What is Mindfulness, Meditation & Spiritual Growth?

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is to take action with conscious awareness of our thoughts, body sensations, and the immediate environment in the moment as life occurs. It is consciously practicing being present with full body awareness while directly engauging with life as it happens, rather than acting from thoughts, or automatic habits from our subconscious mind or thoughts. An example of NOT being present is doing a repetitive task with our body, while we are thinking of some other experience in our head. This causes confusion in the mind and can trigger stress. Really, mindfulness is just being presently engaged through all our senses with what we are doing… allowing and accepting rather than being distracted and resistant. How can Mindfulness help me? If we are mindfully present with what we are doing, we then become conscious participators with life, rather than victims of just doing things the way we have always done them that leads to the same old results we have always got…. usually results we are unfulfilled with. There is no growth, learning, or creating of new and exciting experiences if we just repeat the old automatic ways of doing things. Mindfulness is a path to freedom of choice that can actualize our desires into reality through conscious mindful action and participation with life. To do this simply requires practice being aware and accepting of our body sensations and how we feel during everything we do as we do it. What Is Meditation? I like to call meditation “Awareness Practice”, because there are so many ways that meditation can be done… this way, that way, be like so and so, not like this or that!… which puts a lot of pressure on wondering if we are doing it right or wrong! Awareness practice is the simplest way to meditate. Just sit, focus on your breathing through observing your body sensations, then expand your attention throughout your whole body. Just notice the sensations you feel, what is actually occurring in the moment, and allow them to be there. These feelings are just life happening and the sensations you feel is the energy of life interacting within you. Notice your thoughts and how they want to pull your attention away from your body, and even try to convince you to stop meditating. Just notice, and then re-orient your attention back to the breath and your body sensations in the moment. How can Meditation help me? With practice this will teach you how to be connected to your body, and not pulled off into an illusory reality in your thoughts. Being mindfully connected to your body sensations is how you become emotionally connected with life, and in time, emotionally competent, which will allow you to be able to healthfully process what you feel through anything you do, rather than needing to discociate or numb away feelings because you cannot cope, are stressed, or anxiety is taking you away into fear. This will allow you to experience more joy and happiness in new experiences, because there will no longer be any fear or dread of uncomfortable feelings, as your awareness will instead be filled with acceptance. Meditation is the path to emotional freedom, and spiritual cultivation of your true self. What is Spiritual Growth? In a way, spiritual growth is a byproduct of suffering, or more accurately, the journey we begin one day through our desire that motivates us enough to end our suffering. I like to think of spiritual growth in the simplest way I possibly can so I am going to mention two main perspectives: Theology and science. Theology says that God is, and Science says that Energy is. To me they are synonymous. Both say that everything is connected, and if that is true, then spirit and energy are the same thing, and we are of the same SOURCE of everything else. I also believe that we all have a unique path, light, spirit, life purpose, or blue print. Just like a grain of sand, snow flake, or rain drop... there are no two alike, but paradoxically they are all the expression of the same fundamental likeness that created them. We as humans are somehow a creation of the same source, and to me the best words to describe this is by calling it our light, or spirit. If we all have a unique light, and are somehow created unlike anything else, yet from the same source, then we are all uniquely the same. I also believe that when we do not follow the path or expression of what our uniqueness is by hiding who we really are, then we suffer by feeling we are not good enough, not worthy, or are a bad person. We can feel ashamed for just being who we are, and become lost in trying to fit unrealistic expectations of what other people think we SHOULD be. Trying to be someone else is the one thing we cannot succeed in, as we are gifted with our own unique life-light that was created to be expressed only through ourselves! I believe that our suffering is caused by trying to be something that we are not, and spirits way of directing us inwards to re-orient ourselves back with our light. When we try to fill expectations of others, try to rebel, try to fit in, not to be seen, to wear a mask and pretend we are okay when we are not and holding in what we really feel…. then a lot of energy is going to be expended in trying to hold these FALSE identities we are living through. The suffering is caused because that is not who we are, it is the resistance, in equal proportion to the distance of how far we are holding our FALSE self identity away from our AUTHENTIC SELF! If we peel back the layers of illusion one by one, all the masks of illusion and facades that we act through, then we will start seeing the light of who we really are; because when we peel it all away, that which remains after there are no other layers, MUST be our true self. This place is filled with amazing light! Once we decide we just cannot pretend anymore and the suffering just gets too much, something inside of us begins to motivate the desire to end this suffering. This deep urge begins to fuel the need to speak and express our truth of who we really are and only follow our light, which will inevitably bring up a lot of confusing challenges and fears along the way. The path to self realization is simple, but not easy. It is said to have been from the Buddha himself: “I did not say it was easy, I said it was worth it!" I simply provide the supported environment and practical tools you will need through the fears, confusion, and changes that will arise along the way of working through the layers of false identity. I will guide you in creating a solid enough foundation of self understanding and self confidence until such time you can take it from there on their own.

How does Hypnotherapy Work?

To understand how we can tap into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves, we need to first talk about the subconscious vs conscious mind. Did you know your Conscious Mind accounts for only 5-10% of your potential mind power and is responsible for... • Logical thinking/planning • Concept of time • Short term memory (24-48 hours) • Willpower/choice The conscious mind is where your willpower resides; where you try to control behaviours, habits, and feelings. However, your survival systems are the job of the subconscious mind and as a result, can rapidly overpower any desires if it perceives the change to be a threat. Think about that for a minute. If you’ve been attempting to make changes in an unhappy area of your life, and you’re doing so by willpower and logic alone...you’re working in an uphill battle. No wonder you’re exhausted and wondering “what the heck!?” Here’s the thing…. Your Subconscious Mind accounts for 90-95% of your minds power and is responsible for: • Anything illogical • Long term memory of life experiences • Belief systems/values • Perceptions of reality • Habits/behaviours and relationship patterns • Self worth, self esteem & confidence • Creativity/imagination • Emotions/feelings • Involuntary body functions • Protection/survival systems • Reactive mind (relative to beliefs, perceptions, and survival) Willpower Is Not Enough to Make a Change. Have you ever set out to start a new healthier habit, and it’s going great for a few weeks, but then you can't seem to follow through? And what ends up happening is you beat yourself up thinking you just don't have enough willpower to follow through long enough. You end up thinking you are not good enough. But here’s what’s really happening - your subconscious mind is overriding your willpower to keep change from happening. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. And while you can appreciate the reason, it’s holding you back from your full potential. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. Luckily, the subconscious is like a tape recorder, which has no rational thought, contemplation, or opinion of its own. It simply perceives our current experience through comparison of how it categorized past experiences. New beliefs can be created at any time in our lives, but our core belief structure was created during pre-teen years, where our whole sense of personal identity and how we see ourselves fitting into life was created so we could survive and thrive in our environment. Incidentally, if we grew up in an environment where we were not supported in expressing our emotions in healthy ways or experienced unresolved traumas, our baseline belief structure will have a lot of negative self perceptions. These could show up as feeling not good enough, being a people-pleaser, having low self esteem or self worth (which leads to low self confidence), fearing failure or success, and feeling like you’re not smart enough to get to where you want to be. Our subconscious mind simply relays this negative self-talk to the brain and triggers all sorts of unhealthy actions to take based on these phrases & past experiences (procrastination, total avoidance & other sabotaging behaviours). There could be no threat at all in the moment, but once the danger/self protection button is pressed, our subconscious mind sends emotional signals to stop the behaviour ASAP and get out! So it goes to say... If there are conflicting beliefs in the 90-95% subconscious mind power, our 5-10% of the conscious mind (read: willpower) will always be overruled! Tapping into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves has very little to do with willpower! Fortunately, just like old-school tech like the tape recorder, we can simply record a new “program” over the old one. This is exactly what we can do with the subconscious mind with Hypnotherapy. As a Hypnotherapist, my job is to simply relax my clients into a lower brainwave state called Theta to create a bridge of communication to the subconscious mind (basically a day/dreamy state) where I am able to talk to you, or that part of your mind about your goals, to guide it to work out creative solutions to better support you to achieve your desired goals. If you want to get to the bottom of why you can’t move past blocks and feelings of unhappiness, using Hypnotherapy to collaborate with your subconscious mind is an incredible method to achieve your goals. IMAGINE how good you would feel to accomplish your life, relationship, spiritual, career goals and dreams with those blocks gone! It's an empowering feeling to take action with something that is important to you! Book your free consultation with me today. I am really looking forward to meeting with you! Here is a Video describing more detail on how Hypnotherapy Works

Will VIDEO SESSIONS work ok?

Video sessions work really well, save you the stress of driving, and allow you to see a therapist that would otherwise be too far away! If you are not comfortable with video, we can keep it audio only. Here is the process for your initial FREE consultation:

• Either book an appointement with me through e-mail, or my online booking calendar

How does Hypnotherapy Work?

To understand how we can tap into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves, we need to first talk about the subconscious vs conscious mind. Did you know your Conscious Mind accounts for only 5-10% of your potential mind power and is responsible for... • Logical thinking/planning • Concept of time • Short term memory (24-48 hours) • Willpower/choice The conscious mind is where your willpower resides; where you try to control behaviours, habits, and feelings. However, your survival systems are the job of the subconscious mind and as a result, can rapidly overpower any desires if it perceives the change to be a threat. Think about that for a minute. If you’ve been attempting to make changes in an unhappy area of your life, and you’re doing so by willpower and logic alone...you’re working in an uphill battle. No wonder you’re exhausted and wondering “what the heck!?” Here’s the thing…. Your Subconscious Mind accounts for 90-95% of your minds power and is responsible for: • Anything illogical • Long term memory of life experiences • Belief systems/values • Perceptions of reality • Habits/behaviours and relationship patterns • Self worth, self esteem & confidence • Creativity/imagination • Emotions/feelings • Involuntary body functions • Protection/survival systems • Reactive mind (relative to beliefs, perceptions, and survival) Willpower Is Not Enough to Make a Change. Have you ever set out to start a new healthier habit, and it’s going great for a few weeks, but then you can't seem to follow through? And what ends up happening is you beat yourself up thinking you just don't have enough willpower to follow through long enough. You end up thinking you are not good enough. But here’s what’s really happening - your subconscious mind is overriding your willpower to keep change from happening. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. And while you can appreciate the reason, it’s holding you back from your full potential. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. Luckily, the subconscious is like a tape recorder, which has no rational thought, contemplation, or opinion of its own. It simply perceives our current experience through comparison of how it categorized past experiences. New beliefs can be created at any time in our lives, but our core belief structure was created during pre-teen years, where our whole sense of personal identity and how we see ourselves fitting into life was created so we could survive and thrive in our environment. Incidentally, if we grew up in an environment where we were not supported in expressing our emotions in healthy ways or experienced unresolved traumas, our baseline belief structure will have a lot of negative self perceptions. These could show up as feeling not good enough, being a people-pleaser, having low self esteem or self worth (which leads to low self confidence), fearing failure or success, and feeling like you’re not smart enough to get to where you want to be. Our subconscious mind simply relays this negative self-talk to the brain and triggers all sorts of unhealthy actions to take based on these phrases & past experiences (procrastination, total avoidance & other sabotaging behaviours). There could be no threat at all in the moment, but once the danger/self protection button is pressed, our subconscious mind sends emotional signals to stop the behaviour ASAP and get out! So it goes to say... If there are conflicting beliefs in the 90-95% subconscious mind power, our 5-10% of the conscious mind (read: willpower) will always be overruled! Tapping into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves has very little to do with willpower! Fortunately, just like old-school tech like the tape recorder, we can simply record a new “program” over the old one. This is exactly what we can do with the subconscious mind with Hypnotherapy. As a Hypnotherapist, my job is to simply relax my clients into a lower brainwave state called Theta to create a bridge of communication to the subconscious mind (basically a day/dreamy state) where I am able to talk to you, or that part of your mind about your goals, to guide it to work out creative solutions to better support you to achieve your desired goals. If you want to get to the bottom of why you can’t move past blocks and feelings of unhappiness, using Hypnotherapy to collaborate with your subconscious mind is an incredible method to achieve your goals. IMAGINE how good you would feel to accomplish your life, relationship, spiritual, career goals and dreams with those blocks gone! It's an empowering feeling to take action with something that is important to you! Book your free consultation with me today. I am really looking forward to meeting with you! Here is a Video describing more detail on how Hypnotherapy Works

Am I the right therapist for you?

Am I the right therapist for you? ​ In my opinion these are required with the therapist to get the best results:

• There is good rapport

What is Mindfulness, Meditation & Spiritual Growth?

What is Mindfulness? Mindfulness is to take action with conscious awareness of our thoughts, body sensations, and the immediate environment in the moment as life occurs. It is consciously practicing being present with full body awareness while directly engauging with life as it happens, rather than acting from thoughts, or automatic habits from our subconscious mind or thoughts. An example of NOT being present is doing a repetitive task with our body, while we are thinking of some other experience in our head. This causes confusion in the mind and can trigger stress. Really, mindfulness is just being presently engaged through all our senses with what we are doing… allowing and accepting rather than being distracted and resistant. How can Mindfulness help me? If we are mindfully present with what we are doing, we then become conscious participators with life, rather than victims of just doing things the way we have always done them that leads to the same old results we have always got…. usually results we are unfulfilled with. There is no growth, learning, or creating of new and exciting experiences if we just repeat the old automatic ways of doing things. Mindfulness is a path to freedom of choice that can actualize our desires into reality through conscious mindful action and participation with life. To do this simply requires practice being aware and accepting of our body sensations and how we feel during everything we do as we do it. What Is Meditation? I like to call meditation “Awareness Practice”, because there are so many ways that meditation can be done… this way, that way, be like so and so, not like this or that!… which puts a lot of pressure on wondering if we are doing it right or wrong! Awareness practice is the simplest way to meditate. Just sit, focus on your breathing through observing your body sensations, then expand your attention throughout your whole body. Just notice the sensations you feel, what is actually occurring in the moment, and allow them to be there. These feelings are just life happening and the sensations you feel is the energy of life interacting within you. Notice your thoughts and how they want to pull your attention away from your body, and even try to convince you to stop meditating. Just notice, and then re-orient your attention back to the breath and your body sensations in the moment. How can Meditation help me? With practice this will teach you how to be connected to your body, and not pulled off into an illusory reality in your thoughts. Being mindfully connected to your body sensations is how you become emotionally connected with life, and in time, emotionally competent, which will allow you to be able to healthfully process what you feel through anything you do, rather than needing to discociate or numb away feelings because you cannot cope, are stressed, or anxiety is taking you away into fear. This will allow you to experience more joy and happiness in new experiences, because there will no longer be any fear or dread of uncomfortable feelings, as your awareness will instead be filled with acceptance. Meditation is the path to emotional freedom, and spiritual cultivation of your true self. What is Spiritual Growth? In a way, spiritual growth is a byproduct of suffering, or more accurately, the journey we begin one day through our desire that motivates us enough to end our suffering. I like to think of spiritual growth in the simplest way I possibly can so I am going to mention two main perspectives: Theology and science. Theology says that God is, and Science says that Energy is. To me they are synonymous. Both say that everything is connected, and if that is true, then spirit and energy are the same thing, and we are of the same SOURCE of everything else. I also believe that we all have a unique path, light, spirit, life purpose, or blue print. Just like a grain of sand, snow flake, or rain drop... there are no two alike, but paradoxically they are all the expression of the same fundamental likeness that created them. We as humans are somehow a creation of the same source, and to me the best words to describe this is by calling it our light, or spirit. If we all have a unique light, and are somehow created unlike anything else, yet from the same source, then we are all uniquely the same. I also believe that when we do not follow the path or expression of what our uniqueness is by hiding who we really are, then we suffer by feeling we are not good enough, not worthy, or are a bad person. We can feel ashamed for just being who we are, and become lost in trying to fit unrealistic expectations of what other people think we SHOULD be. Trying to be someone else is the one thing we cannot succeed in, as we are gifted with our own unique life-light that was created to be expressed only through ourselves! I believe that our suffering is caused by trying to be something that we are not, and spirits way of directing us inwards to re-orient ourselves back with our light. When we try to fill expectations of others, try to rebel, try to fit in, not to be seen, to wear a mask and pretend we are okay when we are not and holding in what we really feel…. then a lot of energy is going to be expended in trying to hold these FALSE identities we are living through. The suffering is caused because that is not who we are, it is the resistance, in equal proportion to the distance of how far we are holding our FALSE self identity away from our AUTHENTIC SELF! If we peel back the layers of illusion one by one, all the masks of illusion and facades that we act through, then we will start seeing the light of who we really are; because when we peel it all away, that which remains after there are no other layers, MUST be our true self. This place is filled with amazing light! Once we decide we just cannot pretend anymore and the suffering just gets too much, something inside of us begins to motivate the desire to end this suffering. This deep urge begins to fuel the need to speak and express our truth of who we really are and only follow our light, which will inevitably bring up a lot of confusing challenges and fears along the way. The path to self realization is simple, but not easy. It is said to have been from the Buddha himself: “I did not say it was easy, I said it was worth it!" I simply provide the supported environment and practical tools you will need through the fears, confusion, and changes that will arise along the way of working through the layers of false identity. I will guide you in creating a solid enough foundation of self understanding and self confidence until such time you can take it from there on their own.

Am I the right therapist for you?

Am I the right therapist for you? ​ In my opinion these are required with the therapist to get the best results:

• There is good rapport

How does Hypnotherapy Work?

To understand how we can tap into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves, we need to first talk about the subconscious vs conscious mind. Did you know your Conscious Mind accounts for only 5-10% of your potential mind power and is responsible for... • Logical thinking/planning • Concept of time • Short term memory (24-48 hours) • Willpower/choice The conscious mind is where your willpower resides; where you try to control behaviours, habits, and feelings. However, your survival systems are the job of the subconscious mind and as a result, can rapidly overpower any desires if it perceives the change to be a threat. Think about that for a minute. If you’ve been attempting to make changes in an unhappy area of your life, and you’re doing so by willpower and logic alone...you’re working in an uphill battle. No wonder you’re exhausted and wondering “what the heck!?” Here’s the thing…. Your Subconscious Mind accounts for 90-95% of your minds power and is responsible for: • Anything illogical • Long term memory of life experiences • Belief systems/values • Perceptions of reality • Habits/behaviours and relationship patterns • Self worth, self esteem & confidence • Creativity/imagination • Emotions/feelings • Involuntary body functions • Protection/survival systems • Reactive mind (relative to beliefs, perceptions, and survival) Willpower Is Not Enough to Make a Change. Have you ever set out to start a new healthier habit, and it’s going great for a few weeks, but then you can't seem to follow through? And what ends up happening is you beat yourself up thinking you just don't have enough willpower to follow through long enough. You end up thinking you are not good enough. But here’s what’s really happening - your subconscious mind is overriding your willpower to keep change from happening. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. And while you can appreciate the reason, it’s holding you back from your full potential. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. Luckily, the subconscious is like a tape recorder, which has no rational thought, contemplation, or opinion of its own. It simply perceives our current experience through comparison of how it categorized past experiences. New beliefs can be created at any time in our lives, but our core belief structure was created during pre-teen years, where our whole sense of personal identity and how we see ourselves fitting into life was created so we could survive and thrive in our environment. Incidentally, if we grew up in an environment where we were not supported in expressing our emotions in healthy ways or experienced unresolved traumas, our baseline belief structure will have a lot of negative self perceptions. These could show up as feeling not good enough, being a people-pleaser, having low self esteem or self worth (which leads to low self confidence), fearing failure or success, and feeling like you’re not smart enough to get to where you want to be. Our subconscious mind simply relays this negative self-talk to the brain and triggers all sorts of unhealthy actions to take based on these phrases & past experiences (procrastination, total avoidance & other sabotaging behaviours). There could be no threat at all in the moment, but once the danger/self protection button is pressed, our subconscious mind sends emotional signals to stop the behaviour ASAP and get out! So it goes to say... If there are conflicting beliefs in the 90-95% subconscious mind power, our 5-10% of the conscious mind (read: willpower) will always be overruled! Tapping into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves has very little to do with willpower! Fortunately, just like old-school tech like the tape recorder, we can simply record a new “program” over the old one. This is exactly what we can do with the subconscious mind with Hypnotherapy. As a Hypnotherapist, my job is to simply relax my clients into a lower brainwave state called Theta to create a bridge of communication to the subconscious mind (basically a day/dreamy state) where I am able to talk to you, or that part of your mind about your goals, to guide it to work out creative solutions to better support you to achieve your desired goals. If you want to get to the bottom of why you can’t move past blocks and feelings of unhappiness, using Hypnotherapy to collaborate with your subconscious mind is an incredible method to achieve your goals. IMAGINE how good you would feel to accomplish your life, relationship, spiritual, career goals and dreams with those blocks gone! It's an empowering feeling to take action with something that is important to you! Book your free consultation with me today. I am really looking forward to meeting with you! Here is a Video describing more detail on how Hypnotherapy Works

My unique way of working with clients

Before you come in for a session I stand in the middle of my office and ask that all my personal baggage be put aside for the session. I literally I imagine hanging it up on a hook! I then cleanse my energy from head to toe by channeling Source energy through my body. When I feel clear, I make a clear intention to wear the role of the professional therapist; spending a few moments with what it means to be entrusted to guide people to become the best version of themselves.
During this process, I also connect to my guides: Owl (the light of my spirit), Bear (my power/strength animal to ground me), Laird (youth, vitality and enthusiasm), Billy Goat (playfulness), and Doreen (unconditional love), and ask them to help support my clients needs in this session. I then connect to my Higher Self and the Higher Self of my client and ask that if we are soul contracted to work together, that we are both able to communicate clearly with each other, and be guided to see the Light of their life purpose to help them achieve their goals.
Trust in the process I've spent many years implementing this spiritual practice into my client work and it has always led to extremely dynamic healing, ah-ha's and transformation during these sessions. Afterwards, clients share just how powerful, fitting, or insightful the session was - that I happened to say the exact thing, or guide them to the exact place exactly when they needed it - often when it wasn't even something we talked about prior to the session! I've come to know & trust that everything that's needed to walk us to harmony is here in the moment if we are willing, open, and trust that the Universe - our Source knows best. The more I fall back into my heart and trust the inner guidance that comes to me during our sessions, the more life unfolds in the most amazing ways where miracles become a regular thing! ​ With the combination of my training in Hypnotherapy and Energy Healing, experience, and willingness to trust spirit guidance, my clients all undergo incredible transformations of their well being and potential.

How does Hypnotherapy Work?

To understand how we can tap into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves, we need to first talk about the subconscious vs conscious mind. Did you know your Conscious Mind accounts for only 5-10% of your potential mind power and is responsible for... • Logical thinking/planning • Concept of time • Short term memory (24-48 hours) • Willpower/choice The conscious mind is where your willpower resides; where you try to control behaviours, habits, and feelings. However, your survival systems are the job of the subconscious mind and as a result, can rapidly overpower any desires if it perceives the change to be a threat. Think about that for a minute. If you’ve been attempting to make changes in an unhappy area of your life, and you’re doing so by willpower and logic alone...you’re working in an uphill battle. No wonder you’re exhausted and wondering “what the heck!?” Here’s the thing…. Your Subconscious Mind accounts for 90-95% of your minds power and is responsible for: • Anything illogical • Long term memory of life experiences • Belief systems/values • Perceptions of reality • Habits/behaviours and relationship patterns • Self worth, self esteem & confidence • Creativity/imagination • Emotions/feelings • Involuntary body functions • Protection/survival systems • Reactive mind (relative to beliefs, perceptions, and survival) Willpower Is Not Enough to Make a Change. Have you ever set out to start a new healthier habit, and it’s going great for a few weeks, but then you can't seem to follow through? And what ends up happening is you beat yourself up thinking you just don't have enough willpower to follow through long enough. You end up thinking you are not good enough. But here’s what’s really happening - your subconscious mind is overriding your willpower to keep change from happening. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. And while you can appreciate the reason, it’s holding you back from your full potential. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. Luckily, the subconscious is like a tape recorder, which has no rational thought, contemplation, or opinion of its own. It simply perceives our current experience through comparison of how it categorized past experiences. New beliefs can be created at any time in our lives, but our core belief structure was created during pre-teen years, where our whole sense of personal identity and how we see ourselves fitting into life was created so we could survive and thrive in our environment. Incidentally, if we grew up in an environment where we were not supported in expressing our emotions in healthy ways or experienced unresolved traumas, our baseline belief structure will have a lot of negative self perceptions. These could show up as feeling not good enough, being a people-pleaser, having low self esteem or self worth (which leads to low self confidence), fearing failure or success, and feeling like you’re not smart enough to get to where you want to be. Our subconscious mind simply relays this negative self-talk to the brain and triggers all sorts of unhealthy actions to take based on these phrases & past experiences (procrastination, total avoidance & other sabotaging behaviours). There could be no threat at all in the moment, but once the danger/self protection button is pressed, our subconscious mind sends emotional signals to stop the behaviour ASAP and get out! So it goes to say... If there are conflicting beliefs in the 90-95% subconscious mind power, our 5-10% of the conscious mind (read: willpower) will always be overruled! Tapping into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves has very little to do with willpower! Fortunately, just like old-school tech like the tape recorder, we can simply record a new “program” over the old one. This is exactly what we can do with the subconscious mind with Hypnotherapy. As a Hypnotherapist, my job is to simply relax my clients into a lower brainwave state called Theta to create a bridge of communication to the subconscious mind (basically a day/dreamy state) where I am able to talk to you, or that part of your mind about your goals, to guide it to work out creative solutions to better support you to achieve your desired goals. If you want to get to the bottom of why you can’t move past blocks and feelings of unhappiness, using Hypnotherapy to collaborate with your subconscious mind is an incredible method to achieve your goals. IMAGINE how good you would feel to accomplish your life, relationship, spiritual, career goals and dreams with those blocks gone! It's an empowering feeling to take action with something that is important to you! Book your free consultation with me today. I am really looking forward to meeting with you! Here is a Video describing more detail on how Hypnotherapy Works

How does Hypnotherapy Work?

To understand how we can tap into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves, we need to first talk about the subconscious vs conscious mind. Did you know your Conscious Mind accounts for only 5-10% of your potential mind power and is responsible for... • Logical thinking/planning • Concept of time • Short term memory (24-48 hours) • Willpower/choice The conscious mind is where your willpower resides; where you try to control behaviours, habits, and feelings. However, your survival systems are the job of the subconscious mind and as a result, can rapidly overpower any desires if it perceives the change to be a threat. Think about that for a minute. If you’ve been attempting to make changes in an unhappy area of your life, and you’re doing so by willpower and logic alone...you’re working in an uphill battle. No wonder you’re exhausted and wondering “what the heck!?” Here’s the thing…. Your Subconscious Mind accounts for 90-95% of your minds power and is responsible for: • Anything illogical • Long term memory of life experiences • Belief systems/values • Perceptions of reality • Habits/behaviours and relationship patterns • Self worth, self esteem & confidence • Creativity/imagination • Emotions/feelings • Involuntary body functions • Protection/survival systems • Reactive mind (relative to beliefs, perceptions, and survival) Willpower Is Not Enough to Make a Change. Have you ever set out to start a new healthier habit, and it’s going great for a few weeks, but then you can't seem to follow through? And what ends up happening is you beat yourself up thinking you just don't have enough willpower to follow through long enough. You end up thinking you are not good enough. But here’s what’s really happening - your subconscious mind is overriding your willpower to keep change from happening. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. And while you can appreciate the reason, it’s holding you back from your full potential. Your subconscious mind is in the business of protecting you from vulnerabilities. Luckily, the subconscious is like a tape recorder, which has no rational thought, contemplation, or opinion of its own. It simply perceives our current experience through comparison of how it categorized past experiences. New beliefs can be created at any time in our lives, but our core belief structure was created during pre-teen years, where our whole sense of personal identity and how we see ourselves fitting into life was created so we could survive and thrive in our environment. Incidentally, if we grew up in an environment where we were not supported in expressing our emotions in healthy ways or experienced unresolved traumas, our baseline belief structure will have a lot of negative self perceptions. These could show up as feeling not good enough, being a people-pleaser, having low self esteem or self worth (which leads to low self confidence), fearing failure or success, and feeling like you’re not smart enough to get to where you want to be. Our subconscious mind simply relays this negative self-talk to the brain and triggers all sorts of unhealthy actions to take based on these phrases & past experiences (procrastination, total avoidance & other sabotaging behaviours). There could be no threat at all in the moment, but once the danger/self protection button is pressed, our subconscious mind sends emotional signals to stop the behaviour ASAP and get out! So it goes to say... If there are conflicting beliefs in the 90-95% subconscious mind power, our 5-10% of the conscious mind (read: willpower) will always be overruled! Tapping into the highest and happiest versions of ourselves has very little to do with willpower! Fortunately, just like old-school tech like the tape recorder, we can simply record a new “program” over the old one. This is exactly what we can do with the subconscious mind with Hypnotherapy. As a Hypnotherapist, my job is to simply relax my clients into a lower brainwave state called Theta to create a bridge of communication to the subconscious mind (basically a day/dreamy state) where I am able to talk to you, or that part of your mind about your goals, to guide it to work out creative solutions to better support you to achieve your desired goals. If you want to get to the bottom of why you can’t move past blocks and feelings of unhappiness, using Hypnotherapy to collaborate with your subconscious mind is an incredible method to achieve your goals. IMAGINE how good you would feel to accomplish your life, relationship, spiritual, career goals and dreams with those blocks gone! It's an empowering feeling to take action with something that is important to you! Book your free consultation with me today. I am really looking forward to meeting with you! Here is a Video describing more detail on how Hypnotherapy Works