Niagara Neuropsychology

08/20/2025

A 15-minute hypnosis audio to help you get better at catching your mind engaging in unhelpful and inaccurate Global Negative Ratings (beliefs) about yourself, others, or the world and then weaken them and develop more helpful and accurate beliefs.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS WHILE DRIVING!Make sure you won't be disturbed for the duration of the hypnosis.Best to sit down in a comfortable chair, lean back on a...

08/08/2025

Anyone interested in CBT, ACT, or REBT may find this helpful. It's my hypnosis audio that I've used with my clients to help them learn and use the REBT concept of Demandingness (i.e., Musts, Shoulds, Oughts, Need to, etc.)

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS WHILE DRIVING!Make sure you won't be disturbed for the duration of the hypnosis.Best to sit down in a comfortable chair, lean back on a...

08/08/2025

A quick 1-min audio where I describe modern evidence-based hypnosis:

Make sure you won't be disturbed for the duration of the hypnosis.Best to sit down in a comfortable chair, lean back on a couch or recliner, or lie down.What...

05/29/2025

Here is my 2nd ACT & REBT hypnosis audio. It’s on demands/musts/shoulds:

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS WHILE DRIVING!Make sure you won't be disturbed for the duration of the hypnosis.Best to sit down in a comfortable chair, lean back on a...

05/20/2025

I recently received training in clinical hypnosis and have been running a virtual group mental fortitude skills program that combines ACT/REBT/CBT. To help the participants internalize the concepts I made a number of hypnosis audios. I’m realizing now that other people may be interested so I’m posting my first one below in case anyone is interested. It starts off with progressive muscle relaxation and then respiratory sinus arrhythmia breathing (five in and five out) to settle the mind and body. please read the description in the video before listening to it.
HYPNOSIS: Strengthening Observing Self with Alpha Binaural Beats

DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS WHILE DRIVING!Make sure you won't be disturbed for the duration of the hypnosis.Best to sit down in a comfortable chair, lean back on a...

02/12/2025

Takeaways

Dopamine Detox Trend: The trend promotes abstaining from pleasurable activities to “reset” dopamine levels, but it oversimplifies the complex nature of the dopaminergic system.

Misrepresentation of Dopamine: Dopamine is involved in a range of functions—including learning, motivation, and outcome prediction—beyond just mediating pleasure and reward.

Lack of Scientific Support: There is no evidence that temporary abstention from dopamine-related activities leads to long-term neural changes or a true "reset" of dopamine function.

Complexity of Habit Change: Meaningful behavior modification relies on new learning processes rather than merely withholding reinforcement through temporary abstinence.

Risks of Misguided Practices: The simplistic narrative of a dopamine detox can lead to unproven or harmful practices, highlighting the need for accurate, evidence-based approaches to mental health and behavior.

https://www.biosourcesoftware.com/post/5-min-science-dopamine-detox-science?

"Lowering dopamine" is scientifically meaningless.

07/24/2024

When faced with harsh, unchangeable, circumstances remember that you are still able to endure.
Endurance is your invincible power.
Sometimes it is the only power that you will have left.
Have you experienced such circumstances, when the only thing that you could do was endure?

06/30/2024

“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree.

The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying ‘You are too this, or I’m too this.’ That judgment mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.”

~Ram Dass

06/27/2024

06/24/2024

Enjoy it. 🤩

06/12/2024

“Aging is no accident. It is necessary to the human condition, intended by the soul. We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge. Thus the final years have a very important purpose: the fulfillment and confirmation of one’s character.”

—James Hillman

05/09/2024

Although it may seem desirable to keep anxiety out of our life as much as possible, anxiety is in fact essential for living a free and fulfilled life.