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How Anxiety Helps Us Make Choices

Long-term anxiety can be ameliorated through better self-regulation, including hypnosis and taking positive actions.

Long-term anxiety can be ameliorated through better self-regulation, including hypnosis and taking positive actions.

How Powerful Can Belief Be?

Personal Perspective: Beliefs based on folk tales, religion, expectations, and life experiences can all promote increased happiness.

Personal Perspective: Beliefs based on folk tales, religion, expectations, and life experiences can all promote increased happiness.

6 Tips for Dealing Better With Anger

The key to preventing or better controlling anger is to change the thought patterns that are triggering or perpetuating it.

The key to preventing or better controlling anger is to change the thought patterns that are triggering or perpetuating it.

7 Self-Regulation Strategies for People With Anxiety

How do adequate sleep, a well-balanced diet, exercise, and an active social life help with anxiety?

How do adequate sleep, a well-balanced diet, exercise, and an active social life help with anxiety?

Chronic Physical Symptoms Involve Patients' Psychology

Why should patients with a chronic medical illness be offered psychological therapy?

Why should patients with a chronic medical illness be offered psychological therapy?

Communicating With the Subconscious Through Imagery

Imagery can provide information that may not be easily conveyed with words and thus can broaden the foundation for therapeutic work.

Imagery can provide information that may not be easily conveyed with words and thus can broaden the foundation for therapeutic work.

Is Mental Flexibility the Key to Mental Health?

Rigid thinking may be a key driver of mental health conditions—and a key intervention point for treatment.

Rigid thinking may be a key driver of mental health conditions—and a key intervention point for treatment.

How to Treat Fear of Needles

Therapy directed at the source of fears is often helpful, including through the use of hypnosis and interactions with the subconscious.

Therapy directed at the source of fears is often helpful, including through the use of hypnosis and interactions with the subconscious.

How Positive Input Can Change Lives

A Personal Perspective: We can work on using positivity to help others better appreciate themselves and grow closer to their full potential.

A Personal Perspective: We can work on using positivity to help others better appreciate themselves and grow closer to their full potential.

Contemplating Our Role in the Universe

Interactions with the subconscious through hypnosis provide glimpses of some thinking patterns underlying spiritual thoughts.

Interactions with the subconscious through hypnosis provide glimpses of some thinking patterns underlying spiritual thoughts.

The Mystical Aspects of Therapeutic Rapport

As therapeutic rapport deepens, patients and therapists may experience moments characterized by mysticism.

As therapeutic rapport deepens, patients and therapists may experience moments characterized by mysticism.

How Pets Can Be Used in Hypnotherapy

Personal Perspective: Whether real or imaginary, a pet can help patients achieve a hypnotic state and more fully realize their capabilities.

Personal Perspective: Whether real or imaginary, a pet can help patients achieve a hypnotic state and more fully realize their capabilities.

Developing Extraordinary Abilities Through Savant Syndrome

The existence of savants pushes us to ask whether it is possible for neurotypical individuals to tap into extraordinary abilities.

The existence of savants pushes us to ask whether it is possible for neurotypical individuals to tap into extraordinary abilities.

9 Tips to Consider While Choosing a Career

When choosing a career, be open to learning about and exploring different alternatives, be flexible, and listen to your heart and mind as you navigate your career journey.

When choosing a career, be open to learning about and exploring different alternatives, be flexible, and listen to your heart and mind as you navigate your career journey.

Unleashing the Power of Hypnosis to Overcome Anxiety

Are you still feeling anxious even though you're in psychotherapy and taking medication? Try hypnosis. You could be amazed.

Are you still feeling anxious even though you're in psychotherapy and taking medication? Try hypnosis. You could be amazed.

When to Take Hypnosis Seriously

Hypnosis often draws fringe therapists with no healthcare training. Yet the science behind hypnosis is growing, and its greatest promise may be to enhance psychotherapy.

Hypnosis often draws fringe therapists with no healthcare training. Yet the science behind hypnosis is growing, and its greatest promise may be to enhance psychotherapy.

Habit Cough Can Resolve Through Working With Metaphors

It is essential to allow a child to take the lead in facilitating their healing for a psychological problem.

It is essential to allow a child to take the lead in facilitating their healing for a psychological problem.

4 Ways of Thinking Differently about Disappointments

By learning how to think differently about disappointing events, we can help ourselves feel happier, more optimistic, and more ready to move forward in a constructive way.

By learning how to think differently about disappointing events, we can help ourselves feel happier, more optimistic, and more ready to move forward in a constructive way.

The Joy of Driving for Teens

Inexperience with driving is not the only reason teens are more likely than adults to be involved in fatal crashes.

Inexperience with driving is not the only reason teens are more likely than adults to be involved in fatal crashes.

Using Hypnosis to Improve Sleep and Golf Performance

How can mental rehearsal be enhanced to improve your golf game?

How can mental rehearsal be enhanced to improve your golf game?

How Exercise Can Shape Your Life

How does exercise affect mood and friendships?

How does exercise affect mood and friendships?

How Hypnosis Might Enhance Military Training

Hypnosis may have great potential to boost and preserve servicemembers' positive mood and productivity, especially during linguistics training.

Hypnosis may have great potential to boost and preserve servicemembers' positive mood and productivity, especially during linguistics training.

The Middle School Dilemma: Changing Friendships

How can young teens understand and deal with the common challenge of finding new friends?

How can young teens understand and deal with the common challenge of finding new friends?

The Neuroscience of Hypnosis

How does hypnosis profoundly affect our brains and bodies?

How does hypnosis profoundly affect our brains and bodies?

The Power of Words

Words can carry a lot of impact within human interactions. Thus, it is important to be careful with the words you choose to use.

Words can carry a lot of impact within human interactions. Thus, it is important to be careful with the words you choose to use.

Coincidences and the Unconscious Helped Me Find Meaning

Personal Perspective: Thinking about life patterns can help us evolve our spiritual beliefs and view our actions as a manifestation of spiritual work.

Personal Perspective: Thinking about life patterns can help us evolve our spiritual beliefs and view our actions as a manifestation of spiritual work.

How the Therapeutic Alliance Influences Treatment Outcome

Patients need to understand their power to modify their behavior and that the therapist's primary role is to support the patient in their journey of self-discovery.

Patients need to understand their power to modify their behavior and that the therapist's primary role is to support the patient in their journey of self-discovery.

The Psychology of ASMR

New research examines the interplay between personality and ASMR receptivity.

New research examines the interplay between personality and ASMR receptivity.

Embracing Discomfort as a Step Forward for OCD

How can you move forward when OCD makes it feel impossible to take the smallest of steps?

How can you move forward when OCD makes it feel impossible to take the smallest of steps?

The Importance of Choosing Helpful Self-Descriptors

We should be careful about what labels we give ourselves. People in authority should be equally careful about how they label people in their sphere of influence.

We should be careful about what labels we give ourselves. People in authority should be equally careful about how they label people in their sphere of influence.