“Feel good about myself? What’s there to feel good about?” she asked me. And she meant it, I could tell by her confrontative looks.

Now I could have told her a thousand things. You know, the usual stuff: Hey, feel good about yourself because you’re healthy – you’ve got all ten fingers, two legs, you can see without glasses, and so on.

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I could have also told her that there are people who like her, people who love her, people who care for her (and in her case it was true). And that this is a great luck, and that many people would be incredibly grateful about it.

But all these rational reasons usually have very little impact. It’s just a way of feeding the mind, but in situations like these, the mind is like a black hole which devours everything.

What I really needed to do was to get access to the underlying subconscious pattern that made her feel bad about herself.

So how do you do that?

Well, first of all, you need to keep the conscious mind busy and occupied. This way you reduce the effectiveness of self-sabotage-strategies which people who feel bad about themselves often habitually use.

In her case, I told her to make a list of all the positive things about her life.

I know, I know. It’s a cheap and simplistic approach. But keep in mind that this was a disctraction maneuver, and not the actual intervention. It was just part of the set up to move things the right way.

Then I told her to pick the clothes that she felt best in for the next time she would come to my office. She had to choose the clothes that would make her feel the most comfortable – and I left it up to her to decide whether that would be a pyjama or a gala dinner dress or anything in between.

Again, just another part of the set up.

And I told her to watch at least one really silly, stupid funny video clip a day that would make her laugh. And then she would have to tell me which clip made her laugh for each day that passed (she would come to see me again in 7 days in my practice).

And when she actually did come, I just did a simple hypnotic induction with her, anchoring certain emotional states and utilizing these anchors to install a better strategy. She left the session feeling not good about herself. But next time she came, she told me: “You know, I still don’t believe that those funny clips or your hypnosis actually worked. But I do feel good about myself now! I just came to see if there is anything else that I should do to make sure it stays that way?”

I thought it was kind of funny that this change happened exactly after that intervention, and that she didn’t believe it had anything to do with the hypnosis, but still asked me if there was anything else she should do. I told her it was fine, and she should just cherish herself and those around her, and I met her again a couple of months later accidentally and we chatted a bit, and she said “that thing” (the not feeling good about herself) was a thing long gone.

Now the good thing is – you don’t actually need to come to see me in my office, or any other hypnotist. There is an excellent hypnosis download to help you feel good about yourself, and all you need to do is to listen to it daily for a couple of weeks.

If your skin itches, you probably wonder what you can do about it. (And the answer is here). Sure, the first instinct is to scratch it – but we all know that that’s not really helping. Yes, scratching provides temporary relief – but it also makes things worse in the long term. Not only will it make your itch come back with more intensity, but it can leave lasting scars on your skin. Not something particularly attractive…

One of the things you can do is to realize in your mind that you’re in charge. It’s not the itching sensation that’s in charge. Actually your body – that means YOU – is creating the itching sensation. It’s not as if an “itch” has somehow found it’s way from the air onto your skin – it’s your body, your nervous system, that’s making the itching sensation. And since that is the case, you can control it – even though you might just not have figured out how exactly to do it. But just realizing that there is a way to excert control over it can help you to easier cope with it.

Try saying these sentences to yourself:

Itching is a sensation. An itch doesn’t *really* exist in reality.

A stone is real. It’s something that you can see. Nobody has ever seen an itch.

A stone is real, and if you doubt it you can throw it against a window, and the window will break. Now try breaking a window with an itch…

A stone is real, because when you let it fall, it makes a noise. Nobody has ever heard an itch.

Thus, itching is not real. That doesn’t mean that you don’t feel the itch anymore – sometimes things that are not real can bother us too. But the thing about things that are not real is, that they can be get rid of a lot easier than real things. Because they don’t really exist in the first place.

You have control over your mind. And you have a lot of control over your body. You can decide to breathe in deeply, and then you just do it. You can decide to look up from the screen to see what’s around you – and then your eyes do it. You can decide to move your arms – and then your arms move the way you want to. All of that is happening because your mind is in charge of many functions of your body.

And we know that there are some bodily functions that can’t be as easily controlled. Like the speed of our heart beat, and so on. But we also know that there are many people who learned to control these functions. In fact, scientists agree that everybody can learn to consciously change the speed of their heart beat if they want to. It’s just a thing that you need to practice the right way.

With the help of your subconscious mind, you can learn to let go of the itch, and replace it with a much more relaxing and pleasant sensation.

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Vicodin & hydrocone can be very easy ways to reduce pain. However, they can also carry a high risk of addiction, particularly the latter one. Essentially it’s an opiate, just like heroin, morphine, methadone, codeine or oxycodone. “Opiate” means that it’s a substance that is chemically similar to opium.

Some experts say that there is no legitimate need for a drug like this on the market, and that it might cause more harm than good.

So are there natural pain killer alternatives that don’t carry these risks of addiction?

Well, think about it: your brain and body are already capable of managing pain. All the neurological and biochemical mechanisms required to regulate pain are already in there.

We usually do not have conscious control over these mechanisms, but this is something that you can train and learn to master. Millions of people have already done so. Maybe you have seen people who do things that would usually cause a tremendous amount of pain, but they do it with a relaxed kind of ease that’s just stunning. These people aren’t freaks of nature – most of them have trained themselves to control the sensation of pain, and to be able to use the power of their mind to “switch off the pain”.

There are many ways to do this – yogic practice, many years of meditation and so on.

But one of the fastest ways to be able to control and reduce pain is to utilize the power of your subconscious mind. Hypnosis is the ideal gateway for that: you can simply take some time for yourself to relax, make yourself comfortable and listen to a hypnotic induction for pain relief in the privacy of your own home. Do this daily before you go to sleep, and there is a very high probability that you will notice that you feel less and less pain.

Former Bond-girl Joanna Lumley, who is now one of Britain’s biggest TV celebrities, didn’t start out with a silver spoon in her mouth. Back in the early stages of her acting career, she went through some tough times and had to struggle to make ends meet.

What’s more: she was plagued by panic attacks so intense that she was afraid of going insane.

Just to give you an example of the kind of anxieties she had to deal with: when she was acting on stage, she hallucinated people in the audience pointing guns at her, and she was always ready to dodge a bullet.

Looking back on this, it might seem like a funny story, but for her it wasn’t at all. It was seriously putting her professional life at risk – as well as her private life.

She was afraid of entering shops, going to public places, standing by the window, because she had this constant fear of being assassinated.

It’s hard to imagine the horrors she went through every single day with those kinds of fears, and she regularly experienced panic attacks.

One of the worst things about panic attacks is that they’re kind of self-triggering: when you feel a bit anxious, you start to be afraid that this is another panic attack in the making. And then it becomes of course a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, it feeds itself on more fear, anxiety and panic, till it pushes you literally to the edge of sanity.

She tried all kinds of things to cope with her fears, but what ultimately did it for her was hypnosis against panic attacks.

She is just one of many people who successfully overcome anxiety and panic attacks with the help of hypnotherapy. Ultimately, these kinds of fears are always triggered and amplified by the subconscious mind. Fear is one of the most intense emotions we are capable of experiencing – and it can hijack our brain with all our good ideas and thoughts and well-laid out concepts. No matter how smart and intelligent we are, fear can erase our IQ in the blink of an eye and throw us back into an earlier evolutionary stage when we were largely driven by instincts and impulses.

Our brains have evolved so much since these ancient times – but the parts that were there first are still hold neurological dominance. And partly for a reason, it’s not really a design flaw: these parts are important for our very survival. Yet, in our modern society, actual, real, physical survival is seldom the issue – the things that we’re often afraid of aren’t actually that scary. But we’re still hardwired to experience fear, and if we associate the wrong triggers in our environment with intense states of fear, things get out of hand.

That’s why hypnosis against panic attacks is so powerful – because it helps us to better cope with it all and to normalize our fear responses. Instead of a cycle of panic feeding on fear, this hypnosis download can help your subconscious mind to stop for just a moment and evaluate whether this is a reasonable or purposeful reaction – and your subconscious mind will most often decide that it’s not, and simply stop it and help to calm you down.

Russel Grant almost quit Strictly Called Dancing because of his hip pain. His pain was so bad that he broke down and cried after his performances. But then he met with Richard Bandler, co-founder of NLP and one of the world’s leading hypnotists.

Richard Bandler put the performer into a hypnotic trance state and gave him suggestions to imagine the perfect dance and alternative ways of coping with pain and moving in a way that didn’t caused him injury or pain.

Now, Richard Bandler is a class of his own. There are very few hypnotists who can do that in one session. And he’s charging for one session the kind of money that other hypnotists earn in a whole year.

But you can use hypnosis against pain too – without having to hire the greatest hypnotist alive or shelling out tens of thousands of dollars. All it you need to do is to get your pain management hypnosis download and listen to it daily in a relaxed state of mind, and you’ll see that your pain gets less and less, and finally disappears over the course of a couple of weeks.

Establishing rapport is a skill that you can master. It is the ability to connect with other people. There are many different ways to establish rapport. You can do it in a private one-on-one conversation with another person. You can do it over the phone. You can establish rapport with a group of people during a meeting. You can build rapport with a large audience during a presentation. You can establish rapport over the phone, and even via email.

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All of these scenarios require slightly different approaches, but the underlying psychological fundamentals are always the same.

Rapport means that you make other people trust and like you. It means to communicate on the same wavelength, so that there is an atmosphere of mutual understanding.

From the field of neuro linguistic programm (NLP) we know that in a personal encounter, the most important building blocks of rapport are: pacing and leading.

That means you synchronize your body language. You reflect their posture and the qualities of their movements. The qualities of movements are such things as speed, direction of dominant movements, smoothness or abruptness, and so on. However, it is important not to copy them – otherwise, the other person will become consciously aware of what you are doing and will either be offended, or will pull his guard up because he or she might think that you are trying to manipulate them.

Also, how fast are they speaking? Some people are very slow speakers. Just speaking the words in this paragraph takes them two minutes. Whereas others are really fast talkers, spitting out words like a machine gun blasting out bullets. If you talk with someone, notice and match their tempo.

Also, notice their tone of voice. Is it a high, flat kind of voice? Or a low, deep voice? Or a melodic voice moving up and down the tone scale? All of these are things that you want to mirror. (And yes: that means you yourself have to practice communicating flexibly).

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Even notice how they breathe: are the breathing fast and shallow, or slowly and deeply, or something in between? Just being aware of another persons breath is a powerful way of “getting in sync”. (Note: Do not try to forcefully match another person’s breathing pattern with your own, it will just make you feel uncomfortable).

Also, notice the kinds of words and expressions that they use. With some people it’s really clear, they paint a vivid picture with their words. Some people are clear as a bell, and if you just hear them they will resonate with you. And some people are kind of hard to get a grasp of, and it takes a while to get in touch with them and develop a feeling for what’s going on inside of them.

Now, if you look at that last paragraph, you can see that the last sentence used a lot of kinesthetic (feeling) words: hard, get a grasp, get in touch, develop a feeling, going on inside.

And in the sentence before that, you find a lot of auditory (hearing) words: clear as a bell, hear, resonate.

And in the sentence before that, you see a lot of visual (seeing) words: clear, paint vivid picture.

These words indicate the currently dominant sensory processing that is going on inside of their mind. It’s almost as if you can get a peek into their mind – and this is a really useful skill for establishing rapport. It means that you really increase your abilities of perception, become more aware of what is going on around you and have the flexibility to adapt to the person you interact with.

It’s not just knowing about rapport building techniques – it’s a lot more about developing the internal qualities. There are lots of people who are naturally good at establishing rapport, but they don’t know anything about visual words, or body language, or tone of voice… but they have those internal qualities. Hypnosis can help you to accelerate the process of refining these qualities.

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Vitamins for anxiety can help you to remain more calm and emotionally stable. You can use them to complement another kind of treatment and generally calm your nerves. However, do not think of this as a cure.

Anxiety is the most common mental problem in the United States and many other countries worldwide. There are different kinds and levels of anxiety – sometimes it’s just a particularly strong tendency to worry, sometimes it can be frighteningly intense panic attacks. Whatever is the case for you – making sure that your body has all the vitamins it needs to function at its best can help you to better cope with anxiety.

What do Vitamins have to do with Anxiety?

Anxiety involves chemical reactions in your body. Vitamins can influence your hormonal regulation and metabolic activity, among other functions.

Which Vitamins?

• Vitamin A:  helps your central nervous system to run smoothly, thus enabling you to better cope with stresses of daily life
• Vitamin B1 has a positive effect on your emotional state and your ability to recall information, and thus, to think clearly. (Many times people also suffer from confused thinking when they have anxiety)
• Vitamin B3 (niacin) can help to reduce overall stress levels and soothe your nervous system by encouraging the production of serotonin. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter, a substance that is associated with pleasure and relaxation.
• Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid) is good for the adrenal glands. The adrenal glands are very important in stress responses and production of stress hormones.
• Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) can help to reduce general anxiety
• Vitamin C: as a powerful antioxidant, vitamin C helps your central nervous system to function optimally, and also has a positive effect on your adrenal glands
• Vitamin D: many people who suffer from panic attacks also have low levels of vitamin D in their blood stream. When people with low levels of vitamin D restore a healthy vitamin D balance, they often notice that their mood gets better and they are more calm and relaxed
• Calcium: this mineral has positive effects on your nervous system, relaxing tense nerves. It is best to take it before going to bed.
• Coenzyme Q10: helps to deliver oxygen more effectively to the tissues of your organs and also functions as an antioxidant

As a general rule of thumb, the best way to get vitamins for anxiety is actually to eat a healthy diet that supplies you with all the vitamins you need. However, many people are not willing to make the dietary changes involved. In these cases, supplements can help. In order to increase the amount of vitamin D in your body, all you need is more exposure to sunlight.

It is advisable that you have the vitamin levels in your body checked, so that you can see where you have deficiencies and were not. This is a much better approach than just throwing in a couple of pills. Contact your local health care clinic, hospital or your family doctor to find out where to best check your vitamin levels.

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Sometimes it is not easy to get a picky eater to eat healthy, and vegetables are some of the most difficult things in many cases. Yet, vegetables are also very nutritios.

A really simple recipe for picky eaters is to make food on a stick. It’s a fun way to make food look good and appealing.

But there is a trick too: in the beginning, use mainly things on the stick that he or she likes to eat anyway. And just sneak a bit of the “forbidden food” in here and there.

As a starting ratio, I would suggest something like 80% popular food, and 20% of the food that you want to accustom him or her to.

And see how it goes down – if they make a fuss, just make it 90/10 next time. If they enjoy it, make it 70/30 next time. Basically, you adjust the dose according to their reaction.

And make it a fun experience. Get them involved in making the stick. Most kids love to just put the things on a stick – so it can help if you put an array of different things in front of them and then together “stick them on”.

It’s a good idea to sort by color and encourage them to make the stick as colorful as possible. And always make it fun – avoid the world “should”, and instead act like it’s a game. Have fun playing this game – fun is contagious, and if they see that you are having fun, they will want to have fun too.

Cut a kiwi in nice pieces and add watermelon cubes next to it – the nice contrast between red and green is enticing.

Basically, you use food to make it look like an advertisement.

And let your fantasy get involved – if you can make the foods into little shapes, that’s great. (Cookie cutters for example are an easy way to make pineapple stars).

Adding a rectangular slice of ham or cheese on that stick between the foods is also super easy and enticing.

Of course, it always depends on the preferences and dislikes of the picky eater.

With tricks like these, you can help a kid to widen the range of foods they enjoy eating, and establish more healthy food habits.

For teenagers and adults with fussy eating disorder, hypnosis can help to overcome the subconscious aversion against many foods.

Are you looking for ideas for picky eaters that work both for kids and for adults? Sometimes it takes some finesse and the seductive powers of a culinary Casanova to get a fussy eater to eat.

And it helps to understand your “targets” preferences. Most difficult eaters prefer to “graze” more than they eat a set times. They like to take a bite here and there, instead of eating three set meals a day. Simply making some healthy snacks available for them helps. For example, a tray thinly sliced apples often goes well. Or cook some small carrots, slice and salt them and present them in an appealing manner. Take a banana an slice it into pieces, put walnuts on top of it.

Of course – the selection of “graze foods” depends on the preferences of the picky eater, but if there is always something available to them, in an appealing looking manner, where they can just get to a tray and pick up a piece that looks good to them, you will notice that they eat more throughout the day.

Also, put some dipping next to it. Peanut butter often goes along well, as does cream cheese, yogurt or applesauce.

For kids, putting an element of fun into eating can often help. Pick foods that look good and make little games out of the whole eating experience, so that they have fun and enjoy it, rather than feeling that they are coerced to eat.

Oftentimes the appearance places an important role too. For example, if you want a kid to eat a sandwich – don’t just put a sandwich in front of them. But instead, use cookie cutters to make the sandwich into certain shapes that seem more appealing to the child. (And believe it or not, this even works for adults).

And if you have a child that doesn’t want to eat vegetables, one thing that often helps is to plant some yourself, together with the kid.

When a child is involved in growing plants, and sees how from a tiny little seed that you put into the earth a plant grows, which turns into a vegetable that you can eat – this is something fascinating and vivid. The actual experience of it makes a much deeper impression on a child’s mind than just reading about it in a book, seeing it on TV or being told about it by an adult. The key point here is that the child gets involved in the planting of and caring for the vegetables.

And for cooked foods – turn your kid into a chef. Cook together. The secret here is that you do all the “boring” stuff whereas you let the kid do all the fun stuff.

Don’t let them do very challenging things at the beginning, but instead make it easy for them. Although sometimes the challenging things can be the most fun – for example handling a large, sharp knife to cut something. You can do it safely by holding the sharp knife together. As long as you have control over the knife and make sure that the fingers stay safe, kids (particularly boys) enjoy cutting something so much.

For adult picky eaters hypnosis can be a very effective way to overcome the fussy eating habits.

Positive thinking quotes can help you to better your life. They are not just inspiring because of their content, the message they transmit but also the people who came up with them.

One of the greatest leaders of our times was Winston Churchill. One of the many things worth writing down he said was this:

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

There is so much condensed wisdom and truth in this simple sentence.

It is really about making a choice in your life. Do you want to use opportunities to get ahead, or do you want to use obstacles to stay in the same place?

Do you want to use a key to open a door, or do you want to run around searching for your keys?

It’s the things that you focus on that come into your life. If you always see the difficulty, things will be difficult. And then it’s time to change your thinking.

That’s not so easy. Because our ways of thinking are habitual. Over time, our thoughts develop a kind of momentum that takes on a life of its own.

Even when you consciously make the choice: I will think positively, I will see opportunities – your brain will still go down that same old route again and again.

That’s why hypnosis for positive thinking is so powerful. Because you can turn the steering wheel of your subconscious mind around and become the kind of person that sees opportunities.