Hypnosis: The Bridge to your Inner Divinity

Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
                                                      Mahatma Gandhi

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When you become familiar enough with any subject,  you begin see  the core ideas that emerge. These core ideas are usually clear, simple and concise, magically condensing any subject that once seemed completely daunting into an understandable “Essence.”

So it has become for me with therapeutic hypnosis.  Therapeutic hypnosis can be used to “make magic” in your life; you can be or become anything you choose.  The most important core insight that I’ve had about how hypnosis works is the state of hypnosis helps you connect you to your own ephemeral Divinity Within.

While there are many concepts of God, the Divine Force, Divine Intelligence, Higher Power, it seems to me that at the base of it we have a divine, internal source and resource that is reachable.  That divine internal source and resource also connects to the divine intelligence, Higher Power above, out-there, externally.

When we “go inside” in hypnosis, we are connecting to a part of us that is not particularly well-defined or even acknowledged by our society and yet, most of us feel that part, are aware of that part, even have awareness of it’s great power once tapped into.

Some of us call it our ‘sub-conscious self,’ others call it the Soul, the Spirit, others still call it a Core self. Whatever you might choose to call it, it is this inside self that is our ‘small, still voice within,’ the wise, beyond-humanly-powerful and intuitive part of ourselves that can seem mysterious and unreachable.

It is that magical place we reach for inside for inner strength, self-understanding, understanding of the Universe and God (as you understand God). When we are able to connect with this wispy-seeming Inside Strength, we can ‘make magic’ in our lives.

We’ve all experienced it at least once in our lives; usually more.  That experience in which we are suddenly connected with that inner voice that warns us of trouble in the road ahead or danger lurking outside our homes. Or a vague warning of a body dysfunction or a child in need of special attention.

Or it can be that experience of phenomenal strength that human beings have demonstrated, for instance, by lifting an automobile off of the body of our child with our bare hands.

Sometimes this can experienced as that “click” into the zone when performing music or athletics that becomes like an out-of-body, I’m-sure-not-in-control here-but-I’m-letting-the-experience-take-me experience that cannot be explained but just “IS.”

When clients come to me for hypnosis “magic,” what I’m really doing is teaching them how to connect with and utilize this “Inner Resource.”

It is also my personal experience and belief that it is this inner, core consciousness that connects with the Universal Divine Conscious which most people call God. This is the magical and metaphysical resource that they speak of in the Secret, in Abraham-Hicks, in the writings of Louise Hay and Marianne Williamson.

When my own prayers seem empty and not going anywhere, I go into self-hypnosis because I can always reach God from that inner consciousness. My own direct line to the Divine.

Whatever “magic force” you need to connect with in order to accomplish your own dreams and goals, hypnosis is the bridge inwards into that resource. If you need to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce pain, overcome insomnia or panic, hypnosis opens that pathway inwards into your own inner magic.

Hypnosis itself is not magic but hypnosis is the easiest bridge into that magical resource that we all search for in some way or another; for some purpose or another; that magical resource that exists within every single human being as well as many animals and plants.

If you need to “make magic” in your life, call me for a free, no-obligation conversation. I’m happy to answer all questions so that you can decide for yourself.

Here’s to your success…

Susan French

888-333-3688

http://www.hypno4success.com

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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

                                            –Henry Ellis

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Managing an Attack of the "I-Don't-Wanna's"

The “I-don’t-wannas” is a state of mind and body that my old friend Fran turned me onto. You know. The “I-don’t-wanna’s” is that state that you wake up in and just don’t want to do anything. The days when you want to pull the covers over your head and let the world pass you by.

The ‘I-dont-wannas’ usually come on without warning. You may not even be able to figure out what triggered an attack. When under attack, however, my experience has been that you have to give in to it as soon as you notice it or as soon thereafter as you can manage.

It’s been awhile since I wrote about the “I-don’t-wannas,”  but since I’m just coming out of an attack myself, I thought it would be good to write about.

Every year I forget to remember that I go into the “I-don’t-wannas” sometime around the holidays, usually the day after. It usually lasts until late January but can last as long as until early March. I’m sharing this phenomenon with you in case you experience it as well. I notice that many clients, as well as friends and family, go in and out of the “I-don’t-wannas” also and when it hits, it’s always a surprise and it’s always impossible to fight off successfully.

When we’re in it, we usually just can’t figure out what’s wrong. The simplest tasks seem daunting and undo-able. Forget those tasks that require creativity, problem-solving and energy. That just isn’t going to happen, until the IDW’s pass.

What seems to be most important is to recognize the state and accept it. I don’t think I’ve ever been able to really fight my way through it. At some point, the only option is to give in, climb back into bed if you can, and abandon as many tasks as possible until it passes.

I’ve also found that it WON’T pass if I DON’T give into it. It is in these times I have to really surrender to God, the Divine Energy, the Wisdom of my Body. I sleep, read, watch dumb-ole-TV, listen to music as long as I feel like it, play and sing IF I feel like it.

I let the phone go into voicemail as much as is humanly possible without tumbling the house of cards that my life always feels like (especially during this time period). I hibernate. I even eat sugar and other junk if compelled to do that.

It is only after a true and thorough surrender that my energy begins to return and I can begin to come out of hibernation. I’ve learned not to beat myself up or drive myself through these periods. Like taking care of young kids: it has more energy than I do.

I often find that this is also a time for regrouping, dumping the trash, finding the time-sucks that I can eliminate. I find that it’s best if I let myself return to the flow of life s-l-o-w-l-y. It is truly a time of faith: faith in that the Divine Energy knows best. Faith in the fact that the sky won’t fall and nobody will die if I retreat for awhile. That, in itself, is a profound and useful insight.

So, if you have ever experienced an “Attack-of-the-I-Don’t-Wannas,” or are going through one now, I hope my explanation will help you to navigate it with the least amount of pain and distress.

Please share YOUR experience with the IDW’s. Did they flatten you? Did they mystify you? Did they scare you? Did you feel 1000% defeated? Tell me about your IDW’s. And remember, most of all, they pass AFTER you give in but not before. Don’t waste precious energy fighting it. Give in. Take what your mind/brain/body/spirit needs and it will pass. I promise.

Here’s to your success…

Susan French

Clinical Hypnotherapist

http://www.hypno4success.com

888-333-3688

Contact me:  susanfrench2010@gmail.com

The easiest way to get your mind off that hot fudge sundae is to picture this instead: a white sandy beach in Tahiti.

Or a scene from your favorite movie. Or a slow dance with your honey under a starry sky. Just picture something — anything — delightfully pleasant that isn’t food related. Research suggests that doing so can help stop a craving, fast.

Just Imagine . . .
In a recent study, college students were asked to vividly picture themselves engaged in a well-loved activity every time a food craving came up and to maintain the alternate image until the craving faded. Compared with control groups using other craving-quelling techniques like distraction or mentally challenging tasks, the daydreamers experienced a much more dramatic nosedive in both the strength and vividness of their food cravings. Researchers suspect that because the students employed their senses — like sight, sound, and smell — when imaging the enjoyable activity, it took the edge off their food urges and made the craved item seem less real. (Related:Find out how your TV remote can help you crush cravings for junk food.)

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Happy Holidays Everyone!

Here’s to YOUR success…

Susan French

http://www.hypno4success.com/programs/lose-weight/

All questions and comments welcome

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Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.

                                     – David Brent

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How many more days did you say there were before [insert preferred Holiday

Life changes constantly.  Sometimes it’s hard to keep up.  Other times, you are the statue!

What can I say?  Keep on truckin.’

In keeping with  the Time-Suck Pie philosophy of daily living, there are exactly 25 days until Christmas.  That’s counting from today and stopping Christmas Eve, when we hope that everything is done that needs to be done.  There are 4 weekends, if you’re a nine-to-fiver.

As for me, I prefer to count the number of days until the holidays are officially over, which is January 2nd.  Then it’s my birthday, January 3rd.  That is my official,” holiday’s are over. Time to count my “poor little money” as an ex-BF’s mother used to say.

Happy “Before the Holidays.”  Try to remember that no matter what, Christmas (or whatever you celebrate) comes and goes each year, right on schedule.  It doesn’t matter if gifts are bought and wrapped or you’re sitting on the floor sucking on your thumb.

The holiday comes for one day and then it’s over until next year.  That thought is the only thing that keeps me sane: no matter what, ready or not, it comes and then it’s over.  You don’t die or go to jail for everything that ISN”T done.  Fuggeddaboudit!

Stay warm.  Stay well. Stay sane.  Don’t drink and drive.

Count your blessings

Here’s to your success…

Susan French, M.A., Cht.

http://www.hypno4success.com

888-333-3688

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Hypnosis and weight-loss are words that go together like salt & pepper, Mutt & Jeff, Cagney & Lacey.  Well, not entirely.  But a lot.  Right there next to hypnosis and quitting smoking.

How does hypnosis work?  Think about it this way:  positive suggestion changes your self-talk.  Positive self-talk changes your behavior.  What is a hypnosis suggestion anyhow?  It’s really a replacement for the self-limiting and self-limiting self-talk that persuades you that you “can’t.”  For instance, if your self-talk is negative (i.e., I’m a loser; I’ll never succeed at XYZ), you follow that direction.  If your self-talk changes to positive (i.e., this is easy; I’ve succeeded before, I can succeed this time, if others can do it, I can do it too, etc.) your behavior changes to be in alignment with this new view.

A note for you hardcore NLP-ers: “self-talk” can be in any modality.  You can see yourself as a failure or a success.  You can hear yourself mocking your failures or encouraging your successes.  You can feel the feeling of failure or the feeling of success.  For the sake if this discussion, “self-talk” applies to any modality.

With that idea in mind, let’s see how it applies to physical hunger for food.  If your self-talk is “I’m full” your body responds by feeling “full,” then you eat less.  If your self-talk is “I can’t live without my chocolate fix,” you can’t live without your chocolate fix.

Interestingly, the process is thought to be: thought/idea >>>emotion/response>>>behavior/action.  If you “think” you are comfortable, your body will supply the oppoid neurochemicals to block pain.  If you think/imagine you’re swimming, the exact same areas in your brain lights up as if you are really swimming.  This is an established and proven fact through the use of functional MRI studies.

  Think about what this means in terms of our behavior and responses.  If you think the girl in the next cubicle hates you, you will filter every perception through that filter.

Your brain/body/mind/spirit will provide the behavior that will prove your belief to yourself.  So if she frowns, it won’t occur to you that she might have gas or a headache.  It will likely be interpreted as a scowl proving that she hates you.  See how it works?

The physicists of today are working feverishly on what reality really is in our entire Universe.  So, doesn’t it seem reasonable that your mind/brain/body could create such phenomena in our perceptions?

There has  been a lot of research done on the “placebo effect,” both negatively and positively.  You can “think” yourself sick and you can “think” yourself well.  (Not 100%, but significantly).  You can “think” yourself happy or depressed.  You can “think” yourself in pain or painfree.  Amazing, isn’t it?

There is a significant amount of research being done on the subject of your “thoughts’ ” ability to  bring you money, clients, wellness, a perfect mate.  Nothing has been proven scientifically but there sure are a lot of unexplained phenomena.  Believe it or not! At your own risk, too!

Back to the perception of being physically hungry or physically full.  Your brain/body/mind/spirit will provide you the necessary neurotransmitters to make that your (perceived and experienced) reality.

You might wonder then, if you ‘believe’ that you can live without food, water or oxygen, if it will remain alive?  That is a question for Stephen Hawking or  Bruce Lipton.  I’m far too impressed with the possibilities suggested by  the theories of quantum mechanics and quantum physics to give you an objective answer.  Miracles (things that happen with no known explanation) happen all the time.  I am the wrong person to ask.

           Back to physical hunger.  If you feed your body enough to survive but your ‘thoughts’ block your perceptions of being hungry, losing weight should be easy.  And it is totally easy if the suggestion for satiety that is given is accepted unconditionally by your brain/mind/body/spirit.

When a hypnotist suggests that you are completely comfortable on five hundred calories, and it is accepted into your self-talk, your body will provide whatever is needed biochemically to support that belief.  A five-hundred-calorie-a-day intake may not be the best for your body but the jury’s still out on most facts about calorie deprivation.

Let’s return to our beginning statement “Hypnosis – Perceptions of Hunger.” If you imagine and believe that you are totally full and satisfied, that is exactly what you will experience, despite all of the “reality” that defies that idea.

If you’re still with me, you should now have a reasonable sense of why and how hypnosis works to help your overweight struggles. If you want proof, talk to Stephen  Hawking or Bruce Lipton.  All I know is that it works for hundreds of people will to submit to perception-changing suggestions through hypnosis.  Yes, I love that sweet refrain in my own ears: “you are blissfully full, ecstatically satiated.”

  How about you?  Are you sick of carrying that same ten, twenty, fifty, two-hundred pounds?  Hypnosis works.  Maybe it’s time to give hypnosis a test drive.  If you think so, give me a call or send me an email.  Set up a free consultation.  I will happily answer any questions you have.

Here’s to your success…

Susan French, M.A., CHt

888-333-3688

http://www.hypno4success.com/programs/lose-weight/

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/healing-possibility/201111/habits-mind-the-flavors-our-experience

“My friend and teacher, Frank, talked to me the other day about habits of mind and the underlying tone they give to whatever we are doing. It’s a fascinating thing to understand and notice. We don’t generally pay attention at this level. Habits of mind are subtle.

Glass of iced tea

They are like lemon juice flavoring a glass of tea. We might not see the lemon juice when we look at the glass, but it’s there and its presence changes the flavor of our experience of drinking tea. Habits of mind do exactly the same thing. They change the flavor of the moments of our lives.

When we wait in a grocery store line, there is an experience. We are upright. Our bodies are relatively still since we are not moving significant distances. We are probably warm and dry. There is a level of ambient noise – talking, cash registers, packages rustling, maybe music. There are odors – food, floor wax, other people. We may see people and equipment and windows and doors and shelves of goods. Maybe we have taken a taste of something we are about to buy and have that sensation in our mouths. That’s our experience. It’s complex, full of sensations, but it is neither good nor bad. It is simply our experience until we filter our experience through one of our habits of mind. Then it acquires a flavor…”

Great excerpt.  Don’t miss it.  http://bit.ly/v5uGcF