Holistic Hypnotherapy

11/08/2021

"Hypnosis is the oldest Western form of psychotherapy, but it’s been tarred with the brush of dangling watches and purple capes. In fact, it’s a very powerful means of changing the way we use our minds to control perception and our bodies"

in 2016, David Spiegel, Professor and associate chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford conducted a study to see what was happening in the brains of people who had undergone hypnosis. His work confirmed three really amazing things that hypnosis does to your brain 1. increase focus. You become more absorbed in your inner world to the extent that you tune out everything else. 2. Strengthens the brain-body connection. Your mind has more influence on what's going on in your body while in hypnosis. 3. Reduction in self-consciousness. Your brain doesn't spend as much time and energy evaluating actions, meaning you more easily do what is suggested to you.

These are things we hypnotists have known for a long time, but it's always nice when the science confirms what we already intuitively saw.

The implications of this study and many others like it are huge. It means hypnosis is, in fact, a very effective way to change behaviors, affect physical conditions like pain disease and sensation, as well as ease anxiety and phobias.

Check out the study for yourself if you'd like to read more https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/07/study-identifies-brain-areas-altered-during-hypnotic-trances.html

By scanning the brains of subjects while they were hypnotized, researchers at the School of Medicine were able to see the neural changes associated with hypnosis.

09/28/2021

09/21/2021

First day in a new office space! On Tuesday's you can find me in the cozy and peaceful Birch Room at Open Door Wellness

What I love about this room is that it feels like you are cocooning inside a paper birch tree. Good place to have a healing daydream with me!

I'm offering 60 and 90 min sessions for hypnotherapy, coaching, intuitive tarot readings, and herbal wisdom. If you're like me and want to try everything, book an Entraceworks session for a truly magical and integrative experience combining my services.

For my Hudson Valley friends: don't worry, I'm still doing virtual work.

Get in touch! We'll begin within. ;)

09/20/2021

There’s a lot of mystique that surrounds the idea of hypnosis. ? ? It’s interesting being in this field as a woman, since traditional hypnotists have been men, and the old authoritarian style of rapid inductions you see on stage is often what we think of as hypnosis. And there’s a lot of ego in the history of the practice that has done disservice to the whole field. But really, a hypnotic trance is the most natural thing in the world. We don’t need pendulums or any other prop to do it. Just a willingness to let go and become open to the idea that something is happening, something healing and relaxing and beyond our conscious control. If you can imagine, just for a minute, that it’s possible to let your subconscious mind take over, and that the more you allow this, the better you feel...well, maybe you’re doing it right now?

09/16/2021

Did you know there are many everyday herbs that can help facilitate a dreamy, hypnotic state of mind? You don't need to get "high" to experience mental relaxation. One thing I love doing in my practice is exploring some of the gentle, safe, non-psychoactive plants that can help calm the nervous system and induce light trance. Aromatic plants like sage, frankincense, and sandalwood have been used for millennia as incense to clear the mind and dispel evil (which is just a word to describe the state of mind that keeps us locked in suffering) before sacred ritual or divine worship. Scent is a powerful way to shift consciousness. But there are also many mushrooms and less-well known plants that can help you reach the hypnogogic state of mind more easily through tincture, tea, or salve. I've developed a couple different blends that I love to use before hypnosis. DO you have a favorite plant you use to relax the mind and induce dreams or daydreams?

09/09/2021

Exciting news! I'm teaming up with Open Door Wellness Collective in WRJ and sharing a lovely new office space beginning Sept 21st! Now booking in person sessions at 9:00, 10:45 and 12:30 on Tuesdays. If your in the Upper Valley, come see me in my beautiful new space.
Get in touch to book your preferred time

https://www.opendooruv.com/

We are the Upper Valley's premiere hub for integrative care and movement studies offering professional services, classes and a makerspace.

09/08/2021

Ever wonder where the word hypnosis comes from? Hypnos is one of the most interesting gods in the Greek pantheon. The child of Nyx (night) and the Erebus (darkness), he is a gentle, sweet god who dwells in a deep cave near the entrance to Hades, beside the river Lethe (forgetfulness) where o***m poppies and other sedative herbs grow.

He is often known as the drowsy god. He lives in perpetual twilight, in a dreamy state, neither fully awake or fully asleep. His children fill our dreams with meaningful colors, animals, and symbols.

He was often depicted as a bird, or as a winged god, not unlike Hermes. In fact, some scholars believe Hypnos is an aspect of Hermes.

The ancients appealed to Hypnos to bring peace and calm, to end suffering and pain, and to take away the troubles of daily life. He was known to induce the pleasant state of consciousness we call the Hypnogogic, in which healing and restorative dreams could come. For this reason, Hypnos was much loved, respected and praised by the ancients. We still nod to his healing powers today, when we use our modern word hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

"Hypnos,
divine repose of all things!
Gentlest of the deities!
Peace to the troubled mind,
from which you drive the cares of life.
Restorer of men’s strength
when wearied with the toils of day.”
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XI (1 A.D.)

08/31/2021

08/31/2021

Exciting changes for Holistic Hypnotherapy! I've relocated to VT! My office is now at
Open Door Wellness Center
18 N Main St
White River Junction, VT 05001

I have three open session slots for in person work in my new office, so get in touch if your interested in working with me or giving hypnosis a try.

Still have a few slots open for virtual sessions as well. Get in touch, lovely!

02/20/2021

Session openings in March! Book at info@audreygilbert.com

05/11/2020

Sunday May 17th 11-1230
Info at audreygilbert dot com to register. Link in profile

How do we deal with uncertainty? Tarot! Tarot for everyone and tarot for everything! Tarot has the answers, my friends.

Join us Sunday for our next virtual study group. Bring your tea, a deck (I use Waite-Smith) a journal, questions, and open mind.
Free to public, donations welcome.

05/02/2020

I need a break, you guys. This rainy week took it out of me. Homeschooling has been sapping all my creative energy, and I just haven’t been able to pull myself together with all these rainy days. Sometimes social media promotion is just the LAST thing I want to do. Any one else? Now that the sun has finally come out, I want nothing to do with zoom or my computer for a few days. So I’m going to postpone our next digital tarot gathering for a couple weeks so we can all go recharge in the sun.

See you for Tarot and tea on Sunday May 17th at 11 Am. I have some fun, lighthearted tarot activities planned. Free to public, donations welcome.

DM for zoom link, or email info@Audreygilbert.com to register

04/16/2020

If you’ve been feeling a bit lost and powerless lately, you’re not alone. It might seem like you’re moving backward, or losing ground. Thoughts like “why is this happening to me?” are natural, given all the frustrating setbacks of your situation. I understand how you feel. And now, it’s time to step back and check your ego. Maybe you can put down your crown of entitlement and your need to be right for a little bit today. They are weighing your down. There is freedom in humility. Try it on. Humility will help you navigate your way back the sacred. .
Today, the highest actions are those of service. .
When I feel lost, I read fairy tales. Have you heard the fairy tale called “The star talers”? A taler is a kind of coin. I’m sharing my version of this old fairy tale here because i believe it has the just the sort of magic that is needed today- the power to reconnect you with your North Star. Enjoy! Let me know what you think. .







@ Saugerties, New York

04/16/2020

If you’ve been feeling a bit lost and powerless lately, you’re not alone. It might seem like you’re moving backward, or losing ground. Thoughts like “why is this happening to me?” are natural, given all the frustrating setbacks of your situation. I understand how you feel. And now, it’s time to step back and check your ego. Maybe you can put down your crown of entitlement and your need to be right for a little bit today. They are weighing your down. There is freedom in humility. Try it on. Humility will help you navigate your way back the sacred.
Today, the highest actions are those of service.
When I feel lost, I read fairy tales. Have you heard the fairy tale called “The star talers”? A taler is a kind of coin. Im share my version of this old fairy tale here because i believe it has the just the sort of magic that is needed today- the power to reconnect you with your North Star. Enjoy! Let me know what you think.







@ Saugerties, New York

03/29/2020

Today’s reading is a shout out to the caregivers out there (parents, nurses, service employees, those caring for sick or elderly or young), for whom social distancing and quarantine means your carrying more weight than ever with little or no support. Those of you who are doing this on your own, I see you. Self care tends to be the first thing out the window for you. I get it. And also it’s still more important than ever that you make time to tend to your own needs. This message is for those who are struggling with pressure to be everything for hose who depend on you, and for those who have to do it alone. You are an absolute hero. Hear me? A HERO! 🏆 💪 🏆
To all you caregivers, I’m sending my most heartfelt understanding and empathy. Thank you. You deserve a break. And Mark my words: this won’t last forever. For now, please do the world a favor and give yourself a break. Find solace and soothing pleasure wherever you can. And if that is too much, then just take
‘s advice: get dressed, make your bed, and do your hair. You’ll feel better.
She’s so right. I’m not sure why this works, but it does.

03/28/2020

Today’s forecast looks a pretty bleak, with more adversity than we know how to handle. This is hard! 😓
Take heart. We are all in this together. ❤️
These cards speak to me of some of the very human ways we are currently dealing with threat of illness and scarcity: by avoiding, hoarding, sneaking off and telling ourselves “it won’t happen to me” as well as blaming and shaming others for our suffering. Well, dear one, time to face the mirror and forgive yourself for your less-than perfect reactions. When fear comes knocking, our most base instincts kick in. Think about how this applies to you in little or big ways. Now, forgive yourself. You can’t help it, you have millions of years of evolution, cultural programming and genetics and personal and collective traumas contributing to these behaviors. It’s not your fault. But we all have a responsibility to try and do better. I repeat: We are in this together!
I heard Elkhart Tolle say, ‘In every Adversity is the opportunity to rise to higher states of consciousness.’
Looks to me like we have a long way to go towards achieving that. So let’s begin. A good place to start is with the wise practice of Ho’ponopono : “I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.” It can be that simple.