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Try Hypnosis to Keep New Year’s Resolutions

When it comes to making changes, sincerity and willpower provide a good start, but often more is needed. “No one makes a New Year’s resolution without intending to keep it, but the fact is almost none of us do. Trying to use will alone to change long term habits is extremely difficult without help. That’s where hypnosis comes in,” states Barry Wolfson, director of the Hypnosis Counseling Center (HCC). 

Hypnosis is medically approved as a safe, painless and customizable way to aid individuals with a variety of behavioral issues including phobias, fears, sports performance, insomnia, migraines, stress reduction and myriad other conditions. The only tools needed for hypnosis are one’s mind and the desire to succeed.

The Hypnosis Counseling Center (HCC) has 35 years of experience helping clients successfully address issues and gain a stronger feeling of self-control. The center offers both individual and group counseling. The type of session depends on the specific problems, needs and personality of the client. HCC also provides group counseling for smoking cessation and weight loss in adult and continuing education schools throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 

Shares Wolfson, “Hypnosis helps you leverage your strongest personal asset – your mind – to achieve lasting and positive behavioral changes. Once in a relaxed hypnotic state, you’ll open yourself to affirmative, therapeutic suggestions and begin your own journey toward positive change and personal freedom.”

Location: Offices in Flemington and Livingston, private sessions also available via Skype or Zoom. For more information, call 908-303-7767, email [email protected] or visit HypnosisCounselingCenter.com. See ad on page 11.

Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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