Tag: hypnosis
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Unlocking the Door to Effortless Weight Loss

Weight loss doesn’t have to be a struggle… Ummm, unless you want it to be. I asked a friend what they thought about hypnosis. They thought that hypnosis would make things too easy, they felt like they needed to work for it. I agree! I have seen hypnosis make things easy for people who have…
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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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Some Problems Are Like a Rubik’s Cube

Why are some problems easy to solve and others seem to persist? The persistent problems seem to go underground and get more complex. There are problems that you can solve with your conscious mind. They’re the kind of problems you can create some type of list or steps to logically solve. Persistent problems are like…
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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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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…
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Are You Using the Right Tool to Solve Your Problems?

If your problems are recurring or persisting, you may not be using the right tool. If you have tried everything… You may have read books, blogs… Listened to podcasts… Watched hours of videos… But your problem is still persisting… or maybe it goes away for a while but pops back up… Problems are like dandelions,…
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Relaxation v. Therapeutic Hypnosis

Like most things, there are different types of hypnosis. There’s relaxation hypnosis, which is a lot like meditation, where you focus on relaxing. You might feel a wave of relaxation going through your body, you might be told to visualize a path or go down stairs. You might enter a secret garden or not, if…