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Holistic Wellness

Holistic wellness is an approach to health that considers the whole person—body, mind, and spirit. It recognizes that each aspect of an individual’s life is interconnected and that achieving optimal health requires addressing all these components. This philosophy emphasizes balance and harmony in various areas, including physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental well-being.

Key Principles of Holistic Wellness

1. Whole Person Approach: Health is not just the absence of illness; it encompasses physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. If one of these is out of balance, everything will be out of balance.
2. Interconnectedness: Different aspects of wellness influence each other. For example, stress can impact physical health, while poor physical health can affect mental well-being. The energies I project will affect those around me and vice versa.
3. Personal Empowerment: Individuals are encouraged to take an active role in their health through self-awareness, education, and lifestyle choices. I also believe that self-love is the key to universal healing. As we grow and shift we contribute to the overall consciousness. Working on bringing healing into our lives, as we can only change ourselves, we bring more love to ourselves and therefore bring more love to the whole- as the outside is a reflection of what is going on inside of us. As above, so below.
4. Natural Healing: Holistic wellness often emphasizes natural and preventive approaches to health, promoting self-care and lifestyle changes. We are powerful beings. Our thoughts and emotions behind the thoughts contribute to how we manifest in this life.

Holistic wellness recognizes the complexity of human health and encourages a comprehensive approach to achieving balance and harmony. By incorporating alternative healing tools and incorporating mind-body-spirit healing, individuals can enhance their well-being and empower themselves to find growth and balance on their self-healing journey. Exploring these practices to find what resonates for you can lead to a more fulfilling, authentic, and joyful life.

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Hypnotherapy

What is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis is a focused state of awareness that allows individuals to tap into their subconscious mind. During hypnosis, a person may experience heightened suggestibility, relaxation, and increased concentration, making it easier to access thoughts and memories.

The Benefits of Hypnosis

In our lives, we often lack the tools to communicate authentically with loved ones about critical issues and experiences, including death—an inevitable part of life. This lack of communication can lead to unprocessed emotions that get stuck inside us, creating blocks to our well-being. Many people are not taught that experiencing and expressing emotions is essential for living a healthy life, both physically and emotionally.

Stuck emotions can contribute to chronic health issues. Our bodies signal distress, but we often focus solely on symptoms, neglecting the underlying emotional causes. Hypnosis offers a powerful method to bypass the conscious mind, allowing us to work through these emotional blocks.

One crucial aspect of this work involves forgiveness—both seeking and granting it, from self and others. Many individuals carry hidden guilt from perceived wrongdoings, which can lead to prolonged suffering in life and as they face death. Releasing resentment is vital, as these emotions can fester and affect our well-being. The wisdom of Buddha reminds us that holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot coal, which only harms ourselves, making it essential to let it go to achieve inner peace.

Unprocessed emotions can drain vital energy, which may be particularly essential in the later stages of life. As clients release these emotions, they often gain clarity about what they need to communicate and prioritize at this present time. With clients facing the end of life, this may include letting go of attachments to earthly possessions or relationships which can create obstacles to a peaceful departure.

Spiritual connections are shown to be a huge factor in how we perceive the quality of our lives and in how we look at death and dying. This may be even more pivotal for individuals nearing the end of life. Hypnotherapy can help deepen these connections, addressing spiritual concerns that may arise, regardless of one's personal beliefs. For some, this exploration becomes urgent as they confront their mortality. Additionally, involving family members in this process can be beneficial, enabling them to find closure and support each other in processing grief.

Hypnotherapy, using imagery and suggestions, teaches clients to relax into acceptance, easing both emotional and physical pain. Overall, integrating hypnotherapy into your life provides emotional, physical, and spiritual healing. This allows for more joy, authenticity, and acceptance in all aspects of life.

Hypnotherapy sessions can be conducted in person or virtually, making this powerful tool accessible regardless of location. Hypnotherapy offers relief with a variety of symptoms and habits, including but not limited to:

• Reducing anxiety and fear
• Releasing attachments and stored emotions
• Enhancing emotional wellbeing
• Improving sleep, physical comfort, and pain management
• Deepening connection to others, self, and Spirit

Additional tools that may be integrated with hypnotherapy sessions include: mindfulness and present moment awareness, cultivating gratitude, mind-body awareness, guided imagery, breathing techniques, tapping (EFT), aromatherapy, spiritual and emotional support, and ceremony and blessings.

*The process of hypnotherapy(This does not include the information gathering pre-hypnosis)

Hypnosis involves several key stages:

1. Induction: The process begins with a series of techniques designed to relax the individual and focus their attention. This can include guided imagery, deep breathing, or progressive muscle relaxation.
2. Deepening: Once relaxed, the hypnotist helps the individual enter a deeper state of hypnosis, enhancing their receptiveness to suggestions.
3. Suggestion: In this state, the hypnotist provides positive suggestions or imagery to address specific issues.
4. Post-Hypnotic Suggestions: The individual may receive suggestions intended to take effect after the session, helping them notice triggers and change behaviors or thought patterns.
5. Awakening: The session concludes with the hypnotist guiding the individual back to full awareness.

*To impart real change through hypnosis a couple of conditions need to be met. One, the client needs to deeply desire and be committed to the change. Second, there needs to be repetition! The practitioner practices repetition during the hypnosis session. The client continues repeating affirmations and suggestions after the hypnosis session. The client repeats hypnosis by scheduling follow-up hypnotherapy sessions to create lasting changes. It takes years to create the conditions we want to bring change to, so it stands to reason it may take longer than one session to create the change we want.

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Interesting facts about hypnotherapy

• The average person experiences forms of hypnosis (altered mind states) daily upon waking and right before falling asleep, while driving, daydreaming, or watching television.
• Hypnosis has been around officially for hundreds of years, unofficially for thousands of years.
• Hypnotherapy is a therapy that can be used by itself or in conjunction with other therapies, such as talk therapy.
• All hypnosis is self-hypnosis. The practitioner is a catalyst to help promote this state and guide the subconscious to the desired outcome.
• Statistics comparing efficacies of different therapies:
• Psychoanalysis: 38% recovery after 600 sessions
• Behavior Therapy: 72% recovery after 22 sessions
• Hypnotherapy: 93% recovery after 6 sessions
• Source: Alfred A. Barrios, PhD

Myths About Hypnosis

• *Hypnotherapy is NOT stage hypnosis like you see on tv. Hypnotherapy is a tool to access the subconscious mind to make changes to one’s life. Hypnotherapy is similar to guided meditation.
• Hypnotherapy cannot make you do anything outside of your morals and values.
• A trance state is a natural and relaxed state of mind. You will not stay in a trance state after a hypnosis session. You may feel a little drowsy or relaxed after a session.
• You may fall asleep during a hypnosis session. If you do fall asleep you are in a deeper trance. Your subconscious will pick up exactly what it needs.
• Your subconscious will continue to work on the desired change even after the session.
• Typically the client will remember most or all of the hypnotherapy session.