The guilt, fear, and doubt subside. It isn’t necessarily our fault that we developed these habits in the first place, but it’s our sole responsibility to change the firing of neurons in our brain if we want to have a different life experience.

I was going to help myself by helping my stubborn little girl show herself (and myself) self-compassion by eating yummy, whole foods, and throwing away the junk food.

already reached the theta brain wave state before we begin the conditioning process. Because you have already reached your subconscious mind, where your thoughts, habits, and beliefs reside, much less repetition is required. Usually ten to twenty-one repetitions per day does the

Remember that you get better at hypnosis over time. If you want to free dive down to get those answers, you have to learn how to train your muscles first. If the answer isn’t clear just yet, keep at it.

Reading self-help books and not improving can actually harm us. It can strengthen our sense of failure and weaken our resolve. Knowing more and more about our problems, but never learning how to change the root of the issue is not self-help; it’s a setup for disappointment.

So, when Picasso said that to be a great artist, you have to paint like a child, he was, in essence, saying that we need to access the theta brain wave state so that our inhibitions are reduced.

She was always immaculately put together, but without seeming to care about her appearance in a self-absorbed way.

The day the kids ran down the street, laughing wildly, kicking all of the stones and leaving Amanda standing there watching them fade into the distance, was a day when a lot of dust was added to a lot of emeralds. Amanda stopped trusting her friends. She developed insecurities. She stopped kicking stones. She stopped taking chances publicly for fea

The group’s actions tend to be unreasonable and amplify their moral rightness and social positions. The individual’s critical thinking and reasoning skills are abandoned.