In order to understand how hypnosis can be used to help improve reading comprehension, before should know how reading comprehension occurs. The brain naturally converts perception into meaning. This process includes addressing the central questions of how and why. This process rapidly relates new perceptions to previously established patterns in the brain. As the brain is a rapid learning device, improving reading comprehension normally is just a matter of reducing the obstacles that have been programmed during our education. In order for this process to occur there are very specific parts...

What is smoking, why should I care, and how do I quit?

Smoking includes the inhalation of burning tobacco into your airways – to include your lungs. It is done as an addictive habit. Once a non-smoker gets past the initial awkwardness of the act of smoking, the social benefits and simultaneous calming and stimulus benefits lead to a frequent repetition. Unfortunately, this seemingly harmless act both stimulates the release of various pleasure-related chemicals in the brain and become a learned habit, which eventually becomes deeply ingrained in their brain. The fact that the act...

When a person considers whether maintaining health is a science or art, they normally consider the cultural or prevailing wisdom of the dominant medical institutions. Those institutions, which have legal sanction in our present society, include practitioners who primarily think of themselves as scientists. This is because they have received training that is flavored by scientific tradition. What most people do not realize is that medicine comes in a number of variations. Many of them have roots that precede the establishment of Western scientific thinking. On the other hand, despite the fact...