Tuesday, November 12, 2013
9:45 a.m. Networking
10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Meeting with 12 p.m. Working Lunch
We have 3 special projects that need your feedback!
This will be an extended meeting, but you will be fed. J
Please stay for the entire meeting if you can.
Where: American Heart Association
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Costa Mesa – Secondhand Smoke Nuisance Ordinance
Here’s is the language that was passed by the City Council earlier this month in Costa Mesa that specifies secondhand smoke as a nuisance. This will give residents a tool to protect themselves and their families from secondhand smoke intrusion from neighbors or businesses. Complaints of secondhand smoke can be reported to the city and should initiate a follow-up and enforcement protocol. Please pass this along to your contacts within Costa Mesa and OCTEC.
“Why people say hypnosis is their last resort for stopping smoking!”
by Kelley Woods, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
“How Can Mindfulness Help Me Stop Smoking?”
by James Hazlerig, MA, Certified Hypnosis Practitioner
Mindfulness is a simple meditation technique that many hypnosis practitioners use to
help their clients quit smoking for good.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2013
9:45 a.m. Networking 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Meeting
Thank you to Jonathan Lukoff for providing the refreshments in honor of David Pinsky.
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“Chronic Stress Negatively Affects Your Health”
by Elise Fee
Although stress seems to be a part of our everyday lives, it’s important to understand the ramifications and potential consequences of living with chronic stress. Stress is probably the most toxic thing you can do to your body, mind, and emotions. It is insidious and affects every aspect of your health.
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“Positive thinking isn’t just fluff – research shows it actually reduces stress”
by Elise Fee
Concordia University recently published research results that show that optimistic people have lower stress levels in their daily lives and are better able to handle unexpected stressful experiences. Now there is proof that thinking positively actually does make a difference in your ability to deal with the stressors of life.
So what if you aren’t naturally a positive thinker? The good news is that our thoughts are mostly habitual – which means they can be changed. So if you want to reduce your stress levels AND be able to handle life’s challenges more effectively and easily, you can LEARN how to think positively.
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PAST LIFE THERAPY
by, VALERIE VINAR, Ph.D., M.F.T., CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPIST LIFE COACH
HOW IT WORKS:
Have you had a Deja experience where you met someone for the first time and feel like you’ve known them before? Or perhaps you have been somewhere that feels so familiar but you don’t have a conscious memory of it? These can be examples of past lifetimes that are in your memory banks.
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By Stephanie Levine, Hypnotherapist
Why is it so important to strive for self improvement?
In a lifetime you will meet many challenges; some self-imposed, others from outside influences. Some can be burdensome, others easy, no matter. These challenges are what helps to define you. What is important is the personal responsibility with which you accept them. It is your inner character that helps you cope with them.
Life is difficult at best, but can be interpreted as a half full glass or a half empty one; the choice will be yours. If you choose the first, then overcoming a difficult challenge will be tolerable, if not, you will always be miserable. Again, the decision is yours.
But, understand this, if you try and look at your most challenging times as an accomplishment, (whether you achieve your goals or not), and see it as a way to improve yourself, than you can accomplish most of your dreams, plus face whatever life deals you. If so, then you will have become a stronger, more self confident, poised, responsible, happy human being.
This comes with hiccups of course. Others might see these traits as tenacious, or bullish. However, it doesn’t matter what others think. It is what is inside YOU that will make you the man to which you will be.
Go after each and every dream you wish to achieve. An accomplishment is something you have tried, regardless of its outcome.
“So Which Does Come First: The Mind, The Brain, or The Body?”
by Susan French, Clinical Hypnotherapist
When I first studied psychology and then hypnotherapy, the same nagging issue kept hammering at me. Over and over again, I found a ‘disconnect’ between how and where we looked for causes of illness as well as for unwanted behavior.
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