Sedona Alternative Healing Arts Newsletter
Fall 2007

Stress Management With Hypnotherapy

This fall newsletter will hopefully expand your world about the deadly effects that stress has on our lives. In October 2006, my twin sister, at the age of 57 years, lost her battle to lifelong stress resulting in fatal cardiovascular disease. Heart disease has taken the lives of my mother (at age 67), her sister, my aunt (age 44), and most recently, my mother’s only living sister, my aunt (age 86). All of these women were smokers, rarely exercised, ate too many saturated fats and had a number of life stressors working against them. So I’m thinking that maybe part of my job on this earth plane is to educate others (and myself) about the importance of making therapeutic lifestyle changes. I know when I’m feeling stressed, my body has more aches and pains, my emotions are more sensitive, and I begin to feel exhausted by the slightest exertion. And I begin eating and drinking stuff I know I shouldn’t.

It’s a time for healing, not only ourselves but also our planet.

I like to think (and feel) that when we take more responsibility for being happier and healthier individuals, then an added benefit will be that Mother Earth and mankind will thrive in peace and harmony. Many would call me “the eternal optimist” and I have no objection to that! I have been called to do my part right here in the vortex healing energies of Sedona, Arizona for a very good reason!

My own need for a healing retreat.

I came here in 1999 thinking that I needed a break from the chaos of the San Francisco Bay Area. I needed my own healing retreat more than I ever realized! My focus was spirituality and healing, utilizing my own version of the “alternative therapies” – spiritual hypnosis.

*excluding past life regression

Enter into a powerful world of deep relaxation and inner healing.

My experience of being a hypnotherapist for nearly 10 years has given me an extraordinary opportunity to see first hand how using stress management with hypnotherapy improves every area of one’s life: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It is truly healing for your soul to have easy access to natural relaxation through self-hypnosis. Those who have come to me for stress management hypnotherapy sessions are astounded at how easy it is for them to drop down into what I call, the theta brain wave state, which is exactly the same relaxed, natural state we are in before we drift off to sleep at night. When we can quiet our physical body and our minds (through practicing relaxation techniques), then we can enter into a powerful world of the deepest relaxation and inner healing we have ever encountered.

What hypnosis is and is NOT

Since 1958 the American Medical Association (AMA) has accepted and promoted hypnosis as a natural way to relax, a way of accepting suggestions and as a motivational impetus that helps you to want to make changes in your life. (Read my Hypnotherapy page!) One of my biggest jobs is reducing fears about what hypnosis is and isn’t. Despite popular beliefs, you will NOT act like a chicken or a duck or any other goofy thing for that matter. YOU ARE ALWAYS IN CONTROL AND YOU WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING YOU DON’T WANT TO DO—EVER!! Hypnosis is NOT a sleep state; it’s a deep, relaxing trance state, similar to daydreaming, only more focused on you learning a new, healthy, powerful way of thinking or behaving. It’s safe, smooth and easy and just about anyone can be hypnotized if they are motivated to be. (Only those who have a very low IQ or have diagnosed psychoses are not good candidates for hypnosis.) Our conscious minds are always trying to control and protect us—it is the ego’s job to do that really! So then my job is to help you relax enough so you can go more deeply—down into the subconscious level of your mind where new beliefs and behaviors can be suggested. And then any suggestions that are positive and helpful to you will be given by ME! Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it? And it is—a whole lot simpler than you have ever imagined (that’s what my clients tell me too!!). Read on and then if you want to get really serious about improving your life…CALL ME FOR A FREE 15 MINUTE PHONE CONSULT or…BOOK AN APPOINTMENT!

What is Stress?

So let the STRESS MANAGEMENT WITH HYPNOTHERAPY BEGIN with some background on what stress is and the dangerous problems it creates.

Did you know that…