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- February 13, 2015
This is part 4 of a four-part series on using hypnotherapy to help you reduce your performance anxiety. Want to read more? Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
In the previous blog posts, we learned that being placed in a situation that requires a high performance (think: a huge presentation to your boss) situation creates stress. Stress creates performance
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- January 08, 2015
Most of us want to achieve the highest possible level of performance at what we do, whether it be in our career, our relationships, our hobbies, or even in our personal development. An imposing impediment to that goal is performance anxiety: “choking up” just when free flowing confidence is most needed. We have discussed some ways of recognizing and
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- November 18, 2014
There has been a great deal of published research into the use of hypnosis with fears and phobias. Occasionally, direct suggestions for relief of anxiety or phobias prove effective. When direct suggestions are ineffective, there are many other hypnotic techniques that may be helpful. Actually, simply the process of induction and deepening generally
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- October 30, 2014
It has been highly researched and is now generally accepted that increased levels of stress greatly compromise our immune systems. Researchers have determined that focused hypnosis and related visualization techniques can actually prevent the weakening of the immune response that often follows periods of acute stress. A new study suggests that hypnosis
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- October 09, 2014
In March of 2007 my son Tommy was invited to a prom in Palm Beach, Florida. We live in Ohio so it meant he would stay with his date’s family. He asked if I could go with him as his date’s parents were long time family friends. My wife suggested I find a continuing education class in hypnosis available during the time I would be there. I got -
- October 01, 2014
Most people experience shock at one time or another in their life. And a great majority of people are in shock, in one form or another, on a daily basis.Shock may begin early in life and then build up as life’s stresses increase, or it may result from a sudden traumatic event.
Stress is a normal part of our lives and, of course, most people feel stress
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- September 24, 2014
In the previous blog we discussed shock and secondary traumatic stress as it relates to first responders. We introduced the concept of shock as a primary physiological symptom of traumatic stress, and how many of us “self-medicate” our chronic stress with food and drink, as well as caffeine, drugs, and other substances and behaviors. Vicarious Resilience
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- September 17, 2014
We have read thousands of articles, studies and theories about the growing obesity problem in our country and many of them have some validity. But the one newly identified physiological cause is shock. Shock is the physiological response to trauma in our lives
More and more Americans are realizing that, yes indeed, we do have trauma and it is time
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- September 11, 2014
Shadow parts of ourselves live in the recesses of our subconscious mind. They are the blind spots that we may catch a glimpse of, and then they disappear in an instant. They return with a vengeance to create behavior that embarrasses us, creates conflict with others, and prevents us from making the healthy choices in life that we say we want. In fact -
- September 04, 2014
People who are affected by shock in their lives often have survived traumas of various types. Many of the traumas we refer to in our case examples in our book Overcoming Shock: Healing the Traumatized Mind and Heart (New Horizon Press, 2014) are early childhood traumas, including parental rejection, sexual or physical abuse, being unwelcome or unaccepted
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