Category: Conflict
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Using Hypnosis to Become Your Best Self

When is a good time to use hypnosis? When will hypnosis really make a difference? When you’ve been working on a problem and you just can’t seem to solve it with your conscious mind… The problem is persisting even though you’re reading books, you’re watching videos, reading blogs, maybe you’re even seeing a coach because…
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Why You’re Not Able Solve Persistent Problems

Have you ever wondered why you can solve some problems but other problems persist? Why some linger and grow into even bigger, more complex problems? Tou might have heard that your conscious mind can hold seven bits of information at a single time (+/- 2). The conscious mind can work with five to nine things…
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Emotionally Triggered by Your Partner and Not in a Good Way

Here is it means when you’re so emotionally triggered by your partner that you shut down and stop responding altogether. This is what happens with persistent conflict with your partner, especially if you’ve entered the area of criticism and defensiveness as a response. When you”re responding with contempt and stonewalling, the end of your relationship…
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Just Add Hypnosis When Nothing Seems to Be Working

If you’re having a problem that you just haven’t been able to resolve… If you’re experiencing a persistent problem and you’ve been trying everything, books, blogs, videos, podcasts; you might have started seeing a coach or you want to go to couples therapy but your partner won’t go with you… If you’ve done all these…
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The Subconscious Mind and the Principle of Positive Intention

There’s a principle of Positive Intention in your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind always has a positive intention for whatever it does, a lot of times that positive intention, it’s for survival or protection. If you look at where you are right now, your subconscious mind had a positive intention for bringing you here. If…
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How to Tell if Hypnosis Works or Not

Does hypnosis actually work? I have an undergrad in Psychology and a Master’s in Neuroscience and I’ve always known about the subconscious mind but I could never see proof of the subconscious mind in action. I tried hypnosis. I went to a hypnotist. He told me to relax, go down some stairs, think of a…
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Why You Feel Stuck in Conflict

If you have a persistent problem in your relationship, consider that there are problems that your conscious mind can solve. Those are the problems that come and go because you can resolve those conflicts with your partner. You may even be able to resolve these problems on your own because your conscious mind identifies what…
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The Secret to Solving Persistent Relationship Conflicts

Signs that your relationship may be in trouble according research in neuroscience and Gottman Method Couples Therapy and his research on divorce and what you can do with unresolved conflicts in your relationship, even if your partner isn’t interested in couples therapy. Unresolvable conflicts and the way they make you feel inside of your relationship……
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Unresolved Conflicts That May Lead to a Break up

Do you have unresolvable conflicts in your relationship? The research around conflict done by marriage researcher, John Gottman, has shown that two out of three conflicts are actually not resolvable. This means for every conflict that you actually do resolve with your partner, there will be twice as many that you will not be able…
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Dealing with Conflict & Emotional Reactivity

One of the goals of conflict inside your relationship, according the Gottman Method Couples Therapy is to have a greater understanding of your partner. Conflict can be an opportunity to create something called a Love Map where use conflict to map out your understanding your partner’s position. Conflict can then help you build out this map of understanding how…