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Planning For Success.

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When you start a business you write a business plan. Why would you not have one for your daily life? This is a simple idea that will help you as you move into the new year. It's an exercise we often suggest our clients try to get into the habit of doing. Start the year with a plan. Ask yourself, 'What do I want to accomplish this year?' Now, this is the important part. Write it down. Yes, actually put pen to paper and then start to develop the idea a little further.  What do you need to do to get to that goal? Are there any special tools you require? Do you need to enlist the help of anyone? Do you need to upgrade your skills to make the goal attainable? Can anyone help? Are you being realistic, and if not what can you do to set meaningful goals. In the coming year, setting out a plan, scheduling ahead to be sure you hit certain deadlines, and most of all enlisting the help of stakeholders and friends, are all components of building this plan. Make it into a projec

Rainy Days And Mondays

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Sometimes we need to lie to ourselves.

Christmas is coming...

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Christmas is coming , and for some people it's just not the cheery time of joy that it is for others. For some, the senselessness of tragedies like the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre will trigger feelings of desperation and futility. These feelings will outweigh the happiness of Christmas carols and turkey. Seeing the joy of Christmas will be done from the other side of a veil of sadness. Merry Christmas will be something other people experience. For the the families that are together, and the friends that party it up on Christmas eve, an invisible multitude will quietly spend the time alone. The families experiencing their first Christmas after divorce, the teens that no-one listened to, and people who simply have no loved ones, will experience Christmas in their solitude something many people simply won't see. So this Christmas think about reaching out gently. Invite the person who is alone. Put away that part of you that is too proud to have a relative stran

Coke - it’s the real thing!

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Sarah McPherson interviews Rob Hadley, CEO of Vancouver Hypnotherapy Inc., a hypnotherapy practice that specialises in the treatment of cocaine addiction. Coke - it’s the real thing! Cocaine addiction in Canada is on the rise. Many rehabs are backed up, and while treatment is generally considered better than in many countries facilities are often overcrowded or have waiting lists that negatively affect treatment success rates. With this backdrop, most agencies agree, there is a growing incidence of cocaine addiction in the population at large. More people, from more diverse backgrounds, have access to cocaine than ever before. I spoke to Rob Hadley, CEO of Vancouver Hypnotherapy Inc., and heard his perspective on the situation. “What we’re seeing is a shift in the type of usage, and the type of user,” says Hadley. “It used to be that cocaine was a drug of the super rich and rock stars. Nowadays it’s gravitating down the social scale. Most people can, if they really want, get this drug

Ignorance is not as blissful as you might think.

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There is a nasty phenomenon that pervades healthcare. The idea that a patient may have an opinion, or more worryingly - a valid opinion - and that this represents a challenge to a medical professional's authority. In fact, in most organisational structures a wide variety of opinions and ideas is usually an indication that the system is healthy. The best ideas tend to win through, but a diverse number of ideas from a variety of directions is to be valued, not feared. To have an differing opinion is not necessarily to challenge the authority of another in the structure. I mention this having heard yet another client describe their visit to a doctor. The patient was told what was wrong with her, following an examination. She disagreed. She was told that she was not a professional, and it was made clear that her opinion was of no value. The doctor rounded this off by saying, "and don't go looking up your symptoms on the net, and telling me I'm wrong." As I list

Stress - Embracing your anger.

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All of us feel a degree of stress. The person who feels none is either insensitive or dead. How we perform under stress, and how we manage stress is really the focal point of many clients who come and visit a hypnotherapist. They may have apparently specific issues, but in reality there is a cumulative weight from several directions which they finally feel is just to much to bear. For some people this comes out as anger.  For others it is far more subtle, perhaps an eating disorder or skin problems. For some, I am convinced, it manifests itself in the form of degenerative illnesses or even cancer. Yes, that's pretty contentious. And yet, I am not alone in the idea. Did the stress from work actually cause the cancer? Probably not. Did the way the client manages stress generally cause the cancer? Very possibly. The more we bottle things up, and leave angst unexpressed, the more likely these issues are to come out in ways that are far more damaging and unhealthy. It's f

Are you as you think you are?

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Here's a great piece of art from the British artist Banksy. He gets an interesting message across. Whatever we think we are, the world outside may see us rather differently. We cannot be as objective as we might like to be. Can you remember any situations in which you've tried to convey one message, and quite another has come across? Such exercises in self examination are an interesting method of getting to understand yourself better. Hypnotherapy can help steer you along a path that helps you find answers, and in so doing let's you not take things too seriously.  Just like the anarchist youth, we all need mum to give us a packed lunch, with a healthy apple, from time to time. RH

Understanding the effect of pharmacy and narcotics.

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