You know, we are inundated every day with information about Congress, about the Middle East, about the economy, and about everything else, that I often wonder whether my head will one day explode with all this information.
There’s a lot of guilt surrounding how we respond to the news: if we don’t give ourselves an adequate dose of it, we feel misinformed, ignorant, or worse, careless. Feeling careless is one of the worst feelings there is — we want to feel like we’re putting in the effort to reap a certain sense of knowledge and self-respect. This made me wonder, one day, ‘Can hypnosis make you care?’
It was a warm Los Angeles evening when 26 year old actress, Lea Michele, was enjoying her summer break from her grueling Glee work schedule, having a girls night in with her closest of confidants. After years of pounding the pavement on Broadway, it seemed like years of hard work and sacrifice were finally panning out for the young actress; she was the lead on an Emmy award winning show, adored by fans, or ‘Gleeks’, across the country, and revered as one of the most talented performers to date, her powerful pipes ranking her with the likes of Celine Dion or Barbara Streisand.