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Guest Hypnotist Brenda Rhodes on Creativity, Regression and Our Own Stories · The Hypnotist

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  Hi, it's Adam here. And on today's episode of The
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  Hypnotist, I'm going to be joined by a guest hypnotist.
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  It's not going to be me doing the hypnotherapy.
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  We're going to be meeting Brenda Rhodes.
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  So, Brenda, welcome to the show. Thank you, Adam.
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  I'm happy to be here. Great to have you here.
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  And we're going to be talking at the Irish Hypnotherapy
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  Conference literally in a few weeks time.
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  So we'll touch on that, you know, very shortly.
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  But I'm always fascinated with how people become therapists,
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  how they get into the world of hypnosis.
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  Some focus on actually doing the hypnotherapy, some instruct
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  other people and train other people.
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  But it always starts normally with quite an interesting story.
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  So tell me how you ended up in this, in this kind of industry,
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  this kind of niche that we call hypnosis.
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  I was. Pregnant and I went to a midwife
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  and she asked me if she wanted, if I wanted her to create an
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  audio tape for me. And I'm like, yeah, sure.
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  I was always open to new, exciting things, and so she
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  created it. I had three children, naturally
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  using hypnosis, and we got to be really good friends.
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  So she'd asked me if I would be willing to help her and do
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  hypnosis for her clients. And I'm like, yeah, but I don't
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  know how. So she hands me a book and it
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  was basically a script book for pregnancy and labor and delivery
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  for, you know, hypnosis and, and birthing of baby.
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  And so I just went on from there and it, it became a really big
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  passion and I was able to pull that in with different pieces of
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  my life and using that to help me as well as helping other
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  people. And then the clients that I was
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  seeing to help them have natural childbirth, they were telling
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  other people about it. So I started working with people
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  that quit smoking and anxiety and it just kind of went on from
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  there. Amazing.
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  So is this phrase hypnobirthing that sometimes gets used around
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  was that was that kind of where you felt really comfortable to
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  begin with and it kind of expanded out from that?
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  Yes, yeah, that's where it started.
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  And I, I believe we can use that term now the, the individual
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  that created that I think has passed away.
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  So now it's allowed to be used in the United States as hypno
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  birthing. But yeah, it's a, it's a very
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  powerful tool. And it helps to allow that
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  person to be really calm and confident and to give them focus
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  so that they're just focusing on knowing that this is a natural
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  thing that the body actually does.
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  The body knows how to do this. It's just leading that aspect of
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  our mind to be very calm instead of all those things that women
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  have heard about horror stories and and this and that about
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  dangers and all that. So it's really taking all that
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  were de hypnotizing them and creating a positive hypnosis so
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  that it's easy to have that baby and and such a pleasant
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  experience. And that phrase de hypnotizing
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  because there is a lot of expectation or fears or kind of
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  implied suggestions like this idea of, you know, epidurals and
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  kind of pain relief and even the word pain.
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  Cause I've never actually had a hypnosis client for hypno
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  birthing. I've done a lot for pregnancy
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  anxiety, but never hypno birthing.
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  But when I did my, my kind of studies on hypno birthing, it
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  was kind of like, you don't talk about pain, it's talking about,
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  you know, sensations and things like that.
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  And that's a really good way of thinking about all hypnosis,
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  like the real importance of language and you know, the the
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  unconscious presuppositions that you're projecting through what
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  you're saying. Because I'm sure there's some
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  very kind of well-intentioned mid midwives out there that
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  actually increase anxiety through their choice of words
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  simply because they don't know the impact it has.
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  Yeah, words are huge and and you know, just the everyday words
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  like I'll use the word pain. If we would change that to
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  discomfort, the mind actually hears comfort.
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  It doesn't hear the disk or words like don't if you say that
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  to somebody, don't hit your child, they'll hear hit your
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  child. I mean, here's an example.
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  Don't think of the pink barn. What are you thinking about?
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  You're you're thinking about that barn.
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  So yeah, words are very, very key.
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  And it's really important that we start to focus on having a
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  positive mindset and a positive verbiage in our life to create
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  the happiness and and ease of life.
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  Because when we focus on that negative or negative word, it
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  just keeps replaying. So that replaying is.
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  Sometimes people call that as looping or negative hypnosis.
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  Absolutely. And you've, you've got people
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  that are so afraid of the idea of childbirth that actually they
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  never become pregnant. Or if they do, they, they, they
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  kind of abort that because they're so terrified of the
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  actual, you know, kind of, I think it's tocophobia, the
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  actual kind of specific, you know, fear of pregnancy.
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  But you can understand if you've seen, you know, kind of, let's
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  say, representations in movies where it's kind of like a
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  horrible, you know, painful thing and screams and those kind
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  of things where you've heard horror stories from other
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  people. They're pretty significant seeds
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  to put in someone's mind that can create that anticipatory
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  fear. Yeah, it's, it's only a fraction
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  of a second to make a decision if you're going to accept that
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  suggestion or what somebody has said to you to make that part of
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  your belief system. And I think it is a cultural
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  belief system. I think if you were to stop 100
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  people on the on the street, like this kind of family
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  fortunes kind of game show. And he said, like, what's one of
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  the most painful experiences a human can experience?
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  I'm sure childbirth and labor would be up there.
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  It's just kind of like a cultural kind of perception, but
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  then you find, you know, kind of stories of people that are in
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  different cultures, you know, people that, you know, in
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  tribes, in the rainforest. And it's an entirely different
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  experience because their culture looks at it and and has
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  perceptions that are entirely different from this kind of
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  Western culture that it's you need to be medicated, you need
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  to be in a hospital, you know, has this connotation of pain
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  because you need pain relief. It's very, very different.
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  Do you think that culture, in a way is a form of kind of
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  hypnosis? Oh, absolutely.
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  You know, that's one of the things that I thought about was
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  that I'm pregnant, but there's people in 3rd world countries
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  dropping babies in, in fields and they, you know, it's a, a no
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  brainer. They just go on with their life.
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  And so I, I do, I think society really causes a lot of negative
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  influences on the brain. And unfortunately, because we're
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  raised in this and we're raged with negativity, there's a lot
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  of that that is, is really implanted from birth to about 7
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  to 9 years old. And that's when all those belief
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  systems really take effect because a child at that age,
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  they're just a sponge. They're absorbing everything.
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  They're in hypnosis all the time.
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  Their mind is in that altered state and think about it.
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  That's how they learn so much. That's how, as you know, you as
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  a child were able to get up, crawl, walk, and then, you know,
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  if you feel down, you just got up.
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  It was, it was nothing. And then you learned your
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  language and maybe other languages.
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  But then once you hit about nine years old, you're, you're pretty
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  much solid with your psyche and your belief system.
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  And unfortunately, a lot of the stuff that we've been told by
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  society, by religion, by our parents, by our friends, it
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  really doesn't work for us. It may be somebody else's
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  perspective, and that's their perspective, but it's not our
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  truth. However, we're being navigated
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  from those earlier years of somebody else's truth.
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  And that's why, you know, hypnosis is really, really
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  profound because we can go to those places where those truths
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  were accepted at that time and help that person to realize,
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  hey, yeah, that's not my truth anymore, or that never was my
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  truth. I can do something different and
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  I'm OK for doing that. Yeah.
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  And, and, and to question that requires a certain level of
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  awareness because I think, I think a lot of this kind of
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  socialization or just belief systems that we have is you just
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  accept, like if you were color blind, you would kind of guess
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  or assume that everyone else sees the world the same way that
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  you do without really knowing that they that they do.
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  And, and therefore it's difficult to really audit your
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  own belief systems to figure out if they're empowering,
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  disempowering, helpful or not just walking around like that.
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  And that's why I think it's so important that you have people
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  like us as therapists to kind of so well, look, you know, is that
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  serving you? Does that really help you?
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  Where did this even come from? And when you see that moment of
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  kind of like, yeah, my, my mum used to say this a lot.
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  And it's kind of like, OK, it's not even yours, It's there.
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  And that might be even, you know, their parents belief.
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  It's you get this kind of generational kind of ripple
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  effect in terms of what you do now.
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  Is it still hypnobirthing or is that initial kind of area
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  rippled into other areas that now you tend to do a lot more of
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  of other things? Yeah, it really expanded.
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  I'm working with people with anxiety and I have a lot of
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  clients that I'm helping them to release abuse from living with a
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  narcissist, whether that be a parent of a partner, maybe even
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  a child. That's very healing for them.
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  The other things that I'm doing are working with groups.
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  I'm also an instructor, so I certify people for hypnosis and
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  I put some energy work in there if the person is is open to it.
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  And I use Reiki and some other energetic modalities.
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  And I'd like to bring all those tools together so that I can
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  best serve that client. And everything is on an
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  individual basis. So I'm working where their
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  client is and they are able to come in and be heard.
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  And I think that's the biggest point is a lot of people aren't
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  being heard. They're not able to voice their
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  truth. And to be able to be in a safe
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  place, it allows them to become themselves and to tap into those
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  pieces that do work for them and let go of that stuff that
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  doesn't. I've done obviously some smoking
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  and and weight loss and such, but I really do a lot of
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  regression and I enjoy doing past life hypnosis as well.
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  A lot of times people are just exploring, is that real for
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  them? Is that right for them?
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  Did they have and do they know if they had a past life and how
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  to touch into that? Or it might be on a therapeutic
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  level where they just aren't able to get to that origin in
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  this life and so they just automatically go to another life
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  and and clear that whether it is or it isn't, it really doesn't
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  matter to me. It's the point that it is
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  helpful for them and they can move on with their life and do
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  those things that they need to do and be happy.
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  I would agree with that 100% because I think people get
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  bogged down, you know, when they, if they read the book, you
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  know, many lives, many masters or they, they hear of
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  experiences, it becomes obsessed.
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  Is it real? Is it true?
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  Are you actually going back to a previous life?
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  But this is therapy, like the most important thing.
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  Does it lead to a breakthrough? Does it lead to a change?
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  And I find that whether it's real or not, it's a fantastic
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  metaphor because we know humans can create real experiences in
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  real time because that's what dreaming is like.
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  It's not it's not, you know, people don't wake up and say, is
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  that real? It's like it felt real while
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  they were there. And I find that past life
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  regression is so powerful. If people either don't know
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  where the issue came from or they don't want to know where it
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  came from. If they're, you know, if some
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  something the horrible's happened, much better to deal
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  with that in a different life because it's a form of
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  disassociation, whereas, you know, you regress to a very
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  horrible time. You know, there's ways of doing
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  as you know, but you know, it can actually kind of trigger
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  people into, you know, certain AB reactions and those kind of
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  things. Where do you find past life
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  regression to be particularly useful?
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  I think a lot of it is is where it's affecting the person in
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  this life. There's times that the
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  individual may be triggered all of a sudden they can't get on a
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  plane or they're afraid to go through a tunnel and never had
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  that issue before. And that gives us the ability to
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  work with them to go to the origin.
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  Like I said, it might be something that might be have
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  been heard by parents when you were a a tiny child.
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  But if it was a past life, then you could tap into that origin
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  and allow that individual to recognize, oh, OK, this happened
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  then I may have carried it over from another life or I carried a
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  belief over from somebody else when I was younger.
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  I can change this. I can imagine and envision a
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  whole new story to rewrite that story, and by working in that
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  level of the subconscious mind, it allows that person to just
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  shift it like that. I mean, it's so quick.
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  It's so amazing to be able to watch somebody just be able to
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  move into a position of standing in their power and strength.
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  Yeah, it can be very empowering and I always kind of equate it a
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  little bit. I don't know if you remember the
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  the TV show from the 1980s called Quantum Leap where he
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  used to kind of wake up in a different body and those kind of
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  things that I kind of look. And the kind of connotation of
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  that is that his work is done when he's resolved whatever the
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  issue was in that life. And then he kind of goes on.
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  And I think, you know, that really maps across with the
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  essence of past life regression. You're going back to some kind
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  of issue or unresolved issue for either wisdom, understanding, or
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  some kind of a change. And somehow, almost magically,
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  the actual life that has nothing to do with that past like gets
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  better as a result of that change.
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  It's almost like rippling through time, which is
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  fantastic. Yeah, it is.
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  It is amazing. And I, I do remember that show
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  and in fact, I was enamored by that show.
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  So, you know, I think, I think hypnosis came in much earlier
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  than in my awareness. And just by understanding how
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  the mind works and the power of the mind and knowing that we can
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  use our mind as our greatest advocate, it allows me to be
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  able to support clients. It allows all of us as hypnotist
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  to support our clients and, and to be there and guide them and
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  allow them to find those places where they can make that, I'll
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  say, tweak it a little bit that they can move forward.
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  And even if it happened in this life, it really doesn't need to
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  be connected to anymore. So that, you know, when we do
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  regression, it's about cutting, getting that energy of the
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  trigger. So if I was bitten by a dog at 5
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  and I'm 55 and I see a dog up the street, I don't need to be
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  afraid that that dog's going to attack me because that's not
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  happening. That's not who I am anymore.
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  And it's really important to use our mind in ways that we can
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  know very deeply within our core that we can change our
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  perception, we can change our story.
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  And I think one of the big things is to stop talking about
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  the same thing over and over and over because or saying it to
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  ourselves and our mind over and over and over because that's
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  what keeps traumatizing us and the traumas not even happening.
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  And hypnosis is that great tool to be able to just cut that,
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  like cut the cord of that, you know?
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  Yeah, couldn't agree more. We're we're in different parts
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  of the planet. There you are in in the States,
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  I'm here in in London, in England, but we're both going to
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  be in Dublin in a few weeks time at the Irish Hypnotherapy
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  Conference. Tell us what you're going to be
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  talking about and what your what your presentation is all about.
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  Well, I'm connecting the magic of empowerment and imagination,
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  and my presentation is going to be having my the people that are
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  attending to tap into their creativity, which is going to
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  support them with the connection of their individual spirit that
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  lies within. It's about touching into that
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  higher self, listening to your intuition so that you have the
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  connection to your guidance and it's going to be experiential
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  and it's going to be playful because I'm very about being
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  positive and uplifting and supporting.
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  And so there's people that I'm going to be working with in
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  Dublin, they're going to be able to take some of these pieces and
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  use them perhaps with their clients or themselves.
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  You know, I think we all learn from each other as hypnotists.
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  But I will tell you, I learned so much from my clients.
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  So it's it's like a very balanced and equal.
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  And I think, you know, I'm, I'm always love, you know, resource
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  states. And I think creativity is is one
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  of those things that is kind of attributed to kind of artists
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  and kind of big thinkers. But we're all creative.
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  And the more that we harness that creativity, you know,
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  sometimes that could be an idea, you know, some kind of epiphany,
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  you know, a solution to a problem.
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  And I think a lot of people that muscle isn't really being used
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  that often. So anything to unlock more
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  creativity, I think is great. And I, I think of intuition as
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  kind of like the communication channel of the unconscious.
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  It's, you know, for a lot of people, it's like a very quiet
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  voice. They don't even pay attention to
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  it unless it's something like anxiety or something like that.
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  And then it's not necessarily helpful intuition.
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  But when it is that kind of encouraging, supportive, like
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  what a wonderful tool to have this like special superpower
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  that is kind of like you're not doing it and it's, it's helping
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  you make choices and, and those kind of things.
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  When, when you think of the intuition, do you think of it
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  more in terms of, because some people think of it as the NLP
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  submodality? So like the gut feel or the the
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  inner voice when, or is it a combination for you?
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  What? Well, what is the primary
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  channel that you think intuition is kind of at its strongest when
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  it's helpful? I think for me, intuition is
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  really listening to my higher power, my higher source.
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  I believe that we all hold. The answers within ourselves,
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  and I believe that we all have guidance and whatever that
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  guidance that person is connected to, it might be
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  Source, it might be Spirit, it might be God, it might be Mother
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  Nature, it might be just the brain.
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  It really doesn't matter. Ultimately, it's about really
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  allowing ourselves to trust in that part of us and listen and
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  to be guided by that and take those actions and steps that we
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  can move forward and, and create that life or, or expand.
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  I've been expanding my practice and I am doing that because my
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  intuition, my gut is telling me this is what I need to do.
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  I need to open up space so I can work with groups, so more people
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  can work with me instead of just one-on-one and be of service.
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  And so I'm trusting that. I have no idea how this is going
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  to play out. I do know that there's a reason
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  and I just followed through on it and I know that I will have
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  that answer when it comes. And I think the great thing
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  about those times when you do trust your intuition, it does
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  really, you know, give you that kind of positive reinforcement.
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  You know, most of the time it's kind of like you're not really
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  sure if it's the right decision, but, you know, I'm going to go
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  with my gut. You do and nine times out of 10,
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  you actually get really rewarded for that.
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  It was exactly the right thing to do because your unconscious
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  can process way more information than your conscious logical
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  mind. So it's like it's taking, it's
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  almost like an artificial intelligence.
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  It's taking everything in and kind of guiding you, which I
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  think is awesome. You're going to be doing a, an
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  experience, a hypnosis session for us.
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  Before you do that though, if people are curious to learn more
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  about you, your training, or working with you direct, what's
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  the best way that they can, let's say, find out more
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  information or check out your website, your socials?
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  Oh, they could check out my website because I am in the
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  States and I know probably some people are going to be seeing
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  this outside of the states. My aunt my website is Allentown,
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  ALLENTOW and Hypnosis dot com and my phone number is
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  610-737-9560. They can text me, I'm sure,
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  reach me on WhatsApp, but I'm really we don't in the states
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  use WhatsApp a lot, but you can always send an e-mail at
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  hypnobrenda88@yahoo.com as well. Perfect.
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  We got a few different things. We'll make sure they're in the
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  links as well. So tell us about this hypnosis
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  you're about to do. You know, just give it a a bit
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  of a tee up for us. So it's, it's a vagal nerve
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  hypnosis technique that I want to teach.
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  And it's, it's very simple and it's very, very, very profound.
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  So I'm just going to ask you to take a nice deep breath and let
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  it go. And now as you take your next
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  deep breath, inhaling, roll your eyes up to the ceiling and hold
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  it and exhale. As you exhale, roll your eyes
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  down to the floor. And now close your eyes and
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  inhale once again with your eyelids closed.
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  Roll your eyelid, your eyeballs all the way up as if you're
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  looking out the top of your head and hold them up and letting go,
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  exhaling and rolling your eyes down as if you're looking out
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  through your belly button to the floor.
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  And one more time, just taking a nice gentle breath in, rolling
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  your eyes all the way up with your eyelids closed, looking out
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  the top of your head, holding them up and exhaling, rolling
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  your eyeballs down as if you're looking out through your belly
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  button to the ground and feel your body just relaxing.
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  Any noises in the background just help you to relax even
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  more. You're supported, you're safe,
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  and with every inhalation, your body relaxes more and more.
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  It may even feel as if your muscles are beginning to melt
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  and letting go. And imagine right now a
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  beautiful light could be any color you choose, A beautiful
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  light coming down from the sky, enveloping you, cradling you,
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  feeling a sense of peace and content and relaxation.
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  And in this space, just allowing yourself to connect with your
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  heart, your beautiful heart, and ask your heart right now, what
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  can you do to allow you to have more joy or peace, perhaps
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  happiness in your life? Just imagine your heart speaking
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  to you. And as your heart is connecting
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  with you, perhaps it's a feeling annoying, maybe you hear it as a
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  voice. But your heart is beating all
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  the time, taking care of you, keeping you alive, supporting
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  you. And perhaps your heart is just
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  allowing you to know it's about taking better care of you, doing
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  something good and right for you.
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  Maybe it's about taking some time and reading a book.
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  Or perhaps it's about letting go of a situation that is causing
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  stress. You can think of your heart as
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  intuition, that part of you that knows all the right answers for
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  you and allowing yourself to absorb.
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  And maybe it's not a way that you're used to.
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  Maybe you just allow yourself to be in a pleasant, peaceful place
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  right now and that's all you need.
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  And as you are relaxing, just know that you are supported,
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  that you have great intuition, this part that is your higher
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  self, your all knowing self. And know that you are worthy of
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  unlimited listness. You are so worthy and you get to
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  choose. You get to choose to do those
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  things that you need and want for you by taking care of you,
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  by loving you, by saying yes to you, honoring your truth and
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  walking the path you desire. And just know that you can do
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  this process whenever you want, as long as you're not driving or
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  using some kind of instrument or anything that's going to harm
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  you. But just take a deep breath,
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  sink down into yourself. Imagine that light around you,
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  enveloping you, cradling you, and connecting with your heart.
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  Because you know all the answers, you can tap into your
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  truth at any time. So I'm going to count to 3, and
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  when I reach the number three, you'll come back.
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  Take a moment and thank your heart.
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  Thank your higher being and allow yourself to meld in
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  gratitude. Gratitude for your life,
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  Gratitude for just being, Gratitude for your heart, your
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  body, and everything that's in your world.
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  Beginning to come back now. One, feeling the room around you
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  through, 2 eyes are beginning to open and three, coming all the
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  way back. Just feeling really relaxed,
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  really calm, very, very peaceful.
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  Raise your hands up in the air and stretch your body and say
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  yes. Yes, that was great, Brenda.
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  That was a really, really relaxing, really nice
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  experience. And for people listening at
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  home, what, what would you hope that they get from from that
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  experience? What's the key?
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  The key is to stop to, to get the mind calm, to be able to
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  give themselves just a little bit of time, which is loving,
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  very loving to the self. It's something that most people
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  aren't doing. They there's, at least in the
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  US, there's this big concept of you need to take care of
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  everybody else. You come second.
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  And we end up not taking care of ourselves at all.
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  So it's just about taking those few moments and bringing
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  yourself into that peacefulness. And sometimes, you know me, we
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  may not get answers at that moment, but I've had many times
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  when I just took time, gave my mind a break, relaxed my body,
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  enjoyed being in that. And then maybe five hours later,
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  I'm in the shower and I, I get that answer.
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  It's like, got it. So we're just giving ourselves
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  that openness just by taking a little time of loving ourself.
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  Absolutely, and I think a lot of people are in this kind of
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  constant hectic, you know, kind of stressful state all, you
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  know, lots of cortisol, lots of those things and that they just
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  nerve is just kind of over stimulated.
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  It's just calming everything down I think becomes almost like
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  an Oasis in the desert, which you know, a lot of people really
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  need that, that kind of little break.
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  That was wonderful. We're both going to be at the
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  Irish Hypnotherapy Conference. If you'd like to see Brenda or
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  myself or any of the other amazing speakers, there are
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  still tickets available. So if you go to Irish
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  Hypnotherapy Conference dot IE you will be able to find some
• 32:33
  tickets there. And if you are a hypnotist
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  listening to this, it becomes a tax deductible way for you to
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  visit Ireland. So if you haven't been to
• 32:41
  Ireland before, get your business to pay for the tickets.
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  You'll see us, you'll have a great time, you'll learn loads
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  of stuff. And I have to say the just the
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  energy and the vibe in the Irish and my therapy conference is
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  just a very kind of friendly, wonderful vibe.
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  So you'll, you'll love that as well.
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  So there will be a link in the show notes if you're interested
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  in that. Brenda, thank you so much for
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  being our guest hypnotist. Today.
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  Thank you, Adam. It's been a great pleasure.
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