I have a confession to make...

Over the last few years I have bought many books related to self-help, hypnosis, psychology and similar topics.

One of those books is the Power of Now  by Echhart Tolle; he is variously described as a sage, a guru and a spiritual teacher.




The book gets rave reviews, that Queen of American TV, Oprah Winfrey rates it.

But the truth is that I struggled to read it, I found the format hard to digest, in the end an irritation with seeming 'worthiness' meant that I stopped at page 61.

However perhaps I should have another go. In the Daily Mail newspaper today they report how daydreaming  makes us miserable and how being more in the moment increases our happiness.

Perhaps it's time to have another look at the The Power Of Now.

Goodbye O2, coprorate sponsors of vile child killing videos

Today I say goodbye to O2 as my provider of mobile phones.

Why?

Because they sponsored the 10:10 organisation that sees the use of carbon as something to be avoided at all costs.

Their (10:10) now infamous "No Pressure" mini movie (written by Richard Curtis) that showed people being blown apart if they did not fall in line with 10:10 carbon reduction ideas, was for me, the last straw.

I wrote to O2 to ask why they were continuing to sponsor 10:10 when they put out this sordid piece of propaganda. O2 said they did not have editorial control over what 10:10 did but that the company aims were broadly aligned with 10:10.

To me that makes O2 complicit in a media campaign that promotes the taking of human life if you don't sign up to the 10:10 agenda.

The only logical response to that is to vote with your cheque book and use a different company, so I did.

Good news the UK leads the world...in cocaine use

It seems that the UK leads the western world in cocaine use (or should that be misuse?).

It's reported that the drug is as cheap as £1.50 per line in some areas and in Manchester 4 out of 5 clubbers are said to have used it.

Cocaine is a stimulant (it was once part of CocaCola, hence the name) and suppresses appetite. It acts to stop the re-uptake of serotonin and dopamine in the brain to give that euphoric feeling.

So what's the problem?

It is addictive, especially in crack-cocaine form and this tends to lead towards increased use and with it, the need for more money to pay for it. Excessive use can also lead to a racing heart, hallucinations and paranoia.

But perhaps the biggest problem of all is that the supply of cocaine is through illegal channels where the product can be tampered with and the money spent on the drug is effectively exported.

In Portugal drug use has been reduced by decriminalising major drugs. It should be a useful model to follow in the UK since the policing approach appears to have failed but no politician in the UK appears to have the courage to promote this as an idea.

In many ways alcohol use is far more damaging to the individual and the country but adopting a licensing approach to cocaine use is not being promoted by any of the major political parties at present.

Hollywood Stars and their secret

There is a secret that Hollywood stars use to change their life.

What is that secret? Hypnosis.

From stage fright to spider phobia, the Hollywood stars are in the end just like the rest of us, they sometimes need a little extra help to overcome their problems.


Watch the video above see how the stars become non-smokers.

You can use exactly the same methods without traveling to Hollywood, just contact me through the web site.
www.somersethypnotherapy.com

Malware blasted

After my problems yesterday with a malware attack on my PC I thought other may want to know how I fixed it.

Fortunately the PC would still boot.

I interrupted the boot process and booted in Windows Safe mode.

I had already downloaded on another PC the anti-malware tool from http://www.malwarebytes.org/ (This is the free version of the tool)

I loaded this onto a memory key, changed the name of the EXE file to something short but meaningless (some malware will recognise the name of anti-malware tools).

Dropped it onto the PC desktop and let it do its stuff.

It took around 1hour 45 minutes to check my PC and found and then removed the garbage program. (All whilst in safe mode with internet access)

Reboot and we were good to go.

I have now raised the firewall security setting up one level!

Malware

I have for the first time in months been subject to a malware attack that has taken over the 'security' of my desktop PC. This is inspite of being protected by McAfee anti-virus/firewall etc.

I'm well hacked off with the amount of time and energy wasted on dealing with this.

The rogue site? It was all about marine electronics.

It could be a long night.