by Brian Balke | Jun 27, 2020 | Mind Management
One of the keys to mental healing is the belief that experience has meaning. From my book, “The Foundations and Practice of Lay Hypnotherapy,” I offer this insight: We hurt and then heal each other because we are still learning how to express our capacity...
by Brian Balke | Jun 21, 2020 | Basics
Subconscious expectation is known to control medical outcomes. Hypnotherapy can target that power for other benefits. Transcript There’s a problem ahead for drug companies trying to market new pain killers. Given the opioid epidemic, you might expect tighter...
by Brian Balke | Jun 17, 2020 | Book Reviews, Mind Management
Starting with Freud, psychiatry tried to convince us that happiness unfolds from understanding the cause of our unhappiness. Freud proposed sexual frustration in childhood, Eric Erickson focused on crises of socialization, psychopharmacology focuses on chemical...
by Brian Balke | Jun 12, 2020 | Basics
You may have seen people get “hacked” by a stage hypnotist. That is how many think about hypnotherapy. This video explain why I focus on strengthening the social identity, helping a client “Bring Your Whole Self to Life.” Transcript Have...
by Brian Balke | Jun 11, 2020 | Mind Management
Some hypnotherapy skeptics look at brain activity scans and ask “where is the subconscious?” That’s the wrong question, because your conscious mind is only a small part of your brain – some say less than 10%. The conscious mind resides in the...
