It's Flu Season - Protect Yourself!

Written by Sherri Allen


When you ask most people what season it is, they'll tell you it's winter. Many health professionals, however, will answer a little differently. They'll tell you it's flu season. Althoughrepparttar flu can actually be caught at any time of year,repparttar 114388 heaviest flu activity occurs between December and March. That means, if you haven't already started flu prevention, you need to start now.

Of course,repparttar 114389 number one method for preventingrepparttar 114390 flu is vaccination. For a lot of Americans this year, however, that is not an option due torepparttar 114391 flu vaccine shortage. If you are in a high-risk category (i.e. over 64, suffering from a chronic illness, pregnant , child between 6-23 months or caregiver of child under 6 months) and haven't yet been vaccinated, you should contact your doctor or local government health department immediately to try to get a vaccination. Forrepparttar 114392 millions of Americans who didn't get vaccinated this year, here are some tips to help with flu prevention:

* Wash Your Hands. Accordingrepparttar 114393 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),repparttar 114394 flu virus spreads "in respiratory droplets from coughing and sneezing." Imagine this scenario: someone withrepparttar 114395 flu coughs into his/her hand. The flu virus is now on his/her hand. Then he/she touches a shopping cart, or a doorknob, or a checkout counter, etc. The flu virus is now on whatever he/she touched. Then you touchrepparttar 114396 same object. The flu virus is now on YOUR hand. You touch your eyes, nose or mouth andrepparttar 114397 flu virus has spread to you. You can see how washing your hands as often as possible will greatly reduce your chance of catchingrepparttar 114398 flu. If facilities for washing your hands aren't available, use an alcohol-based waterless hand sanitizer.

TAKING THE FEAR OUT OUT OF THE HYPNOTIC TRANCE

Written by Christine Hunter Master Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist


Mentionrepparttar word “Hypnosis” to someone andrepparttar 114387 chances are you will get one of three very different reactions: intense curiosity, nervousness, or disdainful skepticism. Butrepparttar 114388 truth is hypnosis is widely used today not just in medicine but also by top sports performers, business experts, and those inrepparttar 114389 media to boost their performance and mental focus. Despite this, many members ofrepparttar 114390 public still view hypnosis with fear and suspicion especially whenrepparttar 114391 hypnotist talks about puttingrepparttar 114392 client into a “Hypnotic Trance” The first point to make is that, despiterepparttar 114393 origin of its name, hypnosis does not involve sleep. When a person is in a hypnotic trance,repparttar 114394 body may be in a very relaxed state, butrepparttar 114395 mind is alert and highly focused. It is also a very natural state. All of us experience a trancelike state many times in our daily lives. Those of us who drive cars are very familiar withrepparttar 114396 phenomenon of driving along a well known route and arriving at our destination-and then being aware that we can’t rememberrepparttar 114397 journey at all. It is as if we were on autopilot forrepparttar 114398 journey, and in a sense we were. We were in what we refer to as a kind of trance.

The same can occur when we are engrossed in a movie, reading a book, listening to music, or gazing intorepparttar 114399 eyes of someone we love. Time seems to stand still and we are oblivious ofrepparttar 114400 outside world, our attention completely focused on what we are doing at that moment. That to can be described as a trance. Many people also consider a trance to berepparttar 114401 state achieved in mediation or when we are daydreaming.

The key difference between those described above andrepparttar 114402 hypnotic trance is that during a hypnotic trance there is another person –repparttar 114403 hypnotist – who is guiding us intorepparttar 114404 state.

During a trance,repparttar 114405 aim ofrepparttar 114406 hypnotist is to talk directly torepparttar 114407 patient’s unconscious mind. The conscious mind can act as a barrier to this communication, and so it is either distracted or encouraged to be still. Oncerepparttar 114408 hypnotist has ensured thatrepparttar 114409 client is inrepparttar 114410 desired hypnotic trancerepparttar 114411 hypnotist then make suggestions torepparttar 114412 subject. These suggestions arerepparttar 114413 triggers that aim to change people’s habits, boost their confidence, or help them come to terms with their past. Such suggestions are made not to our conscious mind, but to our unconscious mind,repparttar 114414 part ofrepparttar 114415 mind that controls so much of our lives.

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