Intentional Trance Formation

Attachment to Outcomes

Do not become attached to the things you like;
do not maintain aversion to the things you dislike.
Sorrow, fear, and bondage come from one’s likes and dislikes.
–Buddha

Recursive Traps

It is often possible to discern a structure to people’s difficulties
in which internal states and external events
continually create the conditions for the reoccurrence of each other.
–Paul Wachtel

Self-Efficacy

[twg_gpo_button] I am a psychologist who works with those who can afford my fee. My clients tend to be impressive [...]

Willpower: What it is and how to get it

[twg_gpo_button] We are each dealt a particular biology, psychological history, and current social environment. From these parts emerges a new [...]

Will & Aiming Attention

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.

-Martin Seligman

Asleep at the Wheel

When asked, “Are you a god?”
Gautama, the person who became the Buddha replied, “No.”
“Then what are you?”
he was asked again.
Gautama’s answer was,
“I am awake”
Buddha means: “Awake.”

Intentional Influence of Experiential Phenomena

[twg_gpo_button] Suggestion, the use of imagination to manipulate subjective phenomena can be used to counter many addictive traps. This procedural [...]

Salience and Suggestion

Man is a credulous animal and must believe something.
In the absence of good grounds for belief,
he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell

Hypnosis, Suggestion and Neurosis

[twg_gpo_button] Suggestions are invitations to explore a particular subjective reality. Whether the entity that creates it is a hypnotist, salesman, [...]

Hypnosis and Ordinary Trances

[twg_gpo_button] The hypnotic state clients experience in my office as a result of a formal trance induction is just one [...]