Patricia Lynn Belkowitz, M.Msc., C.Ht., EFT

Your Stuff

  It’s been a couple of weeks since 2016 began. New Year New You. How can the year or you be “new” if you’re dragging the past behind you? How can you create a new you when you are weighed down with the stuff you accumulated as the old you? All of us accumulate...

Flip Your Switch

Do you know what a switchword is? The term was introduced by Sigmund Freud in 1905, but it wasn’t until 1963 that Chicago-based ad man, James T Mangan, devised the first list of switchwords. These “magic” words were published in his book, The Secret of Perfect...

Five Ways to Trick Your Willpower

  We all need to engage our willpower if we want to get anything done. Willpower is a function of your conscious mind, along with logic, reasoning and awareness. Together these qualities comprise a whopping 12% of your mind. The other 88% is your subconscious...

Memories Can Fool You

  Memories are shaped by what you feel and what you believe. They are created by your perceptions. The neuroscientist Gerald M. Edelman often speaks of perceiving as “creating,” and remembering as “recreating” or “recategorizing.” Your memory works like a...

Breathe More Eat Less

Studies show that just twenty minutes a day focused on calming thoughts is very beneficial. It decreases the risk of hypertension, reduces chronic pain, and can reverse the loss of brain cells that occur from prolonged stress. It even turns off the mechanisms that...