A short while ago I was informed that Debi Austin passed away earlier this morning.
Debi was a guardian angel for Orange County and came down here many times, over the years, to help with our efforts to teach tobacco use prevention.
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Fear of Flying – Hypnosis Can Calm Responses
by Kelley Woods, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
What do worrying and a fear of flying have in common?
They both depend on the creative power of imagination.
It is said that worrying is like praying for something bad to happen.
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Hypnosis for Sports Performance
by Kelley Woods, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Many noted athletes have utilized sports hypnosis to enhance their games; Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Andre Agassi and Ken Norton have all benefited from learning how to use the power of their subconscious minds in a number of ways.
Hypnosis has been used to help baseball and basketball players, golfers, boxers and martial artists, runners, cyclists, swimmers, body builders and more. Hypnosis and NLP can be helpful in helping professional and amateur athletes improve in numerous ways:
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Sex Addiction: What Really Causes It?
by Suzanne Kellner-Zinck
Sex addiction and compulsion is an ever larger problem these days with the use of the computer for work and many of the activities we used to do with other technologies like television and reading books and magazines.
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Sasha Carrion will be filming an exciting episode of Caso Cerrado, to be released next month,
She’ll be hypnotizing a person on air that “society may consider dangerous”, in her words.
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Has this ever happened to you?
by Kelley Woods, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
In today’s hectic, modern world, our minds and bodies are in hyper-drive, often engaged in what has been termed as the “fight or flight response”.
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Fear of Heights
by Kelley Woods, Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
Some people get queasy just thinking about standing at the edge of a cliff or being on a bridge.
Now, this isn’t something that would normally restrict their everyday enjoyment of life, but what if the sufferer was in construction or perhaps worked in an office high in a skyscraper? This might certainly impede on their daily comfort levels, inciting anxiety and sometimes, in more severe cases, panic attacks!
A fear of heights might keep a person from taking a trip up a mountain, go skiing or getting the chance to view a scenic vista. Being uncomfortable in elevated places is actually one of the natural reactions we have from birth, but when fears become accelerated and start to restrict our life experience, it’s time to take action!
Fears and phobias can build over time or they can come on suddenly, for no apparent reason.
Many times, a fear of heights may actually be a result of something completely unrelated to height itself…like stress or loss.
The automatic panicky feelings that result are hard wired into the brain, traveling along neural pathways.
Hypnosis helps to reconstruct these pathways, providing detours and alternate routes…ones which are not only more comfortable, but are conducive to how a person wants to experience their environment.
Sometimes, this switch can happen almost spontaneously while in other cases, it is more of a process.
Along with the relief of no longer being susceptible to uncontrollable, negative reactions to heights comes a sense of confidence and strength, which can gravitate to other areas of life. Hypnosis clients enjoy many benefits of learning how to use their dynamic subconscious minds to make helpful changes.
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“From Kathie B. December 7, 2016
If you have researched this far into hypnotherapy, it means you are seeking; if you are seeking you may just find exactly what you’re looking for.
In 2016, I was once again compelled to become a former smoker. Toward this goal, during the past 40 yrs., I have explored many options on my own unsuccessfully. I felt more sure than ever that I was in need of outside help. I was also sure this help would not include any form of nicotine. So I said: “OK G..LE”! Over the next few weeks I found myself navigating past many a lighthouse of possibility; the most intriguing was the recommend of certified hypnotherapists, not one, but two of them.
After personal consultations (free), discovering that therapy by phone was an option, navigating websites, using links, studying reviews, prayer and a leap of faith, I chose Barbara Jo Hawkins, certified hypnotherapist and hypnosis instructor. She seemed to be the right, personal fit for me. After diving into this new adventure with an open mind and an expectation for success, I found myself not just a former smoker, but quite in awe of future possibilities available to me for improving my well being and seeing my future health become better and better!
I have since continued with Barbara Hawkins, seeking diligently what she has to offer. I find her to be one of those unique individuals for whom I will offer my personal testimony. Barbara provides a very professional approach to individual therapy, however; when we are finished with a session, I feel very cared for. I not only feel that I
have been treated with special care, but that I am special! What more can a person ask for? I imagine that her group training is the same and I look forward to pursuing that as well.
In the meantime, I am enjoying new “tools” now available to me which have enabled the ease of serious back surgery and continued ease of recovery beyond the expectations of all involved!
For this review I will give the maximum number of stars available!
Kathie B. from Colorado”
Thanks and…
Better & Better,
Barbara Hawkins
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Mark BarrusForgive Your Failures, New Year’s Resolutions
It is already the middle of January and the festivities of the holidays are over, and perhaps the well meant and desired resolutions …dead.
With the holidays comes a lot. The over indulging perhaps the excessive stress as focus is on family and all the family issues triggered by being together or not being together. As New Year’s comes it is a good feel that all that goes with the holidays is over. It feels good to say these things like, I am going to lose weight, I am going to exercise, I am going to “whatever”. And about this time we need to make ourselves feel good from the emotionally charged holidays.
And now to why these well meant resolutions are over and how they don’t have to be. Whether you like to make them or not, research has found that people who make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than people who don’t explicitly make resolutions. Yet as you know, it’s not so easy to keep your resolve as life returns to normal and your old habits of mind and action start testing your resolve and pulling you away from the new ones you resolved to create.
Change is difficult, yet as hard as it is, everyone has the ability to make and keep meaningful changes in their life, regardless of their age, or how well worn their habitual ways of engaging in the world.
Perhaps as you call your intentions resolutions in your mind’s eye you call them goals and follow thru with these following seven tips. Goal setting is a process of carefully choosing what you want to achieve and putting a plan in place to achieve it. You are firmly in charge of your own life and can choose living by design rather than default.
Seven Strategies for Highly Effective New Year Goal Setting.
Know Your Why.
For a resolution to work, it has to be aligned with your core values. We all want to look better or attract more prosperity, but the resolutions have to go beyond superficial desires and connect with what truly matters to you. So you must “Know your why” and feel truly passionate about the goals you set for yourself. If you don’t then when the going gets tough you won’t have the resolve to stick to your plan. When your goals are connected to a deep sense of purpose it compels you to see the bigger picture. You will dig deeper and stay the course when the going gets tough.
Be Specific
Resolutions to “eat better, get fitter, be happier, relax more or have a better life balance’ are doomed to fail because they lack specific details. The more specific you are the more likely you will be to succeed. Find and put together a plan for tracking your successes.
Don’t just think it, put it to the next step, write it.
Writing it takes it to the next step and if need be leave sticky notes in places to keep your goals in your mind whereever you are.
Design your environment to support your goals.
If it’s fitness make sure your kitchen is stocked with foods that only support your goal. Keep a list of restaurants that have healthy meals. Create a progress chart, enlist a cheer squad around you to keep you on target, join a group, start a blog. Likewise if there are people around you that pull you down set boundaries, set boundaries right up front. .
Limit your goals.
Trying to do too many things at once will make you very unfocused and likely not to truly succeed in any of them. Take one major undertaking at once and break that down into bite sized pieces. Small steps, strong start.
Focus on the process.
It is easy to get caught up in the initial enthusiasm to only come crashing down when you don’t see immediate results. Focus on the process and celebrate the regular small successes. Persistence pays off… Do a little more and a little more and those little successes become bigger and bigger.
Forgive your failures.
We are all human and will have failures but the failures don’t define your success, how you respond to them does. If you happen to mess up, lose your resolve, press the snooze button or revert to a familiar well-practiced behavior, don’t beat yourself up. When it comes to slipping up and tripping up, you are in good company. It happens to everyone. Just don’t let your failures mean more than they do. Reflect on the lessons they hold, make adjustments accordingly. Life rewards those who work at it.
Hypnosis is a great assist when putting together your program. Find a hypnotist near you a and make him/her your buddy. You will be able to see that the new year resolution will be a goal achieved.
Alice Stacionis
So, what happened since then……?
The 111th US Congress began on January 6, 2009 and a top priority for this new Congress is to pass legislation
to provide health care for the millions of uninsured children in the United States. In the House of
Representatives, H.R. 2, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, has been
introduced by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-06, NJ). Similar legislation that does not yet have a bill number is being
worked on in the Senate. These bills would reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP) to provide additional health care coverage for children. This expanded health care coverage
would be paid for by an increase in the federal tobacco excise tax. Below is a federal update on this legislation
that includes a summary of the bills, background information on SCHIP, a status update and next steps.
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