A top Olympic skier attended one of our basic hypnosis workshops a few years ago. This woman could focus, and I mean really focus. She could zone out totally and ski any major course in the world in her mind, with her eyes wide open, even while people carried on talking all around her. And [...]
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As co-creator of Hypnosisdownloads.com, I often get asked about the ‘scientific evidence’ for hypnosis. People asking this question are usually asking whether hypnosis is a distinct form of consciousness, a question nicely covered in this enlightening piece in Scientific American. The debate has long raged between the ‘state’ theorists’ and the ‘non-state’ theorists. The former [...]
So it’s ‘thanksgiving day’ over in America. Thanksgiving is traditionally a time to give thanks for a harvest and it’s a national public holiday in the States, with a deep resonance in their history. We have thanksgiving festivals in Britain too, but they tend to be low key and parochial in nature. There could be [...]
I was talking to an extremely nervous young man on the phone today. He said he couldn’t bear the wait for his SAT scores and was having trouble sleeping and even eating. Clearly, he needs to calm right down! SAT scores can give students some sort of gauge as to how they are doing, but [...]