EDN Hypnotherapy

08/27/2025

Wisdom Wednesday.
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I feel that there are times in our lives, hell sometimes daily, that we really lose touch with how incredible we actually are. Being in the mental health realm, I am aware that there are a few options based on research, where my perspective can land. I can be jaded by the system, the bureaucracy, or the failure, knowing that people fall through the cracks, or they abuse the loopholes and systems and so much more in-between. The other side is to continue to wear the rose coloured glasses and have unreasonable expectations that if enough hope is shared, people will choose to rise. I am in neither camp, as both a practitioner as well as a regular person. I have faith about the power, potency, and pliable qualities of our minds, our will, and determination. I believe that there is very little difference between real and imaginary ad processes in the brain, that anxieties and being exhilarated demonstrate in the mind/ body characteristics almost identical. The list goes on and on, with similar results... there are options available, choices which can be made, and perspectives that adjust, altering where the neuro pathways ignite.
Who knew that if you wanted to learn a second language, learn to play an instrument, for ease and efficiency, for the part of the brain responsible is stimulated.
If you consistently practice being on guard for potential threats and dangers, you will get to experience threats and dangerous situations.
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A large part of my hope daily is that if there is someone who is discontent, dissatisfied, and longing for something different, a huge step is already accomplished in their change work. That R.A.K. do touch people's lives in a positive manner, and they bring me such tremendous nuggets of joy.
You are NOT stuck. You are NEVER too old. You are MORE creative than you realize.
Feel free to DM.
Be well.

08/13/2025

Wisdom Wednesday
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When I initially read this, it struck a chord on the importance of reparenting our inner child, the traits, biases, and quirks inherited by absorption in our developing years. The initial admittance that I am this way, good, bad or ugly, largely influenced by my upbringing, which then transfers to parents, as the biggest contributing factors, is just a nod to my history. Firstly, as to inner work, the admittance that no matter the number of courses, books, or YT videos, parents are 2 people with no clue, now responsible for raising, and nurturing a new life form. I really don't believe that any one generation was more prepared than another, for the task of emotional, physical, spiritual, and psychological development. Secondly, in acknowledging the first, you place a tremendous treasure back in your lap by empowering your significance to modify your life. The potency of nature vs. nurture and self-determination, self-development, all available for you to mold and shape.
Thirdly, it is a great opportunity for self-healing, for those who continue to beat themselves up, chastise and ridicule, every mistake and error, fixating on the levels of stupidity, and idiocy they must be, to let " this" happen. In order to learn anything, dear reader, messy, mistakes, and failed scenarios have to occur. Otherwise, there is no lesson.
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A large part of the therapy work I do is working on the forgiveness factor of oursleves, or our history, as we parole our emotions from the incarceration of the guilt and shame prison.
As always, I look forward to your questions or comments.
Be well.

08/08/2025

Feelings Friday
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Although I may not love the words being used, the message is stellar. How many of us persuade, no convince our insecurities, that because of this, this, and this, it would be best to NOT even go or participate? The long list of ready copouts cultivated over the years to put a stop order on engaging in anything other than solitude and being recluse. This isn't directed at agorophobics but speaks to a broader sense of denial and limitations. For me, what spawned the inspiration for today's moments was the acknowledging and acceptance of artificial intelligence in our world. To say I am a traditionalist in many areas of my life would be a mild understatement, so this new era of bots, AI, and robotics did not sit well or go down comfortably at all. Intellectually, I had barricaded myself in a room of conventional means and gadgets, reluctant to open the door on the dreaded horrors on the other side.
I see the same trend, in other areas of people's lives, the person not willing to sample different foods or taste profiles, the last roar from a co-worker, "for this is how it has always been done!", and Im already in my comfy clothes, as the bastion s for unplugging and remaining stuck. Now, this is not in any way, shape , form, intended to propel people into cliff diving, or eating raw tarantula or the live squid, etc but moreover as a large banner from the cheering section waving high. You are enough. Your presence matters, and for me, most significant... you absolutely deserve to explore and experience a life. There is something to be revered for fuzzy socks, a t shirt with more holes than material, hunkered down with a good book types of experience, however there is also a menu of different emotional profiles available as well.
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I say this not only for the benefits of your energy, experiential profile and discoveries, but also because I beleive so strongly that who you are, what you have and can share, can make an incredible contribution in someone else's life.
I've seen it, I've been it, and it's magical.
In that light, I am here to help, I am reminded that what lives in the other side of fear is not as fatalistic as our imagination makes it.

07/31/2025

Therapy Thursday.
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If you have ever felt like you were someone's dumping spot, perhaps this image hits differently. I am all for being that friend, recognizing the cathartic virtue of expressing our thoughts and emotions, and will sit and listen to another person's "stuff." However, there is a difference between venting and dumping, isn't there? In the clinic, I started to refer to them as emotional vampires. They will suck all the O positive right out of a person and leave all the negative. You know the ones who have a complaint for every situation, an excuse for all their life's problems, and it is never them, that is responsible. Like all three of my wives used to scream, close the damn lid for crying out loud, close the lid on your dumping ground access and sh***er. I felt such inspiration very, very early this morning, when I was reading, that the universe or the world could give little regard to your good intentions or noble heart. It does not care. What it does communicate on is frequency and energy flow. It makes sense as to how good people finish last, and do**he canoe personalities achieve so well. The positive affirmations, the long heart and soul felt prayers, the vision boards, all come from a place of hope and desire, not an energy of ownership and rights. Perhaps that is a missing part of the Secret, if we change the internal monolog, from " please sir may I have some more " to " step aside please, this is mine" directing. Even in nature, the natural order exemplifies not survival of the fittest but survival of the most adaptable. Otherwise, the sloths, the turtles, and the pandas would have long ago been extinct.
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Im the similar theme I wrote earlier this week about taking the time to make the time to commit 4.61% of your day just for you, everyday, for your peace and enjoyment, make the pledge to take in the version of welcome mat which inspires certain people to wipe their soiled boots all over and still tread dirt all through your living space, the individuals who seem like they wait in the shadows to corner you and drain all the hope and happiness from your veins, or the ones who only find delight is wrapping others in misery cocoon.

07/25/2025

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.

07/23/2025

07/18/2025

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.

07/09/2025

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.
EDN Hypnotherapy Clinic offers free half-hour consultation to explore your particular goals, DM for more information.
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.

07/02/2025

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.

06/27/2025

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

04/11/2025

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.