Category: FAQs
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Why I Focus on Results Not Sessions

When you’re in pain, you’re looking for results… If you have a problem with your tooth, you want to fix the pain asap. You go to the dentist you want a result. If the dentist sold you a package of sessions to fix the pain slowly, and do a little bit of work each time,…
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Informational v. Experiential Confidence

There is the type of learning experience that you get from books. The quality of experience that you get from reading a manual or watching an instructional video about, let’s say, how to ride a bike. After watching 100 hours of videos or reading several books about riding a bike, could you get on a…
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Not Feeling the Flow with Meditation?

Look at you… Sitting there mindfully. You’re ALL over the place. Ugh! Finally remembering all the things you forgot. Not sure if you’re doing it right… Shouldn’t you be focusing right now? So you try guided meditation. But you find it goes painfully slow… That’s right. Because it’s not your meditation. It’s someone else’s meditation,…
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Anxiety, Mindfulness & Hypnosis

How does using mindfulness to sit with difficult emotions compare with hypnosis? Here’s my painful 6 month experience… I used to wake up every day feeling a LOT of anxiety… Every day for over a decade. I would jump out of bed to try to escape the feeling. I wasn’t sure where it was coming…
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Different Types of Visualizations

Different types of Visualizations The first type of visualization is where you’re told what to visualize. In meditation and hypnosis some popular visualizations are gardens, staircases or sacred spaces like a beach or a forest. Your conscious mind tries to follow along with hese types of visualizations that are usually generic, pre-recorded and scripted. There’s a second…
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Proven Ways Hypnosis Helps Pain

There has been extensive research on hypnosis and both physical and emotional pain management. One of the ways hypnosis was originally used for was as an anesthetic. In the 18th and 19th centuries hypnosis was explored to alleviate pain during medical procedures by inducing a trance like state. James Braid coined the term “hypnosis” to…
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Curious about Hypnosis?

I just had a minor surgery with local anesthetic and was given a prescription that contained codeine. I’m not big fan of prescription drugs so I thought I’d try something different… Self hypnosis. I recorded a hypnosis session and listened to it whenever I felt a bit of pain coming on… The surgery was on…
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Are Some People Totally Resistant to Hypnosis?

Are there some people that can’t be hypnotized? Hypnosis can seem like it’s something that someone does to you… Like in relaxation hypnosis, where they’re telling you to go downstairs go down a path and visualize a garden or some type of magical place … Your critical mind can resist these suggestions because your critical…
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What Happens to Your Confidence in a Hypnotic Trance?

Hypnosis requires a single-minded focus. You’ve experienced a trance before… You’ve probably caught yourself daydreaming or staring at the flickering flame of a candle in hypnosis. Focus on a flickering flame can actually help you access your subconscious mind and access all the resources, all the answers, all the results, and allthe outcomes that you’re…
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How Your Critical Mind Keeps You From Your Goals

Have you ever thought of a goal or a dream and then immediately thought, “I could never do that” or there’s a voice that comes out of nowhere and says, “You can’t have that.” This is the Critical Mind that is always judging, evaluating, calling bullsh!t on everything. It calls B.S. on your dreams to…