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February 2008

HYPNOSIS - HYPNOTHERAPY
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Hypnosis Can Help you Love Yourself

February is a month typically aligned with relationship. It even is the only month that allows a breech of the traditional relationship roles to where a reversal can take place. (During a leap year, it is a practice for women to ask men for a date or to marry).

Very few people actually think of February as a time to focus on the most important relationship in their life which is the relationship with self. Self love is something that many people would automatically say they practice. However, if you examine your own behavior you might be surprised at how you talk to yourself and how you treat yourself.

Many times it may be related to gender , to family birth order, to parental preference during the growing up years, to an encounter with either loving teachers or the opposite type in school, or just how a person perceives the treatment in all these situations and other circumstance. In other words, the programming is connected to what the subconscious accepted as truth and not necessarily to what the truth was in actuality.

However, our subconscious perception of self has powerful impact on many things in our life including:

1. Our Health

2. Our Relationships with others

3. Our Goals for the future

4. Our Drive or Motivation

5. Our Optimism or Pessimism

There are those, also, who would say that after the developmental stage (early childhood) that our patterns of life are usually ingrained and predictable from that point forward.

What we have found is: Once a person takes the step towards developing a relationship with their subconscious and continues to allow this relationship to blossom, even the most in-grained patterns can be altered to assist with the quality of life a person lives.

Andrea Succeeds again with hypnosis

I received a call last month that exemplifies what waking up and focusing on self can accomplish. This call was from a former client. I had seen her for two sessions of Stop Smoking and one session of Superlearning. THESE SESSIONS WERE FOUR YEARS AGO! You can read her story at that time by clicking to this link: stop smoking sessions and reading the first story : Andrea Pate.

Andrea came to stop smoking and did. During her session I gave her lots of suggestions for self love, and allowing others to be where they are without trying to “fix them” but experiencing acceptance of them, and being able to healthily set boundaries with others. Why did I add those suggestions to her stop smoking session? The reason was that she was the mother of five children, the loving daughter of parents, a wife with a spouse who had recently lost a parent to death, the employee of a school where she was a full time teacher and the cheerleader sponsor for cheerleaders, and her “hand to mouth habit” was linked to her STRESS.

She was an excellent subject for hypnosis with her motivation linked towards others: She wanted to stop smoking so that her children would have a Mother all of their life. The self love suggestions she received kicked in big time and she came back saying that she had been less stressed and “less fixey of others”. She had started to observe a pattern also: Sometimes those she bent over backwards to help did not really recognize the effort she had to put out to help them.

At the time of her stopping smoking, she also taught us what we had already begun to recognize over the years:

In order to change a person has to show up!

Since Andrea was so successful, she told many others about her success with hypnosis. I talked by phone with many people she referred and some made even appointments. Somehow there was a reason (outside of themselves) why they didn’t make it to the appointment:

Cars broke down the day before their appointment.

Some got sick and just couldn’t make it.

Others had a million questions and always had a negative reason why they thought it just wouldn’t work for them.

Many decided our out- of- town (at that time) schedule did not accommodate when they wanted to do it.

I would call from out of town to set up their appointment for when we would be in town and it always was not a schedule they could work with at that time. Another teacher did make it and also stopped smoking successfully.

Anyway, I was happy to have encountered such a positive, upbeat person as Andrea and to have hypnosis be a golden link in the chain of her good. I thought our contact would end with her stopping smoking.

Later, she called me and said: “I always wanted to go to Law School. I thought it was not a possibility. When I stopped smoking, I began to focus on that idea. I have been accepted to law school and want to do a Superlearning Session.”

We did a releasing of blocks to her focusing, studying, and retaining information and Andrea was off to law school at night. I remembered praying for her after she left my office. My Mother gave me a Norman Rockwell plate with a young woman headed off into the world with high aspirations. I thought of the obstacles that Andrea would encounter in her quest to be an attorney and asked GOD to guide her way.

I did not hear from her for the entirety of her law school venture. I did think about her occasionally and even asked how she was doing from her friend who came to stop smoking. Her friend said: “I know she is still teaching. I teach at another school, however.”

The week of January 15, 2008, I got a call from Andrea. She told me that she had successfully completed law school graduating in December. She had taken eight weeks leave to study for the bar exam in February and wanted to do a jumpstart session of Super learning to release blocks to studying.

When she arrived on Saturday, January 19, 2008, her story of the last four years would have been something that Winston Churchill would have loved to hear: (Remember Winston Churchill said the success to life is showing up and never allowing obstacles to manifest into fears that will stalemate you.)

She showed up at her law school and was very successful. Her husband and all her children were helpful after their initial shock of her enrolling. However, the four years had not been without major obstacles to test her. Even with a full teaching load, five children, and going back to being a cheerleader sponsor for another daughter’s cheerleading group, she had made excellent grades and had written a brief presented to the Supreme Court (by someone). I was so thankful for her courage /ability that I sat listening in awe and did not get the exact details of how the brief got presented.

She also faced extreme grief from the death of a good friend from law school. The friend died in a traffic accident either getting to or home from law school. I noticed in Andrea’s story that one of the things I had worried about with her was a needless worry on my part . I remembered from our past sessions that getting from Jasper to me in Birmingham had been a major test of her commitment because she had to drive on a road that was mainly two- lane , curvy, and generally laden with heavy 18 wheeler traffic. I remembered thinking: “how is she going to do that drive for so many years after working all day?” “She will have to drive home late on that road.”

Well, God in all his glory handled that problem. She was able to drive on a new super highway route from Cordova that speeded her safely to law school and back. It was finished just in time for the majority of her law school attendance.

She again exemplified the quality that has made her so successful. On the day of our session, it snowed in Birmingham. I was to see her at our office on Red Mountain rather than the Southside Medical Center Office. I checked the weather, let her know the snow didn’t stick, and told her that Birmingham was safe. She did not hesitate, she came on that snowy day for her session.

After her session, I saw a magazine on World War II that had Winston Churchill’s picture on the front. It said, “Evidence shows that not only did Winston Churchill save England, but probably saved much of the future of the United States”. The article talked of his showing up and the persistence of his influence in motivating those who made a difference, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt being only one of the many he successfully motivated to action.

Andrea’s tree drawing showed some significant points this time with the vining that had sucked her drive for self now being gone. (Will at some point have her before and after tree on the tree drawing part of our website).

Anyway, congratulations Andrea! I am proud of you and the power of your subconscious and your Will. This is another story of how positive suggestion hypnosis can change the life of those who show up.

The reason I mention showing up so often in this story is that I recently cleaned out my computer. I saw people who asked questions over and over and noticed that they were getting the subconscious signs to change their life with hypnosis. I noticed that some of these people had asked questions over a large period of time undoubtedly forgetting that they had emailed before (some were a long time before). They just never took any action.

Study shows Perception Ceates Bliss in Life

In the Birmingham News, February 2, 2008, a study with high reliability and validity shows that happiness in life tends to follow a U shaped pattern. Early in life, there is a real bliss that people describe. The middle years tend to be less blissful and then the later stages of life return back to more happiness and bliss. The article states that more research is being done to determine the exact reasons for this. The bottom line that the reviewer of these statistics made was: through all the various stages of life, our perception of our circumstances appear to influence the quality of our happiness.

I once again thought of my client that moved me away from talk therapy. That millionairess, who was very attractive, could never let go of her anger at her Mother and her deceased husband. She would rather sabotage her own well-being rather than move on to happiness. Cognitive therapy and family of origin therapy would only work with her for a short while then she would self sabotage. I have often wished I had known cellular releasing™ hypnosis techniques when I knew her. I look at her as a catalyst that moved me forward in my life, however.

By the way, both of us have had several sessions of Ionic footbaths at the same time. It has been a great experience with our tubs connected to the same machine producing a different finished product for both of us. We feel the sessions have been very beneficial. And to combine them with positive suggestion hypnosis sessions is perfect, since the footbath is thirty minutes and the in-home hypnosis session CD’s are also thirty minutes in length.

This coming Valentine’s Day, experience love and incorporate a plan to increase your own Self Love. We suggest treating yourself to either a private session of hypnosis or an in-home session using Learn Unconditional Love and Self Love Cell Command Therapy Hypnosis Session CD's.

Start having a wonder-filled life.

Cheryl Martin