Of Agreements and Consequences?Approximately 70 countries participate in Day Light Saving Time. This semi-annual time change the world enacts each year always elicits a knowing chuckle from me as I witness the most explicit example of an arbitrary “agreement.” We have collectively agreed to “move time” backward or forward at a particular moment every single [...]

During a recent session my client was conveying his anguish over not being able to figure out why a certain experience had occurred in his life. It is a common self-inquiry prompted by disappointing events or circumstances. I indicated to my client that it is such an unfair question to pose to your logic. Why [...]

Procrastinating on studying for that real estate exam? Resisting homework for that online college you are attending? Putting off learning new skills to better prepare for today’s job market? Resisting comprehending ever-evolving internet revolution? It is not a character flaw indicating lack of discipline when you find yourself procrastinating in learning. It is not uncommon [...]

There is a process the mind engages that undermines the capacity to remain focused towards a desired aim or goal.  Whether the goal is to lose weight, start or further a business, fulfill a project or sustain efforts in other aims, all desires are essentially ideas that must navigate the functioning of the brain. When [...]

The word “entitlement” is often associated with a negative connotation when used to describe one who feels inherently more deserving of certain privileges than others. It is often used in a racial or class-ism context meant to portray a sense of arrogance or exclusion or, as in our present political discourse as a polarizing partisan [...]

Often when challenges confront us we ask, “How am I going to manage this?” Or perhaps we avoid a challenge because we do not want to ask that very question. This typical approach to matters solidifies circumstances whereby growth does not occur and status quo becomes chronic. There is another question you should ask yourself [...]

There are occasions when a particular theme appears evident over the course of a week’s hypnotherapy sessions in my practice and recently that theme was relationships. Clients came in addressing relationship stresses with mothers (remember Mother’s day just occurred), best friends, co-workers, and the like. And of course the feedback offered applied to relationships of [...]

Like many dedicated practitioners, I live and breathe the virtues of my work. The more I practice hypnotherapy the more I believe in it. And speaking of believing in the power of it, a funny thing happened on the way to the market this morning or, I should say, when I exited the market. As [...]

There was a 1992 movie with that title starring Goldie Hawn and Meryl Streep and I always thought it was a strange movie title. However, with a rash of deaths recently impacting my life that have occurred within an unusually close proximity, the title has taken on a strange twist of significance. In the last [...]