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 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...
by Brian Balke | Jan 6, 2020 | Basics, Specializations
When we write a letter, we are conscious of sharing our thoughts with our reader. When handwriting, though, we also express deep subconscious attitudes. Sit down with a piece of paper in front of you. Before you write, you pick a tool, and even that choice reveals...
by Brian Balke | Feb 16, 2019 | Basics
Path to Maturity In our last post, we offered a hypnotherapist’s view of behavior development. Rather than looking at the subconscious mind as a seething cauldron of primitive instincts, the hypnotherapist sees it as your oldest, dearest friend. Its only concern...