Archive for February, 2010

Handicap stair lifts are a blessing to physically handicapped people. They help physically disabled people to move up and down the stairways of their house or office without much effort. Stair chair lifts are available for both indoor and outdoor use. In the absence of handicap stair lifts, it is a stressful activity for physically handicapped people to climb the steps to carry out their daily needs. Otherwise they have to resort to the help of caretakers to climb the stairs. Stair chair lifts for straight stairways, curved stairways and even complex stairways are now available in the market. Stair lifts are also known as chair lifts or stair gliders.A handicap stair lift mainly consists of a chair to carry the handicapped person. This chair with arms and footrest is called a carriage. There will be a rail which is mounted on the steps of the stairways. The carriage will be attached to the rail and the stair lift climbs the stair way by moving along the rail. For rotating the carriage at curves, manual or electrical powered swivels are provided with the seat to rotate at 45 degrees or 90 degrees. Some stairlift chairs can be used as indoor ... [more...]

Have you ever asked yourself: why can't I use my will power to stop smoking? You say to yourself: I know people were able to quite smoking with only the force of their will power, (at least they think they did) so why can't I? Then you remember, that most of the people you know who tried to stop smoking with will power failed.The reason so many people who attempt to use will power to quite smoking fail is because will power is a product of the conscious mind. Unfortunately for those people trying to quite with will power, the root cause of the difficulty of stopping smoking resides in the subconscious mind. Any approach that does not reach down into this deeper level of consciousness will most likely fail. What you need is a technique which can eliminate the unconscious relationships that cause one to crave tobacco products, thereby eliminating the conditioned urge to smoke.To stop smoking, the easiest method I know of is hypnosis and/or self-hypnosis. And, there is a lot of scientific evidence to back up my belief. In the largest study of its kind ever conducted, involving 71,806 smokers, scientists at the University of Iowa found ... [more...]

Recent findings in cognitive neurosciences challenge not only traditional medicine but also many of the tenets of the incipient integrative community as well. The fact that suggestions may by themselves have direct (and measurable) neurological and physical effects open up the possibilities that new methodologies may exist for the practice of medicine and mental health, as well as for counseling and coaching. As this happens, die-hard hypnotists who are enamored by their own talents will face the realization that the Freudian-era myth of the existence of the "subconscious mind" hampers their ability to fully realize the true potential of the art of suggestion. Indeed, hypnotists and hypnotherapists are challenged to open their minds as they discard worn out litanies and assumptions.Regardless of whether the reader prefers the phrase hypnosis or neurypnology (James Braid, MD), suggestive therapeutics (Henry Munro, MD), selective thinking (David Elman), or hypnotherapy, there must be a realization that the act of suggestion, anticipation, and imagination starts a chain reaction beginning in the substrates of the frontal lobe. This permeates throughout every one of over 100 trillion cells that are organized in myriad organs - which is the human collective we call the body.As the advent of thought ... [more...]

Many people feel that smoking is such an addictive habit that there is no easy way to quit. Many simply don't even try. Others make half hearted attempts but are back on the weed within a day or so. Some are determined to stop smoking and seek out the best methods for doing so. A few people succeed with sheer will power. Some use nicotine patches or gum to relieve the craving and break the habit that way. Others turn to alternative treatments and therapies. In an extensive study at the end of the last century, of all the stop smoking methods tried, hypnotherapy came out as the most successful method to quit smoking. Here is an overview of how and why hypnotherapy works so well in helping people to stop smoking.A good hypnotherapist will know that when a smoker comes to visit their practice, that person is absolutely desperate to stop smoking. It takes an enormous amount of courage to venture into the unknown and this gives the practitioner of hypnotherapy a great advantage over those other methods used to quit smoking. In most cases, this is the client's last resort and they are prepared to give it their ... [more...]

One of the major tools of Neuro Linguistic Programming is a process or technique known as reframing. This article gives a basic overview of the concept of reframing and explores two kinds of reframes, 'Context' reframes and 'Meaning' reframes.I thought it would be fun to introduce the concept to you so you might begin to use the power of reframing in your life and work. Simply put, reframing is about re-interpreting any event or interaction. If you change the context, meaning or content of something you can change the experience and get better results.The basis of reframing is to separate intention from behavior.Context Reframe: Indicator - "He's too....." or "I'm too..."Think of a different context in which the person will respond differently to the same behavior or where the behavior would be a positive.Here's an example of an NLP context reframe:An angry and frustrated father drags his teenage daughter in to see Milton Erickson (the psychiatrist and hypnotherapist whose work much of Neuro Linguistic Programming is based on). He says, "She's too headstrong! She never listens to me and she won't obey me!" Erickson replies, "Isn't it wonderful that when she grows up she'll be able to stand on her ... [more...]