Nicholas Pollak
This Is a Test – and You Can Pass
Recently I have been seeing several clients who are experiencing exam anxiety. They are trying to relax and recall the information the needed information. One client had to take an oral exam after failing the standard test three years in a row. The oral terrified him because...
Changing Directions. She Is Flying High After Flying Low
I received a call recently from a young lady I last saw four years ago to help her to resolve a fear of flying and panic/anxiety attacks. It took seven sessions. Her problem was so thoroughly resolved that when her flight crash-landed in a football field in Turkey, she...
Remember, Chasing Change Can Be a Precise Art
How many of you already have broken the wonderful new year’s resolutions you made when you realized that you are still smoking, still fat, still tired, still lazy, still unmotivated?
Making Panic Vanish Is Not Magic. Common Sense Works
A new client called me recently to an appointment about his panic and anxiety. As an engineer, he is sent to sites requiring him to drive on the freeway alone. Unfortunately, five years ago, when he was on a freeway on-ramp, he suffered a massive panic attack. Ever since, he has not been able to...
Advantages of Allowing Yourself to be Hypnotized
Clinical hypnotherapy helps you to overcome so many challenges – stress, anxiety, nervousness, fears, phobias, panic attacks, overeating causing unwanted weight gain, smoking, insomnia, lack of self-confidence and self-esteem, shyness, sadness, anguish, grief. Hypnotherapy may also assist you with...
Write This Down if You Want to Make Changes
When a new client comes in, I ask the person to write, in cursive, what he or she is hoping to achieve through hypnosis. After the paperwork has been completed, we talk about what the person wants to do and how best to set about it. At first, I use the handwriting to help me gain...
Diet and Communication Drive the Bus of Our Behavior
It amazes me that many clients do not understand the importance of a good diet. They also have trouble communicating, and scarcely understand their own behaviors.
When Stress Temporarily Defeats Serene Feelings
First of two parts
As the days grow busier with the arrival of the holidays, I sense a difference in how I feel each day. What used to be calm and serenity interspersed with clients has become stressed.
As the days grow busier with the arrival of the holidays, I sense a difference in how I feel each day. What used to be calm and serenity interspersed with clients has become stressed.
Responsibility Key to Successful Hypnotic Experience
A new client has just told me he is suffering severe panic and anxiety. Before our first visit, he emailed several times to let me know about his condition and troubles he was undergoing. He had been to a psychiatrist and a medical doctor. They prescribed drugs. The medication made him worse. Elaborately, he explained...
Secrets About Why Relationships Flounder or Fly
Several recent clients are having problems with their relationships. Mainly, they are out of a relationship and either want to go back to it or want to involve themselves in the same kind of destructive connection again. Such clients turn out to be fairly high on the “physical” percentage, around 65 percent. I will explain.
