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See - Sada Elbalad
23-05-2025
- Health
- See - Sada Elbalad
Innovation and Practice of Remote Instant Personality Development
Hadi Eltonsi Physician and retired Ambassador My passion for psychological learning began during high school, influenced by my sister's studies in psychology and philosophy at the Faculty of Arts. I often reviewed her coursework. Later, during my fourth year of medical school, I volunteered in an experimental group for innovative group psychotherapy. This experience deepened my self-understanding and personal development over a year and a half of analytical practice. Subsequently, I received a lucrative offer to work with the late Professor Dr. Yehia Al-Rakhawi (may he rest in peace), who led the group. However, I chose to become the first physician to join the diplomatic corps as an attaché, believing that psychological learning through interaction with diverse cultures and peoples complements introspective analysis. This analytical ability, I found, aids in understanding and anticipating policies, professional relationships, and even negotiations. In the early 1990s, I met the great late Dr. Wagdi Ragheb, who taught me that Americans had discovered discrepancies between Freudian psychoanalysis (which they deemed overly theoretical) and the actual workings of the human nervous system. Focusing on internal negative emotions, he argued, amplifies them, draining energy into tensions that harm mental and physical health, thereby affecting activities and relationships. By consciously redirecting emotional attention outward—away from internal psychological reactions—these negative emotions dissolve within two months. The energy once consumed by them is redirected to external life, enabling abundant, flexible energy to resolve crises with sensitivity, deep awareness, and swift, accurate decisions. This state of calm, happiness, inner peace, efficiency, and maturity mirrors the psychological standards required for astronaut selection. I trained myself to achieve this over two years, whereas my *Remote Instant Leadership Personality Development* method enables recipients to attain it in a single session of several hours. This involves a three-hour video call to agree on personality analysis and development goals at the conscious mind level. The agreed-upon personality traits and goals are then imprinted on the subconscious mind during sleep via telepathy, energy transfer, Reiki, hypnosis, and role embodiment. ### Professional Journey and Certifications Since 1995, my work in Guatemala allowed me time to complete studies in psychology, human medicine, energy sciences, and parapsychology. Key certifications include: - **The Silva Mind Control Method**: Enabled meditation, visualization, and development of extrasensory abilities like telepathy. - Clinical and conversational hypnosis training, including mastering silent hypnosis (inducing deep sleep without dialogue), allowing ideas and emotions transmitted via telepathy to embed directly into the subconscious. This contrasts with Freudian hypnosis, which relies on relaxed conscious states where recipients may resist therapeutic messages, necessitating repeated sessions. - Certifications in life coaching, Reiki mastery, pranic healing, family constellations, and advanced yoga (notably mantra-based meditation), which enhanced my Kundalini energy and chakra alignment for mental, spiritual, and physical fitness. ### Evolution of the Method Starting in 1997, I offered free silent hypnosis to volunteers, imprinting agreed-upon psychological states on their subconscious. While successful, results were temporary. To address this, I introduced pre-session dialogues resembling cognitive-behavioral therapy to align analysis and goals, ensuring therapeutic messages were mutually agreed upon and effective. Success soared when recipients were cooperative, transparent, and convinced—since the subconscious cannot adopt unagreed-upon imprints. After retirement, I began professional practice in 2015. In 2016, Egypt's Supreme Council for Culture granted me intellectual property rights for in-person instant personality development. Two years later, it was published as a groundbreaking research paper in a British psychiatry and psychology journal. In 2022, the remote version received Egyptian IP rights and was republished in the same journal. The COVID-19 pandemic spurred me to integrate Reiki, extending the method's reach globally. Both in-person and remote methods achieve identical outcomes, though remote sessions offer greater accessibility, safety, and scalability. The non-therapeutic branding also facilitates international use without medical licensing, serving functional purposes like boosting productivity and improving workplace dynamics, even for non-clinical recipients—all without complications, pain, or medication. ### Methodology and Outcomes The remote instant personality development method delivers immediate, permanent, and comprehensive results through: 1. A single 3-hour video call to analyze personality and set conscious-level goals. 2. Imprinting these goals on the subconscious during sleep via telepathy, Reiki, hypnosis, and role embodiment. A brief pre-session call ensures suitability and clarifies benefits. Follow-up calls the next day verify results, with ongoing guidance as needed. Recipients achieve peak happiness, inner peace, maturity, and efficiency, embodying leadership mindsets that inspire teams, foster mutually beneficial relationships, and resolve crises creatively. The method also addresses neurological issues (depression, anxiety, phobias, trauma, OCD, psychosomatic disorders) and negative habits (insomnia, obesity, smoking)—with a 96% success rate among willing participants. It excludes psychotic disorders, active substance addiction, and children under 12. ### Impact and Vision This method enhances productivity and workplace environments across corporations, banks, universities, and institutions by equipping leaders with happiness, efficiency, and crisis-management skills. Health and lifestyle improvements are detailed on my official website, which features testimonials, CV, media coverage, and international conference recordings. An international innovation publisher recognized it as one of 2021's top global discoveries, dedicating a chapter to it in their reference book. I was also appointed Chair of Medicine and Wellbeing by Earth Loving Friends Organisation to globalize this breakthrough. Trained practitioners could amplify its reach, revolutionizing workplaces and societal harmony. Imagine managers worldwide undergoing instant leadership development, boosting productivity and well-being—a potential catalyst for international scientific acclaim. While Dubai's health undersecretary, Dr. Amin Al-Amiri, deemed it an energy-based practice requiring no hospital licensing, Egyptian psychiatrists acknowledge its legitimacy alongside homeopathy and acupuncture. ### Advocacy and Call to Action Despite eight years of outreach to Egyptian and international authorities, I fear this discovery—a fusion of psychotherapy, energy work, and leadership training—may fade without institutional support. Unlike conventional sciences, energy-based methods lack licensure frameworks, though parapsychology institutes globally aid military, political, and scientific endeavors. For instance, lecturer Gregg Braden's YouTube video shows three healers eradicating a tumor in three minutes via energy alignment in a Chinese non-pharmaceutical hospital. The U.S. Air Force's 1986 lab experiments confirmed humans share an invisible energy field where passion can alter DNA remotely—proof that energy and intent rival pharmaceuticals. Yet industries built on denying such realities hinder its adoption. To ensure credibility, I propose training talented practitioners under a scientific body to assess, certify, and globalize this method. Medical tourism centers, leadership institutes, and individual sessions could democratize access while generating profit. My seminars at Egypt's public libraries, diplomatic clubs, Vienna, and virtual platforms (see my website) have showcased its potential. I urge UNESCO or Arab/international bodies to evaluate and endorse this humanistic breakthrough. read more Analysis- Turkey Has 0 Regional Allies... Why? Analysis: Russia, Turkey... 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LeMonde
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- LeMonde
2025 Cannes Film Festival: 'The Phoenician Scheme,' Wes Anderson's intricate film full of humanity
For approximately 30 years, we have been receiving, in the form of eccentric messages tinged with distress, the works of Wes Anderson, who turned 56 on May 1. An American dandy long-settled in France and England, this master of whimsical adventure and vintage design has something about him that suggests he narrowly escaped some ineffable family saga. Family, indeed, whether natural or blended, biological or friend based, is Anderson's preferred subject. Dysfunctional by nature, often in Oedipal triangulation, quirky in its developments, ultimately supremely endearing. The mental chaos and absurdity of the resulting situations are contained by a rigorous ordering of the form that encompasses them. This leads to the theory that Anderson became a filmmaker precisely to frame the secret madness that haunts him – a basic Freudian hypothesis that no one is obliged to bet a penny on. In any case, Anderson frames, organizes, categorizes, symmetrizes, models, automates, enumerates, colors, aligns and squares off a world that wobbles a bit too much for his liking. Frames, boxes, maps, lists, compasses, manuals, signs, diagrams, instructions, old typography, sets and chapter divisions all contribute to the rigorous ordering of things. All that remains is to name them, and Anderson is a genius at this: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The French Dispatch (2021). Who wouldn't want to take a closer look?
The Herald Scotland
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Review: Book of Mormon is potty-mouthed but surprisingly sweet
King's Theatre, Glasgow Neil Cooper Four stars The missionary position, as set down in the gospel according to Mormon, is to spread the word of the Lord as far and as peachy-keenly as possible. Such is the premise behind Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone's now fourteen-year-old Broadway smash, which returns to Glasgow for a three-week run. For those not already keeping the faith, the show transforms the perfectly-coiffed door-stopping evangelists from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints into an all singing, all dancing, perma-smiling showbiz troupe. In-between throwing shapes cheesy enough to have graced a 1950s family friendly variety show, like the animals in the Ark, our heroes go forth two by two as they are packed off to far-flung climes in need of salvation. In the case of goody-two-shoes himbo Elder Price and puppy-dog terminal liar Elder Cunningham, they are tasked to convert the masses in a seemingly godless Uganda. Read more For the locals, alas, a few other things take priority over being saved; gun-toting warlords, disease, genital eating maggots, that sort of thing. Price and Cunningham sure ain't in Salt Lake City anymore. Through a mix of Bible study, sci-fi film references and out and out porkies, however, Elder Cunningham gradually wins the natives round. While a broken Elder Price wakes up from his personal Hell dream involving the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer and Ghengis Khan occupying a positively Freudian underground, Cunningham's conversion results in a mass show and tell of such unintended phallic outrage that something has clearly been lost in translation. As one might expect from the creators of South Park and Avenue Q, this is all pretty scurrilous stuff in Parker and choreographer Casey Nicholaw's well-drilled production, in which satire and show-tunes co-exist in a heavenly manner. Adam Bailey as Cunningham and Sam Glen as Price lead a large cast through hell and back, with Nyah Nish in terrific voice as the comically mispronounced Nabulingi, with even a certain ex First Minister getting a tongue-tied mention. For all its cheerfully potty-mouthed barbs, there is something very sweet going on here that offsets any desire to shock in a show that is both too slick and too wilfully ridiculous to in any way upset even the most devout of believers. Hallelujah to that.
Spectator
06-05-2025
- Health
- Spectator
Maybe you're not anxious. Maybe you're just stressed
Something rather odd has happened to the way we talk about worry. The straightforward term 'stress' has been overtaken by the quasi-medical concept of 'anxiety'. The problem is that the words mean don't mean the same thing. Using them interchangeably can have unhappy consequences: just look at the recent reports that the majority of Britons now identify as neurodivergent. What greater evidence could there be of a creeping pathologisation of human experience? The way we use the term 'stress' is different to the semantics of 'anxiety'. Stress tends to have its causes outside the individual – deadlines, bills, crying kids, nagging bosses. Events can be stressful. We all suffer from occasional stresses and strains. These are things that happen to us. Stress is circumstantial, episodic, even inevitable. When the word destresse first entered the English language in the Middle Ages, it was used for events likes sieges or famines. More acts of providence than individual failure. In physics, stress is a force that an object is placed under. In biology, a stress is something that comes from the environment and negatively impinges on the organism's proper function. This is the traditional framework in which we've discussed human worry. Yet somewhere around 2014, Google searches for 'stress' were surpassed by 'anxiety'. This is a problem, because the concepts lead us in different directions. Unlike stress, anxiety is the first step down a medical route. It exists in tandem with terms like 'disorder' and 'trauma' and a slew of acronyms. People 'have anxiety' much like they would a disease. You don't just put up with anxiety, you start thinking about how to treat or cure it: maybe a wellness app, some therapy or even seeking antidepressants. Crucially it's something that happens within us, a sign that we are somehow amiss with ourselves. 'The ego is the actual seat of anxiety,' wrote Freud, who thought it the result of a mind at conflict with itself. You don't have to sign up to Freudian psychobabble to recognise that there is a conceptual difference between 'stress' and 'anxiety'. Yet according to the Mental Health Foundation, nearly four in ten British women report high levels of anxiety, and around a third of men do too. The core definition of a generalised anxiety disorder, according to NHS guidelines, is 'excessive anxiety and worry about a number of events or activities and difficulty controlling the worry', along with at least two of the following: restlessness, being easily fatigued, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, and disturbed sleep. All of which sounds… fairly mundane? If just under half of women believe they're suffering from high anxiety that seems like prima facie evidence that this isn't a medical issue, more a fact of life. Why the pathologisation? Maybe it's that the words we choose also influence the way we feel. Emotions are unlike other medical conditions in that the labels we assign them come with a whole load of conceptional baggage. Tell yourself you have OCD, rather than just a desire for a tidy kitchen, and you'll start to exhibit compulsive behaviour. This is called the 'nocebo effect', where patients become unwell simply because they believe themselves to be unwell. There are a whole number of reasons why 'anxiety' replaced 'stress' when it did. Growing medicalisation in the preceding decades, the release of a new Diagnostics and Statistics Manual in 2013 (the gold standard for American psychiatric diagnosis) and mental health-aware companies keen to shift blame away from stressful workplaces and onto employees. It was also around this time that front-facing cameras became universal on smartphones, which invited confessional-style videos that we mostly watched alone (as it happens, selfie cameras also led to a massive rise in rhinoplasty because the curvature of the small lenses did odd things to the appearance of women's noses). But the shift from 'stress' to 'anxiety' reflects a deeper cultural change. In 2015 the Korean-born German philosopher Byung-Chul Han published The Burnout Society. In it he argued: While 'stress' invites us to examine the world around us, 'anxiety' compels us to look inside Today's society is no longer Foucault's disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society. His argument is that western culture puts a greater emphasis on self-actualisation. People are no longer forced to work or marry but are instead expected to culturally advance through their own decisions. Failure in this world is a failure of the individual. This explains how 'stress' became 'anxiety'. Rather than worry attaching to an external caus,e as it did when we used the term 'stress', it becomes something internal, a concern about the failure to achieve. It becomes 'anxiety'. A similar argument is put forward by the Harvard professor Joseph Henrich, who suggests that Protestantism turned Europeans inwards, where redemption could only be found sola scriptura. Westerners are strange because of this. They have become much more individualistic: traditional concepts like shame, the feeling of judgement by the community, has mostly been replaced by guilt, a feeling of not living up to one's image of oneself. 'Stress' and 'anxiety' have undergone the same process of external to internal blame. While 'stress' invites us to examine the world around us, 'anxiety' compels us to look inside. Anxiousness is a sickness of the individual and if you're struggling with it, well, so much the worse for you. It's a callous way of thinking about ourselves. Better, I think, to shun anxiety and return to the happier, more stressful days of old.
Daily Mail
03-05-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
The Sleep Room by Jon Stock: The top actress who was sedated and given electric shock treatment to cure anorexia
The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock (Bridge Street Press £25, 432pp) An airless hospital dormitory in perpetual semi-darkness, day and night. A musty smell of sweaty slumber and human breath. Occasional moans of bewilderment. Eight young women, some as young as 14, lie in a state of drug-induced sleep for weeks at a time, 20 hours out of every 24. They're known as the 'Sleeping Beauties'. Every six hours, they're chivvied awake by nurses and led stumbling to the lavatory. Without their knowledge or consent, they're given frequent bouts of electro-convulsive therapy, causing them to jerk and twitch, rubber plugs jammed between their teeth. This is not science fiction. It really happened, to hundreds of patients (most of them girls and young women) in the 1960s and early 1970s, in the Sleep Room in Ward Five of the Royal Waterloo Hospital. The theory was that 'deep sleep therapy', or 'continuous narcosis', combined with ECT, would 'upset patterns of behaviour and re-programme troubled minds'. The doctor who ran this dystopian hellscape was William Sargant, the tall, striking physician in charge of psychological medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, of which the Royal Waterloo was an annexe. He believed that mental ill-health was a physical condition, which needed to be treated as such. He had no time for Freudian talking therapy, or what he called 'sofa merchants'. His control over the sleeping patients was total. With the 'Sleeping Beauties' safely in their sedated state they wouldn't be in a position to protest. Who would send a daughter to such a place? The answer was middle-class mothers at their wits' end when their daughters refused to eat, or get rid of an 'unsuitable' boyfriend; or who was stubbornly recalcitrant, wayward or depressed. Sargant promised parents that his treatment would be like a re-set of their daughters' brains. Sometimes it worked for a short time, but Sargant had no interest in long-term results. Often, there was a relapse. 'Sargant still features in my nightmares,' says the actress Celia Imrie, one of six former Sleep Room patients who provide their raw testimonies in Jon Stock's horrifying exposé of Sargant's Sleep Room. Imrie was sent to Ward Five by her mother in 1966, aged just 14. She was suffering from anorexia that had started when, after applying for a place at the Royal Ballet School, she had discovered a rejection letter on her mother's desk, saying she was 'too big ever to become a dancer'. She was so heavily drugged with the antipsychotic Largactil (which so dulled the senses that it was known as 'liquid cosh' or 'the chemical straitjacket') that she had double vision and couldn't stop shaking. 'I was injected with insulin every day, too,' she says. 'I think I had what was called 'sub-coma shock treatment' – you weren't given enough insulin to induce a hypoglycaemic coma, but it was enough to make you drowsy, weak, sweaty and hungry.' Once, Sargant took her with him to a hospital lecture theatre, to be his exhibit. 'I had to take my clothes off so students could see how thin I was.' She has tried to find her hospital records, but they have 'vanished' or been destroyed. So she's not sure whether she had ECT, though she guesses she did. She was powerless under the treatment of the 58-year-old Sargant, with his piercing eyes 'like washed black pebbles'. He was treated like a god, breezing in through the swing doors, worshipped and obeyed by everyone. She realised the way to get out was to eat. 'My recovery had nothing to do with him or his barbaric treatments.' 'I didn't wake up for six weeks,' recalls Linda Keith, whose parents checked her in to Ward Five in 1969 when she was a 23-year-old Vogue model. 'My parents always referred to me as being 'ill' rather than the more accurate description of me: a pleasure-seeking, music-obsessed drug addict. What they wanted was a tame, house-trained lapdog.' What they got, after submitting their daughter to Sargant's treatment, was a woman 'without a mind. I'd been rendered completely helpless.' During the narcosis, Linda was subjected to 50 sessions of ECT. The result was that she could no longer choose anything and needed help with the simplest tasks. 'I wasn't happy or unhappy. I wasn't there.' She had also forgotten how to read. After being discharged, she went to see Sargant at 23 Harley Street, and asked him when she might read again. He said he didn't know. Then, she recalls, 'he came on to me. He tried to hug me and kiss me on the mouth. I ducked and hit him so he went over onto the ottoman pouffe.' Before being sent to Ward Five, Linda had an affair with Keith Richards (who would later write the song Ruby Tuesday about her) but left him for Jimi Hendrix. A few years after Sargant had stopped treating her, she bumped into him in Bond Street and called him 'a monster' to his face. To read this disturbing book is a stifling experience. Stock powerfully evokes the eerily subdued atmosphere of the Sleep Room and brings out the sinister creepiness and the arrogance of Sargant. He discovers that Sargant himself had been admitted to Hanwell Asylum in 1934 for depression. It was here that he became convinced that 'insanity' would one day be perceived as a series of physically treatable disorders. He wanted to save people from being incarcerated in asylums for months or years (that was an admirable aim) and he believed that a short, sharp, 12-week shock would do the trick. All very well in theory – but as this book shows, the results could be disastrous. Another patient, 15-year-old 'Sara', suffered terrible memory loss, a kind of 'severe Alzheimer's', and the antipsychotic drugs left her with a permanent Parkinsonian tremor. Stock also suggests that Sargant shared his research with, or might even have been partly funded by, Porton Down, the MI5, MI6 and the CIA. In the 1950s, Porton Down conducted LSD experiments on young corporals, who took part in exchange for a bit of money. The aim was to disorientate people so that they 'forgot how to lie'. It's all very murky, and Stock doesn't quite nail Sargant's involvement. By far the most memorable aspect of this disturbing book is the unforgettable image of those drugged, sleeping girls incarcerated in the top floor room overlooking Waterloo station.
