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 I was at the optician today for a free eye sight check up. She said, I wouldn't need any glasses on my left eye anymore. I have 100% eye sight! I was like: "What?! But I have glasses like since I can remember! I can't just stop wearing them! How's that possible?" :-D She said that changes in eye sight are normal. I said, "Yeah, I'm 28 years old. I expected it to get worse in time though."



 Because I was born with my right upper eye lid missing, they put in…

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I don't know how common the term "earworm" is in english. wikipedia reads that it's "a loan translation of the German Ohrwurm". Essentially what it means is that you have a song stuck in your head and you can't get it out no matter what you do. I had one once that lasted for - believe it or not - 1.5 years! I'm hesitant to write here what it is, because it's quite well known. You may find yourself humming the tune yourself, if I told you. And that's NOT a suggestion!…

  I was looking for mind toys and stumbled upon this utterly mesmerizing video.

The phenomenon of spontaneous orgasms is documented in the psychological and medical research literature. While the following excerpt from the television series,"Grey's Anatomy," is obviously played up for dramatic and entertainment purposes, it is rare but not unknown. We are also well aware that such responses can be induced in sufficiently responsive and willing hypnotic clients. However, if you should encounter a client who is seeking hypnotic treatment for…

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I got a gift coupon for birthday from my colleagues at work for a book shop. I decided quite fast what I wanted to buy. Obviously a book either by or on Erickson. I thought of "A Teaching Seminar With Milton Erickson" by Jeffrey Zeig for some time. I had read it back at university from the library there already. But I wanted my own copy of it. And then there was this other book, also by Jeffrey Zeig, "Experiencing Erickson". I couldn't buy both of them from just the…

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this has nothing to do with hypnosis, not officially anyway. I still want to share with you how I choose my instruments and get the motivation to play them. Maybe this inspires you as well to do something new.



When I was in elementary school I learned the recorder like so many other people of my generation, at least here in germany. I also tried the guitar, but it didn't work. Not because I tried (which, as you may know, implies failure), but because we…

I love this brief Ted Talk with photographer/digital manipulator, Erik Johansson. Watching it, I couldn't help but see the comparisons in our work.

it's the perspective that makes it realistic

Making it seamless

making the separate images be congruent

the tools are all out there  

the only thing that limits us...is our…

http://www.amazon.com/1Q84-Haruki-Murakami/dp/0307593312

(excerpt taken from page 9)

First impressions:

The pages smell of chemical.  The paper it's printed on is high quality, though too thick and slick for my…

The Greek temple of Epidaurus, an Asclepieion, was known for healing sleep.  An inscription that was originally thought to be an ode to the god of medicine has recently been re-translated and is now thought to be the first recorded hypnotic induction.

It begins with the instruction to the listener…

Project MK Ultra has a very disturbing history of mind control research

it is disturbing the ways Government use mind control, most of which we are unaware. I have become more conscious of it particularly since ten years ago I withdrew from TV, destroying my set before it destroyed me.  My mood and long bouts (years) of depression left me…

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I guess we all know by now that if I told you to not think of a pink elephant, you'd be thinking about one, right? It's because our unconscious has to have a positive image of what it is you're not supposed to be thinking about. So that's why you still have the elephant in your head, even if I told you not to think about it.



Well, a couple of weeks ago our fridge broke down. No cooling system. Of course, it had to be on a saturday morning. I helped my mom…

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I started blogging about hypnosis and my thoughts on stuff related to that some time ago at BHR, that's British Hypnosis Research, where I took Stephen Brooks' online course on "Theory and Principles of Brooksonian Hypnotherapy". Not advertising here, I simply want to give you a little bit of background. Although they have several forums there to post, I didn't know where to post some of the stuff that was on my mind. So I started using the blog feature there.…

I just want to thank everyone who has made me feel so welcome here.

It seems to be a very warm and helpful community.

I am a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist in Richmond, Virginia with a brand new practice.

I came to hypnotherapy by either a series of random accidents or because The Law of Attraction really works.  It was one of the two.  Take your pick.  My feelings won't be hurt either way.

The biggest accident was this:  I decided I wanted to…

After I did my NLP practitioner training, I was doing phobia resolutions with anyone I could, and getting good results. However one young lady stopped me in my tracks a few minutes into the process saying "That's not the way it works" quite adamantly. I was at a loss for where to go next, and as this was a casual arrangement, I left it at that, feeling a bit deflated. I have met her several times socially since and just let the matter alone.I didn't want to acknowledge…

There were so many parallels to hypnosis in this article, that I just have to share it:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21328501.600-zap-your-brain-into-the-zone-fast-track-to-pure-focus.html?full=true

Given that many hypnosis practioners are looking at weight management as a field of concentration, I thought I would share an excerpt from a recent seminar I gave to medical professionals on healthy eating. The excerpt was in response to a question about potential difficulties with some trendy raw and vegan diets. I don’t expect everyone to agree with it, but I do hope it will give some a bit of food for thought. Anyway for what it’s worth here are some issues you and your clients might…

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I lost my cracker



I have, since then

found it!

to my mouth's delight

though my hands, having

again -grasp- refusing

the pause



Finger This

hunger

  that is…

“Trash!  No good piece of  useless    fucking

trash!”

This is what  he bellows after her

as the screen door slams

echoing

certain finality

“Shit. My purse is still…

FYI-

Does anyone have a video or can reffer me to a youtube video whith a full stage hypnosis induction?

I've seen only one hypnotist in person on stage and he uses a hyperventilation induction. Most people is against that induction. Please!!

I'll do my first show tomorrow but Ive never done a collective induction.