Your brain is a prediction machine, not a camera
Your brain isn’t recording reality. It’s guessing, and then checking. Once you understand predictive coding, half your weird behaviour starts to make sense.
-
-
Social Anxiety and Hypnotherapy: Rewiring the Fear of Judgment
Social anxiety isn’t shyness. It’s an intense fear that others are judging you negatively and that this judgment defines your worth. This belief drives avoidance, which reinforces the anxiety. Hypnotherapy addresses both the fear of judgment and the underlying belief that judgment determines your value. WHAT IS SOCIAL ANXIETY? Social anxiety is a protective pattern…
-
Healing Trauma Without Reliving It: The Hypnotherapy Approach
Traditional trauma therapy requires you to retell the traumatic story in detail—reliving it with the belief that this processing will heal it. For many people, this re-traumatizes them. Their nervous system is reactivated, and they leave sessions more dysregulated than before. A better approach exists: content-free NLP techniques that resolve trauma without requiring you to…
-
The 7 second decision: why willpower keeps losing the fight
Your unconscious mind decides 7 seconds before you know about it. No wonder willpower keeps losing. Here’s what the science actually shows.
-
THE LAW OF REVERSE EFFECT
Have you ever found yourself doing exactly what you don’t want to do? You have even told yourself not to do it. “I’m not going to get upset this time when I talk to my boss.” “I don’t want to smoke when I visit Sally this time.” Even though you have repeatedly told yourself not…
-
PRACTICE PATIENCE
The definition of patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. Unfortunately, it is seen less and less in our society and often in ourselves. You see, much of our world is becoming increasingly immediate. Touch screens, on demand video streaming, same day delivery. So much…
-
OUR SHRINKING COMFORT ZONES
Many people have found themselves challenged at this strange time with things that used to be easy for them in the past. Just like a muscle or any skill, your comfort zone is the same, if you don’t use it, you lose it. Our comfort zone is made up of the familiar places, people and…
-
OUR INNER VOICE
Isn’t it interesting how you could read something by Billy Connelly and in your head, it is in his voice? Our inner voice or thoughts can lead us to the greatest of exciting ideas or spinning into the black hole of depression. What are these thoughts, and can we control them? It has been estimated…
-
REWIRE YOUR BRAIN WITH GRATITUDE
Imagine how wonderful life would be, how happy you would be, if everywhere and in every moment you could find something to be grateful for. We have billions of bits of information coming at us every millionth of a second. Of course, we can’t be consciously aware of all of it because it will be…
-
ANXIETY AND THE INTERNAL BIOCHEMIST
Inside peoples minds we have a Biochemist, it regulates the chemistry in our body. I imagine him in his lab coat sitting at a desk with dials looking at a big board of lights. When the board starts lighting up in particular patterns, he starts turning and moving the dials to adjust our chemistry. For…
