Are you one of those people who are constantly operating on “drive”, but has no “reverse?” Perhaps you have a trade or profession– artist, machine-operator, doctor, mechanic– which keeps your head spinning five or six days per week. At home, things are no less hectic. Your spouse decides the former hall closet should be a…

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It’s a truly ugly time of the year with dirty slush and snow, sickness is everywhere and we’re cooped up inside nearly all the time. It’s no wonder we get a little glum. Short of a warm, sunny vacation, how can we keep our spirits up? Get out of the house. That’s right — dress…

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Several people have requested to know about hypnosis. Make yourselves comfortable, take a few deep breaths and read on… Richard Bandler, one of the creators of Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) wrote, “Remember the last time you drove your car on a long trip? As you sit there, reading about this, you are beginning to review that…

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…Charlie Brown.” During the past five decades, those words have become ‘household words’ to millions of Americans. From the largest cities to smallest of hamlets, people have learned to negotiate life’s stressors in part by identifying with the characters created in the mind of Charles Schulz. His Peanuts comic strip has been widely regarded as…

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“What does an agnostic, dyslexic, insomniac do? Stays up all night wondering if there really is a ‘DOG’.” Do you lay in bed “trying” to fall asleep for hours? Wake up frequently or too early? Discover in the morning that you lost an all-night wrestling match with the bedding? Troubled sleep and Americans make familiar…

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“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”                                                                      James Baldwin New Year’s. A time to pause and reflect upon the events of the past year: What worked; what did not. A new year often represents…

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                            “Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour”                                                      William Shakespeare  “I’ve dieted successfully…hundreds of times!” Sound familiar? Keep going… The war on fat produces many casualties: It’s either feast or famine!  You know…you become caught in that cycle of repeated weight gain and weight loss; and then never seem to lose body fat.…

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Wait. Have you ever considered how much of your time is devoted to this activity (or should I say inactivity)? Imagine if all the hours you spent waiting were kilowatt hours. You could provide enough power to light <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Dutchess County for a decade! <?xml:namespace prefix = o /> Let’s pause a moment…

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<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Many people, the vast majority of whom are women, suffer from agoraphobia. Literally the label means, fear of the marketplace, being in open and unfamiliar places. This is a terrifying and debilitating phobia in which victims are seized by “panic attacks”…   Standing in line at the…

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Remember a time when you thought you would ask for a raise at work and that “little voice” suddenly reminded you how pushy you are?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” />   Remember once when you passed an attractive person who you wanted to get to know? As you opened your mouth to talk,…

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