SO WHAT ARE YOU SCARED OF???

Until recently, hypnosis has been viewed as a technique applied only in mysterious surroundings, by conservatively dressed man of magic.
Conjuring up visions of old time magicians and their subjects controlled by their spells. ABRACADABRA!!!!

You expect these men to say things like “Look deep into my eyes, sleep, forget everything, YOU MUST OBEY ME” and we would be forced into mindless obedience like an automaton wanting to please its master.

Oh If it was only that easy!!

Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not dramatic, nor is it remarkably different from other, more familiar states of mind. The magical, mysterious, or somewhat frightening images that the word hypnosis can conjure up are best dispelled by realizing that it’s a very natural process and state that all of us have experienced on our own without Magic, drama or giving up ones control.

Anyone who has day dreamed, enjoyed a page turner of a book, has been glued to a TV show, in love etc. is in a light trance state. I think I’m safe to assume here that you may have even enjoyed such a state.

So like the old saying goes if you can do it, so can everyone else.

The truth of the matter is that nobody can explain hypnotism completely. Hypnotic experiences vary widely from one another in accordance with differences in hypnotist's' styles and subjects' personalities. Each experience is unique, never reoccurring in exactly the same way twice.

Under hypnosis, a person's consciousness narrows, much as it does during a dream or trance. However hypnotized persons are different from sleeping persons because they can be active. They can walk about, talk, or write. Hypnotized persons may remain quiet, but usually they will do what the hypnotist suggests provided it’s not out of character for them.

So how does it all work for the most part you ask??

Even though we are all different we all have one thing in common and that is the way we go into hypnosis called the induction.

The induction is the process of focusing and enhancing concentration and imagination in such a way that the result is a heighten state of consciousness called hypnosis. The person must become so involved in this process that they direct their attention from the usual sources of orienting information, giving all their attention instead to the voice of the hypnotist.

That didn't sound too scary?? It's just like letting someone else drive the car so you can sight see.

Here is the take way!!

You must realize by now that one can learn to use hypnosis to change ones behaviours and to change the way one lives. We see that hypnosis can be amazingly effective and often is directly responsible for major changes in our lives but it must be stressed that it is not a magic pill or incantation that can resolve all problems.

As I write here, research is continuing and growing, and furthering the understanding of hypnosis and its effects. As we participate in each session and each persons experience are understood the closer we are to more concrete answers.

So go be part of this wonderful experience and contribute to its understanding and help demystify Hypnosis.

Don't be afraid to go see your friendly neigbourhood hypnotist and tell him/her I sent you.

ABRACADABRA!

WHY MUST IT ALWAYS BE SO DIFFICULT TO.....!

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU SAID OR HEARD OTHERS SAY THESE WORDS "WHY MUST IT ALWAYS BE SO DIFFICULT TO.....!

HUMANS ARE THE MOST INTERESTING ANIMALS ON THE PLANET BECAUSE WE SPEND SO MUCH TIME MAKING THINGS SO MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THEN THEY HAVE TO BE. AN ANIMAL HAS SPECIFIC NEEDS, THEY EAT, SLEEP, REPRODUCE AND FIGHT TO BE THE ALFA IN THEIR FAMILY.

THEY DON'T SPEND THEIR DAYS IN THE CAR, ON THE COMPUTER, SENDING AND RECEIVING EMAILS, WATCHING TELEVISION AND AVOIDING PEOPLE THAT MIGHT COMPLICATE OUR LIVES.
BY COMPARISON AN ANIMAL HAS PRETTY BORING EXISTENCE DON'T YOU THINK??
YET WE ARE FASCINATED BY THEM AND WISH OUR LIVES COULD BE SO SIMPLE!

SO MY QUESTION TO YOU IS WHY IS YOUR LIFE SO COMPLICATED? WHY IS IT SO HARD TO STOP SMOKING, LOOSE WEIGHT, BE FEARLESS, SLOW DOWN............!
COULD IT BE THAT YOU NEED LIFE TO BE DIFFICULT SO YOU CAN FEEL WORTHY? HOW ELSE WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR LOT IN LIFE IF EVERYTHING WAS SIMPLE?

I HAVE RECENTLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE AN INDIVIDUAL THAT HAS HAD A LIFE OF PRIVILEGE FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE, WAS HANDED AND RUNS A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS AND YET IS UNABLE TO ENJOY HIS LOT IN LIFE. HE SPENDS MOST OF HIS TIME FINDING WAYS TO MAKE THINGS MORE DIFFICULT FOR HIMSELF, HIS EMPLOYEES, HIS CLIENTS AND ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BUSINESS.
HE TOTALLY DISRUPTS HIS HAPPINESS AND SEEMS MORE AT HOME WITH MISERY! AS I OBSERVED HIM, I COULD NOT HELP WONDER WHY? WHY MUST IT ALWAYS BE SO DIFFICULT?

AS A HYPNOTHERAPIST MY EXPERIENCE TELLS ME THAT WE EQUATE ADVERSITY WITH SELF WORTH AND BECAUSE OF THIS WE FEEL MORE AT HOME WITH MISERY THEN HAPPINESS. I BELIEVE THAT SOME OF US HAVE TROUBLE BELIEVING THAT WE ARE WORTHY OF HAPPINESS!!! WE PERCEIVE OURSELVES LESS VALUABLE IN THE EYES OF OTHERS UNLESS WE HAVE SOMETHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT.

WELL FOLKS THE TIME HAS COME TO SIMPLIFY AND BECOME HAPPY!!! LETS ALL SIMPLIFY OUR FOOD, OUR CLOTHES, OUR CONSUMPTION, OUR FEARS, OUR LIVES!

WHERE AND HOW DO WE START DOING THIS YOU ASK?
JUST GO SEE YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD HYPNOTIST! WE LOVE TO SIMPLIFY EVERYTHING AND HELP EVERYONE ACCOMPLISH POSITIVE CHANGES IN THEIR LIVES.

WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? GO SIMPLIFY YOUR LIVES!!! YOU WILL THANK ME FOR IT!

Why are you Fat??? Who Me?? NO!!! Yes!!! Oh Boy!

Here is a question that I’ve asked myself over and over again “Does Hypnosis Work for Weight Loss??

The answer is always YES!!!! However if you met me you would realize very quickly that I’m over weight and have struggled with my weight for the past 15 years.

You might then say so if you are a hypnotist and hypnosis works for weight loss why are you fat??

As you can imagine there is no easy answer to this but I will try to explain and for the record I have now decided that I cannot do this alone and have finally sought help. No man or women is an island when it comes to weight loss.

You see, unlike smoking, we need to eat to live, and for most people, eating is tasty, fun and enjoyable. Unfortunately, what tastes good to us often isn't what is healthy for us.

The truth is that food has become for some of us our vice of choice. We may have given up smoking, drinking but we can’t give up eating. This fact makes it easy for us to use food as a substitute for smoking when we are stressed, for drinking when we are down etc.

Food has now for all the wrong reasons become our preferred method of external gratification to justify us feeling better. We can justify all this because at the end of the day we cannot stop eating!!! Therefore we eat and eat and eat and eat…………………!

Get the picture you do I need to hypnotize you?

How does Hypnosis for weight loss work?

Hypnosis uncovers the unpleasant emotional feelings that you may be stuffing down with food. In many cases food is used as a way to numb emotional pain. This underlying emotional pain has to be addressed and resolved in order for us to successfully remove the weight and keep it from coming back.

Eliminating the cause that makes us use food as a numbing agent must be our first priority.

Hypnosis also helps you create new positive behaviours to replace the old behaviours. These new behaviours are then re-enforced by YOU while YOU do your self hypnosis.

As we all know (me included) many people with weight issues don't like to exercise. Some may even exercise in a way that does not burn enough calories given the amount of calories they take in each day.

For this reason your hypnotist will teach you self hypnosis and by practicing self hypnosis, you can help yourself maintain new behaviours, so that you can achieve your weight loss goal and maintain your ideal weight.

So learn from my mistakes it’s never to late to leave your DESSERT ISLAND and get help! I’m glad I did and so will you!

Stay fit and Stay healthy!

How Does Hypnosis Really Work? Just The Facts Please!

In order to answer the question, how does hypnosis work, below are the top ten misconceptions that people have regarding hypnosis:


Misconception #1: Hypnosis is sleep or loss of consciousness.

Truth: Hypnosis is not sleep. Many people think that while doing hypnosis, they will go into in a state of sleep like when they go to bed.

NOT TRUE!

Hypnosis is merely a state of physical relaxation and actually heightened mental alertness.

Misconception #2: A person won’t hear anything but the hypnotist’s voice because they’ll be in some weird altered state like "LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS" Man!

Truth: Hypnosis is not some psychedelic state. The subject is able to hear everything that is going on in the room, and outside of the room. There is no selective hearing in hypnosis. The hypnotist can suggest that other distraction be ignored for the moment. This will only work if the client wants it to.

Misconception #3: A person doesn’t remember what the hypnotist tells them.

Truth: Absolutely false. A person remembers everything that is said to them during hypnosis.

Misconception #4: When doing hypnosis, you are under the complete control of the hypnotist.

Truth: In reality, hypnosis allows the subject to be more in control. The people who you see in the stage hypnosis shows are exercising their control by volunteering to go up on stage. They know it is an acceptable context in which they can let their inhibitions down.

In a therapeutic context, any suggestion that is out of context of self-improvement will be automatically rejected by both the subconscious and conscious minds.

Misconception #5: Not everyone can be hypnotized, only the weak-minded and the gullible.

Truth: EVERYONE who is of normal functioning intelligence, is willing to be hypnotized, and is willing to follow instructions within a context of self-improvement, CAN in fact be hypnotized.

Misconception #6: Hypnosis is about putting things into your mind and mind control.

Truth: Hypnosis is NEVER about putting things into your mind" and mind control."

The fact is that people have within themselves the beliefs, attitudes, and resources to accomplish their goals. But because of their past, or their environment, or constant negative conditioning, those beliefs, attitudes, and resources have been suppressed.

To answer the question, how does hypnosis work, what hypnosis does is merely reinforce the positive beliefs, attitudes, and resources a person has to help them accomplish their goals.

Misconception #7: What if I can’t be "Un-hypnotized"

Truth: There has not been one case of a person ever not "coming out of hypnosis," and for good reason. Because hypnosis is basically the state right before a person falls asleep.

So if for some strange reason, the hypnotist were to leave the room, or in an extreme case, die, the subject would merely drift asleep, naturally wake up, and end up with an expensive nap!

Misconception #8: Hypnosis causes people to reveal their deep, dark, hidden secrets.

Truth: I WISH!!!!! Absolutely false. A person always has control of what they say and do during hypnosis. Remember, any suggestion that is out of context, or violates one’s morals, ethics, and values will automatically be rejected.

Misconceptions #9: Hypnosis is harmful.

Truth: There has NEVER been a documented case of anyone suffering harm from the use of hypnosis.

Misconceptions #10: Hypnosis is satanic, or devilish, or supernatural in some way.

Truth: Hypnosis is merely a state of relaxation and heightened mental alertness that helps people easily achieve their amazing goals.

My personal mission is to educate the public as to how hypnosis really works, to take away any fear or misconceptions and allow more people to experience this wonderful modality of human change

The Truth is out THERE!........Where?.......OUT THERE!

Where do I stand on Past Life Regression??

DO I BELIEVE??
IS IT REAL??

Can I really experience a past life?? More then ONE past life!!! How many have I had??

How scary is it?? Will I feel pain??

These are only some of the questions I had when I first heard of Past Life Regression. You like me, are sitting there asking yourself the same questions and more probably.

So what is it all about? Do we really live more then one life or are we all being coned by unscrupulous therapist with dollar signs in their eyes??

The great thing about living in Canada is that any time something seems unusual, fantastic or just out right crazy, we can investigate it and make up our own minds.

I read everything I could get my hands on!!! From Edgar Cayce, Georgina Cannon, Michael Yapko and many more to try to determine if Past Life Regression is really possible.

As a hypnotist I’ve always felt that only way to really know what is going on is to try it out for myself.

Then and only then, can I have the right to have an opinion one way or another.
So I did!

What I discovered for myself is a world of hidden knowledge inside of me that surpasses the question “did I live before” and just makes me feel wondrous at the capacity of my mind to create a world I knew not existed within me.

When you experience a past life regression, you will experience amazement at first, then disbelief, then amazement again and many other emotions as you try to make sense of everything you have just experienced.

If you are anything like me, you will immediately try to find a way to explain what has just happened.

Which I did!!!

What I found after experiencing a few sessions is that it really didn’t matter whether it was real or not because it is the knowledge that I brought back that has helped me move forward in a more positive way.

I now want to experience life in its entirety because each time I do something new I’m creating a new me.

I now believe that quality of my life is directly linked to the journey not the destination! I am now compelled to keep moving in new directions and to top it off I may have more then one life to journey in? Wow!

Here we are……. back where I started.

Do I or Don’t I believe in PAST LIFE REGRESSION?

Does……it…..Really…..matter?

Sports Hypnosis by any other name can still make you a WINNER!!!!

The new winning technology in sports has to be HYPNOSIS!!!

Research shows dramatic improvement in performance when the mind is focused.

Experience yourself developing new skills by utilizing imagery and visualization as part of your training routine.

You will quickly discover that the most significant method to improving your game is the use of hypnosis.

Your underlying beliefs must be in agreement with your goals. Most common blocks to winning have to do with worthiness and the belief that you deserve to succeed and win.

Hypnosis can uncover and release these negative beliefs and replace them with new positive attitudes.

Elite athletes have been using GUIDED IMAGERY effectively for a long time.

You might ask, what’s the difference between GUIDED IMAGERY and HYPNOSIS?

Guided Imagery is a tool used in Hypnosis, but Hypnosis is not limited to using Guided Imagery.

Some people have preconceived beliefs and are mistakenly afraid of the word “HYPNOSIS”!!!

To minimize their fear some practitioners have come up with different names for it, even when they’re doing the same thing.

Now, I know there will be people out there who disagree with me, but this is my opinion.

MOST ATHLETES spend 95% of their training time doing physical training and only 5% doing mental training.

What if YOU could do mental training while doing YOUR physical training? With HYPNOSIS, you can!

ALL HYPNOSIS IS SELF-HYPNOSIS!!

YOU can learn to EASILY use SELF-HYPNOSIS to achieve YOUR own individual goals. Helping YOU Maximize YOUR Performance and achieve YOUR FULL Potential.

I truly believe that the only thing standing between you and your goals is YOU.

When you’re ready to start using the power of your mind to accelerate your training and optimize your talents and skills, call me!

You’ll be glad you did.

PUBLIC SPEAKING OR DEATH, WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Quoting Jerry Seinfeld :
“According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.”

If Seinfeld is correct what does that say about us as humans?? Have we lost the art of communication?? Do we really prefer death over public speaking?? Are we not designed by nature to be able to talk to each other in order to convey information??

So where does it all start and why?

For most people the Fear of Public Speaking can be traced back to an incident that happened when they were young. It may have happened at school where, when called upon by the teacher to speak, they were teased by other kids.

When someone has a negative experience, the brain can link the negative feelings associated with that experience to other similar experiences.

Our brain is hard wired to learn and in learning it retains important information that can be accessed at a later time. If our brain feels that a situation is not in our best interest or may even cause us harm, it will do everything in its power to protect us.

In order to keep us from feeling bad again, the brain will attach terrible feelings to this kind of situation – that will stop us and keep us safe in the future and so Fear Of Public Speaking is BORN.

Attaching emotions to situations is one of the primary ways that humans learn. Sometimes we just get it wrong. Many people suffering from fear of public speaking believe that they are alone in feeling so frightened, but in fact it is shared by millions.

It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions!! The intention of our brain to associate fear with situations that can harm us is correct. What the brain can’t do is differentiate unpleasant but benign experiences from unpleasant but life threatening ones with ease. It has the same tools available to it to deal with both situations.

How do we fix this??

I taught public speaking and know first hand how hard it can be for most people to stand up before a group and present a topic. However like everything thing else in life, the more you do it the better you become and the easier the task seems.

Hypnosis is a great way to help individuals deal with this and any fear because it can help you face your fears in the comfort and safety of your own mind. A trained hypnotist can guide you to face any situation slowly using baby steps and other methods. The client is then free to review the original situation at their own pace and associate only as much as they feel comfortable each time.

When you have conquered your fear by utilizing the power of the mind, then you have conquered your fear for real.

Congratulations you are now free to speak to the world but before you do, let me give you a few tips that will help you do it well.

Here are some ways to insure that you can speak publicly with confidence:

Speak loudly.

Speak slowly.

Stand up straight (but not too rigid).

Make strong eye contact with your audience.

Project enthusiasm with your voice!

Avoid disclaimers. Disclaimers are statements such as, "I know this is a really dumb topic, but..." or "I know this isn't a very good visual aid, but..."

Dress appropriately. Be sure to dress like you take yourself seriously.

Take deep breaths. You'll be surprised at how well this works. If you know some special breathing techniques, use them, but all you really need to do is breathe deeply in and out a few times.

The night before, close your eyes and imagine yourself giving the speech and everything going well.

Keep things in perspective. You do much more dangerous things every day, like driving a car or crossing the street (not trying to start new fears just stating the facts).

Keep in mind that everybody is nervous. You're not alone.

Just do it. Speak. Speak more. The more experience you have with public speaking, the less nervous you will feel.

Most of all have fun knowing that you are one of a very small percentile that can public speak without fear!