The Positive Mind Center

10/19/2023

Ericksonian Hypnosis can give powerful skills and techniques that can be immediately incorporated into your life and work. Those who successfully complete the Hypnosis Practitioner Certification Training will receive a certificate from the NLP Center of New York as a Practitioner of Hypnosis and are eligible to apply for certification from the NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists) or the NBCCH (National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists).
Trainers Steven Leeds and Dr. Rachel Hott have practiced hypnotherapy for over 40 years and Ericksonian Hypnosis for over three decades.
Join today and receive discounted rates. Everything you need to know is right here: https://www.nlptraining.com/hypnosis-practitioner-training

10/19/2023

Do you already have a license in the mental health field and are looking to expand your knowledge and your practice? Are you a business professional looking to learn a cutting edge technology to raise your interpersonal skills and maintain a state of professional excellence? Then The NLP Coach Practitioner Certification Training is for you!
Learn techniques for healing the past, creating the future and living fully in the “here and now.”
Plus take advantage of our discounted rates now!
For full course description, pricing and dates click here: https://www.nlptraining.com/nlp-coach-practitioner-level-i

09/05/2023

Start your Fall of right this Friday, Sept. 8 with Steven Lees' Magic in Action First Friday seminar!

Learn new techniques, meet new people and exchange ideas in this informal exciting series designed to expand your therapy horizons!

07/06/2023

Tomorrow night join Steven Leeds at this exciting First Friday series "Magic In Action" utilizing NLP, Hypnosis and mindfulness. Sessions are at The Psitive Mind Center, W. 57th St. Use the link to learn more!

06/02/2023

Starting tonight! There is still time to join in the first "first Friday" session. Looking forward to working with together in this exciting new venture!

02/13/2023

Andrew Tucker, a Positive Mind Center therapist and addiction specialist, is offering on-line group support. Every Monday 7-8:30pm join in the discussion on how recovery can work for you whether active or sober. Contact Andrew directly for additional information.

01/16/2023

10/31/2022

The feeling of home is as universal as it is personal. Home can be a place of safety and refuge, or chaos and instability. No matter which, home is the place you identify with in some way, it carries meaning, memories and shapes your identity. It's the mysterious and universal feeling of home that seems to root us in our very being, providing a shelter for those days and times when all seems lost.
Kevin and Niseema discuss how homesickness is a powerful feeling that something isn't right, coupled with a longing for things to be stable, familiar and safe. It is a fact of life that everybody has to leave home; how a person manages that stress can say a lot about their relationship with themselves and their ability to take a sense of "home" with them wherever they go.
PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

We hope you have found a feeling of "home" in The Positive Mind Radio/Podcast community. As we experience growth, this is the last Positive Mind Radio Show/Podcast for the year.

Starting in January of 2023 we are transitioning to a monthly broadcast. As always we will feature mental health professionals and authors who will discuss topics in depth bringing you "some ideas, concepts, and guests to try and help you lead a more positively minded life." The newsletter will contain information about our guests, insight into the topic discussed and have the current show, just as we do no so you can listen at any time.

It is a privilege to be welcomed into your lives for an hour and we look forward to bringing you more of the same programming on a monthly basis.

Be well,
Kevin O'Donoghue
Niseema Dyan Diemer

10/24/2022

This week Kevin and Niseema talk about the Danish word "Hygge," which is a way of creating comfort and ease in your life. It is amazing how many ways we can create more comfort and ease in our daily rituals, from how we wake up in the morning, to how we live our day, to how we go to sleep.

In the fall/winter season, there are so many ways to add pleasure to our lives, like wearing cozy wool socks, to making a cup of hot apple cider or hot chocolate. For the Danish, Hygge is a way of life, which explains why they are one of the happiest countries in the world. PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

10/17/2022

This week, Kevin and Niseema talk about the Vagus Nerve, a major nerve in the body that begins at the brain-stem and travels all the way through the vital organs to the sacrum. The Vagus Nerve helps control several muscles of the throat and voice, plays a major role in regulating the heart rate and keeps the gastrointestinal tract in working order. The Vagus Nerve has also been shown to have a very strong connection to how you manage stress. A weak Vagus Nerve is a major indicator that you have been suffering from prolonged and chronic stress.
Niseema introduces a powerful tool for healing and balancing the Vagus Nerve called The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). The SSP delivers a passive stimulation of the Vagus Nerve to help increase its capacity to regulate the "fight or flight'' part of our nervous system which contributes to symptoms of anxiety and PTSD, and access feelings of safety and connection.
PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

10/10/2022

In our final show on Resilience, Kevin and Niseema talk about how "programming" in childhood can lead to inflexibility and a low level of resilience as an adult.

Most often, children are programmed through negativity: "Don't do that. Don't touch that. Don't complain." This can force a child to create a "good child" persona that causes them to detach from a feeling self. They will carry this "good child" persona into adulthood, losing the capacity to be real to themselves, their friends or any future partner. Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to undo this terrible and destructive syndrome.
PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

10/03/2022

In Part 3 of our series on Resilience, Kevin and Niseema talk about the difference between "strain" and "stress." Notice what happens when we change a familiar word like "stress" into a more accurate description like "strain." Are you "strained out?"

One of the most universal sources of stress is strain. It can be a physical or psychological strain, and it can be caused by many different factors. For example, if you work long hours and don’t have time to spend with your family, that’s likely to cause some level of mental strain. Most of us have been dealing with a lot of strain since COVID began in addition to its aftermath, feeling our inner resources "strained" leading to "stress." Join Kevin and Niseema as they discuss strain, stress and how we can use those as tools to build resilience.
PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

09/26/2022

In Part 2 of our series on Resilience, Kevin and Niseema talk about defense mechanisms and an internal mechanism called "The Engineer" which wants to keep us from changing. "The Engineer" will work to sabotage any kind of alterations you want to make, even positive ones.

This week's show is centered around learning how to have a dialogue with, and make friends with, "The Engineer" so you can make the changes you want to make.
PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

09/19/2022

We are kicking off a four-show series on resilience.

In this time of COVID/post COVID stress and all that it entails, people's sense of resilience is very low. How are you doing with your resilience? Do you feel tapped out, that you cannot handle one more demand?

Tune in as Kevin and Niseema talk about ways to refill your resilience tank to move forward with knowledge and purpose. PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

09/12/2022

This week Kevin and Niseema welcome Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, Ph.D, psychotherapist, Zen practitioner, speaker and author of the book, “Zen and the Art of Falling in Love.” Brenda shares with us her journey and understanding of how every person we meet can teach us how to love. In sharing this, she shows us ways that we can love without judgment, shame, or blame.
PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

09/06/2022

Falling out of love is a heartbreaking feeling. The expansiveness. warmth, and joy of being with your beloved is just gone. It may have happened suddenly or overtime, but there is no doubt that 'the loving feeling" is gone.

This week Kevin and Niseema explore some of the reasons why what used be a "tuning in" to our partner, suddenly turns into a "tuning out." Expectations, lack of relationship skills, stress, personal history, our own body, etc., can turn that loving feeling into irritability and loneliness. If love is the antidote to loneliness, then what may be the antidote to the "loss" of love?
PODCAST: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-positive-mind/id1511809100

08/31/2022

Something we have talked about in our podcasts recently.

A secure attachment style can help people initiate and maintain friendships.