Blog: May, 2009

‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Star to have Hypnosis for Overcoming Nerves

In the UK, or anywhere else in the world for that matter, you cannot have escaped the TV phenomena that is ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ — and whether you love the show or not, there are indeed some wonderfully talented people becoming lodged into our hearts at the moment…
I mean, where on earth else could you [...]

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Pakistan Cricket Team Turn to Hypnosis

I sat watching with anticipatory glee last night… As an Englishman, I wanted the English side to win… Yes indeed, I wanted Manchester United to beat Barcelona and claim their place in history by winning the competition two years in a row and also truly mark the English football Premier League as the best in [...]

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Is Virginity a Hypnotic Force to be Reckoned With?

At the end of last year, I watched a documentary here in the UK about an event in the US called the Purity Ball. It was about dads who took their daughters to a ball and who all pledge to remain pure and keep their virginity intact until they marry a man their father is [...]

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The Self-Hypnosis of Stepping in Some Other Shoes

OK, so I am back from the wilderness… A truly needed and majorly enjoyable week away in the simply stunning county of Cornwall, overlooking the harbour in Falmouth… (sighs audibly and contentedly) …Wonderful stuff.
In a nutshell, glorious sunshine, the Eden project, the lost gardens of Heligan, Lands End, the Lizard (the most southerly and westerly [...]

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BBC Attempts To Offer More ‘Brain Science’

I don’t know… Maybe it is because I just finished reading Ben Oldacre’s great book ‘Bad Science‘… Maybe that is why it was a poor week for the BBC to have coincided airing it’s latest leading science TV show ‘Horizon.’
Maybe I was framing the show with more than an air of scepticism (negative framing [...]

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