We just received an email from LiveScience.com regarding some interesting studies about the limits of memory. We suggest you get on their distribution list to be emailed each time new articles are published.
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Earlier this year, this workshop was presented for the first time. Enrollment was limited to 26, and the program over-subscribed.
A number of people, who missed out on the first offering, asked that this workshop be presented again. Therefore, the next Quit for Good Workshop - Help Clients Stop Smoking is scheduled for the following dates: May 29, 30, 31, 2008.
Your first two client's fees will pay for this workshop!
Click the following link to open, read and print the invitation: http://www.ahtainc.com/I%20Quit%20Invitation.pdf
The meeting rooms at the Crown Plaza/Sleep Inn accommodate 25-30 people comfortably. Therefore the enrollment is limited to 26 participants. It is suggest you enroll quickly to assure you reserve your place.
You can enroll by mail or call the AHTA office at 301-565-0511 to register by phone.
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Monsters and Magical Sticks, There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis?
by: Steven Heller, Ph.D. & Terry Steele
New Falcon Publications, Tempe, AZ, 1987
There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis? This may appear to be a strange title for a book written by a man who has been in the field of clinical hypnosis for many years. So begins this delightful little book on hypnotherapy. Heller's point is both that there is no such THING as hypnosis - it is not a thing you can hold - and that in our everyday communications we are constantly hypnotizing and being hypnotized. Throughout the book he gives examples of clients whose problems are characterized as trances into which their family and friends have inadvertently put them. In a meeting with Erickson Heller asked, "Would you say that you perceive all presenting symptoms and complaints as being metaphors that contain a story about the "real" problem, and that your basic approach is to build metaphors that contain a story about the possible solution?" "Exactly!" replied Erickson. You might overlook this slim volume because of its small size, only 188 pages, and because of its seemingly flippant title, but you would be making a mistake.
The first four chapters talk about everyday experience seen as learning/hypnosis, and how often unpleasant memories are hidden from our conscious minds. Chapters five and six deal with beliefs and representational systems, including a discussion of eye accessing cues.
Heller has a light touch and shows frequent flashes of humor. For example, when he explains his view that lead and preferred systems are dependent on the circumstances he writes, "I am now going to go out on a limb. I hope that you will refrain from sawing it off while I am perched upon it." He is of course on solid ground, as he offers numerous case histories illustrating each subject and teaching his insightful and compassionate approach to change work. Subsequent chapters address other Ericksonian topics of conscious/ unconscious division, anchors and anchoring, and utilization.
Highly recommended.
Book review by: Avner Eisenberg
by Muriel Prince Warren, L.C.S.W., D.S.W, and FAAETS
Self-Published: 2007 - Dr. Warren's email: MPW0801@AOL.COM
Reviewed by Judith E. Pearson, Ph.D.
"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, and some debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness IS the way, so treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one."
-----With Your Eyes Wide Open, page 35
Can creative visualization and hypnosis fulfill your hopes and dreams and lead you toward the accomplishment of your goals? Author, hypnotherapist, and psychotherapist, Muriel Prince Warren says "yes." In With Your Eyes Wide Open, she tells her readers that with creative visualization we can relax the amygdala; the part of the brain that secretes stress hormones. Relax the amygdala and you can reduce the body's stress response. Instead of focusing on worries and fears, Warren encourages us to focus on our hopes, dreams, and goals and to reshape our "neural coding" for the better. Thus, we can improve the "deep unconscious wisdom system" of our minds.
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I was reading an old newspaper the other day and ran across the following article. I thought it might be of interest to NBCCHers, especially those therapists who work with students.
Ron Klein
The Washington Post
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 6, 2007; Page A06
Susan Wagner Cook, a third grader, stands at the front of her classroom, with an unfinished equation printed neatly on the whiteboard.
4 + 3 + 6 = ____ + 6
"I want to make one side," she says, as her left hand sweeps under the left side of the equation, "equal to the other side," she continues, now sweeping her right hand under the right side of the equation.
Equations are something the call is just ready to learn: The total value on one side of an equation should equal that on the other.
Some of the kids learn it quickly. Others taklonger. But what none of them know is that they are subjects in an experiment that is helping scientists understand one of the most familiar and yet mysterious components of human behavior: the hand gestures and how they may impact on learning. To read the rest of the article,
I thought NBCCH INTERLINK newsletter readers might be interested in
this induction that I wrote during this incessant political debate, as follows:
Do you remember hearing as a child "always do what's right?" And
throughout the years, I have tried as hard as I could to think right and
to do right, because after all, what's left? It gets confusing
sometimes, though, because you have so many Republicans who are "right,"
and Democrats who are not..., but feel "left." And that's part of the
problem, you see, because Republicans always think they're right, and
that Democrats are "not right" (if you know what I mean), and it's just
not right to accuse them of being "not right" just because they tend to
be left. But Democrats also consider themselves "right", so who's left?
Certainly, not the "middle of the roaders", who are neither right nor
left, but who still consider themselves just as "right" as those on the
right, even though they aren't considered right either by those on the
right or left, isn't that right? But what then do you call those who are
left after those who consider themselves "right" and those who consider
themselves just as right even though they're "left?" So it's getting
harder and harder to determine right from left or even consider what's
left after you've chosen to think right and to do right. But isn't it
better to take what's left..., and to make it right,... right now?
Everyone knows that's the right thing to do, is this not right?
So, you can either think about what's right or about what's left..., or
just let your eyes close easily..., relax fully..., and trust your
unconscious mind to sort it out for you....Yes.......that's right!
Fred Waddell, Ph.D.
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