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Have you noticed how some people ‘catch a cold and flu’ every season, while others never do? Why is it that some people ‘come down’ with illnesses while others beat pandemics and epidemics? Some have mild symptoms or none at all, while others may die? Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic

Spanish Influenza

The Spanish flu was the worst pandemic of the 20th century. Estimates are it killed as many as 100 million people worldwide in 1918/20, That’s more than were killed in the first world war (1916-1918). Estimates suggest that the world population in 1918 was 1.8 billion – then the global death rate would have been 5.4 percent.

The first known case of the so-called ‘Spanish Flu’ (H1N1) virus was reported at a military base in Kansas USA on March 11, 1918. Within months people around the world were ‘dropping like flys’. “An illness which was killing soldiers in Etaples, France, and Aldershot, England, in 1916″, may have become known later as the Spanish Flu.  If they had acted earlier scientists could have had 2 years to prepare for “some of the worst effects of the Spanish influenza.” Influenza antibiotics were not available for another 20 years, and many deaths were not caused by the influenza virus itself, but by secondary bacterial infections, and experimental ‘cures’.

Populations everywhere lived with poor health, overcrowding, poor sanitation, and hygiene standards. In many parts of the world, governments were weakened by war, secretive confused, and unprepared for a pandemic.

It was the young, fit, healthy people who suffered the highest mortality rates. While the life expectancy at birth and at young ages declined by more than ten years, the life expectancy of 60 and 70-year-olds saw no change.

Other Influenza Pandemics

Influenza type pandemics and epidemics are not rare.

Estimates for the death toll of the “Asian Flu” (1957-58) vary between 1.5 and 4 million. My siblings and I caught the ‘Asian Flu’ at that time and as a result, suffered life-long weakened lungs and Asthma.

The ‘Hong Kong Flu’ of 1968/69 killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide.

The ‘Russian Flu’ pandemic of 1977-78 was caused by the same H1N1 virus that caused the ‘Spanish Flu’. Around 700,000 died.

Swine Flu (H1N1) ripped through Asia in 2009 killing between 150,000 and 575,000 people.

Bird Flu (H5N1) outbreak from 1997 to 1012 killed 359. It is believed to have originated in wildfowl and transmitted through domestic birds such as ducks to humans at poultry farms/

Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease dating from around 1580 B.C. to the present. It is transmitted through contaminated water, food, or contact with an infected person.

Many people who are infected with the poliovirus do not show symptoms. Others become very sick developing paralysis, which can sometimes stop them from breathing. As a result, they die. 

Every summer it struck down small children, and some youth during the first half of the 20th-century. Pandemics rolled across the world. Polio would paralyze or kill over half a million children worldwide every year. No one knew how or why. It was the most feared disease of the 20th century. Polio peaked in the late 1930s, early 1940s, and 1950s. My father’s elder brother John was struck down by the disease twice and spent the rest of his short life in a wheelchair. 

Then in 1955 the Salk vaccine was developed. As a result, my father insisted I get the vaccine.

“Drug manufacturers made the vaccine available for free, and more than 400 million doses were distributed between 1955 and 1962, reducing the cases of polio by up to 99 percent.” Polio still exists in isolated pockets in some developing countries.

Ebola

Ebola killed 11,323 from 2013 to 2016 and is believed to have originated in fruit bats consumed as bush meats in Africa.

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS also most likely originated in bush meats (thought to be monkeys and chimpanzees) in West-Central Africa. The worldwide death toll from 1981 to 2018 is around 32 million.

Up to 650,000 animal diseases have the potential to make the jump across species to humans. Around 5 new diseases appear within human populations every year, with any one of them having the potential to become an epidemic or perhaps a pandemic.

Covid-19 or Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2)

The contagious pandemic of the 21st century is Covid-19. The virus that causes COVID-19 is a coronavirus, not an influenza virus.

Today we have telephones, radio, television, and the Internet to communicate with people more quickly than in the past. (In 1918 they had snail mail,  newspapers and morse-code type telegraph offices. Telephones were antiquated and scarce. Broadcast radio did not exist)

Today we have spread the virus around the world by widespread international travel by plane and cruise ships  (in 1918 only a few traveled far by rail and steamships (think Titanic), which took days, perhaps weeks to reach their destinations)

Today scientists, medical experts, and governments are sharing information about Covid-19. Currently, effective Covid-19 vaccines are becomming available. However, we are ‘not out of the woods’ until 70 – 80 percent of populations have been vaccinated..

We have gained knowledge and experience from other smaller, more recent epidemics including the London Flu 1971/73 (killed around 1,000), Ebola virus disease 1976 to the present (EVD killed around 12,000), Middle East respiratory syndrome 2012 to the present (MERS-CoV has killed around 1,000 it is believed to have passed to humans from camels), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2002/04  (SARS-CoV killed around 1,000). It is believed to have passed into the human population from Civet Cats in China.

Since SARS (2002/04) the advances in genetic technology needed to understand the Covid-19 virus and develop diagnostic tests or treatments have advanced. Effective vaccines have been developed, however the threat of infection will remain for most of us for another year or two. We may need annual vacinations to treat mutated strains as they arise within the untreated populations?

The lack of good genetics might help to protect some from infection, however more practical things can make a big difference for most of us. These may seem a little extreme, however, in the absence of an effective vaccine for all strains of the virus, they are the best way to suppress or beat it.

Governments, medical science researchers, and you need to be vigilant in case one of those animal diseases becomes into-species and makes the jump into human populations. It is not a case of ‘if’ but rather ‘when’. These are a few of the things you can do on a practical level to help protect yourself.

• Regularly wash your hands. Use soap and water, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
• Maintain a safe distance from anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
• Wear a face mask in public to prevent inhalation of the virus, and prevent you from touching your own face.
• Consider wearing protective glasses or a clear face screen to protect the eyes.
• Hand sanitize before and after you touch your own eyes, nose, or mouth. 
• Consider wearing disposable gloves in public.
• Regularly sanitize your phone, keys, and other items.
• Consider sanitizing or disinfecting everything that comes into your home and workplace.
• Leave shoes outside, or just inside the front door.
• An antiseptic mouth wash might help to prevent infection after being in public places.
• A hot shower with soap might also help to prevent infection immediately after returning home, and a change into fresh clean clothes.
• Wash street clothes in a hot wash and where possible dry in a hot clothes drier or direct sunlight.
• Leave street footwear outside or sanitize.
• Cover your nose and mouth with your bent elbow or a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Then dispose of the tissue. Then hand sanitize. 
• Isolate yourself at home if you feel unwell. Do NOT go to work, school, shopping, or socializing – you could be spreading the disease to everyone you come into contact with. Worse still, they could die if you did not help to prevent infection.
• If in doubt check body temperature for a fever.
• Loss of senses of small and taste can be an indicator of infection.
• If you have a fever, cough, and difficulty breathing, seek medical attention. 
• Phone and discuss your symptoms with your health professional or a nearby hospital. Do not turn up unannounced.
• Some evidence shows that vitamin K may offer some protection from developing a bad case of Covid-19.  Therefore the more direct sunlight exposure you can get the better. (Infection rates increase during winter and decrease during simmer)
• The good news is there are rapid tests available to show if you do or do not have an infection.
• Follow the directions of your local health authorities.
• If you are infected authorities will want to contact everyone you have been in contact with so they can test them too. In this way they can isolate outbreaks of infection before they spread further.  Until there is an effective vaccine distributed throughout the whole population, it is the only way to avoid the same sort of results as the Spanish Flu one hundred years ago.
• Some people have only mild symptoms and some people have no symptoms at all, yet they are contagious and can spread the virus to many other people without being aware they are a ‘super-spreader’.
• Avoid all unneeded visits to nursing homes for the elderly and medical facilities until the pandemic has ended. This will allow healthcare workers to operate more effectively, without distractions, therefore protecting you and others.
• Ignore pressure from political, commercial, or ideological factions who somehow want to profit from the pandemic.

Pneumonia

Just like Covid-19, both viral and bacterial pneumonia can spread to other people through inhalation of airborne droplets from an infected persons sneeze or cough. You can also get pneumonia by coming into contact with contaminated surfaces.

Generally, the signs and symptoms of Pneumonia can be similar to Covid-19, however it is not as contagious or deadly. Symptoms can include:

• coughing perhaps producing phlegm (mucus)
• fever
• night-time sweating or chills
• shortness of breath and difficulty breathing
• chest pain that’s worse when you cough
• feelings of tiredness or fatigue
• loss of appetite
• nausea or vomiting
• headaches

Between 2 and 3 million people die each year from pneumonia. It is the leading cause of death for children aged under 5 years worldwide. People aged over 70 are also most vulnerable. Africa has the highest death rates.There is a vaccination available to protect against pneumonia. 

Other risk factors include;

• weakened immune systems caused by disease or use of medications, such as steroids or certain cancer drugs.
• people suffering asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, or heart failure
• recent respiratory infections, such as a colds and flu
• tobacco smokers, certain drug users, and heavy alcohol drinkers
• exposure to pollution, fumes, and certain chemicals

Influenza

influenza (or the flu) is contagious. It is spread by a virus from person to person. It is not the same as the common cold. There are many different virus strains. Vaccinations are available to protect against current strains of the virus. Influenza is a serious disease because it can lead to:

• bronchitis
• pneumonia
• ear infections
• heart and other organ damage
• brain inflammation and brain damage
• death. Up to 650 000 people die of respiratory diseases linked to seasonal flu each year.
• during the Covid-19 pandemic, Influenza spread has reduced significantly. No doubt because of the efforts to suppress Covid-19. “The Western Australian  Health Department has recorded 216 influenza notifications this year to August 14, compared to 4,418 at the same time last year.”

Common Cold

Rhinovirus causes around half of all common colds, however other viruses may cause the symptoms of a cold, including adenovirus, influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, and parainfluenza virus.

The common cold is not a defined disease, but rather a collection of symptoms including coughs, sneezing, a runny nose, sore throat, tiredness, headaches, and perhaps a fever. The common cold therefore is a syndrome because it is a collection of common symptoms with many possible causes. There is no vaccination available to protect against the common cold.

People who have a weak immune system can suffer complications from a common cold leading to serious illnesses, even death.

You can do the following to help strengthen your immunity and suppress or beat Pandemic and Epidemic infections, and reduce their severity and duration.

• Do NOT let yourself be overcome by fear and panic. Calmly work the plan and be safe.
• reduce stress and anxiety. They will only distract you from your ‘new normal’ during the epidemic or pandemic.
• call family, friends, and neighbors by phone or social media to check on their welfare.
• if available, get vaccinated.
• unvaccinated populations can become a ‘nest’ and ‘breeding ground’ for future mutations of the virus. They could reignite the pandemic. Therefore encourage you family and friends to get vaccinated.
• quit tobacco smoking. According to a study of 2.4 million people by Kings College London smokers are 14 percent more likely to contract Covid-19 than non-smokers.
• drink alcohol in moderation, if you drink any at all.
• maintain a healthy balance of work (perhaps in isolation at home), recreation, and sleep.
• enjoy regular exercise and maintain fitness.
• a diet high in fruit, nuts and vegetables, and low in sugar and refined carbohydrates
• maintain a healthy weight
• recover from Diabetes Type 2
• maintain social distancing. This is likely to become part of our ‘new normal’ post Covid-19.
• sanitize and wash your hands with soap regularly. This is likely to become part of our ‘new normal’ post Covid-19.
• only drink safe potable water
• protect from, and screen from insect bites
• get as much sun exposure as practical without burning
• try garlic, zinc, selenium, magnesium, echinacea, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), B group vitamins, vitamin D,  and green tea to boost your immune system.
• if you or a family member has symptoms isolate the infected person from all other family members. This is likely to become part of our ‘new normal’ post Covid-19.
• get tested if you think you have been exposed or you have symptoms.
• contact tracing of infected individuals must identify, isolate, and test those who may have been infected but may not be showing any symptoms of the disease.
• in a pandemic self isolate as much as possible. Stay away from crowded places and keep a distance from neighbors.
• risking a ‘second wave’ of infection by trying to hurry back to ‘normal’ can be far worse than the first wave of infection.
• without the availability of mass vaccinations to fight an infectious epidemic or pandemic, the better option is to drive it into ‘virtual extinction’ with mass self-isolation, testing, and treatment of the sick by medical professionals.
• those with comorbidities (the elderly, overweight, and immunocompromised.) should be the last to be reintroduced into the community once the ‘pandemic storm’ is over, as their immune system is weaker.
• maintain a positive attitude. Keep busy.
• listen to your Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic MP3.

Welcome Subliminal Affirmations: Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic

In psychology, the deep unconscious mind is often referred to as ‘the child within’. Like a child, the deep unconscious is not logical. It does not understand time or reality. Just like a small child, a simple message repeated often enough will eventually become a new deep unconscious belief.

The ‘adult’ logical conscious mind usually filters incoming information. So, if it does not ‘fit with’ current beliefs it may be rejected, and not passed down to the deep unconscious for processing and storage as long term memories. This is why reading positive affirmations aloud usually fails to make much impression upon the deep unconscious mind – it has already been rejected by the surface conscious mind as untrue. Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic subliminal affirmations are skilfully written messages, professionally camouflaged below music or environmental foreground sounds, so the logical conscious mind cannot hear them (and therefore cannot filter them out either). 

With repetition, Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic drives our ‘self-talk’ and creates our unconscious beliefs that in turn drive our behaviors and habits, which are auto-behaviors. As the unconscious mind consistently hears these inspiring words it eventually accepts them as a new truth. The transformation can be almost immediate and miraculous because the change happens ‘inside’, with no conscious effort. 

“You become what you believe”

Oprah Winfrey.

Importantly, no hypnotic trance is required for success! The secret is the way Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic affirmations are repeated over and over again every minute, just below conscious awareness, but within an awareness of your deep unconscious.

Only Welcome Immunity Strength to Beat Pandemics and Epidemics subliminal affirmations feature these important properties;

• We think for the first time in the world, around 70 percent of the world’s online population can access subliminal affirmations in their own native language, in one place.
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• You can clearly hear the ‘first read’ of every Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic subliminal before it slides down below the masking foreground music and sounds. In this way, you consciously, logically, and analytically process the message. This builds conscious trust and confidence in the affirmation messages. Conscious acceptance ‘un-locks the gate’ making it even more effective.
• As your deep unconscious continues to listen, your conscious may hear ‘distant’ words, somewhere within the foreground music. Research proves this audio level to be most effective in creating unconscious learnings and long-term change. It is also reassuring because you consciously know what your deep unconscious mind is hearing, without the tedious repetition.
• In psychology, the deep unconscious is often referred to as ‘the child (mind) within’. Just like small children, it enjoys repetition, and that is the best way for it to learn.
• Because Welcome Immunity Strength to Beat Pandemics and Epidemics subliminal MP3’s are more effective the longer you listen on ‘repeat’ while driving, working, at the gym, running, sleeping, or anytime you choose. There is no need to focus on listening because they are designed to be most effective in the background.
• If you listen while sleeping, on ‘repeat’ your unconscious mind will hear the Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic message more than 400 times every night. If you were to listen to the ‘Environmental – Lake waves’ MP3 or ‘Theta’ binaural waves while sleeping. You can choose to listen to the pleasant piano and guitar’ melody and the ‘Zumba’ – Latin style dance music during the day. Then your deep unconscious can hear the affirmations repeated an additional 800 – 1200 times. That’s powerful.
• The more you listen to your Welcome Immunity Strength to Beat Pandemics and Epidemics subliminal affirmation messages = greater number of repetitions heard by the deep unconscious = clear negative emotions and self-limiting beliefs = a new attitude and behaviors.
• You can combine Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic with Welcome a Strong Immune System and Welcome No Stress and Anxiety, Welcome Life Free From Fear of Disease and Welcome Life Free From Fear of Death for better results.
• Perhaps the cheapest and easiest option is to do is to download and listen to Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic subliminal affirmations as recommended. This approach is very effective for many people.
• The listening time it takes to change will vary with every individual. Following optional ‘one-on-one’ online therapy with Peter Zapfella most will notice measurable changes almost immediately.
• If you have not ‘cleared’ the underlying emotional challenge and associated deep unconscious beliefs before listening to your ‘Welcome’ subliminal affirmations you can expect it to take longer for behavioral changes to occur, perhaps weeks. As everyone has a different life story it would be irresponsible for us to suggest a specific time period.
• So, keep listening to your ‘Welcome’ subliminal affirmations as often as practical day-by-day until you create personal miracles in your life! Perhaps, the first you may know you have changed will be positive comments from family and friends who have noticed subtle changes in you.
• Peter Zapfella has more than 25 years of professional experience as a psychotherapist, having consulted for some of Australia’s largest and most respected companies, and thousands of members of the public in his clinic.
• ‘Welcome’ subliminal affirmations are backed by optional ‘one-on-one’ consultations with Peter Zapfella worldwide via either Skype, FaceTime, Viber and Facebook Messenger. Ask for a ‘Welcome’ discount at Skypetherapy.live

An alternative option is to consult with Peter using Skype to complete diagnostics and a one-on-one interview where he can recommend the most appropriate supplements, nutrition, MP3 resources etc etc for your individual challenge. Electronic ‘live’ translation is available.

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“Today is the future you created yesterday, and

tomorrow you create in your thoughts today.

So be inspired by what your unconscious mind thinks … NOW!”

Peter Zapfella

Subliminal Affirmations: Welcome Immunity Strength to Beat Covid Pandemic

“You do not smoke tobacco. You might notice how good you feel when you drink alcohol in moderation, if you drink any at all. You maintain a balance of work, recreation, and sleep. You really enjoy regular exercise and maintain fitness. Your diet is high in fruit and vegetables, and low in sugar and refined carbohydrates, so you maintain a healthy weight. It is easier now for you to maintain social distancing and sanitize and wash your hands regularly. Now you reduce stress and have a positive attitude about your ability to strengthen your immune system.

You might not have noticed, you are now more clear in the mind, more relaxed in the body, you are coping better with everything and everybody… more confident… greater self-control… the way you feel is becoming better and better, you are more confident and coping better with everything and everybody, because the burden has been lifted forever and ever now that you have improved immunity from diseases”

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Smile More – Worry Less

7 Health Benefits of Smiling More

1. Smiling can boost mood when feeling down.
2. It can help overcome anxiety and depression. 
3. It can lower Blood Pressure.
4. Improve friendships
5. Strengthen the Immune System
6. Aid pain relief.
7. Increase healthy longevity.

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A former client has gifted this gold nugget to Peter Zapfella in thanks.

Like climbing a mountain life presents us all with many experiences, those experiences often being accompanied by challenges. Those challenges can lead to us interpreting the world through negative emotions, self-limiting beliefs, phobias, addictions, bad habits, and behaviors.

Peter Zapfella and Coral Conrad often mention to their clients, it is a significant step to acknowledge when something needs to be changed, and another significant step to actually DO something to create that change.

Peter and Coral have the qualifications, skills, and experience to assist their clients to change. Many other therapies simply enable people to become aware of the need for change, without actually stepping through it.

So sometimes we choose to stay where we feel more comfortable, and that becomes our landscape of perceived security. For many of us, that landscape can be like a valley of green rolling hills that are easy to walk over or around. 

There are some ups and downs from time-to-time.

From these rolling hills, we can see above us. Some can see the mountain with its many challenges and snow-capped precipice beyond. Those who see the mountain may admire it, and some aspire to climb it.

The forest that stands between the valley and the mountain appears to be dark and foreboding as sight is obscured by the towering trees. Some avoid the forest.

However, passing through the forest is a necessary path to reaching the mountain. The forest represents a recognition that life within the valley is severely limited, and not really as idyllic as previously thought.

Those of you reading this are to be congratulated as your courage and insight have taken you to the beginning of a wonderful journey beyond the forest.

For once the mountain is reached, we can proceed to climb, navigating the precipices, and eventually reach the pinnacle, taking in the view, not only of what is above us, but that which is all around us, above and below.

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Some may call the mountain peak Enlightenment.

The Valley

Although it is sometimes lovely, even comfortable, to stay in the valley is to restrict our own personal growth and knowledge. Life’s difficulties are subject to causes beyond our understanding at that level.

Some people choose to stay trapped within their valley because of fears, phobias and other self-limiting beliefs and emotions. At that level, we may resign ourselves to the perceived illusion that we cannot change. It may even be traumatic in the valley, yet we stay and endure it.

The Forest

Venturing into the forest a person has the opportunity to experience solutions to the challenges of life, sourced from beyond. At first, there is less clarity and direction as the treetops and shadows obscure the view of the sun and the stars. It may be dark and dangerous, or at least perceived that way. Yet important discoveries can be made in the subtlest ways, as we encounter new insights and understandings. Eventually the forest becomes less dense and light shines in where there was none. There is a welcome glimmer of hope.

The Mountain

You have wandered beyond the valley and into the forest. You have found a way, perhaps a path others have trod before you (who may have guided you), through the forest and into a clearing beyond. You have commenced your journey toward the mountain peaks beyond. The breathtaking views of life beyond the boundaries below await you, clear direction toward your goals, life-giving fresh air and energy, beyond the struggle and pain below.

As a result of many years of training and experience, Peter Zapfella and Coral Conrad can now guide you along a clear pathway toward your pinnacle of life experience, beyond limitation.

Peter and Coral have now paved the way, for you, to enjoy a speedy, safe, and illuminating path. With every session, you can progress further, beyond the limitations of your old landscape.

By Peter Zapfella and Coral Conrad.

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Montesquieu theory of three by Peter Zapfella.

Baron de Montesquieu Charles Louis de Secondat (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755) was a French judge and political philosopher concerned with overcoming official corruption and, despotism. He proposed the separation of three levels of governmental power – the legislative, executive, and judicial.

Montesquieu saw despotism as a danger for any government not already despotic and argued that it could best be prevented by different government bodies exercising either legislative, executive, or judicial power, and in which all those bodies are bound by the rule of law. the Montesquieu philosophy was that “government should be set up so that no man need be afraid of another”

The Montesquieu theory of the separation of powers had an enormous impact on the framers of the constitutions of the United States of America, the Republic of France and others.

Meanwhile in more than 50 other countries people live within dictatorships where one person or a select group control almost everything and everyone. They often control the population through threats, and fear. They maintain control through the police and military. These include North Korea, Syria, Yemen and Iran. We could include Russia and China in that grouping too. In many ways these dictators have set themselves up as ‘kings’ who rule with absolute power over the daily lives of the people and stifle innovation and development. Only special politically connected people are given opportunities. These ‘kings’ intend to keep power within their family and close trusted groupings. The result is … the country, the people suffer deprivations at the hands of the elite. Every now and again we witness revolution.

Monarchies where one person inherits absolute power of the country and its population include the United Arab Emirates, Swaziland, Oman and Brunei. The king may be benevolent and work to improve the lot for his people. Others go the way of a meglomaniac dictator. History has shown some of these hereditary kings have also witnessed revolution. Both the USA and France were created by revolution against a hereditary king who failed to care for the people.

I appreciate that we as individuals live our day within three more or less equal parts. They are sleep. work and recreation. Today we aspire to experience 8 hours of each. We need all these three to maintain physical and mental health. 

• Without work most of us would soon become destitute.
• Without around 8 hours of quality sleep, we would soon become physically and psychologically exhausted. 
• Without recreation, which includes sport and exercise, our social bonding would break down.

The best possible work we can have is the work we love so much we would do it for free if we did not need to work for financial reward. This is because our brain produces ‘happiness endorphins’ which maintain health. People who hate their job, their boss, their workmates are literally poisoning themselves. They are prime candidates for cancer and heart attacks.

During sleep our brain waves slow down. The various stages of relaxation and sleep are;

We need Theta and Delta sleep to remain sane and healthy. Therefore ,we need uninterrupted sleep.

Recreation may include socializing, sport and exercise. I think it also includes eating healthy food and just relaxing into the Alpha zone.

I wonder, was the Montesquieu theory of government influenced by the way we divide our day into three more or less equal parts of eight hours each? Or, was Montesquieu’s theory influenced by his three thoughts on education?

Montesquieu said “We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”

It bears thought. However, in conclusion, I believe Montesquieu’s philosophical arguments of three levels of government improve my life experience. I think we people who are lucky enough to live in a country where there are relative freedoms from government corruption can aspire to greatness and thereby help to improve the lives of others.

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“I cannot be hypnotized!” by Peter Zapfella.

Since I began my career as a hypnotist in 1995 I have had so many people say something along the lines of “I volunteered to be hypnotized on stage once and the hypnotist sent me back to my seat in the audience. He said I cannot be hypnotized, so don’t try it on me now.” I always smile and laugh to myself when they say that.

I will tell you the truth. The stage hypnotist in me knows that the show must keep moving along and cannot wait for someone who refuses to cooperate. So, the stage hypnotist can either leave them sitting on stage where they may become a distraction for the audience or send them back to their seat in the audience where they can enjoy the show. The only reason people cannot be hypnotized are either;

• Fear on their part. 
• They are drunk or drugged and unable to concentrate.
• They are an idiot. That is their Wechsler Intelligence Scale IQ is less than about 80 (low).
• They are brain dead.

Intelligent, creative people make the best hypnotic subjects because they can relax and concentrate at the same time. Hypnotists who have been hypnotized many times by different hypnotists make the best hypnotists.

Stage hypnotists know this and quickly move uncooperative people off the stage because they simply do not have the time to waste on one person. The words “You cannot be hypnotized.” Is a polite way of saying ….  “I really do not have the time to hypnotize you right now.”

A stage hypnotist has the easy option of quickly rejecting volunteers while the hypnotherapist must assist his or her client to achieve the hypnotic trance, no choice about it. In the good old days, a hypnotherapist could ask his client to return every few days while they are trained to achieve deep and deeper trance states. Today people want it all now. People want it done in one session. If they fail to achieve trance they blame the hypnotherapist. To meet client expectations a hypnotherapist must have advanced hypnotic skills, flexibility to meet his or her client’s expectations, and advanced rapport skills.

Let’s get this myth out of the way now. A hypnotist does not do something to you. All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. The hypnotist simply guides a person into the hypnotic trance, and then takes them on a journey with cooperation. Everyone can be hypnotized, if they want. Everyone can refuse to be hypnotized if they want.

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Why would someone attend a stage hypnosis show and volunteer to go up onto the stage if they did not want to be hypnotized? The stage hypnotist stacks everything in his or her favor, but sometimes that is not enough. I think some people come up on to the stage for a bit of fun. Then when they take their seat on stage, looking back at the audience, they become self-conscious and fear they will be ridiculed, so they fight the hypnotic trance. Others fear losing control without knowing they are always in control.

I had been invited to the 21^st birthday party of a young man whom I had assisted to quit smoking with hypnosis. His mother, cigarette in hand, told me she had been sent back to her seat in the audience at a stage hypnosis show. I knew she was actually telling me, in her own way, that she was not going to use hypnosis to quit her tobacco habit. I smiled and agreed with her. Truth is, I was there to enjoy the party, not recruit clients. 

On another occasion, a friend came to stay over a few days. He said the same thing, more or less. I decided to have some fun with him, so I agreed. “Of course, you cannot be hypnotized. But can we play a game?” He agreed. So, I hypnotized him.

Then I introduced his unconscious to conscious amnesia. In other words, I conspired with his deep inner mind to hide what I was about to say to his awake mind. I told his body that it would remain paralyzed from the neck down until I said the special code words. Then I awoke him.

 

“Would you like a cup of coffee?” I asked as I stood up and walked to the door. “Yes, I would” he replied as he continued to lie on the bed. I went into the kitchen and boiled the water and made two cups of coffee, as I continued to talk to him in the other room. “Are you coming out, or shall I bring your coffee in there?” I asked.

He was still lying on the bed wriggling his whole body as if it was inside a sleeping bag. I could have laughed, but I kept a straight face and engaged him in an irrelevant small talk as I drank my coffee. “It will be getting cold if you don’t drink it,” I said as I motioned toward his cup.

He made some excuse about not wanting a cup of coffee, so I teased him some more. “You said you wanted a cup so I made one for you. Now you say you don’t want it?” 

He was still wriggling like a worm on the bed as he said “I can’t move!” in a frustrated voice.“What do you mean you can’t move?” I replied in a concerned voice. “All I know is I cannot move until you say the secret code words.” “Code words? What code words are you talking about?” I asked. “I don’t know.” He was almost in tears. 

Then I dropped the bombshell on him. “Are you hypnotized?” I asked. “No. I told you I cannot be hypnotized.” “Hmmmm … if you are not hypnotized and you cannot move then you really have a problem. As a hypnotist, I could say the secret code words so you could move again. But if you are not hypnotized there is nothing much I can do for you.”

“Just say the bloody words, will you?” he begged. “Are you hypnotized?” I asked again. “No. I told you I cannot be hypnotized. Just say the words … please.” “Well since you said please you can move now.” The secret code words were ‘move now’, and he did.

“I will make a fresh cup of coffee if you like,” I said as he sat up. “Were you hypnotized?” “No,” he said. Since that day he continues to say he was not hypnotized.

That is why when people tell me they cannot be hypnotized I smile and laugh to myself.

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