The Seven Words That No-One Can Say On TV
Those who know me well, know that I love the comedy of George Carlin... I posted a lot about him in the past and remembered him in this blog when he passed away last year... Him and Bill Hicks were my favourite US comedians... One of George Carlin's best-known...
World Record Latrine Queue Meets Footballing Blame Culture!
I have been reading a rather hilarious new world record... Yes indeed, a crowd of 756 committed people formed what is a record-breaking, world’s longest ever queue for the toilet! Haha... Right in the centre of the Belgian capital of Brussels earlier this week to...
Do You Deliver Progressive Statements To Yourself?
So within the fields of modern psychology, personal development and self-improvement, everyone seems to be aware and share this notion that in order to have success and happiness, we should communicate favourably with ourselves, right? That might not necessarily be...
Is The TV Making Me Stupid?
It is a good question... This week I got asked a particular question to do with the fact that I often refer to TV watching throughout my work... You may have guessed that I love TV... I really do... At the moment, I am utterly engrossed with Lost, 24, Fringe and laugh...
Is Modern Communication Actually That Convenient or Effective?
So perhaps today I shall start sounding like a grumpy old man yearning for a time gone by... Hailing it as a halcyon age... When perhaps the reality does not quite match up to my filtered memory... The way we communicate these days is supposed to be much more...
A Moral Issue Regarding Past Life Regression Hypnosis
Now then, as most of you know and as I tell my students enquiring about past life regression in hypnosis... I am not sure where I sit on the subject... My thought process is such that if I do not wholeheartedly believe in something, I do not feel that I should do it...
Is Your Optimism Cheap?
Our seemingly mainstream wetsern culture does have a real thing for happiness, doen't it? I mean, it is the central theme of many of my blogs here... There are massive majorities of our culture and society that believe happiness to be the most important thing to...
Ex Spice Girl Mel B Has Hypnosis
It is Friday... The Global Hypnosis Summit Begins later today... My grass needs mowing for the first time this year... My accountant has a vast array of things I need to do today following our meeting yesterday... And I have more hypnotherapy clients than I can shake...
The Psychology Of Saving Lives
Ok, so let me offer up something a little bit hypnothetical to start off today... If you saw a child that had fallen into a fairly shallow lake and was thrashing about at the prospect of drowning, and all you had to do to save the child's life was wade into that lake,...
Do You Expect Happiness To be Spoonfed To You?
A fellow blogger pointed out to me yesterday a recent Daily Show episode, where John Stewart responded to President Obama's statement that "this is BaconnaiseAmerica: we don't do what's easy, we do what's necessary" by holding up a jar of Baconnaise. Stewart...
