by Brian Balke | Mar 8, 2020 | Mind Management
I’m 33 pages into a new book titled “The Foundations and Practice of Lay Hypnotherapy,” and I’ve reached this horrible realization that I’ve been lying to people. You see, the “hypno” in hypnotherapy is taken from the Greek...
by Brian Balke | Mar 3, 2020 | Mind Management
Tinnitus is a perception of sound in the absence of an external source. While if placed in a sound-proof environment almost everyone will hear something, to the tinnitus sufferer the tones are perceptible even in normal life, and may in fact be loud enough to...
by Brian Balke | Feb 26, 2020 | Mind Management
Every path to maturity is concerned with harmonization of the self in relation to others. This is obvious in judgment: the claim “I am mature” carries no weight. Maturity is known in the eye of the beholder. The paradox is that “I” is a recent evolutionary construct...
by Brian Balke | Feb 18, 2020 | Mind Management
In archival training videos, Dr. Kappas was testy about “talk therapy.” A licensed psychotherapist himself, he bemoaned the first-session tradition of taking inventory of all the clients problems, sending them home feeling even worse about themselves than...
by Brian Balke | Jan 16, 2020 | Mind Management
Lee was chief executive of a Fortune 500 company. Used to working in a hive of thousands dedicated to translating his intentions into reality, upon retirement he wandered aimlessly in his mansion before deciding to run for national office. Some might read the story...
by Brian Balke | Jan 10, 2020 | Mind Management
In “The Cure Within,” Anne Harrington explored the narratives that have empowered the common wo/man to access the power of thought to heal the body. Universally, those narratives originated as rebellions against religious and medical conventions, and propagation was...
