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Monday, November 9, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
AnXiety Cure
Anxiety is a simple bodily reaction that occurs when we have a "flight or fright" response to something we experience. At times this response becomes overworked by repeated experiences, or similar experiences. Then our bodily reaction becomes a habit. Habits can be changed. Habits can be replaced by healthy habits, such as being calm and relaxed, instead of alert and ready to respond ('flight or fright") to an alarming stimulus in our environment.
Hypnotherapy works very well to change habits to healthy ones. It can and does put your response to alarming stimuli back under your control. You can be calm and relaxed in any situation at any time, when you choose to be. Hypnotherapy teaches you relaxation responses and helps you learn calming techniques that put your response in your control. You can recover from anxiety and panic attacks and be a more in control, relaxed person. Hypnosis works.
Hypnotherapy works very well to change habits to healthy ones. It can and does put your response to alarming stimuli back under your control. You can be calm and relaxed in any situation at any time, when you choose to be. Hypnotherapy teaches you relaxation responses and helps you learn calming techniques that put your response in your control. You can recover from anxiety and panic attacks and be a more in control, relaxed person. Hypnosis works.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Emotional Coping Strategies
Journaling – Write about your thoughts and feelings in a notebook. Retell your experience of what you thought, felt and experienced about an event in the greatest detail. Give yourself the permission to express your opinion without censoring or concerns about what others would think about what you’ve written. This notebook is for your eyes only and to share only if you wish to.
Letter Writing – Write a letter to someone with the intention that the letter will never be sent to them. This allows you to express your thoughts and feelings very truthfully as you are injuring no one with your candid expressions of how you feel and what you think.
Positive Affirmations / Positive Self Talk – Use positive statements of your goals and desires. Statements that are stated in the first person, and present time, in a positive manner. These statements are stated in such a way as if the goal is already accomplished.
(Examples: I am a Non-smoker; I eat healthy foods; I enjoy daily excercise; I am calm and relaxed).
Assertiveness – Practice stating how you feel about an event or interaction with another person. Use the formula: 1. Name the behavior. 2. State how that makes you feel. 3.State how you want their behavior to change. (Example: When you speak to me in that tone of voice, it makes me feel angry and defensive. Please use a calm tone of voice when you need to tell me how to do something).
Take Time – Take time to respond to an emotional situation. You do not have to respond to situations immediately. Taking time gives you a chance to sort out your feelings and make a choice about how you respond and what you choose to say to someone. Even if it takes a month or a year to sort out your feelings regarding an incident. It is never to late to return to the subject and process it, telling someone how you feel about it and the effect it had on you.
Amelia Hasenohrl, LPC, CHt. August 26, 2009
Licensed Professional Counselor
Journaling – Write about your thoughts and feelings in a notebook. Retell your experience of what you thought, felt and experienced about an event in the greatest detail. Give yourself the permission to express your opinion without censoring or concerns about what others would think about what you’ve written. This notebook is for your eyes only and to share only if you wish to.
Letter Writing – Write a letter to someone with the intention that the letter will never be sent to them. This allows you to express your thoughts and feelings very truthfully as you are injuring no one with your candid expressions of how you feel and what you think.
Positive Affirmations / Positive Self Talk – Use positive statements of your goals and desires. Statements that are stated in the first person, and present time, in a positive manner. These statements are stated in such a way as if the goal is already accomplished.
(Examples: I am a Non-smoker; I eat healthy foods; I enjoy daily excercise; I am calm and relaxed).
Assertiveness – Practice stating how you feel about an event or interaction with another person. Use the formula: 1. Name the behavior. 2. State how that makes you feel. 3.State how you want their behavior to change. (Example: When you speak to me in that tone of voice, it makes me feel angry and defensive. Please use a calm tone of voice when you need to tell me how to do something).
Take Time – Take time to respond to an emotional situation. You do not have to respond to situations immediately. Taking time gives you a chance to sort out your feelings and make a choice about how you respond and what you choose to say to someone. Even if it takes a month or a year to sort out your feelings regarding an incident. It is never to late to return to the subject and process it, telling someone how you feel about it and the effect it had on you.
Amelia Hasenohrl, LPC, CHt. August 26, 2009
Licensed Professional Counselor
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Many Ways of Healing© by Okka
What if there were as many different approaches to healing and well-being as there are roads leading to Rome, and yet all healing would be self-healing?
Let us for a moment, think about health as a state of balance and illness or disease as a state of imbalance. And let us further assume that our body is capable of maintaining a state of balance. And even when we feel sick or are challenged with a disease, even then most of our billions and billions of cells are functioning properly and healthy. Our body somehow knows how to maintain a balance while constantly and simultaneously millions of inter- and intracellular processes take place. The simple fact that tears cried due to happiness have quite a different chemical consistence than tears cried from pain or grief shows us how amazingly differentiated our bodily responses are and how much inner wisdom our body has. And it is ours to access.
Now, when health is a state of balance and disease is a state of imbalance, and then healing is the process of re-turning to a balanced state. This means the body is working to re-establish harmony while using all available sources to reach this goal. Would it therefore be appropriate - and in a sense, be respectful toward ourselves, to see all healing as self-healing?
What would it be like when we were to change our point of view and intentionally utilize the healing powers within; while using the various forms of treatments and approaches as possibilities to assist us on the road of self-healing?
Through a study done by the Institute of Heart Math it was discovered that the DNA changes it shape according to feelings felt by the researchers. When gratitude, love, and appreciation were felt, the DNA responded by relaxing, the strands unwound and the DNA became longer. When the researchers felt anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the DNA responded by tightening up, becoming shorter and even switching off some of the DNA codes. This effect was reversed and the codes were switched on again when feelings of love, joy, and appreciation were felt by the researchers.
What have these results to do with healing and self-healing? Each cell in our body has a strand of DNA, within which - among many other things - the information of a healthy, properly functioning cell is located. And since we are in charge of what to think or feel, we can support our healing process by learning to relax - regardless of the environment - and use all our senses and abilities to envision and feel the perfect outcome.
By: Okka Holthuis / http://us.mc827.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=okka@luxmani.com http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=PBKyx&m=1fPVFLgAKVjnxj&b=LbnXJqlyiM_HbpLMy0G1ZA
What if there were as many different approaches to healing and well-being as there are roads leading to Rome, and yet all healing would be self-healing?
Let us for a moment, think about health as a state of balance and illness or disease as a state of imbalance. And let us further assume that our body is capable of maintaining a state of balance. And even when we feel sick or are challenged with a disease, even then most of our billions and billions of cells are functioning properly and healthy. Our body somehow knows how to maintain a balance while constantly and simultaneously millions of inter- and intracellular processes take place. The simple fact that tears cried due to happiness have quite a different chemical consistence than tears cried from pain or grief shows us how amazingly differentiated our bodily responses are and how much inner wisdom our body has. And it is ours to access.
Now, when health is a state of balance and disease is a state of imbalance, and then healing is the process of re-turning to a balanced state. This means the body is working to re-establish harmony while using all available sources to reach this goal. Would it therefore be appropriate - and in a sense, be respectful toward ourselves, to see all healing as self-healing?
What would it be like when we were to change our point of view and intentionally utilize the healing powers within; while using the various forms of treatments and approaches as possibilities to assist us on the road of self-healing?
Through a study done by the Institute of Heart Math it was discovered that the DNA changes it shape according to feelings felt by the researchers. When gratitude, love, and appreciation were felt, the DNA responded by relaxing, the strands unwound and the DNA became longer. When the researchers felt anger, fear, frustration, or stress, the DNA responded by tightening up, becoming shorter and even switching off some of the DNA codes. This effect was reversed and the codes were switched on again when feelings of love, joy, and appreciation were felt by the researchers.
What have these results to do with healing and self-healing? Each cell in our body has a strand of DNA, within which - among many other things - the information of a healthy, properly functioning cell is located. And since we are in charge of what to think or feel, we can support our healing process by learning to relax - regardless of the environment - and use all our senses and abilities to envision and feel the perfect outcome.
By: Okka Holthuis / http://us.mc827.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=okka@luxmani.com http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=PBKyx&m=1fPVFLgAKVjnxj&b=LbnXJqlyiM_HbpLMy0G1ZA
Monday, June 22, 2009
Changes Your Body Goes Through When You Quit Smoking
Within 20 minutes of the last cigarette:· Blood pressure drops to normal· Pulse rate drops to normal· Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal
8 Hours:· Carbon Monoxide level in blood drops to normal· Oxygen level in blood increases to normal
24 Hours:· Chances of a heart attack decreases
48 Hours:· Nerve endings start to re-grow
72 Hours:· Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier· Lung capacity increases
2 Weeks to 3 Months:· Circulation improves. Walking becomes easier· Lung function increases up to 30%
1 to 9 Months:· Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath is decreased· Cilia re-grows in lungs, increasing ability to handle mucous, clean the lungs, reduce infection· Body's overall energy level increases
5 Years:· Lung cancer death rate for average smoker (one pack a day) decreases from 137 per 100,000 people to 72 per 100,000
10 Years:· Lung cancer death rate for average smoker drops to 12 deaths per 100,000. Almost the rate of non-smokers· Pre-cancerous cells are replaced with healthy cells· Other cancers - such as those of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decreases. (There are 30 chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause cancer.)
Within 20 minutes of the last cigarette:· Blood pressure drops to normal· Pulse rate drops to normal· Body temperature of hands and feet increases to normal
8 Hours:· Carbon Monoxide level in blood drops to normal· Oxygen level in blood increases to normal
24 Hours:· Chances of a heart attack decreases
48 Hours:· Nerve endings start to re-grow
72 Hours:· Bronchial tubes relax, making breathing easier· Lung capacity increases
2 Weeks to 3 Months:· Circulation improves. Walking becomes easier· Lung function increases up to 30%
1 to 9 Months:· Coughing, sinus congestion, fatigue, shortness of breath is decreased· Cilia re-grows in lungs, increasing ability to handle mucous, clean the lungs, reduce infection· Body's overall energy level increases
5 Years:· Lung cancer death rate for average smoker (one pack a day) decreases from 137 per 100,000 people to 72 per 100,000
10 Years:· Lung cancer death rate for average smoker drops to 12 deaths per 100,000. Almost the rate of non-smokers· Pre-cancerous cells are replaced with healthy cells· Other cancers - such as those of the mouth, larynx, esophagus, bladder, kidney and pancreas decreases. (There are 30 chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause cancer.)
Saturday, May 16, 2009
What is Hypnotherapy ?
Hypnotherapy is an educational communication that flows from your conscious mind to your unconscious mind and allows them both to believe the same message.This is valuable communication, because in order to attain our goals, our conscious and unconscious mind must agree. For instance, if consciously you are saying to yourself, "I want to lose 30 lbs.", and your subconscious is saying, "I like this extra padding, it keeps people from approaching me and I feel less vulnerable and threatened", you are going to hang on to that weight, or you may lose it for a while and gain it right back. Your subconscious must be in agreement with your conscious desires and goals to be successful.How is Hypnotherapy different from Hypnosis ?They are one and the same. They are interchangeable terms. However, I use Hypnotherapy because I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and also have a counseling profession with a hospital. I feel that I also use my counseling skills when I work with my clients to solve their problems. Hypnosis is a very quick, easy and effective counseling tool.What about Stage Hypnosis ?Stage hypnosis is the most common impression of hypnosis. This is the entertainment where a Hypnotist leads people into doing things on stage such as clucking like a chicken, or dancing suggestively, etc. Keep in mind that these people volunteer for this and they secretly want to be on stage and perform for the audience. You have to be willing to be hypnotized. You cannot be hypnotized against your will.
Hypnotherapy is an educational communication that flows from your conscious mind to your unconscious mind and allows them both to believe the same message.This is valuable communication, because in order to attain our goals, our conscious and unconscious mind must agree. For instance, if consciously you are saying to yourself, "I want to lose 30 lbs.", and your subconscious is saying, "I like this extra padding, it keeps people from approaching me and I feel less vulnerable and threatened", you are going to hang on to that weight, or you may lose it for a while and gain it right back. Your subconscious must be in agreement with your conscious desires and goals to be successful.How is Hypnotherapy different from Hypnosis ?They are one and the same. They are interchangeable terms. However, I use Hypnotherapy because I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and also have a counseling profession with a hospital. I feel that I also use my counseling skills when I work with my clients to solve their problems. Hypnosis is a very quick, easy and effective counseling tool.What about Stage Hypnosis ?Stage hypnosis is the most common impression of hypnosis. This is the entertainment where a Hypnotist leads people into doing things on stage such as clucking like a chicken, or dancing suggestively, etc. Keep in mind that these people volunteer for this and they secretly want to be on stage and perform for the audience. You have to be willing to be hypnotized. You cannot be hypnotized against your will.
What Does Hypnosis Feel Like ?
What does Hypnosis Feel Like? When you are in Hypnosis, you feel very, very relaxed, as relaxed as when you are asleep, only you are still awake. You are always in control, and always aware of your surroundings if you care to be. Hypnosis can feel like deep meditation, daydreaming, and how you feel just before you fall asleep. All of these states of mind are similar to what is experienced in hypnosis.We have all experienced daydreaming. When we are daydreaming, we are deeply involved in the scenery of our daydream and although we are aware of our surroundings, being in a classroom for instance, we are choosing not to attend to the classroom around us during our daydreaming experience.What is Trance or “under” Hypnosis ? Trance is that daydream-like state that is induced in hypnosis. It feels very pleasant, carefree and deeply restful. Being in hypnosis trance is relaxing and refreshing, like a great afternoon nap.Being “under” hypnosis, or going “under” hypnosis is the same as being “in” hypnosis or hypnotic trance. The term under is not readily used now because it gives the idea that you are “under” someone else’s control. As you recall, you cannot be hypnotized unless you want to be hypnotized, so you are never “under” someone else’s control.
What does Hypnosis Feel Like? When you are in Hypnosis, you feel very, very relaxed, as relaxed as when you are asleep, only you are still awake. You are always in control, and always aware of your surroundings if you care to be. Hypnosis can feel like deep meditation, daydreaming, and how you feel just before you fall asleep. All of these states of mind are similar to what is experienced in hypnosis.We have all experienced daydreaming. When we are daydreaming, we are deeply involved in the scenery of our daydream and although we are aware of our surroundings, being in a classroom for instance, we are choosing not to attend to the classroom around us during our daydreaming experience.What is Trance or “under” Hypnosis ? Trance is that daydream-like state that is induced in hypnosis. It feels very pleasant, carefree and deeply restful. Being in hypnosis trance is relaxing and refreshing, like a great afternoon nap.Being “under” hypnosis, or going “under” hypnosis is the same as being “in” hypnosis or hypnotic trance. The term under is not readily used now because it gives the idea that you are “under” someone else’s control. As you recall, you cannot be hypnotized unless you want to be hypnotized, so you are never “under” someone else’s control.
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