You Don’t Have to Relive Your Past to Change Your Relationship With It One of the questions I sometimes ask someone sitting across from me sounds a little strange at first. “When did this response make sense?” Not: What’s wrong with you? Why aren’t you over this? Why are you still letting this bother you? Why can’t you just move on? When did this response make sense? Because sometimes the thing causing problems in your life today started as a perfectly understandable response to something that happened yesterday. Maybe yesterday was last year. Maybe it was twenty years ago. Maybe…
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Understanding Your Internal Alarm System A smoke detector has one job. Detect smoke. That’s it. It doesn’t know whether your house is on fire or you left the toast in the toaster thirty seconds too long. It detects something that might indicate danger and sounds the alarm. Loudly. Which is exactly what you want when there’s a fire. It’s considerably less helpful when you’re standing underneath it waving a dish towel because breakfast got a little crispy. But here’s the interesting part. The smoke detector isn’t necessarily broken. It’s trying to protect you. It’s just responding to something that isn’t…
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Understanding the Automatic Patterns That Keep Us Stuck “I know better.” I have heard some version of those three words more times than I could possibly count. I know I shouldn’t worry about this. I know I need to say no. I know I don’t need everybody’s approval. I know this person isn’t the person who hurt me. I know cigarettes are bad for me. I know I’m safe. Usually, the person saying those words isn’t confused about what they should do. That’s what makes the problem so frustrating. They already understand it. They’ve thought about it. They’ve probably talked…
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Hypnosis and the power of the unconscious mind is a subject that evokes a million responses from a million different people. Some feel overawed by it, yet others are plainly scared of it; some others seem skeptical about it, and yet others are what we know as believers. Have you ever found yourself wondering what hypnosis is all about? Have you been intrigued by the success stories you have heard, but never thought you could benefit from it? Various people may have various reactions to hypnosis, however, the fact remains that it is fast emerging as a field of science…
Comments closedStop! Don’t Make That New Year Resolution! One Word for 2021 Are you still struggling to make New Year Resolutions only to find you have broken them 3 days later? May I suggest that you do something different this year. Something I believe will make a tremendous difference in your success for 2021. I know what you’re wondering now. What is it? Two words: One Word. For years, I was a habitual resolution maker and breaker. I would make solid, positive resolutions with great intentions (you know, the stuff that paves the road to Hell), only to make it about…
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