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How Gaslighters Weaponize Uncertainty
When uncertainty is increased, we may become so desperate for any crumb of certainty we'll take whatever is offered. But when you remain calm, skeptical, and psychologically informed, you become less vulnerable to gaslighting. So just what is the cure for the uncertainty of uncertainty?
Can Hypnosis Help Erectile Dysfunction?
Why hypnotherapy may be the very best cure for psychological impotence.
5 Ways to Slow Your Heart Rate During Anxiety or a Panic Attack
Here I want to reassure you about the fast heartbeat that can be associated with stress and anxiety, and give you five tips to quickly slow your heart rate to a normal speed.
How to avoid setting the wrong goals
Why success can bring bitter disappointment and how to ensure that doesn't happen to you.
How to Deal with the Control Freak
Is there a control freak in your life? Maybe you're in an intimate relationship with a control freak or perhaps you work with one. Here are some ideas that helped me deal with a control freak.
7 Tips to Overcome the Fear of Rejection
Fear should keep us alert and safe - like the beam from a lighthouse warning ships of submerged dangers. But too much fear, like a super-beam of light blinding the ship's captain, can cause the loss of the very thing we feared losing.
Instant Inductions: Why Surprise and Shock Put You into Hypnosis
What comes to mind when you think of hypnosis? Comfort? Calm? Deep relaxation and rest? This is the way it is usually done. But there is another kind of hypnosis. One that happens to every one of us in everyday life.
How to Stop Obsessive Thoughts Using Techniques from Psychotherapy
Obsessive thoughts breed compulsive actions.The mother who feels that unless she waves five times at her son as he goes to school something bad will happen to him, the anxious businessman who has to 'avert disaster' before boarding a plane by clearing his throat thirty times, or the young girl who can keep her parents safe by walking around her bed 50 times before sleeping.Obsessive thoughts often have this element of superstition about them.
Learn Self-Forgiveness and Release the Pressure
Joan had been a model wife since the "stabbing incident" and her husband loved and appreciated her despite the squabble twenty-eight years before that had ended up with him in hospital
Why Hypnotherapy Works for Weight Loss
Hypnotherapy isn't a pill (even most pills don't work instantly). It's not just a case of telling someone to be a certain way and that's it, now they're sorted...forever. Obesity is a condition that can have many different contributing factors.
