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We can lead extraordinary lives
and find fulfillment by listening
to what our problems and fears are telling us
and taking inspired action
to make the changes needed
to live a happy, healthy, abundant life.

Successful people are courageous.

We clear the fear, breakthrough boundaries,
overcome obstacles,
challenge the status quo,
refuse to give up,
because we consciously choose to move forward
and envision a brighter future for ourselves and create a better world for us all.



Tuesday, June 29, 2010

HOW CAN RELAXATION HELP?

"During and following relaxation, individuals typically report experiencing less rapid thinking and an increased ability to focus thoughts and maintain concentration.

The quality of thought is also reported to be calm and restful in nature. Herbert Benson, MD, an accomplished researcher of the healthy effects of relaxation, describes the thinking state of relaxation as a "passive attitude," perceived as a peaceful willingness to just let thoughts flow in a natural, non-directed or non-controlled manner.

Relaxation produces a particular pattern of bioelectrical brain activity as recorded in the electroencephalogram (EEG). The EEG of non-relaxed individuals shows relatively low voltage high frequency brain activity that is not synchronized.

When deeply relaxed, the dominant frequency of brain nerve firings slows, portions of the brain appear to fire in a synchronized fashion, and a high voltage slow
frequency pattern can be recorded.

When relaxed, there are two changes in muscular activity.

First, relaxed people are very still. If they move at all, they do so slowly and gently.

Second, muscle tone is greatly diminished when people relax. Muscle tone is the background level of muscle tightness in between overt muscle movements. Many of us get sore, aching muscles in our lower backs and shoulders or develop muscle tension headaches when muscle tone is too high for too long.

The third system that changes with relaxation is the autonomic nervous system. This is the part of the nervous system outside of our brain and spinal cord that controls digestion, blood circulation, and other our basic biological processes.

This "automatic" nervous system controls parts of our body that we do not normally have to attend to, like when our heart beats or the level of activity of our gastrointestinal system.

This autonomic nervous system has two branches, the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.

The sympathetic and parasympathetic systems activate different parts of the body in different ways, but they tend to act like the two sides of an old-fashioned scale -- when the sympathetic system is activated, the parasympathetic system is less activated and vice-versa.

Generally, the sympathetic nervous system is activated when you are challenged, stressed, or faced with a dangerous situation. When we are anxious, frightened, or in pain, we know that our heart beats more forcefully and races, our palms sweat, and we suddenly feel very awake and alert. By contrast, we tend to be more parasympathetically activated when out of danger and environmental demands are low.

Under parasympathetic activation, the organs take care of functions such as digesting meals, converting blood sugars for long-term storage, and moving nutrients to cells while moving waste away.

Breathing is an interesting physiological process as it is controlled voluntarily and by the autonomic nervous system, such as when we sleep, lose consciousness, or do not need to voluntarily regulate our breathing for activities such as speaking.

Research studies suggest that many parts of the autonomic nervous system tend to follow the activity of breathing. Under sympathetic activation, breathing tends to
be rapid, shallow, and less rhythmic.

During relaxation and parasympathetic activation, breathing is slow, deep, and has a regular rhythm. Because one can voluntarily change breathing patterns and because the autonomic nervous system tends to mimic what is going on with breathing, a relaxed breathing pattern can be a successful way to gain control over automatic physiological processes.

These three systems, the brain/cognition, the muscles, and the autonomic nervous system, are integrated by brain centers including:
the limbic system (governing emotions),
the hypothalamus (controlling basic biological/behavioral processes),
and the reticular activating system (regulating arousal).

The three systems tend to work in a coordinated fashion. When an individual changes the pattern of responding in one system, this affects the other systems.

KEY ELEMENTS IN LEARNING TO RELAX:
Like any skilled act, relaxation skills are developed through practice. For a patient to show any lasting benefit from relaxation training, research has indicated that a minimum of four training/therapy sessions is critical.

Regular practice of relaxation appears to be critical in learning how to become deeply relaxed and producing health benefits from relaxation.

Researchers have repeatedly found that any systematic program of relaxation appears to produce positive changes in physiologic and psychological states for most people."

Edited from:
USING RELAXATION:
COPING WITH FUNCTIONAL GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
Kenneth R. Jones, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine/Clinical Psychologist
Steve Heymen, MS
Instructor of Medicine/Certified Biofeedback Therapist

Friday, June 18, 2010

WEIGHT, sounds like WAIT

"It is all about your inner mental communication. The "conscious talk" you have with yourself! It's so great when we start to understand the inner message of the language we use in the things we focus on in our lives.

Like WEIGHT, sounds like WAIT, right?

Sometimes we create unrealistic expectations of ourselves, just because we do not accept who we are.

So, what are you waiting for in life?

Why do you wait to see the real you and accept yourself?

Why are you waiting to give and receive happiness in life?

Are you gonna wait your whole life immersing yourself in this struggle with weight?"

Is Losing Weight Fast the Secret to Long Term Weight Loss?

Thursday, June 17, 2010

"We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream!"

"May each day witness the discovery of more dimensions and potentials within yourself and awaken you to the potentials latent within us all!"
Joel and Michelle Levey
title quote by William James

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Five Key Steps in Goal Setting

"Once the subconscious mind accepts an idea, it goes to work on making it come true.

When you learn to communicate directly with the subconscious mind you can begin to discover your personal power, the ability to choose your goals and to create your reality for the better.

The key language of the subconscious mind is pictures and feelings. When we learn to choose verbal language that creates pictures and feelings of our positive goals our performance begins to move in the positive goal direction that we choose.

We use Goal Setting to choose our focus areas, and then we wire this into our brain through practice, lots of repetition, to move it from our working memory to our subconscious memory.

We supplement this with Visualization and Imagery, which we control, this allows us to reflect, edit and improve our performance. It continues the wiring process and strengthens the wiring.

Work with this, week by week you will begin to create the positive results that you desire."

"The first step in goal setting is to choose what you want.

This is the seed that you plant in the subconscious mind.

This is central to Mental Training.

When we select the goal (the seed) we submit it to the subconcious mind and then we release the goal so that the brain can go to work on fulfilling it.

The function of the brain is to set and fulfill goals. The brain is a goal setting mechanism.

That is not to say that we are a mechanism, we are the spirit behind the mechanism, choosing how and when we use it, we use the mind for this.

Goal Setting is a reflection of the brain, it uses the creativity and problem solving of the right side of the brain and the structure and analytical skills of the left brain to break down our goal into easily achievable steps.

Setting Goals is essential to success, it is the mind choosing a focal point for the brain to orientate itself to."

"There are Five Key Steps in Goal Setting

1. Specificity
Your Goal must be specific and clearly defined.

Know what you want. Write it out in one sentence.

2. Measurable
Your goal needs to have a measure attached to it, this lets you know when you have achieved it and whether you are on track with it.

Having a measure allows you to break the goal down into steps.

3. Achievable
Is the goal achievable and realistic to your level of development.

The goal needs to be challenging without being so far out of your reach that you will become discouraged when you don't achieve it.

4. Record
Keep a journal or log book of your progress, this allows you to reflect on your progress and growth.

You can begin to see your habits, good and bad, to see where you are on track and off track with your goals and then make the adjustments.

5. Time Frame
Put a time frame on your goals, this gives them a context and helps you to focus.

It allows you to take an idea and bring it from seed form into reality, you break it down week after week to goal completion."


From Mental Training

Thursday, June 3, 2010

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself. To expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts toward others, I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can."

The Dalai Lama

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WELCOME from SALLY HOLMES REED, owner of HYPNOSIS SEATTLE, your consulting hypnotist and certified hypnotherapist, here in Seattle, WA, USA.

Are you looking for help in solving your problems and achieving your goals?

At Hypnosis Seattle, my goal is to help you make positive changes in your life and get the good feelings you want, with more success and less stress.

Safe and effective, hypnosis uses leading edge science to make positive changes happen in your life. Did you know that through hypnosis you can free your subconscious mind to give you what you want?

Hypnosis allows you to enter a wonderful state of relaxation and heightened suggestibility. This will help you feel better, more energized and feel positive about creating whatever you desire in your life.

What are you willing to give yourself, and accept for yourself? Any thoughts and ideas that may have been troubling you, or your inability to reach your goal, can change to something that supports you completely.

Now I would like to help you experience how to use your mind to achieve what you want, make changes, reduce stress, break old habits and feel good about yourself.

You probably know that learning and change take place at an unconscious level. Hypnosis allows you to easily access the creative part of yourself. See yourself making new choices.

Discover how hypnosis will bypass your critical mind and create a special psychological state which allows you to learn, grow and make positive change happen quickly and easily.

Leaving you free at a conscious level to relax and enjoy your experience during your hypnosis session. It will happen automatically so you don’t have to think about it now.

Begin by exploring what would be wonderful for you to achieve or change?

* ACCOMPLISH GOALS
* GET RID OF OLD HABITS & BEHAVIOR
* REVERSE THE EFFECTS OF STRESS
* STRENGTHEN YOUR SELF-ESTEEM
* GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT
* ATTRACT YOUR SOUL MATE
* CREATE POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS
* ENHANCE PERSONAL GROWTH
* BE WHO YOU WANT TO BE
* HEAL YOUR EMOTIONS
* NURTURE YOURSELF

Many clients have multiple issues that come up even if they come in with only one problem they want to solve. Hypnosis and the other processes I use are able to resolve complex issues on every level, even if you are not consciously aware of them.

Some clients discover the cause of one problem and clear it and find that other issues are resolved as well. I call it "extra wellness" when several problems get resolved while you are working on another.

Balance your body, mind and spirit, reduce the effects of stress, and heal your emotions with fun, easy, safe and effective processes that work on an unconscious level.

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I look forward to helping each client solve their problems and so much more.

Take care, Sally

P.S.

Why not claim your right to happiness right now?

Smile and look forward to a new future.

Do good things.