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Mindset Monday

I hope that most of you, Dear Readers, are familiar with Robert Frosts epic work, or atleast the beginning of the first stanza. " Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth; "

Neuro-plasticity or synaptic flexibility, remind me of this poem, frequently to be honest. It could be the key word diverged and divergence which are the key pivots, but conceptually they are similar in my mind.

If we can accept that the oversimplified phrase, "those neurons that fire together wire together" is actually valid, then we also need to acknowledge that a HUGE key to our emotional and mental health are absolutely within our grasp.

Hypnotists and science have wanted to explain what happens to the brain or specific the thoughts , that makes trance work so effective... sometimes and frustrating enough, usually not with enough consistency or continuity to place all the marbles in that bag for sure!

Many crucial variables to respectfully give a nod to for sure, as I was reminded recently. No two people could ever go through the exact same event, and process it or recall it the same ever. No two people share the same filters, bias or experience for their data base. So if we approach a subject in a standardized manner, we will connect with certain components and miss with others completely.

So, if you desire change, to thoughts or emotions, a crucial ingredient is to seek the path less traveled, which makes all the difference in the world!

Always appreciate the comments and feedback as well as your questions on how Hypnotherapy could help you.

Be well

#mondaysmindset #ednhypnotherapy #emotionalwellbeingcoach #empowerment #robertfrost

Thursday's Thoughts

I recently wrote about how a situation transpires is largely influenced by how we react to it. Similar situation can play out very differently, and that just an matter of fact, based on the individual's experiences and disposition.

To continue along that same theme, this image jumped off the screen to me as well. The idea that no one is coming to save you, although perhaps disheartening, beings with it a level of empowerment and freedom as well. If I look at in the most positive way, people will help when they can, with what they can, as long as they can. Some people, go beyond that to find that their own priorities are affected.

The phrase " If it is going to be, it is Up to me" really does work, and I am not suggesting for one moment that seeking help isn't a good thing. Abdicating our role in our luves is detrimental though.

As a therapist, it is one of the largest challenges still, after 20 plus years in practice, to fix something in another. Especially when using Trance work, to use the power of suggestion and make it better!

The second aspect to today's message is to be your own light, that assuming the defeatist approach is one of the most potent suggestions you could.ever self administer.

If You aren't in your corner, who should be?

As always I look forward to your questions, comments and contributions.

Be well

#Thursday Thoughts #empowerment #hypnotherapist

Wisdom Wednesday

I will admit that this particular example struck a chord with me, dear readers, as there was an incident in my youth, where me being me, was so excited to be on a camping trip, at a lake, ignored completely the guidance of my parents, for their attendance and jumped off a pier, into the lake and juat started bobbing, not in a good way. The flailing, splashing, and taking gasps of air, which ended up being gulps of lake water, would have surely sealed my fate, had it not been for being grabbed and hauled out of the water.

Subsequently, although I don't have a fear if water or swimming, I certainly have a healthy respect for it and discovered that I sink like a rock, even laying back and relaxed. So it is either you swim to swim or you stay in a shallow end!

It is then food for thought how many instances and examples we do flailing around not only not adding to our relief but becoming more of burden to our cause, put short and not sonlobg winded, when we become our own worst enemy!!!!

What does this have to do with trance therapy or similar modality you could wonder? Let me tell you how I interpret it.

The benefits of hypnotherapy are we get to guide and administer a healthy level of a safe, and protected environment, to experience make believe or the power of imagination. Working off the premise that our brains make little to no distinction between what is imagined and what is being experienced in our outside world, I take full advantage of your own OG version of AI. Running a variety of situations, responses and outcomes, altering the different variables, until we discover the process which fits for you. Using the practice makes perfect analogy, running through and rehearsing, do create new neuro pathways, so they do become a automatic option and unfettered or hard to achieve.

I think about how common the "flail" takes place, in road rage, in comments or in dialogue, in interpretation of motive, all which are just an extention of becoming an enemy from within.

I look forward to your questions or comments and contributions.

To find out more on how this could benefit your life, just DM.

Be well

#wisdomwednesday #ednhypnotherapy ##emotionalwellbeingcoach

Therapy Thursday

Not to inundate you Dear Reader with a bunch of mumbo-jumbo, in my experience though the relationship between suppressed emotions and physical symptoms just make sense.

I describe the phenomenon similar to a champagne bottle. Not treading on my technical knowledge about the Methode Champagnois however if we were to reflect on the number of times we jammed in or held back releasing our emotions, albeit because it was not an appropriate time, it was considered trivial, or nonsensical, it is like adding more carbonated gasses to that champagne must and jamming the cork down.

Sooner or later, the cork will indeed do what corks have been known to do and POP, allowing the suppressed emotional concoction to spew all over the place, which usually has little or no relationship to any original situation.

Science has also pointed us in the direction that our organs do have a two way form of communication with the gray matter, but also can process independent.

For those people who hold back their proverbial ka ka, are also ones who sit in my therapy chair, with some form of GI or IBS challenge. In my mind, for good reason too, if emotionally you continue to hold on, repress, and not let go, the body is connected and learns the trend, monkey see monkey do type of setup and we are holding in the same "processing"

In the world of acupuncture, all illness and issues of health can either be alleviated. Bypassed or corrected by poking a needle into a spot to which a meridian lies underneath. I am not picking on the modality in any way shape or form, and have great respect for Eastern style medicine, as I have used it and have experienced the relief and benefit.

If our gray matter is one gelatinous electrical field, with different parts and locations being responsible for specific tasks, using bio chemistry, my beleif that a similar context is present in our bodies is pretty high.

I do not intend to bash or dismiss all of the other modalities, however this is what came to mind.

The benefits of hypnotherapy, is to discover self application for future references, instead of making another appointment for an application of treatments.

Be well

Wednesday's Wisdom

I found myslef last night sitting in an Emergency room of a local hospital, for several hours .

Dear Reader, all is well, and it wasn't regarding me this time!

Firstly Koodos to our health care system, because although stretched to the maximum, once you made it from the waiting room, and into an examination room, the staff. Including the nursing and physician varieties, were pleasant, and attentive, with the knowledge that they get a short time with you, have 65 other beds to attend and are in their 11th hour of shift.

Secondly, given the cross section of population it is a delightful spot, as a hypnotherapist to observe, non verbal communicating, linguistics and the incredible power of our minds, and what we work and contend with daily.

As I chose to focus some of my training/study in pain alleviation, hospital waiting rooms are an exceptional place to expand your education and understanding

How many times was "pain" used by how many people in the system speaking to the patient, knowing,(. I HOPE) that the word carries an incredibly strong association for each individual, increasing the sensitivity to the injury. I was reminded, by an attending physician, on the other side of a curtain, that pain, discomfort and tightness are all interchangeable!!!! Yikes.

I hope that this is a technique which helps the patient communicate with the medical staff, in generalized terms, but the categorization in our associative states are very distinc and unique.

Have you ever noticed either first hand or as a visitor, sitting with someone, that like when we were younger and hurt ourselves falling out of a tree, for example, our Moms would make us lay down and r3lax, sometimes breathing with us to regualte our spastic crying. Eureka, we did calm down, we adjusted and wanted to return to our activities. I am certainly not slapping every injury and illness with the same flipping presumption, but can attest from personal experience, that our ability to settle down what ever brought someone to.emergency, is very strong.

Lastly, while in the system, we are all impatient ( excuse the pun) about getting in and once seen, can't wait to escape.

Interesting

Friday's Feelings

There are times that the Universe is uncanny in what it presents or perhaps what my UC mind picks up while scrolling.( it could also be my phone listening and choosing a proper algorithm to present) There were a few different posts about what pain and healing are, and this one sang the loudest for me, in the moment.

There is a technique, we learned probably rooted in NLP, for something called a Quick Phobia Release, and the concept itself was based on your mind "dropping" the irrational response/reaction, the phobia had created. The mind/brain had to let go of the emotional track, but could still retain the thoughts or experience. Like being an old fashioned sound engineer in a recording studio, laying down a beautiful piece of music on 8 track, and editing physically and literally what ever instrument/voice was messing up the score on track #7. A few snips here and edit there and bam, a beautiful piece refined.

Pain being healed, I suppose both physically as well as psychologically, takes on a similar property doesn't it? We know that our wounds are healing, when they still may be tender to stimulus, but no where close to the excruciating sensations we once incurred. Perhaps in both, but definitely emotionally, healing can be gauged, when we can experience the memory, without the emotional trauma, and turn what we experienced into wisdom, lifelessons or jaded cynicism.

The medicine we produce could be beneficial or it may be arsenic, that is up to the individual isn't it?

Therapy does what it should to remove the hemlock from the healing process and equation.

May your journey continue to be educational.

Let me know in the comments your experiences or questions.

Be well

#feelingfriday

#yegtherapist #healings #ednhypnotherapy

Friday's Feelings

Strange, fun fact for you; the past is there as a READ ONLY file.

It cannot be altered, changed or adjusted. Now when that settles in, it would be my intention and goal to free someone from unreal, imaginary place.

A part of the make believe state, to which many get stuck in, is the committed chase after being "normal". Now, as you know dear reader, my views on normal are fairly opinionated, and I use this to exemplify; there was a time that you pooped in your drawers and the warm squishy feeling felt normal. That is no longer the case I hope. So if no other take away, normal what ever that could be, is changeable and adaptive.

The past can be accessed, and for very important reasons, like AI, and yes that is a shot, it will render the most popular version, of that particular situation. It is not always, entirely accurate but has a enough points of validity, to appear to be true.

Yet the shoulda, woulda, coulda, club still has one of the largest memberships worldwide, all iver the globe. I sincerely hope that you are not a card carrying memeber or if you are we can motivate you to relinquish said participation!

Here is where I come from: the past is like those square picture slides, we were forced to watch as a kid, if family vacations, or even in school. The order in which they were placed in the carousel was subject to the operator and prone to their bias. Now, the representation relayed a part of the vacation, but could never replicate the laughter, the aromas or the tastes, of that experience. Our memories are almost identical in structure. Nor will the slide show, like the memories, determine your current moments or the future potential.

I look forward to your questions and comments.

Be well

#fridaysfeeling #emotionalwellbeingcoach #empowerment #memories #ednhypnotherapy

WEDNESDAY'S WORD

Phrase coined by Kristian Pedersen Il and spoonie: Ami Korczak.

We have heard of the phrase Hangry as a catch phrase to help explain away the ill tempered, and aggressive attitude from a person who needs to be fed. There is a brand of chocolate bar that switched its entire advertising campaign on just this phenomenon.

The phrase itself does not nominalize the responsibility of keeping our emotions in awareness and making the appropriate adjustments, but for the receiptients to explain what is happening to create an understanding and tolerance for the action.

People who suffer from chronic pain, whether invisible or not, experience the identical emotional state, from the frustration, fatigue and futility of their existing state. Unlike Hangry, which can be remedied with a big sloppy burger, for chronic pain peoples, there ia no escape. The heating packs the pharmaceuticals, and evenbthe natural medicinal approaches only bring about a lessening or temporary relief, but even with that, drags the knowing, like a famous movie, "I'll be back" is the inevitable.

One of the strongest reasons, I practice the forms of therapy that I do, to assist in managing of pain alleviation for chronic pain sufferers.The mental fatigue that accompanies the medical afflictions, taxes the emotional states, the realization that there is no escape, is its own version of tortured incarceration.

As with the science behind most pain meds, is the knowledge that the medicine doesn't touch the site of injury, or the wound, but moreover messes with the pain receptors in the brain, running interference or blocking like a good linesman should, the connections. The facet I appreciate about using Trance states, is that we are are working on the same playing field, with a slightly different offensive strategy.

The knowledge that our brains and bodies can achieve glove anesthesia, naturally, when in shock, goes to fuel , that if it can occur then, we can replicate the ability now.

I have performed many a non chemical numbing, for people who sat in the dental chairs for certain procedures, to not have absolute conviction about the effects of hypnosis in the treatment of chronic pain.

The added benefit, is we get to hand back a sense of control, to the otherwise "out of my control" environment that long term. Chronic pain brings

Be well

#ednhypnotherapy

#PainRelief

#Paingry

#hypnotherapy

Tuesday's Treatment

Although this poster hit home, in doing the check-up from the neck up, I do not beleive the appeal was a result of feeling defensive or judged. I have been a practicing hypnotherapist for over 2 decades, and in that span, I made the choice after the first few years what I wanted to specialize in, regarding focus and training. I can say with no reservations, I am as satisfied and fulfilled today in my areas of study as I was exhilarated 16 years ago, about the choice.

Contrary to a misguided belief or expectation, therapists, of many modalities, are even more messed up than the people they treat! Always the first one to come to mind is Sigmund, ofcourse. Viewed as the creator of what we call psychoanalysis, was as messed up if not even moreso than any if his patients on the couch, yet his contribution to mental health was significant. I do nit mean to pick in or focus only on mental health therapists, as in every walk of therapy, occupational to speech and everything in-between, the individual's who administer are not fixed, or perfect, they don't, indeed, have all the answers and are as damaged as everyone else.

What makes the most noted difference, is the level of commitment and dedication, that person has invested in knowing how to treat someone, that is suffering. The phrase " physician heal thyself" one of the best exemplifications of the dichotomy of care administer and human being.

The number of physicians who are exceptional at the medical expertise and knowledge, but cannot speak to their patient in a manner that brings comfort or optimism denoted by not having a bedside manner.

As either Human League, or Rag'N' Bone sang we are "only human after all" and subject to the exact same challenges, quirks and deficiencies as the ones we treat. We are not better, we are not superior and we certainly do not have our lives more together.

If you are a therapist, refresh your perspective, so you maintain your humanity, if you are someone receiving a therapy, understand that is a person offering you their knowledge, training and techniques to help assist you.

Be well

#treatmenttuesday

#human #yegtherapist #Hypnotherapy #compassion

Monday's Mantra

"I have conquered, overcame, and been victorious through every single tragedy, hardship and battle I have ever waged, don't mess with me"

I know when I wrote it, it sounded full of EGO, and that was not the place it came from, but moreover the silent nod of acknowledgement we give to ourselves when we face another seemingly overwhelming challenge.

The absolute delightful occurrence of friends and followers submitting potential themes for my daily writing, has definitely increased over the last couple years and I am so very grateful. Today's inspiration was a chat about a therapist and patient, on discovering one's resilience, when indeed it was no such thing, it was every "f"d up situation was just dealt with as best as it could be, with the tools and abilities that were there, in the moments and surroundings, anticipating this would be the event to finish me off.

That hit hard dear readers, for I am aware that every single client I have seen, over my 20 yrs in practice, could wear that same t-shirt, where ever they may be.

The basic fact is undeniable, if you are reading todays post, you have survived some shit for sure

As a mental health professional, my role is 2 specific tasks, as I understand them. 1) help remove the decomposing carcasses that have built up over time and battles, they serve you no more 2) assist in fully stocking the tools, and emotional ability as best we can.

In our lives there will always be the silent warriors, the ones you could never know the caucaophany of storms they have faced, and then there are the trumpeteers, blowing their own horn about any and every single moment of hardships

One merits our acknowledgement and assistance and the other our attention to their intentions

Be mindful, respectful and kind, wherever and whenever you can be, and that is always.

Be well

#mantramonday #yegtherapist #mentalhealth #emotionalwellbeingcoach #hypnotherapist

Thursday's Therapy

Ah yes that magical mirror, much like Aurora's story, the instrument to echo our negative thoughts and worries. Too big, too saggy, to blemished, too old, too grey etc. Huge spoiler alert for all who are reading this: you see what you are attentive of only. Every single one of us is imperfect and blemished, and so what I ask?

Although the context of the word has changed over time, when asked who the fairest one of all may be, that fairness should be of opportunity and compassion, shouldn't it?

How much beauty and wonderment have we looked beyond or ignored, as our focus was on the derogatory and negative.

So here is a theraputic excercise, similar to the grounding one I suggest for those looping into high anxiety, but this one requires you to become immersed in appreciation and gratitude.

Firstly, if you are able to perform the excercise, even in your head, know that you have a head start over approximately 165,000 people today. So breathe in deeply and exhale fully, because 165, 000 can't anylonger.

Find 4 things that you heard today ( the last 24 hrs), which were pleasing or harmonious. Could be a song, someone's voice, the whine of a turbo prop begining to start, the quiet moments or a rocking tune.

List 3 sights where there was beauty to be admired. For those visually impaired or out and out blind, I would recommend that sight could be substituted by visualization

Recognize 2 aromas or tastes which you could actually enjoy and savor.

And last but not the least at any juncture, the one positive thought and emotion you experienced. And for those negative Nellie types the law of averages is working against you , becaue one had to sneak in somewhere hahaha.

When we set a target in what we choose to direct our awareness, it is amazing how it can begin to show up even more.

Let me know know if this was a benefit or works for you.

Be well

#therapythursday #yegtherapist #emotionalwellbeingcoach #hypnotherapist

Wisdom Wednesday

Today, instead of letting the images appeal to my muse, I was intentional to what I desired, which goes to echo the theme of this piece, ironically.

The Universe is a very allowing place, with for sure some rules and laws which are non negotiable, but overall incredibly tolerant to the shenanigans of the cosmos and its randomized or patterns.

Our lives, I think are very similar, aren't they? We can continue to sit back, on the proverbial park bench, watching life happen TOO us, or we can become an active participant, with some version of input and direction.

This is not a comment on a generational set, but moreover on us all, as thinking and motivated people. Our nature is after all one of empowerment and not victim, we survived as a species not only because of opposable thumbs, but also in being proactive in our survival and destiny.

Our life is a series of choices, to contend with the challenges of our existence. That may sound more ominous than it really is, but it is, atleast to me the core of our empowerment and piloting our time in the flesh suit we have.

I hope this finds a few readers and makes sense to you in the moments.

Be well

#wisdomwednesday #ednhypnotherapy #yegtherapist #emotionalwellbeingcoach #empowerment

Treatment Tidbit

A rather simple and straight forward suggestion and concept right? Obvious to the extent of being absurd.

But is it? This thought beyond the surface is like telling a person with anxiety to " just relax and calm down".

If a persons choices were so easy to change then I believe there would be many more happy people in the world. From my little corner if the globe, that is not the case at all. We have immersed ourselves in a plethora of distractions and arenas where disassociative behaviors flourish. Now the argument could be made that not experiencing stress, strife or conflict is a good start to being happier but avaoidance and denial are rarely, if ever a solution or responsible method, for coping mechanisms. If they were, our tolerance for alcoholism and other escapes would be much larger.

I have read many times that change takes place where comfort and complacent end, and ultimately the words of Marcus Aurelius are not wrong, ( if indeed this was his quote and thoughts) it is however our interpretation that is prone to suspicious motive.

As a emotional well-being therapist or coach the obvious and inarguable statement is, that change is directly associated to discomfort, otherwise there would never be motivation to alter a status quo.

When a choice is made to seek something different, good, bad or ugly, only the fates may know, that is when change begins.

As a hypnotherapist, my task and ultimate goal is to help facilitate that change work as seamlessly and painless as possible, working with an already existing phenomena which is change happens every single moment of your life, without and interruption, because it goes unnoticed.

It is already within you, take a better opportunity with it.

As always, remember to execute a R.A.K. today

Be well

#treatmenttuesday

#ednhypnotherapy

#hypnotherapist #change #empowerment

Mindset Monday

Consider that absolutely everything you know and have learned thus far, has been built on the learnings of trial and errors. From walking, learning how to print our letters and communicate our words, the boundaries of our surroundings, to how to drive, be a parent or a attentive spouse, and the list is continually growing, all established on a simple premise of not succeeding.

Although I may not agree with the use of the concepts of weaponization and the mind, which could be my own challenge, I do completely agree that there exists internally, the antagonistic and taunting thoughts, which are annoying for some and absolutely debilitating for other's.

For those who realize that life is nothing more than the stream of trial and error, well that didn't go as planned moments, I believe there is a level of freedom and enjoyable experiences which finally happen. There is no perfect. There is no normal. Even when you have learned a skill, a concept or technique, the journey to deepening that, is still full of attempts which did not succeed.

Embrace the importance and significance that every day is an experiment of some kind, that each moment, you are able to work with your self, and not be so bloody combative, are moments open for tranquility. From perhaps the cheap seats, being in constant battle must be exhausting, and in that environment, our emotional fatigue very damaging.

Although so very corny, even the meme of this post promotes " taking off the gloves".

Be well

#mindsetmondays #yegtherapist #emotionalwellbeingcoach #R.A.K.

#Hypnotherapy

Wednesday's Wisdom

I was watching one of those random ( the algorithms disagree Kevin) video clips and this one was a romantic comedy, type, that inspired today's post. "Listen, I know you have baggage, and I would like to become your personal baggage handler". It was a awww type moment.

The line and idea got stuck in my head though, that is what being a therapist, or a hypnotherapist is similar too, but if I was more accurate , maybe not the baggage handler, but the customs agent where we have you Open your baggage, we review, with you present, what you have been carrying around. We either discuss the repercussions of you keeping the contraband or just removing it completely as no longer an item that is acceptable, have you repack the remaining stuff, and send you on your way. The added benefits of hypnotherapy are it is only baggage we focus on, no body searching, hahahahha.

When is a good time to see a mental health professional, when you cannot remember the combination of the locks in which all this is stored, when you no longer believe you have the ability to open it up and review the contents on your own.

Not to be overt, but in these current days, if getting an injection to assist with weight loss, the new surgeries which are being elected, how about you also consider lightening the load emotionally by sitting with a baggage handler.

Feel free to share, comment or respond.

Be well

#wisdomwednesday

#emotionalwellbeingcoach #hypnotherapist #mentalhealthcoach

Monday Mantra

I was involved in an open house

situation, you know where people can drop in, look around and ask questions about the different aspects of what you offer.

Although I maintain that there are no stupid questions, I also suspect there is a group of personalities, who for their own purposes, come up with the most rage bait, inflammatory and innane line of inquiries possible. It was not just from the open house I make this observation, but across many platforms of the media.

In the earlier parts of my career, it was important for me to convert, to convince, what I enacted or facilitated as a hypnotherapist, was not only credible,but effective. We speak about the respect held , not knowing what another person has gone through, the demons and ghosts the battle daily, as cautionary on judgements, however rarely do we acknowledge our tendency to seek approval or aome form.of legitimacy from external world.

I understand as part of the hard-wiring built into our RNA, as a herd species, the basic instinct to be a part of the tribe, for survival. My question for those who are far more intelligent than I, with the development of our prefrontal cortex, does that security and need for protection fade?

The poster above inspired within me, the uh huh moments for those people who seek, approvals from outside sources, the people pleasers and those afflicted with high anxiety.

The spin of " OMG or what ifs" has correlation to failures, judgements and embarrassment, all if which exist in our outside world.

All of which are people placing templates of their world on others.

As part of the move towards empowerment, recognizing that except you, no one knows exactly where are going, and if we are being honest with each other, most times neither do we precisely.

Now a days I do what I do, for those individuals who seek a change and have not accomplished it yet. You don't need to know how electricity works for the lights to turn on, and there is no requirement to define or compartmentalize, conscious and the unconscious, for the power of suggestions and words have influence over your mind.

"I have no idea at all what you are capable of, and neither do you!"

Thursday's Therapy

Always remember that you have the power, and the ability to adjust your perspective and experience. Rarely, if ever, do we remember precisely how an event happened, but we keep the highlights, and in our present lives, our interpretation of events going on are influenced by our mindset and state of beingness.

If you find yourself not enjoying, or being satisfied with your current moments, a great place to revamp your life is located in between your earlobes.

Be well

\#hypnotherapy #empowerment #emotionalwellbeingcoach

Treatment Tuesday

Experience, usually leads to a form of wisdom l, if by no other means the sheer trial and errors we have attempted and survived. Enlightment is a more nuanced gift I beleive.

The more we learn the less we know, is very much a difficult concept to grasp and understand. Even in writing " and understand' I am full of sarcastic self talk, asking, " how could you ever comprehend the vast expanse of stuff you don't know?

So for me, Einstein' s words about EGO resonate very loudly, the concept of Ego = arrogance and not necessarily Freuds thoughts on Ego, super Ego and the Id.

I remember in my youth, being labeled " Mr. KNOW-IT-ALL" for my belligerence and mouth. A plight or passage for most teens moving psychologically and intellectually into a more adult space. It is demonstrated by the number of " I knows" stacked in a conversation. The good news is, most will grow up and out of that garden, once "real life" shares the the limits of their understanding and knowledge, compared to what the world has to teach them.

Like all statistical data, there must be the ' lips" of the Bell Curve, showing some will never experience this Ego, and some will never outgrow it or mature beyond.

It may not take the frustrations away completely, but knowing that the blowhard infront of you is the tail end of a lip, brings a deeper smile internally.

Which brings me to the concepts of "Love & Allow" love yourself enough to Allow others their journey.

Be well

#treatmenttuesday #ednhypnotherapy #emotionalwellbeingcoach #empowerment #selflove

Mindset Monday

Perspectives, are a strange bag to carry. To exemplify more precise, I am by no means a candidate for Road Rage, but have to admit that those vehicles that speed past me, must be operated by reckless daredelvils, while those who drive much slower than me, are an accident waiting to happen. That my speed and style of driving is somehow the standard, and norm, on how to drive in the appropriate manner, although absurd, is one many of us hold.

A general rule in my clinical practice, is that the person in the therapy chair, has their own identity, memories, learnings, and experiences of THEIR existence, and as such deserve the respect for the road map of their world as it has developed.

No good or bad, no right or wrong, just a non judgemental acceptance that this is their perspective. Similarly, the loud blare of a horn and the middle finger salute, I may receive from time to time, to remind me that I am not the expert driver I think I am, a person's comprehension of their world and the morphing of their perspectives are open for changes as well, and sometimes to the judgemental culprit.

I write this as both operator and observer, a very peculiar seat, recognizing in my reflective times, that I have held my opinions, thoughts and actions to a higher more credible standard that perhaps others. I have also experienced when someone else operates in exactly the same manner for themselves, much to my chagrin.

So as both human and hypnotherapist, I can admit and understand, and using myself as the best example I personally know, use the lessons to modify my perspectives and increase my compassion.

I am curious who may write or comment, but always welcome the questions and feedback.

Be well

#motivationmonday #mindset

#perspectives #hypnotherapist #mentalhealthadvocate

Thursday Thoughts

How many trips, stumbles, wrong answers, failed attempts and rejections does it take to abdicate the goal? I find it interesting, in comparison, how selective we can be, in choosing what is worth the time and commitment and what is not worthy to follow.

We are all intelligent beings, able to figure out what is a lost cause right? The fact that we had a dream, and idea or goal that inspired us is not sufficient cause to after it as best we can and discover where it takes us, what we learn along the way and how to adjust and amend the next efforts right?

Just think about walking, speaking, reading, writing, driving and a shit ton of other achievements you learned through trial and error. Each and every one filled with failures and disappointments, but we persevered through them all.

We are aware of the selective hearing that we refer to, people will hear what they want to hear, see what the choose to see in order to feel the way they decide to feel, which provides a Eureka moments, when you realize that "if it was meant to be, it is always up to me".

You are so worth the effort, and commitment, don't be the first one to write you off, or eliminate the value of your wants, goals and dreams.

Yes, help and outside input is valuable, but moreover your determination is indispensable.

Be well

#therapythoughts #ednhypnotherapy #resilience # motivation #youareamazing