by Brian Balke | Jan 4, 2020 | Basics, Specializations
How many things do you do without thinking about them? You might include “walking” and perhaps even “using a knife and fork.” But did you include adjusting your pulse rate and blood pressure when you exercise? Releasing fat for conversion to sugar in the liver? For...
by Brian Balke | Feb 13, 2019 | Basics
Theory of Mind The mind is born with two responses to a threat: fight and flight, marshaled by the survival instinct in the primitive part of the brain. Fight and flight are meant to be temporary. In nature, the mind-body quickly returns to rest to heal, grow, and...
by Brian Balke | Dec 29, 2018 | Basics
Our previous post described the general pattern of hypnotherapy. You might expect that hypnotherapy can be faster than talk therapy practiced by psychologists, and you’d be right. That said, talk therapy is necessary when the undesired behavior results from a chemical...