DLScott CH.t. / AASD / CDP

When you think about going to see a Dentist, what is the first thing that pops into your mind?

While modern dentistry has taken a lot of the discomfort and pain out of the actual dental session, the majority of people associate a visit to the dentist with some kind of pain discomfort, or anxiety.

Does any of this sound familiar to you:

Being embarrassed about the way I’ve taken care of my teeth, will the dentist berate me, lecture me, or judge me because of my lack of oral care?

Gagging or being unable to control your gag reflex. How many of us, have tried to have the x-rays done at a dentist office, and have had trouble with the little film cards placed near the back of our throats.

The sound of the drill, just the sound of the drill and smell of the heat from the drill on our teeth, often make some patients sick to the stomach or faint.

Choking, being afraid that you won’t be able to breathe or get any air, or of not be able to swallow.

Numbness, the idea or feeling of numbness can be terrifying and make some people think that they will not be able to breathe, or perhaps you have had an experience where the dentist has not been able to get you numb in the past and they went right ahead and worked on you anyway, then you stay away from the dentist because you are afraid it will happen again.

The Cost, “Are you kidding, it cost a lot of money to go to a dentist, I can’t afford that”.

These are just some of the reasons that people fear dental visits, but now you can do something about it.

One of the most effective options is Hypnosis. Hypnosis, from a qualified practitioner, can and does alleviate or eliminate these fears and anxieties for you.  From the issue of bruxism, also known as TMJ, to the issue of relaxation and pain management, Hypnosis will provide with the skills and tools to having a comfortable and enjoyable visit to the Dentist.

At Foundations Hypnosis Seattle~Everett area you are guided through sessions of deep relaxation in which you will gain the ability to confidently face and overcome any ideas of fear or discomfort, and be given the ability to banish those fears and anxieties forever.

If you are wanting to know more about this powerful life altering experience, if you are dealing with emotional stress, and behavioral issues that have you kept stuck, then don’t delay, call Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Everett at (206) 417-4900 today. Everett counseling therapist and North Seattle Hypnotherapy

The Power of Thoughts

DLScott CH.t. / CDP / AASD

No matter how you approach it, or what the issue is that we are talking about, we are actually dealing with thoughts, and thoughts can be changed.

How true this is.  When we want to change a condition in our lives, whether that be smoking, low self worth or low self esteem, weight issues, job issues, poor relationships, panic and anxiety issues, money issues, etc. we first need to change our thoughts about the condition.

Think about that, when you have an issue or a problem, what do you think about the most? Are you thinking about the solution to the problem, or are you thinking about the problem itself. 

Over the last several days I have found myself thinking about all of the issues and problems that are going on in our country due to violence, anger, retaliation, and fear. What I have recognized, (again), is that this just creates more of an awareness and focus on what I don’t want instead of on what I do want. It does not matter whether you side with the Democratic Party or the Republican Party; the solution is to start focusing on solutions instead of the problems.

This same rule applies with all issues in our life.  We need to retrain ourselves to focus on what we want instead of what we don’t want. One of the best ways to do this is by using the power of your mind and heart to direct and master the images and messages contained within your subconscious brain.

We never engage in any behavior or activity unless we perceive that it is granting us some kind of benefit. What benefit do you think that you are getting from your behavior, i.e. how do you believe that you are benefitting from smoking, drinking, anger, playing the victim, etc.?

You can uncover these benefits, release the need for them, and then create new behaviors by using Hypnosis, and specifically Foundations Hypnosis Emotional Release Therapy.

Why not give it try, call the office, (206) 417-4900, or fill out an assessment located on this website.

Hypnosis a Powerful Tool in Complementary Cancer Care

By, Jack Bleeker

February 9, 2010

(Hi, I usually write these blogs myself, but I was asked to post this article re: Hypnosis, and Cancer Care. Since I originally became certified in Hypnosis to help patients and families deal with the effects of cancer, I am more than happy and proud to present the following information. I am also providing a link to  Mesothelioma.com   so you can learn more about this deadly form of cancer ).

Complementary therapies, while not given the attention that more traditional cancer therapies may receive, are perhaps equally important while undergoing treatment for certain types of cancer. Patients diagnosed with difficult to treat malignancies will often use these types of therapies in conjunction with traditional surgical, chemotherapeutic, or radiology techniques to form a more comprehensive and effective treatment regimen. Among the most important and effective alternative therapies utilized by those diagnosed with cancer is hypnotherapy.

Hypnotherapy has been used for many years in clinical settings. Hypnotherapy’s role in cancer management however, is relatively new and indications are that its utilization has not been fully maximized yet. Effective cancer treatment often depends on the patient’s ability to not only defeat the cancer through treatments but also to maintain their health and mental spirit throughout the painful side effects of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.

Often, the symptoms and effects of the cancer itself on the body are negligible compared to the pain and other side effects of chemotherapy and radiation. This is where acupuncture has been said to be most effective. Cancers such as mesothelioma, which are often unable to be removed by surgical means, are often treated with some combination of chemotherapy and radiation. While these potent therapies can be effective in eliminating some of the tumor mass and growth, they also profoundly affect the health of the surrounding tissue. Symptoms of these effects including fever, nausea, and general pain have been dramatically reduced through the utilization of hypnosis. Patients, who are able to withstand these symptoms and recover quickly, will often be able to be more aggressively treated, increasing the efficacy of the treatment regimen as a whole. Some specific hypnotherapy techniques utilized in pain management for mesothelioma cancer patients, include altering the neurophysical configuration of pain, control of anticipatory anxiety, and targeted imagery.

Hypnotherapy techniques may not be appropriate for all patient’s pain and individual symptoms but it’s certainly worth exploring as it can do very little harm in experimenting with integrative therapies. The goal with alternative therapies, as with traditional therapies, is always to increase the effectiveness of treatment as a whole. If hypnotherapy can assist in any way in helping patients recover or manage symptoms of chemotherapy or radiation, then it will have contributed to the treatment regimens overall efficacy and should certainly be utilized.

References

Erickson MH: Hypnosis in painful terminal illness, in Haley J (ed): Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy: Selected Papers of Milton Erickson, MD. New York, Crune & Stratton, 1967.

Sunnen, Gerard M.D. , Hypnotic Approaches in the Cancer Patient Ozonics International, LLC

The Missing Piece to Creating the Life You Have Always Wanted

How to Make the Law of Attraction

Work for You

DLScott CH.t / CDP / AASD

How many times have you heard people tell you that all you need to do to attract things into your life or change obsessive / compulsive / addictive behaviors is to think positive thoughts, visualize the outcome, and it will be yours?

As I mentioned in the Three Laws of Sobriety, there is a big piece of information left out of the advice.  The answer is HYPNOSIS!!!!!

From the moment you are born, your five senses have been recording information and data from the outside world and then storing it into the part of your brain that most people generally refer to as the subconscious.  These bits of information have been recorded and agreed to, as the program that runs our personal version of life.  Think about it.  As you grew up you were taught the meanings of words such as daddy, mommy, food, good, bad, etc. The meanings of these words vary from person to person based on the source of the information, but the concepts are usually very similar.

Our lives have been guided by many, many sources: the adults in our lives, our care givers, school, teachers, religious leaders, the media and anyone else who was able to get our attention. These adults and authority figures were simply passing on the meanings and agreements that had been passed on to them. In many cases the meanings and the agreements were put in place to make sure that we learned and accepted our place in society.

 This is a good thing and a bad thing. We learned great lessons, such as it is wrong to kill, lie, cheat, or steal, unless there is a higher purpose such as protecting ourselves in battle, or maybe telling a white lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings, or….. well you get the idea.

The problem is that we are raised / trained in the same way that we

train our pets and livestock. We are taught how to act and how to perform, based on assumptions and ideas that may not always be true.  By the time we become teenagers we have been instilled with rules and laws that are so ingrained, so internalized, that we don’t even bother to question them, and if we break even one of those rules, we punish ourselves with negative self talk, negative self image, and such huge amounts of guilt and shame that we come to believe that we are not good enough, we are not worthy of anything good in our lives.

            Now you are told that all you have to do is think of what you want, visualize the outcome; turn on the positive images, and the items that you think of have to come to you.   IT IS THE LAW OF THE UNIVERSE!!!!

            While that is true, we do create our lives according to what we focus our attention on, we have to recognize just what it is that we are focusing our attention on.

            The moments that we spend focused on our deliberate wants and desires are far outweighed by the thousands and thousands of random, negative images, beliefs, and agreements that are constantly running in the background.

            I mentioned in an earlier article that trying to override old thoughts and old agreements with new, positive thoughts and agreements is a lot like trying to wax your car without first washing away the dirt and grime that has built up over time.

            You need to take the step that is usually left out when you are being told about The Law of Attraction, aka, The Law of Attention. You must first clean up the dirt and the grime before putting down the new coat of wax.

            This does not need to take months and years of slow and laborious talk therapy. It can be accomplished quickly and efficiently, utilizing the power of Hypnosis, the power of altered states of consciousness.

            With the use of Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Bellevue’s Emotional Release Therapy, you are taught how to lower the vibrational pattern of your brain waves, and quickly weed out unwanted and deeply buried beliefs and agreements.  Once you have removed the emotional attachments to these unwanted, negative beliefs and thoughts, there is nothing that will stand in the way of you creating and living the life of your dreams.             

             Make your move!!! Fill out one of the easy and convenient assessments on this website, or call (206) 417-4900 to set up an appointment to start living the life you have always dreamed of.

Personal Energy Mastery works under the principle that the mind is divided into three distinct parts:

1) The Medulla or reactive / instinctual mind which is in charge of our instincts, our hormonal control, and basic drives such as hunger, reproductive drives, temperature control, respiration and heart rate.

2) The Sub cortical area deals with and stores our emotions / memories / triggers. This is where we store 1000(s) & 1000(s) of images of events and memories that continual play as though on a recorded loop, and help sustain our accepted beliefs and agreements.

3) The Cortex area deals with Self –awareness in this area we can problem solve by being aware of our thoughts and beliefs. With this portion of the mind we can choose appropriate behavior based on our self awareness, or self reflection. This is the area of brain that rarely gets used, that we let lay dormant.

Each of these brain levels is very important to our survival in the world, and each is activated by various stimuli. The Medulla or instinctual mind, which is always working to control our basic needs, breathing, pulse rate, urges, etc., can activated by our flight or fight response.

The Sub cortical area is constantly running, it is constantly creating our outside experience via our focus of attention, and unless, and until, we consciously take control of our focus of attention, we tend to repeat the same patterns over and over again. Notice how we will end up in the same type of relationship, the same type of jobs, the same situations / life circumstances. Some of the details may be different, but the energy is the same. This occurs because of the vibrational pattern of emotions that are tied into our prevalent images stored in this area of our brains.  The word “emotion” can be defined as “energy in motion”.  Emotions are very strong feelings such as Anger, Joy, Elation, or Fear. These emotions cause physical changes in the body. The effects can be either positive or negative dependent upon the type of emotion and the intensity of the emotion.

Sometimes we are unaware of our emotions, and how they are affecting our body, but they affect us in many ways such as tension, and stress. It has been reported that the biggest threat to our health is our stress levels. Stress affects us in five specific and measurable ways:

1)    Increases our heart rate

2)    Causes tension in the muscles and joints of our body

3)    Increases Toxins in the body

4)    Decreases our ability to flush out those toxins

5)    Lowers the body’s immune response

The Cortex is that area of the brain where our intellect is seated. It is the area where we have pure thought without attachment to emotion. When we feel centered and clear, it is this area of the brain that allows us to focus on what we want, instead of focusing on what we don’t want.

It has just been in recent years, scientists have discovered that the heart has its own independent nervous system—a complex system referred to as “the brain in the heart. This system receives and relays information back to the brain in the head, creating a two-way communication between heart and brain, by which the heart interacts with the nervous system, and the three different levels of brain functions. (See illustration on previous page).

When you learn how to meditate using the Foundations Hypnosis Personal Energy Mastery System, you will be able to effectively communicate with the three levels of the brain function that will help you achieve amazing things in your life.

 When we are upset, panicked, or anxious, it becomes hard to think clearly. Making a wise choice is very hard for everyone when they are emotional upset. BUT what if you could learn to control your e-motions (energy in motions, i.e. (personal energy mastery), and begin to feel confident and secure?  

 With Foundations Hypnosis Personal Energy Mastery you will learn how to connect with the heart of mind, and quickly release old agreements and beliefs while incorporating new beliefs, new agreements, and new desires into your life.

The basis of Foundations Hypnosis (Personal Energy Mastery) Seattle ~ Bellevue is a technique called Emotional Release Therapy. With this technique you will be guided through a quick process that allows you to remove old and unwanted emotions that are tied into beliefs and agreements, so that you can start adopting new POWERFUL & POSITIVE beliefs and agreements that will help you move ahead in life.

Through this program you will learn 

            1) Basic Meditation

            2) Dynamic Mediation

            3) How the brain works

            4) How to deal with change

            5) Detaching from old emotions based on old beliefs and agreements

            6) Letting go of the Ego

            7) Ridding yourself of unwanted habits and compulsive behaviors, (such as

                 drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, and food addictions.

            Incorporating new life beliefs

            9) Awareness of self

            10) Forgiveness

            An easy way of conceptualizing this is to think of waxing your car.  If you go out and put down a coat of wax, without first removing the old dirt and grime, that old dirt and grime will quickly show through and render the new wax job useless.

            You can take complete control of your life; stop living a life of pain and angst, and start living the life you have always wanted. Don’t delay take Foundation’s easy on line assessment, or call (206) 417-4900 and set up an appointment.  

DLScott CH.t / CDP

            A client recently called me to find out if Hypnosis would be a good tool to use when someone is dealing with anxiety, and phobias. 

            My first response is that Hypnosis is a good tool to use when dealing with any form of fear or phobia that is blocking you, but I also went on to add, that I hesitate in making it a one shot deal, one induction fits all type of approach.

            The most important thing to remember when you are dealing with phobias or mental blockages is to figure out what the benefits of the phobias or mental blockage are.  Think about that, if you have a fear of bees and you are allergic to bees, then your phobia has a clear benefit, it keeps you away from bees. If you are blocking yourself from performing some dangerous activity, or some perceived dangerous activity than you may not want to get rid of the blockage, at least not all together. You may want to simply modify the behavior or the blockage, or at least find out how to continue reaping the same benefit(s) without the consequences.

Think about that, Hypnosis is not a matter of will power; it is a way of using the same power of the mind that created the behavior or addiction, to easily and safely create a new option a new behavior that is healthy, beneficial, and positive for you and those around you.  Once you are able to let go of the old behavior, and gain the same benefits in another way, then the old behavior seems to melt away almost without effort.

            With Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Bellevue, the first step is always in determining just what is the benefit of the behavior you are seeking to get rid of. I don’t care whether you consider that behavior an addiction, a phobia, or a compulsive behavior.

1)      Helping the client to determine what it is they do want, as opposed to what they don’t want.

2)      Detachment from the emotional & reactive parts of the brain, otherwise known as the sub-cortical and Medulla oblongata areas of the brain, that have kept you stuck in the problem. (Like Albert Einstein said, “you can’t solve the problem at the level of the problem).

3)      Learning and practicing very effective and simply methods of bringing balance to the body, and the brain, allowing you to take control of random and involuntary thoughts and emotions stored in the sub cortical areas of the brain.

4)      Using various levels of the trance state to allow the client to incorporate new images, and thoughts to help create the new behavior that they want to obtain. 

Hypnosis is one of the most power tools for change. If you are seeking to change, enhance, create the life of your dreams, or just bring more joy into your life, then don’t delay. Take one of the convenient on line assessments, and find out more about how you can deliberately manifest your future.

DLScott CH.t / CDP / AASD

When you wake up in the morning do greet the day with smiles and excitement, or do your often feel like pulling the blankets up over your head, and hiding out from the world? Are you experiencing happiness, joy, and abundance, or are you dodging the boss, creditors, or one bad relationship after another? Are you accepting all the good that is yours to command, or are you simply trying to survive another day?

One of the hardest things to accept in life is that we are all 100% responsible for every single event in our life.  Every event, good, bad, or indifferent, shows up in our lives because of our focus of attention. Now before you hit the exit key, let me explain something here. The Law of Attraction works whether we are aware of it or not. Now you may say that I would not have attracted the accident, or the illness, or the debt, and in a way you are correct. You would not have deliberately attracted those things into your life, but given the fact that whatever we put our attention on, what we focus on, is what shows up for us, it is impossible to say that the Law works sometimes and not others.

By utilizing the power of your mind, through Hypnosis, and NLP, you can choose to change your thinking, you can choose to change your focus of attention, and you can choose new thoughts, and new images to guide your life experiences.

You start the process by releasing old beliefs, old resentments, and old angers through the power of Emotional Release Therapy, a unique technique that you will experience with each session of Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Bellevue. Along with the power of Emotional Release Therapy, you will be guided through a series of hypnotic inductions, skills, and tools that will allow you to create new thoughts, new emotional reactions, and new focus in your life. When you start doing this, you will be amazed at how quickly the old behaviors, the old beliefs, and habits, such as addictions, fears, phobias, relationship issues, and money issues just begin to fade away, and a whole new life begins to emerge.

Don’t delay; take charge of your thinking and your life today. Take one of the online surveys located on this website, and see about setting up an appointment to start manifesting the life you have always dreamed of. 

Welcome to Foundations 2010
DLScott CtHA / CDP

At a recent meeting of the National Guild of Hypnotherapist, I gave a lecture on one of my favorite subjects; The Three Laws of Sobriety.

I had been hesitating in giving this lecture because I was just unsure of what I wanted to really talk about. I mean here I was being asked to present a topic to friends and colleagues about a subject that we all know well, and that of course is Hypnosis.

I have to tell you, I think I learned more from the lecture than anyone in the audience.

What I believed is that I had to talk about a specific technique, a specific tool or exercise that I use with my clients. What I discovered is that my specific technique is my experience and personal philosophy.

I have been in the field for about twenty years at this point in my career. I have clients who come to me for a variety of reasons, smoking cessation, drug addiction, self worth & self esteem, panic & anxiety, and sleeping issues. When I first learned the art of hypnosis, I was trained in specific inductions, and techniques, that could help a client refocus or reprogram their minds. What I have discovered over the years, is that clients don’t have to reprogram their minds, they simply need to be reminded to refocus their minds.

Each client that walks through the door is a perfect, whole, and complete human being, with talents, strengths, fears, passions, and abilities to create anything they desire. Each client has been able to create the life that they are living, sometimes they are not happy with their creation, and that is where hypnosis comes into play.

There is no magic bullet that is going to solve your problems, but there is this incredibly powerful organ called the brain that contains all the power and ability to draw to you whatever you want. You just have to follow a couple of simple rules.

1) Learn to direct your thoughts. As I tell all of my clients, you are not your thoughts, you are not your emotions, and you are not your body. You are the energy, the consciousness behind the thoughts; you are the consciousness behind the emotions, and the body. For years have been told “I think, therefore I am.” WRONG!!!!! You think because you have been given a brain that is designed to think, but you, the true essence of you, are the director and creator of your life and your life is based upon those thousands and thousands of thoughts. I teach clients how to accept and make peace with all of those random thoughts, and then to start utilizing those thoughts to attract the type of life you have always dreamed of.
2) Let go of the guilt and shame of the past. We always do our best at any given moment. Just because you performed a certain behavior in the past, does not mean that you are doomed to keep repeating those behaviors. I help you to figure out what the benefits were or are that you get from the thoughts and behaviors, and once you understand what that is, you can now develop new skills, and new tools to obtain those same benefits in a more appropriate way.
3) When we see a problem or an issue that we want to clear up, the first thing that you have to do is See the solution, and then you can start the process of Setting the solution. Nothing can be successfully changed by force or will upon the outside world of effect. The first you have to do is to See the solution in your mind. Believe me all else will fall into place once you begin to use you’re the tremendous power of your mind to See the solution.
4) Finally, and this is the really tough part, The only thing you are ever really in control of is yourself, your attitude. You cannot honestly control , or change the behavior and activities of those around you. If someone else is going to change, it is because they want to change, not because you made them change.

Ask any of my clients, this is why Foundations Hypnosis is so successful as a way of changing your life and reaching your goals. Do you have something you want to change or create in this New Year, this new decade? Then please fill out one of the assessment forms on this website, or give me a call. I assure you, you will be glad that you did.