Procrastination: Hypnosis Can Help You Overcome ItWritten by By Teri B. Clark
I recently saw a t-shirt with following saying: "Procrastinate later." I had a great laugh. However, procrastination is really not that funny.The Effects of Procrastination Just what is procrastination? It is habit of putting things off until last possible minute. Procrastination in and of itself is not a problem - consequences of procrastination, however, can be devastating. If you are a procrastinator, you have likely: - Missed opportunities
- Worked late hours at work trying to get finished at last moment
- Felt completely stressed out
- Been overwhelmed
- Suffered feelings of guilt and resentment
Procrastination is a killer - a killer of dreams, ambitions, and achievement. The Effects of Hypnosis There is truly no need to continue on procrastination cycle of wait, wait, wait, stress out, and wait some more. You can overcome procrastination. How? Through power of hypnosis. Hypnosis is not some hocus pocus form of psychotherapy - it is simply a natural occurring state of mind that bypasses conscious part of mind. When conscious is bypassed, we don't pass judgment on what is being suggested. Believe it or not, we are in a hypnotic state quite often. For instance, here are some times when you have "turned off" judgment portion of your mind: - When you see a commercial on TV that influences you to buy a product
- When an expert tells you something and you don't question validity of that statement
- Children do it when they are pretending.
By going around judgment portion of mind, suggestions can be put into your subconscious and get you to head towards a particular goal - just way advertisers propel you towards their product. Your Conscious Mind Resists Overcoming Procrastination Have you ever tried to stop procrastinating? What happens? If you are like most people, you tell yourself something and your judgmental mind finds all kinds of reasons why it won't work! For instance, one of main self-help suggestions for overcoming procrastination is to break overall task into smaller, more doable chunks. This sounds great. Now try putting that through your conscious, judgmental filter. Here are some of things you are likely to "hear":
| | An Algorithm to Remove “Hurt” from PainWritten by Abraham Thomas
The behavior of pain was enigmatic. Its responses were strange. It was only a pin prick, but surrounding skin reddened and child cried out in pain. Yet, caress of a gentle finger around injury subdued that pain. A person suffering from agony of chronic pain reported no pain at all, while focused on painting a canvas. Again, hypnosis caused a patient to report that his pain did not hurt. How could just a touch, or a change in focus of attention reduce or remove pain? How could there be a pain, which did not hurt? Could such phenomena be explained as clear algorithmic behaviors of brain? Could such knowledge be used to subdue distress of pain?An algorithm was a repetitive procedure, which yielded a trusted result. Recently, a new view of mind suggested that it was an algorithm, which enabled mind to race, like a lightning streak, through neural regions. It saw, recognized, interpreted and acted. In blink of eye. From input to output, it took just 20 milliseconds. Myriad processes converted light, sound, touch and smell instantly into your nerve impulses. A special region recognized those impulses as objects and events. Another region, limbic system, interpreted those events to generate emotions. A fourth region responded to those emotions with actions. The mind perceived, identified, evaluated and acted. So, scream followed injury, as swiftly as a flash of lightning. All of this was powered by intuition, a pattern recognition algorithm. The algorithmic view received support recently, when science discovered that animals instantly differentiated between millions of smells through combinatorial coding. That discovery won a Nobel Prize in 2004. If a nerve cell had dendritic inputs, identified as A, B, C and so on to Z, it could then fire, when it received inputs at ABC and DEF. The cell could be inhibited for XYZ. It only recognized some combinations. ABC and DEF. A recognition algorithm. This new view of mind suggested that such combinatorial coding enabled all regions of mind to respond instantly and logically to incoming information. Such pattern recognition was intuition. Even with pain, mind perceived, recognized, interpreted and acted. The brain perceived tissue injuries through nociceptors. A neuron, which carried this pain message had many incoming dendrites. These branches informed it of neighborhood pain, touch, tension and much more. The neuron received a kaleidoscopic combinations of inputs. If neuron responded to combinatorial coding, it could fire for neighborhood pain to report sympathetic pain. Sympathetic responses by neighboring pain reporting neurons could increase child's sensation of pain of a pinprick. The neuron could become inhibited when it received a touch message. The combinatorial coding algorithm could explain how child's pain reduced, when its parent caressed regions surrounding injury.
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