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NEW Year’s Resolution!
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The New Year prompts us to make adjustments in our life style, the shape of our bodies and relationships. Commonly referred to as the New Year's Resolution, maybe you want to exercise more, lose weight, stop smoking or spend less time checking your e-mail. |
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Your Body, by Nancy Wozney
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Your Body, written by Nancy Wozney, Dance Writer. More ways to Stop the smoking habit!
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5 Ways To Deal With Money Stress
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Tune In To SELF TALK (Written by Sanna Carapellotti)
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Unquestioned beliefs about yourself, or opinions are formed in words
and can be heard in the mind, an inner voice that circles and repeats.
You may hear this voice when you are in conflict, stressed or moving
about in everyday life. It’s like a broken record, a running commentary
on the things you have done wrong (even once!), can’t control or are
afraid of. There is usually a remark or retort about what you are about
to do or need to do.
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Hypnotherapy Shows Promise for Sleep Disorders
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Parasomnias are sleep disorders that can endanger both the individual experiencing the parasomnia and anyone who is sleeping in the same bed as that person. Parasomnias are activations of the nervous system during sleep. Sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep eating, night terrors, restless leg syndrome and teeth grinding are all parasomnias. Some people even experience sleep sex and sleep driving.
Parasomnias are often triggered by depression or stress. If the parasomnia persists and poses risks to the sufferer or those around him or her, medical treatment may be necessary.
Hypnosis is a state of altered consciousness. When someone is hypnotized, he or she is highly suggestible, responding to thoughts implanted in the mind while in a state of deep relaxation. Hypnotherapy utilizes hypnosis in order to modify a patient’s behavior and emotional responses.
A recent study performed at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine’s Sleep Disorders Center wanted to find out if hypnotherapy would be useful as a treatment for parasomnias. Researchers followed 36 patients for a five-year period to see if hypnotherapy alleviated parasomnias and caused lasting change.
At 1 month post-hypnotherapy, 45.4% of the patients were free of all parasomnia symptoms. At 18 months, 42.2% were symptom-free, and at 5 years 40.5% were still without parasomnia incident. Researchers concluded that hypnotherapy is indeed a viable treatment for parasomnias.
This may also point to hypnotherapy as a way to alleviate stress or depression. Because stress and depression are common causes of parasomnias, the hypnotherapy may be working because it reduces the underlying stress or depression.
Some patients don’t respond to hypnotherapy; certain people are just more susceptible to the hypnotic state. Still, the results of this study positively favor the use of hypnotherapy as a relatively cost effective and side effect free option for treating parasomnias.
© Copyright 2007 Insight Journal Online Magazine.
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My generation seeks fame without sweat
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| Are schools too soft in training their dancers for the "real world? Many of
todays dancing teens equate ballet with the fantasy of pop star stardom? They
are ill prepared in terms of having the necessary focus and self-discipline for
the rigors of ballet. This article suggests that to make it into the top schools
and companies, you have to sweat and sweat big! |
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Improv marries dance and science
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| Dancers moving with electrodes pasted to their skulls? That's the image that
might come up, when you hear that neuroscientists are curious about dance
improvisation. Reading this article will clue you in to how improv dancers may
be related to a flock of birds? Interesting stuff! |
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Human See, Human Do: Ballet Dancers' Brains Reveal the Art of Imitation A University College London (UCL) study, published in the online edition of Cerebral Cortex.
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Watching ballet appears to create movement patterns in the observing ballet
dancer' brain. So what is the big deal? The observers were not dancing! All
movement has a correlate physiologic response in the body (muscle tissue,
central nervous system, brain). If the dancers were not moving, then this study
supports the practice of Mental Rehearsal, or visualization. Their brains
behaved as if they were dancing.
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EFT and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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American soldiers are exposed to the stresses of war on a daily basis.
Emotional Freedom Technique has been shown to assist with the balancing
of psychological trauma and their effects. EFT has helped soldiers from
Vietnam War and the most recent wars.
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Psychology is key to finding next Darcey Bussell
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British ballet should adopt psychological performance techniques used
by the country's sporting elite to help find the new generation of
Darcey Bussells.
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