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I am constantly amazed at how much subliminal programming of our minds occurs on a daily basis. It comes from everywhere, and “by definition” we are unaware of it. Broadcasting subliminal messages over the public airwaves has been illegal in the United States for some time. the problem is that most people don’t really know what can be (and is) subliminal. In this article, I’ll be focusing on audio subliminals, but there are visual subliminals that bombard us all as well.

Do you have a radio on while you’re working or doing something where your attention isn’t on what’s being played on the radio? Do you read a book or magazine or do something else while your television is on in the background? Do you listen to music that has words in it while exercising or jogging or doing anything else? If so, then you are programming yourself subliminally with whatever the words are that you are hearing — whether it’s in the background or not.

This may not seem like a big deal, and perhaps it isn’t for you. For me it is. After all, I make a living helping people program their minds with things that they want to have programmed in there. I do that through principles and techniques that involve some very powerful suggestion techniques that change what your subconscious mind brings into your life. I help people change their speech patterns, and thought patterns, and beliefs, and emotions, so that they can get the results they are seeking.

People tend to focus on the problem rather than the solution. Once we let go of the problem, and start focusing on the solution, we quite quickly get the solution. Why do people focus on the problem rather than the solution? I’m convinced it’s because they aren’t aware that they are doing just that. Once the “awareness” is there, the solution of changing the focus to the solution comes quite rapidly.

So what is the problem here, and what is the solution? Let’s look at something very simple such as listening to a CD in the background while reading a book. If the CD contains a voice track, your subconscious mind is listening to the voice and taking it all in whether you are consciously aware of it or not. The issue here is, do you want to be programmed with that voice track? Perhaps it’s a song that is playing and the words are telling you things such as, “I’m so lonely without you” or “I can’t live without you” or is about “love gone bad”. Is that something you want to be programmed with? If it is, that is your choice. My choice is to limit that type of programming of my mind.

Now I don’t want to come across as advocating that we ban negative words in songs. I’m not saying that today’s music is corrupting our kids. My gosh, I heard that while I was growing up. What I am saying is that you need to be aware of how you are programming your subconscious mind. I listen to pop music quite a bit, and I really like a lot of the songs. I’m not crazy about the words to them, but the tune may be quite catchy. I still choose to listen to the song, but I tell myself that I’m not the lonely one the song is singing about. I also do things to “balance out” any negativity I may have programmed into myself.

So your assignment, “Mr. Phelps”, should you choose to accept it… is to become consciously aware of how you are programming yourself unintentionally. Notice sounds in the background and then examine the words that you are being programmed with. Notice commercials in particular (on radio and tv). Do the “tel you” things like “you have a headache”, “you can’t sleep”, or something else? Just notice these things and then start making your own choices as to what to do about it.

I’ll be writing more about subliminal programming, and other methods of balancing out the inputs in future articles. There seems to be a flurry of interest in this right now, so I’ll make an effort to address it.

It was about 30 years ago that I became interested in subliminal audio and bought some tapes to try for myself. The results from them were dubious at best, and the results I got I pretty much attributed to the “placebo effect”. I didn’t give up on them though. I kept researching through magazines and at the library (this was pre-internet days) and tried to figure out more about subliminals on my own.
I don’t want you to think I spent all my time researching, because it was simply an ongoing interest of mine. Over the years, I had accumulated a lot of information, mostly in my head, about subliminal audio and the pros and cons and the unknowns. There are patented technologies for making subliminals, but the best I could find was it was the audio technique that was patented, not the results. The patents I’m aware of have nothing to do with effectiveness of making changes in someones life. They have only to do with creating audio with voices mixed in that you can’t hear.
I decided years ago that if I wanted subliminal audio for myself that I thought would work, I’d have to make it myself. So I set out to do just that, and I used common sense in the creation of it along with some technical “stuff” that I learned along the way.

The majority of my subliminal recordings started out as something I produced for myself, had success with, and then wound up offering to my clients and the general public. I combined as much knowledge as I could into their creation by utilizing methods I had learned about affirmations, NLP, hypnosis, the power of suggestion, positive thinking, and more. I combined that with what I have gleaned over the years from how our minds work (even though there are more theories about that than one could learn in a lifetime).

I made all my subliminal audio with a voice track at a volume that I could hear if there wasn’t music or nature sounds masking it. That may sound pretty straight forward, but from my reading and gathering of information, many subliminals that were out there had the actual messages recorded at such a low level, that they were inaudible when played by themselves. To me that was “nuts”. How could my subconscious mind put suggestions to use that my ears couldn’t even pick up.

That brings us to the main point about subliminals. By definition, subliminal means below the threshold. So I decided the threshold here wasn’t the threshold of our capabilities for hearing something, but rather the threshold of our “awareness” of hearing something. That’s what all the techniques, in my estimation, should be about when creating subliminal audio, so that’s what I did.

I created scripts that would not only make suggestions, but that would also evoke “new” information in the listeners mind. This is quite important for more than one reason, and it takes a bit of explanation. So let’s look at a few examples. Suppose someone is flat broke and wants to make a lot of money. The facts of the situation are important here, because the subliminal mind “knows” the person is flat broke. So what type of response do you think that person’s mind would give if I told it, “You are a multi-millionaire.”? It would probably evoke something along the lines of, “Yeah, right.” or “No I’m not”. That would be counter-productive, and would actually reinforce the listener being flat broke (and staying there).

So what if we used the suggestion, “You are becoming a mutli-millionaire”. Sounds good, right? Well, it’s “better”, but the problem is that “becoming” makes it so that it never arrives. It’s much better to make a suggestion such as, “Each day, more money is flowing to me” and combine that with other suggestions such as, “I notice more and more money flowing to me” or “I enjoy money flowing easily and abundantly to me”. Now those three statements will work because they are 1.) true, 2.) positive.

So for me, subliminals work quite effectively when they follow what I have laid out above. There is much more to it than that, but those things are a couple of the basics.

Coming very soon on our site, and hopefully lots of other places, is our latest “Law of Attraction” title.This one is a video that I am making in partnership with Knowing Entertainment Productions. We just wrapped our first full two days of production, and the “trailer” will be soon visible on our site and elsewhere on the web.

The Law of Attraction, which has been popularized so much by the movie “The Secret” is something that we can all use more of in our lives. I’ve been using it’s principles in my daily life and with my hypnotherapy clients for years. I thought it was a great idea that I get these things out to people in as big of a way as possible. Thus, the video.

What I noticed to be lacking in a lot of the “stuff” out there was a way for people to immediately and effectively, step by step, put the Law of Attraction to work for themselves. Rhetoric about it abounds everywhere I look, but the actual do “this”, “this”, and “this” is much harder to find. Our video will give you exactly that. The “How To”, that you can put into action immediately after watching. The step by step layout for manifesting changes.

It’s also worth mentioning here that the video is NOT an advertisement to buy more things or sign up for “courses”. It’s a complete, self-contained roadmap to success, wealth, love, health — whatever you decide you want in your life. It presents some old ideas, some new ideas, and some existing ideas with a new twist.

When the trailer is up on the site, we’ll let you know on here. Who knows, maybe you’ll even hear about it on, “Oprah”.

In this third post of the series, I would like to address the WHEN of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. This aspect incorporates two parts. Let’s look at the first part here.

Many times, at the end of our first session, a new client will ask me how often and when they should practice going into the alpha state. This answer will vary from person to person. As you read in Part One of this series, stress chemistry is generated while we are in the beta brain wave state. Since we tend to be in this state 99.999…% of the time we are awake (in our harried and stressed-out western culture), we are carrying a big load of stress chemistry in the system in an on-going way. Sleep does not efficiently clear out this chemistry, so it tends to accrue over time. This is what results in overwhelming stress which can represent in extreme cases as system breakdown in one or more of the dimensions of being. In other words, in the physical body you might have a breakdown in one or more body systems. This can be disorders such as asthma, IBS, high-blood pressure, lupus, or even more extreme conditions like heart attack, cancer, and stroke. In the mental aspect, you might have disorientation and ‘brain fog’ or a total mental breakdown. In the emotional aspect you may experience anxiety or phobias, or a complete nervous collapse.

You begin to see the range of effects of prolonged, unremitting stress upon the being. So the first step in determining when you should access into the alpha state is determining how high your stress load is. Once you have a sense of that, it will guide you in your practice. If you are already experiencing serious repercussions of your stress, then the answer will be ‘as often as you can every single day.’ This means looking for opportunity in your daily schedule and making opportunity. It is not something you do ‘when I have time.’ It becomes a priority. Remember, even short periods spent within the alpha state can have a tremendous benefit. When you learn to access this state quickly through consistent practice, then even a short break will provide a huge benefit. This will need to be practiced consistently throughout the day until the stress load has been brought down to a manageable level.

I personally feel that every one of us will benefit from a longer alpha session before going to sleep every night. The reason is that the stress chemistry interferes with the proper functioning of the organism during sleep, so it will facilitate the benefits of sleep if we ‘clear the decks’ first. For instance, if we are highly stressed and we take that stress to bed with us, it will prevent us from achieving into the deepest stage of sleep, called the delta state, or stage four of sleep. This is where the brain generates the Human Growth Hormone needed for repair and regeneration of the cells. This means that not only will healing take longer, but aging will be accelerated. This is only one small example of how stress can disrupt the work of our sleeping bodies.

Often, my ‘type A’ clients will protest that there is no way they can make this much time in their schedules for alpha practice on a daily basis. My response to this is two-fold. First, there is no way you can afford not to make this time. Secondly, the paradoxical thing is that the more time you make for alpha, the more time you will recoup in beta. This is because the alpha state will clear the mind and restore energy to the body, the net result being more focus, better prioritization, better problem-solving ability, more creative solution finding, and much more energy to implement your ideas and work.

So, to recap the first aspect of when to practice alpha, the idea is to commit to one longer session (twenty to thirty minutes or more) before sleep every day, with as many shorter (ten to twenty minute) segments as you need to bring down your stress load to a manageable range.

The second consideration on the WHEN of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is to look at when you want to consult with a professional to help you learn and utilize the many fabulous tools available for maximizing the internal resources of the subconscious mind for creating change in your life. The answer to this is simple: when ever you are ready to make a change for the better, when you are ready to commit to your success, when you are ready to act in your behalf, when you are ready to let go of being stuck, when you are ready to expand, learn, and grow, then you are ready to pick up the phone and make an appointment. I will leave you with a few words of wisdom on this now:

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.–Rene Descartes

The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them.–Albert Einstein

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.–Louie Pasteur

There are two separate aspects of the HOW of hypnosis. One is the how do you get into the hypnotic, or alpha state in the first place, and the other is how you work with it once you get there. Let’s consider the first aspect briefly. There are many ways to get into the alpha state, and probably every hypnotist and every Hypnotherapist will have their own favorite ways of helping or teaching clients to access this state. Fixed-eye inductions are what most people think of when they think of hypnosis. These are the ever popular ‘stare at this spot….’ or ‘look at the spinning disk…’ or ‘follow my hand with your eyes…’ type of induction techniques. This is also what tends to happen in ‘highway hypnosis’ which is why you want to keep your eyes moving when you are driving to stay alert. This type of technique works pretty well for people who are visually-organized. However, not everyone processes information primarily through the visual channel, so there are many other techniques as well. Because the way I work is to teach my clients how to access this state on their own, I prefer to have them close their eyes and do a progressive relaxation, leading into visualization. This technique brings in auditory, visualizing, kinesthetic, and olfactory cueing as well. When I am working directly with a client, I will ‘load’ the sequence with their particular modalities. On CD, I spread it across the board so that the most people will get the most benefit. Let’s move on to talk about the second aspect of the HOW of hypnosis.

When we talk about how to work with hypnosis, we are now into the realm of hypnotherapy. It is one thing to get into the alpha state; it is another to know what to do once you get there. This is where working with a trained Hypnotherapist can make all the difference for a client who desires to make specific changes in targeted areas of his or her life. The client and the Hypnotherapist comprise the WHO of hypnotherapy. Many skills are involved in successful hypnotherapy. For a brief overview article on this, please see http://www.transformfast.com/tools_of_the_hypnotherapist.htm. Here, let me just mention a few of the procedures that may be employed to illustrate the broad range of techniques that are available.

• One of the most basic tools is called a ‘reframe.’ What this means is simply helping the client shift their perspective to see their issue from different points of view. This is more easily achieved in the alpha state than in ordinary awareness because the ego is less dominant. The alpha state provides for an ‘expanded’ awareness that can see more options and possibilities than are normally apparent.

• Sometimes, the Hypnotherapist will work with metaphors or archetypes to help the client understand their situation in the context of a parallel or larger story.

• In other cases, the technique will be working with aspects or parts of self which may be in conflict, by helping the client ‘broker a deal,’ which can provide a context for all the parts to be in alignment.

• Time Line work is another modality for working with patterns and unresolved issues, sometimes by helping the client trace the roots from the past and ‘projecting’ the results into the future to see probable outcomes if change does not occur in the now.

• At times, working in the trance state can be similar to working within a waking dream with the sub-conscious guiding the unfolding of the understanding within the client. In such cases, the role of the Hypnotherapist is to ask skillful open-ended questions which are carefully timed to continue providing opportunity for the unfolding process to expand.

Each client and each issue is unique. No one technique will work across the board. This is why the Hypnotherapist must be able to tailor every session to the person and the circumstances presented. The few techniques briefly outlined here represent a very tiny sampling of the various methods which may come into play within a session.

This is why, when choosing a Hypnotherapist to work with, you want to find someone who continually upgrades their skills. This is not a profession for someone who wants to work in a routine manner. Because hypnotherapy deals primarily with the sub-conscious mind, and the ‘operating system’ of this aspect of the consciousness field is very different from that of the conscious mind, it is truly a dissimilar therapeutic model from standard ‘talk’ therapy with a counselor or psychiatrist.

In my next post, I will discuss the WHEN of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

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I can generally tell by the way people react when I tell them what I do whether they truly know something about hypnosis or whether they have a lot of misconceptions about it. People who actually know something about hypnosis ask me interested questions and we then have a great conversation. People who are holding a lot of misconceptions tend to get a glazed look, a frozen expression, and start sidling away as fast as they can, as if they have just discovered that I am some kind of evil sorceress! Because there are still so many misconceptions about hypnosis and hypnotherapy out there, I decided to write this series of posts, and hopefully clear up some of this stuff, if not once and for all (wouldn’t that be nice?), at least for you curious readers who have ventured thus far. So, here is WHAT hypnosis is:

• It is the best method for accessing into the alpha state of consciousness. The alpha state is simply an AWAKE, inwardly-focused, deeply relaxed state of awareness. It is one of the normal states of consciousness we all experience, and it is where the true relaxation response is generated. Generally, we tend to pass into and out of this state very quickly in our rushed and busy lives. Hypnosis is one way to access into this state deliberately with the intent of relaxing, harnessing our internal resources, and developing our focus. Since the alpha state is part of our original design blueprint, so to speak, and since it is the organism’s best ally in balancing our stress load, it is curious to me that so many people subvert the wisdom of the design (and the designer?) by deliberately avoiding the alpha state.
  
• Hypnosis is a healing modality that has been recognized by the American Medical Association since 1958. It is an incredibly powerful agent for relieving stress, managing pain, speeding healing and recover from surgery, releasing phobias and anxiety, lifting depression, facilitating healthful sleep, letting go of bad habits and instilling good habits, reducing blood pressure, addressing skin conditions that do not respond to standard therapies, bringing babies into the world in a peaceful and relaxed way, and so much more.
  
• Hypnosis is safe. Those in the alpha state retain control of their minds and only accept suggestions that they wish to accept. Mind control is one of the ‘fears’ many people have about hypnosis. The irony is that a consistent alpha practice will only strengthen your mind and your own control over your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. It also provides insight, understanding, and protection against the insidious forms of ‘mass programming’ that happen to us culturally and societally, through advertising, propaganda, biased news reporting, faulty educational agendas and more. The kind of mind control that some few people mistakenly associate with hypnosis is only achievable through torture and extreme brainwashing techniques.
  
• Besides being the key to unlocking the relaxation response, hypnosis is also the best tool we have for effecting personal growth and achieving what we desire for ourselves in our health, our careers, our relationships, our spiritual development, and in all aspects of our lives.
  
• Among hypnotherapists, the saying goes: ‘ALL hypnosis is self-hypnosis.’ What this means is that you must be a willing subject in order to access into the alpha state. Someone cannot come up to you and put you into a trance unless you are willing at some level to allow that. I personally teach all my clients in their first session to access into this state on their own. This is YOUR birthright. It is YOUR best tool, best ally, and best defense in a stressful and demanding world. When my clients learn to get themselves into this state on their own, successive sessions can be spent doing targeted work on specific issues, and again, I teach my clients to use those tools for themselves as well.
  
• Hypnosis is something virtually anyone can learn. Some people will say “my mind is too strong, I am not a good subject.” This kind of statement reflects a poor understanding of what is going on with hypnosis. Actually, the poorest subjects are those who have mental impairments which make it difficult to understand and follow directions, and those people who are so fearful that they are unwilling to flow with the process. Intelligent people who are able to understand the value of learning this technique have no difficulty in doing so. Remember, it is a normal part of your consciousness range. You flow in and out of it whether you realize it or not. The process of learning self-hypnosis is simply to bring your intent to it and practice sustaining the state long enough to gain the benefits of it.
  

Hypnosis (remember: self-hypnosis) offers a direct path into the sub-conscious mind. When we are outwardly involved with the world around us we are in the beta brain wave state (where we experience the stress response) and in our conscious, analytical minds. When we utilize the pathway of hypnosis, we release the focus on the distractions of the outer world, and we bring our awareness to the inner spaces of our consciousness, into the subconscious field. The subconscious is not only a repository of past memories and programming, it is also a profound internal resource for shaping our present life and our future.

The brain wave state and the area of consciousness comprise the WHERE of the hypnosis issue. The HOW comprises the thousands of tools and techniques that can be utilized within this state to effect change. I will address the HOW, the WHO, and the WHEN of the hypnosis issue in future posts. For now, I just want to clarify some things that hypnosis is NOT:

• It is not woo-woo or voo-doo. (Remember, it is a NORMAL part of the consciousness spectrum built into our basic design, and we flow into and out of this state whether we are aware of it or not.)
  
• It is not NEW AGE. Although the term ‘hypnosis’ was not coined until the late 1890’s, accessing into the alpha state is as old as mankind itself.
  
• It is NOT what you see in stage hypnosis acts. REMEMBER: everyone participating in those stage shows on any level is there for one purpose and one purpose alone– entertainment. We all know that the entertainment value is in the wacko stuff some volunteers will be doing up on the stage. Those who volunteer wish to do such wacko stuff at some level or they would not raise their hands. Once up on the stage, the desire not to be the ‘killjoy,’ ‘party-pooper,’ or ‘wet blanket ‘ will be more than sufficient motivation to elicit the desired behavior whether they are ‘hypnotized’ or not.
  
• It is not ‘weird,’ ‘dangerous,’ ‘out there,’ ‘mind-control,’ for the ‘weak-minded,’ or ‘fake.’
  

Hypnosis is empowering, relaxing, safe, fun, simple, effective, and transformative! It is for people who want to have more control over their own minds, emotions, and behaviors. It is for intelligent and motivated people who want to improve their lives utilizing their own innate resources. It is the best way to access one’s inner wisdom, as well as the creative, imaginal, visionary, and intuitive aspects of consciousness. It is the best way to access into the neutral perspective where you can access multiple points of view so that you can be at CHOICE in your life, rather than at EFFECT. At its most basic, it is the most powerful tool for addressing stress in a normal and healthful way that is available to us. Since stress is the common denominator across every aspect of our lives, hypnosis is a tool that can bring us benefits regardless of what the issues are.

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You may want to begin with Part One of this article if you haven’t already done so. The bottom line answer to why people are overweight is because they rarely deal with the real issue. The real “purpose” for the weight being there.

In hypnotherapy, I guide my clients to the purpose of the weight being there. Then I guide them to “healing” that particular issue. Once they do that, the weight no longer serves a purpose, and it does begin to go away all by itself. It’s just like running a race and breathing hard. Once the race is over, and there is no need for extra oxygen, a person’s breathing returns to normal all by itself. Is that magical? It all depends on your perspective I guess. A lot of people I work with look at the whole hypnotic process as being magical because it all happens so fast.

So to wrap everything up a bit here, I’d say that weight loss isn’t about weight at all. Weight loss is about personal growth and inner healing. The weight is just a symptom of something else going on in a person’s life that needs some attention.

When a smoke alarm goes off, it’s not about the annoying sound that comes out of it that’s important. It’s about what’s causing it to go off in the first place. If there is a fire, we need to put the fire out, and the smoke alarm will become silent all by itself after a while. Stop treating weight like it’s the ear piercing noise of the alarm, and go put out the fire instead. It will give you the permanent results that you’ve been looking for all along and will bring a lot more happiness into your life.

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Considering the principles of hypnotherapy and NLP, as well as the Universal Law of Attraction, it is important from a weight management perspective to watch your focus, not your weight. When we say to ourselves “I must lose this weight,” the subconscious mind picks up on your focus on weight, and helpfully obliges you by bringing you more of what you are focusing on (weight). It (your subconscious) makes no distinction on which way you are focusing on it, it simply perceives that you are very involved with that weight and therefore you must want more of it. Then, it obliges you by adding more pounds.

This is exactly the same principle behind how the Law of Attraction works in a universal sense. In other words, the abundant universe will also line up to give you more of what you are focusing on in just the same way. It will bring you plenty of opportunities to eat more, to eat those things you believe are fattening, to be inactive instead of active and so on. It will also team up with your subconscious mind and really pack those pounds on. (From certain perspectives, your subconscious mind and the abundant universe can be perceived as the being same thing anyway.)

Instead of focusing on your weight, focus on health. Focus on having energy and freedom of movement and flexibility. Focus on wearing some favorite outfit to a special event and feeling and looking fabulous. Focus on the emotions of being happy with yourself and having fun in the world. Step into a positive and healthy, energetic vision of yourself. See out of those happy eyes, hear the vibrant world through your ecstatic ears, feel the feelings of being and having what you truly want.

Put another way, what you are truly wanting is not ‘weight loss.’ What you are truly wanting is to be healthy so you can enjoy life, to be at an appropriate weight which allows you to be happy, energetic, feeling attractive and so forth. Behind all of this is really the ultimate goal everyone has for themselves, which is to be happy. To be in a state of BLISS. This is what we crave at the core of being. So focus on that, and take your mind off the weight.

Does this mean to stop caring about your health and about eating appropriately of healthy food in healthy amounts? And stop caring about moving your body in a healthy way? Of course not. But, what I am saying here is shift the focus on these things. Do these things because you love yourself and your body and wish to make sure that you have all the best things in the best amounts to provide the best care for yourself. Focus on doing these things because they are part of having a healthy happy life which you love. Stop doing them because you think you HAVE TO do them to lose weight.

Oh, what’s that you’re saying? Weight? Did I hear ‘weight’ again? You don’t have enough, you’re still focused on that? Always with you, it’s ‘blah blah weight this, blah blah weight that.’ A thousand times a day, that’s all you think about. Weight, weight, weight, weight, weight. Well, here you go, have some more!

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A woman I was working with lately mentioned that she prays for peace everyday. As she said this, there was anguish in her face. Like many of us, she is deeply concerned about the conflicts and suffering in the world. This ‘praying for peace’ is something many people do on a regular basis. However, one thing that strikes me about this is that by ‘praying for peace’ we may actually be focusing on the lack of peace in the world, and by focusing on that, we can then feel a lack of peace within ourselves. I know that focusing on this certainly creates anxiety and a lack of peace within me.

Perhaps peace is something that we can create in the world by bringing ourselves into a state of peace. The more ‘at peace’ we are, the more we may generate the consciousness of peace around us, and the more peace can be generated on a larger scale. It is difficult to generate world peace when we have so few people on the planet who are ‘at peace’ within themselves in a consistent way. When we say ‘Lord, bring us peace’ or even ‘Let there be peace in the world,’ this is actually a plea to provide that which we do not have, so in this way we are reflectively focusing backward, onto the ‘lack of peace’ which initiated our plea in the first place.

From the perspective of the Spiritual Law of Attraction, which is, simply stated, that you create more of that which you are focused upon, I wonder if it might not be more effective if we were to ‘pray’ from the perspective of gratitude rather than suplication? I wonder if we might not find peace within by giving thanks for our peace? And, I wonder if experiencing peace within might not generate more peace on a larger scale? I know for myself, as I have been repeating this ‘thank you for my peace’ quite often over the course of the last few days, that I do feel more at peace within myself.

I am wondering if anyone else would be interested in just trying this way of ‘praying’ for peace, as a gratitude practice. No matter what is going on in my life, I find that just stopping a moment and saying ‘thank you for my peace,’ I automatically feel better. I believe that it is possible that WE (the big collective WE of the world) will only find peace when we (the you and I individuals of the world) find and know our own inner peace.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward

Warning: the side effect of a balanced happy brain can be a dramatic shift in the size and shape of your body! This is the true story of how I released 40 pounds last fall and have kept it off through nutritional cleansing.

Ten years ago I became the executive producer for a major market morning news show. My crazy schedule helped me gain 55 pounds in six month. My skin turned a slightly ugly shade of gray and for the first time in my life I was actually looking my age.

It’s amazing what stress will do to your body. The morning program didn’t last but I ended up running the stations entire news operation and taking on more stress and a little more weight.

In 2001 with the ratings on the rise and my career taking off, I left the business and the stress and became a Hypnotherapist.

Slowly about 17 pounds came off but at 208 pounds I still didn’t look nor feel like my true self.

Hypnotherapy had helped me feel great about my bigger body, and healed my life in many many ways, yet I was still out of balance.

Those months working the overnight shift had not yet been erased. Yet as I did the Hypnotherapy I began to experience an urge to just cleanse my body and my entire life.

That was when I stumbled into John Gray’s new work. I like so many of us had read “Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus.” and could really identify with all those behaviors men and women seem to fall into.

But thanks to a recent health crisis John Gray had discovered a huge error in his life’s work. Men didn’t have to act like they were from Mars and Women didn’t have to always behave like they’re from Venus. All those behaviors are symptoms of unbalanced brain chemistry caused by a lack of trace minerals and balanced nutrients in the body.

You can change your brain chemistry by changing your thought patterns with Hypnosis, coaching or even psychotherapy. Or you can change the things you put in your body and watch your chemicals change your thoughts. Or you can do both!

I read John’s “Mars, Venus, Diet and Exercise Solution” and skipped ahead to the instructions and jumped right into his nine day cleansing program.

Druing my first cleanse I lost 10 pounds and felt a huge inner shift. I waited a week and did it again. There went another 15 pounds. I waited two weeks and did it again and there went another ten pounds.

I added a liver detox and a parasite cleanse on my own and felt like my entire body had been restored. I have my 160 pound body back. I fit in my 30 inch waist jeans… and I need to have my 38 inch suit pants tailored.

I will turn 46 this summer and I look and feel at least ten years younger. My old coworkers don’t even recognize me.

My clients want to know exactly what I did and how they too can do it.

But what I tell them and everyone who will listen is that this isn’t about the weight. It’s about restoring the balance to my body and my brain and my life.

The weight loss has just been a side effect. My cravings for junk food, sweets, and between meal snacks are gone.

I have a whole new appreciation to food. I can now feel an instant reaction to the food I put in my body. If my body wants and needs it, it feels good. If it’s not right for my body I feel it.

My skin has cleared up. My hair is softer. My breath smells better. I have more energy. I sleep better. I don’t even snore as much. My heart burn is gone.

Just as the last of the weight was coming off, I discovered the world leader in nutritional cleansing and a way that my clients, friends and family could repeat my success without having to read John’s book and buy a bunch of different cleanses.

I now help coach people through a simple cleanse with products from this company and guess what? I even got to meet my new business partner, John Gray. And he’s not the only amazing business partner I now have. I’m now working with Jack Canfield of “Chicken Soup for the Soul” fame and a team of amazing healers and health care professionals.
Since switching to these cleansing products and flooding my body with nutrition I’m now not only thinner and balanced… but I feel better than I ever thought I could. It really wasn’t until I started feeling this good that I realized just how bad I had been feeling most of the time. We get so used to the way a body full of junk feels that we don’t even realize what is possible.
I now experience moments of bliss out of the blue. It usually hits a few minutes into exercise or when I’m out for a walk. My heart opens, I feel a sense of joy and I just get this uncontrollable urge to smile.

My clients who are now on the cleanse are not only looking great and losing weight but are experiencing the benefits of Hypnotherapy at a faster rate. Now that the impurities are out of their systems the self transformation work is easier and the all around changes in their lives are even more profound.

By following my link, you can order any of the cleansing or nutrient rich products. You can even become your own distributor and make some money helping people heal their bodies and their lives. Before you order anything, give me a call. I’ve actually gotten really good at helping people figure out which cleanse will work best for them.
I think it is important to do a subconscious cleanse at the same time. Purging your mind of all those unhealthy thought patterns that had you turning to food for comfort, love, safety etc.

You can cleanse your mind much the same way I did by following my TranceBreaker Hypnotic Experiences. I’ve created a series of 21 Hypnotic recordings that are designed to cleanse ever aspect of your life.

They begin with “You Deserve To Be Here” this will help get you ready for any cleanse be reaffirming your deservedness, because after all you do deserve a thinner body and a balanced brain and life.

The trances are sold individually in MP3’s or CD’s or you can buy them in sets of three. Each set is organized around issues as they relate to the Chakras or energy centers in the body.

I suggest listening to each recording once a day for at least three days if not a week before moving on to the next. Don’t skip any of the first three recordings they’re essential to an effective cleanse. TranceBreakers class two promotes Deep and Complete Self Acceptance. With out that you’re just wasting your time. And TranceBreakers class number three will free you from poverty consciousness and help you begin to manifest more of what you want in your life.

The second Chakra trances cleanse your feeling center allowing you to both heal negative feelings and at the same time getting you in touch with exactly how you feel. This also cleanses what ever trauma, drama, guilt or shame you associate with sex.

The third Chakra trances are your chance to purge yourself of being a victim, this is an essential part of a cleanse. You’ll learn in a subconscious way the art of setting boundaries and experience the power that only exists in this moment.

The fourth Chakra journeys will cleanse your heart so that when you are ready you too will experience the same bliss I’ve been having. The trances promote a deeper sense of self love and a true experience of unconditional love.

The fifth Chakra journeys cleanse away the blocks to speaking your truth and communicating with your higher self.

Sixth Chakra trances open cleanse away the toxic thoughts that cloud the way you see the world. People who listen to these trances report an opening to their intuition and a freedom from taking everything so personally. It’s a chance to open your mind to new ways of thinking and being in the world.

The seventh Chakra trances cleanse your connection to the divine. This series allows you to balance your masculine and feminine energies so that you can connect more fully with the part of you that is eternal and divine. It also helps you to shift past what for many is the ultimate fear, the fear of death.

None of these trances is specifically for weight loss because weight loss is only a symptom of a toxic mind. All of these trances are designed to cleanse your mind of toxic thoughts. A side effect is weight loss, and when you couple the trances with the Isagenix cleanse the weight comes off both quickly and easily.

You too can have the same experience I and my clients are having.

I work with people all over the country over the phone, doing hypnosis and life coaching to help them become their true selves and in the process create their true bodies. Perhaps I can even help you.

Here’s the link to John Gray’s Book
www.amazon.com

Here’s the link to order the Cleanse
http://trancebreakersbrainbalancing.isagenix.com/ If you decide to do the cleanse give me a call. I can help you buy the right product for you and set you up with a cleansing coach for free coaching during your cleanse.

And Here’s my Hypnotherapy Website for more on my services.
http://www.hypnoki.com

If you have any questions you can give me a call at. If I’m in session, please leave me a message and I’ll call you back.

or you can always e-mail me at
hypnokirick@aol.com

Be sure to share your success here at United Hypnotherapy by commenting on our blogs.

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So how do you super charge your affirmations? I use a technique that involves recording them and creating a chorus of my own voice and then listening to it every day for a few minutes.

First you will want to write out your affirmations and put them through a feeling test to make sure every word fills you with positive feelings, images and sensations. Then record them. It helps to have at least three minutes worth of affirmations. You will be surprised how long three minutes is.

You can record this directly onto your PC or Mac with microphone or record it on a digital recorder and upload the file to your computer. Then using an audio editing program you can loop your affirmations so that you have 15 minutes of solid affirmations. You can save this loop as one track and lay it down again starting it 15 to 20 seconds after your first loop. I have done this where I’ve added it over and over again until I have more than 80 versions of my reciting my affirmations playing at the same time. I then turn the volume of the affirmations down and mix in some relaxing music.

The result is an amazingly powerful hypnotic journey. I did this for a client with cancer. She listened to her affirmations at least once a day every day for over a year. I watched in amazement as everything she affirmed began to come true in her life. One of her affirmations was that people would be looking at her bald head because she was so attractive and it was so sexy. She forgot that this was on her tape and came in one day telling me how even with her bald head men were hitting on her. Her affirmation was working even though she didn’t even remember it was on her tape.

If you need some good audio software for creating multiple track audio, there’s a shareware program for free called audacity that works on PC’s and is very effective for a project like this.

Here’s a link to download it. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

If you use a Mac your garage band program can create multiple tracks and is just as easy to use as Audacity. You may need to buy a new version of I-life that includes garage band if you are using an older mac.

You can do all this without a computer the old fashioned way, cutting and splicing audio tape. That can take forever and there’s no room for errors. Once the tape is cut, it is cut.

You can also purchase affirmation recordings right here on United Hypnotherapy. As you listen to a Hypnotherapy recording that includes positive suggestions and affirmations, try repeating the suggestion to yourself as you hear it. This can make the experience even more powerful.

Happy manifesting!

Rick Reynolds, CCHT

If you’ve read Part 1 of this article, you are beginning to understand that I really don’t care “why” people are overweight because it truly doesn’t matter. A good prospect for what DOES matter though, is “What purpose is served by being overweight?” The “purpose” of the weight is a whole different story and gets us a whole different answer.

A lot of the answers to the “purpose” question are a bit shocking when we hear them, but the examples I’m giving are all real ones that came up with clients of mine. Here are a few:

“If I’m overweight, I’ll be undesirable, and if I’m undesirable I won’t get into an intimate relationship. If I don’t get into an intimate relationship I can’t get hurt. So the weight prevents me from getting hurt in a relationship.”

“I don’t deserve to be happy because I’m a bad person, and being overweight makes me unhappy. The weight serves as punishment for my being a bad person.”

“Being overweight makes me bigger so that I can be seen. People never noticed me before, so the weight serves the purpose of making me big enough that they see me now.”

“People hurt me when they get close to me, so the weight serves as a physical barrier to keep people at a distance.”

There are as many “purposes” for the weight as there are people who have a weight problem, but this gives you a slight idea of what types of things come up. Weight as punishment for something, and weight as protection “from” something are the two main underlying themes in most purposes for being overweight. Oddly enough, almost every purpose that has come to light with my clients has had some sense of logic to it.

OK… so let’s say that we found out the purpose of the weight or of being overweight. Let’s say that the purpose is to make the person undesirable so that they won’t get into a relationship where they will get hurt. Now what? We found the purpose, so does everything magically resolve itself and the weight problem goes away all by itself? Nope…

Let’s look at the purpose again. Chances are that part of the reason this person wants to lose weight in the first place is so that they CAN have an intimate, loving, caring, relationship. (Which they CAN do without losing the weight, but that’s a whole different topic). So the purpose of the weight is a purpose that they don’t want the weight to serve anymore, and THAT is important. All of a sudden, the weight has lost it’s purpose for being there. NOW is the weight going to magically disappear all by itself? Probably not.

Contined in Part 3 of this article…
Weight Loss CDs/MP3s

It’s a simple question, with a simple answer.

Q: Why are people overweight?

A: Because they eat to much, and don’t exercise enough.

The problem is, that’s not the question that matters, and if that question isn’t the one that matters, then the answer probably isn’t all that important either.

Working with thousands of hypnotherapy clients, I have noticed that most people are focused on the “Why” questions all the time. In fact, many of my clients were “expert” at determining the “whys” of what they did long before they ever came to see me. For instance, I would hear stories of their abuse when they were younger, and that they ate food to feel comfort. So the answer to the “why was that client overweight?” was “because she ate to feel comfort.” Overeating is often associated with all sorts of feelings that people are trying to cover up, and the emphasis has usually been on finding out “why” the person feels that way. So what happens is that people go into therapy to discover all the “whys” in their life. “Why are they frightened by authority figures?”, “Why are they nervous in crowds?”, “Why do they overeat?” and on and on… why? Why? WHY?

My answer to all of that, in all seriousness, is: “Who Cares?” Really… It’s kind of like this story:

A guy was driving down the road and got lost. When he realized he was lost, he looked for and found a landmark. Then he got his map out and found the landmark and his position on the map. He knew where he wanted to go, and he could figure out how to get there quite easily on the map, BUT instead, he spent all of his time trying to figure out how he got there in the first place. Rather than driving to his destination, he sat right there struggling and straining to find out how he got here.

The only thing that’s important to me in that story is, “Where is he now?” and “Where does he want to go?”. That’s all we need to know to help him move forward. It doesn’t matter in the least how he got there.

If we take the story a bit further, we could imagine someone coming along and seeing the guy’s frustration and offering to help. When asked what the problem is, our lost motorist replies, “I don’t know how I got here. Can you help me figure out how I got here?”

Now if it was me who chanced upon this guy, I’d politely tell him, “Yes, I can help you figure that out, but I won’t. What I will do, though, is help you get to where you want to go.”

So… does it matter “why” the guy was lost? No… He just was. Does it matter “why” someone is overweight? No… they just are.

What’s next? Read Why Are People Overweight? Part 2-Purpose…
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When Deborah came to the Sacramento Lightworkers for a healing, we talked about changing her contract. Diagnosed with a fatal disease called pulmonary fibrosis, Deborah was told by her doctors that there was no chance for a medical cure. For over a year, Deborah, a middle-aged wife and mother of a twenty-one year old daughter, would wake from sleep to painful coughing fits, sometimes so powerful that she broke ribs and had to be hospitalized.

Courageous, unafraid to die, Deborah also believed that there was hope. We talked about how she had contracted for this disease–how her getting this disease was for the highest good–but how, now that she had experienced the disease, perhaps it wasn’t necessary to experience death because of it. In an instant, if she believed, and if it was for her highest good, Deborah could change her contract. She could write a new one, learning how to live with her disease, possibly reversing it altogether.

With that in mind, we lightworkers went to work on Deborah, knowing that we could not cure her, but that we could give her the energy to heal herself, if that is what she and her higher self decided was for the highest good. We worked with Deborah for about an hour and a half, each of us in their own way. I like to use a Reiki Sound technique called the Kotodama. I prefer to use this technique while the client is standing, so I was allowed the honor of going first. Then we all joined together, creating a wonderful experience. The positive energy was so strong. The potential for healing, unlimited.

When Deborah awoke the next day, she didn’t notice that she wasn’t coughing, but her husband did. By noon, when she hadn’t so much as coughed once, her husband Scott, couldn’t contain himself any longer. “Do you realize you haven’t coughed since you woke up?” Scott asked Deborah. It still hadn’t dawned on her until he mentioned it, I think, because her healing was so natural, her body forgot that it had been ill.

Soon Deborah was painting her house, free from bedridden days and free of the terrible pain. Her doctors were amazed and warned her to be very careful. Deb’s new attitude allowed her to shake off negative programming from well meaning but prejudiced sources. Choosing her own, new contract, Deborah reclaimed her health, and has gone back to work as a Hospice Nurse. She still has lesions. Maybe they have more to teach her. Perhaps in time they will disappear. For now, Deborah is healthy. She proved that all contracts can be rewritten. Deborah also gave the lightworkers who worked and continue to be with her a miracle to hold on to. Namaste

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I seem to be working with a number of people who are thriving with cancer at this moment and I have had some interesting realizations about the disease over the past few months.

Cancer is the ultimate disease of not being ones true self. Your cells actually forget who they are and start trying to be something other than you.

People who can’t speak their truth have cells that forget who they are in their throats and mouths.

People who forget how to love themselves or others get cells that forget themselves in their chests.

People who deny their true feelings get cells out of control in their bladder and sex organs.

People who refuse to embrace their own power and forget who they are get cells that forget right in their gut, their liver, their kidneys, their pancreas.

People who forget that they deserve to live, and can’t come to completely and deeply accept themselves get cells that forget in their intestine, colon, and rectum.

I’m learning more about this as I witness client after client experience this disease with all its lessons, gifts and griefs.

I’ve noticed that clients whose doctors are insensitive and cold hearted, resists their terminal diagnosis and do whatever it takes to prove the doctors wrong. Those with kind loving doctors take the suggestion to die to heart and often live exactly as long as the doctor predicts. I’ve come to see cold and even mean doctors as a real blessing.

I’ve learned that some bodies can handle even the strongest of chemo therapies without the slightest negative side effect. Reiki, EFT and Hypnosis can really help make this so.

I’ve learned that people who love life grieve the very thought of it ending. I’ve learned that all grief is a form of love and as such deserves to be fully expressed and admired for its beauty.

I’ve learned that we are all stronger than we think.

I’ve learned that allowing others to help us is sometimes the greatest gift we can give. The sooner my clients discover this the faster they seem to heal.

I’ve learned that it is okay … even amazingly great at times… to die. When the worse that could happen is death and death begins to seem really kind of cool, it makes living much more fun. No time is wasted on worry over death.

I’ve learned that every day of life, every breath we take is a miracle. Since it is all a miracle then why not ask for just one more miracle and for the cancer to just go away?

I’ve learned that at any moment we can give up our stories. Many cancer clients are living on borrowed time. This extra life doesn’t have to be lived with the stories of past pains influencing the present. Everyone can choose in this moment to tap into unconditional love, and open their hearts.

Death can be like a pregnancy. A person in their final phases of life can have a certain glow and the soul can be so present in their eyes. It can be an honor to witness this amazing transition.

Life is a terminal illness. We are all dying each day. So why not live? Really live life in every moment? Why waste time on worry? Why waste time on fear? We need not have cancer to learn these lessons. We can all take the time to open our hearts to love without first facing fear, disease and death.

My cancer clients have enjoyed my “Healing Journey Recording”, and benefited most from “Embracing Your Own Death” a trance that releases our fear of death.
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Stress is the common denominator of our lives. We have stress in all dimensions of our experience, whether it is physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Developing a consistent alpha-state practice has been the road back to equilibrium across all these dimensions for me. The alpha state is simply an extremely relaxed inwardly-aware, normal state of consciousness such as is attained through self-hypnosis or meditation.

Not only does this state bring you into a place where you can gain a larger perspective about the issues in your life, and where you can see things from many different points of view, it connects you to those internal resources for higher guidance in finding solutions, and resolution. In addition, being in the alpha state itself creates specific neurochemistry designed to neutralize the stress chemistry initiated in the brain from being in a beta state (which is an alert, outwardly-focused state) where we tend to spend all our awake time, little realizing this is what is creating the out-of-balance in the first place.

Stress is fragmenting to the being. True relaxation, and the alpha state foster reconnection and wholeness. In our western culture we have little training in activating the relaxation response and are therefore often floundering under a load of stress that will eventually tear us apart if we don’t learn how to cope with it in a natural and healthy way. Learning these simple techniques has enabled me to transcend asthma, IBS, migraines, extreme allergies, chronic pain, crippling grief, and many other debilitating conditions. It has also opened the door to my dreams, and my higher awareness.

Because our western culture has been ‘trained’ to turn to the medical paradigm for a quick fix in the form of a pill to answer these issues, many people do not know that there is a simple, effective, safe, and natural way to utilize the body’s own innate resources for re-establishing equilibrium and health. Managing stress is also the single most critical element in over-coming any habit or addictive behavior pattern.

Once again, I invite you to share you succinct stories here of how self-hypnosis or alpha-state practice has changed your life. If you are moved to do so, you can send expanded versions of your stories to me at trancelady@sbcglobal.net for inclusion in a published project. I believe that many more people have benefited from this type of practice than we commonly know about. It is time to re-empower everyone in knowing about this invaluable resource for healing.
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In our culture, it is common to discount our dreams. Many people tell me they haven’t remembered a dream in years. Some even assert that they don’t dream at all (which is not true…we all dream). Often, we don’t remember the dreams because we wake up abruptly with an alarm clock. Other times, our conscious mind overrides the dream awareness as we start thinking about our day and all we have to get done.

Whatever the case, our dreams are very important means of communication between our conscious minds and our subconscious or unconscious minds. I believe that dreams are important conduits of guidance from our higher minds. Dreams also come to us in many forms. Night dreams are generally what we think of when we say ‘dreams,’ but daydreams and trance ‘dreams’ can also offer profound insights to us. All forms of dreaming are interwoven into our big life dreams as well. Dreams are also important in healing in all dimensions: body, mind, and spirit.

In many cultures, dreaming is seen to be important not only for the individual who has the dream, but also for the community as a whole. Dreams are actively reported and shared. I am interested in providing a forum for dream sharing. The idea is to share a dream that has had a powerful impact in your life by providing guidance in making a specific choice or decision. The purpose is to rekindle interest and focus on our dreams, which is a way to reconnect with ourselves and our higher guidance in these critical times. If you are interested in helping with this project, please submit your succinct dream stories here on the blog, and as ever, send your longer dream stories to me at trancelady@sbcglobal.net if you are willing to have them included in a collection for publication.

Dreams have been important to some of our greatest thinkers of all time. Many of our advances in knowledge have been the result of dreams. If we can stimulate a renaissance of dreaming, we can positively impact the course of our collective future.

In order to be able to harvest the wisdom of our dreams we must cultivate healthy sleep protocols and manage our stress. Developing a consistent ‘alpha’ trance practice can facilitate this. If you feel challenged in any of these areas, there are resources available to you from our site. In addition to what is already available, my dream journal handbook will soon be available for download, along with the stress handbook. I invite you to open to yourself. All that you need is within you. As each of us finds wholeness within, we bring wholeness to the world around us. It is my dream to be a facilitator of this by helping to empower others to honor their own higher guidance.

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Through the history of human spiritual traditions there has been a belief that there is a nonphysical existence that parallels the physical universe. People considered this world to be filled with spirits. In the Assyrian cuneiform texts from about 2500 BC are the first known written accounts of the treatment of illness. Ceremonies to the tribal gods and direct confrontation of demons through prayer were the rituals used to heal people of negative spirit influence. In the North American indigenous shamanic traditions there is still a belief that mental and physical sickness is caused by either the possession of evil spirits or the soul loss of one’s own spirit.

The shaman and healers of the indigenous cultures perform rituals and healing ceremonies to cast out the spirits so that the ill person can become balanced and heal. These rituals are called extractions. They are still performed today. The shaman, in a non-ordinary state of consciousness induced by drumming, dancing and at times the use of natural herbal hallucinogens, joins the world of the spirits to be possessed himself by his helping spirits and power animal spirits so he can communicate with the patient’s intruding spirits to dislodge them and release them back into the spirit world, freeing the patient of the draining and toxic influence of the spirit’s presence. In some traditions the spirit is dislodged by the shaman sucking out the spirit and illness by placing the mouth directly against the patient’s body. The Lummi tribe in the Northwest Coast of North America uses another approach for releasing attaching spirits that are the result of a sorcerer’s curse. The shaman usually has other healers helping him, as the task of releasing spirits is considered very difficult. The shaman or medicine man becomes violent and frenzied as if animated by some unseen spirit force. When he has found the possessing spirit he falls into a trance and tells how the spirit is affecting the patient and the patient’s family. When he gets the force under control the person is healed and the family is free from its influence. The captured spirit is either put in a spirit bundle of cedar-bark and the medicine man shoots an arrow through the bundle, or he destroys the spirit by putting it in a rock that has been heated and then breaking the rock by pouring water on it, or he holds the spirit in his hands and twists it as if he were breaking it up after which he throws the parts in opposite directions. Sometimes, the spirit is sent back to the person who sent the evil spirit.

As a psychotherapist I have been doing a modern version of spirit extractions with my clients since 1986. I have been trained in a more clinical approach, which uses the non-ordinary state of hypnosis. In the hypnotic state the client becomes his or her own shaman. The process is called Spirit Releasement Therapy. Through doing this work I have found that disembodied spirits attach to humans for many reasons. The spirit may not realize he is dead or he may have some spiritual codependence issue that remains after death and he may not be able to let go and move on, or he may have an addiction that keeps him bound to the physical plane to satisfy his addictive needs. In all of these cases, the spirit is waylaid and stuck and the host is drained of energy and is influenced in ways, which inhibit his life force and free will.

There are many symptoms of spirit attachment and the clinician must have skills to differentially diagnose the client with the symptoms, which could also be from biological and psychological causes. Some symptoms are low energy, hearing voices, physical symptoms that seem to have no physical cause, compulsions, and mood swings. Let’s face it: a good case of PMS could create the same list of symptoms! When a client presents any of the mentioned symptoms I will do an extensive interview to find out the history of the symptoms and I will especially ask if there were any deaths or any energetic openings in the client’s life about the time the symptoms began. Energetic openings could be: an accident, use of drugs or alcohol, surgery, extreme emotional states, loss of consciousness, or out of control psychic experiences. These types of experiences cause a disruption in the energy system, which weakens our protection, making us more vulnerable to an entity attaching itself to our energy system.

Once we have ruled out any possible physical or emotional cause of the symptom we will investigate the possibility of a spirit attachment by having the client perform his own energy scan. In a light state of hypnosis he closes his eyes and using his inner seeing, feeling and knowing “scans” the body and energy system for any intruding energy. The intrusions are typically experienced as darkness, fuzziness, blocked energy, or heaviness. Last Thursday I worked with a 48 year old client who grew up living in an apartment above her father’s funeral home. Seeing dead bodies before and after embalming and cremation were a daily thing for her. Children at school teased her ruthlessly about what her father did for a living and she was very isolated and lonely as a child. When we did the energy scan process she noticed a feeling and image of a dark energy clinging to her between the shoulder blades where she typically feels tension and back pain. We proceeded to telepathically communicate with the entity and she verbalized the messages she received, just as the shaman would telepathically communicate with the spirit and tell about its influence. We discovered that there had been a spirit of a dead man who died in a truck accident. His body was brought to the funeral home and was buried. He was confused and angry and attached to my client when she was four years old. At the age of four she had had a hernia surgery and that was the energetic opening for the spirit to attach. Through more communication we discovered that the spirit was afraid of moving on into the Light because he didn’t want to let go of what was familiar and comfortable after all these years. The client dialogued with the spirit and she told him that he was no longer welcome to stay and that she wanted him to move on. We called upon the spirit of the entity’s dead grandmother to come get him to take him with her to the light and eventually he exited through the client’s lower back and moved on. My client felt a big release and as if there were more room in her body after the releasement took place. The darkness and tightness in her back were also released. These types of effects are common results for the client.

This spirit releasement process was pretty typical and undramatic. At other times I have had spirit releasement sessions be profound and almost miraculous. Here are several other cases: A woman client complained of burning pain on the right side of her body. She had exhausted all medical and alternative healing sources and had received no
amelioration of the pain. In regression hypnosis she discovered the source of the pain. When traveling in Japan and touring the area of the Hiroshima atomic blast she picked up a “hitch hiker” who had died in the blast. The right side of his body was facing the blast and had melted. It was his pain that was registering through my client’s body. After he was released into the light, her pain was gone. (The entity was confused. He went into the light of the bomb blast, not the spiritual light of the afterlife and he was lost. He attached to my client because he saw her as a compassionate being that knew about healing. He thought he might get some help.)

And then there was the man who was ritually and sexually abused as a child in the Jehovah’s Witness church. A Catholic priest referred him to me for a clinical depossession. Several psychologists thought he might be a multiple personality because of his abuse and the angry dark energy that commonly took over my client. During the abuse my client was told that he was the Devil and that all of their sins would go into him during the ritual and sexual abuse. He grew up feeling all of this negativity and hate and felt that his whole life was blocked of any success and love. The session was intense and very frightening. At one time the client actually levitated off the chair from the intense anger and attacking energy of the entity. It was through regressing the entity back to its source of love that the releasement finally took place. The anger and negativity dissolved and the entity cried in the pain of remorse for what he had caused my client. With forgiveness and love, he moved on into the light for his own healing. My client was free!

After the releasement my client’s life totally changed. He was finally able to heal from his abuse and have a life that was productive and whole. There were no more symptoms of being a multiple personality after the demonic entity was released. He became a student at HCH, was trained in Hypnotherapy and Spirit Releasement Therapy is now married to a psychologist and doing the spirit releasement work professionally, hoping to help others to be free of the bondage and drain of attaching spirits.

I have released thousands of entities with the help of my and my clients’ spirit helpers. The main ingredient in the clinical spirit releasement is LOVE. It is through our larger collective connection in spirit, whether we are in physical form or not, that the healing takes place. Today, in the therapy offices of clinically trained and licensed psychotherapists healing rituals take place that come from the lineage of the shamanic traditions of indigenous peoples from thousands of years ago. These therapeutic “technologies” are rooted in a basic belief and premise of most spiritual traditions: we are spiritual is essence and we are able, through our spiritual practices, to realize our spiritual nature and divine source. My work as a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist is that of a modern day shaman; it is the work of restoring spirit and reconnecting it to its divine source.

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Sometimes every where you turn you can feel the energy in your life that’s going to push you to the next level. Other times there seems to be no energy at all. This can leave us frustrated or disheartened. That frustration can seem to zap the energy even more creating a downward spiral.

But just because the energy has changed doesn’t mean that your life isn’t going exactly where it needs to go. Everything needs to happen in just the right timing. In a subconscious way we know this to be true. Sometimes we lose interest or slow down in order to get our timing in sync with the world.

When the energy seems to just vanish on us, it is an opportunity to slow down, change directions or reconsider what it is we really want. If our intention remains the same then it is an invitation to trust. Trust that the energy has shifted for a reason. Trust that we are sensing the perfect timing and that our motivation will return when the energy shifts again. Trust that everything is happening at just the right time.

When we place our order at a restaurant we have total faith that the chef will manifest our food and the wait staff will bring it to us. Most of the time we sit back and enjoy our company or the appetizers with total faith that our order has been received and will be created.

When we order from the world through our intention, and our attention, we can treat it just like ordering food at a restaurant. We can sit back and enjoy the company the ambiance and have faith that the universe received our order. We can trust and when the timing is right we will receive everything we’ve ordered.

Your mission today is to trust. Trust is one route to that key state of no tension. If you find you just can’t trust, try listening to a few Hypnotic Journeys it’s amazing what the trance state can do for building trust and releiving tension.

From the state of no tension you can discover inspiration and a wealth of ideas and opportunities for actions to create your ideal life.

Heal Your Mind CDs/MP3s

First let me clarify something here. I feel a tremendous upwelling of consciousness potential at this juncture of time. The time is right for us to reach that ‘critical mass’ of consciousness which will turn the tide for us individually, for us as a species, and for our planet. It may even be that the ‘consciousness shift’ will have implications even beyond our planet. I don’t know, but I find that my mind is holding an ever growing vision of what is possible. I have seen the power of consciousness at work (and play) in so many ways, and my inkling is that this is just a tiny mote in comparison to what is truly available to us. I have had a dream lately of connecting, linking, of melding and merging at a very high order. It is this ‘collective consciousness’ that I am interested in fostering. When we blow out the ‘boundary conditions’ of our collective mind, we will soar…we truly will be limitless…and this is exactly what is needed at this crucial point on the space-time continuum. If you are still with me here, you may be wondering what all this has to do with Reiki and specifically Reiki stories….

If you have read my other posts you will find a common thread weaving these posts together…I am asking for you, the reader, to share you story. It is in sharing story that we push out the boundaries of our thinking…we become part of the shift…so, here again is another invitiation to share your story….both here on this blog, and in expanded version if you care to submit it to me at trancelady@sbcglobal.net for inclusion in a published collection. Truthfully, I don’t know how any of this is going to happen. I just ‘know’ that it is time for it to happen, and I feel compelled to provide these forums, these invitations to you. Each of you has a unique story, and it may be just the catalyst that will help another person expand…connect…grow…

For myself, I can say that Reiki absolutely changed my life. On my personal healing journey, it provided the catalyst from which all else followed as it placed my foot upon a healing journey I could not even comprehend when I had my first attunements. It was only in looking back over time that I realized it had been that juncture where it all began. I believe that it was that first set of Reiki attunements that opened me to having the spontaneous trance experience that led to my becoming a hypnotherapist. That is often the gift of Reiki…it is profound, yet sometimes so subtle that you can miss its impact until you find the proper filter for framing perspective…

Since then I have continued to study and practice Reiki, both Usui and Karuna. I have experienced many profound things along the way. One of my favorite stories is very simple, and some might say it is not worth reporting. Yet to me, it was very significant.

One of my Reiki students once asked me if Reiki could move bones. She had been exploring into other healing methods as well, and was probably referencing Quantum Touch, which is big on moving bones. Her question recalled to me this incident:

We were once in charge of a tiny baby miniature bunny for the first month of its life. We were ‘bunny-sitting’ as it were. When the bunny arrived (small enough to fit inside one palm) he had something wrong with his right front shoulder. He was hopping in a circle in a very erractic way, and the whites were showing around his eyes, an indication of extreme distress. I picked him up and held him in my hands. I immediately began flowing Reiki to him. He relaxed. I should say he melted in my hands. I could tell his shoulder was dislocated. At a certain point I was guided to gently stroke his shoulder and sure enough the bones loudly and visibly rearranged themselves. The little one’s eyes shut and he had an expression of bliss on his little black face. When I finally put him down on the floor he began to run and hop like crazy, even bounding three feet straight up into the air. From that time, every time I picked him up he would roll over onto his back in my hands and just completely melt into relaxation. We called him Zen-bun. Even after he went to his ‘real’ home he would do that when I saw him. I will never forget this littlest ‘client’ of mine. Just remembering him melting in my hands sends me into a deeply calm and happy state.

Now, it’s your turn. How has learning Reiki or receiving Reiki had a profound impact in your life?

Reiki Healing CDs/MP3s