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Finding work-life balance in today’s fast-paced world is not a simple task. Spending more time at work than at home means you miss out on a rewarding personal life. Then again, if you’re facing challenges in your personal life, then concentrating on your job can be difficult. Whether the problem is too much or too little focus on work, when your work life and your personal life feel out of balance, it can result in stress.

How work invades your personal life.

There was a time when employees simply worked a nine to five job Monday to Friday, however, times have changed and the boundaries have blurred for many workers. The reasons for this is that people feel pressured to work longer hours to protect their jobs, also if you work for an international company you may have to be on call around the clock. We now all have the ability to work almost anywhere, from home or even whilst on holiday. If you have already experienced some of these challenges then you already know how easy it is for work to invade your personal life.

Working overtime.

Sometimes working overtime is important. It’s a choice you can make to adjust to a new job, or to pay the bills. If you work for a company that requires mandatory overtime, you won’t be able to avoid it, but you can certainly learn to manage it. If you decide to work overtime for financial reasons or to climb the career ladder, remember to do so in moderation. Learn to say no if you are too tired, or when its affecting your health or your home life.

It isn’t easy to juggle the demands of a career and personal life, in fact for most people it’s an ongoing challenge to reduce stress and maintain harmony in the key areas of their lives. Prioritise the tasks you need to accomplish, then do them in the order of importance. Be realistic in planning your schedule and focus on the things you know you can achieve. Develop ways to work more efficiently at home and at work. Consolidating or combining jobs may be more time effective. Most importantly try and look on the bright side of things, life, as they say, is too short.

Home Life.

Allow yourself some down time at home, even if it’s just an hour here and there, devote that hour to yourself. Do something relaxing like taking a bath or reading, have some fun with Adult Toys. Remember, if you’re too tired, you won’t be able to concentrate at work, by learning to relax you’ll cope better with the demands of maintaining a good work-life balance.

Karen Jack is a popular writer, her main areas of interest are relationships, lifestyles, health and music.

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Nothing stops you from the realizing of who you are, this “you” of you that is flowing through your very eyes right now, except for desire and fear. You are afraid of being impersonal; you fear impersonal beingness; you are afraid of the idea that you are not the someone, the person that you believe yourself to be.

It is all quite simple, in fact, extraordinarily simple. Turn away from your desires and fears and from your belief in the thoughts that create them and you will immediately be in your natural state of freedom and delightfulness. You already are in this natural state of the “you” of you that is peering out from behind and through the eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, of course. You are simply suffering the furthering out from this “you” that is already right here and where “you” are; you are only suffering the covering of this belief that you are the mindbody, over the top of who you already are - as if this belief were true of you.

You listen to the thoughts that travel through the mind as if these thoughts were true of “you”. This is all that you are suffering. As a spiritual seeker you believe that you are growing through ripeness and effort, of becomings and attainments, of merits and achievements, of destiny and grace. But all of these are merely mental formations and projections of an addicted mind, of who you think you are. Instead of helping, they are obstructing your realization of this “you” of you that is already right here in the free standing position-lessness of being - the very heart of existence.

Who you are, this “you” of you, already is. You want to make “who you are” into an achievement, an addition, to add onto what and who you think you are. You can even be woo-ed, stroked, moulded, caressed and attracted into the seeing and being of who you already are and straight away - within a nanosecond - you will revert back to who you think you are with another storyline to tell of how you had a seeing, or even worse, how you are now being who you are.

You will revert back to your chattering mind as your guidance once more. This very guidance of yours is what has you out on a loop in the perpetual distraction from realizing who it is that you truly and already are; keeping you in the dark and veiled from seeing that this “you” of who you are is already standing freely of and before this mind even arises.

The one, that is flowing through the eyes of this mindbody that you find yourself flowing through, is no other than the immense blockness and rocklike solidity of nothingness and everythingness - totally impersonal, even as it is flowing through the eyes of this mindbody. This motion of aliveness that is flowing through your eyes is who you are, this “you” of you, the seer. It is not a someone or something.

When you find this very seeing that is flowing through your eyes, and you stop at and as this one; when you come to being deeply at rest in this “you” of you, you are completely freed from and relieved of having to be who you think you are. This is an enormous relief. Just that on its own would be more than enough to be the attraction to surrender your addiction to who you think you are - your mind informed mindbody. However, that is not simply the end of it, that is only the beginning of this heart of existence and its ongrowing incarnation into and through this mindbody that you find your self flowing through.

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HYPNOSIS MADE SIMPLE
At some stage or other most of us have probably wondered just how difficult is it to hypnotize someone?
Do you need to have some kind of innate skill? Do you have to study hypnosis for years first? Maybe hypnosis is just a con and doesn’t really exist at all?
Well, the fact is hypnosis does exist, and you don’t need to be particularly skilled, in touch with your “inner-self”, or inclined to things ethereal to make it happen!
However, you do need to have some basic knowledge and do quite a lot of practice to get hypnosis to take place on a reasonably consistent basis.
Many people have tried doing hypnosis, either on themselves or on others, usually with, at best, mixed results or, at worst, no result whatsoever. Why is this? — usually because of a combination of things, but primarily because of a lack of understanding of the trance state.
The first thing to be aware of is that degree of suggestibility varies from person to person and your success level will initially depend on this. The level of cooperation you get from your subject is another variable. If he or she decides they don’t want to be hypnotized, or sees the process as a test of their will-power, then hypnosis is just not going to happen .

However, given everything in your favour, ie a willing and highly suggestible subject, then the next thing you need is an effective induction technique and deepening method.
As far as the induction technique is concerned, there are many different methods to choose from, the key factor common to all them being a bypass of the critical faculty, coupled with selective thinking or suggestion.
Traditionally, the induction method involves intensifying comforting emotions. For example the subject could be told to imagine he is relaxing on a beautiful, sunny beach, listening to the gentle waves etc.
However, regardless of what technique you choose, once some degree of hypnosis is present, then a compounding or deepening process is required if there is to be any point to the session.
The first thing to note is that if a subject finds the hypnotic state comfortable and pleasant, the longer he stays in it, the deeper he tends to go. To aid this deepening, the hypnotist can say things like, “You are going deeper and deeper, more relaxed with every breath…” etc but this will only be effective if some degree of hypnotic relaxation is already present! You cannot deepen a trance if there is no trance there to begin with!
Unfortunately, this is the point which many a budding hypnotist fails to comprehend, such is their desire to get a subject hypnotized as quickly as possible.
Relaxation on its own does not constitute being in a trance. The net result is nothing happens and disappointment to both the hypnotist and the subject is the only likely outcome!
So, there must be some discernible degree of hypnotic relaxation present before it can be deepened.
Fortunately, this state of hypnotic relaxation can be gained very rapidly and simply via what is known as the “eye closure” technique. This only involves 4 parts. Instruct the subject to:
1. Close their eyes
2. Relax their eyelids to the point where they just won’t work.
3. Test them to make sure they won’t work.
4. Let the relaxation sweep all the way down their body to the tips of their toes.

The whole point here is to get them to hold onto the relaxation in the eyelids. As long as that relaxation is held onto, the eyelids will not open! This type of relaxation is not just lack of tension, it is hypnotic relaxation and it can then be deepened.

An example of how such a session could be structured…

A taste of hypnosis…
“Get comfortable in a seated position, close your eyes and take several deep breaths, breathing all the way in and all the way out. Now focus on your eyelids. Imagine they are totally relaxed, so relaxed in fact that you couldn’t open them even if you wanted to. Now test them to see if they will open, but at the same time hold onto that total relaxation you have in your eyelids. Make sure they won’t work by raising your eyebrows as high as possible to test yourself that you really have relaxed your eyelids to the point where they just won’t open. You know of course that you could open them if you really wanted to but to do so you would have to give up that total relaxation you feel. Now, still holding onto that feeling, let the relaxation slowly sweep right down through your body, right down to the tips of your toes.
Notice how good it feels, to be totally relaxed and yet still in control and aware of your surroundings. Now with each breath you take, let that relaxation become deeper and deeper, deeper and deeper. You are now feeling completely relaxed…etc”
At this stage, if the above has been followed carefully, you can confidently begin to program their subconscious mind by giving suitable suggestions.
It’s really that easy!

Alan Hucker has had an avid interest and practice in hypnosis for the past 15 years. He is very much an advocate of the benefits hypnosis can bestow on all who have an open mind and are willing to try something new. For further information visit his website at hypnozoom.com

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