by Brian Balke | Oct 22, 2020 | Book Reviews
Throughout “Stop Missing Your Life,” author Cory Muscara weaves snapshots from his early, six-month meditation retreat in Burma. Seeking guidance through physical and emotional discomfort, often Cory was offered this wisdom: “Be more present.” That forced him to...
by Brian Balke | Apr 6, 2019 | Basics
Imagination Our journey of personal development has reached its end-point. Thus far, the journey has been incremental, each step building upon prior progress. In a broad sense, we can see that in the first three stages (survival, sex and exchange) the goal is to...
by Brian Balke | Mar 3, 2019 | Events
Presentation contentsVentura Chamber of Commerce (3/5)Preuter Library in Port Hueneme (3/16) Sleep Dreams and ChangeDownload Source materials: Walker, Matthew: “Why We Sleep” Fields, J. S.: “Why We Dream” Kappas, John: “Professional...
by Brian Balke | Jan 19, 2019 | Specializations
A Hypnotherapist’s View: Combat Stress 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...
