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If the power of conversational hypnosis appeals to you, and you’d like to learn to use it, a conversational hypnosis course  might be right for you. There are classes available in a traditional setting as well as  through distance learning. Distance or classwork both are great options for learning conversational hypnosis.

Discover the Power of Conversational Hypnosis

Conversational hypnosis works by influencing or hypnotizing other people with everyday conversation. You suggest to others’ subconscious mind  their feelings about specific topics, by using tones of voice, select wording, and appeals to emotion. Without others even realizing they had been hypnotized, you can influence how they think and act.

There are different kinds of conversational hypnosis courses available if you do want to take them. An easy way to get started is to just look up conversational hypnosis on the internet for local teachers.  From there you can email them and find out what classes are offered near you.

Lots of conversational hypnosis courses are of only a weekend’s duration, so a full-time worker can set aside those two days to be taught this amazing skill and never have to use up vacation time or inform his or her employer of the nature of the program being pursued. That means you can easily utilize your new abilities within your company also.

You can learn about conversational hypnosis privately at home by ordering distance conversational hypnosis courses which consist of various reference materials including ebooks, books, DVDs, and CDs. These courses will help you learn the basics of conversational hypnosis and are a good place to get started. This might be the best option if you plan to use these techniques on your friends and family, because you will be able to study in total privacy.

The more you practice the better you will become at conversational hypnosis. Conversational hypnosis techniques require consistent practice in order to achieve your desired results. Once you have mastered the tactics, you will be amazed by the amount of progress you can make.

Conversational hypnosis is a practical skill that can be used in any place, any situation that might come up in your life. If you will, imagine being with and being able to influence your girlfriend or boyfriend, husband, supervisor, anyone important in your life. This could lead to power, or at least some degree of peace. You can achieve amazing things using your new conversational hypnosis skills. Begin your journey now by choosing a conversational hypnosis course that is perfect for you.

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The technology behind switching mirrors is improving, so what? So mirror tvs are taking over thats what! I swear last year I couldn’t find a mirror tv within my local county or even within 30 miles. Now you can get a mirror tv from your local currys or dixons, places like that - its great they are developing it along and mirror tvs are now not simply a thing for nice hotels and fancy shopping centers. This is possitive progression.

With the 21st century, photos can be manipulated and altered in many ways using digital imaging and computer aided techniques. Digital photography started a change in photographic techniques and changed the nature of photography significantly.

Nowadays, the number of photos you can take is much higher, so you can afford to make mistakes. Also, a photograph can often be remedied on the personal computer, even if it was spoiled by too much lighting. While that has made photography more beginner friendly, it is still far from an easy hobby.

If you are into photography, you probably want to get better at it. That requires practice - a lot of it. However, it is often helpful to be taught about the theory, too. That’s why online photography courses have become a popular method both for new photographers to get used to the art and for more experienced photographers to hone their skills.

Photography has been present for more than a hundred years and yet new innovations are taking place even this day. Looking at it, one has to surmise that photography will develop again in the future. It’s never too late to get into photography and even now it’s too early to stop learning more about it.

You may have heard of Roger von Oech’s book, A Whack on the Side of the Head: How to Unlock Your Mind for Innovation. It’s as much fun to read as its title suggests. It covers the ten common obstacles to creative thinking. It’s about ways in which you can unlock your mind for innovation, for change, for more interest, or even for a career change.

Mr. Von Oech writes about the time when his English teacher in high school put a small chalk dot on the blackboard and asked the class to tell him what it was. A few seconds passed, and then someone said, “It’s a chalk dot on the board.” The rest of the class seemed relieved that the obvious had been stated, and no one else had anything more to say.

“I’m surprised at you,” replied the teacher, “Yesterday I did the same exercise with a group of kindergartners, and they thought of fifty different things the chalk mark could be:

* a cat’s eye,

* a cigar butt,

* a star,

* a pebble,

* a squashed bug,

* a rotten egg,

* a head,

* and so on.

The lesson that I wish to share with you is the importance of looking for more than one right answer. When you look, you will be surprised to learn how many answers are available.

We have been trained in school to look only for the first right answer to every problem. The average person does this; the creative person looks for many.

Looking beyond the first solution to a problem can result in a whole new set of serendipitous solutions - solutions that can be a hundred times better than the first one.

Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone wins. When you don’t, we all lose.

© Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW

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Etienne A. Gibbs, MSW, Management Consultant and Trainer, conducts lectures, seminars, webinars, and writes articles on his theme: “… helping you maximize your potential.” He offers management, marketing, and parenting resources at hisMaximizing Y our Potential blog.

My wife is infuriating!!! she has been changing her mind all week - choosing a holiday is never easy but she honestly cant make her mind up - I gave her the money and told her to book us a decent villa on the algarve - it cant be that difficult can it?

She can’t decide between this villa near Carvoeiro and this other place just down the road. One has a fantastic indoor and outdoor swimming pool, fantastic views but the other has an extra two bedrooms, a better kitchen and is slightly nearer the town - I told her to just go with which ever she thinks is best for her and our family - but she honestly cant choose - I can’t understand it - women seem to be so indecisive!!!

What is SoulCollage®?

SoulCollage® is a unique blend of spiritual practice and the fun of collage. It was created by Seena Frost in 1980 as she worked with friends and clients in her therapy practice in California.

Each card in a SoulCollage® deck represents and honors one of the following facets of my unique life: a voice that lives inside of me, a person who supports me, an animal that has special energy to give me, or a mythical figure which guides me.

Using very simple materials (scissors, glue, mat board, and magazine images), I create my cards and interpret them using journaling or other activities. I use my deck to help me find answers to the questions that arise in my life, and to access my own deep wisdom.

Falling In Love With Myself

I make cards for all of the voices within me… even the dark, shadowy ones. For example, here are some of the voices I honor with my SoulCollage® deck: the one who loses her temper, the one who weighs too much, the one who is lonely, the one who is impatient.

Of course, I also make cards for my inner voices which bring me light and joy: the one who is a teacher, the one who is nurturing, the one who creates, the carefree child. As I work with this amazing process, I find that I am more and more able to embrace every part of me, even the dark ones. It is in this embracing that I come to wholeness, and it is in this wholeness that I discover I am falling in love with myself, one SoulCollage® card at a time.
Please click here to see some examples of SoulCollage cards.

9 Steps To Your First SoulCollage Card

The most important thing to remember while you are making SoulCollage® cards is to honor your own process. Please keep in mind that these steps are only guidelines. Feel free to deviate from them at any time and in any way! And don’t forget to have fun!!!

1. Create sacred space by lighting a small candle and/or putting on some soft music that delights your soul.

2. Gather your materials and put them on the table in front of you. You should have the following: a piece of 5″ x 8″ mat board or cardboard, a pair of scissors, an acid-free glue stick or jar of rubber cement, and several magazines.

3. Spend a generous amount of time going through the magazines. Tear out any images that you like, that seem to appeal to you for ANY REASON. Don’t question WHY you might be drawn to the images. Simply rip them out!

4. Spread the images out around you. Gather them into smaller piles, sorting them by colors, energies, themes, or patterns. For instance, you might notice that you have lots of images of stairways, or windows, or birds, or people who are frowning, or….. You might see several images that just seem to go together for some reason. You don’t need to verbalize a reason for grouping some images together.

5. When you have a few different piles sorted by theme, choose one of them.

6. Start playing around with the images that you have chosen. Lay them on top of one another, or beside each other. Arrange and rearrange them until you come to a layout that you like. Trust your intuition. You will know when it looks “right.”

7. Glue the images onto the 5″ x 8″ mat board or cardboard.

8. You have made your first SoulCollage® card!

9. Now it’s time to do the I am the one who… exercise with your card to deepen your experience with it, and to begin to integrate its meaning into your life. Detailed instructions for this part of the process can be found
here.

Anne Marie Bennett is a freelance writer and self-taught artist who enjoys playing with mixed-media collage, and all forms of color and words. She has a BS degree in Education from Southern Connecticut State University and has taught children, teens and adults throughout the East Coast. She is a breast cancer survivor and feels closest to her own soul when she is writing, creating art, teaching, and sharing the gift of SoulCollage® with others. She lives in Beverly with her husband Jeff and two highly cherished (and spoiled) feline companions named Sasha and Scooter. Please visit her website http://www.kaleidosoul.com for more information on SoulCollage and to see examples of SoulCollage cards.

“It’ll be OK”. “Everything will work out for the best.” “You’ll be just fine.” How often do we quickly utter these words to comfort ourselves or someone else? How do we really know it’ll be ok? Are we (at least on some subconscious level) simply reassuring ourselves that whatever happens won’t break us?

Now I know that is a tough paragraph to grasp, so feel free to read it over a few times out loud. Do we ever really know anything? Can we be sure? I know for me indecision and being stuck is often the result of fear. Fear of the unknown. “What if?” And as any good therapist will tell you, you could “what if” yourself to death and never do a blessed thing with your life because you’re too afraid and panic stricken to act.

What got me thinking about this topic once again was the death of the beloved character Dana Fairbanks on The L Word. Yes, I know it is just a television show, and no one need remind me that at the end of the day the actress got up, went home, and moved on with her career. However, if art imitates life and a drama is meant to affect you as it tells real-life stories in its own unique way, why shouldn’t I be affected by it? Isn’t that a measure of success in the creative medium - the emotional impact it has on people?

For those of you not familiar with the story, Dana was a super-healthy, professional athlete who finds a lump in her breast, undergoes a mastectomy, and goes through chemotherapy. While she appears to be recovering (and all odds say she should recover fully), her chemo-weakened immune system succumbs to an infection and she dies at the ripe young age of 32 a few weeks after her surgery.

What continues to strike me about this story, beyond the obvious, was the dialogue along the way between her and those who loved her. Whether it is her lover telling her “it’ll be ok” or good friends saying “she’ll be fine” or even the character herself making plans for her comeback, it begged the question in my mind as they said it - how do you know that?? Lest you think I am a hopeless pessimist, keep in mind I spent most of my life and upbringing partaking in left-brain pursuits. Everything follows logic, formulas, and expected outcomes. As I’ve come to learn over the years, real life surely throws rain on that expectation parade. So, I’m not pessimistic, only overly analytical!

This left me with the stunning conclusion - no one really knows! That’s right, not me, not you, and not the person sitting next to you. We just don’t know for sure what any outcome will be or even if we’ll be alive tomorrow. In Raphael Cushnir’s book Setting Your Heart on Fire: The Seven Invitations to Liberate Your Life, he incites us to “Live Like You’re Dying”. He challenges the reader to be conscious of the fact that death may be around the corner and make peace with it. Who knows, maybe today is your day. In a carpe diem sort of way he invites us to use this knowledge to free us from the doubt, fear, and distraction that keeps most of us from living each day fully.

It Is All OK

I think the biggest lesson in all this is - whatever happens is OK. Even the things that don’t seem are simply part of life’s experiences OK (let’s face it, who wants a loved one to be ill or die). Sometimes life’s experiences are grand, sometimes tragic, and oftentimes somewhere in between. We experience them, and then move through them in whatever way we need to. It is only when we let fear of the unknown paralyze us that it is really not ok.

Don’t Wait

Someday is not a day on the calendar. So, for all those things you say you’ll do “someday”, start penciling them in. Don’t wait until it is too late to do what you say you want to do. Start with the following exercise:

• Make a list of 100 things you most want to do in your lifetime
• Write down the names of all the people you love and care deeply about

Starting today, tell each of those people you love them. Call them up, write a letter, or drop by, but simply tell them how you feel. Don’t assume they already know. Even if they do know, it is always nice to hear! You never know when the day will come that you won’t have that opportunity, so seize it.

Then, read through your list of 100 things you want to do and start doing some of them. Start planning the big ones. Throw caution to the wind and do some of the less-involved ones right away. The only way they will ever become reality is if you make them a priority and just do it.

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Paula Gregorowicz is the owner of The Paula G Company which specializes in helping stressed out and overwhelmed women business owners achieve more success without all the burnout and compromise. If you are a lesbian businss owner and professional, visit the new http://www.Coaching4Lesbians.com community for free resources. If you are finding yourself stressed out or overwhelmed , check out the burnout busting eCourse “Nip Burnout in the Bud” available at http://www.avoidburnoutnow.com and the “Beyond Burnout” newsletter at http://www.thepaulagcompany.com

Do you belong to the “I’ll be happy when…” brigade?

Are you, and those around you, constantly looking to some future event, or change in circumstances, for your own happiness? And if so, do you realise how damaging to your long term mental health this kind of comment can be?

Listen to yourself for a day and make a note of the times you say in conversation, “I’ll be happy when…” or something similar.

Suppose you come up with a list something like:

“I’ll be happy when the kids are in full time education.”

“I’d just be happy if he’d stop smoking”

“I’ll be glad when I’ve found another job,” or

“I’d be happy if I could lose 20lb.”

These are common enough statements and ones that on the face of it seem harmless, conveying anticipation of a better emotional state soon to be enjoyed. But look at the implications; all of these statements are subconsciously conveyed simultaneously:

I’m not happy now

I’m miserable because I don’t like my life circumstances

My happiness depends on those circumstances changing.

In each case, you are subconsciously programming yourself, NOT to be happy, until those conditions are met. So if your kids are two years away from full time education, you’re telling your subconscious to make you miserable for the next two years. Similarly, you’re telling yourself to be miserable until you’ve found another job, until your partner stops smoking, or until you lose 20lb.

Add to this the fact that these kinds of comments actually decrease your chances of finding another job or losing 20lb, and that you have no control over another person’s decision to quit a destructive habit, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Why?

because if you are giving yourself instructions to be miserable until you find another job, you are going to perform at less than your best at interview.

If you are telling yourself to be miserable until you reach your target weight, your chances of comfort eating and lounging around the house are going to be higher than your chances of eating healthily and exercising daily. And if you’re telling yourself “I’d be happy if I could,” you’re silently telling yourself that you don’t believe you can!

But worst of all, if you pin your hopes of happiness on someone else conforming to your standards, you are handing over responsibility for your mental health to another human being, and that can never be good.

So next time you catch yourself starting a sentence, “I’ll be happy when…” stop and think.

Do you really want to be miserable that long?

Try re-phrasing that to:

“I’m looking forward to the kids entering full time education”

“He’d be healthier if he stopped smoking,”

“I’m looking for another job,” or

“I’m fast approaching my target weight.”

Happiness is a choice, not a mood. It does not depend on external circumstances, or events, and need not only be felt when some invisible checklist is complete. If you want to experience higher levels of happiness, give yourself permission to be happy with things as they are first.

You might want to change things in your life, and I’m not suggesting that you shouldn’t. But don’t make your happiness contingent on those changes; make it something you own outright.

Gail Seymour is a published Poet and Web Site Designer, who currently runs http://www.payinghobby.com.

Gail doesn’t believe people should work long hours, commute, and generally slave for a wage, and have only a few precious hours each week to spare for their passions and pastimes.

She does believe people should do what they love and love what they do on a day to day basis, and that the distinction between work and pleasure is one we should all move towards obliterating.

To find your passion and start your own journey towards personal fulfilment, visit payinghobby.com today and sign up for her free newsletter.

Traditionally, mentors volunteer the wisdom of their experiences to help others who wanted to follow in their footsteps. These days, many people have learned to appreciate the value of a good mentor.

Therefore, we see messages on discussion boards asking, “Would someone be
willing to mentor me?” Total strangers call, asking, “Will you be my mentor?”

You may get lucky. You begin a series of one-to-one conversations with someone
you respect. Soon, the relationship has evolved into full-scale, helpful mentoring,
with no effort on your part and no fees to pay.

However, you may find yourself paying in other ways. Mentors sometimes seek
rewards not from money but from the satisfaction of seeing their protegés
(”mentees”) flourish.

They may become frustrated because, “You’re moving too slowly!” or, “You’re not
following my suggestions!” And they may be reluctant to see you fly off on your
own.

Regardless, just because someone’s been successful doesn’t mean she’s the right
mentor for you. Many resources are better at teaching than doing and vice versa.
Some of the most successful professionals cannot articulate why they achieved so
much and the path they followed may be closed to you.

Before you begin your search, ask, “What do I want from a mentor? Information?
Moral support? Ongoing encouragement? And can I obtain these benefits by paying
a coach or consultant? If I stumble across a mentor, will she be able to provide these
benefits in a helpful way?”

And are you prepared to be a good mentee? Will you listen carefully, act on advice
(or be prepared to explain why you won’t), and express appreciation to your
mentor? Will you avoid making unreasonable demands?

These days, mentoring tends to come with a price tag, and the service may be
labeled “consulting,” “coaching,” or even “counseling.” For example:

“Mervin” wanted to open a retail toy store. “Gwen” had found success with a
similar store in a nearby town that resembled his own. Mervin offered to pay Gwen a
thousand dollars to learn the business. Gwen accepted. Mervin now has his own
successful store and he remains friends with Gwen.

“Hilary” wanted to set up a life coaching business. She found experts who would
not be competitors and paid them for mentoring. There was a fine line, she says,
between coaching and mentoring, and she paid the equivalent of coaching fees.

“Reginald” found a mentoring service that charged a monthly $200 fee, giving
him access to experts who normally charged $500-$1000 per session.

These stories exemplify the New Mentoring, usually more effective than asking for
help from strangers. A proactive approach allows you to identify the service you
need, assess the would-be mentor’s ability to deliver that service, begin and end
when you choose, and avoid hidden costs. Focus on the benefits you receive,
regardless of the label, and these days, be prepared to pay the going rate.

About The Author

Cathy Goodwin, Ph.D., is an author, speaker and career/business consultant. How to
hire a mentor who will lead you to success (not lose you in the jungle)
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