Can you make yourself change? Can you ‘set your mind’ to change and have it work? If you are like most of us no – you can start a behavior change, but you’ll not going to keep it. Successful change occurs because you have enrolled your emotions and unconscious mind along with alerting your environment. [...]
Your conscious and unconscious minds may act like adversaries, attempting to pull you in two directions. They are meant to work together to enrich your life. Proving that you are more than your thoughts David Brooks, past senior editor at The Weekly Standard, contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, now New York Times [...]
Image by zaQography via Flickr What do you feel? What do you want? How often do you ask yourself these questions? How often do you ask others these questions—if you’re like me, probably not often enough. These questions are the portals to knowing where you are and what to do about it. If you’re like [...]
Can you trick yourself into changing? Others do. Milton Erickson, a dyslexic psychiatrist used his indirect hypnosis technique to trick his patients to change. He understood the power of our unconscious minds. If we believe it, then we make it true. Erickson could bypass the conscious filters to get the unconscious mind to initiate the [...]
