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Brian’s innovative spirit and compassionate insight clarify the power of hypnotherapy as compared to other mental wellness disciplines. Search here to learn more about a specific concern.
When Healing Started
Broadly, psychology is concerned with understanding and influencing behavior. The specializations of psychiatry and psychotherapy narrow their concern to help us control behaviors that threaten our well-being. Psychiatry uses surgical and chemical interventions to...
The Pain of Being Right
We are social creatures: our survival depends upon the reliability of our partners. Unfortunately, “reliability” is a contingent quality. Every display of support for us is an advertisement. Some onlookers might offer a greater reward, others might seize by force....
Complementary Attachment
The human mind is amazing, beautiful, and humbling. Amazing in its ability to generate effective behavior amidst a tidal flood of information. Beautiful in the simplicity of its strategies for both growth and healing. Humbling because the choices we make linger long...
Hypnotherapy for Sleep
If you are sleeping less than seven hours a night, you are probably suffering from sleep deficit. This is linked to poor judgment, irritability, and dementia. An inability to fall asleep usually indicates poor sleep hygiene. Sleep allows the subconscious mind to...
Just Say “Trance”
You may have heard about psychedelics (psilocybin in particular) as a therapy for mental discomfort. If so, do some reading about the nature of the experience. Users report "feeling the ego dissolve - it's still there, just not in control anymore." Brain activity...
You are the Meaning
Softening into Wellness
The medical community has warned for decades that stress shortens our life span. As a preventative, they have advised us to exercise and invest in community. But what happens when stress is a habit formed in childhood? Some parents are unprepared for the demands of...
Ideas are Good
If you feel like you are struggling against hidden resistance, take this to heart: think of ideas as friends. They are strongest when they are shared. You may not always get credit, but the best ideas will gather around you. Eventually, the truth will out.
Being a Gentleman
If as a man you have subscribed to “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” remember that rest is a necessary component to building strength. At Hypnosis Rising, I will help you learn to locate carried tension, offer that part kindness, and cultivate the capacity...
Positively Awe-full
Martin Seligman, presiding over the American Psychiatric Association, attempted to shift the focus of psychiatry from illness to wellness. As a counterweight to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual (DSM), he produced an inventory of beneficial character traits. The...
Growing into Relationship
What does it mean to become an adult? We have social conventions that chart our progress: a driver’s license at sixteen, voting and sexual consent at eighteen, and tippling at twenty-one. While those milestones assume that we have achieved a level of maturity, few...
Character Isn’t Always the Answer
In creating the Mental Bank (TM), a comprehensive motivational therapy, John Kappas recognized that American culture conditions us to believe the money equates to security. The method awards fantasy dollars to the subconscious for its support on the intermediate steps...