Inspiration from Hillary??

August 24, 2007 – 11:02 pm

This statement by a 70’s era E.R.A. supporter (I’m one too, just the male variety), awakens an earlier enthusiasm for the vitality of American Politics. The Winner Politics never quite gives you what you want, but at least you feel that every voice got heard… And sometimes, just sometimes, there is a fight worth winning, and a win worth having.

I think, for me, that’s the ultimate draw of Hillary, she is one of us. And she can help us win back some national sanity.

When I say one of us, I mean those of us that witnessed the 1960’s and 1970’s reaction to a government that, well, just went off in the wrong direction. And it did happen. And we heard all the corporate bullshit.

And we followed our myopic government as it went off mad pursuit of a phantom. And we heard the bullets on our Ohio State campus.

Our government told us that we were fighting against the communist menace, but the sad fact is, that China and the USSR learned that spending a small amount on guns and war-stuff, they could keep the USA busy and off-balance from the late 1950’s to the mid 1970’s. If China and the USSR could have baited us into a few more of those unwinnable wars, then the Soviet Union might still be around!

And for a few years, we were smart enough to keep out of those sucker matches. Until we elected our current group of leaders.

So now the USA is in the perfect position to get sucked into many of those unwinnable wars. I feel that we really need some sanity in the White House now. I think Hillary has just the mind-set to get us sane. She’s tough, she’s smart, she is effective. And she knows the right thing to do. Hillary’s my girl.

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Clean Language . com — A Great NLP Resource

August 24, 2007 – 11:00 am

Most NLP sites are really vehicles for selling someones theraputicc techniques. That’s not really a bad thing, we all got to eat, but it does mean that you need to pay money to gain access to the real secrets. It is refreshing to find the real deal without the hard-sell. Read on.

I recently stumbled on this great web page that reveals some of the best information I’ve come across in a long time.

http://www.cleanlanguage.co.uk/Mirrormodel.html

It has often been said (note the lack of referential index — that’s an NLP in-joke) that all of NLP is either reframing or anchoring. I’ve felt uncomfortable with that short sighted appraisal of NLP, in that it does not look at the whole of NLP with regard to the whole person in the context of the whole society. Simply put, there is lot’s more than reframing and anchoring.

The Clean Language site brings out another of the facets of NLP: How and why to listen. Listening is neither reframing, nor anchoring. But this new way of listening is a central skill of NLP. Visit the page. Read. Learn. Live.

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Consumer Reports and the Dodo Bird Verdict for Psychology

July 12, 2007 – 4:07 pm

The magazine “Consumer Reports,” published by the Consumer’s Union did a study in 1995 about the effectiveness of psychological treatments. Basically, the question was what treatments work? and how well? The study was important enough that the later President of the American Psychological Association (the most prestigious and authoritive society of psychology) enthusiastically endorsed the study.

So, what did the CR study conclude? That psychotherapy does work and does quite well in many measurable respects. Specifically:

  • Long-term treatment was always better than short-term treatment, and the longer, the better.
  • Medication plus psychotherapy was no better than psychotherapy alone.
  • Psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers did equally well in improving the clients condition and outperformed marriage counselors.
  • Family Doctors did well in the short term, but less so in the long term.
  • Alcoholics Anonymous did especially well for alcoholics, and significantly better than mental health professionals.
  • Clients that were active participants in selecting the therapy and therapist did much better than passive recipients.
  • No specific modality of treatment did better than others. This should not be the case if the treatments from efficacy studies actually did perform better than other treatments. This is the famous Dodo Bird Verdict from Alice in Wonderland, where the dodo bird declared that everyone had won the caucus race and everyone must have prizes
  • Clients that were limited to a fixed number of sessions by insurance providers did worse than clients who continued to receive treatment.

This is quite a list of results, and is actually good news for the ability to measure the results of therapist practitioners in the real-world. Of special note, however, is that no grand theory of psychology was actually better than any other: The dodo bird verdict! And that includes phychoanalysis, cognitive, behavioral, or any other grand theory.

Your lesson from this? Pick a therapist that you like. Ask about how well they are at making real changes in their clients. Stick with them. And above all, do not go to a therapist because your employer or insurance company will pay for a limited number of sessions!

My personal and professional opinion is that hypnosis, especially the excellent therapies derived from Tad James’ Time-line Therapy(tm) are the most effective, like my own The Celarien Experience®. It can be very rapid and well worth researching. Check it out.

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Don’t do anything you can’t do well

June 21, 2007 – 7:31 am

“Don’t do anything you can’t do well” — Signed by Marlee Matlin in “Children of a Lesser God”.
That’s an attitude that’s easy to catch! It reminds me of my mom saying: “Anything worth doing is worth doing well,” My mom’s saying was barely right, and the first is almost right.
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Learning About That is Easy if You Believe in Day Dreams

April 21, 2007 – 10:07 pm

You think you might have a problem? A problem about that? Or you need that? Or want that?

Maybe you think about that from time to time. Play that over and over in your head. Think about the things leading up to that. Or maybe how that makes you feel. Or maybe you daydream about what happens after that. Tell me about that, all that and more.
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The Nick Tesla All Night Salesman Machine!!!

April 21, 2007 – 9:12 pm

I’m passing this on to the group for your collective wisdom. I came up with this after reading about the DHE offshoot of NLP. As you read this you may discover that I actually know nothing about DHE. In fact, like Alice said about “Jabberwocky”, (and I misquote) “It makes me think of many things, although I’m not sure what things.” Now does that sound like a trance, or what??
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Greetings Seeker, Finder and Keeper

December 15, 2006 – 9:50 pm

As you can see, I have re-formatted this entire blog. Gone are the snazzy graphics :-( but in it’s place is a new ability to comment. I’m allowing everybody to comment now. Of course, spam will force a change in the policy…

Look around. Check out what’s important. I plan on putting my NLP notes here along with technical information.

For the romance and relationship stuff, go look at my romance blog, and celarien, too!

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EFT works amazingly well.

December 14, 2006 – 9:18 pm

How do I begin? EFT stands for ‘Emotional Freedom Technique.’ This may be the worst acronym in the world for what may be the best, simplest, most reliable and effective theraputic technique. No drugs, easy to learn and remember, works in minutes, or LESS!
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What the Heck is a JAH be INI ??

December 14, 2006 – 7:37 am

All spiritual paths and creeds tell us that the way to God is that contact within. The telephone line to Jesus. The “still small voice.” The dark glass.

That connection is within so that no one can step between. Like, but unlike, the Rasta InI it tells us that InI, our connection between that first person (the self of our consciousness) and the FIRST PERSON (the Soul of the universe), is the GodLink. We see God imperfectly but personally through that connection. It is your very own concept of God. Simply put: JAH be InI.

We see God only through the eyes of our own human perspective. Thats not all that God is, it’s only what we can do with our limited capabilities and experiences.
Everybody gets some part right, and and everybody has something obscured. A candle can’t see the shadows it casts, you know. As Ken Wilbur has mentioned: “nobody is so stupid that they are 100% wrong”

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Definition of Celarien

August 14, 2006 – 9:18 pm

People ask me all the time: “What is Celarien?”
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