Q: I feel helpless in the face of the world’s suffering. I don’t know what to do about the pain I see all around me. It’s driving me crazy. Well, you know, it takes a lot of energy and attention to drive yourself crazy. If you redirect that energy away from “feeling helpless” and bring […]
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How To Keep Your Mind Clear & Creative
If you are like most people, you may often feel as if your mind is tormenting you and there is no escape. Ironically, when the torment is very vivid, our mind is actually dull, lacking in clarity and creativity. Of course we can’t enjoy our mind in such a state and we feel trapped because […]
What You Think You See is What You Get
One of my favorite quotes from myself (eye roll!) is, “We think we live in the world, but we live in our minds.” Another (double eye roll!) is, “Once you realize your innocence, you can accomplish anything.” I am surprised when people don’t have a clue about what I am saying with these statements. (jaw […]
Guest Blog: 10 Tips For Understanding Someone With PTSD
I am happy to present this insightful article by Michele Rosenthal, founder of HealMyPTSD. Michele is a trauma/PTSD survivor who now does healing coaching for people suffering from PTSD. We are trading blog posts. Look for my entry, Insights and Strategies for Dealing with PTSD and Profound Challenges, at her HealMyPTSD blog site. Enjoy Michele’s […]
PTSD and War Veterans
A striking number of our servicemen and women are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Unfortunately, most of the PTSD sufferers I have worked with report that the conventional treatments for PTSD don’t work. Fortunately, hypnotherapy works extremely well for soldiers with PTSD, as well as for people suffering […]
Trauma and PTSD (Post-traumatic Stress Disorder)
When we say we are traumatized, we are speaking of this tendency of our subconscious to keep reproducing a traumatic event in the sophisticated virtual reality theater of our mind. Therefore, the cause of ongoing (chronic) trauma or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not the traumatic event itself. If it were, there would be […]