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Spring!

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
It's spring in Seattle!

It's spring in Seattle!

I often use a lot of nature imagery with clients, it’s so easy to do and something we all experience and understand well - the changing of the seasons.  Spring in particular is perfect for a hypnotic metaphor.  It’s “new life,” it’s “new beginnings,”  it’s “change,” it’s “freshness,” it’s “growth,” it’s “color,” it’s full of promise and opportunity, it’s magnificent.  And it’s happening NOW.  Just like we want your own life changes to be doing.  Happening now.  Right now!  It’s time.

Michael and I were in rainy and cold Florida for two weeks getting our minds stuffed full of useful new hypnosis and NLP tools.  We both have two new certificates to add to the “I love me” wall:  per the King of hypnosis, Dr. Richard Bandler, we are now “Design Human Engineers,” and “Persuasion Engineers.”  TM (trademark) on both.  :)   It’s interesting that the more STUFF I learn, the more tools I acquire and add to my healing toolbelt, the lighter it gets.  The lighter I feel.  These aren’t like hammers and anvils weighing me down, these are tools to LIFT and enhance life.  More!  And fine tools they are, for fine tuning life.

So, we arrived home to discover that spring has sprung.  How nice!  The trees outside my office window are blooming now, providing the perfect metaphor for the unconscious minds of my clients!

You don’t have to drive through the University of Washington Arboretum or walk through the cherry-blossom quad on campus to see some fresh blooming life, you can look in the mirror.  After seeing me, of course.  I’m ready.  Are you?

Warm Spring Regards,
Connie

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Explore!: Healing and Hypnosis

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Connie Brannan, CHt., Master Hypnotist

Connie Brannan, CHt., Master Hypnotist

C’mon and get hypnotized! Once again I’ll be teaching at Bellevue College as part of the Explore! program. This go-round I’m offering two courses. The first begins this month, Monday, January 25th, and it’s on the topic of healing and hypnosis.

I’m quite excited about it, as it’s a topic close to my heart. I had a close family member come very near death, as in coma and on life support and not expected to live, and I believe that hypnosis played a part in her miraculous and thriving recovery. Trust me, I know the power of hypnosis. This is a very personal story I’ll share in more detail at my course:

Here are the particulars of the course!
http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=12058&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

Healing and Hypnosis: Secrets to Wellness

In this hands-on workshop you will learn about the mind-body connection, and the transformational power of self-hypnosis. You will learn (and experience) what hypnosis is, how your mind works, how to hypnotize yourself, how to craft potent suggestions, how to put it all together in a simple process to use these skills for accessing your power within and enhancing your own health and wellness. This workshop is conducted by Connie Brannan, CHt, Clinical Hypnotherapist, Professional Conversational Hypnotherapist and Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™.

Healing and Hypnosis: Secrets to Wellness
Item: W8955 Connie Brannan
6:30 PM – 9:30 PM North Campus
Sessions: 2 M Address: 10700 Northup Way Bellevue, WA 98004
1/25/2010 – 2/1/2010 Fee: $89.00

I’m also teaching another course in Building Confidence and Self-Esteem through Self-Hypnosis. That course begins in March. Details here:
http://www.campusce.net/BC/course/course.aspx?C=11562&pc=1066&mc=1387&sc=

Each course is sure to be lots of fun and learning crammed into two 3-hour evening classes. If it fits your schedule, I recommend these as an easy and inexpensive beginner’s taster introduction to hypnosis. Feel free to email me for more info: connie@mindworkshypnosis.net.

Warm Regards,
Connie

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It’s cold and flu season (but not for me!)

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Hi, guys!  Who watches television?  (Raising my own hand, but only half way.)  :)   I hardly watch at all any more, because the quality of “what’s on” is going down, down, down, and my time for leisure is going down as well.  That’s a good thing, but that’s also another topic.  This one is:

Dramatic pause.  Negative suggestions.

Colds and Flu

Colds and Flu

Watching TV this past week, I can’t help but notice the BOMBARDMENT of ads right now, commercials for cold & flu medicines and paraphernalia.  Here’s the message:  “It’s cold and flu season.”  and that means “You’re going to get sick., you can expect to get sick.”  I also notice that the stores are stocking the aisles with cold and flu medicines and products–prominent and in-your-face, on the end caps and special displays, with alarming banners warning that cold and flu season is here!  Same message:  “It’s time for you to get sick now!  You’re going to get sick now.”  It’s not a warning, per se, it’s a directive!  It’s a negative suggestion.  And our minds seem quite willing to embrace it without question!

Michael has a story he likes.  He was in a work training with a woman.  She told this story:  She knew that every year she would have one bout of illness per cold and flu season, one only.  The reason she’d only have one was because she’d prepare for it, and take massive doses of vitamins.  She knew that she’d only get sick once!  Her vitamins would protect her from further illness!  And yes, it did transpire that she’d only get sick once per winter/season.  BUT…one winter she got so busy and forgot to prepare with her vitamins, didn’t think about it at all.  Guess what?  She didn’t get sick that winter.  Not once.  Not at all.  She forgot to get sick!!

Here’s a personal story about my personal experiences.  This is NOT medical advice, because…I’m not medical.  I’m a hypnotist.  And here’s one positive side effect I enjoy from my hypnosis.  Your mileage may vary.

I don’t get sick, either.  Ever.  Because I’ve decided not to.  I USED to get sick, just like everyone else.  Two major colds a year.  At LEAST two.  Until I discovered hypnosis and how the mind processes ideas and suggestions three+ years ago.  Three years, and I haven’t been sick.  Not a sniffle.  I did have food poisoning for one day (some bad shrimp on a Vegas buffet), but it ended quite quickly.  I don’t get sick because my unconscious mind rejects the idea, and does what it needs to do to make sure I stay well–strengthening my immune system, or whatever it wants to do.  I can happily trust my unconscious to keep me well, and ignore those nitty gritty details as well.  I don’t care how.  I just know it’s in place.  Wellness.  I can hang around sick people, avoid hand sanitizer, ignore those commercials and product displays, no flu shot for me, and stay well.  Three years and counting…

Hypnosis is incredibly powerful.  And our understanding is just a miniscule slice of that giant cake.  There’s so much more to know and learn.  The unconscious mind knows how to keep us healthy.  I talk to the mind in ways it likes, to do just that!

What do you suppose would happen if you decided to stay well this winter?

Warm Regards,
Connie

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