On next weekends Uncommon Knowledge hypnotherapy diploma weekend module as well as teaching methods to raise low self esteem we will be looking at the incredible power of the placebo response (and showing an amazing video to our hypnotherapy students) I read today in a paper in a cafe (well it is Friday!) that if [...]
Archive for May, 2008
This article talks about violence and values. The basic idea is that if you value status highly you are more likely to be violent and if you value ‘universalism’ or give and sharing in communities then you are more likely to try to avoid violence. This may be true but I also think that if [...]
According to this piece: Nudging people towards the right decisions which is a review of a book called Nudge; we human types make all kinds of decisions based on irrational premises (now there’s something I can believe). And some of these ‘irrationalities’ can be exploited for the common good-by using the social rule of social [...]
It seems women are (yes I know GENERALLY) more linguistically innovative than men. This interests me as a male WordStar teaching the ‘language of change’ on the Uncommon knowledge hypnotherapy diploma I have often wondered where the trend for using a question intonation at the end of a statement (rather than a proper question) originated. [...]
We’ve all heard the old adage: You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink!’ Well what if the horse had somehow paid you for that drink? Would it be more inclined to take it? We tend to value what we pay for. ‘I’m having this now because I’ve paid for [...]
Our students had their first observed session a couple of weeks ago and Mark and I have had some great feedback about the beneficial changes that they have experinced. The students worked on each other, each in groups of four for the day, looked after by one of our appointed supervisors. Taking it in turns [...]
Chronic and acute pain can be so debilitating. This article looks at the psychological element of pain and suggests Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help ease pain. Our attitudes, fears, and other emotional responses to pain can all greatly affect the way we actually experience it. Hypnosis can be even more powerful. After the summer [...]
Do you remember a time when you were a child playing some made up game? A branch became a horse, a twig a gun; and in the blazing heat of the desert sands (well …local hills) you rode to capture the bad wizard? No? But maybe you have your own story? I started to think [...]
Fearful people seem to feel the guiltiest. And it seems that fear and guilt are connected. People who experience the unpleasant affects of panic attacks and anxiety may be more prone to guilt and shame. In March of 1943 a tragedy struck in the Bethnal Green area of London. 173 men, women and children were [...]
This short article suggests that magic is not just about where your eyes are focused but where you mind is focused that will determine whether you’ll see how a trick is done. When people experience wide awake opened-eye hypnosis they can be looking but not seeing as their attention may very well be inwards seeing, [...]
