Coastal Academy of Hypnotic Arts and Science, School for Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, BC, Canada- by Leslie McIntosh

  My question today is:  What the heck happened to the expression, "You are welcome".

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This weekend, I had the pleasure of attending and being a presenter at the Canada Hypnosis Conference. I cannot be 100% certain, but I can say with confidence that this is likely the first ever Canadian Hypnosis Conference.

How many Self-Help Books have you read?  1, 5, 20?  And you still find yourself

resorting back to that disturbing way of thinking that sent you out to buy those

books?

Who we are is what we: heard, saw, smelled, felt, touched, experienced,

perceived and thought when we were very small children.
 
This information all dropped into our subconscious minds when we had no filters

and no choice about what created our feelings and beliefs that dictate our lives

today.

Did you notice , reading that book, that everthing in it was logical?  You totally

understood what you needed to do to change that icky reaction you always have

to that co-worker who bullies you?  You just knew all you had to do was A or B or

C and you would be in control of all of your emotions.  You would be able to

respond in a logical and controlled manner, and walk away feeling fabulous

about yourself? 

Did you also notice the next time that co-worker spoke to you in that aggravating

manner, you still got that old feeling in the pit of your stomach?  You may have

leaerned a new behaviour to deal with them.  A new retort, or a new solution. But

was your heart still pounding?  Did you notice that icky feeling is still there?  Did

you realize that nothing about YOU has changed, except perhaps what the Bully

sees?  You learned a new response behaviour, so the outside world may see a

bit of a difference in you.  But the most important person in your life is YOU.  Did

YOU feel different?

Changing a behaviour around a feeling may give us a more outward appearance

of calm and will give us a sense of pride that we have "fooled" that Bully into

thinking we are confident around them.  But we still have to look into the mirror

each day and know that we still feel terrible about ourselves in that situation.

But  you CAN change that icky feeling.  By getting to the root cause of what that

feeling is, when it began, no matter how early in life, you can be relieved of that

feeling forever.  So not only will the Bully think you might have changed, but you

will KNOW you have changed.  When  you face that bully the next time, you will

just understand that they can never have that power over you again.

And you can do this with your Hypnotherapist.  They will gently guide you to that

moment when the belief that you could be bullied was created as a child, help

you change that information that was filed there as a child, and create a new

feeling. 
The next time you even see that Bully, you will notice they no longer have the

ability to make you feel anything negative. Not only will your behaviour be

changed, but your feelings about yourself will have taken wings.  You will notice

that you feel fabulous and totally in control.  You will have regained your power.

Our power is what gives us choice.  Be in your power.

Have you ever met someone that you felt instantly drawn to; perhaps in a friendly way or even fallen in love with at first sight? Ever wondered why or how that could be possible?

During a Hypnosis session with a certified, qualified Hypnotherapist you can find out why. How can that be? How can I be attracted to someone who I have only just met and don’t even know? And he or she isn’t even my type!!

What is Hypnotherapy?

When a person chooses to make changes in their life, they can speed up the healing/change process by addressing the subconscious mind, as opposed to the critical, paradigm directed conscious mind. Most of our issues are tucked away in the part of our mind that we are not even aware of, the subconscious. In Hypnotherapy, using hypnosis we work directly with this part of the mind that is nonjudgmental and will accept changes and releases quickly and with ease. A Clinical Hypnotherapist is the facilitator for that change. During Hypnotherapy, the client is totally aware of what is happening and is in control at all times.

Coastal Academy of Hypnotic Arts and Science graduates are unique in that they are cross-trained in several techniques, such as Milton Erickson, David Elman, Gil Boyne, John Kappas, Terrence Watts, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and others. This provides the Coastal Academy graduate with a flexible toolkit to meet the needs of their clients.