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The Difference between Guided Imagery, Hypnosis and Meditation

Someone asked recently about the difference between hypnosis and guided imagery. Many counselors say they use “guided imagery” which they may or may not consider related to hypnosis or hypnotherapy. And if that weren’t confusing enough, sometimes people aren’t sure of the difference between meditation and guided imagery. So what is hypnosis, what is guided […]

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You Can Find the Buddha of Your Own Mind

As a practicing Buddhist for over 40 years, my orientation towards my hypnotherapy practice has always been within the context of the extraordinary insights about how the mind works — insights that are readily available in the Buddhist teachings. One essential point is that to see clearly you must gain the ability to stop the […]

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Quick Anxiety Relief: Stop Worrying with Self Hypnosis

Anxious thinking can become such a familiar part of our inner dialogue, that we can end up believing it’s natural. “What’s going to happen to me?” “Will things work out?” “What if I’m making the wrong decision?” . . . on and on. We’re good at keeping our anxiety going, but we don’t always know […]

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Top 10 Ways to Be Happy: Nip Anxiety in the Bud

My wife recently showed me a quote by Seth Godin, “Anxiety is nothing but repeatedly re-experiencing failure in advance. What a waste.” Well said, Seth.  It can be very helpful to recognize more precisely how anxiety is accomplished. When speaking about anxiety, I often take my clients and students on a journey through time. I […]

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Top 10 Ways to Be Happy: Eat Chocolate with Mindfulness

I admit it. I love eating chocolate. My wife teases me about it, but I don’t care. According to the history books, if not science, chocolate’s happiness factor comes comes not only from its being addictively delicious but also because it may be an aphrodisiac. Sounds fine to me. Of course, chocolate isn’t going to […]

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Top 10 Ways to Be Happy — Take Your Own Good Advice

Last week I made an error in judgment that I thought would have a significant negative impact our my finances. Right away the stress started: I got annoyed with myself and my inner dialogue became very strident. Ironically I discovered my mistake while researching some of my own past Finding True Magic Hypno Tips newsletters. […]

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Ego Happens

When the first edition of Finding True Magic was released in 1996, readers were quite surprised. It wasn’t that I had brought together East and West in the context of hypnotherapy and NLP, but that the book looked through the lens of Eastern philosophies to show how the ego shapes our thoughts and experience. The […]

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Buddhism, Hypnotherapy and NLP

By the time I encountered Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy, I had been studying Buddhism for 14 years. It was fascinating to discover that the most valuable insights and techniques presented by hypnotherapy and NLP were fragments of the Buddhist wisdom teachings that I had already encountered in a much more comprehensive form.

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Buddhism and Psychotherapy

The teachings of Buddhism add crucial insights to psychotherapeutic work. Primarily, Buddhism holds an exalted view of our human consciousness and being. A therapist’s basic assumptions and attitude about the nature of a human being profoundly affect the outcomes of his work with clients.

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