Tag: Trance
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Deep Dive with Me
Turning 55 is a miracle of sorts for me, if you understand when I was 17, I was so, so, so afraid of getting old (18-years-old would be too old for me back then.). And when I was 20, I thought by the time the new millennium came, with its Y-2k issue, that it would…
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Turn Thoughts to Thinking
“Turn thoughts to thinking.” When this idea first came to me on one of those morning walks, it lit a light bulb in my head. Everything became crystal clear, including many ways I could use it to illustrate and explain how the mind works, or not.
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Being Authentic
Some think being authentic is not telling lies, being good, doing the right things, the good things – the good-girl, good-boy syndrome. We have been programmed to think in those terms. But where does that concept of being a good girl, being a good boy really come from? It may just come from other people…
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Needles And Hypnosis
Back in March this year, I walked into My Rest Acupuncture Studio on Main Street at 18th Avenue Vancouver. I was surprised. As beautiful, tranquil, and peaceful as the open room was, it was just, open! A few massage tables quietly bathed in soothing music and restful energy. I asked my collaboration partner Ala Wroblewska…
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Without Trying to Hypnotize You
Without trying to hypnotize you, I’d like you to stare into the graphic art for a minute or two. Maybe lots of circles, maybe a depth, maybe confusing, maybe fractured, maybe patterns, or even motion… It’s a natural thing when you look into such an image and begin to see movement. The brain doesn’t know…
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I Dream I Hypnotized Her to Sleep
They say when you start to speak a language in your dreams, you have mastered that language. Can you imagine my joy when I finally had a dream, in which I was speaking English, in my late teens? English was my favourite subject in high school. A few days ago, I woke up fully convinced…
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Pain Body, Wolf, Ghosts, and Laughter
Pauline, who lives in Europe, found me online. She had been googling ideas about physical pain and the role the subconscious mind played in that pain. She was especially focused on “pain caused by accidents”. During her search, she came upon my blog post: A Dialogue with “Pain Body” in Hypnotherapy. I was a little…
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Meeting Erickson
But my true answer is that I practice “Kemilian”. That sounds quite funny. But then, the unconscious mind processes information 11 million bits per second. As a hypnotherapist trusting her own unconscious mind, I think that’s a very appropriate answer to the question of my practice, including the sound of it.
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What Does Confidence Have to Do with Flavour?
Many people I come across understand that many of their issues—whether emotional, mental, behavioural, and perhaps even physical—can come down to a lack of self-confidence. Heather, my new client had just come to see me about her body-image and perceived difficulty in dating when I mentioned she may just lack a little confidence. “Yes, I…
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Saving Her from Drowning
A new client today asked me, before leaving the office, “Do you always use the same words in your sessions?” After seeing a puzzled look on my face, he explained, “I mean, you used the word God a few times in our session.” As far as I could recall, I said the word God because…