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January 2008

HYPNOSIS - HYPNOTHERAPY
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Hypnosis helps achieve your New Year Resolutions

This month brings in not only New Year Energy, but the numerical number of a new beginning year. This energy will be with all of us all year long producing the availability of negotiating a new beginning.

In that type environment, changing the mind on the subconscious level assists with this goal of claiming a new life.

Before I talk about resolutions from the subconscious, let’s talk about how the conscious world works. All who work day to day with conscious interaction know all the coping mechanisms, which are all in-grained programming , that people use to stay stuck:

1. Denial,

2. intellectualization,

3. repression,

4. suppression,

5. fearful talk and thinking,

6. blame,

7. projection of blame away from self,

8. convincing yourself that your fate is sealed through circumstances that were set in stone.

One of the worst scenarios that causes total destruction over time is living a life of co-dependence, where one has no ability to define their own desires. They literally begin to label their co-dependence as “what I want to do” which is really what they want me to do. And they become oblivious to the lack of respect those around them have for them. They develop health problems as a means of coping and to have some rest, with only negative energy focused their way. This process is called “collecting brown stamps” rather than “green stamps” in order to feel energy coming to you.

I remember being drawn to a T-shirt, which I still have, while I was doing one-on-one talk therapy. The T-shirt says: “What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?”

That T-shirt did not represent anything connected to religious belief. It represented my thinking about people being able to make any positive change in this lifetime. If you will think about the song it says, “Put your right foot in, take your right foot out and then shake it all about ; put your left foot in, take your left foot out, turn yourself around and shake it all about…that’s what its all about.” In other words it was about action that was without a goal or focus. Just never - ending stuff.

Working with ingrained patterns with coping mechanisms and staying grounded without your own transference was a full-time process of watchfulness when I was doing talk therapy. Around that time I asked God, “Show me a better way please”. Then I found another T-shirt, which I still have, that I will describe. It shows Toto from the "Wizard of Oz", with Dorothy’s red shoes in his mouth. The wording reads: HATE OZ, HEADED HOME, TOOK THE SHOES, FIND YOUR OWN WAY HOME!

When I saw the movie, "Analyze This" I could relate to the therapist trying to break the negative talk of his client. However, he only did it in fantasy because the process of "-talking people through it-", is that it takes forever to accomplish.

Understand what success really is

Just yesterday in the Birmingham News was a letter to Ann Landers. The man wants to tell his son that his marriage to the son’s mother has been an act that the father played. The son thinks that is the model for a marriage. The father is in the process of enumerating his sacrifices, his acting to save face and make everyone happy, etc. I was so surprised and elated that Ann Lander’s daughter, who took over the role for her Mother, is so grounded in truth. What she wrote was so filled with truth that I want to excerpt her exact words as her answer:

“Unfortunately what you label as positive actions on your part may have been a major factor in creating this situation. Had you had the courage to face your total unhappiness and your wife’s symptoms that you say kept you from your success, perhaps your son could have been saved from his model of what a happy marriage is.

Intervention years ago and working towards a more equitable manner of living years ago would have presented him with a clearer picture of marriage and life. You have placed yourself in a position of sacrifice. Just perhaps, your lack of courage and the ability to confront, was your own excuse not to be the success you felt you would have been had your wife and her symptoms not been in the picture.

Many times we chose exactly what we subconsciously feel will serve us. Your subconscious may have felt you could not succeed and you found an excuse to make that real. Your son has the program held subconsciously and it was placed there over twenty years. To tell him consciously that your behavior was a farce is too little, too late. He will probably have to find his own way now.”

I was allowed to move to subconscious work after a client of mine kept sabotaging herself. She had everything going for her: she was a millionaire, very attractive, in good health, and had the availability of a wonderful life. She, however, could not let go of her Mother’s behavior in her childhood and the betrayal of her now deceased husband. We would go forward and then take three steps back. She literally would sabotage any help she was getting from her psychiatrist, her group, and her therapist, ME.

Shortly after her and my praying for deliverance after so many years, I found art therapy and then hypnosis. Both are from the subconscious and the real program. I decided over that period of time that courage and taking physical action to get to some subconscious work was a key component to shifting your life.

People are usually focused on the concept of setting resolutions that will take them to a better place in life. Some are successful and others falter before the ink is dry on the paper. Having worked with people to improve their well-being, we started looking at what helps people and where people box themselves into a corner.

Things that we see that cause people to give up are:

1. Making an unrealistic list of desires

2. Making the list of desires around what someone else wants for them, not what they want for themselves

3. Doing the changes through straight willpower consciousness rather than reprogramming the subconscious

4. Not focusing

5. And, never looking at what is happening that causes things to “not work”.

Unreached goals from the past hold a goldmine of information. Rather than looking at them as failures, it is best to incorporate the concept of “by their fruits ye shall know them": this applies whether it is about a goal, a friendship, relationship, job, or just about anything in life. It just takes examination without denial to get some ideas from them.

The wonderful thing about hypnosis is: once you are partnered with the subconscious you can get the subconscious to powerfully assist you. For number 1 through number 5 on our list , you can , while in hypnosis, ask the subconscious to bring to your mind (without negative emotion) some major breakthroughs to assist your conscious knowing and , at the same time, to assist your behavior to be more beneficial to your well-being.

Through cellular releasing hypnosis you can get to the cause and release the blocks. Through positive suggestion re-programming you can create a new beneficial program. And, with positive suggestion in home CD’s , you can choose your topic and reprogram in the comfort of your own home. You can assist your physical body and health through cell command™ therapy hypnosis through private session or in-home CD sessions.

It is our belief, and we have proof through results that this is true, that our thoughts and our words are powerful in terms of having either a positive or negative effect on our life and well-being.

My sister brings some interesting magazines to the family home in south Alabama that was our grandparent’s home. This location is a wonderful place for self-evaluation and positive change. It incorporates the concept of our ancestors caring for us and providing a heritage.

We all have this energy concept if we acknowledge it. All it requires is acknowledgement and this focus of energy produces profound assistance.

True Story Movie has great insights

At your local movie rental center there is a powerful movie that is based on a true story. This true story was written first in Reader’s Digest. Because it was true, with two of the characters still alive at age 80 plus, it was worth making into a film.

This film has many metaphors about how to approach the concept of setting resolutions for a new beginning. It shows how:

• 1. We can be programmed to feel we are in bondage and there is no use to fight against the bonds. It is impossible. When working with people we hear all the time: “it is my genes, ” “it is my luck” , “they did it to me and I refuse to let it go”, “I am powerless”, “it is impossible”, “I have tried before and it was really hard”.

• 2. The true story on film has temptation and the energy of evil.

• 3. It also has the energy of just giving up.

• 4. It includes the energy of sacrifice for those we love.

• 5. It shows true unconditional love.

• 6. It portrays evil & cruelty in the name of BEING MORE EFFICIENT.

• 7. However, it also has these wonderful things:

Focus of mind to achieve a goal that many would say was impossible. The goal was achieved by not only the energy of this world, but the assistance of ancestors that have gone on and the energy of the Divine.

It has the true story of markers or signs that are provided to us to guide us through the Spirit Bird that the matriarchs had told the children to use for assistance. They were also told that they had to ASK FOR THIS HELP.

What is so wonderful about this story is: You can see the end of the story because it has already happened. Remember Earl Nightingale says: “Come back and I will tell you THE END OF THE STORY”. Well, with this story it has already happened and is well worth watching.

So, what is this story that we could incorporate for our well-being and our belief in focus of energy: The Rabbit Proof Fence.

Australia decided to end a culture, the aboriginal culture, by taking all the children to an orphanage away from their mothers and training them to be servants. They would be under the control of the government and then under the control of the family to which they are hired to serve.

The story is about three children who were taken from their family. This family was part of a matriarchal group of women. The fathers who were now gone had come to Australia to build a fence across Australia to keep rabbits from getting to cattle land. The rabbits had eaten the grass for the cows in the past. These men who came to work were men of another race who fathered the children and then left to go back to their native country.

These three girls are taken from their Mothers (two sisters and one cousin of the sisters). They were taken by car, boat, and train 1500 miles from their Mothers. The conditions they found at the orphanage were awful. Hard cots to sleep on, wool blankets with no sheets or pillows, and for meals fat smeared on bread with only tap water to drink. They were also talked to horribly and generally mistreated and abused.

However, here comes a powerful lesson about looking for positives and loopholes out of bondage: THEY WERE GIVEN SHOES FOR WALKING. The oldest of the three girls got up one morning and told the other two: WE ARE GOING HOME!

The other two looked to the oldest as the leader, but immediately said: HOW? Her response: WE ARE GOING TO WALK HOME AND WE ARE GOING TO FOLLOW THE RABBIT PROOF FENCE! AND THEY DID ! (At least two of them did)

The government couldn’t catch them because the oldest had been well-trained by her matriarchs. She knew how to track food, find water, and HIDE.

The youngest child followed her lead. The government did send out a smooth-talking negative talker who got the word out to the drummers that were drumming information that the middle child’s Mother was living in a different location than where they were in, when they were taken away.

The older one told her not to believe the temptating words of a liar, but this middle child left the safety of the partnership of three and was recaptured. This is symbolic of our temptations instilled by negative thinking, imprisoning us.

The other two made it 1490 miles across the desert. They would have died in a sandstorm had not the older one remembered to call on the ancestors for help. She did and the Bird of the Ancestors (A hawk) came to lead them through the blinding sandstorm: HOME!

When the movie was made several years ago, the oldest and youngest were still alive. I don’t know if they still are alive. The movie is powerful in its energy and belief of the power of determination, the holding together of family, the memory of family, and the power of the energy of GOOD. However, it would be worth watching just to hear the melodious aboriginal language. The women are interviewed and answered in their language. Their culture has not been stolen from them.

Does their ego have them brag? No, they still grieve for GRACE, the lost middle child that they never saw again. The love was so intense that the oldest one said, “I lost Grace, she believed a LIAR. I should have never given up.”

Think of the power of the three heading out and accomplishing what they did. They did not buy into the negative words that would have destroyed their goal before they started. They focused , and the two who were able to trust one another and stay focused, achieved their goals.

By the way, that law set up by that government was eventually revoked. But, for many children it was a law that imprisoned them by the thousands. All those who did not have the fortitude and courage of goal focus that these 2 children showed to the world.

So, at this time of the year, focus on that which is important to you. Incorporate courage and often either remembering your family heritage can be a motivator , or you can begin a process of leaving a heritage that those who come behind you will want to follow… breaking negative patterns.

Achieve your goals in 2008

2008 is the energy of One, which is the energy of new beginnings.

I mentioned my sister’s magazines that she brings and we all pick them up finding inspirational stories . These are traditional religious tracts of the Copelands from Copeland Ministries. Gloria Copeland, the family matriarch, expounds the concept of setting goals, watching your words carefully to make sure they are positive, avoiding negative thoughts and words, and watching who you allow around you, trying to keep positive people around you. She says in all her articles, that the energy of good is available to help you. She also believes negative thinking, negative talking, the negative thinking or talking of others, fear thoughts, and belief in the impossible can undermine and sabotage your goals.

So, with the idea that we are going to focus and achieve our goals:

What are some things that we can do to help ourselves.

• 1. Get clear on what we want. The energetic process needs to be more focused on what we want than focusing on what we don’t want. Our list, our words, and our actions need to be focused on what we want rather than what we would like to cull from our life.

  Reason: our mind will help us achieve the energy of where we focus. If we dwell on what we want to discard without dwelling on what we want, then we keep the dwelling on what we don’t want and it becomes paramount in our world.

• 2. Once we are clear on our direction. Do like the little girls in the movie I just wrote about: get moving. In other words take action and let go of FEAR.

  Action that I suggest is, of course, subconscious work. Release from the subconscious the old patterns and reprogram new patterns that become automatic responses. You can do this in private sessions or take a little longer and do it through a releasing CD (about thirty days of listening) and then reprogramming your subconscious with in-home CD’s or private sessions.

While you are releasing and reprogramming, do good things for yourself: things that show your subconscious that you love and respect yourself. I personally love baths and bath products. There is a card that is about stress and crisis…It shows a woman in a bubbly bath with the front of the card saying: I have heard baths help stress. When the card is opened, it reads: “ I have been in the tub since last Thursday!”

Also, set some resolution that you know you can accomplish. The one I have set is to begin to walk daily. I don’t have to go to a gym, I don’t need a fancy outfit, and I can either walk a really empowering environment or just around and around the block. I can hold in my mind:

“If the little girls can walk across a desert, I can walk at least 30 minutes a day. This resolution comes from reading that those who walk add ten minutes for every thirty minutes to their life span. They usually also forgo cardiovascular problems and bone problems. All I need is some good walking shoes and the determination to do this.

So, set a resolution for yourself. One that will bring benefit physically, emotionally (mine will release endorphins), is not too complicated to cause you to quickly decide it adds stress, and link it to something you want to accomplish. Keep in mind that incorporating the subconscious program through hypnosis will keep your motivation strong.

Remember, also, that Americans are a dehydrated group of people. Oxywater is phenomenal it not only re-hydrates but re-oxygenates your body. It assists in stopping cravings, increases well-being through increased oxygen, and you can even make a spa scenario of of it by giving yourself an oxygen facial.

Other things I am going to do when I am not walking, listening to CD’s or booking a private session of hypnosis, drinking my oxywater, reading in a peaceful spot in my home or at the family pastoral location, taking baths for relaxation and rejuvenation, is to incorporate some products that I have wanted to try:

I want to try an ionic foot bath (have never had one) I will re-order some more himalayan bath salts.. It makes the water so smooth while it kills germs, and I plan to order some more MSM lotion.

You have things you want to do. So figure them out and do them for yourself.

I am relearning and loving Birmingham, Alabama. However, in Houston, Texas and elsewhere, we have many former students that can assist you. Just read our site, look at pictures, and you will see that our former students can assist you with sessions of hypnosis, they can accommodate you through their spas, they can assist through their wonderful products and services, and all of them use positive suggestion hypnosis.

In Birmingham, Alabama, we can assist you with private sessions or in-home healing sessions of hypnosis on CDs. If you need to stop smoking, make stopping a priority. If you need to lose weight, make that a priority. If you need to pass tests, make it a priority. However, whatever changes you need , hypnosis can assist you in accomplishing your goals.

We can also help provide you with fantastic oxywater.

So, get going with your well-being and live a WONDER FILLED LIFE!

Cheryl Martin