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Energizing Quotes

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

- Henry David Thoreau

Date Published: March 09, 2011

Love is a path to the heart that knows its own way.

- Lamar Cole

Date Published: March 09, 2011

Where ever you are on the scale of emotion, relax with yourself and try and move up just one notch. Little baby steps. All is well. You are loved.

- Marcella McMahon

Date Published: March 09, 2011

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Hypnosis in Layman’s Terms

Author: Marcella McMahon
Date Published: January 09, 2012

What Hypnosis Is

Hypnosis is focused concentration. It is a natural state we go in and out of several times a day. Most people are not aware of this true definition of hypnosis. What-is-hypnosis sacramento

Examples of our natural hypnotic state include:

Watching a movie and focusing so intensely that you are not distracted by external sensation
Being at dinner, reaching for the salt and so engrossed in a friend’s story that you stop yourself in mid-reach
Driving a car and day dreaming
Reading a good book and not hearing the kids playing in the next room

Another word for theses states of being is trance, and the trance state varies in depth. Hypnosis is a word that has many negative connotations and yet it is a natural and totally safe opportunity to focus inward. A therapist can stimulate the trance state, but only with the individual’s agreement. If you are not in...

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