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Category Archives: Hypnosis

“I Can Make You Thin” by Paul McKenna – A Review

Monday, May 5, 2008

This is the first full book review I have ever done on this blog. I am delighted that it is a review for this book, because “I Can Make You Thin” makes an historic contribution to weight loss and being naturally thin, and also to the entire field of self-help.
For almost 2 years now I [...]

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A Night Out At The Movies

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Last Friday night my wife and I left our 3 kids at my parents and went out to the movies.
Not such an unusual event perhaps, but these 2 movies were presented by an internationally renown hypnotherapist.
The movies were archival footage from the 1950’s that were an important part of the change in hypnosis become accepted [...]

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3 Basic Things That Aren’t Understood

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

My father is an anesthetist, which means he puts people to sleep for their surgical operations.
We have been using anesthetics for surgery, childbirth etc since ether was recognized for this purpose back in the mid 1800’s. There are now about a dozen main general anesthetic agents, Nitrous oxide ie Laughing gas, Halothane, various forms of [...]

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Waving A Magic Wand

Thursday, November 15, 2007

I don’t often tell people I do hypnotherapy anymore.
Very few people distinguish between hypnosis and hypnotherapy ie hypnosis for a therapeutic purpose.
The explanation my first mentor used was that one was given Catholic approval by Pope Pius XII in 1956, and the other was not.
In casual conversations I got tired of the discussions about “Is [...]

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