel Like to Be Hypnotized?

A great many people see stage shows or movies and come to the conclusion that being hypnotized must include some profound and dramatic sensations. Perhaps they have seen a hypnosis stage show participant become so physically rigid that the hypnotist can put them between two chairs and stand on them with no apparent effort of discomfort to the participant. It certainly seems like it would have to include some very strange feelings. But, as with many things in life, appearance

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How I Healed from Psoriasis (Part 1)

I suffered from psoriasis from the age of 12. For nearly 12 years I tried all the medicines doctors gave me (including having my mother putting very sticky creams on my head in the evening, sleeping with a towel around my head and washing my hair before going to school). It was tough. It didn’t help, but in fact the

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Chakra Healing With Sound

The meaning of the word Chakra in Sanskrit is \"spinning wheel of energy\". The chakras are energy centers within our bodies. Receiving and transmiting energy, each chakra is located within the physical body, at a major endocrine gland, and nerve bundle called a plexus. Each chakra is connected and associated with a di

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Become A Dominant Alpha Male With Hypnosis

Imagine having the instinctual tendency to artfully seduce women purely with a disarming alpha male attitude. It doesn’t take heaps of imagination for something that happens somewhere at this instant. Ladies are being subtly approached, charmed and seduced by men they met yesterday. nnnnThere’s nothing wrong being unbridled. In fact it’s a socially appraisable trait for a man. New relationships are born every single day because yet another lady got mesmerized by the hyp

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How to Use Hidden Hypnotic Commands in Normal Conversation

In one of Edgar Alan Poe's short stories, a stolen letter was hidden out in the open on the desk of one of the characters. Because it was in an envelope from another writer, the searchers looked at it, but never thought to check inside the envelope. In a similar way, it is possible to hide hypnotic commands and suggestions inside of normal conversation. These commands go unnoticed by the conscious minds of a listener, but they are understood and acted upon as hypnotic command

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Conversational Hypnosis: Hypnotize Girls.

If you are a real man that would like to seduce beautiful girls the idea of being able to add hypnosis to your technique probably sounds like a great idea. As many of you reading this will know conversational hypnosis enables you to use language to hypnotize girls as part of your seduction technique. Before anyone accu

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The Underlying Dangers Of Subliminal Hypnosis

Subliminal hypnosis is a method of inducing someone to respond to questions and suggestions through the use of a subliminal image. The hypnotist can use the process to prompt the individual involved to do things he or she was unable to do before in real life. In the field of hypnotherapy, the idea of using subliminal images to hypnotize is very rare. It’s usually different from the common hypnosis being performed by experts. In normal traditional hypnosis, the hypnotist doe

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What You Resist Persists

“What you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.” Carl Gustav Jung \ Society has taught us that to get rid of whatever it is we do not want, we must fight it and resist it. We must never show weakness and we must never lose our focus on that thing we want to get rid of. \ This thought and belief

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Acrophobia And Hypnosis As A Cure

The fear of heights, also known as acrophobia, is a common phobia experienced by men and women of all ages. In fact, researchers suggest that to some extent, being afraid of heights is natural for most humans and animals. What turns an instinctive fear of heights into a phobia is that the fear is so severe that it is d

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Become Lucky

Luck is a state of mind. People who are lucky, people who think of themselves as lucky tend to think and behave in different ways than those who think of themselves as unlucky. \ Our thinking and acting may cause us to experience serendipitous events in some areas of our lives and to experience ...

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By Emma Martin
The Handshake Induction - Mastering The Art Of Rapid Hypnosis

If you are familiar at all with the ideas of hypnosis, you have probably heard of the handshake induction. It is a rapid hypnotic induction technique first developed by master hypnotist Milton Erickson and it is also the favored technique of stage illusionists such as Derren Brown due to how impressively showy it is in front of an audience. Also called the handshake interrupt, the handshake induction depends in large part on the automatic mirroring that people do towards each

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Holistic and informative site for help with anxiety, behavior modification, depression, dieting, goal setting, empowerment, happiness, positive thinking, self-esteem, relaxation and much more using hypnotherapy and related modalities. Articles, news and free sample session.

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