Dr. Hamilton Demonstrates "The Hold" - How To Calm A Crying Baby

please try and let me know if it works

Hiccups in General Practice

Very occasionally patients come in with this strange one. All the patients I have seen in General Practice share one common item in their history - they never learnt a good way to stop hiccups.

From the reading it involves some sort of resetting of the diaphragm that's going beserk.

This is my simple technique that is almost guaranteed to work that I have used effectively.

Drink continuously from a cup of water - sips will do, do not stop to breathe. Take 10 SLOW gulps - these can be small otherwise you might be full up of water. You will get an overwhelming urge to want to breathe, but the act of drinking causes an intake of air that will be sufficient to keep you oxygenated. When you have completed this exercise, you will be hiccup-free.

Not only is this episode over, this is a skill they will have for life.

I once got a bottle of Champagne for helping someone with his intractable hiccups.

Let  me know if it doesn't work in the comments section.

The expressive writing method - A simple method to improve grades?

Write for 15 minutes for 4 consecutive days.

Just try it and see what happens at the end of the exercise. It will surprise you.

It's great for people who don't like to talk to others.

Richard Bandler NLP Overcoming bad memories

This is a brilliant technique - you need to repeat it 3x for it to be more effective. Repeating this too many times results in amnesia, which is not a great idea as we don't want to repeat the same mistake again. Bad memories should be left there so that we can learn from them when we need to but not so they can cause emotional turmoil over and over again.

The Disease Does not know it.....

The response rate to these operations is quite high. When a patient was asked if they knew it was all a sham they said, " Yes, but the disease doesn't know that...".

Could this be why duct tape or any other treatment works for warts better than placebo?

Anthony Robbins - Swish Pattern - eg phobia cure, bad memories, etc

It's Not About The Nail

 A lesson not to rush in straight away and just listen to the patient.