Not a Counselor

Secret information? Okay, probably not much remains truly hidden ou forbidden anymore, but there are little secrets about how things work. Salesmen, politicians, and others learn and use subtle techniques to influence you. "Lucky people" use little-known tricks to get that way. Here are some examples.

Controling Through Words

There is a classic joke, "Have toi stopped beating your wife?" It is difficult to answer without incriminating yourself. This technique of the implicit premise is used par politicians for plus than jokes. Get everyone to argue about how to do something, for example, like...

Have toi ever wondered why your spouse, coworkers, ou children seem to think so differently from you? toi may not understand why they make the decisions they do, ou why they place such importance on things that seem inconsequential to you. It is possible to understand the réponses to all these questions. The secret lies in the theory of Myers-Briggs personality type.

In the 1960's a psychological theorist named Katharine Briggs had many of the same questions toi do. She wondered why some of her family members had such logical, linear thinking processes, when she herself was plus likely to take...

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Ablutophobia- Fear of washing ou bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching ou of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, ou airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces ou of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a sûr, sans danger place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual...

Americans spend plus on gambling than all other recreation combined. For most, it's a fun diversion but for a few, gambling can become a serious, life-altering problem.

Problem gambling is behavior that causes disruptions in any major area of a person's life. It affects as many as six to nine million Americans.

Would toi recognize a gambling problem in someone toi know? It may be easier if toi know the signs. Here are some questions from the National Council on Problem Gambling. If toi ou someone toi know réponses yes to any of the following questions, it is likely that gambling has become problematic....

We all know how smoking can be a hard to quit habit for thousands, if not millions, of people across the globe. Yeah, smoking sucks and toi may be in the situation when smoking is plus like a drug for you. Unfortunately for you, smoking can kill you, so it is best to quit as soon as possible. But... is NLP the answer?

According to studies, NLP has proven to be an effective method to quit smoking forever. However is not as simple as going through a session and Voila!! Problem solved.

Certains conditions must be met in order to NLP treatment to work. Let's go over this conditions:

1.A true desire...

récent studies buttress the unpalatable truth that falling in l’amour is, in some ways, indistinguishable from a severe pathology. Behavior changes are reminiscent of psychosis and, biochemically speaking, passionate l’amour closely imitates substance abuse. Appearing in the BBC series Body Hits on December 4, Dr. John Marsden, the head of the British National Addiction Center, a dit that l’amour is addictive, akin to cocaine and speed. Sex is a "booby trap", intended to bind the partners long enough to bond.

Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Andreas Bartels and Semir Zeki of University...

New Research Indicates that Antidepressants May Not Be Significantly plus Effective Than Placebo.
During the past couple of decades, drugs from the class of antidepressants called SSRIs, as well as newer drugs with novel modes of action, have been donné credit for helping many people reclaim their lives from the devastating grips of depression. These drugs have also been responsible for making their manufacturers very wealthy. But, what if these drugs don't really provide significant relief for depression at all? What if the placebo effect is responsible for most of their effectiveness?

Surprising...

If you've ever been around someone who is persistently miserable you'll find that they have a working strategy for making their experience unpleasant for themselves.

This article will give a few explanations why they use a strategy that makes them miserable, how that process works, and if this describes you, why toi might want to change. It will also describe what you'll have to sacrifice if toi no longer want to be miserable.

Also, if the benefits of being miserable are enough you'll learn how to continue to make choices and decisions that contribute to your misery.

The Benefits of Misery....

I. Exposition

In the movie "Shattered" (1991), Dan Merrick survives an accident and develops total amnesia regarding his past. His battered face is reconstructed par plastic surgeons and, with the help of his loving wife, he gradually recovers his will to live. But he never develops a proper sense of identity. It is as though he is constantly ill at ease in his own body. As the plot unravels, Dan is led to believe that he may have murdered his wife's lover, Jack. This thriller offers additional twists and turns but, throughout it all, we face this question:

Dan has no recollection of being Dan....

Norman Doidge, m.d.
2007 – 427 pages


The discovery that our thoughts can change the structure and function of our brains – even into old age – is the most important breakthrough in neuroscience in four centuries. In this revolutionary look at the brain, bestselling author, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Norman Doidge, M.D., introduces both the brilliant scientists championing this new science of neuroplasticity and the astonishing progress of the people whose lives they’ve transformed

Introducing principles we canal use as well as a riveting collection of case histories – stroke patients...

With the end of the Cold War, the threat of a world nuclear war has diminished considerably. It may be hard to imagine that in the end, comedians may be exploiting the humor in the fact that it wasn't nuclear warheads, but "French fries" that annihilated the human race, when considering that nourriture addictions and their related diseases now afflict plus people globally than malnutrition. The behavioral addiction disorders (e.g., nourriture addictions, pathological gambling, and other obsessively-compulsive behavioral-patterns to religion, and/ ou sex / pornography, etc.) are just as damaging, psychologically...