Is your doctor “putting a curse on you?" Odd as this may sound, this is what is occurring in much of how physicians approach their patients. Let’s look at the power of words in the healing process, using fibromyalgia pain and hypnosis as examples. We have progressed to the point where we can actually see the areas associated with fibromyalgia pain light up on brain scans. As an aside, there are not many idiots who still believe that the pain is not real, but the brain scan changes should help those few recover from being fools. 
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Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest solutions.

Many people find the period from Thanksgiving through the New Year a very stressful time, even though we’re taught that it is supposed to be a time of joy and celebration. During this time we often are confronted with numerous conflicts and inflated or unrealistic expectations.

According to a poll conducted by About.com, more than 80% of respondents reported finding the holiday season to be ‘somewhat’ or ‘very’ stressful.


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The short answer is yes. The longer answer follows.

Bulimia (usually defined as binge eating followed with laxatives, vomiting, diuretics or compulsive exercise to purge the body) is a life-threatening malaise.

There are several theories about why people become trapped in this cycle of self-abuse. These fall into three main categories: social, family and individual.

Each, of course, is intimately linked with the others. Hypnotherapy helps on the individual level which in turn can influence the family and the social aspects.
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It's that time of year once more when most of us sit back and reassess where we are in life and make a comparison between that and where we want to be. Few people, it seems, are truly content and happy with their lot. It doesn't take a huge amount of sensitivity for one to feel the sense of dissatisfaction which looms like a gloomy mist in the atmosphere of today's world.

Self-help books find their way into Christmas stockings and hundreds of thousands of people can be found during the Christmas holidays thumbing through motivation and success seeking books which line the shelves in book shops around the world. Many people want to change various aspects of their life and seek to find an appropriate or easy way in which to do so.



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Perhaps as an informed potential client you've wondered about the relationship of hypnotism to a variety of suggestibility responsible for the placebo effect. Some of the readers who are practicing hypnotists, may have on occasion seen the confidence of a client get shaken by others who, in an offhanded way, commented that hypnosis is "just a placebo", or "no more than a placebo"? Sometimes these statements are even made by otherwise knowledgeable helping professionals. Do these statements have any basis in fact? 

Most practitioners would probably assert from training or experience that this claim is untrue, that there is more going on with hypnosis than a placebo effect. And yet, if it were true, would there really be anything wrong with that? As Moerman and Jonas (2002) point out, to say that a treatment, such as acupuncture "isn't better than a placebo" does not mean that it does nothing (Moerman & Jonas, 2002). Hans Eysenck (1991), one of the most prolific writers in the history of psychology, observes that placebo treatment in psychiatry is just about as effective as psychotherapeutic techniques (Eyesenck,1991).
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Before answering the question in the title of this article, let me present another important question: how often do people experience inner conflicts that inhibit successful attainment of important goals?

Hypnotherapists often use proven techniques to help clients change undesired habits and/or to achieve desired personal and professional goals. Yet, in spite of the best efforts of both client and therapist, unresolved inner conflicts often inhibit clients from attaining their ideal empowerment. Parts therapy may provide the answer!

Charles Tebbetts is often given credit for originating parts therapy, yet he was a parts therapy pioneer who actually borrowed this technique from Paul Federn and modified it. While my late mentor openly gave credit to Federn, Tebbetts evolved parts therapy into a much more client-centered technique. I've updated Charlie's work over the years since his passing, but I consider my late mentor to be the grandfather of client-centered parts therapy.

Now let's explore the question first posed by providing a simple definition of parts therapy, followed by the explanation I give to clients.
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Quite often, intelligent schoolchildren receive school grades that just do not appear to reflect their intelligence. These children do their schoolwork, take part in the classroom, but still get lousy test scores. Parents frequently misjudge lousy scores on exams as lack of study and preparation, but this frequently is not true. Often, anxiety over tests is a significant source of low grades.

Young people who have test anxiety typically study at home until they could answer the test questions backwards and forwards. But when they walk into the classroom and sit down to take the test, their minds freeze. They cannot recall the concepts that, only a moment before, was clear in their minds. They develop performance anxiety, and are able to consider nothing but the likelihood of failure.
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Do you know anyone, a friend, family member, co-worker or acquaintance who considers himself or herself a perfectionist? If so, have you ever noticed that they seem somewhat edgy, on guard or perhaps demanding?

We live in a very competitive world and it is important to have high personal and professional standards. However, when a person’s standard or goal is perfection, they may not realize that they are setting themselves up to experience more frustration, anxiety, and disappointment than is necessary. The goal of perfection is unrealistic.
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A little over ten years ago I was between jobs. I had been working in Psychiatric Hospitals and other Institutions, as an Admissions Counselor, Chemical Dependency Counselor, Case manager and Discharge Planner. I was attending some college courses, hoping eventually to obtain a Psychology degree, when a friend of mine suggested, "Why don't you study hypnotism, you could help people stop smoking and make some money." It seemed like a good idea, so I ended up attending classes at the world-renowned Gil Boyne Hypnotism Training Institute, in Glendale.

As soon as I saw on the first video what Mr. Boyne was able to achieve with hypnosis I exclaimed to him, "You are getting people to give you information in a few minutes that would take six months to a year in therapy, because consciously they don't know these things!" I knew I had encountered something I had always wanted, a means to make my work as a counselor more effective and economical in terms of both time and money. As yet I was not aware of the possible depth, speed and range of change available through hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
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