Sometimes it?s the simple things that can have the greatest impact on our lives. Allow me to share this empowering, simple exercise with you. Perhaps you already know about it, or even use it already in your daily life. If you do, then you know how powerful this little exercise is and you are already experiencing joy every day. I must admit that when I first heard this concept, I thought it was kind of silly. However, sometimes desperation will make us re-think silly thing...

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy have come a long way from the primitive notions of it being related to mumbo-jumbo and sinister magicians. Today, the world is recognizing hypnotherapy for what it really is ? a life changing force which allows you to conquer your mind. And we would all agree that our mind is indeed the greatest instrument we have to alter our life and to change its course towards success. In the recent years there has been a lot of speculation over hypnotherapy, and...

Zoloft is a prescription drug that treats a diverse range of disorders. Some of the common disorders are depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Zoloft works to make sure more serotonin is released to the brain. Seratonin is a chemical that the brain associates with happiness. The safety of taking this drug is under debate. A major study in USA stated that Sertaline, which is the main ingredient in Zoloft, appears to be ineffective whe...

Small business is America. Almost every person has at one time or another dreamed of owning their own business. Why not? I don't have to answer to a boss. I can set my own hours. In 10 or 20 years, I can live a life of leisure or somewhere at the top of the food chain. So the goals are set, the die is cast and off you go into the world of owning your owm small business. You make a business plan, get some additional capitol financing, align personnel, arrange a facility and...

This article will help transform your decision making process into ?PUB? - Pure Unadulterated Bliss! Think I'm exaggerating? Well ... maybe just a little!:-) But, see for yourself anyway! You might be in for a pleasant surprise. The way I make decisions in complex situations has ? at least ? the merit of turning decision making into an effective, satisfying, even reassuring experience. Time to Decide Decisions, decisions, decisions. So many possibilities, so many var...

It's not only customer service that businesses are concerned about. Everyone knows that a business is only as good as its employees. Clearly, hiring good employees is the key to a good business. Of course, hiring them is a different matter from keeping them, and a more crucial one at that. So don't be surprised if a notice or memo about employee surveys is making rounds in your office. Your employer just wants to gauge your satisfaction about the company. But more than simple...

I was talking to a DOS [Director of Studies] recently who told me how she hated having to do lesson observations. It wasn't that she had any objections to the idea of a quality check but she found that teachers were very defensive and clearly didn't welcome her presence. It's a difficult issue, isn't it, because the school needs to ensure that students are getting top-quality teaching but teachers, understandably, feel reluctant to open themselves to possible criticism. ...

Hypnosis is not actually what we thought it is. As defined by Ormond Mcgill in his book ?The New Encyclopedia of Stage Hypnotism?, Basically, hypnosis can be regarded as a state of mind produced by the transference from one level of consciousness to another; a state with capacities for mental activities distinctly its own directly keyed to the automatic nervous system rather than the sympathetic (central nervous system) productive of the state of mind of somnambulism. T...

Have you seen this scene: A man is asked by someone to jump for ten times, crawl on the floor then roll over like a dog? Some have this in mind as the picture of hypnosis. Actually- it is not the truth. What is hypnosis then? Hypnosis is, in fact, a natural state of heightened awareness, focused attention and, often, deep relaxation. This experience is called ?the alpha state?. In the ?alpha state? our brain wave frequency is slower than when awake, but faster than when we...

?A mystical force flowing from the hypnotist into the subject he called it ?animal magnetism? ?, this is according to Franz Mesmer, an Austrian physician ages ago. This theory caused a lot of questions. Since he believed that hypnosis is like power from the hypnotist, many disagreed. Originally, hypnosis was called Mesmerism named after Franz Mesmer. The word mesmerized: or like being trapped in a short period of drifted thoughts due to awe or admiration was derived from t...