Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is very different from hypnosis. There is no ‘can or cannot be hypnotized’. It is simply a conversation with the subconscious mind while in a relaxed state. You are in complete conscious control the entire time. The subconscious mind is our storehouse of memories, beliefs, emotions and habits. Our normal conscious state is typically poised to be defensive in order to protect and maintain our habitual ways of being – this is obviously not the ideal state for deeply transformative healing. By closing the eyes, breathing slower and more deeply, calming the mind and body with reduced attention on the outer world, it is easier to focus on what’s happening within. In a more relaxed state, we not only have increased access to information and energy that is normally suppressed for daily survival, but we also tend to be more fluid and less rigid about releasing what no longer works for us, and receiving new insights about what could work better for us now.
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
NLP is the practical study and application of success, and more specifically, how to transfer the most successful techniques and strategies from one mind to another. It is a way of using language to stimulate the mind to think more optimally. The way we think affects the way we feel, which affects the way we behave, which affects our results and experiences in life. NLP is exceptionally effective in conjunction with hypnotherapy and all talk therapies. It can be considered more of a way of communicating, than a specific set of techniques. For example, when you want someone to do their chores, don’t say “Don’t forget your chores. I’m tired of doing them for you,” because they’ll be likely to obey your words and actually forget their chores. Instead, say “I would feel so grateful if you got your chores done today.” That would inspire them to want to do their chores, especially if you said it with a smile and a sparkle in your eye.
Timeline and Past Life Regression Therapy
Timeline and Past Life Regression Therapy is a process used with Hypnotherapy for travelling along our chronological memories or life span. Younger versions of ourselves, past lives, and the spaces in between lives can be explored, healed and learned from. We can go back to the root cause of our limiting beliefs and habits that aren’t working for us and change them. We can remember and embody skills and abilities we once had that we have forgotten. We can even install ‘memories’ into our future to look forward to!
Inner Child Work
Every one of us came into this world as an innocent and defenceless baby. During our formative years, most of us had to adapt to society and authority in ways that hurt or limited our natural essence. We then forgot about those adaptations and continued to function less than optimally. Inner Child Work is a method of connecting and interacting with our younger emotional selves in a way that updates our programming and ability to respond to life’s current circumstances.
Reiki (including Quantum Touch and other energy healing)
Reiki means Universal Life Source Energy. It is one of many methods of sensing and channelling Life Force Energy through a practitioners mind, body and hands towards someone or something. It produces a calm, peaceful, loving energy that can be sensed, when you are open and sensitive to it. Even non-believers have stood up feeling noticeably better after a short session. Reiki can be channelled over long distance and across time with the mind and heart, or with a more direct hands-on approach. It can be used alone for healing benefits, and it beautifully enhances every healing session with intention. Reiki is like an energetic nutritional supplement; the Spirit knows how best to send it and the body knows how best to use it.
Focusing
Focusing is similar to the newer modality called somatic experiencing. It is a method of accessing the unconscious mind directly. It involves becoming aware of a ‘felt sense’ in the body and communicating with it. Every uncomfortable emotion and sensation is a message expressing stuck or disharmonious energy. It is asking us to meet a physical or energetic need. When we understand and integrate the lesson, the ‘felt sense’ changes or disappears. It often just needs our focused attention, love and understanding to be released back into free-flowing harmonious experience.
Shamanism
Shamanism is one of the oldest healing modalities the world can remember. The word shamanism describes a culture more than a technique. You’ll find energy work at the heart of each system of traditions, since that is the core of reality and disharmony is the only thing in need of healing and transformation. Most traditions include systems of symbolic rituals, ceremonies and trance states including the elements of earth, water, air and fire, some form of smudging or spiritual cleansing with smoke and/or feathers and breath, rhythm with drums, other instruments, songs, chanting and dance, imaginative journeys, and sometimes even psychedelics. Shamans are working to change the frequencies, vibrations, beliefs and connections in experience, to influence reality to flow more harmoniously.
The Seven Principles taught by the Kahunas of Hawaiian Shamanism:
- PRESENCE in this NOW moment, is the only moment of power.
- EMPOWERMENT comes from the Energy within.
- FOCUSING flows energy with attention.
- SHARING affection, appreciation, joy and love inspires blessing.
- FORGIVENESS exchanges the past for the present light, the goodness, in this now moment.
- SEEING, understanding, experiencing the Truth as Spirit would see it is foundational.
- CONNECTING to Source, Spirit, Higher Self and purpose is the way.
Quantum Physics
Quantum Physics is the specific branch of science that aims to study the smallest units of matter, or what this physical world is made of. What they have found is that the smallest units they can find are not really made of particles or matter at all. They are 99% empty, made out of space, light and energy. When those smallest units are not observed, they remain in an indiscriminate wave form, or potential. It is when they are observed that the wave of potential collapses into a (particular) particle that can be experienced as reality.
Quantum Physics is now proving what ancient spiritual masters and texts have been claiming all along… that the world is a mirror of ourselves. The way we think affects the way we feel, which affects our internal filters and what we notice. This is why two people witnessing the same event can report two completely different accounts, depending on where they were looking from, and what they were looking through (their beliefs, filters, expectations, and perceptions). This of course affects the way we respond and behave to events and circumstances, which in turn affects the results we create in the world around us, and how the world of others responds to us.
Without our senses of vision, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching (and thinking), we would not be aware of any world. The world exists inside our own minds, like a dream. Think about how surprised you felt after waking from an intense dream. You completely believed it was real while you were dreaming, and likely felt helpless to change the experience, if changing it even occurred to you. Now imagine that you realized you were dreaming while still asleep. You might not be able to escape the dream immediately, but you could certainly insert different thoughts and perspectives, influencing events to flow differently. Whether you call it the power of belief, the law of attraction, hogwash or science, if you take the time to examine the evidence over time, you’ll see that is how this world works too.
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and Other Tapping
EFT (and other tapping techniques), are processes of tapping ideas through the energy channels of the body, first to open the mind and body to self-love and willingness to heal, then to embody awareness of those beliefs that are blocking energy, and finally to replace those beliefs with more true and empowering ideas. In my practice, sometimes tapping can help shift stuck energy so that other techniques can work better.