Ted’s Blog

Learn How to Control Your Thoughts with My Self Hypnosis for Success Class.

  The most powerful skill you will ever learn is the ability to control your thoughts. What you think becomes your life. If you think worrisome, fearful thoughts, you will be worried and fearful. Think thoughts of gratitude and success, and you’ll feel grateful and successful. Do you feel like you are controlled by negative thinking? […]

Ted Is Off to See the Wizard

See the TMan get hypnotized! Check out this video of my recent appearance on HMIWebTV’s “Imagine That” with Cheryl O’Neil. I get a chance to hang out with the Wizard (and a few hundred newts.)

Mindless Fat: Packing it On

      Todays post is by guest author Veronica Dascalu. This is excellent advice and in line with what I teach my weight clients. “The best diet is the one you don’t know you’re on,” writes Brian Wansink in his book Mindless Eating. We follow nutrition guidelines, read trendy diet books, and take up […]

How to Stay Calm and Effective When Chaos is Swirling Around You.

There’s a photo on the wall in a restaurant near the Grand Canyon. It shows a rubber pontoon raft in the middle of a rapid on the Colorado River in the Canyon. It’s in the process of flipping over, and inside are a bunch of folks about to go for a swim.

Cure for Procrastination: Hire the Gorilla

I first experienced the wrath of the Gorilla  in 1982. I was an hour late turning in a final paper for a college English class. “Sorry” the instructor told me “You’ve just flunked and will have to repeat the class.” “No way!” I exclaimed. “Way” he said. At that very moment, a Gorilla in a suit and tie

I Should Get What I Deserve, So I’m Taking a 2 Month Vacation

I’ve decided to take two months vacation to travel to Nepal to study meditation in Kathmandu. I’ve decided that not only do I deserve a vacation, but that I deserve to get enlightenment in this life; not interested in waiting until the next. I’m cashing out my IRA and will be leaving next week.

How to Mentally Rehearse for Any Challenge

Do you have a challenge coming up that you feel unsure about? An upcoming test, speech, presentation, performance, game, or interview? Here’s my experience of how I succeeded using a little impromptu mental rehearsal. Every year my brothers, brother in law and I go on our annual Dude’s River Trip.

Revisiting Toads and Deep Relaxation

  This post was originally published in June 2009. The recent rain reminded me of it. I’ved added a current special offer at the end. I was thinking about toads as I fell asleep the other night.  Spadefoot toads to be exact. You may be thinking: what do toads have to do with deep relaxation? Well, it started with […]

Choose: What It Is, What It Ain’t

Today’s post is by guest author James Gabriel. James is a fellow participant in a seminar I am taking called “Living Passionately”. Choice Choice begins before dawn’s crack for some and right at for others, and I choose mine to be long after that. There are times when I must wake in the morning darkness and […]

Please Don’t Rip Me Off

You wouldn’t steal from someone, would you? Would you rip someone off by breaking into their house and stealing their stuff? If you’re reading this, probably not.  Consider, however that there is more than one way to “rip someone off”. I heard something recently that made me realize this.