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, […]
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It’s often said that some fears are ‘hard-wired’ and some we learn. For example most babies do not automatically fear public speaking (a fear which has to wait to be learnt later!) but they may have innate hard wired fears of, say, spiders and snakes and heights. This article: More evidence that fear of snakes […]
This brief article caught my eye/nose: Perceptions: Another Name Smells Sweeter It seems we not only rate smells with nice names as more pleasant (than the same smell with an unpleasant name) but our brains actually process the experience of those smells differently.
So language which molds association and expectation can actually determine how we […]
Hypnotherapy students have their first client sessions
Published by April 30th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 0 CommentsIt was great to see our hypnotherapy students this last Sunday work with one another on their first supervised client sessions.
Although on this initial session they were working with one another they were still working with real issues and it’s a great rehearsal for when they start working with ‘real-Joe public’ clients in June. […]
People who report being the happiest in life tend to be the very same people who report being the most miserable at other times: (see Staying Sane: How to Make Your Mind Work for You by Raj Persaud.) True happiness would consist of contentment and meeting ones basic emotional needs which includes a need to […]
Social Form Of Bullying Linked To Depression, Anxiety In Adults
Published by April 28th, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 0 CommentsWe know that learned helplessness can be a major factor in the development and maintenance of clinical depression Feeling helpless in one situation can produce feelings of helplessness in another (even if in fact you no longer are, in reality, helpless.
This could explain the research in this article cited leading to the conclusion […]
I was saddened to see on the UK news of a vulnerable man of twenty two with a mental age of eighteen months who has been murdered by two (it seems) strangers.
Idealists’ state that there ‘is good in everyone’ but psychologists think there is ‘potential good in the vast majority’ but that about 2% […]
The things we expect will bring us lasting joy rarely do
Published by April 22nd, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 0 CommentsPeople spend lifetimes fantasizing about winning fortunes or having amazing positive events happen to them with a feeling that once these happy events come to them they will be sorted forever and ‘happy from here on in.’
Research consistently shows that experiencing super one off triumphs isn’t what really produces and maintains stable happiness. Happy Hour
I’ve […]
The solution focused approach we teach on the uncommon knowledge hypnotherapy diploma teaches hypnotherapy students to help people who are negatively ruminating about past events (or properly traumatized by them) to feel differently about the past so it stops intruding on the present and determining the future.
Uncommon therapists also teach people to look forward […]
Say sorry to save your relationship
Published by April 21st, 2008 in hypnotherapy-training. 0 CommentsSome people never seem to stop apologizing (sorry but you know who you are). But being able to apologize means you are more likely to enjoy easier and longer lasting relationships.
A survey conducted in San Francisco found that people who stay happily married are twice as likely to be able and willing to apologize to […]
