Will “Havening” change the face of therapy across the world?
Last October I attended a workshop on a new therapy called “Havening” that just totally amazed me. I started using it immediately with clients and have gotten some spectacular results with it. It is called “Havening” because, as I understand it, its first application was in the treatment of Trauma. According to the creator of Havening, Dr. Ron Ruden, one …
5 Realities about Hypnosis and Weight Loss
5 Realities about Hypnosis and Weight Loss Full disclosure: For eight years I was employed by a seminar company to travel the United States and present group hypnosis seminars to people who wanted to either Lose Weight or Quit Smoking. We did two seminars a day, one for helping people quit smoking, the second to help people lose weight. Attendees …
Compare yourself to others/Don’t compare yourself to others
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man.” — Benjamin Franklin It’s a new year and people’s thoughts are turning to what to do now that they’ve blown their resolutions already. No! Just kidding. People are still looking forward toward the New Year and evaluating themselves …
The Paradoxical Commandments
I had a client recently who was struggling with the nasty comments that people seem to make on line these days. In spite of my client’s best efforts to do good work and help people, it sometimes went unappreciated. I was reminded of “The Paradoxical Commandments” by Kent Keith. Milton Erickson seemed to be able to embrace paradox quite readily, …
Guest Blog: a perspective on dieting and exercise
By Octavio Fenech, September 16, 2013 – reprinted with permission. Dear Doug, I saw that you were doing a weight loss hypnosis group and It occurred to me to share some of my experience In getting in good shape and what I found out was affecting my decisions didn’t have much to do with the “traditional” reasons. First off let …
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