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• On Taking Risks in Life
  
  The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live. Chained by his own fears, he is a slave. He has forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is free."
• Facts About Hypnotism
  
  A study being done by a team of University of Florida researchers is finding that learning self-hypnosis gives a patient greater control over the stress, anxiety and pain of medical operations and childbirth, overall...
• Hypnosis and the Amazing Unconscious Mind
  
  Our unconscious mind is the part of our mind that is silently working all the time, processing and storing thoughts and images outside of our awareness, without our actual knowledge. It’s where the fundamental core of our beliefs, our views, our abilities, even our emotions and behaviours reside. It’s where we store our inner answers, the place we often refer to as “deep down”. When we use that expression, we are basically stating it for what it truly is, a part of our minds that we know is there, but we are unaware of what it is doing or telling us.
• Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind
  
  The model of the Prime Directives gives us some powerful assumptions which structure our use of the tool of the techniques we will learn. The term Prime Directives means that the unconscious mind is "hard wired" (meaning that it comes from the factory this way) and is set-up to provide or to do the following:
• What is Hypnosis - Q & A
  
  Hypnosis is not a state of deep sleep but one of altered consciousness. There is a feeling of well-being, an ability to recall past events and the acceptance of new ideas that are not in conflict with personal values...
• Hypnosis - National Institute of Health
  
  Hypnosis is a state of restful alertness during which a person uses deeply focused concentration. The person can be relatively unaware of, but not completely blind to, her or his surroundings, and may be more open to suggestion. It is considered to be a type of complementary therapy.
• Hypnosis in Medicine
  
  The role of hypnosis in medicine has been evolving over the last 100 years. Currently, the National Institutes of Health in the United States is funding clinical trials of complementary and alternative medicine. Hypnosis in medicine is one of the focuses of this funding effort.
• Hypnosis helps patients cope with pain and anxiety
  
  As more doctors realize the healing power of hypnosis, they are discovering that healing begins from the inside out. A 14-year old boy was terminally ill and in severe pain. A brain tumor was causing blinding headaches and he suffered multiple fractures of his ribs because of the metastases spreading throughout his side. At night, he clutched a stuffed teddy bear to keep from crying out. He could have remained at the hospital and received constant attention, but he wanted to return to his home and family. With a regimen of medicines and just a few training sessions in clinical therapeutic hypnosis, he was able to do that.
• What is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)?
  
  Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a behavioral technology, which simply means that it is a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques about real-life behavior, and not a removed, scientific theorem. It allows you to change, adopt or eliminate behaviors, as you desire, and gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well-being...
• Remembering the Eight Rules of the Mind
  
  It is important to stand back and remind ourselves of some of the basic concepts of our work. In many trainings I have taken over the years, the concept of the "eight rules of the mind" has come up often, and from different sources. No single source seems to have originated all of them, and they have become part of our fundamental knowledge in working with people. I find them very useful in "change work" with clients through hypnosis.
• Hypnosis and Breast Cancer Surgery
  
  Women undergoing surgery for breast cancer who received a brief hypnosis session before entering the operating room required less anesthesia and pain medication during surgery, and reported less pain, nausea, fatigue, and discomfort after surgery than women who did not receive hypnosis. The overall cost of surgery was also significantly less for women undergoing hypnosis.
• Hypnosis and Weight Control
  
  For many of us, "proper diet and exercise" is not a simple or an easy answer - instead, it represents a total and challenging lifestyle change. Resistance to the required change in personal eating and exercise habits and practices is what dooms many individual attempts to lose weight. Hypnosis works.
• Can Hypnosis Snuff out Smoking?
  
  Smokers trying to quit sometimes use nicotine patches to fight their tobacco dependence. But patches don't work for everyone. New research suggests that patches might be made more effective if used in combination with hypnosis, just as they tend to work better when used in conjunction with professional counseling. A recently published study showed hypnotherapy to be as effective as standard behavioral counseling when combined with nicotine patches in helping smokers to quit and stay off cigarettes for one year...
• Using Hypnosis to Reduce Job Interview Anxiety
  
  For many people, the very thought of a job interview can cause an attack of the nerves: butterflies in the stomach, dry mouth, and weak knees. Sometimes, the thought of a job interview can even trigger a panic attack. If this happens to you, you might be interested in some tips on using hypnosis for job interview anxiety.
• Desperate to Get Some Sleep
  
  Drug companies don't want you think about when you are desperate to sleep is the danger inherent to taking sleep medications. While drug companies do disclose the known risks, this message is secondary to their sales pitch. One might say the risks stay in small print.
• Mind Body Connection
  
  Mind-body medicine typically focuses on intervention strategies that are thought to promote health, such as relaxation, hypnosis, visual imagery, meditation, yoga, biofeedback, tai chi, qi gong, cognitive-behavioral therapies, group support, autogenic training, and spirituality...
• Hypnosis and NLP - Obsesssive Negative Thinking
  
  The following are three case studies of patients with habitual negative thinking and behavior which affected the entire family. In each case, I chose a strategy designed to accomplish immediate symptom relief. The studies have been abbreviated for the purposes of this article.
• Communication in Healing - Curse or Cure
  
  After reading Dr Larry Dossey’s book, ‘Be Careful What You Pray For.. You Just Might Get It’ I began to wonder….. How powerful is thought and the way we transmit it to others? If, as Dossey meticulously documents, we can influence others with our words and prayers, what lesson is here for the healing professions? Dossey is a medical doctor. Most of his experience is based on carefully researched evidence.
• Surgical Pain Relief with Hypnosis
  
  Doctors say nearly any surgery usually done with a local anesthetic could work with hypnosis and less pain medicine. Proponents say hypnosis can dull patients' sense of pain and that it also cuts down on the need for anesthetic.
• NIH: Hypnosis helps patients cope with pain and anxiety
  
  Clinically, hypnosis has been used effectively not only for pain, but anxiety, control of nausea-induced vomiting and for sleep disorders. It can be used by itself or as an adjunct to other therapies. For an enduring effect, it requires motivation, work and practice, which he admits are not easy.