The inner game of tennis

This video talks about how the subconscious mind deals with complex tasks. Self 1 is our Conscious mind and Self 2 is our Subconscious. If we try to control with our conscious mind, we end up stifling ourselves and making it hard to just flow with things. the colourful video will break it down into a nutshell.
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Insight on Anxiety

The popular and informative talkshow Insight looks at the effect that anxiety has on people's lives in Australia. Some of the people interviewed are incredibly brave as you can see how difficult it is for them. It just goes to show that anxiety is a hugely misunderstood and under recognised form of disability. Although I don't like to think that we are necessarily stopped from doing what we want with anxiety as I think that labels can be damaging, it is important that we recognise and understand...
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Dealing with fear, Rocky confesses he’s afraid.

If you have been dealing with fears that you are not good enough and anxious or panicking, take a note of what Rocky is saying in this scene. He says to Adrian, "I'm afraid! I don't want to lose what I got! I don't believe in myself no more!" This is so similar to dealing with major anxiety and panic, because we are afraid of what we have which is our dignity. We don't want to be completely vulnerable to let others see that we are going through some real doubts about ourselves. But, If we can...
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New kids on the block star talks about anxiety with Oprah

Jon Knight of the 80's boy band sensation New Kids on the block discusses with Oprah, how he suffered with Social anxiety during all the years of his success. Leading him to eventually decide to leave the band. He always found himself hiding behind his colleagues and found it very difficult to be in the spotlight even though to those around him and especially his fans, he appeared to be fine. He shares his important story with Oprah.
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Are we losing trust?

Building trust. This is not a new idea.   One thing that has noticably declined in recent decades is trust. Trust at a personal level. Trust at a commercial level and particularly trust at a political level. The pressure for prestige, personal gain or profit is growing exponentially.   Have you every noticed how some people, say that they will, “give you a call”, “have a coffee with you some time”, or get back to you with that information you wanted”, but never do? You know what it...
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Go within or go without

Why would anyone want to be hypnotized? Well, the honest answer is that most of the time we are not conscious of our decision making. If we have habits that are unproductive, like eating too much rubbish, smoking or constantly berating ourselves when we get close to success then hypnosis is a good idea. The reason for that is that hypnosis is used to direct your concentration into a state that allows for direct access to the subconscious mind. Then a skilled hypnotherapist will be able to ins...
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No point hiding the truth about depression

This young man was the life of the party, he always had friends and people always thought he was a relaxed happy guy. However as he says here in his Ted talk he was hiding his depression from everyone and no one rally knew how bad it got for him. This is not something we need to feel sorry about, but I agree with him when he says that people have to start to talk about what is really happening. A lot of people are going through hard times emotionally in many different ways. Whether it be depress...
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What Is Hypnotherapy?

Hypnotherapy is the process of using Hypnosis with therapy to bring about positive change in a client who wishes to make changes in their life. Hypnosis is an old practice of using concentration and direction of focus to create a trance in the consciousness of the client. This trance state is similar to what we would call day dreaming. However, it is more than day dreaming, the trance state is opening up the mind into a position where it can allow and accept new ways of seeing the world. Ther...
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Getting to the core of the issue

The other day when I was working with my client I encountered a moment where the intensity of the conversation really ramped up. It was when I started to use some ideas I learned from watching Byron Katie. I asked my client to take a hurtful idea about herself and then claim the opposite to be true and then see if the mind can find any evidence of that. For example if a person has a problem about not having any money I would ask them to say the opposite and say “I have lots of money” or “...
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Are we all in a trance?

There is so much going on these days. We are all bombarded with information from the moment we get up in the morning top the moment we fall asleep. We are told how to live from advertising and social pressure. We get told what is right for us and more and more we perhaps put aside our own feelings to take someone else’s opinions on how to live. Those with money in corporations know what they want, what they want is more money, and the way to sustain this is to make their products appea...
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