Weight Loss with Hypnotherapy

Weekend #8 Recap: Our training was for Hypnosis Weight Loss (a.k.a Weight Management) and it rocked plus Students had Real Breakthroughs to boot!

Students received another full weekend of top notch Hypnotherapy training from the NW Hypnosis Institute as Bruce Terrill, CI, CHt worked his magic. The topic was weight loss and on several occasions Bruce pulled back the curtain and showed the students the inner working of what makes the NW Hypnosis Institute’s teachings so different. Bruce not only teaches the NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists) course materials and tons of additional materials – he also uses several special techniques to instill confidence and skills that would normally take students a significant amount of time in a professional practice plus loads of practical application to achieve. Most students in the class just enjoy learning from Bruce and don’t realize the extremely unique / world class training they are receiving… Bruce is a-ok with that, in fact he prefers it that way.

The weekend’s course materials consisted of a full Weight Management Session Checklist (below is some of what students practiced & learned):

• Establish Rapport with Client
  • rapport, rapport, rapport – you can’t help a client if you don’t have rapport. So we practice it over and over again.
• Client Information Form
  • 4 page intake form (the basics)
• Weight Management Questionnaire
  • 12 page questionnaire
  • the “meat and potatoes” of the program
• Basic Assessment Worksheet
• Goal Setting Worksheet
• Weight Management Script
  • custom designed for each individual clients needs
• Weight Loss Contract
• Teaching Client Weight Management Autosuggestion Exercise
• Teach Client Self-Hypnosis
• Plus additional Hypnotherapy procedures, tests, steps & practice.

The single most powerful thing over the entire weekend (according to several students) was the Diagnostic Trance Process. “The Diagnostic Trance involves an exploration of the various unconscious images and associations connected to the problem.” It was amazing yet so simple and several students gained huge breakthroughs (and practical steps) into improving / fixing personal “problems” they practiced with. I just love how powerful yet simple hypnotherapy is… it simply just works! I can’t wait to hear all of the weight loss success stories from the students when we attend class two weeks from now.

If you would like to learn how to help people lose weight with hypnosis, hypnotherapy & NLP – learn more from our next Hypnotherapy Training Course.

If you are currently dealing with a weight management issue and are interested in weight loss via hypnosis, contact Bruce at (503)267-1675

via Hypnosis Weight Loss – Weekend #8 | Portland Hypnosis Training.

NLP is a Practical form of Psychology

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

The very best definition (IMHO) is from the movie “The Living Matrix” (outstanding movie btw) and it says,
“NLP is a practical form of Psychology
which starts from where you are now
and looks at where you want to be
and uncovers what’s in the way.”
It’s a simplistic & general definition but since NLP is so vast and encompassing I feel this definition is perfectly simple.

Neuro, Linguistic & Programming – Defined.

Neuro: in this context means “Brain” but definitions say, “nerve, nerves, or the nervous system.”
Linguistic: means “of or relating to language or linguistics.”  In this context linguistic more specifically means “any form of communication.”
Programming: means “the designing, scheduling, or planning of a program” or  “creating a sequence of instructions.”

The Oxford English Dictionary says:

“neurolinguistic programming n. a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behaviour and the subjective experiences (esp. patterns of thought) underlying them; a system of alternative therapy based on this which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication, and to change their patterns of mental and emotional behaviour.” (i)

So In Conclusion, NLP Is…

“NLP is a communication to and from the brain of an individual which reveals “what is”. Then a trained NLP practitioner can use any of more than 200+ different processes (programs) to evoke the desired result in that individual.”
I’ve personally experienced numerous transformations due to NLP, both in others and in myself… and all by only using some form of communication. Simply astonishing, in my opinion!

Should you want to effect change today; you can contact one of our NLP Professionals today!

Doubter Convinced

Intro Class: May 4th – 5th, 2010
Advanced Class: May 6th – 8th, 2010

What is Clean Language?

“Clean Language is a communications methodology, developed by David J Grove, a New Zealand Counselling Psychologist, during the 1980s and 1990s. While initially used in clinical therapy, Clean Language offers helpful techniques to all professional communicators, especially those working closely with others. Clean Language techniques are aligned closely with modern enabling principles of empathy, and understanding, as opposed to traditional manipulative conscious or unconscious methods of influence and persuasion and the projection of self-interest. Clean Language helps people to convey their own meaning, free of emotional or other distracting interpretation from others. As such Clean Language promotes better clarity of communications, neutrality and objectivity absence of emotional spin, bias and prejudice, ease of understanding, and cooperative productive relationships.” ~ from http://www.businessballs.com/clean_language.htm.

To learn more visit: USA Training in Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling: May 2010

The basic clean language questions (established by David Grove)

In these questions, X and Y represent the person’s words (or non-verbals)

Developing Questions

“(And) what kind of X (is that X)?”

“(And) is there anything else about X?”

“(And) where is X? or (And) whereabouts is X?”

“(And) that’s X like what?”

“(And) is there a relationship between X and Y?”

“(And) when X, what happens to Y?”

Sequence and Source Questions

“(And) then what happens? or (And) what happens next?”

” (And) what happens just before X?”

“(And) where could X come from?”

Intention Questions

“(And) what would X like to have happen?”

“(And) what needs to happen for X?”

“(And) can X (happen)?”

The first two questions: “What kind of X (is that X)?” and “Is there anything else about X?” are the most commonly used.

As a general guide, these two questions account for around 50% of the questions asked in a typical Clean Language session.

~ Questions from: http://www.businessballs.com/clean_language.htm

To learn more visit: USA Training in Clean Language & Symbolic Modelling: May 2010

Portland Oregon Hypnotherapy

Looking for the Right Portland Hypnosis Professional for YOU?

Well you’ve come to the right place.

We have a list of Portland Oregon Hypnotherapy professionals that you can contact right now.

Just visit our Hypnosis Professionals page, review the different profiles and pick the professional that YOU most relate with.

The honest truth is that not every hypnotherapy professional is right for every person. There are as many different types of hypnotherapists as there are types of people… and thank goodness. So please feel free to review them all and FIND the Right Hypnotherapy Professional in Portland Oregon… the one who is right for YOU that is!

NLP Milton Erickson – Hypnosis session.

Complete Professional NGH Hypnotherapy Training Course

Covers: Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy & NLP | Upon Completion: Professional NGH Certification
What You Will Learn | Course Topics | When? | Where? | Cost? | Register Now

Professional hypnotherapy is emerging as one of the hottest professional career opportunities of this decade.

The good news for people searching for a professional opportunity in these economically challenged times is that a growing public awareness of the value and real life impact of hypnotherapy is creating a huge demand for skilled, trained professional hypnotherapists. So, whether you are just looking for a new career or you are passionate about helping people, your timing just couldn’t be better!

Seeking the assistance of hypnotherapists has long been one of the best kept secrets of high achievers and the most successful people; including doctors, lawyers, business professionals, top entertainers and sports stars.

Unlike almost all other professions which require people to pay tens of thousands of dollars and spend years learning enough basic skills to get a job working for someone else – you can become a certified professional hypnotherapist and graduate with the practical skills, tools, knowledge and confidence to start your own professional practice after just 12 weekends of intensive study.

via Training Courses | Portland Hypnosis Training.

From Harvard Magazine’s Nov-Dec 2003, Article Titled “Hypnosis Heals”:

Long considered by many the stock in trade of charlatans, hypnosis in fact can relieve the anxieties of patients in the midst of difficult treatment or about to undergo surgery, according to a sizable database of cases. A new study takes those benefits one step further, suggesting that hypnosis can actually speed the healing of damaged tissue.

“The first thing you have to do is get past the myths and misconceptions about clinical hypnosis,” says Carol Ginandes ’69, Ph.D., clinical instructor in psychology in the department of psychiatry and the lead investigator of the study. “It’s not used for entertainment. There are no Svengali-like figures in power-dominant relationships. It’s not a sleep state or something that someone can make you do. It’s a state of heightened, focused attention that we can all shift into very naturally.”

According to Ginandes, an attending psychologist at McLean Hospital, people can reach this hypnotic state by concentrating on just about anything: a sound, a photograph, the feel of your muscles. Hypnotherapists make appropriate hypnotic suggestions to clients in this receptive frame of mind. “We don’t yet understand the mechanisms by which these suggestions are transplanted by the mind into the language of the body,” says Ginandes, “but let’s say someone is a smoker. When he’s in a hypnotic state, I could suggest that perhaps he’s going to find himself craving cigarettes less and less over a period of time. If he’s ready to quit smoking, that suggestion will be planted at a deep level in his mind, like seeds planted beneath the soil rather than scattered over the top, helping him tap into some useful physical and psychological resources.”

Ginandes’s first clinical trial of tissue healing took place several years ago, when she tested whether hypnosis could accelerate the healing of broken bones. Reasoning that many fracture victims would be otherwise healthy people, free of treatments or medications for other conditions, she found 12 patients with nondisplaced fractures, screened them to exclude those with pre-existing conditions that might affect bone healing, and divided those who remained into two groups. All the patients received casts and standard orthopedic care, but six also received a series of hypnotherapy sessions, which included suggestions meant to target and accelerate their particular stage of healing, and audiotapes to take home that reinforced the sessions. When the study’s radiologist—who did not know which patients had received hypnosis—reviewed the X-rays, the hypnotized patients showed more rapid healing. Six weeks after fracture, the hypnosis group had healed to an extent that would normally take eight and a half weeks.

Ginandes’s second study, carried out with Patricia Brooks of the Union Institute and published this year in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, took 18 women, all of whom were having medically recommended breast reduction surgery (again, a population of otherwise healthy people who had received no other treatment for their condition) and divided them into three groups of six. The first group received eight hypnotherapy sessions, employing a complex array of suggestions that targeted specific aspects of the healing process at different stages, like decreasing inflammation, repairing wounds to soft tissue, and avoiding scar tissue. The second group had an equal number of sessions with a psychologist who gave emotional support but no hypnotic intervention. The third group received only standard postoperative care.

Nurses examined the surgical wounds over seven postoperative weeks, without knowing to which of the groups patients belonged. They judged that the surgical wounds of the group receiving hypnosis healed faster than those receiving only supportive attention, who in turn healed faster than the group with only standard postoperative care. Statistically, the differences were so large that they would have occurred by chance less than once in a thousand cases. A team of doctors who studied digital photographs of the wounds made judgments in the same direction, although not at a statistically significant level.

“This is still just the beginning of the story,” says Ginandes. “The bottom line is that the field of hypnosis is lagging in clinical trials far behind what we know to be true clinically. There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that mind-body healing is a true phenomenon, but the challenge is to prove it in a scientifically acceptable way.”
via Hypnosis Heals | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2003.

The New Year Brings A New You!

Folks, 2009 is almost over. As you are sitting there pondering what 2010 will bring for you; instead, why don’t you ask yourself what will you bring  yourself in 2010. This is the perfect time to start thinking about some new goals, or even current goals that haven’t been completed. January will allow the doors to open for New Year’s resolutions. That’s why I’m so happy to be a part of the New Year New You program starting in January!

This New Year New You program will be like no other self-improvement program out there. Here is the outline of the program.

Reduced fees – You will be utilizing the most effective, natural, holistic, self- healing tool to achieve your goals. This, all at a reduced fee of up to 50%. Most Hypnotherapists and life coaches will charge you up to $150 a session, I am here to work out a payment plan that fits both our needs depending on our goal plan.

Accelerated change – We will set up appointments where instead of seeing me every other week, you will be undergoing a weekly session with me to get faster results!

Weight Loss- On top of the hypnosis you are receiving from me, you are also receiving expert fitness & diet guidance from a certified Personal Trainer. You will get free monthly body fat testing and continuous fitness guidance.

Stop Smoking- Did you know that you get up to a $300 tax credit for any smoking cessation program you enter? Don’t put off this amazing deal of eradicating your addiction at almost no cost to you! And that’s not all, I will put a guarantee on my Stop Smoking program for up to one year!

Group Sessions- I will be offering several different  group hypnosis therapy where you get the same benefits but at a lower fee. If you don’t need the personal one-on-one type therapy, then consider group hypnosis to achieve your goals. I will be offereing group weight loss, self-confidence, motivation, and stress & anxiety.

Please RSVP for group sessions.

Weight loss Group

5-6pm

Jan 20 & 27, Feb 3, 10, 17 & 24, March 3

Self Confidence Group

6-7pm

Jan 20 & 27, Feb 3, 10, 17 & 24, March 3

Please feel free to contact me at 503) 888-7309

email: bunnisek@epiphanyhypnosis.com

or you can fill out a form on my website @ www. epiphanyhypnosis.com

Happy Holidays,

Bunni Sek, CHt

(I’m sorry Portland clients, this program is only available for Richland, Kennewick and Pasco residents. If however you like what you see here and live in the Portland/Beaverton area, I have a referral who is honoring the promotion I am posting, so please contact me for more information)

What domain name do YOU think is better?

Portland’s very own Bruce C. Terrill, CI, CHt is launching a NEW website for his hypnosis training school, NW Hypnosis Institute, Inc.  Which domain name do you prefer?  Portland Hypnosis Training .com or the dot org version Portland Hypnosis Training .org.  Or maybe the hypnotherapy versions are better … Portland Hypnotherapy Training .com or the dot org version Portland Hypnotherapy Training .org is better in your opinion.

Which one do you like better?  You can tell Bruce directly by visiting his “Contact Bruce” page.