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...
by Brian Balke | Jun 7, 2020 | Basics
Did you know that a pool life guard gets better results from “Walk, thank-you!” than from “Stop running!” The first says “Let’s be joyful together,” the second says “Don’t do what you want.” Most people come...
by Brian Balke | Jun 5, 2020 | Book Reviews, Mind Management
When it was discovered that syphilis progressed to mental illness, psychiatry was grandfathered into medicine. Surgery and drugs became the preferred interventions. These were applied when the psychosis was fully evolved, as desperate measures for those that could no...