Seattle Area Clinical Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist & Licensed Trainer of NLP ™ shares the truth about hypnosis, NLP and the unconscious mind to create powerful, positive, and lasting life changes. Mindworks Hypnosis & NLP
As well as “doing” this work to help people make healthy and positive changes in their lives in a clinical context, Michael and I also teach. The school side of what we do is inform and prepare others, including other area hypnotherapists, in the processes and power of NLP and hypnosis. This video, below, is part of a class demonstration last weekend of what is known as “The NLP Allery Relief Process.” The video is not complete, but it’s a good chunk of the work.
The idea here is: Allergies are learned responses which can be unlearned and new responses learned. Robert Dilts, an NLP “big name” who created this process I am demonstrating, called allergies “phobias of the immune system.” NLP fixes phobias. NLP can fix allergies as well. Quicker than you can imagine.
In this video, we are replacing the neurology of an allergic response Gaia had to drinking coffee (runny nose, watery eyes, sneezing, coughing–your typical too much histamine responses) with a neutral experience. Drinking water. She can do that. No problemo!! We take that as a resource for unconsciously learning a new response to coffee.
What if she could drink coffee (as she used to be able to do) as easily and as comfortably as drinking water? She can. She does. Watch! As I touch her hand (firing off the resourceful state into her neurology via what is called an “NLP anchor”) she is relearning coffee drinking comfort, as easy as drinking water.
I love me some NLP! If you’d like to learn more about the magic in action of NLP, check out the school side of what we do: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com. Mindworks NLP is a fully licensed State private vocational school.
I began my latest go-round of the self hypnosis course at Bellevue College last night. GOOD turnout! There were a few people who had experienced hypnosis before and a majority who had not.
It’s fun. It’s my pleasure to introduce people to what I love. What I appreciate. What I know to be massive power for positive changes: Hypnosis.
I brought the group into a nice trance and set an “anchor” for rehypnosis–that they control. In their own time and their own space and for their own well-formed goals. I asked the group what their first experience of hypnosis was like.
There was a young girl in my class. Her answer: “Elation!” Yes, that’s precisely what hypnosis feels like. Another girl said it feels similar to the state she goes into while praying, it feels like “prayer.” Yes, that’s what hypnosis feels like. One girl said her body felt “heavy.” Yes, that’s what hypnosis feels like. A man (who seemed disappointed–who doesn’t YET understand the power of the state) said it simply feels like “Relaxing.” Yes, that’s what hypnosis feels like. My personal sense of hypnosis is a heightened focus accompanied with a profound sense of control and well-being. That’s what hypnosis feels like.
It’s a very individual experience. Bottom line: it feels GOOD! But more than that, it does good. For your life. This isn’t zen, like meditation, where attaining the state is the goal. No. It’s USING the state to stimulate your mind to create change that’s desired and useful. That’s hypnotherapy. And that’s self hypnosis as well.
The class is going well. There’s a second evening of fun and adventure and experience and learning ahead for this group. Makes me happy! 🙂
Aloha to my hypno-friends! Michael and I took a rare vacation last week to somewhere I had never been: Honululu, Hawaii. Magical. Lush. Hypnotic. Beautiful. Water, water everywhere!
So relaxing! Sitting on the beach, feeling the warmth, hearing the waves, just relaxing. And, also in our case, sitting in a hot tub overlooking the ocean, bubbling away all cares and worries. Deep relaxation.
You know what’s cool about a vacation? You are accumulating experiences, wonderful states of mind and body that might be outside your repertoire of day to day hectic life. And you know what else is cool? You have continuing access to those experiences any time you want them. And when you access them (that process has a fancy name: it’s called memory), you get to live them all over again in your neurology, feel them all over again, in your body. Relaxed lives in my memory of the hot tub afternoon in Waikiki. Our minds and bodies are connected, really one cybernetic system. You think about it, and you feel it. Automatically. Naturally.
That is the truth, and it’s also useful. Because, with NLP and hypnosis, when you have a feeling you enjoy, you can capture it. Bottle it, as it were. And uncork that bottle at will, when it’s useful to have that feeling again.
This is called “anchoring,” and it’s the bread and butter of NLP, and hypnosis. Finding useful states and bringing them into new situations where they help. Where they change things. Bringing calm into fear. Goodbye fear. Bringing energy into fatigue. Goodbye fatigue. Bringing creativity into stuck. Goodbye stuck. Bringing motivation into “I’ll do it later.” Goodbye procrastination. Bringing happy into depressed. Goodbye depressed. Sounds good, does it not? And it’s SO EASY. When the therapist has the artistry and skills to do the work well. I do.
NLP is the real deal for life change.
If you’re in a funk or stuck or sad or lazy or unmotivated — if you enjoy those states–revel in them!! If you don’t enjoy those states, change them. Skilled NLP makes it happen faster than anything else on this planet. Find out. Call me. (425) 564-8608. I’m Connie and I’m a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™ and that’s something very special. There are only 38 Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming in the entirety of the United States of America, and I’m one and my husband, Michael, is one. Licensed through the co-originator of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler. I’ll change your state for you. You want a taste of vacation level relaxed? It’s in you, and we can access and also attach it to that stressful situation. Goodbye stress.
If you love your stress, enjoy! If you don’t, take a vacation from it. Some people take permanent vacations. It’s called retirement. If you want to retire your stress and fear, and etc., let’s do it!
Have you wondered about hypnosis? Wanted to know what it really is? Wanted to know how it feels to experience it firsthand? C’mon and sign up for this course. It’s hands on. Minds on. Life on.
You get to connect with the most powerful part of your own mind–your intuition, your creativity, your problem-solving POWER. Your unconscious. Who wants power? I do! I do!
The course is geared toward weight loss hypnosis, but the tool is useful for so much more than that. What you learn here is applicable for creating a myriad of positive changes, quitting smoking, sleeping better, improved memory, stress release, and so much more.
Here are comments I’ve received from students who fill out Bellevue College’s formal evaluation form at class end as to what they found most valuable:
–LOTS OF HANDS ON/GOOD ABOUT ANSWERING QUESTIONS.
–PRACTICAL EXERCISES
–THE IDEA OF CHANGING
–PRACTICAL PART – DOING HYPNOSIS
–I BELIEVE IT WILL WORK
–GETTING ACCURATE INFORMATION
–ALL OF IT
–LEARNING HOW TO RELAX
–THE ACTUAL PROCESS OF LEARNING HYPNOSIS
–THE ABILITY TO USE SELF HYPNOSIS IN THE FUTURE TO HELP SHAPE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE
–CAN BE USED AT HOME – LIFE LONG SKILLS
–HELPING ME TO BETTER MYSELF
–THE CONTENT OF THE COURSE AND THE EXERCISES
That’s right! Lots of cool stuff to be learned. And it’s USEFUL stuff. It feels good, and it does good for your life.
You can sign up here, through Bellevue College’s website and their link to continuing adult education.
I love my client communiques in my mailbox in the morning. “J” of Woodinville says: “And I am doing great…..no urge to smoke or to drink.” Yay! Another alcohol problem bites the dust.
Too much wine, or beer, or hard liquor for that matter, can ruin lives. Ruin health, figures, families, finances. If alcohol is a problem in your life, guess what? You don’t have to label yourself the horrific A-word, “ALCOHOLIC” and be in battle mode against it for the rest of your life. No way.
You are someone who drinks. And you can choose alternative behaviors, including less or no drinking. Hypnosis helps. NLP helps
Change your mind and change your life. It really is that easy. When you change how you think about things, you change how you feel and you change what you do. My local competitor is named “Positive Changes,” but that’s what I sell, too. If you’d like some positive changes around your drinking behaviors, call me and explore the magic of hypnotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming as an avenue to change.
Hi, Hypno-Friends. Take a look at Nicole and her transformation in process. Isn’t she beautiful?? And read what she has to say about her experience with Mindworks Hypnosis and NLP to help her attain her goals. In short, hypnosis works!
Caveat, when shopping for your life change, you need to find a skilled hypnotist, one who has some creativity and inspiration, as well as creative “power tools” like Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Hypnosis is not only a science, it is an art. My mother was an artist. And so am I. 🙂 Judge some of my work for yourself.
Here’s what Nicole says about her tranformation:
“I’ve worked with Connie on a couple different occasions, and she has changed my life completely. I went to her for my lack of energy and enthusiasm for working out and losing weight. I’ve lost 50lbs and am now 10lbs from my goal!
“I love hypnosis…I feel a foot taller. I feel thinner. I feel lighter. I feel like a superstar!…Go see Connie! She’s magical!”
If you would like to begin some similar life changes for yourself, that beginning is as near as your telephone. Call me. Connie (425) 564-8608. Also, more information on my weight loss services is available here:
I offer hypnosis services for weight management, and periodically I get asked questions about “bariatric hypnosis.” I’d like to answer those questions here and explain why I believe it’s ill-conceived, not likely to be successful, and something that I would NEVER do to my clients in a million years.
“What is bariatric surgery?” It’s a variety of invasive medical procedures that involve the slicing and dicing of the human body to artificially create a reduction in stomach capacity, fraught with all the pain, dangers, and complications of surgery, plus the aftermath of nausea, vomiting, dehydration and potential malnutrition, with dubious longevity or long term benefit. What’s the point of all this? To achieve weight loss. (Hint: there’s an easier way!)
The goal: physically creating a situation wherein you’ll eat less–because you can’t physically eat. That removes choice, doesn’t it? And it fails to address whatsoever the core unconscious issues that lead a person to obesity-inducing behaviors–those remain, even after surgery. It doesn’t change feelings, thoughts, beliefs, it’s an artificial and unpleasant restriction on behavior. I like choices for people. What is bariatric surgery? A limiting of choice and just plain dumb.
What would it be like if there were far simpler ways to achieve and maintain a healthy weight? Ways that are pleasant, natural, non-intrusive, and encourage healthy choice? That in addition make a person feel good, not just about their body, but their whole life?? Feelings of high self esteem, accomplishment, power, joy, and so on?
Well, we’re all in luck, because there are such ways, when skillfully delivered. They are called Hypnosis and NLP. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a specialized high-tech hypnosis, which is conversational in nature). These things, when used with artistry and creativity and skill, lead a person to a healthy weight naturally. With surgery, there are still cravings that are present yet denied due to artificial restrictions. With hypnosis and NLP, there are no cravings period. Gone. Which sounds more appealing? To me, that’s the definition of purgatory, wanting and wanting and being unable to have. After bariatric surgery, suffering an eternity of feeling deprived? NO, THANK YOU! That’s like dieting.
Hypnosis is not dieting. It’s life change. Changing how you feel, and how you think, and what you do, and even what you believe to be true. Changing your life. In ways that are useful. No scalpels required.
Unless you are a bariatric hypnotist. Dumber. A bariatric hypnotist chooses to engage in a process of hypnotic change work which involves the client undergoing the aforementioned bariatric procedures hypnotically, while in trance. Trance is meant to be a pleasant experience, not something horrific!! They have au de operating room, ether smells, and sound effects of being cut open so that the person will experience it all as real, and the body respond accordingly. This idea disturbs me greatly. A true hypnotist (one who has had legitimate training and was paying attention and has a modicum of intelligence) has tools to help, that don’t create an artificial fix. Bariatric hypnosis isn’t a “fix,” it’s another f-word, followed by an e-d.
The whole mindset around this “work” disturbs me. The other day I got a mailing soliciting bariatric hypnotists. The language appalled me. It read: “Calling All Hypnotists Seriously Interested in Helping The Morbidly Obese Client Rejoin The Human Race.” Oh!! Really? Those with weight problems are not human? What are they? Aliens? Hey, just a guess, but this does not sound like a compassionate or empathetic point of view. I guess if you’re going to cut them open, it’s easier to do if you think of them as nonhuman. Maybe it’s like dissecting lab rats.
Bariatric surgery? Dangerous, dumb, dubiously effective, and not necessary for successful weight loss. Hypnotic bariatric surgery? In my opinion, that is exponentially dumber, and absolutely wrong-minded–what a waste of a powerful and positive tool for life change–hypnosis. I KNOW how people successfully lose weight and maintain a healthy weight. And I know that they don’t require surgery to do it. Now…how do I know?
Because I’ve lived the transformation from fat to fit, and maintained it for 5 years. Without being sliced open, in reality or in my unconscious mind. Hypnosis and NLP, used properly, are all you need! Here’s what I’ve accomplished:
Before and After.
And I help others to achieve and maintain a healthy weight as well. Here are some comments from some of my successful weight loss clients:
“I have been committed to lose weight for my health for years. However, the actual first step was almost impossible. So before I tried more radical methods, I thought I would try hypnosis. Connie Brannan, and Mindworks Hypnosis worked wonders. The day after my first session, new behaviors emerged and became habits. The amazing thing is – it was so easy.
Late night cravings – gone.
Drinking 8 glasses of water/day – new habit.
Portion control – easy.
A real desire for healthy foods – a new habit.
Feeling full with the right amount of food – a new feeling.
Neuro Linguistic Hypnosis works and fast. I have been losing a consistent 2.5 pounds per week. In the first six weeks, I’ve lost 18 pounds and counting.” –Cynthia Sullivan, COO of a local Bellevue company, Bellevue, WA Update: Cynthia has lost 50 pounds now! 🙂
“Hi Connie,
Just wanted to thank you again for your wonderful help. I’ve lost 40# in 4 months, and I feel confident that I’m going to lose at least 40 more. It’s truly remarkable what a few easy sessions with you have done for my life.
As a health care worker, I’ve always known healthy diet and exercise were key to losing weight, but I never seemed motivated to seriously make those long term lifestyle changes. I grew so obese that I even considered surgery. But the risks scared me, so I decided to try calling you instead. Even after one session, everything changed. I found myself craving healthy foods, appropriate portions, and daily exercise. My sweet tooth and chip obsession disappeared overnight. My self esteem skyrocketted. I finally knew I could conquer my lifelong struggle with my weight. It’s been months since I’ve seen you and yet I’m still right on track with my goals. Hypnosis is easy and it truly works. You’ve changed my life. Thank you!” –E, Seattle, WA.
“The choices aren’t hard anymore.” — Anonymous client, Duvall, WA. (She lost 6 pounds in 2 weeks.)
“Thank you, Connie! The work we have done together has truly changed my life. I have found “my happy” and am now on the journey to a stronger, slimmer, healthier me.” — Kelly, Renton, WA.
“I’ve lost 8 pounds in 12 days!” –Don B., Issaquah, WA.
“It’s amazing! I’ve lost 17 lbs in 3 weeks. I’m happy! I’m sleeping like a baby. My stress level has decreased. I’m making very healthy choices. (Before my last session) I was dancing in the shower, couldn’t wait, eager to come see Connie. She’s guided me to opening my gate to freedom.” –Julie, Mercer Island, WA.
“I will have you know I’ve lost 30 lbs. Girl, you are my absolute idol!” –Lisa B.
“I’m not so glued to the food!” Liz, Redmond, WA.
“I don’t crave ice cream at all now! Or chocolate. I am in shock!!!”– Saliha B., Issaquah, WA.
“Dear Connie: Thank you so much for working with me to help me lose weight. I had just one session, and the positive effects are nothing short of amazing! The cravings that so plagued me are just gone! I feel better and have more energy and just feel more positive since I am not constantly telling myself no. I did not realize the energy I was expending either refusing certain foods, or feeling bad after having eaten them! I cannot wait for our next session. I wish I had found you earlier as I would have saved myself so much grief and disappointment. Thank you for sharing this life altering experience with me.” –Fondly, Monica Anderson, Bellevue, WA.
“I love hypnosis…my knee cracking, painful problem is GONE. I feel a foot taller. I feel thinner. I feel lighter. I feel like a superstar!…Go see Connie! She’s magical!” — Nicole, Seattle, WA.
“I’ve been loving the results and new freedoms from my first round of NLP: 10 pounds gone, much less stress in my life, and I’m saving a ton of money at the grocery store. Yay me! People have been asking me what’s up with the changes and I send them your way.” — K. Dolan, Seattle, WA
“I experienced the most wonderful shift regarding my weight. You said something during the hypnosis that has allowed me to feel much more in touch with my true desires and beliefs about my weight. I feel the change and it has a wonderful ease about it. So I just wanted to let you know and to tell you how much I appreciate your work!” –C., Bellevue, WA
“I lost 4 pounds the first week since our hypnosis session!” –Ms. J., Woodinville
“I’ve lost 3 pounds in the past week since our session. I no longer feel the need to clean my plate.” –Marilyn H., Seattle, WA.
“Thank you for working with me. My eating habits have changed and I’m full much sooner. I haven’t weighed myself, but I haven’t done that in years. My clothes feel better!” –Sheri Parker, Topeka KS
“I haven’t had a donut since I last saw you (3 weeks), which is a MIRACLE!!” — Nichole L., Bellevue, WA
“It’s been 3-1/2 weeks, and I’ve eaten no junk food or candy! None. I’ve never done that before in my life! I’m impressed!” –Jeff J., Seattle, WA.
“I’ve lost 12 pounds!” — Naomi V., Mercer Island.
“It’s amazing. I’m such a different person from who I was. I’m happy, confident, very positive. People around me are noticing and commenting. Best of all, I’m not so hard on myself, I’ve learned to say nice things to myself. I’m so much happier. I feel like I can do anything.” — K.J., Renton, WA.
“Connie, I can’t begin to thank you for the ways you’ve made things better for me. I originally sought out Mindworks as the result of a glowing recommendation from a trusted friend and health professional in an effort to curb my neurotic eating. Connie was wonderfully professional and patient with me even when I lost confidence in myself or the process. I was able to dramatically reduce my nervous/neurotic eating, let go of self-loathing thoughts, gain some peace with difficult parent relationships and feel so much more hopeful and positive about the direction in which I was headed. I absolutely plan to return to do a little more mental house-cleaning and have recommended her so several others.” — Bree, Seattle, WA.
“I went to MindWorks for weight loss but ended up getting so much more out of my sessions with Connie. I have reduced stress, increased confidence and put past dysfunctional relationships in the past. Connie is a warm, caring, professional. The work we have done together has absolutely changed my life. I highly recommend Connie / MindWorks.” –Kelly, Seattle, WA.
“I cannot even begin to say all I want to say about Connie and the work she does at Mindworks Hypnosis. I’ve worked with Connie on a couple different occasions, and she has changed my life completely. I went to her for my lack of energy and enthusiasm for working out and losing weight. I’ve lost 50lbs and am now 10lbs from my goal!” –N, Seattle, WA.
“I was so happy to find Connie. Over the past 50 years I have spent thousands tracking down my constant, and health damaging weight problem. I talked until therapists felt we had gone as far as possible and still weighed over 250 pounds! (and growing) Three short treatments from Connie and I have been losing between 15 and 20 effortless, happy pounds a month. My Life has totally changed for the better. Folks don’t even recognize me from the back! She is a REAL LIVE miracle worker.” –GG, Redmond, WA.
I could go on… Do you get the idea here? Ethical hypnosis performed by skilled and creative hypnotherapists and by credentialed, Licensed Practitioners and Master Practitioners of NLP works for weight loss. It’s natural, pleasant, non-intrusive, and makes your whole life better. Why consider anything else?
Hypnosis is good for so many things, here’s an abbreviated list:
agoraphobia
anxiety/anxiety state
confidence boosting
depression
embarrassment
emotional pain/guilt
exam nerves
fear of flying
insomnia
interview nerves
migraine
motivation
memory and learning
nail and finger biting
nervous problems
nightmares
panic state, panic attacks
pain control
performance anxiety
phobias (all kinds)
public speaking
relationship problems
shyness
smoking
social anxiety
sports performance
stage fright
stress and related problems
weight loss
Sometimes a client will ask for my help with more than one issue. One nice thing about how easy change is, it builds on itself. Change one thing for the better and other positive changes begin rolling. Here is a testimonial/business review I received today:
“I cannot thank Connie enough for the amazing Life Changing experience! I have sufferred from both a fear of heights and an ongoing, 50 year weight management problem. I have paid thousands of dollars to “talk” therapists, and emerged with some idea of why I had these problems, but NO idea of how to utilize that knowledge. In 3 sessions with Connie, who was extremely sensitive to my issues, I can now proudly say “Bring on your heights” and I have been losing between 15 and 20 effortless, happy pounds a month. My Life has totally changed for the better. Folks don’t even recognize me from the back! She is a REAL LIVE miracle worker. GG”
Yay!!
I love success stories. Is it time for yours to begin?
I received some more feedback today, another happy testimonial from another happy client. She had come in for help with weight loss. Here’s what she had to say about her ice cream and chocolate cravings after experiencing a single session of Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapy with me:
“I don’t crave ice cream at all now! Or chocolate. I am in shock!!!” She goes on to explain how people around her are noticing the positive difference in her. “I’m smiling all the time. People think that I am in love! But I am not! Absolutely not in love, I just feel GREAT. I believe that it’s the hypnosis!!” Saliha B., Issaquah, WA.
She’s right! What I’m hoping people can learn from this is that hypnosis helps. Not just in re-shaping and sculpting the body, but in changing your life. When the positive changes start rolling, it affects everything, reaches fingers into everything. It’s about changing your very experience of life, not only improving how you look, but improving how you feel, and how you think, and what you do all at the same time. Improving your outlook, your energy, your confidence. Your healthy and happy. All good.
Saliha IS in love, by the way. With herself. That’s the difference. When you feel good about yourself, you make better choices. We custom blended a new feeling for her, a mixture of confident, happy, optimistic and healthy. Feeling that way changed everything for her.
Do you want a taste of happy like Saliha? It’s so much more palatable than chocolate. Hypnosis works for weight management. Call me. Connie: (425) 564-8608.
I got another wonderful testimonial today. I worked with a girl who had a terror of water and fish, beaches, and pools. We did some hypnosis and NLP around that, and here is her report:
August 1st, 2011
Hi Connie,
It was a real pleasure working with you! I Just came back from our vacation from Maui, we had an amazing time, and guess what, I was able to swim in the ocean, and we even went for a submarine tour to watch the fishes…I still can’t believe I did that…I just wanted to give you more update about my former fish phobia and that it (hypnosis) is working.
Warm Regards,
NB., Bellevue, WA.
Truth be told, fear is one of the easiest “fixes” with hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Learn more here:
My mom liked yellow. Bright sunshine-y yellow. She used it in her artist’s pallette, she decorated her home with it. Our kitchen growing up–bright yellow. Yellow curtains, yellow walls, yellow touches. Warm. Welcoming. Love. I like yellow, too. 🙂 She also liked rose color, and had in reality a pair of “rose colored glasses.”
When you think of happy, what color is it? I like red. Bright, vibrant, jewel tone red. That’s excited and happy.
One of the things you learn in NLP, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is that you can create more of what you want in your life and less of what you don’t want in your life by simply adjusting the representations of the world in your own mind. Sounds easy. (It is.) Sounds simplistic. (It is.) But, guess what…it’s amazingly powerful and it works to make permanent and positive shifts in your life. One of those possible adjustments in submodalities (as they’re called) of your internal representations is color.
When you identify a color that when you consider it, makes you feel happy, take that color and use it. Use it like a wash of watercolor paint and splash it, overlay it on your internal visual of any situation that needs more happy in it. If you have an internal picture which feels negative when you think of it, and the visual is dark, gloomy, full of rain clouds, pour in the sunshine. If yellow is your happy color, fill the picture with a golden glow. Imagine the light shifting in that image. The quality of the light shifting. The color shifting. Your feelings shift as well.
Here’s another experiment! 🙂 If a problem is bright and vivid, take the color out of it. Nullify it. Take a tension headache. Imagine a color for it. Change the color. Lessen its intensity. Drain the color out of it. Make it turn into opaque, crystalline, clear, fading, fading the color. The discomfort fades, too. Now, of course, I have to lay out a disclaimer. I’m not medical and headaches may indicate a medical issue which may require medical treatment–see your doctor for headaches, especially if it’s unexplained, recurring or sustained. But for a run of the mine head discomfort (I get that with caffeine withdrawal), play with the color experiment.
NLP is really amazing, and my clients are often amazed as well. Their conscious minds are trying like mad to understand how it is that they feel so dramatically different (and better) so suddenly. Improving confidence, reducing fear, reducing stress, removing cravings for nicotine and sugar and so on. “How can it be so easy?” It just is. NLP has been called “hypnosis on steroids.” Yes, it is.
If you want a taste of that, and help to add some new color to your life, call me. It’s not just a new color, it’s new sound, feeling, taste, smell, and pictures. It’s a new creation–called your life how you want it. Better than Burger King’s “have it your way.” You can, you know, have it your way. Your life, that is.
Warm Regards,
Connie
PS: That beautiful watercolor artwork there was painted by my mother, artist Francine Porad. 🙂
I love it when my clients have success, and I also love to hear about it. A successful weight loss client talked with me yesterday, months after we began our work. Here’s what she says:
“It’s amazing. I’m such a different person from who I was. I’m happy, confident, very positive. People around me are noticing and commenting. Best of all, I’m not so hard on myself, I’ve learned to say nice things to myself. I’m so much happier. I feel like I can do anything.” K.J., Renton, WA.
Hypnosis and NLP–which has been called “hypnosis on streroids”–they work!
I have something very magical to share. The wild owls came back, this time 3 of them. Came back to the same tree a few feet outside my office window, where they enjoyed a picnic of raw rodents. They are absolutely beautiful creatures. The owls, not the rodents! 🙂 I took some pictures, and even a video, and I’m happy to share them. Lunch time!
I have my own theories as to why, out of the hundreds upon hundreds of trees in the area where I have my office, the owls chose the tree and branch by my window. I think it’s got something to do with “energy.” As part of my Ericksonian hypnosis work, I tell stories and metaphors. That very tree is the object of one of my metaphors. For healthy, and thriving life, and positive energy.
I lavish positive energy on that tree every day, and I believe it “stuck.” The tree is magificent, and if you remember, I told the story here on my blog (with photographic evidence) of how it bloomed before any other tree in the area. Mere coincidence?
That tree is special. The owl knows that. Feels that.
I love my owls.
The Twins
Here are some pics. They are lovely, mysterious, and beautiful. I was holding a seminar in my office space this past weekend, and the owls came to visit, and participated. During a hypnotic interlude, one owl did a dance for us. I attempted to capture it on video, but the dance was done. Owls have their own agenda! Owl Nondance!
It’s a driving school. Not about motor vehicles. It’s about LIVES. Your life! About running your life the way you want. Taking control. The King of NLP, and my teacher, Dr. Richard Bandler, calls learning and using NLP “Driving your own bus.” Yes, I do. Perhaps, you want to, too! 🙂
This powerful seminar/workshop focuses on using NLP for self development and life success. NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be described as an amalgam of linguistics and hypnosis, and is based on the study of human excellence. If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be: “Be all that you can be.” Yes, you can. We’ll help you, as you learn and experience powerful subconscious communication tools and techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power. Eliminate undesirable habits! Program in more useful ones. Control your emotional states and more!
It’s not fluff. It’s not hype. It’s REAL. The testimonials on my website (and there are dozens upon dozens) are because I incorporate NLP into my therapy work. In one of the video testimonials we received, a woman says: “Everyone should be required to learn this (NLP) at an early age. It would make the world such a better place.” I absolutely agree.
If you want in for a one-day workshop showcasing NLP and more about hypnosis in general, too…join us! Remember that old airline slogan, “We love to fly, and it shows.” Well, We love NLP, and it shows.
Warm Regards,
Connie & Michael
Michael and Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotists, Licensed Trainers of NLP (tm), Design Human Engineers (tm), and more!
Who remembers David Cassidy? The Partridge Family. I sure do! I had a crush on him when I was 13! 🙂 And I liked one song in particular. “Hello, world, here’s a song that we’re singin’, c’mon get happy! A whole lotta lovin’ is what we’ll be bringin’, we’ll make you happy! We’ll make you happy.”
I like when people get happy. Because when you feel good, you think different thoughts, and make different decisions which lead to more useful behaviors. That shift in feeling and thinking is what I aim for in my work at Mindworks Hypnosis and NLP. Here’s one recent bullseye!
I got a wonderful report today from a weight loss client. In part, here is what she says:
“Thank you Connie! The work we have done together has truly changed my life. I have found “my happy” and am now on the journey to a stronger, slimmer, healthier me. –Kelly”
Here’s what I say to that! Yay!! 🙂 You go, Girl! Because, Kelly is making these changes happen. I’ve guided her to her internal resources which make her life better, and she’s taken them onboard, like grabbing a football and running for the goal line.
Perhaps it’s time for positive changes in your life, whether it’s weight loss, habit change, letting go of fear, or what have you, hypnosis is a tool that works! I’m ready to help!
“Tahooo, tahooo, a merry note!” That quote is something Shakespeare-ian that Michael likes to say, but it’s also my imagination of an owl’s sound.
Owls! My office is just south of downtown Bellevue, a minute beyond the land of skyscrapers and cityscape, but you wouldn’t know it from the views out my window. You’d think you’re in a woodsy park. Or, as a colleague recently called it: “An enchanted forest.” It’s a very wetlands. The ducks and squirrels and rabbits are constant companions, but look who came to visit me this week, also!! A giant wild owl.
He was magnificent. Dark gray, and sat in the tree right outside my office window most of the day. You couldn’t miss him–I think he was two feet tall. Riveting! Beautiful. Magical.
I’ve never seen a wild owl before in the flesh/feather, only zoo owls and stuffed ones in nature museums.
I love my office! There’s a peaceful and warm energy there. And so much green. To me, this setting epitomizes LIFE. Fresh, green, changing, alive, growth, movement, joy. I wonder what that owl thought, sitting there watching me do hypnosis with my clients. He looked relaxed, sleepy even. Maybe the hypnosis bounced out the window and he could feel it, too. 🙂 He probably felt very comfortable, because that’s what hypnosis brings to a person. Much the same list. Comfort. Life, growth, movement, joy, movement in desired directions.
It’s nice to love what you do and where you do it. 🙂
Have a wonderful Fourth of July weekend, everybody!
Love, Connie
Connie Brannan, CHt.
PS: I thought of a pun. It’s groan-worthy! 🙂 Hypnosis for “owl” of your positive changes.
The ducks love me. And, rightly so! 🙂 My office is in the most beautiful location, trees, water, fresh, green, lush, and…sinking. It’s a wetlands. And it’s wetter than usual. We’ve had some flooding.
What used to be the tenant office parking area for my building is now part of a giant mud puddle, or as I call it, “the swamp.” While it’s harder for us humans to scrounge for parking spaces, the ducks and other wildlife love it! And the ducks love me.
I feed them. Duckbread.
Yesterday I was walking to my office by way of the swamp, and in it were 7 tiny baby ducks, several adults and one “half-pint” sized duck. I see them every day! Those are “my ducks.” 🙂 They were all hungry, apparently. I had made a special trip to the Orowheat bakery thrift store (again) here in Bellevue to get a big package of bread for the ducks, and now…feasting time. Duck frenzy. A happy frenzy.
It is so cute to see those baby ducks eating. And the happy sounds! 🙂 One thing I’ve noticed about ducks, though, they stop eating when they’ve had enough. I’ll be tossing out the breadcrumbs and they’ll be scarfing them down, then suddenly they’re swimming away, totally disinterested. Done! Time to preen, time to sit in the sun. The rest of the bread gets picked up and whisked away by the giant crows that also live in the area.
These ducks look VERY healthy.
What a good lesson for humans, too. Stop eating when you’ve had enough. In fact, that’s part of the “Naturally Slender Healthy Eating Strategy” I help install in clients during hypnosis. NLP studies excellence and “what works.” I help people take on the unconscious patterns of naturally slender people–and my clients become slender. It works! Goodbye, bored eating. Goodbye, stress eating. Goodbye, I have to finish my plate eating. Goodbye, I see it so I have to eat it eating. Hello, healthy eating. Hello, in-tune-with-the-body eating.
Ducks know things. Useful things. And they know that I’m a friend and want the best for them. I want that for my clients, too. If you would like to eat healthier and take on the habits, thoughts, feelings that go along with healthy and result in weight loss and ongoing weight management, maybe it’s time for hypnosis.
Hypnosis for weight loss!
I know whereof I speak. I live the “healthy eating strategy” and it’s a huge part of how I lost 80+ pounds. Now, whether you’ve got 8 to lose, or 80, these tools will reshape your life and body. Call me and find out more: (425) 564-8608. http://www.loseweightseattle.com.
We are Licensed thru the Co-Creator of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler.
1 Day Seminar NLP for Personal Change & Success
I talk a LOT about NLP–I consider it my prime tool for helping me, and helping others. Would you like to learn more about it, and also some cool DOING of NLP? You’re in luck. Michael and I are offering a 1-day “Power of Mind” Workshop next month. It’s all day, Saturday, July 16th. Click here to learn more:
Here’s more information! NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) can be defined as: the study of human excellence. If it weren’t already taken, the slogan for NLP could be: “Be all that you can be.” Yes, you can. We’ll help you get there, with the transformational secrets you’ll learn in this amazing 1-day event.
Now is the time to improve your life!! Learn and experience incredible subconscious communication tools for personal (& business) success, and pumping up your joy and fulfillment. It’s all about crafting your own experience of life, “driving your own bus,” as co-creator of NLP, Richard Bandler, says.
Learn simple techniques you can use immediately to increase personal satisfaction, self confidence, influence and power. Eliminate undesirable habits! Program in more useful ones. Control your emotional states and more!
This seminar/workshop is hands on, with class demonstrations and exercises as well as lecture. So you can expect a very interactive and experiential training event. You will learn with not one, but TWO Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™, Connie & Michael Brannan.
Our price for this seminar is $97 to enjoy the FULL day’s experience. Ample free parking available. We’ll be providing coffee, decaf, tea, and pastries in the training room. There’s numerous restaurant choices nearby for lunch.
Space is limited, so sign up now to guarantee yours!
Location: Bellevue, Washington 98004
I have a photograph of my dad on my desk. Here it is! I’m sharing it. This is my dad the day he caught a fish–and what a fish!– and won a salmon derby in Canada. That’s a 70+ pound salmon!! In my mind, it was the happiest moment of his life!
Now, of course I didn’t know my dad his ENTIRE life, I showed up when he was around 30. But in my mind, it captures the essence of happy. What do you think? And, thanks to Kodak, it’s captured forever. This moment in time. Framed. On my desk. When I see it, I feel happy, too.
Kodak is cool. Photography, allowing us to capture a moment in time visually, terrific. Well, we have something inside us that does even more than that. We have a wonderful ability to not just capture but recreate a moment in time as well. It’s called “memory.” And it’s not just visual. Not just a picture. It’s got the vibrancy of full-sensory LIFE. Re-LIVING. Our memories capture all of it, sensory rich full-bodied experiences, with movement, scent, taste, breath, energy, sound, emotion, thought, etc. It’s all in there. Captured in our minds and in our memories.
Guess what? This is useful!!
Thoughts are attached to feelings. Memory is attached to all of it. If my dad were still alive, and I asked him to remember that moment, that day he caught “the fish” (as it’s known in family lore), he would re-experience all that emotion you see in the picture in his body now. Just as vividly and richly. He would “get happy.” Guess what? This is useful! 🙂
Our unconscious minds (accessible more than we know) have stored the experience. We can capture it again via memory and use it NOW.
One of the things I do for clients is create good feelings and capture them for specific contexts. In a problem situation, I ask them: “How would you rather feel?” We can do that. Capture and bring those good feelings to where they are useful. If it’s fear, bring calm. You can’t have both, fear and calm operating in your body at the same time. If it’s tension, bring relaxed. You can’t have both, tense and relaxed at the same time. If it’s sad, bring some happy. You can’t be both, sad and happy at the same time. As the old song goes: something’s gotta give! It’s the negative, unwanted feeling which goes. And the positive, desired feeling which stays.
That’s NLP. Simple processes which make that happen. So fast!
And when you change how you feel, you change how you think, and you change what you do.
Have you ever made soup “from scratch?” Adding and blending spices and seasonings, salt, pepper, oregano, what have you, and tasting, adding a little more of this, and tasting, a little more of that, and tasting, until it’s JUST RIGHT. Alchemy happens, the flavors meld and merge in the pot into something brand new, something perfectly delicious. Well, we can do the same thing with feelings. Create new ones. Good ones.
I do this with clients! I’m a master chef and my spices are feelings, and I custom blend new, useful feelings for clients, feelings that advance them in new directions. We even give these new feelings new names. I’m often amused with the names my clients create for them. Two recent examples: girl’s resourceful new feeling a few days ago was called “Yay, me!” and man’s yesterday was “Quiet confidence with a smile.” I like both of those!!
What’s really useful is bringing these designer, resourceful feelings into life to change things. That’s NLP.
It’s a simple process and enormously powerful. To feel good, I mean.
Finding out how to feel good in ways and places you want to feel good is really, really easy. Call me.
It’s time to clean out my work desk. It’s getting cluttered. And it’s full of things I don’t want. Nobody does.
Some formerly-smoking clients like to give me “gifts” as they’re leaving their Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapy session(s). They hand me their last package of cigarettes, and say: “I don’t need these. I’m so done with cigarettes.”
I’ve been keeping these “gifts” for a reason. Part of the work I do is TESTING. How do we know the hypnosis is working? The proof is the pudding and you, my clients, are the pudding. How do you respond? Is it different than when you walked in the door?
With a spider phobia client we go into the garden and look for spiders, so he/she can stick their face two inches from a spider and FEEL the difference. Nothing. Calm. With a fear-of-heights client, we’ll walk into the open 2nd level atrium in my building and lean over the edge, and FEEL the difference. Nothing. Calm. With a former smoker, he/she will hold the cigarette, smell the cigarette, look at the package, and FEEL the difference. Zero interest. Zero attraction. Indifference. Or, as useful, disgust, as in “I don’t want those.”
So I keep these packages of cigarettes around for testing. But I don’t need so many packages in my drawer. I’ll just keep one.
Other “gifts” include tins of chewing tobacco, and various packages of candy. Clients have handed them over telling me that they’re choosing healthy instead. I have some in my drawer, and it’s also a nice test for ME–someone who was a “candy addict” for decades upon decades. I test me, and no, I have zero interest in eating that candy. Forgetaboutit! Good thing, too. Because I’ve re-shaped my body with hypnosis and I intend to keep it that way.
HYPNOSIS WORKS! What do you want to remove from the “drawer” to create your happy life? Come see me. I’ll help you declutter from the things you don’t want. Call me and learn more: (425) 564-8608. Or check out one or more of my websites:
Something nice to brighten my Monday! 🙂 I received another terrific client report. Yes, hypnosis works:
“Hi Connie!
I don’t know if you remember me, but we worked together last September before I went off to attend college. I came to you with extreme Anxiety and now I am pleased to say that I have not had ONE single Anxiety Attack since September 2010, that’s 9 MONTHS! I want to say thank you sooo much. I have been able to live my life back the way it was Normal and Anxiety free– On no drugs!!
Thank you so much.
Katelyn Culbert – O’Leary”
I love to hear good reports from my clients. Thank you, Katelyn!
Warm Regards,
Connie
Connie Brannan, CHt.
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You never stop learning! Not ever. That’s one of my core beliefs, and as such it leads to the possibility of creating continuously a life more in alignment with pleasure, joy, success, power, and so on. Learning gives you the ability to rudder your own ship. Learning is power. Learning is magic. Learning keeps your mind sharp and young.
Who wants an easy and FUN one-evening learning experience, which just happens to be amazingly useful as well? (And inexpensive.) I’m offering something new at Bellevue College, as part of the Personal Development Continuing Education program. Info:
A Chance to Trance: Discover Hypnosis for Goal Achievement
Everyone can be hypnotized and learn to focus their own unconscious minds in powerful ways to achieve their goals. If you’ve ever wondered what trance is like, here’s your chance to experience it. A Chance to Trance. Experience hypnosis first hand and be guided through an ingenious process of goal manifestation by Master Hypnotist & Licensed Trainer of NLP, Connie Brannan. Bring a pillow, if you like, and bring a goal for your life success!
A Chance to Trance: Discover Hypnosis for Goal Achievement
Item: R8970 Connie Brannan
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM North Campus Room: V1104
Sessions: 1 W Address: 14673 NE 29th Place Bellevue, WA 98007
8/3/2011 – 8/3/2011 Fee: $39.00
If you’re in the Seattle area, you’re close enough to get in on this! It’s not just information, it’s DOING. I guide the whole group into a wonderful trance and lead them through a change process of goal setting and manifestation. It’s cool. It’s ingenious. It’s something I’ve created that I use one-on-one with my clients for their life goals, and it’s POWERFUL. It works!
And, notice the amazingly low, low cost of just $39 for the evening’s trance experience. Bellevue College set that price, not me. I think what I’m offering is beyond price. Judge for yourself. Join me. The sign up link (you must sign up through Bellevue College) is here:
I get such warm, wonderful feedback from my clients, and those notes, emails, and communications make me happy. Yay! Success. I fully expect a great result for my clients, as I do everything I can think of to make that happen, however it’s always nice to hear it from the horse’s mouth! Periodically, I share those testimonials, because I want people to know. YES, HYPNOSIS WORKS! Fantastically well.
Here’s another success story that I received today, from a gentleman who is allowing me to use his name. He’s in an industry and a career that involves continually working at extreme heights–and the fear was an issue. No more. We had one session together, and here is his report:
“Hello Connie,
Changes…. The evening of the session I was able to go up our step ladder two steps in the kitchen and stand on one leg. The weekend after the session, I spent some time at 45 feet in a small (hydraulic) lift and was much more comfortable than before…
I was also noticing that when I walk on catwalks or spend time on elevated platforms, I usually concentrate on work. In the past it was nearly impossible because the fear was overpowering.I’ve definitely made vast headway. Thanks, you are the best!— Blake Townsend.”
What are you afraid of? Michael and I can help shift that fear into something more comfortable. Fear doesn’t always keep you safe, sometimes it makes you more unsafe, as in the man above. His work calls for steady and focus, not panic. If you have an unreasonable fear, hypnosis works! Let me prove it to you! http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net and http://www.seattlehypnosisforphobias.com.
I’ve worked with “phobias” as varied as fear of public speaking, fear of water, fear of “the wind,” fear of spiders, fear of snakes, fear of record stores, fear of driving, fear of flying, fear of fish, fear of overripe fruit, fear of noise, etc. Fear can become attached to anything, and can also be easily un-attached!
My mother often had moments she called “Aha!” moments–when some insight was gleaned and something suddenly made sense to her, or shifted her thinking. She turned these moments into poetry. She was a poet, as well as an artist! 🙂
I just had an “Aha!” moment. My “Aha!” moments turn into stories for my hypnosis clients, and blog entries! Here it is.
I was on Facebook, which I enjoy, when I encountered an unexpected difficulty, an undesired “shift.” I was typing away, and out of the blue my computer keyboard screwed up, and began typing symbols instead of letters. I couldn’t “undo” that weirdness, the shift functionality was ON and I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off, and couldn’t finish and “publish” my thought for Facebook. What’s going on? I wondered, what strange combination of function keys did I accidentally touch and activate??
I tried hitting several varieties of keys to undo the problem, alt/caps lock, function number keys, etc. Nothing. It kept with the goofy symbols instead of writing. Then I noticed, there was a crumb, a hardened crumb, somehow wedged in the side of the “shift” key, holding it down.
I brushed it off, and everything worked perfectly again. Sometimes the best solutions are the easiest, straightforward, and overlooked.
Bellevue College has a new location in North Bellevue, and I’m excited to be teaching my self hypnosis course there again. Beginning next week! It’s for two evenings, Monday, May 9th and Monday, May 16th. Two evenings, twice the fun. Twice the TRANCE-formation. Learn something so powerful and cool.
The frame of this course is Healthy Hypnosis: Let Go of Weight, and that’s terrific. However, I want you to know that when you learn self hypnosis, these same tools are terrific for so much more than that tiny frame. (Which you’ll achieve–a tiny frame–when you let go of the unwanted pounds through self hypnosis!)
In the bigger picture, here’s what it’s really about: behavior change, feeling change, thinking changes. Around so much, and so many different situations. For example: smoking cessation, sleep improvement, stress reduction, more motivation/less procrastination, better study habits, better golf, and more and more and more than that!
There’s still room available, if you’re interested. And if you’re reading this, that means you are interested in hypnosis. Here is a terrific and inexpensive way to get started with hypnosis. Why not use ALL of your brain for a change?
Here are the class details and signup form (through Bellevue College’s Continuing Education program):
Imagine yourself in your “skinny jeans.” Hear the compliments of your family and friends. Like what you see when you look in the mirror! Feel the energy! The hypnosis skills taught in this workshop can help you unleash the infinite power within you to achieve all this! You’ll learn to reprogram your own mind to act in ways you desire: healthy choices, healthy eating, motivation to exercise. It won’t be a struggle, and it’s not a “diet,” it’s simply doing what you want to do. Your mind and your body will be working together–for your health!!
If you’d like to join me, please sign up! You’ll be in for an enriching and exremely fun experience. Hands on hypnosis.
This is a VERY cute video. It’s not just an adorable baby laughing as Dad tears up his job rejection letter…it’s more than that. It’s an accurate and amazing illustration of ANCHORING.
I talk about anchors, and I use anchors all the time in my work. It’s an NLP term. (Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a high tech hypnosis.) In this video, every time the baby hears/sees the paper rip, he immediately laughs uproariously. EVERY TIME. Stimulus, response. Stimulus, response. Same stimulus, same response. Over and over and over again. Simply explained, an anchor is an unconscious association that’s been created, a link-up in the brain. This means that, this leads to that. When it rains, I feel sad. When I see a spider, I recoil in fear. When I see a stop sign, my foot moves off the gas pedal. When I smell chocolate brownies, I remember my mother. Anchors!
Now, laughter is a wonderful thing to anchor. Keep it! When a response is less than desired, however, that’s where NLP comes in. We can change our anchors. Absolutely easily! I worked with a gentleman with a debilitating fear of heights this past week. That fear response, it was simply a learned response, an anchor. I’m in a high place, and that means PANIC! (Not anymore, after working with me! Now it means calm, comfortable, confident, and clear-minded.) What we do in NLP work, we help people break out of these unconscious patterns and install new anchors, for better and more resourceful responses.
This morning when Michael and I were admiring his wallet and the contents therein, I noticed this: a $20 bill with intense red lettering on the front: “Splurge, Princess, Splurge!” I said: “That’s for me!” and I grabbed it. (With Michael’s permission, of course.) 🙂 Immediately, questions and possible stories filled my mind.
How old was the Princess who was presented with this gift? Who was it from? Was it a single $20 bill or a stack of 20’s and/or other denominations as well? What was the gift-giving occasion? I conjured this: a little girl, aged 8 or so, given a no-occasion gift of $20 by her loving dad.
There’s clearly a story here! What it is, we’ll never know, unless someone reads this and recognizes the writing, and tells me. This is more than a story about a $20 bill, however. It’s also a story about the mind and how it functions.
It doesn’t end with the Princess and her gift. Between waking and work (about an hour) I was presented with at least 4 more “princess” messages–out of the blue. I turned on my computer to check my email as I do every morning, and there was a story about the upcoming royal wedding and Princess Diana’s legacy…a princess-to-be and a real princess, Ok. That’s 2, or 3 depending on how you count. (I didn’t read the story.) Then I got dressed, and remembered that my shoes are “princess” reboks. 4. And then the next one. I got in the car, and immediately noticed the truck parked next to me and it’s large sign bolted on where the license plate should be. It read: “I’m the PRINCESS – That’s why!” 5. Five Princess references in a just a few minutes–forcing themselves into my conscious awareness.
It must mean something.
One more time, with emphasis!
I told the story before of how the universe gave me a message to get a new office space. I heard, and I obeyed, and I’m massively happy as a result. I wrote about the unconscious mind as a meaning-seeking device, making order out of chaos. What does the universe want me to know and/or do now regarding “Splurge, Princess, Splurge!”? Is it randomness and coincidence? Or is it synchronicity, and serendipity making sense of out chaos?! I choose to believe it’s the latter!
We all have something called “The Reticular Activating System” inside us, inside our brains. Basically, when it turns on, we notice things in our environment that are important to us, and give them an added level of attention. That’s a wonderful survival skill! 🙂 For example, we notice where in relation to our cave that the sabertooth tigers hang out, and we’re careful and watchful in those areas. I had a very active reticular activating system around spiders, for the decades of my spider phobia. Hubby called it “bug radar.”
Today, my reticular activating system got “activated” again, with a new noticing, a princessly noticing. As I was driving this morning, I found myself scanning every word, every sign, every piece of lettering and license plate number for meaning with a new intensity, to see how it fits or clarifies “Splurge, Princess, Splurge!” Nothing yet! But I’ll let you know, as I trust my unconscious mind to have noticed this and brought it into conscious awareness for a positive reason. Any ideas or inspirations? Share!
Happy Earth Day to one and all. This is our planet, our lives, our time. Let’s make it be what we want, something beautiful and wondrous. Fresh & healthy. Starting with you!
It’s springtime! And you know what that means. Time to hit the links! Golf! Michael and I also offer sports enhancement hypnotherapy. Who wants the mental edge?
Here’s more information about that service that we have offered and continue to offer. I’ve created a new website today, hot off the presses:
If you know any golfers out there who want to be good, or better than good, and have more fun enjoying their sport than ever before (or if YOU fit that description) have them call us! We deliver golfing fun and excellence. The “zone” is in you, and we can grab it and bottle it for you. If the mental edge is of interest to you, check out the website. I’ve worked with athletes of all varieties, from Olympic caliber to hobbyists. All can get the mental edge and find improvement in their sport. Athleticism is beautiful.
This is pretty mind-boggling. 🙂 Look at this picture:
Clockwise or Counter-Clockwise?
Is it spinning in a clockwise motion, or is it spinning counter-clockwise? Once you have identified the spin, reverse it. Just look at it, imagine it’s motion in the opposite direction, and voila! It happens. The direction of spin is reversed. You didn’t know your mind was so powerful, did you? (I did know.) 🙂
A thing is a thing. Or is it? The way we see it, well, that’s up for grabs. Spin your perceptions in a way that makes your life better! It’s all under your control. How interesting would it be to you if your problems became absolute non-problems? For example, if desire to smoke became “Who cares?” If lunch shifted from “I must eat cookies” to I’d rather eat a spinach salad. If the couch and a box of donuts shifted into “I’m getting my butt into the gym!” If fear of public speaking became calm and confident and articulate. Here’s what I know to be true: change your perception/thinking about things and you change everything.
Want to learn how? That’s where hypnosis comes in. Hypnosis and NLP. Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Change how you think and you change how you feel, and you change how you interact in the world.
The mind is powerful. YOUR mind is powerful. Let’s use it for life improvements and more success and fun. I’m game. Are you?
I invite you to check out this tree! I took this photo today, it’s of the tree right outside my office window. I look at it every day and I admire it’s lush, fresh, new and unfurling green leaves. New life! Spring time to get blooming! It’s beautiful.
These trees outside my window are my visual aides to story-telling as I engage in what is known as Ericksonian Hypnosis. Part of the hypnosis work I do: I tell stories, use metaphors, imagery, indirect language to suggest direct change. I love nature imagery. As I work with hypnosis clients, I often talk about trees–this tree outside my window in particular. I emphasize how natural change is for trees, how easy it is to let go of that which is no longer needed, how easy to embrace fresh new healthy life, the long-haul surviver and thriver qualities of trees. They grow more beautiful and stronger every day. As I tell these stories to my clients in trance, I am also focusing energy on the trees outside my window, and lavishing them as well with this “grow healthy” patter.
Guess what!? It works! This tree is evidence of thriving! This tree is amazingly greener, more alive and blooming than any of the other trees (of the same kind) that surround my office building.
Here is precisely what those other trees look like. More like winter trees. Spring has not sprung inside this tree yet.
Same day, same kind of tree, same area.
That’s right! Kind of gray, kind of barren. What do you think? Could the focused waves of positive and healing energy emanating from my office and directed at the nearest tree time and time again really be affecting it and causing it to grow and bloom more powerfully than the other nearby trees? It looks that way to me. 🙂 And it reminds me of a study I read, about the power of emotion to affect water and crystals. It’s called “The Hidden Messages in Water” by Masaru Emoto.
I KNOW that with my clients healing happens in my office daily, and new fresh possibilities are installed as I tell stories about and I focus positive energy on my trees. I just never suspected that the trees themselves would benefit.
What do you think? Why is “my” tree thriving more than any other at the Alderwood Building? Look at these pics, taken today, and decide for yourself! 🙂
We all have “plans.” Plans for the future. Grand schemes. And that’s terrific. We all have a past. Yesterday, last week, last year. Five years old. And that’s terrific, too. People think about those things, sometimes too much. To the neglect of today. Right now.
What are you doing right now? Besides reading my blog… What is the state of your mind and body? Is there joy, is there fun, is there passion? Is there motivation? Is there happy? Are you smelling the spring roses? Are you LIVING, or are you waiting? Are you living, or are you remembering?
Don’t wait to remember that right now is an important time of your life, too. Right now, this instant. If you’re not enjoying fully the state of your mind and body and experience of life at this moment, know this: you can change it. Easier and quicker than you think.
And, as I explain to every client who enters my office door, when you change how you feel, you change how you think, and you change what you DO. It’s seamless. If you want to feel something different, right now, not ten years down the road, if you want to see life differently, if you’re ready to hear new and improved thoughts in your own head, and DO life differently in a way that makes more good feelings flow, hypnosis and NLP is a tool for you. Experience it. The best time of your life is right now.
Everyone talks about New Year’s Resolutions! Well, New Year’s has come and gone, and perhaps you have not yet achieved your weight management goals. I can help! That’s right, perhaps it’s time for a new Spring Resolution. 🙂
I help people with my Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapy with ALL the issues surrounding weight loss and healthy eating habits. I’ve lived this story. And here I am, lighter and happy at the success side of this. I know all about it.
Hypnosis works! For motivation, and increasing the desire to exercise, freedom from cravings, freedom from junk food, getting in tune with your body’s needs, eliminating that negative self talk, and more. It’s about installing healthy choices, naturally, on a UNconscious level. This makes new healthy behaviors and thoughts and feelings so natural that you forget you ever had a problem. How amazing would that be?
You can find out. Call me! I’ve also got a website which focuses on my work with weight management: it’s here http://www.loseweightseattle.com. Seattle, yes! But not only Seattle. I’m talkin’ to you, Bellevue, and Redmond, and Sammamish, and Issaquah. I’m talkin’ to you, Mercer Island! (my home town). I’m talking to all of you in the Seattle metro area. If you want it to be different, it can be. Find out now!
Once again, I’ll be teaching self hypnosis at Bellevue College’s Continuing Education program. Next go-round begins Monday, March 7th! There’s room for one more, honey! (How many of you remember the twilight zone episode which featured that line? Difference is, this is a terrific thing, not a premonition of doom thing.) You can still sign up. Here:
The focus of this two evening course is “Healthy Hypnosis–Let Go of Weight.” I know whereof I speak here. I did. You can. Learn how. Do it. I’ve successfully used hypnosis (and NLP–a high tech hypnosis) to let go of 75+ pounds. For those of you who may be new to my blog and my story, lookie here. This was me, and this is me.
The proof is in the pudding, and your body and mind and LIFE and energy are the pudding. Who wants to get cookin’ on this with me? These tools work.
Here’s to a happy and healthy new you, beginning now. (Or, Monday!)
“Someday.” What a wishy-washy weasel-y, weak word. Be wary of this word coming out of your own mouths or pens–because here’s what it really means: never. “Someday” is married to “I can’t.” They live unhappily ever after.
Movement forward is a good thing, in my model of the world. What I sell is movement, and change. Belief change, behavioral change. Life change. Useful and desired and WONDERFUL change. “Someday” is a holding in place word, not a movement word. “Do it!” “Doing it!” that’s movement. Someday…I’ll quit smoking. Someday…I’ll get my body in shape. Someday…blah blah blah. Someday never comes.
I love my teachers. One in particular, Dr. Richard Bandler, the co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™. Yesterday was his birthday. He got literally hundreds of well wishes from fans and friends across the globe on his Facebook page. One girl wrote to him: “I will take one of your trainings and meet you someday.” I’m sure he was underwhelmed by that. I would be. It means “never.”
When I took Design Human Engineering™ with Richard and his co-trainer, John LaValle, last year, here’s one of the ideas that got well installed: “Just f****** do it!!” It being movement towards a well formed outcome, a goal, what you want in life. I hear John’s voice in my ear often, propelling me forward. I’ll have to thank him again for that! 🙂
My favorite songwriter, Smokey Robinson, said the same thing in a softer way in the lyrics of one of his best songs (More Love): “Let it be soon. Don’t hesitate. Make it now. Don’t wait…”
To me it’s so simple. If you want something (sufficiently), you do it. You make it happen. I don’t “do” someday. Why would anyone? Why not shift “someday” into “now?”
NLP is a conversational, high-tech hypnosis…the most powerful change tool on earth. It’s also been called “hypnosis on steroids.” Absolutely. This is the primary thing which has reshaped by body (minus 75+ pounds) and my life. Do you think I’d have been comfortable and confident enough before NLP to make a video such as the above and chat to the world? No way, Jose. Do you think I’d be running my own businesses? Perhaps, but I doubt as successfully.
NLP is a set of tools for life success. This is what sets me above other hypnotherapists’ level of success–my NLP. There are Practitioners of NLP, there are Master Practitioners of NLP, and beyond that level of skill, there are Trainers of NLP. I’m a Licensed Trainer of NLP ™. And, when you come to my office, what you’re going to receive is neuro-linguistic hypnotherapy. In my estimation, the power of this blend and the postive changes achieved through this exceeds anything else I’ve ever heard of or experienced on earth. I’d love it if you’d let me prove it to you.
Hi, Guys! Here is more truth about hypnosis. It’s NOT sleep. You may snore in hypnosis, you may drool, your body may be massively relaxed, but it’s not sleep. It’s a different state of mind/body, with different brainwave patterns. You go into hypnosis every day of your life, including on your way into and out of sleep. Learn more here: http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net/faq.html
Here’s me, talking about this!
Here’s more about the brainwave patterns themselves:
Stay tuned! I’m editing several more educational (More Truth About Hypnosis) short videos. They’ll also be available on youtube. Here is my page there:
This is one of my favorite holidays…and really, what’s not to like? It’s about LOVE. Connection. Hearts. Chocolate (though I eat less of that nowadays). Happy Valentine’s Day to my hypnosis friends.
I went to see Smokey Robinson perform live last night. The man is ALL about love. What a hypnotist. 🙂 I love Smokey Robinson. If you want a taste of Smokey, there’s about 5000 performance videos of him on youtube.com.
If you want a taste of self-love, here’s something else for you to experience. Self hypnosis. Michael and I are offering an intensive, one-day self hypnosis workshop this Saturday, February 19th here in Bellevue, “Discover the Power of Hypnosis to Improve Your Life.” If you’d like to read more about it, you can check out the details here:
We’ve got a small group, which means “more hypnosis for you!” We’d love it if you’d come and discover hypnosis for life success. It really is truly amazing and powerful, and I run out of superlatives when I talk about it. If hypnosis were a page on Facebook (it probably is), I’d click LIKE!! More than like. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE. Which is why this day of love is a good time to talk about it. If you love yourself enough to want more joy and success in your life, or would like to love yourself enough to want more joy and success in your life, here’s a tool for you.
In our workshop, you get to experience hypnosis, and we install an “instant trigger for trance” for you to return to that state when and where you want. And that state is magic, where miracles happen, where you focus your mind on what you want and that part of your mind figures out how to get it! We talk about goal formation, the language of unconscious influence, how to self-hypnotize, how to do a self-hypnosis session, and there will be hypnotic interludes aplenty. FUN!! LIVE. HYPNOSIS!
Pre-registration is necessito, because space for this workshop is limited. If you want in (the best Valentine’s gift you could ever give to anyone or yourself), call me right now, 425-564-8608.
Hey, it’s Valentine’s and if you are still stumped for the unique and loving gift for your significant other, well, this is something different, isn’t it?? 🙂 AND something cool. It’s an experience you can share together.
Much love to you all on Valentine’s and every day,
Connie
I’ve got lots of decor in my office. One of my favorite pieces is a wood block word: “BELIEVE” silhouetted against the window. Next to it is an accordian sign which reads: “You can change the world.” I do believe! Yes, one mind at a time.
One of my goals as a professional hypnotist is to battle the myths and misconceptions which abound out in the world about hypnosis. That’s what “World Hypnotism Day” was all about. Sharing the truth about hypnosis. Every person I hypnotize gets a much clearer picture of what hypnosis is, what it does, how it works, how it feels, what’s it useful for. And so on.
Because I believe so passionately in hypnosis as a force for good in the world–I want to share that message. What a bum rap hypnosis gets from Hollyweird. How underutilized and under-appreciated this magic is. It’s the magic of your mind to create positive change. And it’s MASSIVE magic. It’s you.
One of the ways I get the word out about hypnosis is through advertising. Here’s my latest ad which will appear next week in the Bellevue Reporter. I think it’s GOOD! I worked with the “creative staff” at the Bellevue Reporter to put this together. I don’t look like the devil with horns or three eyes or bizarre or woo woo, do I?
I grew up around here (Seattle), born here. And I’m actually quite pleased with the acceptance of hypnosis in this community. There are many, many thriving hypnotists and hypnotherapists around about. And that’s good. However, I have friends around the country and world who also do this work, and it’s not the same acceptance everywhere. Yay, Seattle!
To keep that good vibe around hypnosis flowing, I’m shouting about it from the rooftops. The Bellevue Reporter’s Feb 18th publication “Body & More” is my next rooftop. I also shout from Bellevue College, my own seminars, my groups, on the internet, to my friends, my family. I want everyone to know. Hypnosis works! Soooo fantastically amazingly well. For so much. Check out my ad next week, and other suppliers of tools for healthier, happier lives.
Hi, Guys! The weight of evidence mounts. Hypnosis works!! Kim quit smoking in one Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapy session! Five weeks later, here’s what she says about the experience:
“Over the 20 + years of being a smoker, I have made several attempts and used a variety of methods to try and quit…. all unsustainable. I was always thinking about smoking or not smoking which made the battle to quit miserable and in the end I’d go back and have ‘just one more’.
I was desperate for a solution to quit permanently as I was sick and tired of being a ‘prisoner’ to the habit. I had heard that hypnosis had helped many people so I started to research my options in the area when I found Connie Brannan. Connie is not only a hypnotherapist she is also certified in neuro-linguistic programming (N.L.P. – she is far better at explaining what this is).
She is very professional and very good at what she does. Connie is a warm, positive, and uplifting person. She is also a success story of hypnosis herself. Her office environment was also very comfortable and I felt very relaxed and trusted her immediately to ‘talk to my sub-conscious’.
I walked out of that office with absolutely zero desire to smoke. I got in my car, which has always been my private smoking chamber, and drove myself home wondering when the urge would hit me. It didn’t. In fact after one session, it hasn’t. Unbelievably, I have no desire to smoke at all and in addition, my association with being a smoker has changed. It doesn’t even feel like I was ever a smoker.
I have so much energy! It has been 5 weeks since that session and not a single cigarette or more importantly a desire for a cigarette. I am amazed!! I wish I would have found Connie a long time ago!
If you are a smoker and have battled with trying to quit, see Connie. She is awesome and has changed my life! It was instant, it was painless, and it was successful!!”
Sincerely, Kim J., the Seattle non-smoker 1/30/11.
I want to share something personal, and wonderful. A milestone. Michael and I have been married 25 years this month! To celebrate, we took an extended weekend getaway, to Las Vegas, just the two of us! And we renewed our vows to each other–signing up for the NEXT 25 years of happy love! 🙂 I do! We did!
Here are some pictures from our Vegas adventure. I’ve always wanted a Las Vegas Wedding, so this trip, we did it. We found a chapel, and we did it! For fun, we dressed up glittery, me in sequins, and Michael in velvet, and we found an “Elvis” to sing and officiate. It was SO MUCH FUN!!
25th Wedding Anniversary
Love is very much a reason to celebrate. Committed, ongoing, growing love…even more so. Everyone we met kept repeating “25 years! Wow!! That’s amazing!! What’s your secret?”
I’ll tell you!
Successful relationships are all about relating (an action verb, not a stagnant THING, but a continuing evolution), and communicating. Effectively! Communicating what you want in a way that moves you towards your outcomes. And maintaining appropriate emotional states which support those communications and outcomes, as well. (In a significant-other context, it’s remembering and re-connecting with why you’re together and in love.) Lots of people have trouble in this area, apparently.
Well, guess what? Hypnosis works, for this as well as for so many other things. A good relationship, be it professional or personal, group-sized social interactions, or intimacy, it’s not luck. It’s learning, and it’s choice. I help people in their relating, all the time, helping with everything from sexual intimacy issues to anger to insecurity and more. How do you want to be, how do you want to feel, how do you want to relate differently than what may be the present state of affairs?
I can help. NLP and hypnosis are excellent tools for this.
This is kind of like my weight loss success story. I walk the talk. I know what makes a successful, fulfilling relationship. I’m living it! I wouldn’t trust a therapist or counselor who has been 2-times divorced and couldn’t develop or maintain a loving, long-term relationship to save their life. You want THAT to guide you for healthy relating? I wouldn’t. Pick someone who is successful, and happy. Someone who lives love and doesn’t secretly sneer at it as a pipe dream, and can help you craft yourself into effective relating states. I know how. Belief, and success, I’ve got both. So can you.
If you’d like help with relating, call me (425) 564-8608. What a wonderful Valentine’s gift for you and your sweetie.
As this event nears, the details are becoming more clear. And I want to share them with YOU! Because the more you know about hypnosis the more you can begin to realize your own power to have the life you want. And that’s terrific!!
Here’s the venue. Bellevue Coast Hotel. It’s right off of NE 8th Street in Bellevue and the 405 freeway. EASY to find. Free parking. It’s on Saturday, Jan 22. It’s pretty much an “all-day” event, with a free continental breakfast beginning at 9:30 am and lots of free talks to attend in 3 different rooms (and paid talks if you want to learn more and I mean REALLY learn) and culminating in a free comedy hypnosis show. Come on down. See the show or BE the show. We’re having a professional stage hypnotist from the Portland area come and entertain. Her name is Debby Taylor, and she’s good!
There will be several free talks, and not just talks. EXPERIENCES. A chance to trance. Get hypnotized by professionals. For free. Begin to stimulate your unconscious mind in that way, that leads to positive changes. In my talk, it’s about healthy suggestions for weight loss. Hypnotist Cheryl Chamberlain’s free talk will focus on smoking cessation. Hypnotist Keith Livingston will offer a free self hypnosis training experience. Michael, my husband, and the President of the organization hosting this event, the NGHWA (National Guild of Hypnotists, Washington State Chapter), will present some cool things you can learn and do right now “The Magic of Instant Change.” His talk is NLP focused, and NLP is a highly specialized VERY cool high tech hypnosis. Michael is also presenting a trance experience. And there are more speakers! All the info is here: http://www.nghwa.org/World-Hypnotism-Day-2011.html.
AND…if you register early (you can also just show up without registering) you get something else. A free DVD to the first 50 registrants. It’s jam-packed full of information about hypnosis, written information, audio information, and video. The DVD includes amazing movie clips of Michael demonstrating hypnotic phenomenon. He got a girl to “forget” the number 3 and how to count, and also to forget her own NAME!!!! (Of course, he also returned those memories to her.) This is real. The power of the mind is amazing. Just watch!
I do hope you’ll come and “Get to Know Hypnosis.” Hypnosis is worth knowing.
Warmest Regards,
Connie
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Hi, Guys! I’m a member of the NGHWA, that’s the National Guild of Hypnotists, Washington State Chapter. We’re the local chapter of the NGH, a national professional organization of hypnotists and hypno-therapists. It’s the oldest and most prestigious hypnosis organization in the United States. We are dedicated to furthering the understanding and acceptance of hypnotism as a healing tool. I’m all for that!!
The NGH has created a worldwide event, called World Hypnotism Day, which happens in January. My chapter is a part of that, and I’m a part of it as well. I’ll be giving two, possibly three talks at our local “doings.” 🙂 One is absolutely FREE to all, and it’s on the topic of HYPNOSIS FOR WEIGHT LOSS. (You know I know whereof I speak on this topic, I’m living that success!) I’m also giving a paid talk/training to area professional hypnotists as part of this event–to enhance their skill sets in this same area, helping people to let go of weight with hypnosis. There are several speakers, and several talks and experiential workshops. Who wants to come down, learn more, and get hypnotized? There’s also a complimentary continental breakfast for attendees, prizes, and a free comedy hypnosis show.
I do hope you’ll join us. It will be masses of fun for those interested in learning more about hypnosis, experiencing some hypnosis, and hobnobbing with hypnotists. It’s Saturday, January 22nd. 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Stay for one talk, two, more, or stay the whole day. Your choice! We’d love to have you attend!
Happy New Year! Are you making some wonderful New Year’s Resolutions for 2011 for your health and success and prosperity? I am!
Yes, I’ve been thinking about New Year’s Resolutions. And the word “resolve.” What does it really mean? If you’re sort of wanting something, thinking about it, but doing little or nothing to achieve it, that equals a lack of resolve. “Gee, that would be nice someday, but…” If you’re half-heartedly doing something towards a goal for only a day or two or three and then the desire drifts away, that’s a wishy-washy resolve. Like a slap with a wet noodle–not much power in it. I believe that half-hearted determination is what most people bring to their New Year’s Resolve. And that’s sad.
However, it doesn’t have to be that way!! 🙂 If weak resolve is not good enough for you, read on! Hypnosis helps you create something absolutely different. Hypnosis reaches into your inner workings and finds, reinforces and activates true resolve. True resolve is a whole-hearted affair. Heart and mind and body affair–every nerve and fiber of your being saying: “YES, I’m going for it!!!” Resolve and determination…think Rocky preparing for his big fight, eating raw eggs, and working out, running up those monument steps, triumphant (in advance) and focusing all his attention and actions on achieving his goal.
That’s real resolve. It’s power, because you KNOW you’re going to get what you want and nothing and no one can deter you. You do everything within your power and energy and creativity, with passion and motivation, to achieve it, that worthy outcome you desire.
Resolve is also a visual term. When things come into focus, they resolve. The blur resolves into a clear image. When you resolve to do something, your goal is FOCUSED. Sharp, sharp, sharp. Clear. Unmistakable. How would you like to be sharply focused and motivated and moving on your goals with true resolve? Yes, me, too.
Hypnosis, baby! If your New Year’s desires already have the force of a pure and clear RESOLUTION, yay! I applaud you! Go for it. However, if you find that clarity of desire unfocused, or the resolve is not there to give you that OOMPH, that go for it power of actual sustained movement forward, then hypnosis is a tool to help you do just that.
It doesn’t matter WHAT you are resolving to do, hypnosis can give you that directed focus and acceleration, like stepping on the gas pedal in your car. You select the destination, hypnosis is both the GPS (how to get there) and the thrust forward of stepping on the gas. Resolve. Rocky was hypnotized. He hypnotized himself into power. We are all capable of this, but it’s a heck of a lot easier to have a professional communicator help it to happen faster and more easily.
Personally, I think it would be a massively wonderful gift to give yourself for the new year: a super powerful hypnotic dose of accelerant for your goals, whatever they may be. Quitting tobacco once and for all, getting in shape, finishing that project, beginning that project, whatever you’re resolving within yourself to do and be for 2011 and beyond. The difference: with hypnosis, the resolve STICKS, long and strong enough to get what you want. How cool is that?
Resolve to make 2011 your best year ever, and begin to realize the control you do have over your life. Over your actions, your habits, your very thoughts.
Warmest Regards,
Connie
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Michael and I had some fun today, filming what we call “magic moments.” They’re not hypnosis, per se, but they’re entertaining and they do illustrate something about hypnosis. Watch this video carefully, and follow the directions to see something totally amazing! You really do grow your brain with hypnosis, grow your resourcefulness, grow your joy, grow your life success.
A problem is simply a frame of mind, a way of looking at things. If it’s not a problem to YOU, it’s not a problem. Think about flying on an airplane. After all the hustle/bustle of travel arrangements, packing, airports, and etc. when I get on a plane, I settle into the seat and go: “ahhhhhhhhh.” Now it’s time to relax. No worries. All I have to do is sit here and enjoy myself. Perhaps for someone else sitting down a few rows, it’s churning turmoil inside, it’s white-knuckle time. It’s visions of disaster. It doesn’t have to be. You can change your mind. And experience life differently. Yes, about flying, and pretty much about ANYTHING! That’s what hypnosis can do! It’s called “reframing.”
Perhaps you’re skeptical about those statements. Here’s a few recent examples of reframing from my life, for further illustration.
I got caught up in the shopping frenzy last week. My husband and I were at the mall, and I found a shirt I loved. The color in particular was appealing to me. Hypnotists have an “inside joke” about the color purple being hypnotic, because one of the most famous and successful hypnotists in the world, Milton Erickson, was fond of wearing bright purple jumpsuits. Color analysis books describe purple as the dreamer color.
I found a purple shirt. Not just any old purple, this was a rich, deep royal purple, a magically hypnotic jewel-tone purple. I was excited to find it, and on sale! 🙂 As I was checking out at the department store, the clerk commented on the “grape” shirt. Grape? Yikes. I almost put it back. I don’t want a grape shirt, as that sounds utterly unappealing. Purple, yes. Grape, forget about it! One word flipped my state of mind about the shirt, and not in a good way. She reframed my shirt (negatively) and almost lost the sale. This is something we teach in our NLP for Sales courses, how to reframe in a way that sells, not creates aversion.
Here’s another example of reframing. This is a sign.
Perhaps you’re familiar with it. It indicates a pedestrian crosswalk. It’s a stylized guy crossing the street. You can see that.
Here is a sign I saw today in a parking garage.
They’ve shifted the sign slightly, and the meaning massively. What it thinks it’s saying is “pedestrian crossing,” but what I see is a pedestrian falling, and flying through the air, obviously after being struck by a moving vehicle. Yikes, again! A different angle on the picture, and the whole meaning changes. That’s reframing.
Here’s a classic example of reframing. Imagine a roaring fire in a fireplace. That elicits positive feelings, right? Cozy, nice, warm. Now, expand the picture’s parameter, and you see the house is on fire as well. Oh, no, run for your lives! Negative feelings. Now expand the picture further and you see it’s all a movie set and they’re only filming a controlled reproduction of a house fire. Positive feelings, again. A shift of frame changes everything.
What makes this “reframing” process cool of course is changing things that are problems in your life to non-problems. Like the fear of flying. What if your experience of planes and flight became a frame of relaxation, like lounging on a tropical beach or sitting in your easy chair at home? Hypnosis can do that.
Big secret: How we feel and how we respond to things and the thoughts/frames we create around them: it’s all moveable furniture. Within our control. If you want to rearrange your mental furniture in a way that creates more beauty and ease and success in your life, I can help. That is my gig. My passion. My joy. Come see me and we’ll reframe those problems out of existence.
I’ve created a new web page highlighting my work with phobia-fixes and fear release! It’s one of my NLP areas of expertise, and a pleasure to help people with this. Fear sucks. Let’s change it.
I hope you’re having some happy holidays, and more to come! Wishing you and yours a fun and glorious 2011. Resolve to enjoy life more and more every day. I’m about to share with you all a simple technique that is the backbone and my favorite “magic” of NLP–something which drives home like a jackhammer the idea that you control your own life, mind and body. Specifically, I’m going to share with you a touch of calm, for the holidays!
NLP is Neuro-Linguistic Programming ™, a term coined by my teacher, Dr. Richard Bandler.It’s a way of understanding the world and how we create reality.And can change it.It’s about enhancing communication, inside ourselves and with others.For more info on what it is and the myriad of powerful and wonderful uses of NLP, you can check out my primary NLP website:http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.
How would you like to communicate to your own mind:“It’s time to relax!”And have it actually happen in your body in an instant?(Your wish is my command!)Wouldn’t that be especially useful this time of year, with all the turbulence of wild weather, traffic, ice, work demands, family and extended family, parties, gift shopping, holidays, STRESS?
Here it is!It’s called an “anchor” in NLP parlance.It’s a stimulus-response mechanism, which we can capture and activate at will.With intention.So many times we are stimulated to a response (one we don’t particularly want or enjoy) by living and events.Examples:Your significant other starts using THAT critical tone of voice, and your body temperature rises.You see a chocolate bar and the cravings kick in.You smell popcorn, and you know you NEED a bucket.How nice to create a stimulus-response in ourselves that we like.And use it for…A Touch of Calm.Apply as needed.
Here’s a technique for you.
Begin to remember a time in your life when you felt calm.I mean REALLY calm.Relaxed, with clarity of mind.In that precise moment of time, nothing could ruffle your feathers.Pick a memory from anywhere and anytime in your life, in any context, from childhood, to adulthood. In the hot tub, snuggled in bed, on the beach in Hawaii, in hypnotic trance, jogging, it doesn’t matter.Let your mind remember CALM.Now, put yourself inside that memory, that experience. Be there now!
Experience it. What’s going on?How do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? What do you smell? Involve all your senses, fully and completely. Let calm grow in you. Feel calm moving in your body. Flow it, grow it.Stronger.When calm is just about at its peak, and you’re feeling really good, touch the tips of your thumb and ring finger of your left hand together and hold for one second.Let go.Think about something else for a moment or two, some neutral thing, and then imagine yourself again inside the calm memory.Feel it.Breathe it.Once again, flow calm through every nerve and fiber of your body.When you feel good and calm, touch the thumb and fingertip again.Hold for a second, and let go.This unique touch is now associated (anchored) with calm.This touch will elicit calm!In your body.Forever.Just that fast, you’ve trained your mind/body to do that!How cool is that?This is why Michael and I call NLP “The Magic of Instant Change.”
Now, whenever you want a dose of calm to flood your body, touch that same thumb and finger together and hold it (for a minute or so) in the way you’ve just anchored, and feel calm return. Automatically!Feeling stressed by Aunt Sue’s conversation at the party?Touch and hold.🙂Stuck in mall traffic and beginning to grit your teeth?Touch and hold.Standing in an endless line at the supermarket and feeling irritated?Touch and hold.Joe at work pushing your buttons?Push your own.You now are armed with “a touch of calm” for the holidays.And any time.Enjoy!
Warm Regards,
Connie
Connie Brannan, Master Hypnotist
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Enjoy this short video. It is VERY cute! Here’s someone demonstrating confidence and positive self-talk and focusing on what’s good in her life (“what I like”). What a terrific way to feel good and do good. “I can do anything good! Better than anyone.” 🙂
I was at the mall today, and I found it to be a red letter day to buy red leather boots. Looking around the mall, I couldn’t help but notice boots upon boots upon boots–my reticular activating system was set on the boot channel, it seems. In every store display window, and on the majority of feet marching past, old and young–EVERYONE in Seattle it seems was wearing boots today. ‘Tis the season. Shopping, and cold and wet. BOOTS are the style. Ankle boots, thigh high, and everything in between. Fur, leather, rubber, knit. Mostly black, but a few brights like my red out there.
Bombarded by the boots, I finally said: “Ok, I’m in!” The search was on, and I covered a lot of territory. Shopping can take awhile, but when you find a real and valuable gem, you get to chortle with glee. Now, the perfect new boots are in the bag. My new red suede boots are very nice, and extremely well made. Quality. I think they’ll stand up to wear and last and look terrific long into the new year, and the next and the next. It’s important to choose quality. Cheapo and shoddy mass production don’t cut it. They tend to be ill fitting, cause blisters, and fall apart after walking in snow. You want fine crafted workmanship. In footwear, and in hypnotists.
I think hypnosis should be as popular as boots. That would be a GOOD thing for the world, with happier, healthier people running around enjoying life more and more and accomplishing their goals more and more and faster and easier. That’s the power of hypnosis. A helping tool deluxe! When shopping, whether it’s for shoes or for a hypnotist, and you’re looking for high quality, you’ve got to be alert to avoid weak and inferior product. Unfortunately, it’s out there, as well. Impersonal, and unskilled product.
Beware of hypnosis stores, with an eye on the bottom line, not the heart. In the realm of your mind, you want somebody GOOD, somebody who can really help, with real and extensive training. Hypnosis is an art, not a “cookie cutter” formula. You want somebody with creativity as well as skill. You want somebody with presence and passion and heart, who’s been around the block and back again, and CARES. You won’t find all that at the “here, put on these goggles and listen to this tape, maybe you’ll be hypnotized and maybe not, maybe these suggestions will apply to your situation and maybe not” chain hypnosis store.
When you’re choosing a hypnotist, here are a few things to consider. How many live, in-person trainings have they completed, and how recently? What are the certifications earned? Ask, and verify. Are they from recognized, reputable schools, or is it Joe in his basement printing out certs for his 2 hour internet course? Are they committed to continuing education? Do they have an explicit code of ethics to share with you? How many different helping tools have they learned and mastered? What professional hypnosis affiliations, national and local, do they belong to? How long have they been in business as a hypnotherapist? Are there testimonials of proven success for issues similar to yours? Do they have a business license? Are they registered with the State of Washington as a hypnotherapist? Also very important, trust your own vibe, how do they come across, look and/or sound (on the phone or face to face)–is the emphasis on “squeeze the money” or “I want to help!”?
Mindworks Hypnosis (in other words, me and Michael), we’re the real deal. Michael and I want to help. We can and we do. Call us if you’re serious about improving your life. The answers to all those questions are on our website: http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net. Our expertise. Our trainings. Our successes. Our passion. It’s like buying the best boots, the beautiful, well-formed ones that last and fit and bring joy and color to your life.
He was magnificent. Dark gray, and sat in the tree right outside my office window most of the day. You couldn’t miss him–I think he was two feet tall. Riveting! Beautiful. Magical.
The proof is in the pudding, and your body and mind and LIFE and energy are the pudding. Who wants to get cookin’ on this with me? These tools work.
“Over the 20 + years of being a smoker, I have made several attempts and used a variety of methods to try and quit…. all unsustainable. I was always thinking about smoking or not smoking which made the battle to quit miserable and in the end I’d go back and have ‘just one more’.
It doesn’t matter WHAT you are resolving to do, hypnosis can give you that directed focus and acceleration, like stepping on the gas pedal in your car. You select the destination, hypnosis is both the GPS (how to get there) and the thrust forward of stepping on the gas. Resolve. Rocky was hypnotized. He hypnotized himself into power. We are all capable of this, but it’s a heck of a lot easier to have a professional communicator help it to happen faster and more easily.
