Professional Help for New Years Resolutions

“Professional Help for New Years Resolutions”

by James Hazlerig

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It’s no secret that most new years resolutions are doomed to a short and difficult life, rarely making it to February. Like tomato seeds planted with the best of intentions, they sprout, fresh and eager, into the new day, but if under-watered, over-watered, denied sunlight, or given no framework to grow on, they wither within a month.

Commitment itself is great, but it’s only the first step. So why do so many resolutions fail? Because it’s easy to decide to make a change, but difficult to maintain the change. And while gardening may be suitable for a hobbyist, change work is a more complex matter.

That’s where a professional can come in. Hypnosis practitioners are trained experts in helping people like you execute and maintain change over time. With the help of a specialist, you can move beyond merely planting the seeds of new years resolutions to reaping the harvest of an all-year success.

State of Tobacco Control 2013 released tomorrow

Tomorrow, Wednesday, January 16, the American Lung Association will release its annual State of Tobacco Control 2013. The report grades all 50 states and the District of Columbia on four key tobacco control policy areas.  In addition, the American Lung Association in California will release a California version of the report that issues grades for every city and county in the state on three important local tobacco control policies — Smokefree Outdoor Air, Smokefree Housing, and Reducing Sales of Tobacco Products. This represents grades for all 482 incorporated cities and towns and all 58 counties in our state.
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Hypnosis Myth Number 7: Hypnosis Feels Weird

“Hypnosis Myth Number 7: Hypnosis Feels Weird”

by James Hazlerig, MA, Certified Hypnosis Practitioner

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HypnoMyth #7: Hypnosis Feels Weird
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Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff…SLEEP

Where did we get the idea that when our head hits the pillow we should just be able to instantly fall asleep. With this in mind, we seem to always disappoint ourselves when this magic doesn’t just happen.
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Orange County Tobacco Education Coalition Meeting

Orange County Tobacco Education Coalition Meeting

 

 

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

 

9:45 a.m. Puff Ball Healthy Potluck Celebration & Networking

 

10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Meeting

 

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Hypnosis Myths 5 and 6: Getting Stuck and Revealing Secrets

“Hypnosis Myths 5 and 6: Getting Stuck and Revealing Secrets”

by James Hazlerig, MA, Certified Hypnosis Practitioner

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HypnoMyth 5: Getting Stuck

If you go to see a hypnosis stage show, the volunteers go into and out of hypnotic trance when the hypnotists tells them to. In fact, they look as though, if the hypnotists didn’t tell them to wake up, they’d be stuck in hypnosis forever.
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Learn How to Let Go

Do you have trouble letting go? I mean this in the most general sense: being about to let go of a fight you just had with a friend, or being able to let go of anxiety about an upcoming job interview…
We know we should let go, but sometimes we can’t. Why is that? In my practice I’ve found that it’s often the result of simply forgetting the benefits! We may know THAT we should let go of something without knowing the benefits of actually seeing it through!
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Fear Of Intimacy Part 2 – Herpes

“Fear Of Intimacy: Part 2 – Herpes”

by Suzanne Kellner-Zinck

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There are many people who feel isolated because they have contracted herpes in particular. I say herpes because it is one of the more common sexually transmitted diseases. Here are the statistics from the CDC: One out of six Americans have genital herpes and 80% of all Americans have oral herpes. Interestingly enough 20.9% of women have genital herpes and 11.5% of men have genital herpes. Up to 50% of genital herpes is contracted through oral sex with through infection of oral herpes. Up to 80% of those with genital herpes don’t even know they have it.
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Kids in Hypnosis Part 3 Hypnosis and Teens

“Kids in Hypnosis Part 3 Hypnosis and Teens”

by Kelley Woods, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist

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Isn’t it interesting that even though every adult was once a teen, it can still seem as though this phase of life is almost alien?! Even in the most balanced of families, it is possible for a joyful and loving child to turn into a surly and resistant adversary and this transformation can happen almost overnight.

Add hormonal influxes such as a “testosterone storm”, negative influences from peers, body image issues, difficult family dynamics, health problems, insufficient sleep and poor nutrition, etc., and you have the recipe for one unhappy young person, which probably also means an unhappy family unit.
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Hypnosis Myths 3 and 4

“Hypnosis Myths 3 and 4”

by James Hazlerig, MA, Certified Hypnosis Practitioner

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HypnoMyth #3: Violating Your Morals

In bad movies, people who are hypnotized become zombies, ready to do anything their evil master says, even if it’s something terrible, like punching a puppy.

As it turns out, hypnosis is not like what you saw on TV. If you have strong morals, no one can make you violate them, with or without hypnosis.
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