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MindChangingHypnosis.Com is the website of Kyle Varner a Clinical Hypnotherapist certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists and the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners whose own powerful life experiences with hypnosis lead him into the practice. On his site, he has eleven free hypnosis downloads. I've listed six of them here along with direct links to the MP3 downloads. Although clicking on the links will allow the MP3s to play immediately, for proper use, its best to right click on the MP3 and "save link" to save it for later use. Finding Your Inner Athlete : This is a self-hypnosis recording based on the script “Finding Your Inner Athlete”. This self-hypnosis recording can help you to develop the motivation and mindset necessary to achieve your fitness goals. Please do not listen to this hypnosis recording while driving, or in any situation where you may need to maintain alertness. Download the MP3 here. Reflection Pool of Potential (Weight Loss): This is a ...

I almost never watch the news, or TV for that matter. I don't read newspapers. But I do like to read through the blogs of family and friends to see what sparks their interest of late. Having a very ---uhm--- eclectic bunch, there are usually some surprises. Some laughs, news, research, things to ponder, nostalgia or just frivolous musings. It's all good. Often their thoughts trigger thoughts of my own about a topic, like Marbella's this morning (in my timezone) about reality and maps. General semantics is a discipline that is all about this and, in the area of self-examination, it is a jewel because it talks about the water that we fishies swim in. Things that influence our perceptions even before we start introspection. And it's hard to build a basis of self knowledge on a shaky foundation, or one we don't examine, so I'm going to poke around a little here in case it may be of value to other intrepid explorers of the clan. The core observation of general se...

Spent a fair amount of time today just listening to music. [BTW, I've been subscribed to a service called Rhapsody it costs $9.95 a month, but you have access to virtually every song written. Saves a lot of money compared to buying CDs and lets me explore new music without much risk.] And the plan tonight is to go out and eat some Indian food, swig a little Chai, grab some white wine, come back and run around as an elf poking people with sharp pointy things and then watch Pirates of the Caribbean on the couch with Bright-Eyes while the thunder rolls outside. But anyway, I was listening to a song that I've always liked called "Mother Child Reunion" by Paul Simon. It has the kind of lyrics that defy easy interpretation. And I finally decided to chase down what they actually meant. They certainly invoke a rich tapestry of feeling. So first I looked up the specific lyrics, as I've been known (on certain rare occassions?) to get some key words wrong to songs, sometime...

This may not be safe for all viewers, but the effect is truly hallucinogenic. When you are ready, press the play button and watch the center of this until the prompt comes up to look away (about 1 minute, but 30 seconds will work too.) Then look at something like a painting, a poster, your hand or your face in the mirror. Truly eerie. May make your eyes wonky for a minute, so don't try this unless your very curious or very foolish.

When the influence of Descarte split the mind from the body, the subjective from objective, it allowed science to focus strictly on the physical, but left the mechanims of mind fallow. This was convenient for allowing our understanding of physical nature to blossom, and with all the rapid advances of practical technologies, science began to question the utility of having a "mind" at all. Early behavioral psychologists, like B.F. Skinner, thought that fabricating a mind wasn't necessary to explain human behavior. Simple conditioned responses to stimuli would suffice. The mind in early science was just a source of subjective errors in observation of data that had to be culled from empirical research or it would invalidate the findings. But things change. Our understanding changes. As science drilled down into the very fabric of matter in quantum physics, looking for the ultimate building blocks of nature, it ran head-on into some very disconcerting findings. Consciousness s...

Mew and I laughed at this until we cried. Hang in there for the whole thing, you don't need to understand Japanese, trust me. (Be sure and turn your sound on!) Insane Japanese Pranks - video powered by Metacafe

Before following up on the previous thread, thought I'd mention this. Went out today to eat some fast-food gourmet chinese (Panda) which is actually pretty good. Bright-eyes was a little suspicious at first, but think she agreed with me later. Afterwards we hit Costco where she was going to pickup a big bag of peanuts for little furies that live in our backyard (and crows, which seem to like peanuts after they figure out how to eat them, i.e. dip them in water. And actually, BlueJays, which seem to the be the smartest species of the lot.) In Costco I usually just wander around sampling foods and imagining various uses for the the oversized quantities of foodstuffs (bathtub full of cheetos? Would that work as a tanning solution? Putting that industrial size bag of popcorn in a dumpster on a hot day?) Today I meandered over into the vitamins section and spotted a large bottle of Thai Mangosteen . Now this stuff isn't easy to come by, so I was a little surprised and snatched it ...