Yoga Therapy and Its Unique Approach to Ultra Wellness

What is Yoga Therapy? According to the International Association of Yoga Therapy (IAYT), Yoga therapy is the process of empowering individuals to progress towards improved health and wellbeing through the application of the philosophy and practice of yoga. The yoga therapy practitioner customizes the session to the individual’s age, physical health, activity level, religious belief [...]

What is NLP and How Does it Differ from Traditional Hypnosis?

Neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, is a model of interpersonal communications concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behavior and the experiences that originate them. It is used as a system of alternative therapy which helps people to be self-aware, improve communication as well as promote changes in patterns of thought and behaviors. The origins [...]

Getting Beyond Punishment as a Means to Change Behavior

Punishment permeates our lives.  In particular it permeates attempts to change our own and others’ behavior.  Governments use the threat of war to force weaker nations into compliance, police use the threat of imprisonment and fines to reduce criminal behavior and infractions, companies use the threat of demotion and firing to boost productivity, spouses use [...]

The Old Hypnosis and the New Hypnosis

In roughly the past half-century, the scope of hypnotic interventions has been redefined.  Hypnosis, one of the oldest, best-known, and most thoroughly described phenomena in psychology and medicine, the subject of literally tens of thousands of studies, is one of the most meticulously explored techniques in the healing field, with a track record not only [...]

Changing the Big Picture: Building Positive Perspectives with Reframing

Reframing is a term used in different ways by different people. In marketing, reframing sometimes is used to refer to providing new value by positioning a product or service in a new market or alternative context.  In psychology, at the broadest level, reframing refers to understanding a behavior or situation differently by considering it in [...]

Entering the Circle of Excellence

Imagine yourself engaging in an activity: it is flawless, you are in the flow. Think back to the time you landed that perfect tennis serve, dove into the water as cleanly as a dolphin, provided a seamless performance, gave a talk and the audience was just riveted. The idea is to very clearly picture those [...]

New Ways of Using Hypnosis (Part II)

What then are some of the common uses of hypnosis as we know it today? Classical Applications continue to work, and so continue to be employed. They include: Hyper-suggestibility Hypnosis has often been characterized as a state of heightened suggestibility induced by belief, expectation, and focused attention. Simply put, some hypnotized subjects are more likely [...]

New Ways of Using Hypnosis (Part 1)

Hypnosis has evolved. From its initial beginnings in the cultural backwater of mesmerism, stage hypnosis, and (as in the classic novel Daphne Du Maurier novel, Trilby), fictional accounts of semi-occult mind control, hypnosis had gradually claimed an increasing acceptability among psychologists and psychotherapists. Why it works remains to a great extent a puzzle. As a [...]

The Placebo Effect

The “Placebo Effect” is a paradox. It may perhaps best be understood by considering its classic demonstration: a patient is given a sugar pill that has no therapeutic medicinal value at all, but is told by an authoritative health figure that it will have a given beneficial effect. The patient believes the intervention will alleviate [...]

Acupuncture For Weight Loss – Does it Work?

With obesity on the rise, people are searching for weight loss methods that are effective and easy.  Many people have found Western medicine (which is primarily pharmaceutically-based) to be sadly lacking in nutritional information, and its inability to view the individual holistically to understand their unique battle with weight loss. It is little wonder that these dieters look [...]

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