What is the difference between self-hypnosis and meditation? I am often asked this very question in my therapy practice and in particular during many of the workshops. The two disciplines are in essence very similar, however in practice they are two very different mind-focusing techniques that each require specific understanding and distinctly different approaches...

Stress was first defined by a Canadian biological scientist and Canadian University Professor in 1936. His name was Dr. Hans Selye. Hans defined biological stress as a “response of the body to any demand for change” knowing that demands can be either physical or emotional. A demand need not be physical to affect a stress response since un-manifested worry or an incorrectly perceived situation has exactly the same stress-arming response as an actual physical threat...

Labeled “The Relaxation Response” by Harvard Medical School research fellow, Herbert Benson, M.D., this biological polar opposite to the “Stress Response” is responsible for providing the necessary stabilizing counter-reactions to the chemical and physiological changes that stress initiates...