Entries by Philip Braham

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Phil Braham is a hypnotherapist working in Melbourne, Australia. His website is: hypnotherapy.braham.net

Right and Left Brain Thinking

There’s a commonly held view that there are thinking patterns that are attributable to the right side of the brain and thinking patterns that are attributable to the left side of the brain. Usually the left brain is considered logical… 0 Shares |

There’s a Thin Line Between Education and Indoctrination

Any child who goes to a school in a Western country is going to be taught many ideas as if they were facts, for instance the Darwinian view of evolution, the idea that we have evolved to pinnacle of civilisation… 0 Shares |

Let’s stop this unscientific nonsense

How often do we hear of remedies or ideas as being ‘unscientific’? We may ask what does it mean to be ‘unscientific’? Here’s some possible meanings: Scientific studies were performed under controlled conditions and the outcome does not support the… 0 Shares |

You can’t try to get to sleep

If you have trouble sleeping it may be because the unchecked flow of thoughts keep you awake. I previously wrote about an exercise for assessing how busy the mind is (Tame the Mind). If you score high here these thoughts… 0 Shares |

Tame the Mind

Most of the time we are functioning at an automatic level. We daydream or our thoughts are on the past: what occurred or what we think we should have done; or on the future: what we think we are going… 0 Shares |

The Cure for all Diseases Except Death

Many claims are made nowadays for any number of foods from lemons and watermelons to chia seeds which are claimed to have life-giving properties. However, over 1000 years ago the prophet Muhammed said that the black seeds of the nigella… 0 Shares |

What Doctors Won’t Tell You

Probably most people who read this are, at least to some extent, cynical about the Western medical profession. In the West medicine is ruled by money, particularly the huge amounts of money made from drugs but there’s also a cancer… 0 Shares |