Take a look for a moment: What is your mind producing right now? Thoughts that bring you joy and happiness, thoughts that uplift your self-confidence? Or a familiar stream of negativity -- worries, fears? It's a great exercise to generate thoughts of gratitude for whatever you have, think of someone who needs your help, and then share some of your good fortune. Especially when you feel like kicking something (computer? car? phone?).
Author Archives: Jack Elias
Biographers, reporters, friends and even opponents of Ghandi all remarked on his rare good humor. Given all the obstacles he faced over the decades he struggled for his country's freedom, he generated happiness in his thoughts, words, and actions. His happiness didn't just satisfy Mahatma Ghandi himself; it inspired an entire generation.
Have you ever gotten to around 5:00 PM feeling like you were having a pretty good day, then you turn on the news and everything seems terrible?
Most of the time, the reasons for our unhappiness are not outside us, even though it often seems that way. If this were true, though, how can we account for those people living in tiny Third World huts who still somehow find ways to feed and cheer up their neighbors? They must know the secret of how to . . .
ometimes being happy isn't as complicated as you think. In fact, the way we think is almost always more complicated than it is making the choice to be happy!
Whether or not you have troublesome memories you wish you could forget, sometimes you may have mixed emotions – feeling sad when you think you should feel happy, and vice versa. Mixed emotions are a great opportunity to challenge any tendencies that your mind may have for taking you into small, dark corners, and to choose happiness instead.
eople who suffer with chronic pain due to injury or illness can begin to feel at the mercy of their body’s nerve responses. This may sound strange, but with hypnosis and hypnotherapy you can actually “talk” to the part of you that is creating your pain. Once you have its attention, you can then discover the purpose of the pain and get it to dramatically reduce, and often stop, sending "hurt signals" to your brain.
Since I take a transpersonal approach, I often bypass regression technique in favor of investigating the context of a problem. I also inquire into any beliefs the client may have about the nature of consciousness. These beliefs are rarely challenged, but as one of my cases clearly demonstrates, it can mean the difference between an ineffective treatment and complete resolution of a crippling fear.
Addictions are often referred to as diseases. That reflects the deeply destructive, often life-threatening, effect that an addiction has on a person. Addictions are the most extreme form of self-rejection and self-hatred. If you're involved in an addiction, you focus almost all your energy on one thing (drinking alcohol, overeating food, smoking cigarettes, gambling). The only thing strong enough to motivate anyone to make such an extreme effort is a powerful unmet need.
When the first edition of Finding True Magic was released in 1996, readers were quite surprised. It wasn't that I had brought together East and West in the context of hypnotherapy and NLP, but that the book looked through the lens of Eastern philosophies to show how the ego shapes our thoughts and experience. The result astonished people, many of whom previously believed that, if they (or their clients) came to therapy with a "problem," that problem demanded a solution. My approach, however, rendered the problem itself null and void, even absurd . . . .