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04/14/2025

Last time I posted I talked about fear. Fear was utmost on my mind because I was embarking on a trip overseas. My first time abroad with no real knowledge of the customs, traffic, language, people, area..... I could go on. Simply, it's all the unknown that was keeping me up at night which was pretty much everything that had to do with my upcoming trip.

More than two weeks in we have learned so much. Mostly by messing up.

I have learned that F'up's are so important to make so that we can learn. Yes, that may be a difficult way to learn but there can be some very good outcomes.

Here is a picture of me waiting at a bus stop. On two different days we tried to get to a certain sight seeing spot. Both days we travelled buses, waited for what felt like hours for buses that would never show or the one that drove past us because we didn't know to flag it down. We learned to carry exact change when our unlimited bus pass scanned out that we had no more passes available .... or we were on the wrong side of a busy road as we watched the one we want load and drive away before we could get across.

We still haven't made it to that particular spot but we did see some amazing places, ate delicious food and met some great people because of it. Plus we learned so much more about the public transit system.

Next time I mess up (and I promise you there will be) I will be sure to remember that there is always something to be learned, experience gained.

Never ever beat yourself for messing up. Just look for the good that could come out of it. Whatever it is.....

03/25/2025

Fear is one of those emotions that our minds use to protect....Yet we also know that our fears can be illogical at the worst of times and at the best of times.

Do you ever wish that you could be more outgoing? Do you experience a sense of panic just thinking about leaving your home? Do you undermine your progress with any goal that you wish to fulfill? Are you terrified at making mistakes?

Imagine what you would be able to do if you truly understood why you experience fear or panic and then deliberately changing that emotion to one of excitement!

Think about it....

A life that enables you to live with confidence, excitement for experiences with the unknown and a sense of renewed discovery.

RTT is all about helping you become your own advocate for whatever you can imagine life could be.

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Hypnosis certified in Rapid Transformational Therapy. RTT by Marisa Peer

10/06/2024

Rules of the mind!
When I was in training for RTT one of the most eye opening parts of my studies was learning a list of rules that our minds adhere to. It all made so much sense. Here is the list. It is my bet that each of you can relate to most if not all that is listed. Let me know what you think!

RULES OF THE MIND (HOW THE MIND WORKS):
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1. The mind learns by repetition.
2. The mind cannot hold conflicting beliefs or thoughts. They cancel out each other.
3. What is expected tends to be realized.
4. Imagination is more powerful than knowledge - when dealing with your mind or the minds of others.
5. In a battle between emotion and logic, emotion always wins.
6. Your mind always does what it thinks you want it to do.
7. Your mind works to move you from pain to pleasure.
8. Your mind responds to the pictures and words you install.
9. Your mind wants to stay with what is familiar while avoiding what is unfamiliar.
10. Whatever you focus on, you get more of.
11. You make your beliefs and then your beliefs make you.
12. The strongest force in all of us is that we must act in a way that consistently matches our thinking.
13. Your thoughts form a blueprint that your mind and body work to make your reality.
14. What you present to your mind, your mind will present back to you.
15. Your mind does not care if what you say is good, bad, indifferent, true, false, healthy, unhealthy, right, or wrong - it simply acts on your words regardless.
16. Every thought you think causes a physical reaction and an emotional response.
17. When dealing with the subconscious mind, the greater the conscious effort the less it responds.

Understanding ourselves is one of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves because that is what enables us to change!

07/03/2024

I want to talk a bit about grief. We've all experienced it at some point in our life.

Grief can come from all sorts of different types of loss. Job loss, losing someone we love, loss of a friendship, a marriage or relationship, loss of a pet, loss of a home etc. The list can go on.

The results can leave us debilitated if we cannot move through the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining (the what if's), depression and then finally acceptance.

In many cases when someone gets stuck along the process of grieving there is usually some other reason and it can be punishing. Guilt being a leading factor of not being able to move through the process.

Guilt is not grief. Guilt is holding a belief that somehow we are responsible or could have done something different.

I recently had a client who was experiencing deep grief over the loss of a relationship where they found themselves floundering, and in a lot of pain. The outcome of the session had nothing to do with the loss itself, only a tremendous sense of failure. When the session was completed they could speak of the loss without tears, yet before the session they could not. During the follow-up the client had communicated that they were experiencing a sense of peace (acceptance) and were now able to move on.

We will all experience loss in life. That is inevitable but no one needs to be punished over and over again because of it. Everyone has the right to move through the process of grief, to let go, remember and move on. Even though life will be different, each of us has the ability to heal, rebuild and feel peace again.

04/17/2024

You cannot have a rainbow if there is no rain along with the sun.

04/16/2024

Did you know that dieting has a 98% fail rate? So why do we collectively spend billions on something that has such a high guarantee of failure? It's because we are repeatedly convinced that that is the right method for losing weight.

It's in the convincing that marketers excel and they know what they are doing. They are selling you a feeling, because everything in life is all about the feeling.

Hypnosis is too. It focuses on the feelings and helps to change the feelings we have that have got us where we are at and clients don't come to me to get rid of a good feeling. I'm not just talking about weight here. Clients just want to feel better.

When it comes to excess, unhealthy weight on the body we focus on understanding the feelings that the client is attaching to whatever behaviors they have when it comes to food. Believe me, it isn't about will power, it's about the feelings that have undermined a person's healthy relationship with food. It then becomes, something that they may use to protect, harm or punish themselves.

Hypnosis is a worthwhile invest in yourself in all aspects of your life and so is the commitment to feel better.

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Hypnosis certified in Rapid Transformational Therapy. RTT by Marisa Peer

03/19/2024

Hello everyone!

I haven't posted for a while because I have been busy with refreshing my home by painting and purging! Boy does that feel great. They are jobs that allows my mind a sense of freedom, which gives me time to consider topics that I have been finding within my client base.

In my area, hypnosis (especially RTT) is not really well known and people are quite skeptical about it which is quite understandable. We all tend to navigate the paths that are known. Paths such as our current medical care which consists of doctors and prescription drugs for physical issues. I have no problem with that in the short haul but for the long haul I would love to see this path take the mind into consideration.

Consider that when a new drug is produced, before they can market it, it has to go through clinical trials. The clinical trials include a study group of people with the same physical issue where they treat half of the group with the new drug and half with a placebo (often a sugar pill). The reason for this is because when a person truly believes that they are taking a wonder drug which they deem as a cure all, then the chances of that drug working is quite high. EVEN IF THEY ARE TAKING THE PLACEBO. It is not luck. In all clinical trials there is always a number of people who are taking the placebo that will see results. That percentage can range from a low percent to well over fifty. That always makes me pause.

I knew a woman who was part of a clinical trial and when I was asking her about it she said yes she was, but with her luck she would be one of the ones who was on the sugar pill. I felt bad for her and knew that if she believed that, she would be lessening her chance of success. She never did see the results that this new drug had promised.

This is also the same with hypnosis. Anyone who truly relaxes into a session and diligently does the follow-up with the audio (especially where multiple sessions are required) has a 90 percent chance of success. Remember the brain needs repetition to change and changing of beliefs and emotions will over time affect us emotionally and physically. Once we rewire the brain, benefits will be noticed, either immediately, or over time. One might hardly notice the change at all until one day they realize that something has changed.

You can tell yourself anything and if you tell yourself something often enough it will become a part of who you are. It could be something helpful or downright damaging.

The magic of RTT is that it uncovers the unknown, underlying beliefs and emotions of any issue whether it is emotional or physical. Once discovered and understood, then the client really needs to do their homework diligently by listening to the audio produced in a session and paying attention to what they are thinking. This is their greatest power.

The success of RTT performance is truly client driven. I will always reach out to a client to follow-up after a session and I may do several times. The key is to hang in and do the work!!

02/16/2024

Last year I was reminded of a phrase that I'd come across in the course of my training to do RTT.

Hurt people, hurt people and angry people are just really hurt people.

I had to reflect on this phrase because I was feeling a lot of anger and frustration towards my husband. His words were hitting a nerve and I didn't like it. I wasn't happy. He spelled that out and he couldn't understand why.

He was right. I wasn't happy, because I felt like he was putting me on the back burner and this wasn't new.

So I went for a walk to reflect on everything I was feeling.

As I walked, I was thinking he always does this to me. Whatever he wants is more important, he interrupts me and has expectations that I can drop whatever I'm doing to what he needs me to do.

Those words also reminded me that he hasn't done anything different. His expectations of me has never changed so WHY am I so angry now?

Surprisingly enough, an answer dropped into my mind quite clearly. I felt as though I didn't matter. What I wanted didn't matter and how I felt didn't matter. I wanted my business to grow and flourish yet, I still had so much work to do on it. The main thing was a website, which I didn't have at the time. I wanted to create it myself so I had to learn and that needed time and energy. I felt that my husband was imposing on my time to do what I needed for me.

So, I began to tell myself that I mattered. What I wanted mattered, how I felt mattered and what I did mattered.

Fast forward a few weeks and I find myself in another wave of emotion that upset me. Again, I asked myself why was I feeling the way I was feeling. Again, it came to me that I still felt as though I didn't matter.

So, off I go on another walk and I asked myself why. Why do I feel like I do not matter?

This time clarity came through so beautifully. It was as though I was sitting with a therapist and they were asking me questions to which a deep insight was responding to. It was all me, but completely unbiased in its response.

The thoughts of my business came forth again. I still had so much to do and I still didn't even have a website. The therapist within asked, so what are you doing about it? I then saw myself sitting in front of the TV after supper until bedtime. I also saw my ways of procrastinating when I did have time during the day. A dawning realization became quite clear when I saw that it was I who was treating my wants and dreams as though they didn't matter. It was a huge ah ha moment that I will never forget.

That was enough to spur me into action and within day I built my website and began promoting my business.

You may have heard another phrase. When we point a finger out then three are pointing back in. That was my case to a perfect "T".

You see, our emotions are our guide posts. When we are feeling bad we tend to point the finger out. He did this, or she said that and I felt this because of whatever someone else did. But if we started to analyze why we feel the feeling, we may find that it is something within.

So, here's the deal. To feel bad can be the first step toward self discovery. To feel the feeling is to begin healing. Yet you cannot heal if you don't understand the why. It is, what is not understood or left unfelt and unanswered that will, over time begin to affect the body.

This is when physical issues are "unexplained" in the medical community. I get so very excited for a prospective client when they tell me that there is no medical reason for their ailment or condition because I know without a doubt that there is an underlying, unresolved set of feelings based on false beliefs that create the problem.

Sometimes we need help to get to the root of the cause or the issue. That's when thinking outside the box will help. I tell people never stop with the one that says there is nothing that can be done. Go further. Always, go further and think differently.

So the key take away from this post is to learn to begin to question the why to the bad feeling you're feeling whatever that may be and listen for your own insight. No one knows you better than you.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

01/14/2024

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01/12/2024

Nothing feels better than getting outside even on a cold brisk snowy day. I love winter and will get outside every chance I get. The snow is almost deep enough to cross country ski! When I ski I can be out for hours. I am lucky enough to live in the country with its all available fun things to do!

Who else loves the winter?

01/11/2024

As humans we have the ability to make decisions based on the choices that are presented to us each and every day. According to Eva Krockow, a lecturer at the University of Leicester in the UK we make a whopping 35,000 decisions each day and with all of these of these decisions we will experience consequences that either support us or not.

As I work with clients I've discovered that the poor choices are made from an over arching decision made in our early years and supported in adulthood. It comes from a child's perspective of many issues such as: I am not loveable, what I want doesn't matter, I'm not good enough, I don't deserve to be here, it's a way to protect or punish plus so many others. The underlying and often invisible decision made in those early years will be of determent as we navigate through our lives in all areas. Job, career, health, proper nutrition.

Unless it is a side effect from medication, anyone who carries excess weight and cannot take it off with regular activity and healthy eating has made such a decision early on. Plus, we are bombarded by food commercials designed to tempt us. I often hear how demoralized a person is from the inability to eat healthy or get moving. I myself can be a binge eater. I do this when I am in a prolonged state of mental stress. I need comfort and I look to find it in the cupboards. I know food absolutely cannot comfort me but it didn't stop me from tasting everything that might be appealing.

I learned to ask myself why am I feeling the way I am feeling? What am I doing or not doing that supports what I want to feel? What am I needing? I discovered that I need to feel like I mattered and I didn't and the biggest perpetrator that made me feel like that was myself.

I needed to REALLY REALLY decide that I mattered, what I want matters, how I feel matters and what I do matters. I setup some new rules that made sure that I follow because ..... please see above.

So ask yourself what do you want. Decide that what you want matters. I'm not talking about just making a decision. I'm talking about MAKING a decision that nothing and no one is going to change your mind. Have you ever made such a decision? Did you ever waiver from that track no matter what the consequences are? If you answer yes, then you know what I'm talking about.

Do you want to change your weight, get a higher paying job, gain more confidence, find love, or peace or whatever else? Then you need to really decide what that is, and with that decision comes another... that what you want, what you do and how you feel really matters.

You will begin to make plans, set yourself some rules and an action plan and you will make traction. I guarantee it. If you derail from your plan and find yourself making a poor choice, ask yourself if this action or inaction is conducive to what I want? If the answer is no then repeat the phrase that you matter, what you want matters and what you do matters. That inner voice that tells you different will fade and you will stay the course.

Keep up the great work!

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