I just returned from three weeks of relaxation and rejuvenation in Banff and am looking forward to completing the second part of this blog on hypnosis.

Let us begin with another of my favorite definitions of hypnosis:

“A mysterious intelligence often comes into play during hypnotic suggestion…this perhaps, is the most fundamental insight we gain from hypnosis, this glimpse of a superior intelligence within us that can drastically alter our perceptions and thinking, restore healthy functioning, and enhance our most basic concepts.”

The Future of the Body by Michael Murphy Read the rest of this entry »

This will the first of two postings on one of my favorite subjects and what I utilize quite extensively in my practice – the clinical applications of hypnosis.

Since the dawn of recorded time, over 20,000 years ago, indigenous tribes and emerging cultures utilized drumming and trance dancing to create ecstatic interludes and transpersonal experiences in order to explore higher and deeper octaves of consciousness.  The Druids, Vikings, Hindu priests, holy men of all religions wrote about and described various techniques such as monotonous incantations, magnetic passes over the body and even the inhalation of ethylene which seeped up through cracks in the rocks so the Delphic oracles could foresee or intuit future events.  Accounts of what we call hypnosis appear in the Bible, the Talmud, the Hindu Vedas and in the writings of Wing Tai, the father of Chinese medicine. Read the rest of this entry »

In our last blog, I discussed three keys for creating or manifesting desired outcomes or goals in your life. The focus of this blog will be to expand on my earlier comments and provide different perspectives for creating your most optimal future.

One of the oldest and most spiritual cultures that goes back over 3000 years is the Huna or Kahuna philosophy of Hawaii and Polynesia.  Huna means Secret and the fundamental idea in Huna philosophy is that we each create our own personal experience of reality by our beliefs, interpretations, thoughts and feelings – and that we are creating and are co-creators with the universe itself.  Huna is all about learning to do that consciously. Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most successfully popularized and widely read books that offers the attainment of whatever you wish for – financial abundance, the ideal mate or whatever other hallmarks of successful life is contained in The Secret by author Rhonda Bryne.  The key concept in The Secret is the law of attraction, which states simply that “like attracts like”.  Each of us vibrates at a specific frequency giving off waves of mental energy and intent that are like a psychic magnet, attracting back into the here and now whatever the content of our mental broadcast may have been. Read the rest of this entry »

Most of us have been raised with the belief that the past creates the present.  This can give rise to feeling that “I am a product or victim of my past”.  Perhaps, a better way of rephrasing the old belief might be – the future creates the present against the backdrop of the past.

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What this enigmatic statement suggests is that your reality is created by your beliefs.  These beliefs, which are usually subconscious, are often the result of life-long programming.  Our beliefs form attitudes about the world and ourselves.  From these attitudes, we develop behaviors and it is the self-defeating behaviors we wish to change.

But, how are our beliefs formed or created?

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Greetings and welcome to my first blog posting of what hopefully will be a series of blogs that will vary in content but, with the underlying themes of personal development and expanding consciousness.

I am a clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in the applications of hypnosis, EMDR, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to a variety of clinical issues. I have also served as a Sport Psychologist with a number of world-class athletes and Read the rest of this entry »

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