Entitlement – Not a Dirty Word
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 […]
4 Solutions to Solve Any Problem
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 […]
5 Relationship Fixes for Well-Being
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 […]
Hypnotherapy – Healing Power in Eye of Beholder
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 […]
Death Becomes Her
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 […]
“Where’s my damn wallet?!”
After leaving an appointment yesterday, I stopped at a nearby store for some groceries only to discover I was not in possession of my wallet. I immediately returned to my car assuming that’s where I left it – after stringent searching, no such luck. By process of elimination I figured I must have left the […]
Drug-Free Secret to Regulate Mood Swings
The most significant hindrance to maintaining consistency towards achieving goals is the fluctuation of moods. Fluctuating moods can derail the best of intentions and commitments. The psychological consequences of fluctuating and often times spontaneous shifts in emotional states typically include guilt, harsh self-judgment and feelings of exasperation wrought from this seemingly endless cycle of high […]
Nothing To Undo
Interesting thing happened on my way to the technological “dark side” of mobile communication as I switched from a blackberry phone to an iPhone recently. In my bumpy transition to reprogram my brain to now process an entirely different means of mobile communication, I’ve been periodically receiving (what appears to me as) a spontaneous screen […]
Are You a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?
You can relate to your identity from one of two perspectives: as the witness-ee or the witness-er. Your point of identification with one of these two perspectives determines your success in implementing successful change. The difference in these vantage points of your identity is detailed in the previous blog posting wherein this fundamental choice is […]
Accelerated Progress
“You have a mind; you’re not a mind. You have a body; you’re not a body. You have emotions; you’re not emotions.”The deeper you understand the above three statements the greater your capacity to direct your life. Most individuals identify as their body faculties; they identify themselves as the composite of the mind, body and […]
