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Do You Have No Willpower?

Published 20 July, 2010 | Personal Productivity

I’m sure you’ve had times when your intentions were good, when you really believed what you wanted to do was positive and for the best…but somehow the actual doing of the exercise, focusing on that project, sticking to that diet, or building that business didn’t really materialize. Willpower matters because it helps make the possible real.


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Let Go of the Past

Published 16 June, 2010 | Thinking Skills

The present and future didn’t seem to exist for her. I suspected she’d had lots of the kind of ‘therapy’ that feels it’s best to dig continually into the past. What had all that historical focusing actually done for her?


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Be a Great Conversation Starter: Talk to Strangers with Ease

Published 22 May, 2010 | Communication Skills

“Don’t talk to strangers!” To which a pedantic (and annoyingly bright) seven-year-old might reply: “What, never! How about when I’m forty; at a party or having a job interview?”


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Overcome a Fear of Talking on the Phone

Published 8 May, 2010 | Overcoming Fears

He wasn’t merely anxious about using the phone; he was terrified. But he had good reason. During his wartime experience in the trenches, a shell had exploded just as he was dialling the telephone.


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How to be More Punctual

Published 4 May, 2010 | Personal Productivity

A lack of punctuality is one of many ways to relay that special little signal: “You don’t really matter!” 


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Overcome Performance Anxiety

Published 28 April, 2010 | Stress Reduction

Performance anxiety gets in the way of performance because it clutters the mind just when your consciousness needs to be clear and ‘light’.


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Stop Being a Hypochondriac

Published 21 April, 2010 | Health Tips

The paradox of hypochondria is that the sufferer often knows they are a hypochondriac even whilst maintaining they are justified in believing they are ill.


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Stop Being So Defensive!

Published 12 April, 2010 | Dealing with Difficult People

If we’re caught in an avalanche, it’s a natural instinct to adopt the defensive posture and make like a foetus. But being emotionally defensive as a general strategy is self-destructive.


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Stressed About Starting Your New Job?

Published 10 April, 2010 | Work Skills

Starting a new job feels daunting, like the first day in school. The unfamiliarity coupled with the stress of wanting to please can feel overwhelming…and too much stress makes it harder to concentrate and do a good job…causing more stress…! What can you do?


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Overcome Victim Mentality

Published 8 April, 2010 | Thinking Skills

When you are proactive and put plans into action, you may find you don’t always have to wait for the ‘cage door’ to open. You may just find you can force it open yourself.


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Maximize Your Motivation, Determination, and Perseverance

Published 13 March, 2010 | Personal Productivity

As a prisoner of war in the steamy jungles of Vietnam, he held out for months, repeatedly refusing to sign documents decrying American aggression in Southeast Asia presented to him by the North Vietnamese after his crash and imprisonment. During these times, he drew inspiration from the memory of how his grandfather had been the only person in their village strong enough not to vote for Hitler during elections, despite threats of execution.


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Overcome Needle Phobia

Published 10 March, 2010 | Overcoming Fears

David explained to me how he’d been traumatized at school when having inoculations. More recently, he’d tried to overcome his needle phobia by attempting to give blood. The terror had been so intense, he’d ripped out the needle and fainted.


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Why Hypnotherapy Works for Weight Loss

Published 8 March, 2010 | Weight Loss Help

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.


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Dealing with a Fear of Death

Published 5 March, 2010 | Overcoming Fears

Natural fear of death - such as any of us would experience if, say, confronted by an axe-wielding maniac or an aggressive illness - had for Gillian become an obsession, something that ate into, chewed up, and spat out her good times and kept her awake at nights.


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Am I an Alcoholic?

Published 2 March, 2010 | Addiction Help

“Am I an alcoholic?” Lionel asked me with a tinge of desperation. I studied his face. Broken veins, dark under-eye circles, sunken cheeks. Lionel was thirty.


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Do You Have an Inferiority Complex?

Published 2 March, 2010 | Confidence and Self Esteem

Most of us compare ourselves to others. Mass media beams in the finest looking, richest, and most talented people into our lives 24/7. This creates the illusion that we ‘know’ all these beautiful, clever, younger, athletic, rich, able people. Because we compare ourselves to people we know, this illusion of knowing air-brushed ‘have-it-alls’ can make us feel correspondingly worse about ourselves.


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Selected Self-Confidence Building Activities

Published 26 February, 2010 | Confidence and Self Esteem

Self-confidence isn’t just about what you think or imagine, although that makes a huge difference. It’s also about actions. The activities you do, how you act and stretch yourself, are a vital part of building your self-confidence.


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Increase Your Running Endurance

Published 22 February, 2010 | Exercise and Fitness

If you want to get the psychological edge (bearing in mind that the mind will always influence the body), then try these tips to up your running endurance to get fitter and/or to perform better in races and even smash records.


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How to Handle the Pain of Unrequited Love

Published 20 February, 2010 | Relationship Advice

The concept of unrequited love may sound out of date. But, as evidenced by the huge number of people searching the term online, human concerns haven’t really changed all that much since good old Will Shakespeare purportedly wrote: “Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.”


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How to Stop Lip Biting

Published 18 February, 2010 | Bad Habits

My teeth missed the hors d’oeuvre for which they’d been aiming and I bit painfully into my own lip. Ouch! You’d think that after a lifetime of eating practice, these kinds of nibbling errors would have been ironed out. I winced, pretending that nothing was awry as pain stabbed my lower lip like Norman Bates in a motel shower.


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Natural wart treatment: How hypnosis can help

Published 12 February, 2010 | Health Tips

It used to be believed that warts were caught from handling frogs or, more specifically, toads (warts are viral, but not toad-related). It was also believed that the local practitioner of magic could ‘charm them’ away.


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How to Go Back to Sleep

Published 12 February, 2010 | Sleep Problems

Deep sleep is something we all need for physical and mental health. Here I want to discuss specific ideas to help you drift back off to sleep after night time awakening.


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How to Reduce High Blood Pressure Naturally

Published 3 February, 2010 | Health Tips

Elaine was well into her seventies when she came to see me, hoping that hypnosis could help her reduce her high blood pressure naturally and avoid the need for drugs.  I asked her about her lifestyle and found that she had done - and was doing - all the things you too should do to naturally lower blood pressure.


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Overcome Exam and Test Nerves

Published 29 January, 2010 | Overcoming Fears

Once, a beautiful princess sat by an ornate pool in her palace grounds. As she peered down, admiring her beautiful reflection in the surface of the clear pool, her priceless crown suddenly slipped from her head and into the waters with a splash.


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