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Relief For Phobias By Phone

You've Had Enough Pain and Suffering You're tired of being afraid, and you're ready to change. Phobias limit your life at every turn, and you're all done feeling limited. You need a plan to make the change. Read on, my friend, and let me help you. n Phobias Equal Fear It may surprise you to ...

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Whether Work Or Play Put Everything Into It

One 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 this focused. It's all too easy to

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Control Pain with Hypnosis

The mind and body are connected. When your body experiences pain this signal is sent to the brain; which is how you feel it. When you are already overwhelmed with stress this can cause the pain signal to increase; meaning you will be in more pain. There are many ways to treat pain and the stress that might be part of t

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Curing Needle Phobia

Some 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 different situation. You

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Getting Back to Better Health:

Think your immune system's not tough enough? Try tai chi. \ When it comes to health, the slow, graceful movements of this low-impact exercise are deceptively powerful. The latest benefit: improved resistance to viruses, such as the one that causes painful shingles. \ Looking for fun ways to stay well? Spend more

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Should You Have a One Night Stand?

A client recently had the scare of her life when her husband of 22 years admitted to a 10 month affair with a colleague. He was fed up with "always being the initiator" and had decided to seek out an equal partner. The wife was anguished. She admitted she was warned by her parents "good girls never let on they want sex

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Do You Know What You Are Looking For?

How 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 thank you for all the good thi

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How Learning Hypnosis Can Help Improve Your Own Subconscious Mind

Learning hypnosis is like learning how to play on someone else's mind. It may not sound nice, but technically that's the way it goes. Professionally, therapist must use hypnosis to provide treatment for their patients. Their professional conducts do not allow them to go beyond what is right and appropriate. In some cases though, there are individuals who use hypnosis for their own good at the expense of other people. That is not the way to go. If you are not a professional th

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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 permanently life changing way. In the same way as a ...

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Coping With Depression In Someone You Care For

When you have a friend or spouse who is suffering from depression you inevitably feel more than a little helpless. You want to do something that will point them in the right direction but how do you do that and what do you do? You can't decide whether to try to push them to "make more of an effort" or nurse them or a

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The Real Reason Smokers Don't Quit

It’s a fact that we will all pass from this world. We don’t know how or when. We take so many precautions. We don’t run into a busy road run across the train track when a train is coming. Yet in so many areas of life we take risks that are just as terminal. Take smoking for instance. It has been shown that smoker

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The Dangers Of Trying To Perform Covert Hypnosis

There are many articles, videos, mp3s and courses available on this site to help you understand and learn hypnosis. The techniques available are very powerful, and as they say "with much power comes much responsibility" and that of course is very true. So are there any real dangers using hypnotic techniques on other people covertly, or even on yourself? Hypnosis can be learned by anyone to a certain degree, and therefore using the power of suggestion and delving into the subc

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Can We Talk???

A long time before I decided to enter the field of psychology I spent my week-ends delivering speeches and debating both sides of the national debate topic at speech tournaments. In high school I was a "Ruby" member of the NFL--no, not the National Football League, but rather, the National Forensic League--an organizat

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How to Stop Entering Relationships Which Hurt

Do 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 spend your waking hours acting

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By Jake Rhodes
Guide To Self Hypnosis

Hypnosis and especially self hypnosis appear to be growing in reputation because of their high success rates and the accessibility of information on the internet. However it can be tough to know how to start. Here you can learn self hypnosis in nine easy steps. Just like the name suggests self hypnosis is a type of hypnosis where the person hypnotizes their self. By now most individuals are aware of the many positive benefits that hypnosis offers and self hypnosis offers all

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Writing Your Own Meaningful Marriage Vows

When 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 on. r

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Think Your Way To Good Health

The concept that thinking in a healthy manner will assist a person to have a healthier physiology is not a new one. Far from it; it is at the heart of ancient traditions. Our bodies mirror the sum total of our thoughts and experiences as well as our genetic inheritance. I was reminded of this fact the other day when

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Weight Loss Through Creative Expression

In our last article about the emotional eating habits that keep us overweight we discussed the subconscious programming that causes us to stuff our feelings with food. In this article, we will explore another common pattern among overweight people: the use of food to substitute for creative expression. Abraham Maslow,

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Golf Is A Game of Opposites

In golf you often find that the ball travels in an opposite way from that which you intended. It is therefore important to appreciate how to apply the clubface in a way with is congruent with your intent. When you focus your mind clearly with the help of golf hypnosis you will find that the game of golf becomes one of

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The Skydive from Hell

Copyright 2004 james@hypnosis.demon.co.uk The Skydive from Hell - or in other words; "Sh*t happens!" Heck it seemed like it was going to be just another ordinary skydive. With 560+ skydives and over 5 1/2 hours freefall time under my belt, I wasn't concerned as I strapped on my gear. I did remember thinking as I was cl

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Why Hypnosis Smoking Cessation Programs Don't Work

Many people have tried to quit smoking through several means. In most cases, many of them find it difficult to break from the habit despite their efforts in trying to quit. Hypnosis Smoking Cessation programs have been always used by hypnotherapists in helping smokers to stop the habit. Most of the time smokers who go through the programs end up falling back to their vomiting weeks after the programs are over. In actual sense, most hypnosis programs designed to help people qu

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Hypnosis – Controlling a Person’s Mind or a Sham?

People that have had hypnosis as a form of mind control will enthusiastically inform you that it is indeed quite effective. Then you have the group that has not had the best experience with hypnotism and will tell you that there is nothing to it and it is completely a sham. To be able to have hypnosis work effectively you have to keep an open mind. You need to be able to open your mind and allow yourself to take on someone else’s perception and take it on as your own though

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The Fallen Angel

It is Tania’s fifth hypnotherapy session. Approaching the end of the session, while I, being in a trance myself, spontaneously speak some words as part of the contextualization: r

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How To Make Your Job Worth Getting Up For

What 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 words he "likes his toys and ho

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Forward Thinking

Are your thoughts and imagination sabotaging or supporting your desires? How often do you imagine mediocre or bad outcomes? How often do you imagine positive results? We aren’t necessarily what we think, but it doesn’t hurt to keep your eye on the ball rather than on the space around ...

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Natural Fertility Enhancement

Natural Fertility Promotion There are any ways of enhancing fertility in time–tested ways, some of them centuries or millennia old. 1.) Nourish and tonify the entire body by eating high quality vegetables, greens and herbs . Eat organic food when possible. Eat red beets which tonify the uterus. r

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POLITICS and PARENTING

In March of this year, we marked the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. While we should celebrate the significant progress in the last 100 years, we must remember that in too many societies, women are second class citizens, denied their fundamental rights. Both houses of congress approved the Equal Rights

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7 Reasons Why Diets Don't Work

Dieting is based on a false premise. This is that body weight is a result of the calories you eat and the calories you expend. If you consume more than you use you become fatter. If you consume less than you use, then you utilise your excess fat to make up the shortfall.n This is a mistaken ...

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Reiki: Get out of the way!

In this short article I want to talk about the best way to approach working on other people, whether giving treatments or carrying out distant healing. I want to talk about our state of mind and our intent when channelling the energy.n The first thing I want to say is that we are just a channel ...

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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Weight Loss

When you make the decision to lose weight, you probably think about cutting calories, reducing fat or carbohydrates and increasing your daily exercise. While these are all excellent strategies for getting rid of those excess pounds and many doctors recommend them, we continue to be a country plagued by obesity and the

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How Do You Build Sexual Confidence?

Sexual confidence is a personal thing. It's not something that you want to talk about to anyone and everyone. It's important to many to find a private way in which to build sexual confidence. Hypnosis downloads could be the best answer. Some lads talk about sex a lot. But does this mean that they have sexual confidence

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Scoring Own Goals…

Isn’t it great to be alive? This week I think it is time to shine a light on into a few dark corners and, just for a change, speak my mind! I respectfully offer you a way to INSTANT SUCCESS in whatever it is you choose to do. Over the last 20 years a series of goal-centred industries have arisen. Between Life or Busi

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Guided Imagery

Created From an article in Vision Magazine by Jesse Wolfe Hardinn The Burden Basket is a metaphor for the psychological and emotional load we inevitably carry…for what we commit to, or hold ourselves responsible for, for what we accumulate in our lives, from belongings to beliefs. It is vital ...

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Dealing with Stress

Unhealthy levels of stress have become an unfortunate part of the modern life most people are living today. A desire to alleviate this stress has led many people to pursue ways to deal with it that are unhealthy. The reader, who is suffering from the effects of stress, may think that many of the successful people aroun

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Do You Believe In You?

Self-belief is probably the most important determining factor in your success or failure in just about everything in life. If you do not believe in you then how can you expect to achieve any sort of positive outcome? r

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Personality Is Not Impossible To Change

Your 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 uncomfortable or inept. If yo

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