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Hi, Hypno-Friends!
Happy 2008! Wishing you a wonderful and exciting
year, full of new
possibilities that you succeed in
making real in your lives, now!
This is a time of connection, and families, and
parties, and warmth and
good cheer. In principle,
that is. The truth is, many people feel stressed
out
this time of year! On top of the regular stresses of
work and
family and daily life, additional stress may
arise from the holiday
whirlwind nature of "too much
to do" and too little time, shopping, gift
giving,
entertaining, difficulties arising from severe weather
conditions, or dealing with the different
"personalities" of
infrequently-seen family members
now visiting, and so on. Now there are
your New
Year's Resolutions and attempts at lifestyle change,
which can
also be a real stress inducer! There are
many, many causes.
I'm going to show you a simple and highly effective
technique for
changing this stressed out feeling to
something else, a more positive
feeling, precisely
when you want. It's called anchoring.
What is an anchor? When you pull your car up to the
stop sign, what
happens? You stop! You don't think
about it consciously, you just do it.
That stop sign
is an "anchor." It's a stimulus-response. You've
learned it, and now it's subconsciosly automated.
Another example of an
anchor is Pavlov's Dog. I'm
sure you've all heard of Pavlov's Dog. The dog
was
fed at the same time with the sound of a bell, and the
dog came to
associate the sound of the bell with
eating. Eventually, the dog would
salivate at the
sound whether or not food was present. He become
anchored to the sound of the bell. Bell means food,
means salivate, a
physiological response.
So, too, many many of our emotional states are
responses like this. We
don't know why we feel the
way we do, we just do. We react automatically.
Something triggers it. A color, a sound, being in a
particular room of
the house, a scent, an expression
on someone's face, an insect such as a
spider. All
these are anchors of various kinds, eliciting positive
or
negative emotional states in us. Have you ever
noticed that you may have
recurring arguments with
someone in a particular room of your house? You
are
anchoring to those negative feelings which lead to
arguments by
something in that room.
What's incredible and nice and oh so easy, we can
change our emotional
states with anchors. At will.
We can control how we feel, and lead
ourselves to a
more resourceful feeling when stress hits. Here's
how:
You know the bad feeling(s). You have them in your
body. Perhaps
stress, perhaps anger. They boil, they
roil, they stew. You've been at
their mercy. No
longer!! Set them aside now. How would you rather
feel? Perhaps calm, or relaxed, with clarity of
thought. Now, remember
a time in your life when you
felt these good emotions. It can be from any
period
of your life, in any context, from childhood,
babyhood,
adulthood, or picture someone you know who
embodies these emotions. With
your memory, put
yourself inside that experience. Be there!
Experience
it. Feel it. How does it feel? What do
you see? What do you hear? What
do you smell, if
anything? And so on. Involve all your senses, fully
and completely. Let that positive emotion grow in
you. Feel that
emotion moving in your body. Spin it,
faster and faster! The good feelings
grow stronger.
When this good feeling is at it's peak, touch yourself
on your arm
somewhere, or your wrist, with a unique
touch that will now be associated
(anchored) with
these good feelings. Use a light to firm pressure,
and
hold the touch for a few seconds. Let go.
Now, what's your phone number? Recite it to yourself.
Now, touch yourself on the wrist or arm in the way
you've just anchored,
and feel those good feelings
flood into your body once again.
Automatically!!!!
Cool, huh? Any time you touch yourself in this way,
the good feelings will come. It's that easy to change
your emotional
state. Now you have a resource you can
draw on when you want to feel calm
and relaxed or
whatever positive emotion(s) you've chosen for
yourself.
It's wonderful to be the master of our own emotional
states.
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I'm terribly excited to be teaching some self-hypnosis
courses this
winter quarter at Bellevue Community
College. We are just in time for
helping you pump up
your New Year's Resolutions!!
Healthy Hypnosis: Let Go of Weight NEW!
Imagine yourself in your "skinny jeans." Hear the
compliments of your
family and friends. Like what you
see when you look in the mirror! Feel the
energy! The
hypnosis skills taught in this workshop can help you
unleash
the infinite power within you to achieve all
this! You'll learn to reprogram
your own mind to act
in ways you desire: healthy choices, healthy eating,
motivation to exercise. It won't be a struggle, and
it's not a "diet,"
it's simply doing what you want to
do. Your mind and your body will be
working
together--for your health!!
Healthy Hypnosis: Let Go of Weight
Item: W8992 Connie Brannan
6:30 PM
- 9:30 PM North Campus
Sessions: 2 F Location: W175 10700 Northup Way
1/18/2008 - 1/25/2008 Fee: $69.00
Building Confidence and Self-Esteem Through
Self-Hypnosis. NEW!
Do you fear public speaking, presentations, work
related issues, or even
social settings in approaching
an attractive member of the opposite sex?
Overall
feeling of low self-esteem? Learn how to feel
confident,
comfortable, competent, capable, with a
high level of self-esteem through
self-hypnosis.
Success is just a trance away! Workshop is conducted
by
Connie Brannan, CHt, Clinical Hypnotherapist and
Master Practitioner of
Neuro-Linguisitic Programming.
Building Confidence and Self-Esteem Through
Self-Hypnosis.
Item:
W8993 Connie Brannan
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM North Campus
Sessions: 2 M
Location: W250 10700 Northup Way
2/4/2008 - 2/11/2008 Fee: $69.00
January 9th, in conjuction with World
Hypnotism Day, I'll be having a
free self-hypnosis
workshop, focusing on the issues of weight
managementment, healthy eating and motivation to
exercise. If you're in
the Seattle area, please join
us. It's FREE! World Hypnotism Day is a
worldwide
event wherein professional hypnotists help spread the
truth
and potency of hypnosis as a method of healing
and change.
For details of my workshop, see here:
http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net/workshopwhd_info.html
My husband, Michael, also a hypnotherapist and NLP
Master Practitioner,
is also participating in World
Hypnotism Day. He's giving a talk at
Evergreen
Hospital Medical Center as part of a Hypnotherapy
Resource
Forum. Find all the details here:
http://www.nghwa.org/images/hrf.jpg
It's free to the public as well, and there are many
speakers on many
topics. Additionally, Mindworks
Hypnosis will have an informational booth
at this
event. Come say hello and get your hypnosis questions
answered
in person. We'd love to see you!
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As always, we’d love to hear from you! Questions,
comments, or topics
you’d like to see addressed in
“The Monthly Trance” are welcome!
‘Til next time,
Hypnotically Yours,
Connie Brannan, CHt.
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