..."What Is Hypnosis?" Describe the psychological and physical aspects of hypnosis and discussthe role of relaxation in Hypnotherapy . Throughout time Hypnosis has been labelled with various definitions, and by some has been seen as mystical and weird. However, as advances have been made in science there has been a slow but significant switch in opinion regarding the aspects of Hypnosis. The American psychologist Clark Hull said of hypnosis,"All sciences alike have descended from magic and superstition, but none have been so slow as hypnosis in shaking off the association of its origin" (Clark Hull, Hypnosis and suggestibility, 1984). Hypnosis is now recognised as a medical therapy with evidence of improved wellbeing in its participants. In a nutshell, hypnosis is when a subject agrees to undergo hypnotherapy, and if suggestible, can be putinto a trance state where the subconscious mind can be unlocked and the conscious mind takes a back seat for a while causing the subject to become completely relaxed. During this phase the mind is more open to positive suggestions. For Hypnotherapy to take place the individual undergoing the therapy needs to be suggestible. This means that the client is not only willing to participate in the therapy, but also has belief in the treatment and its possible positive results for them. Several experiments have been carried out to substantiate this theory, for example by Solomon Ash. In his study a willing subject was asked to participate in what...
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...Roar! Wind dragon roar, the wind blew, sweeping the sky fengren, as if even the air is torn open, the kind of amazing offensive duo looking to see that Yang bow is one of the changes. Shoot children are pushed in this spirit array, the power is very strong, and I'm afraid that will not be weaker than before the mu long, "Kingland split spiritual matrix", even God soul strong throughout the early finish the long march, and that's certain death. In previous times, mu long is a left eye, so shoot children quietly lurking in the side, secretly preparing spiritual matrix, once met the case, it is arranged spiritual matrix shot. mu long, clearly shoots children battle experience very weak, so I did not let her appearance and people front...
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...I chose to do my fiction essay on “Killings”. This story was written by Andre Dubus in 1979 and is still very popular today. In Dubu’s short story, Killings, he uses similes, personification, and imagery to convey the theme of love leading to tragedy. The first literary device is a simile and Dubus uses this device on page 107 in the final paragraph. Dubu’s says “It seemed to Matt that from the time Mary Ann called weeping to tell him until now, a Saturday night in September, sitting in the car with Willis, parked beside Strout’s car, waiting for the bar to close, that he had not so much moved through his life as wandered through it, his spirit like a dazed body bumping into furniture and corners.” In this sentence Dubu’s uses simile by comparing Matt’s spirit to a dazed body with no control over itself, this allows for the readers to understand how much Matt feared losing his kids because of his love for them which connects us back to the main theme of this story. Dubus uses simile again on page 108 in...
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...My name is Dan Galvez, and I will be talking about the artwork called the Seaside Cemetery. - There are several things that stand out in this artwork. - The most noticeable is the crashing of the ocean waves. - The scene in the artwork also looks like a very dark and gloomy scene. - There are graveyards on the land, which could represent some type of cemetery. - There are also white figures in the artwork which kind of reminds me of a ghost or spirit. The trees are very dark, and look as if it came from a horror movie. - This also looks like it took places probably in the 1800’s to the 1900’s. - The clouds are also cloudy which could be that there is some type of storm, most likely a hurricane. - To me this artwork looks like it’s about how storms can cause many deaths, and there isn’t anything we can do about it. - Mother Nature is something we cannot prevent, and natural deaths happen because of them. - I know this because if you closely observe the picture, it is pretty much cut into two parts. - The first part is the strength and devastation of the storm, and the crashing of powerful waves. - The other half is nothing but a graveyard where people have died probably from this storm. - According to the credit line, this artwork was created by Adolf Hiremy- Hirschl. - He was an Austrian, and was born in 1860 and died in 1933. - He named this artwork the Seaside Cemetery, and was created in 1897. - What significance this may have to Adolf was that he probably...
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...landslides. B : Victoriously, we surmounted these ordeals and pains, beyond imagination of the human race G : Instant death of our loved ones, claimed by transportation mishaps and natural disasters. Thousands also die in hunger and malnutrition. All : Including ambushes and endless wars in Mindanao. They trampled our basic human rights, such as the right to live G (solo) : I lost my loving husband, who didn't want to join Abu Sayyaf. G (solo) : I lost my only son, who opted to become a military man. G : We lost our innocent children and women, we lost our homes and properties. B : Survivors are Filipinos. The wrath of nature and cruel destiny may steal everything from us. B (solo) : Wealth, properties, and family All : But the Filipinos never give up B : For us we are continuously scourged by the test of time. The spirit to survive and to bounce back remains undefeated All : I'm as pliant as a bamboo for I'm a man of Earth G : My hair may all be blown away by the winds B : And my legs may be crippled by the smash of waves All : But I will stand and pick up the shattered pieces of myself and continue to live B : Resolute to survive, clothed with an inspiration to live, not only for my family but also for my beloved country All : Filipinos unite in the midst of crisis, regardless of socio-economic status, tradition and creed G : The world has seen the magnanimous spirit of the Filipinos in crucial times. All : The gap between the rich and the poor was narrowed ...
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...back to the pages of history, tattoos in the early ages, were borne not for fashion. Instead, they were generally inscribed in body, essentially for the medicinal and spiritual qualities (iloveindia, n.d.). “While beadwork and jewelry are also frequently used as a means of beautification, there are a few types of body art that dominate. Body decoration and transformation occurs at set times in a person’s life and the decoration’s thought to enhance a person’s status and beauty” (Admin, 2010). In varies of cultures, tattoos and body piercing is the form of beauty and power because it reconfigures identity, sexuality, gender, and status. Africans and indians mark themselves for beauty, medical purpose, and protection from evil spirits. “Traditional tattooing in African culture is not a mere expression of one’s individuality. It’s a series of intricately designed patterns that carry major cultural implications, where the body displays the strength of the inner character. Tribal lineage, maturity, spiritual protection, political and social status as well as personal strength are all indicated through the art of African tattooing” (Admin, 2010). Tattoos are known as a historic mark because it shows what that person experience and what...
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...Environment Sunday 2008 “Creation Groans” Psalm 104:24-30; Mt 6:28-30; Romans 8:18-25 God’s creation is all around us. Even in the cities built by human beings, it is present everywhere: in the flowers we keep on our windows, in the birds visiting our balconies and in the grass and trees of public parks. We tend to think of Hong Kong as a ‘concrete jungle’, so we enjoy whatever bit of nature we can find. However, anyone who investigates the city’s natural resources will quickly discover some amazing facts. Despite its small area and high population density, Hong Kong boasts incredibly rich and surprisingly diverse flora and fauna. Did you know that Hong Kong has: • • • • • • • 23 Country parks and 6 Special Areas, covering over 40% of HK’s total land area 400 known native species of trees (compared to 33 in the UK) Over 2000 native species of flora (compared to 30,000 in all of China) Almost 300 species of butterflies (compared to 55 in the UK) Almost 500 species of resident and migratory birds Over 80 species of hard coral (more than the Caribbean!) and Over 300 coral reef associated fish species? (information from Civic Exchange Hong Kong) These statistics seems almost unbelievable even to nature lovers. Most of us simply aren’t aware of the incredible wonders in our own backyard. We’re so preoccupied with the man-made that we miss what’s happening to the things that God made. The Biblical writers were much closer to nature than we are today. The word ‘creation’ appears 55...
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...Dream Analysis and Interpretation Concordia University- Wisconsin KA October 9, 2012 COUN-554 All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack Kerouac Humans have been studying and trying to understand the meaning behind dreams and what exactly they mean. Although, dream interpretations have been around since 3000-4000B.C., there is still great controversy over analyzing and understanding dreams. According to (Word IQ, 2010), dream interpretation is the art of determining the meaning of the symbolic content of a dream. During the Greek and Roman periods, dreams were believed to be direct messages from their gods or the dead. They believed that dreams forewarned and predicted the future, and therefore, provided them with solutions on how to handle situations. The Greek and Roman people had self-help techniques for inducing certain dreams. They also believed in the significance of dreams, and used interpreters to work alongside both military and political leaders. Dream interpretation is also a part of psychoanalysis; psychoanalytical therapists analyze the content of the dream, perception of dream, hidden content of a dream, and the meaning of the dream and the reasons the dream occurred. Sigmund Freud’s pioneering psychoanalytic approach to interpreting dreams is currently used in Modern-day therapeutic settings. Another approach to dream interpretation is from a Christian biblical perspective. Dream interpretation dates...
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...The Energy Document “Be humble, for you are made of earth. Be noble, for you are made of stars.” -Serbian Proverb Science can only talk about what it can measure and it cannot measure thoughts, love, spirit, or God; therefore, it cannot scientifically talk about those things. Science measures the physical make-up of the universe and talks about how it happened, not who made it. An obvious example of this is the illusion of conflict between creationist and evolutionist. They argue as if they are talking about the same thing when they are not. Creationist have no idea how it was done, they only know that God did it. Evolutionist are not at all interested in who did it, they are exploring all the possibilities from physical and mathematical evidence of how one thing led to another. Hydrogen is found to be the most abundant element in the universe (97%) and comprises the core of most stars. Stars are seen as fusion furnaces forming (creating), at the least, the elements of the periodic table up to iron. Science finds that 99.6% of the human body is comprised of 11 elements. 54 trace elements make up the rest of the body. We are made of star dust. Each atom in our bodies is at least 5 billion years old. I wonder where all they have been in that time. This is one big reason to start teaching the Periodic Table of Elements in the 1st Grade. Start with 5 elements that they encounter everyday: Oxygen (air) and Hydrogen (water); add Carbon and make carbon dioxide,...
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...Dylan Gordon ENG 4U July 2015 Take a Walk in my Shoes: An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” “Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, "And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me."”(A)The quote couples well with the simple pleasures found in William Wordsworth’s poem titled “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. On “April 15, 1802, Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, were walking near a lake at Grasmere, Cumbria County, England”(B). While walking the coastline, Wordsworth stumbles upon a sea of daffodils swaying in the wind. In his poem Wordsworth sits on his couch thinking back to this experience, appreciating how lovely it was. Through careful choice of metaphors, similes, personification, and diction, William Wordsworth guides the reader through his experience walking with the daffodils. Wordsworth puts to use poetic devices to give the reader a clear image of what he was seeing that day by the water. Not only does he want the reader to feel his emotions, but to stand in his shoes and experience the moment with him. In the first stanza, we are given a wealth of imagery to set the scene. The author wanders through “vales and hills, When all at once [he] saw a crowd/A host, of golden daffodils.” Here the author uses alliteration to demonstrate to the reader that the daffodils come to view as a group as if he is summiting a hill and they wait on the other side, hiding from behind the hill. The daffodils are situated...
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...thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit” (p.108); nonetheless, this concept remains relative and abstract because everyone pretends to know what the term “beautiful” means, but no one can really define it . In fact, beauty takes a variety of facets and may be seen from different perspectives depending on an individual’s perception. External beauty is the first facet that beauty can take. Many people see beauty in physical traits or in the fact of being physically attractive. Having blue eyes and blond hair, being tall and fit or being cheerful and dynamic are all characteristics of external beauty. Nonetheless, these characteristics are not a standard of judgment because they may differ from one person to another. Nowadays, media, movies and advertisement emphasize physical beauty that seems to them to be the most important criteria to attract people. As a result, a lot of people, especially women, swallow what advertisements try to make them think and spend a lot of money and time taking care of their physical aspect, thinking that this is the only way to show their loveliness and prettiness. Moreover, due to the fact that human beings care a lot about what others may think about them, they try to follow the standard of beauty that these advertisements impose to them. As a result, many people do not hesitate to do surgical operations in order to conform to the new wave that has...
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...The Church of the New Testament There has never been and will never be a single universal religion. From the beginning of time people have argued over who has the correct teachings, beliefs, and religious practices. However, the Eastern Orthodox Church believes itself to be the one true religion as practiced in the New Testament. Prior to 1054 AD, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholicism were branches of the same religious body. In 1054 AD the first division of Christian faiths occurred. There had long been conflicts between the two churches that included the nature of the Holy Spirit, iconic worship, the celebrations of Easter, and cultural differences. Roman Catholicism separated itself from the Eastern Orthodox and began its own denomination. The two denominations have remained separate ever since. There are many different genres like, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, and Romanian Orthodox. They are all names for one Church with the same faiths and practices. Today’s Orthodox religion believes that they are the continuation of the ancient Orthodox Christian Church. It is said that they can trace their history back to Christ and the apostles. The Orthodox Church began on the day of Pentecost, which was fifty days after the Resurrection of Christ. The term “Orthodox” means “correct believing,” hence they have remained faithful to the totality of the teaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles. While the Orthodox Church has been...
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...several years go, he creates grand 3D realms and environments with an X-Acto knife. Welcome to Haven of Delight, Pien’s hauntingly beautiful exhibit on display at The Rooms Provincial Gallery. “I cut vertically,” says Pien. “Even though I have an image to work with while cutting, I am still doing a lot of improvisation in order to feel that there is a continued sense of exploration and negotiation with making the paper-cut.” Haven of Delight exhibit features an out of this world installation; it’s an all encompassing paper maze of celestial celebration. Haven of Delight is a universe in itself. Viewers are welcomed into the tranquility of the grand-scale sanctuary where imagination, myth and spirits come to life. Pien’s ethereal paper cut-outs begin as a photograph, images of trees and human figures. He combines the two digital photographs and manipulates it until the visual aligns with his mind’s eye. “I am interested in exploring realms where language is inadequate to explain away mysteries and wonders,” he says. On the night of Haven of Delight‘s opening Pien wandered around with a small keychain flashlight, asking patrons to hold it up at eyelevel. The small light showcased an entirely different interpretation, Haven of Delight became lucid, a dream within a dream. Pien is fascinated with the unconscious, a realm when reality gives way and our minds are free to roam wild and our hearts purest. “My attempt is to create tensions within the work while removing binaries,” says...
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...more recently the Black Lives Matter protests in Dallas, or anti-Trump protests in America’s big cities. Regardless of intentions, a great many public resistances turn violent. Therefore, it can be reasonably claimed that peaceful resistance is a false term. Resistance in any form has a negative impact on a free society due to the chaos it ensues, yet it is necessary considering the change it inspires to overcome oppressors. There is no such thing as peaceful resistance. In a direct resistance, like the ones we have seen in the past, such as the “protests” in Ferguson, Missouri, relating to Michael Brown, the human spirit led us to violence and tyranny; businesses were burned and people were injured. Somehow when people are directly resisting an opposition, it seems to take a negative turn. Chaos is leisurely created with any resistance and it is a product of any human endeavor in some way, shape, or form. Even in the simple ways of resistance we produce it. For example, in colonial America people took steps to boycott Great Britain out of anger for not having equal representation, which seems peaceful, yes. But ultimately the boycott was a major factor in leading to the American Revolution, while it also caused major budget shortages in their home country. An action that was only meant to express the colonists’ frustrations for not being heard in government, caused both violence and chaos. Plato once believed that chaos was the natural state of all things, and just as well...
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...philosophical assumptions informing the poetry of the first wave Romantics, not least Wordsworth. Precisely because it is at odds with his views elsewhere, some believe that Shelley may not have written the “Defence.” 2.Thesis: Shelley’s ultimate goal is to stress the beneficial impact of poetry. To this end, he feels it is necessary to define the nature of poetry. To do this, he feels he must first address the nature of the poet, to which end, he must first address the nature of man. “What are Poets?” 3.The Mind: the minds of humans are comparable to an aeolian harp. There are two main “classes of mental action” (516) or faculties: conscious thoughts, produced by the ‘reason’ (what Locke terms the ‘understanding’?), are comparable to a melody or sequence or combination of notes: man is an “instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the alternation of an ever-changing wind over an Aeolian lyre, which move it by their motion to ever changing melody” (516). The reason is the “mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another, however produced” (516) and is expressed in logical discourse (e.g. scientific treatises). The reason “respects . . . differences” (516) and is thus particularly given to “analysis” (516). Another part of the mind, the ‘Imagination,’ has the capacity to add harmony to these thought-‘melodies’: there is a “principle within the human being, and perhaps all sentient beings, which acts otherwise...
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