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Does Your Hand Deserve Your Thumb?

Written by Connie September 5, 2012June 7, 2013

: Time to bloom.

I’m working with a girl right now whose father told her at a ripe impressionable age: “you don’t deserve anything.” One of the things her mind decided she didn’t deserve was health. In her adult mind, she knows what her father MEANT for her to learn by that statement: “you won’t be offered things on a silver platter, you have to work hard to achieve success.” BUT…what he said and what she heard, literally was: YOU DON’T DESERVE ANYTHING.

Wow! Her unconscious mind took that on board. Absolutely literally. What a terrible and damaging message–coming from someone who should be loving and nurturing. I asked her yesterday if she deserved to breathe the air in the room, and I could see her internal struggle because she knew it should logically be “yes” yet she felt and believed it was “no.” This blog entry is called: “Does your hand deserve your thumb?”

I posed that question to my client yesterday, in trance. “Does your hand deserve your thumb?” We let her powerful unconscious mind percolate on what is natural, what is a part of us, and what is “deserved.” I also asked her if a flower deserves sunshine, and to be nourished by rain and the nutrients in soil? Does a flower deserve to bloom? I sure think so!! This lady is a flower who thinks she has no right to bloom. I’m helping her to change her thinking–and her health!

Language is so much more powerful than people know. One of the tragedies (and so unnecessary) of human life seems to be this parental business of installing negative and limiting and damaging beliefs in children. The young mind has no conscious filter to block damaging ideas, like adults have.

A huge piece of my NLP and hypnotherapy work involves un-installing negative beliefs and re-installing power and possibility into lives. I’m so happy this technology exists which creates healthy change so quickly and seamlessly. I’m also so happy that I’ve been privileged to learn it, really learn it from the source of NLP himself, Dr. Richard Bandler, the best of the best of the best.

Unfortunately, I’m continually finding that other Seattle area hypnotists don’t have the skill set or the mind set for this work–and clients who have escaped their ineptitude come to me and tell me horror stories of non-helping and “hypnotists” even installing more limitations in them. These unskilled ones are playing at being hypnotists, as a part time “I know enough to get by” kind of gig. Luckily, they won’t be around for long, because they can’t deliver the results.

Go for quality. Someone well trained and imaginative enough to understand the power of words to help and heal.

Warm Regards,
Connie

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She Ended Her Depression & Got Off Meds – With Mindworks Hypnosis

Written by Connie January 5, 2012June 7, 2013

Hello, Hypnosis Enthusiasts!

I love to hear back from my clients with news of their current state of mind/body after our work. Here’s the latest, from T.V. of Redmond, Washington, who had been suffering depression:

“I’m happy. More energy. It’s wonderful! I’m finished with depression. I wake up every morning, I’m happy to wake up, it’s easy to wake up, and I feel full of energy!”

She informed me that she is no longer taking medication for depression, as she had been doing prior to our work. She is being more physically active, working out, doing sports, and has decided on a new career path for herself as well–thoughts of which had been debilitating to her in the past.

Our work changed how she feels, how she experiences life. Now, life is good. When you change how you feel, you change how you think, you change what behaviors you engage in in the world, and you make better decisions for your health and success. Way to go, T!

For the record, I’m not medical and when a client has medically diagnosed issues I get a doctor’s referral–T.V. was working with her MD who ended her drugs. They are no longer necessary. I don’t “treat depression,” but how amazing (or not) that life changes and depression vanishes so fast and effectively with Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapy.

Warm Regards,
Connie

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Candy Hallucinations…or, it’s all licorice!

Written by Connie February 1, 2010June 9, 2013

Hi, Hypno-Friends.

I’m my own guinea pig. 🙂 And that’s a good thing. I work on myself (hypnotically and NLP Nelp-notically) all the time to improve my life! And Michael works with me, too. I have a cute story from yesterday to share!

We were out and about on a Sunday running errands, and we ended up in a little arcade of shops that includes a candy store. One of those colorful “every-kind-of candy-you-can-imagine” in bulk bins stores. PLUS, it was also an ice cream shoppe and coffee shop. Not that I was drawn through any particular URGE into the candy store, but I thought: it’s a good time to test my responses. To chocolate, to sugar, to CANDY! So, I went in!

Now, you have to know my history a little. Candy was MY THING. All my life. Candy Connie. We’re talking addictive behavior. It was the focus of much of my life, pretty much. Eating it, finding it, buying it, hoarding it, making it, too. Having it around made me feel safe. But mostly, my focus was buying it and eating it. I think I learned that from my mom–she had candy every day of her life. It was always around. And I ate it every day, too. Too much of it. As a kid, Halloween was my favorite holiday. Candy!!! Yay!!! As an adult and bargain hunter, Halloween was still my favorite holiday, especially the day after Halloween and also the day after Valentine’s and other “chocolate holidays.” Half price candy! I was delirious with joy! 🙂

I remember those days, but I no longer feel the pull. Of sugar. Hypnosis is wonderful for focusing your mind on healthy choices, and I’ve been doing it for 3-4 years now. I don’t eat candy at all. And I don’t think about it–in general. But here was this candy store, so I thought: “Let’s go test!”

I went inside the store and looked around, and also looked INside me to see how I was feeling. The main question: “Did I want any? Did the candy look appealing to me? Was there a temptation to buy any?” No, no, and no. But here’s the funny thing. All these bins, all these choices, and the only thing I could notice were the candies I don’t like. The ones I’ve NEVER liked. Like root beer flavor (yuck!) gummies, like LICORICE. Black licorice. Hate it!!! I wouldn’t eat that in a million years–even before during my heydey of sugar abandon. Sweet-tart legos. Also yick. My mind was sorting for “yick,” and nothing looked good.

Suddenly, in my imagination, everything was licorice. Those horrid bins of black licorice “all sorts.” That’s what I saw, that’s what I felt (I would never eat that), and then I left the store. Somehow, all the nice, fancy chocolates never caught my eye or attention. The ice cream–didn’t notice it. It was a store full of black licorice all sorts. “Let me OUT of here!!”

A naturally occurring hypnotic phenomenon is hallucination. Both positive hallucinations (seeing something that isn’t there) and negative hallucinations (not seeing something that IS there.) I was having negative hallucinations. Standing in that candy store, I didn’t see anything appealing. It was kind of cool and kind of weird at the same time. This was never something directly suggested to me (the candy I used to like is invisible) but it seems to be how my new healthy eating focus is manifesting here. I like it!

One more quick story, similar in nature. I was in Las Vegas assisting with a conversational hypnosis training a couple months ago. I brought in some bags of M&M’s for the group. Giant bags containing many mini bags–those little treat size bags of M&M’s–like you get at Halloween! 🙂 Anyway, apparently they were tempting one of my friends there, named Kerry. His downfall: peanut M&M’s. He asked me to do some hypnosis and NLP with him to help him with the candy and sugar cravings. I did. He also reported a very interesting hallucination effect. Weirder even than mine! He told me that next morning he literally DID NOT SEE the packages of M&M’s on the table. He could see the fabric of the tablecloth underneath, kind of buckled and wrinkled like something was on it, but didn’t see the candy. He was freaked! And admiring. And happy. So, he didn’t eat any. You don’t eat what you don’t see.

The upshot of all this: when you choose healthy eating, your unconscious mind “makes it so.” Like Jean Luc Picard on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. “Make it so!!” My unconscious mind was sure doing it in a very fascinating and creative way. Yes, if all candy was black licorice, I wouldn’t touch it. And I don’t. 🙂 Feelin’ good, still losing weight here.

Warm Regards, and Happy February!
Connie