EDN Hypnotherapy

25/07/2025

Feelings Friday
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The attitude of gratitude is a work in progress always, for me and, perhaps you can relate. Those thoughts and emotions that bubble up to interfere with our own inner peace, disrupting the in-the-moment presence, do not ever go away. Some days it is easy, and others are a bit of a challenge, but I continue to commit to the ideology, that what I have, the ability to breathe deeply, to share in the sensations of the physical world and to experience emotional flexibility are all fantastic cornerstones to be grateful for. The dedication to being positive and knowing that the majority of my life experiences are fundamentally reliant on my interactions and responses, not something that is at fault externally, leads me to appreciate my potential.
I am grateful for those who take the time to read my prose to those who allow my expressions to influence their thoughts and who comment.
Enjoy your day.
Be well.

23/07/2025

18/07/2025

Feelings Friday.
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My dearly beloved watches several different platforms about police solving murder cases. I am still not entirely sure if she is just gathering resources for my future, ha ha ha. However, the other night, she heard a police officer, in an interview, use a term neither of us were familiar with, so thanks to Google, we looked it up. The term meant to berate or chatise another person to achieve behavior change, like " you are really not going to do that, are you?" By the very context, it illicit second thoughts. How many times do we do this to self, with the stinkin' thinking? Stressing and overthinking are key ingredients of anxiety, and like Dr. Wayne Dyer said, "Whenever change the way we look at things, the things we look at start to change." Hypnotherapy is a great way of bringing about that ability to modify how we see things, a modification of perspective. If you find yourself attacking your own thoughts and ideas, perhaps a change of behavior would benefit you.
Be well.

09/07/2025

Wisdom Wednesday
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This morning, I was a man on a mission, a writer on the warpath, seeking the appropriate graphic design to headline my thoughts and emotions. Something to encapsulate negative Nellie, blame game, disempowered sad sacks, and there isn't a whole lot out there that related thay message. Then this poster came across my awareness and p**f just like that, ny intention changed, my disposition changed, and I felt relief through the angst of lamentation I endured this last few days. From my therapy chair, one of the nastiest disservice we can inflict on ourselves is the blame game, and it is a trend growing in popularity. There is little accountability for moods or behavior, and it is always the reaction from someone or something else, who's fault it remains.
Talk about a masterpiece in disempowered rhetoric!
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This is your life, our time in this flesh suit and spending any more space or energy in victim mode is such a tremendous waste of precious experience potential. I heard a beautiful and potent phrase to the " it's hopeless " sentiment, and that is if you woke this morning, you have been reborn and have a complete and fresh opportunity to change your circumstances, one pebble, one step and one act at a time. Embrace your life, don't p**s and moan about it, it will be the only one we get.
I am not immune to being snarky or an assh*^le, I have 2 ex's who can attest to my mastery in being a Jerk, but what I refuse to accept is that someone or something else holds responsibility to my s**tty attitude. That is where the power is, to change and to alter course.
Therapy of many different modalities can bring that freedom potential very clear and reachable.
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Be well.

07/07/2025

Happy Monday.
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I write, if you haven't noticed, rather free flow from my thoughts, when I pen my prose, in the morning's. Perhaps the trade-off for inspiration and spontaneous topics is weighted down compared to pontificating and organization, and it shows itself in the randomized blips of thought throughout the length of the article I post. Hell, outside of spell check, there is limited editing. But then again, so are our thoughts, aren't they? I manage a page on another platform, under Hypnotherapy, and my intention at the time of developing it was to provide a forum for fellow tists to discuss new understandings or approaches in the field or consultations on different paths for treatment. I also created the page in hopes that John and Jayne Q. PUBLIC could have a resource where questions and concerns could be voiced and suggestions offered in guidance. To my dismay, organically the page has morphed into a bulletin board for advertising courses and services and a battlefield for egos. It's a frustration that I have encountered and worked diligently on changing, and that is the recognition of hypnotherapy as a credible modality in a treatment approach for emotional well-being and behavior modification goals. Removing the mystical and esoteric, and honing in on the incredible potential of our brains and the mind-body body connection to healing and repair.
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The demonstrative quirks that movies and stage shows illuminate about hypnosis, certainly on face value, don't help our cause to credible theraputic treatment, but when you move a little beyond in the understanding, the same mental state that allows someone to "Bark like a dog or Quack like a Duck" willingly, can certainly be tapped into for self image, confidence, overcoming fears, ( which are irrational) and unwanted behaviors, right? The mere fact that both media, print and electronic, are manipulating how and what we place value on and must direct our awareness towards, is propoganda, a more blatant form of mind control than my suggestions on how kind or quirky that nasty critical voice can become that prattle inside your head.
Hypnotherapy is not the end all, or a magic wand, but an alternative.
Be well.

02/07/2025

Wisdom Wednesday.
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I was privileged yesterday on so many levels, through the most random events. That phrase is complete in and of itself, isn't it? In this particular depiction, the great " I AM" illuminated in my mind again bold and bright. I AM the Great I AM, a literal translation from Judeo- Christian teachings, and so many huge significant markers in history points us to a higher and simple direction as a beautiful beacon. For this article, I AM constantly changing and evolving, I AM whom I choose to be, and I am no longer chasing someone else expectations of me. I AM imperfect and fallible, and I AM delighted to be such. It means that I AM continuing to venture into areas in which I am unfamiliar and attempt concepts that are foreign, so I AM expanding in growth. I AM caring, grateful, kind, and hopeful. I AM a work in progress and humbled to know that. I AM weird, strange, and eccentric, and most days unabashed to flaunt those moments, in being spontaneous and genuine.
I AM becoming free in my understanding perception is personal and is only a view through the lens of My focus. It doesn't constitute any relation to reality, necessarily, but only a nuance. By that, I mean everything is up for interpretation, isn't it? As part of our development, we must acknowledge some really messed up mosaic of reality where it was nothing like what was believed. The Earth was Flat, and it had an Edge, so there were perfectly sane people jumping off of perfectly safe ships, to their demise, in fear of dropping off the "face" of the earth. That health and healing had some affiliation to having too much blood and such an "irrefutable reality "that a president was "medically" assassinated by the practice of blood letting. The examples go on, suffice to say that what is real is real until it isn't anymore.
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The Power of I AM statements influence our concepts of self identity, determining our context and values, and how we function. Like Dr. Dyer said, " If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." Hypnotherapy helps that change.
EDN Hypnotherapy offers free half-hour consultation to discuss your goals.
Be well.

27/06/2025

Feelings Friday
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Make no qualms about it. Unresolved stress is what we call the silent killer. Still promoting the awareness of Mens Mental health, I opted for this poster because it reminds me that men have been examples of a number of these symptoms. The ones I qued in on were sleep, hair loss, muscle tension, elevated heart rate, and chest pains, as being disproportionate to males. This is not intended to be an us vs. them who has it worse, scenario, but a guide or maybe checklist on verifying your stress levels or someone around you. How do males handle stress? Well, the blatant answer is usually not very well. We show an exceptional talent at something called compartmentalization. We take the stress, package it up, and stick it in the back of our minds. Financial concerns; I'll take care of it, health concerns; I'll be fine, work stress;I can handle it, relationship stress; it will work-out, etc. Compartmentalization and downright BS are fairly typical in our coping systems, am I wrong? Now in each of us there is a higher functioning, the one which had been alerted, is on gaurd and ready to activate the amygdala system of defcon 4, Freeze, Fight, Flight or Fawn, and nothing happens, no action, no resolution, or resolve. So the alarms just sit there. Muffled and suppressed emotions are lethal.
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In contrast, we could learn from our counterparts, in their ability to experience emotional release more effectively. That energy gets expressed and diminished through venting, verbally, or viscerally, bringing it out and not jamming it into the corners of our psyche. However, culturally and socially, that is not yet acceptable behavior for a male. So there is still the Mexican standoff, knowing what could benefit mens mental health and enacting the methods to improve it without judgment or stigma.
I can only speak to the significance of the therapeutic process, the power of the chair, and sharing in a safe space. And that is a start, one that gets that repressed s**t out of our minds and onto the carpet, where the rug doesn't care.
EDN Hypnotherapy Clinic offers a free half-hour consultation to explore your particular situation.
Be well

23/06/2025

Happy Monday
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The concepts of shame,remorse or regret and the litany of " shoulda, coulda, wouldas" serves absolutely no one, as point of interest, it is the fuel for delving deeper into self depreciation and morose. This poster is applicable for both depressed and anxiety riddled people, and truly is non gender specific. However, as we are still actively advocating for Men's Mental Health Awareness, I leaned more towards the male depiction. So here is today's thoughts: there are loads of mistakes, a s**t ton if you want to be real, that each and every single person will tally, in their lives. Not a single individual is immune ever. With each and any mistake, as long as you are on the other side of that mistake, it was nothing more than a learning opportunity. I say this because there are mistakes made that are a bit more terminal ...so the learnings drop drastically. Here is some food for thought in a cognitive treatment way, there is rarely any instance where we intentionally engage in any aspect of our lives with the direct goal of failure, we did what we did, as best we could, in that very moment, in that particular situation, with those particular skills and knowledge. Where is the mistake in that scenario? There isn't one.
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Each and any chance you have to mess things up and survive is a gift to add to your specific reference library on how NOT to. Success is a process of elimination, and wisdom is never achieved by the idle people, the couch potato coaches. The catalyst for these thoughts, truth be told, was partially spawned from my sessions this past week but also a quote I read regarding parenting; don't for one second believe I am smarter than you and that is what causes me to lecture, it is meerly I have made so many more mistakes than you.
Always remember and never forget, and never forget to always remember, you are that amalgamation of a gazillion unique instances and Polaroid snapshot in time, all strung together to amass the you whom you are this very second.
I look forward to your questions or comments.
EDN Hypnotherapy Clinic offers a free half-hour consultation to explore your particular goals and challenges.
Be well.

02/06/2025

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02/06/2025

Happy Monday.
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The newest and the last on the list of trauma responses is Fawning. Developed as early as 1999 but popularized in 2013, the Fawn response was introduced to further cover therapeutic approaches to a more complex trauma. I am not a researcher. However, from my practice and experience, fawning often reflects earlier stage traumas, such as childhood and adolescence, most frequently as a result of domestic violence or abuse. A survival technique, as long as the aggressor is catered to or noted on, the Fight response will not make appearance. We then become the peacekeepers, the caregivers, and the nurturing ones in our relationships, convinced that if we take better care and pay more attention, IT will all get better. Raised voices and conflict, two of the strongest triggers.
Where I see some stretch in, including Fawn as a member of the trauma responses, is with all the others Freeze, Fight and Flight, they are self inflicted and self applied. Fawning is almost a preventive procedure to placate hostile situations from happening, manipulating others for survival. I also acknowledge that Fawn states do exist as a response to traumas, but in a different application.

30/05/2025

Feelings Friday.
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Continuing with the different trauma responses, Freeze is next in the spotlight. Unlike Fight or Flight response, Freeze demonstrates no activity at all. I think, and once again I am not any authority, that the tendencies of Freeze response are sometimes misinterpreted for depression. So unlike the other's, Freeze at the emotional level is characterized by that gaze in the eyes, the lost ambivalence, nothing matters, I don't care disconnection, like the wave of doom and futility fill their every thought. The brain becomes overwhelmed in processing the trauma that it goes into limp mode, like some of those vehicles from the 90's and early 2000's. Hidden in bedroom, on the couch, in the basement, Freeze responders, might come off as here in body, occupying space but not in mind or energy. They don't have the ability or interest for that matter to make decisions because I'm their state it just doesn't matter, any of it.
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For me, like eating an elephant, one fork full at a time, the approach to guiding someone out from there, is very slow and absolutely non invasive. There is in each some survival mode, some pathway heading out of the emotional prison. With those in Freeze mode, a small glimmer of involvement, engaged in nurturing activities, seems to be a trail that is safe and kinesthetic. To be able to start the thawing process, mentally, physically, and emotionally, I believe firstly can not be rushed, but secondly, it requires more attention and understanding, because the perceived threat is still in active status. So perhaps the despondent couch potato is worthy of the simple quiet presence of someone safe. How do we approach locating the power switch for someone in shut down mode? With care and respect.
I look forward to your questions or feedback as always. EDN Hypnotherapy Clinic offers a free half-hour consultation to discuss your specific situation.
Be well

11/04/2025

Feelings Friday
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Talk about keeping it real, Lori Deschene certainly makes it very clear and plain. This last little while I have been writing on R.A.K. (random acts of kindness) as my UC mind seems to have made that a subject brought to my attention. It would appear if more people practiced R.A.K. there would be fewer judgments to be concerned about, and as such less susceptibility of handing over the paintbrush to our masterpiece called life, to other artists and pallets which don't match with the tones and hues of our landscape. What is the downside or risk we take when we do choose to be kind? Rejection and judgment, I suppose, nothing you have not already experienced, but the potential ripple effect on another person life in a complimentary manner is significant. From my own life, I still maintain that the warm and fuzzies emotionally are more than sufficient encouragement when the act is received and acknowledged by the intended. The brighter eyes, the dawn of a smile or even the hue of the blush, fuel to an engine of delivering kindnesses even farther.
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There are those who will dismiss and maybe even scoff at the notion, but like so many other things, there can be that one or two who read this, and it plants the seed, and sprouts.
A crop of kindness starts one seedling at a time and I'll take it all day long.
Be well.