text: Share: Comments Print May 14, 2012 at 2:43 PM A stop and chat with GM Adrian Hanauer Posted by Joshua Mayers Reporters got a chance to catch up briefly with Sounders FC general manager and part owner Adrian Hanauer this afternoon out at Starfire. Here's the transcript of that conversation: * * * (Do you think two extra Cascadia games this season take away from the value of the rivalries?) "For me, not really. It is still three points per game. For sure we go on the road to Vancouver and Portland an extra time, but we're at home (an extra time) for some other pretty big rivalries: L.A. and Salt Lake. But that said, we're not oblivious to the fact that these are big games for our fans, for the club, for U.S./North American soccer — these games do get more attention. Ultimately, on the technical side we have to keep grounded and keep focused on the goal, which is to collect points." (What has changed in Vancouver this season?) "I wouldn't want to speculate on what's changed. The things from the outside are obvious — there's new management in place, there's a new head coach, there's a new staff, there are new players, so on the field I imagine that's what's changed. I don't know if chemistry has changed. Certainly winning helps chemistry and winning becomes a habit, but I can't say necessarily. From the outside, that's what appears to be different." (Have you been up to their new stadium yet?) "No." (You're not the MLS attendance leaders right now. Montreal is ahead averaging about 40,000 a game. What do you make of that?) "It's exciting. It's exciting for the league. I don't think they'll stay there very long, which is unfortunate. Again, big crowds, more excitement and more engagement within the league is just a good thing. I'm very happy with our 39,000 per game, so if somebody gets to 42- or 44- or 46 (thousand), we'll try to compete and our fans, I'm sure, will take that as a challenge. But ultimately, it's good. It's a good thing." (From your experience in the USL, did you think the Canadian markets would become what they've become in MLS?) "Yes. Without being overly sure of my prognostication in terms of those teams, I've always believed that Canada was a different animal when it came to soccer support. They don't have quite the competition that we have in this country, whether you look at college sports and the fact that that's not in those markets, generally. Some of them have NBA, but NHL is the one massive competitor for that relevance in the market. They certainly have football, American-style football, but it's not as big as the NFL. So I think from a competition standpoint, from sort of a heritage/connection to the crown, and from the history that it's shown with the support in Montreal, in Vancouver, I was pretty convinced that it would be successful. You never quite know how successful. Again, it's fantastic for the league." (You hear the word "rivalry" associated with you guys more so than just Vancouver and Portland these days — e.g. L.A., Real Salt Lake. Is that a good thing? Does it affect the natural rivalries at all?) "It's something I've noticed, as well. I think that our atmosphere in our stadium turns just about every game into a rivalry game, because teams come here and they're excited to be here, they're pumped up and they want to perform well in front of 40,000 fans. That creates a little bit of edginess and tension and pressure in itself, which then leads to a very competitive, sometimes physical game, which then leads to them becoming more and more rivalry games. Ultimately, again, it's good for our fans, so that's good for the organization. It'd be nice to occasionally have a game that didn't feel like a rivalry game from a technical standpoint, but those rivalries continue to build interest and relevance in the market place. If that's the tradeoff, then I guess we'll live with it." Comments


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Higher education is not an easy field in which to be a human resources manager. Not only is there an unusually diverse range of staff, but many of those in positions of responsibility have been chosen for their questioning, argumentative qualities and may have little interest in, or sympathy with, management. No wonder Mission Critical , the Higher Education Policy Institute's report on HR, is full of examples of frustrated modernisers grappling with backwoods academics. It was compiled from interviews with HR directors.
Eventually, however, there will have to be an accommodation between the HR evangelists and those below what one described as a "thick layer of cloud" separating them from middle managers. Many academics - and staff in other organisations - see HR directors as the enemy; they have the ear of senior management and are at the sharp end of employment issues. But universities and colleges are changing fast, not least in their employment practices.
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If you kept up with our Nevada blog you might recognize Hannah. She, her mother and brother stayed with us the last couple of weeks. We brought her recliner and the bear up from storage and took them home to her.
Susan and Logan. He's happy now after having drained his bottle.
Susan's planting peas. Hopefully they won't get frosted off when they come up. This is seed we saved from last year.
Susan is weeding. She got the garlic weeded earlier and has been working her way through the other parts of the garden since then.
These are dried potato peelings we saved for the goat. One didn't want to give up and sprouted a new plant. We'll plant it in the garden and see how it does.
Thi si just a comparison shot to see what Susan's been up to. The bed on the left is one she cleared out. It looked just like the one on the right does before she started.
She planted some pepper plants then the temperature hit a low of 20 and killed them all. Gardening can be more than just a little frustrating here.
She's been digging, transplanting, selling and giving away rspberry plants like crazy. She sold a bunch at the farmer's market in Whitefish on Saturday. We may try selling more at the one in Eureka on Wednesday.
We've been waiting to see how many of our apple trees made it through the winter. This one is doing well.
More to plant when we get the greenhouse built and the nights aren't so cold.
Our flowers are finally blooming.
More flowers ...
and more flowers.
It's so dry we did some garden watering. We don't have much planted yet to water but the things like raspberries, onions, garlic, asparagus, blueberries, fruit trees, etc. that are already up were getting really thirsty. We got the water hoses out of storage and ran them to the garden.
The storage tank has a couple hundred gallons left from last year and the spring rains we've had so far so we didn't have to haul water ... yet! I take the intake pipes off in fall and put them together again in spring. I leave the end that goes into the water upright and pour water down it until it begins coming out of the pump's tank. The bulb in the pipe near the pump is a one-way valve so the pump maintains it's prime after it's shut off.
Once the water starts running out I know the pump is full and primed so I close the spigot, put the inlet pipe in the tank and start the pump. I leave teh valve shut until the tank fills and the pump shuts off. Once the pump shuts off I put the hose on then open the spigot to pump the water wherever it's needed.
When Susan weeds the garden she throws the weeds into the goat's pen. The goat loves them.
I went to gather eggs and found the nest occupied. I'll give her some time then check again. If she's broody too bad. We dont' have a rooster so I'm not going to let her try to hatch out the eggs.
The back side of the chicken house now that we're finished with the run.
This is stew meat from the buffalo. It's ready to can.
Some of the ground meat will be vacuum packed and frozen. The rest will be canned.
Buffl'er stew. Even the herbs and spices Susan used were home grown.
I made a Whelen Lean-To from plans in an article from either Backwoodsman or Wilderness Way magazines. I finally got it put up so I could try it out. I uses canvas drop cloth material and sewed it on my Singer treadle sewing machine. I bought some UV rated thread from a craft store in Eureka for the seams. So far it's been tested in the rain and is waterproof. I made the satkes out of some long stakes I keep on hand for muskrat trapping. After a bit I noticed a sweet smell in the air and realized that I'd used some stakes that I pulled last year and they still had muskrat lure on them. At least muskrat lure smells good. Every other trapping scent I have smells ike some combination of skunk and rotted meat.
The dog kept me company last night.I brought her blanket out so she wouldn't be sleeping on mine. About midway through the night I got cold and stole her blanket too. I had one folded up wool blanket under me and two on top. With the dog's blanket over me and the dog stretched out beside me I slept pretty good the rest of the night. It was in the upper 30's when I got up this morning. I tried sleeping without a pillow and did fine until I rolled on my side. I have some shoulder problems stemming from too many years using an impact gun under cars so laying on my arm was not an option. So, I rolled over the short log end seen at the head of my "bed" and used the flat part for a pillow. It was different but worked. I think I'll bring a real pillow tonight though.
I'm almost finished with a Kentucky Rifle kit I'm puting together. I browned the barrel, polished the brass, and stained and finished the stock. I need to put one more coat of Tru-Oil on the stock and assemble it then I can take it out to shoot. I've got a couple fo other ML rifles but this one is the lightest and I'm looking forward to hunting wth it this summer and fall. A fifty-caliber round ball should kill a gopher shouldn't it?
The water pump started leaking on the Cherokee so I installed a new one. Of course as soon as I began working the rain started to fall. It was a light rain so I kept on working. In this picture I think I'm trying find a bolt I dropped.
We took some old mattresses into Eureka to the dump and brought home a load of pallets. They always come in handy around here.


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Creativity and Hypnosis
The term 'hypnosis' is used to refer to a variety of structured, goal-oriented procedures in which the suggestibility and or motivation of an individual or a group is enhanced by another person (or persons), or by oneself. These procedures attempt to blur, focus, and or amplify attention and or mentation (e.g., imagination and intention), leading to the accomplishment of specified behaviors or experiences that reflect expectations and role enactments on the part of the 'hypnotized' individuals or groups who attend (often with little awareness) not only to their own personal needs but to the interpersonal or situa-tional cues that shape their responses. Other research data emphasize the part that attention plays in hypnosis, enhancing the salience of the suggested task or experience. Both these bodies of hypnosis literature stress the interaction of several variables, suggesting that there are great individual differences in hypnotic responsiveness some excellent participants are...
Guided Imagery and Hypnotherapy
Imagery can focus attention away from symptoms, alter sensory experiences, reduce distress, induce relaxation, reframe symptom experiences, facilitate dissociation from pain, and enhance feelings of mastery and self-control. These techniques can also be used to problem-solve (e.g., to imagine being calm during a test) and to feel a sense of accomplishment. This intervention is best for children of school age or older. Gut-directed hypnotherapy, which includes gut-specific treatments and suggestions, was developed for individuals with irritable bowel syndrome and digestive disorders (Vlieger et al. 2007).
Autosuggestion and Hypnosis Manipulations
Perhaps the most frequently used experimental manipulation in the past ten years was developed by Velten in his doctoral research (Velten, 1967, 1968). Although Velten's procedure is often modified, in the original research, participants in the experiment read aloud or to themselves a series of statements designed to produce either elation, depression, or a neutral mood. They were instructed to be responsive and receptive to the idea of the statement. In many ways this manipulation is similar to hypnotic suggestions. Hypnosis is still another popular method in which the subject cooperates in achieving mood change. Bower (1981) and his associates have effectively used hypnosis to produce moods of happiness and sadness, and to study various aspects of information processing relative to these states. In several experiments this procedure involved using hypnotically susceptible persons (the top 15 percent of those tested for such susceptibility), who were hypnotized and then asked to...
Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis
Like other alternative therapies, hypnosis has existed in one form or another since early recorded history, and like early alternative therapies it was often tied to magic and religion. Hypnosis was an important component of Native American healing rites, when hypnotic states typically were induced through chanting, sometimes in conjunction with hallucinogenic drugs. Modern medical hypnosis originated with the Viennese physician Franz Mesmer. Mesmer believed that the human body contained animal magnetism, and that imbalances in magnetic forces were the cause of illness. The therapy he applied, termed Mesmerism, involved the use of tranquil gestures and soothing words to relax the patient and to restore balance in the patient's magnetic forces. Although mesmerism did not find long-lasting support, the idea of using a state of altered awareness in medical treatment gradually gained wider acceptance. Self-hypnosis is easily taught. It is often used as a complementary therapy for cancer...
Patients with conversion disorder appear more susceptible to hypnosis than matched comparison patients with an affective disorder, with some data showing a correlation between susceptibility to hypnosis and number of conversion complaints (Roelofs et al. 2002). In this context, hypnosis has been suggested as a potential treatment intervention for hy-pochondriasis (Mutter and Coates 1990). Hypnosis may be useful in reducing symptoms of physiological and emotional arousal and may also be used to help distract the individual and divert attention away from physical symptoms. At a minimum, hypnosis may be useful in providing patients with a face-saving method of obtaining control over their symptoms (Maldonado and Spiegel 2000). In a case series, significant reductions in symptoms and disability were demonstrated immediately following and 6 months after treatment using hypnosis (Moene et al. 1998). Self-hypnosis relaxation techniques such as favorite place imagery and progressive...
In hypnotherapy, therapeutic suggestions are given to patients when they are in a hypnotic trance. Hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness in which the patient may be more receptive to such suggestions (Olness and Kohen 1996). Hypnotherapy includes specific goals (e.g., mastery, ego-strengthening, decreased unpleasant sensations) and techniques (e.g., relaxation, visual imagery, age regression, unconscious exploration) utilized while a child is in a state of focused concentration. Hypnosis has been shown to be superior to medications in the treatment of pe-diatric migraines (Hammond 2007 Olness et al. 1987). Preoperative hypnosis in children with elective surgical procedures was found to shorten postoperative hospital stay and decrease reports of anxiety and subjective pain compared with usual treatment (Lambert 1996). One randomized, controlled trial of hypnotherapy compared with standard medical care for pediatric irritable bowel disease demonstrated a significant reduction in...
Cross Cultural Comparisons
The history of hypnosis is more recent. In the middle of the nineteenth century, James Braid introduced the term 'neuro-hypnotism' or 'nervous sleep' (from the Greek hypnosis, or sleep). However, it can be claimed that the roots of hypnosis reach back to tribal rites and the practices ofshamans. Hypnoticlike procedures were used in the court of the Pharaoh Khufu in 3766 BCE priests in the healing temples of Asclepius induced their clients into 'temple sleep,' and the ancient Druids chanted over their clients until the desired effect was obtained. Herbs were used to enhance verbal suggestion by native shamans in pre-Columbian Central and South America. It is, nonetheless, incorrect to label these procedures 'hypnosis' simply because they drew upon similar procedures such as suggestion, repetitive stimuli, and expectations of the client. People, groups, and cultures are 'creative' during those periods of time when they exhibit activities that are innovative for that specific group in...
Neurophysiology Mechanisms
That are decoupled, totally or partially, from sensory input during many alterations in consciousness. A total decoupling takes place during dreaming, while partial decouplings take place in hypnagogic or hypnopompic states, daydreaming, meditation, and some drug-induced or hypnosis-induced conditions. Transitions from such states represent a fertile ground for the development of creative ideas, because the perceptual mechanisms automatically linked to organizing the sensory inputs would still occur, occasionally constructing novel and useful images from fragments of internal neural noise and loosely guided consultations with memory. Language allows the abstract images and relationships to be translated into a communicable form. There is a direct relationship between perceptual processes and creative thought. The decoupling of normal sensory input during alternative states of consciousness should be viewed as distinct from restricting sensory input in an individual's normal waking...
Research Perspectives
The formal study of creativity dates back only to J. P. Guilford's 1950 presidential address to the American Psychological Association, in which he urged his colleagues to pursue this overlooked area. After the connection between changed states of consciousness and divergent thinking was made, and investigations of the link among drugs, hypnosis, and creativity ensued, studies of additional altered and transitional states followed. Several studies examining the performance of scientists on lateral thinking tests found that highly creative scientists did not use lateral thinking more often than less creative scientists on these tests.
Learning from the past
Several questions regarding the research on hypnosis and creativity remain unanswered because of the absence of robust findings due to methodological differences in the studies, the varied hypnotic responsiveness of the subjects, and the fact that creativity has been measured in disparate ways. Even when similar tests are used, they are administered differently, and the tests themselves admittedly assess a single instance or aspect of creativity. It may be that restrictions in awareness increase the priming of associative networks (outside of one's awareness) by reducing cognitive interference. As a result, new associations are made, giving rise to creative insights. Imagination or fantasy provides a continuous backdrop to mentation outside of awareness, and hypnosis may increase its accessibility. Heart rate probably reflects shifts of attention from external to internal events, making it a potentially revealing way to assess the oscillation of attention from an external focus of...
Planning for the future
In this regard, what Richards has dubbed 'everyday creativity' is an overlooked phenomenon in a field which all too often emphasizes the exotic, the dramatic, and the spectacular. It is quite likely that creative work draws more upon the ordinary waking state with its intact subsystems of consciousness than upon altered and transitional states. Drugs can be ingested, meditation can be practiced, hypnosis can be utilized, and the contents of reverie can be recorded, but everyday behaviors and experiences can also provide inspiration for what later may become a novel approach to a long-delayed home repair, an improved golf stroke, a new recipe for a family dinner, a breakthrough in a troubled relationship, an ingenious logistical plan to divert restaurant leftovers to homeless people, a challenging educational technology, or any one of many other achievements. The need for creative approaches at all social levels has never been greater their development and application need to reflect...
Psychotic Syndromes
In patients with chronic mild or moderately severe anxiety, benzodiazepines, used sparingly for a few weeks to several months, can be helpful. When chronic treatment is necessary, buspirone, tricyclic antidepressants, and MAO inhibitors may be utilized in selected patients, particularly those with concomitant depression. Beta-blockers may also be useful in certain cases. Referral to a neuropsychologist or psychotherapist for training in self-reliance and relaxation techniques including biofeedback, meditation, and self-hypnosis should also be considered. The treatment of obsessive compulsive disorders should involve both pharmacological and psychological measures. Medications can significantly reduce the symptoms in over 50 percent of patients. Clomipramine is generally considered the drug of first choice, but other drugs with serotonergic properties such as fluoxetine, paroxetine, and clonazepam can be used.
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Able 'by a loud noise, by the subject's own outcry, by certain pharmacologic agents, and by hypnosis'. In Fig. 1.4.1 (original figure) the strength output during repeated maximal voluntary efforts, is shown with and without a preceding gunshot or shout. Similar effects on strength were seen with the other interventions. The authors conclude that all their observations 'support the thesis that the expression of human strength is generally limited by psychologically induced inhibitions' and that the interventions decreased these inhibitions. They also emphasize the large variation between subjects in response to the interventions. They particularly point out one subject who showed no increase in strength under hypnosis. This subject was an 'experienced weight-lifter' and the interpreta
Behavioral Interventions
With brain tumor to function at the highest level possible for the longest time possible and has been shown to be cost effective.15 There are a number of behavioral strategies that can also enhance functional outcome in brain tumor patients. There is a growing literature about the positive effects of exercise on cancer-related symptoms.4 Behavioral interventions such as relaxation therapy and self-hypnosis may be very useful as well. Such strategies can alleviate symptoms such as pain, nausea, and fatigue and help patients relax and focus when they feel overwhelmed. Life-style alterations may also be useful. For instance a person with increased distractibility may be able to maintain employment given reasonable accommodations, such as flexibility of deadlines and a quieter work environment. Students may be able to continue in school if allowed to tape lectures and to take tests without time constraints.
Unconscious Processes
HE INFER NCE that unconscious mental processes determine a very large portion of our lives has proven enormously fruitful. Although the idea of unconscious mental life dates hack millennia, systematic investigation of unconscious mental processes began with the clinical researches of Sigmund Freud at the end of the 19th century. Listening to patients telling their stories with the use of hypnosis (following the example of his mentor, Josef Breuer), Freud grasped the usefulness of this central hypothesis the bedrock of psychoanalysis that the inexplicable, irrational nature of symptoms amid be understood to be meaningful if he inferred unconscious influences. The first hypothesis, in which he joined Breuer in the Studies on Hysteria (Breuer and Freud 1893-1895), introduced an explanatory mechanism, the hypnoid state, an altered state of consciousness that at least sometimes was induced by trauma. The hypothesis included the assumption that the memories of traumatic events that occurred...
Communicating Findings to the Medical Team and Family
Behavior modification programs Specific instructions on how to set limits or de-emphasize attention being paid to problematic behaviors. Clarification of roles of staff members and parents in implementation of the program. Outline specific approaches to behavior management. Medical hypnosis.
General Considerations
Studies have shown that the frequency of use of complementary or alternative medical therapy in the United States is far greater than previously reported. These therapies include relaxation techniques, imagery, chiropractic, massage, spiritual healing, herbal medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy, folk remedies, and prayer, to name a few. It has been estimated that 42 of the American population uses at least one of these and other alternative healing methods to satisfy their medical needs. The most common users of complementary and alternative therapy are the more affluent people, women, those better educated, individuals born after 1950, and those who are concerned about emotional stress and the environment. The most common therapies were relaxation techniques (18 ), massage (12 ), herbal medicine (10 ), and megavitamin therapy (9 ). The perceived efficacy of these therapies ranged from 76 (hypnosis) to 98 (energy healing). The number of visits to providers of this health care is greater...
Who Can Be Hypnotized
Roughly 90 of the general population can be hypnotized to some degree. Success depends on one's willingness and receptivity to the idea of hypnosis. Children appear to be more easily hypnotizable than adults, primarily because using the imagination comes easily and naturally for them, and because they tend to be creative and trusting. Most people are able to learn self-hypnosis quickly. The word hypnosis is used here to mean self-hypnosis as well. Hypnosis self-hypnosis is a state of focused attention or altered consciousness, a restful alertness in which distractions are blocked, allowing a person to concentrate intently on a particular subject, memory, sensation or problem. Hypnosis may be used instead of or as assist to anesthetic agents during surgical and dental procedures. It is especially helpful when allergy or some other circumstance prohibits anesthesia. It is also used to reduce stress, pain and anxiety, and to assist in removing undesired habits such as bed-wetting in...
What Practitioners Say It Does
At the very least, proponents say, hypnosis brings about a state of increased relaxation. Claims about its efficacy expand from there. It can serve some as a remedy for addiction, including drug, alcohol, and tobacco dependency. It helps some people maintain diets, relieve stress, and reduce anxiety. It can effectively relieve or eliminate chronic migraines, arthritis, and even warts, which appear to respond to various types of mental suggestion. There are documented instances of hypnosis analgesia used successfully under varying circumstances. A fifteen-year-old girl who was allergic to phar-macologic anesthesia, for example, completed successful heart surgery with hypnosis as the only analgesic. It enabled her to remain conscious during the four-hour procedure, without so much as an aspirin required during or after the surgery. Those who study hypnosis explain that it has measurable physiologic effects. Beyond its analgesic functions, hypnotic suggestion is known to steady the...
Treatment of Pain and Pain Disability
Many clinicians are unaware of the evidence base other than for commonly used medications. For example, some clinicians erroneously believe that a comorbid psychiatric disorder must be present for a cognitive-behavioral approach to be helpful or that medications should always be the first-line treatment. Consequently, both the consulting clinician and families may need to be educated about the evidence related to medications and other approaches. For example, meta-analyses reveal that hypnotherapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy can be more effective than medications in treating symptoms in adults with functional gastrointestinal disorders (Lackner et al. 2004 Whitehead 2006). Although less research has been done with pediatric samples, available evidence is consistent with this finding (Bursch 2008 Huertas-Ceballos et al. 2008).
Beliefs on Which It Is Based
A frequently voiced concern about hypnosis is that it involves the surrender of control, leaving the subject susceptible to the suggestion of the hypnotist. But the exact opposite is correct. Control by the subject is the most fundamental basis of hypnosis. The goal of hypnosis is for the subject to exert control over behavior, emotions, or physiological processes. In fact, with self-hypnosis, one can use the technique whenever needed. The self-control behind hypnosis helps people relax and become receptive to suggestion. The suggestion, geared to bring about relaxation or pain relief, or another desired result, may come from the patient or a practitioner. By placing themselves into a deep state of relaxation and focused attention, people learn to control pain or bodily functions, or to diminish situation-specific anxieties, such as fear of flying. People who are afraid to fly can hypnotize themselves and reevaluate their perceptions and attitudes about being in an airplane. They...
Research Evidence to Date
Because hypnosis has been used for several centuries, it has endured times of silliness and ridicule, and times of acceptance. Today the pendulum swings toward broader acceptance, primarily because solid research now documents the effectiveness and utility of hypnosis for both children and adults. An example of such studies is Stanford University's demonstration of electrical response brain waves. Hypnotized subjects were able to suppress the brain's electrical response to a visual cue by imagining that their view of the stimulus was blocked. Previously, this kind of response was assumed to be involuntary. Hypnotized subjects in the study also were able to control their skin temperature and blood flow. In PubMed, the U.S. government collection of all medical articles published in the medical literature world-wide, there are 1,400 citations for articles on hypnosis and pain, including 787 clinical trials or meta-analyses. Forty of the methodologically-sound clinical trials concerned...
What It Can Do for You
Hypnosis is not a cure-all for physical, emotional, or addictive disorders. It cannot reprogram the body and mind to stop smoking or drinking, for example. It cannot cure serious disease and should never be used as an alternative to conventional, mainstream medicine. It is not recommended for the treatment of psychosis, organic psychiatric conditions, or antisocial behavior. Hypnosis has significant and meaningful documented benefits. It usually produces a state of profound relaxation. It can refocus attention away from adverse stimuli, including pain, and increase the unconscious mind's receptivity to suggestion. In turn, this can bring about physiologic changes such as decreased pulse rate, temperature reduction or increase, and reduced blood flow to specified areas of the body. Hypnosis also is useful against addiction, anxiety, depression, pain and phobias.
The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis
When she came to Breuer for treatment, Anna O. was suffering from a variety of paralyses, aphasias, inhibitions, and periods of confused thinking. Breuer found that if he asked Anna under hypnosis to talk about the original circumstances associated with each of her symptoms, she reexperienced the circumstances vividly and her symptoms were thereby relieved. When Freud subsequently tried a similar procedure on his own patients, he soon gave up hypnosis. Instead, he simply (or perhaps not so simply) insisted that his patients tell him, as fully and with as little mental censorship as possible, what came into their minds whenever they began to think of their personal problems. Thus was born the practice of free association, the earliest element of psychoanalysis as a general therapeutic technique.
Therapeutic Interventions
Using progressive relaxation, biofeedback, or hypnosis, teach the client how to relax assign him her to relax twice a day for 10 to 20 minutes. 12. Using progressive relaxation, biofeedback, or hypnosis, teach the client how to relax assign him her to relax twice a day for 10 to 20 minutes.
Treatment Interventions
Ing with a childhood cancer diagnosis (Hendricks-Ferguson 2000), in addition the social workers and pediatric psychologists who are a part of each program (American Academy of Pediatrics 2009). Interventions for acute procedural pain and anxiety, including hypnosis (Richardson et al. 2006 Wild and Espie 2004) and other types of complementary and alternative care such as acupuncture (Rheingans 2007), have been found to be useful for acute distress, although they are not offered at all centers.
Sigmund Freud and the Psychological View
Often such an experience is buried in the unconscious. Although hidden from conscious awareness, this material could nevertheless have a powerful impact on a person's behavior. In his 1895 book with Josif Breuer, Studies on Hysteria, Freud discussed his discovery that the contents of the unconscious could be revealed by suggesting certain key words to patients (as well as by hypnosis). The contents of their unconscious would come forward through their seemingly random associations to those words. These contents are then dealt with by allowing conscious and unconscious ideas to mingle into an innovative resolution of the trauma. The creative act is seen as transforming an unhealthy psychic state into a healthy one.
Individual Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the treatment modality unique to mental health clinicians. Within its framework, the child seeks to integrate the facets of his or her life. Through words, art, and play, the child conveys the experience of living with the threat of loss and transforms the essence of his or her reality into expression. Self-help techniques, such as relaxation, guided imagery, and hypnosis, may be integrated into the psychotherapy to reduce symptoms of nausea, fatigue, insomnia, and pain (Kazak 2005 Kazak et al. 1996 Kersun and Shemesh 2007 Steif and Heiligenstein 1989). These techniques are not restricted to psychotherapeutic intervention and may be employed by other disciplines trained in their methodology.
Discovery and Early Developments
Transference appears in Freud's essays (Freud 1911, 1912a, 1912b, 1913, 1914, 19151 on technique as a discovery, whereas countertransference discussions (unction mostly as a cautionary tale. In a number ol ways, Freud's discovery that patients revive and relive die crucial conflicts of their psychic lives in the analytic relationship was remarkable. First, analysis of transference entailed a break with earlier powerful and compelling procedures of suggestion and hypnotic induction, techniques thought to reveal and release hidden sources of pathology and pain. Second, almost immediately Freud made a second discovery, namely that transference is used by the analysand as resistance to change but that this development could be turned quite uniquely toward psychic growth. It is as though Freud's intelligence functioned like a heat-seeking probe, burrowing into the most tender and incendiary aspect of the analytic relationship and finding there both trouble and revolution. Third, Freud was...
Evidence Based Treatment
The treatment of pain in HIV-positive youth is very important and often involves a multimodal approach. The treatment goal must be to minimize pain and oversedation when possible. Pediatric pain management principles using age-appropriate assessment of all developmental ages should be applied and include a repertoire of nonpharmacologi-cal (such as distraction, relaxation, psychotherapies, and hypnosis) and pharmacological treatments (Duff 2003 Greco and Berde 2005).
Sensitivity Openness Absorption and Synesthesia
Negatively correlated with dogmatism. Gregory J. Feist, in 1999, noted that openness to experience is found in both creative artists and scientists. McCrae and Costa further noted that openness to experience positively correlated with the Tellegen Absorption Scale. In 1974, Auke Tellegen and Gilbert Atkinson argued that absorption is the capacity for self-absorbed, self-altering attention found in peak and mystical experience, hypnosis, and artistic creativity. Absorption is a readiness for undistracted, deep cognitive affective involvement and a heightened sense of reality toward attentional objects. It permits the assessment of information in unconventional and idiosyncratic ways. In 1981 and 1987, Charles M. Rader and Tellegen discovered a significant correlation between absorption and synesthesia which is defined as the ability to transform, enrich, and encode events in multiple sensory modalities in an engaging manner. Synesthetes are noted to be very creative. Furthermore, many...
Psychotherapy for Victims
A controversial but often effective method of treating emotional trauma, eye movement desensitization response therapy attempts to address pathological changes in the patient's brain. Just as sensory stimuli can trigger memories of abuse or trauma, this approach uses eye movements as the body's natural way to expose and desensitize a person to a traumatic memory. A therapist uses visual stimuli in the form of hand movements or electronic pictures to trigger memories and emotions and then uses psychotherapy or hypnosis to reframe those experiences while desensitizing persons to their emotional pain.
Cross Fertilization and Conflict
1887) and Freud's study of hypnosis with Charcot and the opening of his practice with hysterics Frcud 1886a, 1886b Breuer and Freud 1 893-189S). They grew in parallel from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century, with considerable cross-fertilization as well as misunderstandings and conflicts. Psychoanalysis focuses attention inward and looks to psychic reality as the prime locus of experience anthropology gives preference to social causation and to the ideas and values shared by a group, thus turning attention outward. They occasionally talk past each other.
Unclassified Interventions
Another randomized, controlled trial examined the effects of relaxation alone versus relaxation with immune suggestion versus attention control on sali-vatory secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) in 90 Australian children ages 8-12 years (Hewson-Bower and Drummond 1996). Concentrations of saliva-tory sIgA increased in the two active conditions but not in the control condition, suggesting a therapeutic effect of hypnosis and relaxation on immune functioning. An effect size could not be calculated for this study because standard deviations of out
Classifications of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Mind-body interventions entail a wide variety of techniques to improve the mind's capacity to affect bodily function and symptoms. Cognitive therapies, biofeedback, meditation, hypnosis, prayer, and creative outlets such as dance, music, and art are common examples of mind-body interventions.
Synesthesia and Related Phenomena
Prevalence of typographic eidetikers might be in the vicinity of 0.1-1 . And yet, recalling (1) that synesthetes might very well be typographic eidetikers, (2) that both synesthetes and eidetikers might score high on the personality trait of absorption (see below), (3) that both synesthetes and eidetikers might be fantasy-prone, which is a trait positively correlated with that of absorption (see below), and (4) that typographic eidetic imagery might be recovered using hypnosis in such fantasy-prone individuals, it seems at least a fair working hypothesis to assume that this overlap in experience is indicative of the fact that it is the same target population of unique individuals that is being tapped, in the two fields of research. In fact, when these phenomena are viewed in unison, one also finds support for the weak form of synesthesia. Just as with respect to synes-thesia, there is also a weak form of eideticism, termed structural eidetic imagery, most probably apparent to some...
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Cognitive-behavioral programs are a component of many established pain treatment centers. These programs focus on educating patients and teaching coping skills in a highly structured group setting under the guidance of a clinical psychologist. They frequently incorporate hypnosis, meditation, and biofeedback techniques
Electromagnetic Therapies
Franz Mesmer, an eighteenth-century Viennese physician, developed a theory of animal magnetism, which he believed to be a basic biophysical force similar to gravity and capable of producing profound neuropsychiatric and physical effects. His first scientific writing on this topic, On the Medicinal Uses of the Magnet, was published in 1775. Although he credited his successful treatment of a woman with numerous complaints to a magnet's ability to realign polarity in her internal organs, it soon became clear that he had discovered hypnotism instead. That is the source of the word mesmerize. Animal magnetism later was shown to be not a biophysical force, but a reaction to the power of suggestion. (For the use of hypnosis in reducing stress, see Chapter 15.)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Behaviors (e.g., inactivity, poor self-soothing) that adversely affect their functioning (see Table 28-3). For example, the belief that important medical information is being withheld may lead a child to the misconception that the prognosis is hopeless and undermine the willingness of the child to cooperate with medical treatment. CBT can be used to address specific emotional responses that result in distress about an illness or interfere with its treatment as well as to promote more positive coping behaviors. It also can be used to address disabling comorbid mood or anxiety symptoms. CBT techniques can also be utilized to help children differentiate factors that are realistically under their control from those that are not. For example, Weisz et al. (1994) found that children with leukemia who used secondary coping techniques (i.e., attempts to minimize the impact of an objective stressor) to deal with painful but necessary medical procedures reported better adjustment than those...
Refeeding and Nutrition
Malnutrition can cause delayed gastrointestinal transit, leading patients to experience abdominal pain, bloating, and constipation during the refeed-ing process. A warm pack to the abdomen can be helpful, as can relaxation techniques such as deep breathing, guided imagery, biofeedback, or hypnosis. If necessary, stool softeners, promotility agents, and or mild laxatives can also be used (American Psychiatric Association 2006).
Cognitive Behavioral Approaches
Sometimes such techniques allow children to avoid medications and their possible side effects completely. Strategies include parent training, family interventions, psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, relaxation, distraction, guided imagery and hypnotherapy, and biofeedback. Expertise with the techniques requires training and practice. Randomized trials provide evidence of efficacy for children and adolescents with functional abdominal pain, irritable bowel syndrome, headaches, procedural pain, and burn pain (Damen et al. 2006 Duarte et al. 2006 Hicks et al. 2006 Hoffman et al. 2008 Humphreys and Gevirtz 2000 Robins et al. 2005 Sanders et al. 1994 Stinson et al. 2008 Trautmann et al. 2006 Uman et al. 2006 Vlieger et al. 2007 Weydert et al. 2006). Preliminary research results are promising for children and adolescents with pain related to cancer, sickle cell anemia, complex regional pain syndrome, and arthritis (Lee et al. 2002 Walco et al. 1999 Wilder 2006)....
Mechanism of action
The characteristic central effects of 012-adrenoceptor agonists are sedation, anxiolysis and hypnosis. The locus caeruleus is a small neuronal nucleus in the upper brain stem that contains the major noradrenergic cell group in the brain. This nucleus is an important modulator of wakefulness. Activation of ci2-adrenocep-tors results in inhibition of transmitter release. The locus caeruleus also has connections to the cortex, thalamus and vasomotor centre.
The Cancer Counselling Center of Ohio
In the situation of life-threatening illness, anticipatory grief is compounded by uncertainty. At the Center, many clients have a disease which is potentially lethal. They face, as if this threat were not bad enough, the incursions and perhaps the worsening of bodily illness, the difficult treatments and their often debilitating side-effects, and the loss of many aspects of their customary daily life. The possibility of dying is just one facet of a much greater complex of issues. Treatment in these cases often calls for unique methods. We routinely use tools which can access the internal states - the subliminal message systems - that lie beneath the surface of conscious awareness. It is our belief that where denial, doubt, and ambivalence prevail, clearer messages can often be obtained from the 'inner self'. We begin with relaxation, brainwave biofeedback, or other calming techniques to create a disposition of openness. Then, mental imagery, searching for internal direction (i.e.,...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
You can also try alternative remedies such as taking enteric-coated capsules of peppermint oil three times a day between meals (skip this one if you have heartburn), or explore yoga, meditation, or hypnosis to lessen stress and anxiety, which can sometimes wind up in your gut. Also, for women who notice IBS flare-ups around the time of menstruation, take evening primrose oil or black cohosh.
Vocal Cord Dysfunction
Treatment recommendations for VCD are varied. Speech therapy has been helpful for some patients, often in combination with some form of psychological counseling or psychotherapy. Hypnosis and biofeedback have been used with varying success rates. Some authors have reported benefits from sedative anxiolytic medications, and inhaled helium has been used to abort symptoms in acute attacks of laryngeal obstruction. In a report by Do-shi and Weinberger (2006), ipratropium bromide was prescribed and used successfully to prevent symptoms of exercise-induced VCD. Although many types of treatment have been recommended and attempted in pediatric patients with VCD, none has been found to be uniformly and reliably effective. However, the consensus of nearly all experts is that some form of psychotherapeutic modality, along with speech therapy and or pharmacotherapy, is most likely to be beneficial. The natural course of this syndrome and the prognosis are not known.
Self Analysis and Dreams The First Topographic Model
Although his clinical practice began to offer Freud more financial security, he continued to be fairly isolated scientifically. In 1896, Freud's father died, and beset by his own neurotic symptoms, Freud began a course of self-analysis and a close study of his dreams. Recalling that the Nancy school had considered hypnosis as a sort of sleep, Freud decided to use dreams as analogous to unconscious, hypnotic hallucinations fMakari 2008). Always needing an interlocutor for his developing ideas, Freud developed an intense friendship with Wilhelm Fliess, with whom he corresponded intimately and frequently between 1897 and 1904. Fliess was an ear, nose, and throat specialist from Berlin who came to Vienna in 1897 and had treated Freud's sinus problems and attended one of Freud's lectures on neurology. He had some odd beliefs in the primary connection between the nose and genital organs, in universal bisexuahty, and in a male and female periodicity, but he was a close listener and...
Studies on Hysteria and The Neuro Psychoses of Defence
The papers in Studies on Hysteria (Breuer and Freud 1893-1895) have exerted an enormous influence on the whole subsequent psychoanalytic enterprise. Hysterics suffer mainly from reminiscences p. 7 , the authors famously concluded. Affectively charged memories (ideas), blocked from discharge, appeared to account for the development of hysterical symptoms. Unconscious memory has remained central to psychoanalysis. The conscious recollection of previously unconscious memory stood early as a means to verify the talking cure. The problem of therapeutic action has remained more elusive, but remembering the unrememberable has been an essential component of the free association method that succeeded the talking cure under hypnosis or chimney sweeping, as Breuer 's patient Anna O. called it. Freud also referred to it, at that lime, both as the cathartic method and as abreaction.
Strong evidence supports the use of behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches for invasive procedures in pediatrics (Powers 1999). Cognitive-behavioral tools such as systematic desensitization and exposure can help in treating phobias that interfere with medical treatment or treatment adherence. Techniques such as guided imagery, progressive muscle relaxation, and self-hypnosis can help to alleviate anxiety related to symptoms and or medical treatment in both inpatient and outpatient contexts (Spirito and Kazak 2006). Treatments that integrate cognitive-behavioral approaches with family therapy have also been found effective in reducing symptoms of traumatic stress in adolescents with cancer and their families (Kazak et al. 2004b).
Seduction Theory
The road to this final integration has been subject to considerable debate within psychoanalytic circles, although not primarily in regard to the question of childhood etiology (Blum 2008 Lothane 2001 Masson 1984). The focus of controversy, which has waxed and waned over the history of psychoanalysis, has been the etiological role of environmental insults. Freud's first theoretical formulation, known as the seduction theory, attributed neuroses to childhood sexual trauma. Studies on Hysteria, considered by many to be the starting point of psychoanalysis (Breuer and Freud 1893-1895, p. xvi), reflected Freud's growing conviction that sexuality was the crucial factor in most nervous disorders. Hysteria and obsessive neuroses were the result of prior sexual trauma neurotic patients, under the influence of hypnotic suggestion or simply allowed to speak freely, ultimately linked the innocuous event that precipitated their symptomatology to a childhood experience of a sexual nature.
In weak paternalism the actor attempts to prevent conduct that is (1) substantially non-voluntary or (2) done without full or adequate knowledge or understanding of the consequences by the person acting also at times, the actor may temporarily intervene to determine whether an act was truly autonomous or not. An example of the first (protecting patients from non-voluntary harm) might be preventing harm to one under hypnosis or on drugs or even one who is under severe coercion. An example of the second would be giving life-saving therapy to a young child whose parents refuse such treatment an example of the third might be pushing someone from the path of an oncoming train or treating a patient who has taken an overdose of drugs but whose motives are not clear to us or whose motives are believed to be capricious, not thought out or temporary. Weak paternalism is a form of preventing persons from coming to non-understood harm. It is protecting another from the results of misinformation...
Part Three Overview
In the last few decades, modern scientific methods have been applied to old mind-body questions in efforts to understand how thoughts, expectations, and emotions influence health. This is the field of mind-body medicine, sometimes called behavioral medicine. Mind-body medicine programs have been established at the most prestigious medical centers in the United States and elsewhere. Researchers study meditation, hypnosis, biofeedback and other previously esoteric activities. They seek evidence about how the ancient wisdom linking mind and body can be documented, explained and applied within the framework of scientific knowledge and modern health care. Mind-body approaches have two characteristics in common they are systematic methods involving practice and discipline and their physiologic effects are documented and known to increase the person's ability to manage stress. Biofeedback involves the use of a machine to monitor functions such as heart rate, muscle tension, pulse and...
Video electroencephalographic monitoring has been increasingly used to investigate seizure disorders. The lack of electrical evidence in the face of a seizure makes pseudoseizure or conversion disorder a likely diagnosis. Drug-assisted interviews (e.g., amytal, Pentothal, methohexital) and hypnosis have been found to be useful during the assessment phase in some children and adolescents (Olson et al. 2008 Weller et al. 1985). Somatic symptoms may disappear transiently or even permanently following a drug-assisted interview.
Meditation is among the most accepted complementary therapies in mainstream medicine. Its origins lie in the work of Shamans, or early priests, who meditated while seeking guidance from the spiritual realm. Every major religion in the world has regarded and utilized meditation as a link to spiritual enlightenment. Hypnosis, especially self-hypnosis, may be seen as a deeper form of meditation. Both have ancient origins in magic and religion.
Formal Research Data
Barrios and Singer, in 1982, queried 48 volunteer subjects about their creative impasses, finding that most had been blocked for more than three months. The subjects were divided into four groups and randomly assigned to one of four conditions exposure to either a waking imagery or to a hypnotic induction procedure, participation in a focused and collaborative examination of their projects in which task-irrelevant thoughts were avoided, and a control group encouraged, in a nondirective fashion, to discuss their projects.
Part Four Overview
The therapies in this section may be perceived as body-mind, as opposed to mind-body, medicine. In Part Three we saw that mind-body therapies such as hypnosis, biofeedback, and meditation claim to improve physiologic and psychological well-being through manipulating or training the mind. In contrast, the therapies described in this part share the belief that health problems can be alleviated or prevented, and well-being improved, by manipulating all or parts of the body. This is accomplished through specific exercises or manual manipulation by others.
Palliative Care
Use of complementary and alternative medicine is common among children who are in active treatment or are survivors of cancer. Small clinical trials have supported the utility of acupuncture or ginger for nausea and vomiting, or hypnosis and guided imagery for pain or anxiety (Ladas et al. 2006). Although some interventions have been found to be safe and effective when used in conjunction with cancer treatment protocols, others present interaction risks. Therefore, open communication must be maintained regarding any additional treatment modalities pursued by the child or teen and family (Quimby 2007).
A worked example
A group of 18 people who found it hard to relax agreed to take part in a test of three relaxation techniques, a pill to aid restfulness, hypnosis and exercise. After a week employing the technique the participants were asked to rate their ability to relax on a 50 point scale (ranging from 0 much worse, 25 no change, through to 50 much better than before). Six people undertook the pill methods, five hypnosis and seven exercise. Is there an effect of relaxation method on their ratings Hypnosis
Muscle relaxation
They do not affect the CNS so have no effect on the level of consciousness the anaesthetist must therefore still ensure that adequate hypnosis and analgesia is present before surgery begins. Assessing the level of unconsciousness is much harder under the influence of muscle relaxants because the normal signs used to assess it, i.e. movement, vocalization, eye position and the cranial
The Fetzer Institute
Hypnosis American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis An international organization of nurses, social workers, dentists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other physicians who are dedicated to applying hypnosis in the clinical setting.
Arousal Disorders
Improve with age and resolve before adolescence. Treatment may be required if the associated behaviors are potentially injurious or if the behavior is excessively disruptive to the family. Good sleep hygiene with regular sleep hours and adequate amounts of nocturnal sleep are important initial recommendations. Ground floor bedrooms, window locks, and absence of sharp objects or toys on the bedroom floor are other useful measures. If injuries have occurred or appear likely to occur, treatment of the patient at bedtime with imipramine, diazepam, or clonazepam is usually effective. Hypnosis or other behavioral treatments may be helpful for some patients, and psychiatric treatment is indicated when the disorder is linked to significant psychopathology.
A carefully controlled technique in which a single intravenous drug, or a combination of oxygen and nitrous oxide, is used to reinforce hypnotic suggestion and reassurance in a way which allows dental treatment to be performed with minimal physiological and psychological stress, but which allows verbal contact with the patient to be maintained at all times. The technique must carry a margin of safety wide enough to render unintended loss of consciousness unlikely. Any technique of sedation other than as defined above would be regarded as coming within the meaning of dental general anaesthesia.
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On September 19th, "ICC Tea Party" was held at the ICC (Intercultural Communication Center) lounge as the first event of the fall semester, and it was also my first event as a Student Staff Leader in the ICC.
When I was studying abroad in the UK, I quite enjoyed the English Breakfast tea and Earl Grey tea there and preferred to take it with milk. Also, when I did volunteering in Nepal, I learned more about the tea culture there. Nepali tea has a spicy flavor, which I think is quite unique. After I came back to China, I did a part-time job in a tea shop, learned more about tea culture, how to brew different kinds of tea, how to taste the tea, and got more interested . Based on these experiences, I came up with an idea to provide a platform for students from all over the world to know more about tea culture in different countries, and also share my experiences.
ICC is an international place with staff from different countries. With the help of my colleagues, Thais, Ana, Minami, Eunwoo and Ms. Nakamura, we decided to arrange an event to let ICC staff introduce the tea culture in their own country. To create a lovely tea party atmosphere, we decorated the ICC lounge. We also prepared the tea that I mentioned in the introduction, so that the participants could taste the tea by themselves.
Picture 1: The preparations before the start of the Tea Party
Picture 2: The special tea prepared for the Tea Party
At around 3 o'clock, there were many students arriving at the ICC lounge, sitting down and chatting with each other, and we also provided the special tea to them. Before the Tea Party started, the ICC lounge was so crowded with people that some people had to stand without chairs. It really surprised me because I never thought that there would be so many people for my event.
Picture 3: ICC Student staff introduces tea culture
For the main contents of the Tea Party, we briefly introduced the tea culture of Brazil, China, Romania, Japan, and Korea one by one, which included the basic information of different tea, its origins, taste, color, how to brew it, its function and so on. We were not professional instructors, but could let participants know more about tea from different viewpoints.
During the Café Free Talk session, the participants tried different kind of teas, and also asked me which for my recommendations. I also talked with an Indian student about the tea culture in India and Nepal. In addition, because it was the start of the fall semester, most of the participants were new students, who want to make more new friends. So I am really glad that I was able to provide a platform to let everyone have more friends here.
Lastly, thanks to all the staff in the ICC who supported me for the Tea Party, and the participants who encouraged me during the event. The fall semester has just begun and there are many more wonderful events and programs arranged by the ICC coming up. I am looking forward to seeing you all once again in the ICC. Hope you enjoy your life here at Waseda University.
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There's an English expression "Don't get your knickers in a twist." which sounds hilarious and somewhat obscure to foreigners but is actually rather sexist and patronising. It means "don't get upset" or "don't get hysterical". It is most often used by men and addressed to women (presumably because men don't wear knickers - at least not their own - and I can't picture David Beckham acting hysterical... can you?).
And anyway, how do you get your knickers in a twist? I've put them on back to front before (or if it's a thong you can end up putting your foot through the waistband bit and end up slightly off kilter...) but that's easily fixed. I've also strangled my nether regions by wearing the wrong type of knickers to yoga (avoid lace, avoid thongs, avoid anything that rises... stick to boy pants... or stick to Pilates) but I've never ended up with a twist.
What kind of weird lingerie game of twister does it involve? Do you put them on with the proverbial twist already there or does the twist mysteriously happen after you put them on? And if so - how? And how does the twist trigger the hysterics?
You see, once you started digging under the surface, it stops making any kind of sense. You can't actually get your knickers in a twist. And knickers and hysterics are in no way related. So what does that leave you with? A sexist remark that reinforces the notion put forward by Freud and his accolytes that women are hysterical creatures.
I'm not one of them. Don't smirk! I may be high strung. I may have a quick temper. I may not suffer fools gladly. I can speak very loudly... I can get cranky... but these I attribute to my cultural background and Meditarrenean upbringing (combined with being a sixteenth Irish). Are you still smirking?
Define hysterical. I said, define hysterical! If by hysterical you mean: passionate and excitable, then count me in. Because life without passion or excitement is like... your local post office (minus the occasional "postal" employee). And who wants that?
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When I was in college I was pretty broke so I started a business in Missoula, Montana in my tiny 75 square foot bedroom in a 6-bedroom house where I lived with 4 girls and 1 other guy.
I had no space and very little money but sometimes our constraints are advantages.
I was an outdoor athlete along with many others in Missoula, so I used my Dad's company "Equipment Sales Company" (a company that built machines for the ceramic wire industry) to open accounts with outdoor gear companies. I posted handwritten signs around town "Wholesale Outdoor Gear 30-50% Off. Call 406-555-5555"
They would order the gear they wanted, save a ton of money on gear and I would get a 10% cut risk-free. It wasn't huge but it paid rent. I've gone on to start 3 or 4 more businesses, help turn around a $50M company, help raise money and build a company into its IPO and I've got a few new projects I'm working on. I have a different perspective on things, but sometimes you need money NOW.
A lot of us are broke but the thought of starting a company is intimidating. We don't know where to start or what to do. We're afraid we might do something wrong or we need an accountant or an LLC, SCorp, CCorp, and so on. In short, we talk ourselves out of doing it because we're afraid of the scary monsters in the lurky business forest.
But it's not that scary. You just haven't seen the forest during the day when the ferns and trillium are lit by sunlight. There are no monsters, just opportunities, and you're standing there in the middle and I'm going to try to help.
Before you start, this is what I recommend:
1. Write down ideas every day. What's an idea? the idea and the next step it takes to start the idea.
2. Look around at your resources: somewhere to live, a talent, a car, bikes, boat, skills like cooking or drawing, maybe you know something unique, maybe extra space, a dock, a piece of land.
3. Be specific about how much money you need. Maybe it's $50 for food or $1,000 to pay your mortgage.
4. See where you can cut expenses now so you can relieve some pressure. Give yourself some freedom.
5. Forget about the big details. Once you get traction (money coming in) worry about the rest. Maybe you never need a business structure and can just stick to nothing and file a Sole Proprietorship at the end of the year with your taxes.
With our smartphones and the web in full force, you have a powerful platform and tools to make money.
Here are 7 of the ways you can make money NOW:
1. Rent your space. Use Airbnb, Vacation Rental By Owner or Craiglist. I was in Maui and people were renting tents in their back yard in Hana for $45/night with sleeping bags, refreshments and breakfast. There are no boundaries anymore. Rent your couch, rent your deck, rent your sleeping bag. Turn a room into a pirate ship and rent it. Throw in an eye patch and hot buttered rum. Offer your space for storage- use a small corner of the garage and rent it for $100/month. Maybe your shed. Anything you have – get creative. Rent the space that is just sitting there.
2. Rent tools. Growing up I was oblivious. We had a barn full of tools we hardly used: a wood splitter, a chipper, power tools, several lawn mowers. I could have put an ad in the paper and rented the tools and made a ton of cash (well, a ton for a kid anyway). Use Craigslist and rent your tools. Someone needs that tile saw in your basement.
3. Sell your food. My aunt won Illinois State Fair awards for her chocolate chip cookies. Her recipe could be bigger than Famous Amos. In grad school I built her the front page of a website called "Aunt Bee's Bakery." It had bees buzzing around a chocolate chip cookie and the chips were each a different menu option that popped up on scroll over. She hasn't done it but maybe you can. Sell food in parking lots in front of busy stores, rent a small space and start a little tail gate restaurant at a food truck lot. Offer to cook for parties. Sell at Farmer's Markets or other events. Dave's Killer Bread started this way and is huge today. Grow something (no, not that) – trees, flowers, vegetables, anything, and sell it to local stores or florists or nurseries.
4. Build stuff. In 2004 I cofounded a company called ii inu (ee-ee-new; Japanese for "Good Dog"). It was a designer pet products company started when my partner created a cool looking collar for her dog. People stopped her to ask where they could buy. First we built them ourselves, then I outsourced manufacturing to a company in Seattle. Within 6 months we were in stores in 36 states and 12 countries. Our cost was $2.40-$4.30 and they sold for $42-$60 retail. It was a good business. What can you make that someone else can buy? Sell it on Etsy.com, eBay, get a Shopify web store or in local stores. No local stores? Find other stores and call them or send a free sample.
5. Offer other services. If you're a student you should launder peoples clothes for $7.50/basket. 100 loads is $750/month. Maybe it's 1,000 loads. Offer to create facebook pages and twitter accounts for $20/month for businesses. Get 10 businesses and you're making $200/month for just a little effort. Get 100 businesses and you've got $2K/month. Would that change your game? Do yardwork, mow lawns, serve elderly or handicapped by running errands, offer a coffee delivery service to offices near you. Drive someone – sign up with Lyft or Uber and user your car as a service. People in cities are making $50K/year doing this. Think of a service you can offer right now to people in need. One idea I think would be a great business is helping other people convert their extra space to being Airbnb ready or driving people to airports at 1/2 the cost of a town car. Decorate Christmas trees, power wash decks, string lights or shovel driveways.
6. Entertain people. Can you play music, edit video or do some other fun thing? Offer to perform at parties or services for local active events. Teach music or sports or tutor kids in those activities. Belly dance. I know one girl who teaches belly dancing and practically owns the market for belly dancing costumes.
7. Help local businesses make money. What local business can you help? Approach restaurants, stores, anyone and offer to help them advertise or run special events. Take a % of the money from each event or that day's sales. Help a different businesses every weekend and observe to find more services they need or opportunities to extend the money you make.
But there's just one catch. In any of these ideas, do it differently. Be remarkable. Give people more than they expect:
-if you're mowing lawns, dress up like a clown. Be "Clown Mowing". Every time a car passes they will be like "hey there's a clown mowing a lawn!" When they need their lawn mowed, they will want you. Maybe they'll start using you every week just for laughs
-if you're renting a space on Airbnb throw in more than the guest expects. If they rent your couch, throw in dinner or a free Netflix movie. Surprise them to the upside so they give rave reviews or come back again
-if you're cooking something throw in a sample of something else you cook or give them a recipe for anything they're interested in. Help them learn to cook themselves
Being remarkable will do two things: 1. It will get you a lot of attention. Imagine how many people would share "Clown Mowing" on facebook, twitter and Instagram. 2. It will make you more money. More people will want to have that experience and they'll be willing to pay more for it.
Colonel Sanders started KFC by selling chicken at his gas station. Ray Croc wasn't too good to flip burgers. Conrad Hilton started with one crappy hotel, built a business, lost it and rebuilt it. You're not too good for whatever idea you have. Just do the work.
When I feel uninspired or unmotivated I remind myself that everything, EVERYTHING, starts small. Microsoft was just a few guys in a room. Facebook was one kid in his dorm. Famous Amos cookies was an eccentric guy and a recipe. McDonald's was a single diner. One thing is all it takes.
Right now I am working on at least 3 projects. I'll share the details when it's time. Some of it won't work out, hopefully some of it will. No matter what, I'm not going to stop, because everything I want is just ahead.
And when I feel like stopping, I go to Wikipedia and read about Colonel Sanders, Conrad Hilton and others who started from nothing.
Sometimes I wonder what is missing in the world today because so many other people quit just before they became a huge success.
If you feel like quitting, read these stories and don't give up. I believe in you:


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