There really are some crass journalists knocking around on provincial papers and college rags – and I personally feel that they are dangerous. Strong words but these writers get a platform to peddle under-researched twaddle and release it as fact. I blame the editor almost as much for allowing such one-sided garbage to reach their pages.
The same criticism is often leveled at the Internet but I read much better blogs everyday than the pathetic article I chanced upon this morning. The article was entitled “Can hypnosis help you lose weight or quit smoking? Don’t bet on it” by Walter Lesczynski.
So what evidence was this based on? How well researched was this piece to be able to write such a damning headline? Well one academic with his own agenda floating his personal opinion and a couple of people who are supposed to have had failed hypnosis.
I could take Walter Lesczynski to masses of research and thousands of people like myself who have been helped by this powerful therapy. It works – it just bloody well works – as long as the person having the therapy really desires the change themselves.
You only have to look through the website of Adam Eason to get some feel via the testimonials about how effective good hypnotherapy can be.
Hypnosis will not work for instance on a smoker who doesn’t actually really want to stop. As long as the person involved wants the change then hypnosis will make that change easy and effective permanently.
That last paragraph is the really important statement that journalists like Walter Lesczynski totally fail to get.
I tell you what – if this Walter Lescynski was to hand in such a dreadful essay at school he would fail miserably for lack of preparation and balance. It must have taken him all of five minutes on telephone calls to reach such stupid unsubstantiated conclusions and yet it is there for thousands of people to see.
I went to my doctor recently and was prescribed some tablets for my hypertension. They didn’t work and in fact made me pretty ill. I had to return to be tried on something else. What if a reporter had asked me questions about my doctors treatment and I had said that he failed to cure my hypertension and the journalist went away and wrote an article entitled “Can your doctor help your illness? Don’t count on it”, what would you think.
That is just about how dumb this reporter is. AAAAAGGGHHHH – NASH TEETH
I’m off to write an article entitled:
“Can Walter Lesczynski write anything credible? – don’t count on it”
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About Keith Watson
Hi - I am Keith Watson.
This blog is dedicated to Banger - a teacher from my teenage years who - at least once a week - insisted upon cracking the hilarious - and I have to say - never heard before line "What's on Watson?".
I would smile demurely - the rest of the class would fall about with sides aching - and life would go on for another week.
'Wats-on My Mind' I have decided will assist me personally as well as be of interest to others (I hope) who share my challenges. It will help keep me organised and document my activities so that I know what I did yesterday.
You think I am joking!!
I have been in the website development game since 1993 and have been involved with over 2000 website builds (with the help of my fantastic team of freelance programmers)
It was only in the last two years though that I have moved over to making money for myself on line and in particular linking up with an amazing talent called Adam Eason to produce and distribute self help and hypnotherapy products.
As a result of looking to promote these products I have downloaded hundreds of internet marketing articles and e-books, studied countless reports, tested list building tactics, butterflied, boot-camped, buzzed, adsensed, affiliated, met a jerk, jv'ed, plr given-awayed, and generally suffered from information overload.
My computer - presumably in a fit of pique or simply demanding a holiday has given up the ghost on at least two occassions - causing me even more stress.
Oh this simple business of making money online.
BUT the great news is that it is all working and our list has grown - I have found some gurus I have complete faith in - and Adam and I are actually making money from our endeavours.
Some way to go but I am more relaxed and can spot a phoney over hyped, sexed up, must have latest product which you must either buy or if not, simply fade into oblivion. There’s not room on this Internet for the two of us.
This ramble of an introduction is really to set the scene for I am sure an interesting journey which I invite you to join. In fact I want you to help me find the right tools, scripts, plugins etc. etc, that will catapult me into the stratosphere of success. I hope you will be there with me.
I don't just consider success in a monetary sense. I so want to help some friends of mine who are involved in Christian missionary work in some pretty harrowing parts of this world. If I can bring any help to their missions that will give me more satisfaction than anything else.
I really, really do love this web stuff and the people you meet. I am convinced that this powerful technology can be harnessed to do some good.
