Period of slumber helps the brain focus on emotionally resonant aspects of a memory while diminishing background details.
As poets, songwriters and authors have described, our memories range from misty water-colored recollections to vividly detailed images of the times of our lives.
Now, a study led by Harvard researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Boston College offers new insights into the specific …

This afternoon I had a (very rare) nap. During that nap I had a lucid dream (most of which I no longer remember). As I was waking up, I was thinking about my dream and thought that it would be a great idea to write a list about dreams for the site. So, here are the top 10 amazing facts about dreams.
10. Blind People Dream
People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally …

As with any skill, the more you practice, the better you become. It’s the same with hypnosis. If done incorrectly, hypnosis will not work. You must become skilled in the art of hypnosis before you can hope to put anyone in a relaxed enough state to actually communicate with their subconscious.
Aside from learning hypnosis techniques, you must practice hypnosis if you ever hope to become an expert in the art of hypnosis. The best hypnosis training is done on your friends and family. This way, you can practice what you’ve …

Alex Rodriguez. Bobby Bonds. Jose Conseco. Andy Pettitte. Jason Giambi. Roger Clemens. Baseball players in the news, all of them in hot water for using illegal substances for a competitive edge.
As a former professional athlete with friends active in all areas of sports, I know that steroids and other illicit substances have permeated just about every sport. A feeling has sprung up among athletes that if you’re not on this stuff, you’re at a disadvantage. You’re just not going to be as good as the next guy.
But the secret to …

Hypnosis and Conversational Hypnosis are simply natural experiences that occur all the time. People spend their days going in and out of different trances and altered states of mind. If you think about it you probably access trances many times each day; when you day dream, become absorbed in a show or movie, when you become deep in thought or even immerse yourself fully in something you are reading. So hypnosis is complete and natural ways of letting your consciousness go free.
Humans are made as any animal …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging of men and women under stress showed neuroscientists how their brains differed in response to stressful situations. In men, increased blood flow to the left orbitofrontal cortex suggested activation of the “fight or flight” response. In women, stress activated the limbic system, which is associated with emotional responses.
There are many books and movies that highlight the psychological differences between men and women – Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus, for example; but now, neurologists say they have brain images that prove male and female …

Our emotions, our behavior, and our perception of ourselves – all comes from our mind, specifically our thoughts. What have you been thinking about today? What are you thinking about right now? What do those thoughts say about you? About your life? And how well do they really match your plans for your life and your image of yourself?
Think about these 8 tips to think better – collected over the past 2500 years, and then visit the blog post link at the bottom for some more inspiration.
1 ) You are …

What you think you become.
This is the idea behind Sensory Goal Setting, Creative Visualization, Sports Psychology and the Positive Thinking movement most known for people like Zig Ziglar, Dale Carnagie and Anthony Robbins.
If you picture yourself in negative scenarios you will end up in those scenarios and if you picture yourself in happy, healthy, successful scenarios you will end up happy, healthy and successful.
The popular expression “The Power of Positive Thinking” was first the title of a book by Norman Vincent Peale and later came to be a slogan for …

A healthy mind in a healthy body or mens sane in corpore sano, as Decimus Junius Juvenalis put it in his time, is a phrase that seems to imply some causal relationship between exercise and a sound mind. However, when Juvenalis (one of the great Roman satirists of his time) made himself immortal with these words, he at least seemed to care to make a causal statement. Juvenal’s complete statement is actually:
“If and only if there is anything worth praying for at all, then if you must,pray for a healthy …

This is comparatively easy in most cases. Most persons will awake naturally at the end of a few minutes, or will fall into a natural sleep from which in an hour or two they will awake refreshed. Usually the hypnotist simply says to the subject, “All right, wake up now,” and claps his hands or makes some other decided noise. In some cases it is sufficient to say, “You will wake up in five minutes”; or tell a subject to count twelve and when he gets to ten say, “Wake …