Bellevue College offers adult continuing education.

Hi, Guys!

It’s interesting.  I’m offering a couple courses at Bellevue College this autumn.  One is Healthy Hypnosis:  Let Go of Weight and it’s filling up like gangbusters.  The other is Quit Smoking With Self Hypnosis, and there’s less interest in it, apparently.  I find that surprising!   This (self hypnosis) is SUCH a powerful tool for habit change, and the number one habit in the universe which should and can be changed easily is smoking.  As in, don’t do it.  Ever.   And so many people profess to want that!  I can help.  These tools offer massive help, which I share in my class.  The how-to!

All hypnosis is self hypnosis, even the guided work I do in my office with clients.  This course is even bigger than that.  It’s like the old saying.  Give a guy a fish, and he’s got a fish.  For dinner tonight.  That’s nice.   TEACH a guy to fish, and he’s got fish forever.  Bring on the tartar sauce!    That’s wonderful.  I want to teach you how to fish for change.  The course title is about one particular habit:  Smoking!  But it can be used for so much more than that.  And I want my students to use it for so much more than that.  Hypnosis is a life-changer, a life-enhancer, beyond quantification, really.

Here’s a chance.  Your chance. LEARN.  Grow.  Thrive.  It’s what I want for you, and I know it’s what you want for yourself.  It’s a chance to trance.  I wrote this in an earlier blog entry and you know, it’s so true that it bears repeating.  I said:  “The unconscious mind is the good guy—for all of us. The part of us that keeps us alive, breathing, blood flowing, healing, storehouses our learning, wants us to grow and thrive and be happy and healthy and successful.”  Yes!   In hypnosis, that’s what we do, converse with this part of ourselves, and improve the quality of our lives through these conversations.  Wouldn’t that ability be worth something to you?  To anyone?

There are still seats available in my self hypnosis courses at Bellevue College this autumn, where I share these tools of “mindwork.”  Here are the direct sign up links.

Quit Smoking With Self Hypnosis.  This takes you to Bellevue College’s webpage, course description, and shopping cart.  As always, if you want more information, you can contact me directly via the info. on my main webpage. 
http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=12481&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

Healthy Hypnosis, Let Go of Weight. 
http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=11559&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

Quit Smoking With Self Hypnosis begins this month, September 27 and continues the following week on October 4th.  Do you have something better to do on a couple Monday nights than improve your life dramatically?

If I do say so myself the course is a lot of fun.  It spans the course of one week, and two evenings.  Six hours total.  VERY hands on.  Your mind grows.  Visually, and on the inside, too!    You will be hypnotized.  Repeatedly.  And learn to do it for yourself.  And learn what to do and how to communicate to yourself in that state of mind which makes the difference in your habits and your life.  You learn about language of influence.  You learn about how the mind works.  You learn the truth about hypnosis.  It’s all good, and it’s all useful.  I do hope some more of you will join me.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Connie's giving a talk to the OHA.

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

I’m giving a presentation this month to the Oregon Hypnotherapy Association, a next-state-over organization of hypnosis professionals.  I’m very excited that I’ve been invited to do so.  It’s terrific when we can share our knowledge, and further the professionalism of hypnosis.

Some people out there still think hypnosis is about barking like dogs and dancing like chickens.  Uh…no.  It’s about positive life change, it’s about programming your mind for success (which you get to define).  It’s a tool for change.  And I love it with a passion, as you know if you’ve been reading my bloggings, and now…I get to share some of my passion in Oregon with like-minded professionals.  Good stuff!

The Beautiful Pacific, in Seaside, Oregon.

I was just in Oregon a few days ago, at the ocean.  Oregon is so beautiful, green, and fresh, much like home!  It’s a pleasure and a privilege to go share some of my hypno-know-how with other professionals. 

In case any of my readers are in Oregon or will be on September 25th and are interested, here is more info:  http://www.hypnosis-oregon.com/news.   The language of influence.  I talk about effective communications with my favorite chat-partner:  the unconscious mind. 

It’s another kudo for my “I love me wall,” and another opportunity to share and visit one of my favorite states.  States in geography, and states of mind.  Both!  Oregon and hypnosis, two great things that go great together.  Wish me luck, and join me if you’re so inclined!

Warm Regards,
Connie

Connie Brannan, CHt.

I asked if hypnotists (and NLP people–those using that very specific brand of conversational hypnosis for positive change) were all supermen.  And superwomen.  Having worked on themselves to the point of perfect specimens of precision and excellence.  No limiting beliefs, no bad habits, perfect bodies, perfect lives.  These new tools seemed so miraculous to me (and they are) that I was “just askin’!”  I was beginning to experience success with hypnosis for weight loss, and I wondered how far these professionals were able to use these tools in their own lives, to improve their own lives.  The answer surprised me!

The consensus was, yes, we use them, but only a little, and only when there’s time.  Which, apparently, there wasn’t.  One friend told the story of the cobbler’s wife.  He, the cobbler, the shoe-maker, was so busy making shoes for other people his own family was running around without.  His wife had old, old tattered shoes.  He was wearing old shoes, himself.  Now, that’s sad.      I think it would have been of benefit to his business to make his wife some new, damn fine shoes.  For her to wear, love, show off, dance in.  People would notice.  Her shoes would attract attention, and get him MORE business.  “Wow, look at those beautiful shoes, where’d you get them?”  “My husband makes these shoes!”  “Wow, I’m coming in, I want shoes like that!” 

I’ve decided to flaunt my shoes.  Only they aren’t shoes.  My personal success with hypnosis is manyfold, but the easily visible part is the weight loss.  I want people to notice that hypnosis works!  For weight loss and weight management.

Now, a cigarette-smoking hypnotist can probably help you with smoking cessation and an obese hypnotist can probably help you with weight loss–the tools are the same.  But wouldn’t you rather work with someone who truly KNOWS and lives this success day by day, month by month, year by year?  I would!  Look at my shoes!!  They sparkle!! I’ll make you a pair.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Fall into change.  Yes!  What if falling into a new lifestyle or new habits was as easy and natural as the changing of the seasons?  As a green leaf turning gold?  As a tree letting go of leaves?   Of the air becoming crisp and clean?   What if change was a natural, and easy process?  Big secret.  It is!

In addition to all my other tools, I use something called “indirect hypnosis.”  Storytelling.  It’s a shortcut to learning, and many cultures keep it alive as a way of keeping the learnings of lifetimes alive.  In hypnosis, I create and weave seemingly unrelated-to-your-issue stories, metaphors, images, sounds, and more which create new understandings in your mind, which helps you learn and change quickly.   And I do an assortment of word play, featuring multi level unconscious communications.  Your mind loves to learn, and does it exquisitely well.  It will take a word, and process every single possible meaning, literal and otherwise.   Multilevel communication.

I was watching a movie on the boob tube last night.  At one point a character is having a life crisis, and runs to her  psychotherapist for direction.  She says:  I know I’ve been coming here 2 times a week for 8 years, but now I need some real help.  Not surprisingly, he does not deliver it, and she ends up solving her own problem.

That is, and is not the hypnotic way.  Solving your own problems, yes.  Taking forever, IF ever, no!  These (hypnosis and NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming) are known as brief therapies, we’re talking minutes to hours, not years–and you do solve your own problems.  The premise of my work is that YOU have inside yourself everything you need to change your life for the better, whether it be changing your weight or changing your habits, or improving yourself in any number of ways.  I use hypnosis to help you tap into the power of YOU!  Fall into your own power.  Fall into change.  I  guide you to the positive resources within and attach them where needed.  When that happens, everything changes!  And it’s as natural as a leaf changing color and falling off a tree.  And as fast.  Hypnosis is not something external to you, it’s a doorway into your own power. 

It seems that overnight the trees change, and the ground is covered with crispy piles of leaves.  The air grows cooler.  Autumn has always been my favorite season, long before I began my career as a “changeworker.”  I like change.  Natural, healthy change.  And now is the perfect time, where it’s visible all around us to stimulate our unconscious minds into saying:  “Me, too!  I’m ready, too.  It’s time!”  Fall.  Fall into change.  It’s easy to do, you start by picking up the phone and dialing (425) 564-8608 and asking for me, Connie.  I’ll guide you as you Fall into Change.  Positive changes, healthy changes, fun changes, happy changes.  The time is now.  Let’s do it!
 
Warm Regards,
Connie

It's Time for Hypnosis!

Hi, Hypno-Friends!

My car has her own personality. She’s playful. Yet reliable. Michael and I both LOVE this car. We call her “Midnight.” She’s black , which is the number two color for a car in the US, as I read today. Anyway, Midnight has a new game she’s playing with us. It involves time. The clock. We have a digital clock readout in our car on the dashboard, and sometimes it’s brightly illuminated and sometimes it’s dim, and sometimes it’s not there at all. Midnight’s whim.

Now, you might just think this is a malfunction or defect of the clock. The time never used to vanish. But I imagine something else might be going on. Something with intentionality—Midnight has a purpose.

Let’s step back and talk about time. In NLP (that’s high-tech conversational hypnosis) we learn to experience time in different ways. There are (at least) two ways to experience time. In time. And through time. When a person is “in time,” they are living the moment, fully present in the here and now, enjoying the richness of life, immersed in experience. This is a good state for being on vacation. Or intimate moments. When a person is “through time,” they are separate from the heartbeat by heartbeat experience of time and life, and look at it from a slight distance. This is a good state for scheduling and planning. I do a lot of that! Probably too much of that!

Midnight wants me to experience time in a new way, to be more in time! “Stop worrying about the minutia of ‘what time is it?’ and enjoy life.” Because, I am a clock watcher. Always. I ALWAYS want to know what time it is. So I can know how much time I have to get to where I’m going. Midnight says: “Don’t worry about it!! You’re going to get there on time. Have I ever let you down?” No. Midnight is teaching me flexibility. Flexibility is good!

Here’s a fun and easy process to shift your own internal perceptions of time to suit your current activities, which can be a very useful game.

How to flex your time sense: Imagine your past as a point in physical space around you. It may be to your left or right, or behind you, above, beyond, somewhere. Imagine yesterday, dinner yesterday, and point at it. There it is! Now, think about the future, tomorrow morning, and point in that general direction. You’ve got two points sitting in space. Now, connect those two points. Remember those dot-to-dot games? This is like that, and you’ve now created a line between, through them and past them. This is your life. Your “timeline.”

So, now the question: does this line intersect your body? If yes, you are “in time.” If no, you are “through time.” Which is it? Just for fun, imagine this line differently. If it doesn’t touch you, move it so that it does cross through your body. You are now in the moment. If it does intersect your body, step back from it a step or two so that you can see your whole life separate from you. How does that feel? If the change is comfortable, try it on for awhile. You can always reset to current state of time/mind anytime you want.

Next time you have a project which demands a bigger picture of dates, interim and ultimate deadlines, cutoffs, drop dead completion, and etc, step away from your timeline and do your planning from that perspective. It helps!! You can see more. Next time you’re enjoying a day out with a loved one, step into your timeline, and relish every moment, feel and experience that richness, that joy, heartbeat by heartbeat.

Your choice! Midnight is one smart cookie.

Warm Regards,
Connie

Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotist

Inside Mindworks Hypnosis

We’re getting settled into the new office, and it’s lookin’ good!  There’s more to do, of course.  The reception area is incomplete, awaiting delivery of a new leather couch.  The “I Love Me” Wall is incomplete, more certificates need framing and hanging.  More mom-art to put up on display (my mother was a professional artist and I have more wall space calling out for color).

The trance chair is in place, however.  So, clients are welcome at this time!  Call me!  The more the merrier.  Here are some more pics, to give the flavor of my space.  So far, I LOVE IT!!!  x o Connie

Fresh and green!

Some people like new and exciting adventures, and some people like familiarity in events–lucky for me, I like both.  I’m getting both.

Heavy on the “new” actually.  I got some new trainings under my belt.  Florida.  July.  FANTASTIC experience.    The sameness was experiencing again my favorite teacher, Dr. Richard Bandler.  And also new but not so exciting, my primary/business computer crashed a week or two ago.  Died.  At least it was quick, no suffering.  Dead as a doornail.  I’m still reconstructing the missing data since my last system backup in June.  So, I have a new computer.  Which is a good new!   Fancy.  A TERRABYTE of space.  I remember 65 megabyte computer hard drives.  This is better. 

I also have a new office.  Best “new” of all.   Like my computer, it’s also more space than before!  It’s a beautiful, larger, quieter, more private space.  Absolutely perfect.  I’m going to plaster pics and announcements of the “new digs” on the website proper when I get my programs back re-installed to do so.  It’s not quite all set up yet, or “dolled up” as my grandmother would say, but it’s lookin’ good!

Here are a few pics:

I'm in Alderwood #103

Our names in print!

It’s in the Bellefield Office Park right off of I405 on exit 12.  It’s a giant wetlands/greenbelt area, with 15 buildings or so on the property.  WOODSY.  I’m in the Alderwood Building.  #103.

I’m so excited!  The clients who’ve been in within the past couple days since we’ve been re-open for business all say:  VERY NICE!  It is. 

The sameness here is a lot of my same touches:  my art, my desk, my books, my trance chair, my certificates on the wall, my plant.  I bought a plant at my last other world job before I had this joy filled career, and it was a tiny thing.  Now it’s huge, and has been repotted several times.  Just like me, it’s growing–in a good way.

Warm Regards,
Connie

I’m doing both!

Because here’s what I’m honing towards, here’s what I want. To be the absolute best changeworker and hypnotist/hypnotherapist possible. I already am the best in the Pacific Northwest, but the world’s a big place. I want to be one of the absolute best in the universe. So, I’m continuing my education, and studying with and learning from the best of the best. Modeling genius. It’s time intensive, it’s money intensive, it takes committment. But I’m doing it! Michael and I both!

We’re off for a couple weeks of more hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming trainings. In Orlando, Florida, with the co-originator of NLP, and in my opinion, the best hypnotist living, Dr. Richard Bandler. We go where the geniuses perform/teach and it’s not always nearby. We’re doing it! It’s my joy, my passion, as well as my comittment to honing!  It’s also my birthday present to myself!  (I’m a July baby!) 

Hypnosis is the best present of all!

A committment to excellence.  That’s a good thing!    I’m on Facebook (you can be my friend), and recently noticed an example of a differing attitude.  A fellow hypnotist and NLP-er posted on one of my teachers’ pages whining (or so it appeared to me) that her training certification, the actual certificate she earned from him had an expiration date on it.  Why, she asked.  The answer is simple.  Hypnosis and NLP is not something you learn once, and wham, done.  I guess some people do approach a profession this way.  “I know how to cut that piece of brick.  I’m done.”  Not me.  No way, Jose.  That certificate is only the beginning.

For me, learning is a never-ending unfolding process, and I’m ALWAYS desirous of improving my skills.   One can ALWAYS be better.  Sharper.  More inspired.  In the realm of the mind, there’s no hard and fast, “this is it.”  There are more things to LEARN!  When you bring in native intelligence and a passion for and committment to what you’re doing, and add the continued exposure to excellence, the continued honing (of something absolutely worth honing), you get someone who knows what they’re doing.

I know what I’m doing.  And that means I can help you better, faster, more efficiently, more creatively than other people can.  If you really want change, I certainly think you should seek out the best for that.  Aren’t you worth it? Another wonderful mentor/teacher of mine said to me once:  “It ain’t bragging, if it’s true.”  I’m not bragging.  I am extremely talented at this work, this art, and getting better all the time.

I hope to post here from Orlando and the trainings!   Michael and I send warm (upper 90’s) greetings!

Warm Regards,
Connie

Now is the time to declare YOUR independence…from undesired habits, negative feelings, and limiting beliefs. Hypnosis is “the big guns” of change. If you’re ready, so am I.

Regards, Rappin’ Connie

Celebrate your independence from tobacco, and more, with Seattle's best hypnotherapy.

Connie Brannan, CHt. & Licensed Trainer of NLP

Well, I woke up in the middle of the night thinking about sequins.  About the girl I saw the other day.  She was a barista, a coffee-maker.  And she was working in a little kiosk-type coffee stand smack dab in the middle of a whole foods market.  Kind of a drab setting.  And she was wearing the most flashy, beautiful, black sequinned sweater.  We’re talkin’ Vegas-style evening-out-on-the-town sequins.  Elegant.  Fancy.  Fun.  And playful.  I looked at her and thought:  She knows how to have fun, how to live and squeeze enjoyment out of life.  Making coffee in sequins is more fun than making coffee in a cotton apron, I’ll bet.  I could see that, in her face and in her movements!

And then, a quick mental morph/segue to my own closet.  I have sequins, too.  Silk jackets and shirts massively decorated and sequinned.  Red with roses and trellises, black with textured clusters.  Royal blue.  I love them!  But I wear them SO RARELY.  Once in a blue moon.  I’m “saving them for special.”  They’re sitting there, gathering dust, as I wait for an “occasion” suitable for them.  Always waiting.  That has been (past tense) one of my limiting beliefs.  “You need a special occasion to justify wearing sequins.”  I just popped it–that belief.  It just hit me.  I could wear one of my sequinned jackets today!  Why not?  I could walk into that hotel, into that seminar room (I’m attending a training this weekend) wearing one of my flashy jackets.  And that would be FUN.

Limiting beliefs.  Those things that hold us back, make us catch our breath and feel LESS, less alive, less powerful, less fun.  The “I can’ts.”  Oh, I can’t do that!  Pop them.  Why not?  What would happen if you could and did do this “I can’t do” thing??  Hmmm?  Think about it.  Imagine beyond the boundaries.  That coffee-girl sure can!  I wonder what unexpected coffee combinations/flavors she comes up with?  I can tell, her life is rich and full-bodied.

Life should be fun.  Massively fun.  And it is.  Make it more so.  What’s holding you back?   How much joy can you stand?  It all comes down to running your own mind, and feeling what you want to feel.  Hypnosis and NLP teach us how to do that.  I’ve decided to feel good today.  I’m wearing my sequins. 

Warm Regards,
Connie