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How To Avoid Accomplishing the Wrong Goals
Have you ever worked really hard to accomplish a goal and when you did accomplish it you felt a big let down? This kind of disillusionment is very common. Ambitious and dynamic people can have a string of successes, each … Continue reading
Posted in Addictions & Compulsions, Buddhism & Psychotherapy, compassion, Depression & Anxiety, Emotions: Becoming Skillful, exploring consciousness, Hypnosis for Health, learning, Overcoming Fear, Parenting, self esteem, transpersonal hypnotherapy, Uncategorized, Veterans, War and Peace, Zen Buddhism
Tagged anxiety, authenticity, beliefs, blame, compassion, confidence, courage, emotions, Finding True Magic, gratitude, guilt, imagination, inquiry, Jack Elias, meditation, mindfulness, self esteem, stress
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The Art & Skill of Therapeutic Inquiry
My Buddhist teachers taught me the most about how to relate to questions and the art of inquiry. Once when asked “What is Zen?” my teacher Shunryu Suzuki Roshi answered, “Whatever you say, that is Zen. Whatever you say, that is … Continue reading
Posted in Buddhism & Psychotherapy, compassion, Emotions: Becoming Skillful, exploring consciousness, Overcoming Fear, Pain Relief, Parenting, transpersonal hypnotherapy, Uncategorized, War and Peace
Tagged American Buddhism, answers, artfulness, beliefs, better questions, Buddhism, Buddhist hypnotherapy, compassion, confidence, courage, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, emotions, fear, Finding True Magic, inquiry, Jack Elias, meditation, questions, religion, skillfulness, stress
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What You Think You See is What You Get
One of my favorite quotes from myself (eye roll!) is, “We think we live in the world, but we live in our minds.” Another (double eye roll!) is, “Once you realize your innocence, you can accomplish anything.” I am surprised … Continue reading
Posted in Hypnosis for Health, Overcoming Fear, Pain Relief, PTSD, self esteem, transpersonal hypnotherapy, Uncategorized, War and Peace
Tagged anxiety, confidence, distance learning, Finding True Magic, healing PTSD, hypnosis, hypnosis training, hypnotherapy, hypnotherapy training, negative self-talk, phobia, PTSD combat, transpersonal hypnotherapy, trauma
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Inception – Hollywood Hypnosis Gets Better
Inception, the new film about the mysteries, dramas, and possibilities existing in our inner life, relies on many hypnotic principles to develop its story. Inception explores the intricacies of implanting an idea in another person so that they think it … Continue reading
Posted in Emotions: Becoming Skillful, Hypnosis for Health, self esteem, Uncategorized, War and Peace
Tagged box office, critical faculty, drama, emotionally vivid, emotions, film, higher self, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypnotic principles, implanting ideas, inception, Jack Elias, mystery, propaganda, psychology, purification, repetition, spin doctors, suggestion
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Guest Blog: 10 Tips For Understanding Someone With PTSD
I am happy to present this insightful article by Michele Rosenthal, founder of HealMyPTSD. Michele is a trauma/PTSD survivor who now does healing coaching for people suffering from PTSD. We are trading blog posts. Look for my entry, Insights and … Continue reading
Posted in Addictions & Compulsions, compassion, Depression & Anxiety, Emotions: Becoming Skillful, Overcoming Fear, Pain Relief, PTSD, self esteem, transpersonal hypnotherapy, Uncategorized, War and Peace
Tagged anxiety, compassion, divided focus, empathy, fear, guilt, healing PTSD, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, negative self-talk, no logic, patience, PTSD combat, self esteem, stress, survival mode, trauma
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The Past may have been a Drag, but the Future is Wide Open!
My clients often look at me with a sense of despair and express the belief that their past is determining their future. Well, according to George, if you’re not learning from your past experience, you’re right!
But what is really going on? What is the most important thing to learn from our past experience, and what should be discarded? Surely we need to retain all manner of common sense things about the world, like, ” look both ways before you cross the street.” Continue reading
Posted in compassion, Overcoming Fear, self esteem, transpersonal hypnotherapy, War and Peace
Tagged beliefs, blame, civil discourse, common good, common sense, corporate greed, despair, Enron, guilt, history, hostility, mistakes, party politics, politics, remorse, repeat, Roman Empire, Santayana, self esteem, self respect, self worth, Third Reich
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Change Your Perspective and Change Your Experience
What can we do when we feel stuck? I am amazed at how easy it is for me to forget that my mind is creating my “stuckness” not the world. My mind is very good at pointing the finger at … Continue reading