Monthly Archives: March 2015
FINALLY, AT LONG LAST, MY ARTICLE ON PROCRASTINATION
This article is about building passion into every project, so that you are eager to begin it, and don’t get bogged down halfway through. It explores self-statements, denial, avoidance, perfectionism, fear of failure, fear of success, and other barriers to … Continue reading
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DON’T READ THIS ARTICLE: How the Mind Understands Instructions
Because of how the brain processes language and images, we have ingrained programming to make a picture or concept of an instruction or command sequence, even if preceded by the word “don’t.” The mind remembers the positive image, and drops … Continue reading
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BEYOND COMPETITION: SPORT AND SPIRITUALITY
Part of Flow is some system of measurement to know if we are developing skill or merely replicating a static state. Throughout our competitive sport life we compare our performance with best in age category, best in the world, then … Continue reading
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MARTIAL ARTS METAPHORS AND HYPNOSIS: CHAPTER 2
The second article in this series continues the exploration of metaphors of personal integrity and systemic harmony derived from the Martial Arts and their inclusion in hypnotic inductions to promote personal growth and peace.
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MARTIAL ARTS METAPHORS AND HYPNOSIS, CHAPTER 1
This series of articles proposes that, in some circumstances, metaphors of personal integrity and systemic harmony derived from the Martial Arts can be included in hypnotic inductions to promote personal growth and peace. The first article focuses on the creation … Continue reading
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DIALOGICAL DISPUTATION OF NEGATIVE SELF-STATEMENTS: CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD
Why are negative self-statements and negative self-appraisals so strong, so persistent, and seemingly so impervious to correction? This paper proposes that their strength could arise from a vestige of the bicameral mind, in which self-originated statements have the authority of … Continue reading
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A CONTEXT FOR MENTORING
This PAA Psymposium article discusses the overlap in supervision and mentoring, and the transitions from transactional to transformational leadership as the supervision relationship develops and matures. It then distinguishes the context of mentoring from that of supervision, allowing for more … Continue reading
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THE MAKING OF J.S.T.
This article outlines the inspiration and early phases of development of the Journal of Strategic and Systemic Therapies, later to become The Journal of Systemic Therapies, published by Guilford Press. Don Efron and the author established the core of the … Continue reading
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TEACH ME YOUR SYMPTOM
Occasionally people ask me “Whatever got you interested in hypnosis in the first place?” I invariably break out in a wry smile, and reflect back on how it all happened. The story reminds me that our client-teachers are often neither … Continue reading
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SOLUTION-FOCUSED THERAPY INTEGRATED WITH COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY TREATING EATING DISORDERED ATHLETES
Eating disorders afflict a noteworthy minority of athletes, especially in aesthetically-judged and weight-category sports. This paper summarizes a Masters thesis on the author’s use of solution-focused principles in a cognitive behavior therapy framework in treating these athletes. It also discusses … Continue reading
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