Is the stress of everyday living getting you down? Are
there roadblocks that just seem to keep cropping up, blocking your way to
success – in your relationships, in your work? If so, we have good news! There
is a way to make it easier to reach your goals and achieve your dreams.
Whether you want to attain and maintain your ideal weight, stop smoking,
improve your golf or tennis scores, increase memory and concentration, deal
with other nagging issues, or become the world’s best public speaker – a
unique blend of Hypnosis and EFT just may be the answer!
Based on the ancient principles of acupuncture, EFT is a
simple tapping procedure that gently realigns the body’s energy system,
without the needles. EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) was introduced in 1995
by Gary Craig, a Stanford Engineering graduate in lifelong pursuit of personal
well-being.
Simply stated, negative emotional experiences disrupt the
body’s energy system. The physical changes we feel from those disruptions,
like nausea, anger, or "butterflies" in the stomach, become attached to the
memory of that experience and affect the way we see the world and interfere
with our thinking – until we heal that disruption. Properly applied, EFT
quickly realigns and balances the body’s energy system with respect to a
specific negative memory, disconnects the physical discomfort attached to it,
and quite often removes the resulting symptoms. EFT often works where nothing
else will. Once negative emotions have been cleared away using EFT, hypnosis
can then be used even more effectively to implant positive suggestions in the
subconscious to assist in reaching specific goals.
Hypnosis is very similar to the state of mind we experience
every day just prior to going to sleep at night and getting up in the morning
– the "twilight zone" between being awake and being asleep. It is a natural
state of mind we go into when we daydream or "zone out" while watching TV or
attending a boring meeting. Induced under the guidance of a hypnotist or by
yourself in self-hypnosis, hypnosis is a state of deep relaxation which quiets
the body and the conscious mind so that the subconscious mind can be reached
through suggestion and visualization to effect change.
SO JUST HOW DOES HYPNOSIS WORK?
Your conscious mind is the part of your brain that
looks, listens and learns. It reasons and judges, analyzes and criticizes,
accepts and rejects, and makes decisions. Your willpower is a function of your
conscious mind.
Your subconscious mind is the part of your brain
that runs all your bodily functions, like breathing your lungs and beating
your heart. Like a computer hard-drive, the subconscious also stores your
permanent memory – all the ideas, experiences, and emotions you have ever
seen, heard or experienced. Your subconscious mind also acts out any
image, idea or concept you allow to be implanted in it, especially for 30
consecutive days or more. Your imagination is a function of your subconscious mind.
If you think of your mind as a computer, the only document
you can work on is the one in the foreground, which, most of the time, is your
conscious mind. Right now, your conscious mind is actively reading and
interpreting this information.
Your subconscious mind is in the background most of the
time. However, stored data in your subconscious may be sabotaging or
interfering with your success in a particular area of your life. In order to
re-program data in your subconscious mind so that it supports
your rational conscious decisions, you need to send your conscious mind to the
background and bring your subconscious to the foreground in order to bypass
your critical factor. This is exactly what hypnosis does!
SABOTAGING YOUR SUCCESS
Let’s say you decide to eat a "good-carb only diet" in
order to lose that last fifteen pounds and keep it off. Even though you’ve
been unsuccessful in past attempts, this time you’re determined to use your willpower and make it work! That’s your
conscious mind making that
decision.
Meanwhile, your subconscious mind is saying: "Right!
Like that’s going to work! You love pasta, you love
bread, and you love chocolate. And you’ve been eating that way for 50
years! You really think you’re going to give all that up? I don’t think
so! That’s not ever going to work." And it doesn’t.
We all have programming in our subconscious minds from a
lifetime of experiences from childhood through adulthood that has the
potential to sabotage our wellness and success. Hypnosis can turn that around
by replacing that negative programming with positive suggestions so that your
conscious willpower and your subconscious imagination are "in
sync" – working together to achieve your goals.
SOME FACTS ABOUT BEING IN HYPNOSIS
- You cannot be hypnotized if you don’t want to be.
- You are not going to blurt out any deep, dark secrets under hypnosis.
- You are always in control and cannot be made to do things you don’t want to
do.
- You always have the choice to accept or reject any suggestions given to you
in hypnosis.
- You cannot get stuck in hypnosis – you can stop it or leave it at any time.
- You are not asleep – you are very aware of yourself and your surroundings at
all times.
- You will remember everything you choose to remember about the session.
- Most people with IQ’s of 70 or higher can easily be guided into hypnosis as
long as they want to be hypnotized, trust the hypnotist, and are willing to
follow his or her instructions.
- Typically, hypnosis is not recommended for persons with severe mental
illness.
POWERFUL, POSITIVE, PERMANENT CHANGE
Hypnosis and EFT are extremely effective self-help tools
for promoting powerful, positive, permanent change in all areas of your life.
You may wish to:
- Attain & Maintain Your Ideal Weight
- Decrease Stress – Increase Relaxation
- Eliminate Excessive Fears / Worrying
- Eliminate Public Speaking "jitters"
- Facilitate Physical or Emotional Healing
- Gain Confidence and Charisma
- Improve Athletic Performance / Golf Scores
- Improve Sales Skills
- Increase Creativity & Concentration
- Increase Memory & Learning Ability
- Sleep Better
- Stop Nail-biting and other Nervous Habits
- Stop Smoking
- Strengthen Self-Esteem
By bridging the body-mind-spirit gap, Hypnosis and EFT work
hand-in-hand to empower you, the client, to take charge of your life –
physically, mentally, and spiritually – to rally your subconscious troops to
support your conscious decisions. Change your mind, change your life! Program
yourself for wellness and success!
Addendum: I have taught hundreds of survivors of law
enforcement line-of-duty deaths and other life traumas to use EFT and
Self-hypnosis to lessen the intensity of negative emotions and memories
surrounding their trauma. These techniques often work very quickly with
long-lasting results. Most importantly, EFT and Self-hypnosis are self-help
techniques which empower the traumatized client throughout his or her journey
from victim to survivor. JMC
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Jeanne Meyer Caverly, M.Ed., CH, is a Reiki Master, EFT
Practitioner and Certified Hypnotist through the National Guild of Hypnotists
and can be contacted at 518-573-7453 or CrisisOptions@mac.com Website:
www.CrisisOptions.com
This article first appeared in "Capital Region Living"
Magazine: February 2006
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