January 2011
January 2011
NGHWA E-news January, 2011
In this E-News:
January 14th Meeting Events
Round Table “Hive Mind” Discussion: Best Hypnotic Techniques for Client Changework. Share what you know and learn what you hadn’t yet .
Two Featured Articles: Katie Evans, “Reduce Stress and Be Happier – How Meditation (Also Known as Self Hypnosis) Can Make You Feel Better in Just 10 Minutes a Day”
and Jack Elias, “Happiness Arises from View and Intention”
JANUARY MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:
–Call for Speakers
–Call for Articles
–New member benefit: CDs available for check-out. 22nd Annual NGH Convention presentations.
–2011 Membership Renewals- the time is NOW
–Meet your new NGHWA Officers
–World Hypnotism Day Events, January 22, 2011
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
–Connie and Michael Brannan, Bandler Licensed Trainers of NLP ™ offer life and career enhancing NLP and hypnosis certification trainings. Ongoing.
–Kathie Brodie will help you record a professional quality CD.
–Jack Elias, author of Finding True Magic, offers Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP certification trainings. Ongoing.
GREETINGS:
We invite you to our January meeting, to be held on Friday, January 14th, 2011, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm. http://www.nghwa.org
Please join us Friday, January 14th, 2011, for our next NGHWA chapter meeting. This month’s meeting features a round table discussion with the area’s professional hypnotherapists sharing their ideas for client success in changework. Our doors open at 6:30 pm for our “happy half hour” for socializing and networking with some of the Seattle area’s top hypnotists! The meeting proper begins promptly at 7:00 pm. This meeting, we’re offering a fabulous and fun door prize. Enter to win.
Meetings are held at:
South Snohomish County P.U.D. Office
21018 Highway 99
Edmonds, WA 98026
Maps: http://www.nghwa.org
Visitors are always welcome. An evening’s visitor’s pass is available at the door for just $10. Bring your friends!
CALL FOR SPEAKERS:
What’s your expertise? Do you have something NLP related or hypnosis related to share? Would you like to present to our group? We’d love to hear more. Contact Michael Brannan at president@nghwa.org or Cheryl Chamberlain, our Events-Coordinator.
CALL FOR ARTICLES:
Get published NOW! Please submit your hypnosis and NLP themed articles for inclusion in our next e-newsletters of Hypnotic Health. The articles should be geared for our general readership. We look forward to featuring your article soon. Articles may be submitted to Michael Brannan at president@nghwa.org.
CALL FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS:
As a paid member of NGHWA, you can have your announcements included here, in this e-news. Simply submit your announcement( s) to Michael Brannan, NGHWA President, at president@nghwa.org.
NEW MEMBER BENEFIT:
Our group has purchased the complete set of CD’s from the 22nd Annual NGH Convention and Educational Conference from last summer in Massachusetts. They’re now available for check-out to our paid members. How cool is that? The insights and knowledge presented at this fabulous event lives on–in CD form! Get in on this action. A deposit is required.
MEET YOUR NEW NGHWA OFFICERS for 2011
President: C. Michael Brannan
Vice President: Wendy Vogt
Treasurer: Connie Brannan
Secretary: Cheryl Chamberlain
Event Co-Ordinators: Alan Anderson & Linda Dietrick
Join us as we prepare for an exciting new year in the NGHWA. Fresh blood! And some old. Help us move our group into the new year as we expand the frontiers of hypnosis, learning, networking, educating, collaborating, and mostly just enjoying our world.
WORLD HYPNOTISM DAY, January 22, 2011:
Events are finalized! And it’s going to be a wham-dingie of a good time! Saturday, January 22nd at the Coast Bellevue Hotel. Doors open at 9:30 am and talks begin at 10:00 am, and last until 5:00 pm. We’ll have three rooms and fill them with expertise and fun. Here are the details: http://www.nghwa.org/World-Hypnotism-Day-2011.html There will be a live comedy hypnosis show, prizes, a free continental breakfast (come early), and many exciting and informative talks for the general public and for professional practicing hypnotherapists on the magic and power of HYPNOSIS. Be sure to register at the link above to get your free DVD. This is the largest and most prestigious event in Washington State–part of an international movement to enhance the image and understanding of hypnosis in the world. Be there!
FEATURED ARTICLE:
Jack Elias, Happiness Arises from View and Intention
One of the most notable blocks to happiness we all share is lack of self-appreciation. In fact, that is putting it mildly. We commonly carry around an attitude of self-distain.
We have been trained to find ourselves deficient by passing the events of our lives through harsh interpretive filters.
Have you ever found yourself able to thoroughly explain the reason why you have a problem in terms of your personal history but not be able to be free of the problem? It can be disheartening to discover that freedom cannot be found in the reasoned explanation of our personal history.
I wonder if this form of thinking was so prevalent before Freud and the subsequent development of psychology and therapy. Apparently we have missed something if successful explanation doesn’t yield freedom and happiness. Negative explanations seem quite effective in creating bad feelings and low self-regard, however.
Two elements determine the way you evaluate your life’s events and the contents of your life’s operating manual. First is your view of life — your most influential belief about the nature of life and your place in it, and, second is your intention for your life — your deepest abiding intention that affects every choice you make.
I have studied and practiced Buddhism all my adult life. Buddhism is very practical. It emphasizes that before we begin a journey, we need to understand where we are and what our intention is. It is important to recognize that all beings want to have happiness and avoid suffering, and that all beings are subject to birth and death, regardless of differences in their personal history.
Contemplating and appreciating this simple fact can reduce our sense of fear and alienation as we see that we are essentially the same and are in the same boat. Having these simple insights as our background awareness can prevent us from getting too absorbed in melodrama in our daily life as if our daily life was happening in isolation from the rest of humanity, and as if it was eternal.
Instead, with an unwavering background awareness of our shared humanity, our struggles and disappointments remind us that our struggles are not uniquely ours, but that we are experiencing the shared struggles of embodiment with all beings. This awareness reduces anxiety because we don’t so easily take disappointments personally. We see them as part of the human experience, not as our own unique flaw.
Are there habitual ways in which you have considered yourself uniquely flawed? What happens if you reinterpret these “flaws” as just part of the human experience shared by everyone, and KNOWN by everyone — that is, not unique and not hidden or requiring hiding?
These “flaws” don’t diminish your value, or your right to exist, or your right to full self-appreciation. These “flaws” don’t diminish the friendliness of the universe towards you (can you adopt a view that the universe is friendly?), or your rightful access to abundance either.
I invite you to take an inventory of the things that (you believe) are holding you back. Evaluate to what degree these things seem “big” in your life because you have in your background awareness the belief that you are uniquely flawed and must hide your flaws. Release that belief, or any belief that isolates you from the awareness that you are participating in a shared human experience that is fragile and temporary.
Experience how having a background awareness of our shared human experience, with all its fragility and temporariness fully taken to heart, changes your state, your level of self-appreciation, and possibly your priorities. Good luck!
Copyright 2010, Jack Elias, AllRights Reserved.
Go to Http://FindingTrueMagic.com to subscribe to Jack’s free monthly newsletter and to learn about his Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP trainings and Lucid Heart Therapy & Life Coaching.
Also, read and subscribe to his blog at http://blog.FindingTrueMagic.com
FEATURED ARTICLE
Reduce Stress and Be Happier – How Meditation (Also Known as Self Hypnosis) Can Make You Feel Better in Just 10 Minutes a Day
Katie Evans
One of the most common blocks to successful meditation is, “I can’t make my mind be quiet.” That is absolutely normal and as a beginning meditator, here are some steps you may take to neutralize all these thoughts.
Find a quiet, comfortable spot where you won’t be disturbed for a few moments. Turn off your electronics and, if you like, play some peaceful (maybe classical) music. There are many good guided visualization CDs and downloads available as well.
Sit in a comfortable chair. If you lie down, you will probably go to sleep as the meditative state is where your brain goes before you sleep at night.
Take in several slow deep breaths. Notice where you may be tense in your body and imagine yourself breathing into that spot to relax it. Close your eyes and imagine yourself in an ideal situation: Maybe on vacation or enjoying time with those you love or anything that makes you feel good. Emotions follow thoughts. If you can’t keep thoughts out (in the beginning) at least you can make them pleasant. This will help you relax.
Sit for as long as you can. You may be able to do it for just a few moments at first. That’s okay. Consistency is the key to having meditation make a positive impact on your life. Make an appointment with yourself to meditate some each day. The time will increase as you become more and more comfortable “sitting and doing nothing”. As you notice the changes in your life that meditation creates, you will be more and more inclined to spend time in meditation. Some of these changes will include: less stress, more even tempered, more energy, happier relationships-the list goes on and on.
Try meditation for a couple of weeks. The benefits you notice will motivate you to continue your practice.
Check out a CD that will help you learn to meditate quickly, easily and deeply: http://www.howtomeditatecds.com
Katie Evans is the Founder of the Living Lite Hypnosis Centers: http://www.livingliteathome.com
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
From Connie Brannan and Michael Brannan:
Want a taste of NLP? We offer 3 New 1-Day Seminars, NLP for Business Success, NLP for Personal Development, and Self Hypnosis for Personal Development. Sign up here: http://www.seattlenlptraining.com
Want the full meal deal?
Discover Seattle NLP Trainings with Mindworks NLP. Pump up your success! Join experienced Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™, Connie and Michael Brannan, for our certification training programs. Earn your “stripes” as Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ and Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™. Our certification trainings are recognized and endorsed by Richard Bandler, the co-originator of these amazing technologies, and by his Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™
The Brannans, Licensed Trainers of NLP ™
From Kathie Brodie:
Kathie Brodie will help you record a professional quality CD so you can be earning money selling your CDs while you sleep! She makes it easy and fun! Practice your script at home and you might be able to be in and out with a master CD in hand in only an hour. She guides and coaches and edits to make sure your recording is exactly what you want. $75 per hour. Call her for an appointment. 206.546.8266 www.HypnosisByTheBaggageHandler. com
Jack Elias offers his unique skill building and enlightening trainings 4 times in 2011: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Winter, Spring, & Fall are in a 6 weekend format.
The Summer Intensive is 17 consecutive days. Full details at http://FindingTrueMagic.com.
Paul Skavland, CHT, Master NLPP, says, “I came to Jack’s training with over 500 hours of hypnosis certification training and a Practitioner-level certification in NLP. Taking Jack’s course is like the opportunity to learn Kung Fu from Bruce Lee. Take a training with Jack Elias. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are or what you think you know.”
And former NW NGH Chapter Pres., Putnam McDaniel says, “”Of the five nationally recognized hypnotherapy training programs I have been certified in, my time with Jack Elias has been the most valuable. His gift to you is so much more than just hypnotherapy, NLP, or psychoanalysis. You are exposed to just about everything in hypnotherapy that is known to work with great heart, spirit, and humor.”
We of the NGHWA support our sister organizations in the area. Here are some hypnosis doings about the town!
Check out the National Guild Of Hypnotists South Sound Washington meeting. Visit for details: www.ngh-sswa.org
See you soon at the PUD or at one of our member events!
Warm Regards,
Michael Brannan
President, NGHWA