During a person's life, they will most certainly encounter many forms of anxiety. Anxieties related to test taking are very common. A version of this that occurs quite frequently is driving test anxiety, which is just another form of performance anxiety. As with just about every anxiety, a person can see significant results when hypnosis is used. In order to understand this, you need to appreciate the nature of an anxiety. And anxiety is a psychological reaction that involves the human ability to anticipate and simulate as well as the instinctual drive to survive. Therefore, it is very...

When reading for comprehension it is vital that the reader set in his or her mind the specific purpose of a reading session. Understanding what a person reads is a factor of rapidly converting perception into meaning. Normally I refer to this as the creation of the answers to how and why. Meaning also refers to the ability of the human brain to relate new perceptions to previous patterns of understanding. This is a fancy way of saying a person will relate new experiences to old experiences. From before our birth we have been creating patterns of understanding inside our brain. When new...

Grieving is a natural process, which I never thought I would experience personally. Of course, I know that that was never true. Whether it involves the loss of a precious pet, a friend, a very dear loved one, or a close family member, if it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will eventually. Over the years I have experienced different forms of loss. One day I took one of our dogs to the vet to have a lump on his chest removed. Within hours I received a rather frantic call from my wife. Between her sobs she told me that our vet had just called. Samson’s growth was actually the tip of a massive...