The Last Monday of the Year
Photograph by scalespeeder
Slept in my own bed last night, I did!!! I am even drinking coffee from my own coffee maker - beans ground in my own grinder. The cat sits purring beside me.
But by the door, my suitcase awaits its next leg of the journey, refreshed with clean clothes hot from the dryer. However, this trip is one in which I believe I will be able to continue my morning posts. Let us hope so.
And because I have been craving a return to some normalcy, here is a look back at recent happenings in the hypno world.
Quote of the Month
The belief that “hypnosis is evil,” for example, is a hypnotically-induced belief usually programmed into somebody by an authority figure in a competing belief system that sees hypnosis as a threat to their own authority.
The Good
Congratulations to dentist Dr. Mike Gow for being named Britain’s top dentist at the Dentistry Awards 2008. One thing that helped him get this award is hypnosis. He uses it with patients who have dental phobias (The Sunday Mail).
Congrats also go to Jamil Qureshi on the publication The Mind Coach. Jamil has an interesting background that involves hypnosis and psychology, along with performing (Swiden Advertiser).
In her own words - Jennifer Parman Johnson, hypnotist in Fairfax, VA (washingtonpost.com)
The Bad
What do you do if you realize you have lost a span of memories? Do you get upset, wonder about your military job and if something bad happened during that time? Do you wonder if you were abducted by aliens? Such horrors were the experience of Niara Isley. In an interview with Bruce Burgess from UFO DIgest, her story is a compelling one of aliens and conspiracies. It all began when she realized she had lost a time span of memories during her military career and used hypnosis to recall it. It is horrifying and thought provoking.
The Ugly
With the upcoming New Year changes, articles are beginning to pop-up like one found on the web site www.whnt.com warning against scams. This one mentions specifically to watch out for hypnosis in regards to promising help with weight loss. In many ways, this is not too bad an idea, just that it could have been handled better. Hypnosis is not going to make you magically lose weight - that is true. A few suggestions for weight loss or even client-centered hypnosis that gets into more depth is not going to do the trick for you if you continue to consume food that is not conducive to good health; if you continue to sit in front of the tv or computer day in and day out with out exercise or if you refuse to make a few needed lifestyle changes. What hypnosis is going to do for you is help you with the mind set needed to make needed changes. It can help with craving control, motivation to exercise, or to make healthier choices. Oh and kudos to Lois who commented on the article!
December 30th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
its hard to beleive the new year is getting so close now isnt it!
thanks for stopping by my gamer blog. The tea dipper gadget you were asking about i was searching for gadgets through google images and came across it in there!
I guess if you typed in tea dipper gadget it would pop up! good luck