Archive for the ‘Change Your Mind’ Category

Choose love over fear. We have all heard that, but how do we accomplish the shift from fear to love?

Many times I throw it out into the room out while working with clients, and  often the head nods and we follow the stream.

Love sounds, feels, and is, way more inspiring than fear.

In my experience, we humans are quite adept at creating a blinding state of fear.

To quiet the fear, try this simple statement.  Instead of these fearful thoughts, I choose love.

Try it. Love over fear.

Minding Your Magnificence…

That phrase is from A Course in Miracles, where one finds the refreshing idea that you are not your body at all, but a spiritual being.

If you feel fat, you may be the most spiritual person in the world, but your practical side just shouts, “Great, just give me a pill, a weight loss program, a camp, a new brain, something, anything.  Make the fat go away.”

NOW One of the maxims in hypnosis and dare I say life is that what you focus on increases.

It is amazing that many of you rarely yell at your pets, but think nothing of silently cursing yourself for the expanse below your chest.

You may be an expert at calling yourself an idiot over and over. Whooaa.  If you are so hard on yourself, you may just get more pain and suffering. There has got to be a better way!

What if you took a different tact and began noticing with equal drama, the things you do right?

From my experience, what you will get is a mind that begins to CRAVE that feeling good feeling. If you suspect your mind is a big blocking your inner peace, take a baby step, try my CD Reach Your Goal which you can listen to with your eyes wide open.

It is full of suggestions to dissolve sabotaging behaviors. While you are at it, download my free hypnosis for thanking your body.

It is a nice little exercise as you go from head to foot giving thanks for all the amazing things your body continues to do for you!

Start now..give thanks for your ability to see, read,open and close your eyes, hear, run your fingers through your hair (well maybe), type, see thing differently….. What else?

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Resolutions. Even if you say you do not make resolutions, lurking in your massive mind, is something you would like to Do MORE of , LESS of, or NOT AT ALL.

If that is not true, please type in the letters WTH so I know you are a human.

For the rest of us, let’s start with Resolutions in the category “NOT AT ALL.”

In “NOT AT ALL” we have: “sneaking cigarettes, cheating with a golf-pro, telling the media you have lost your child in a balloon!”….. or small insignificant things like…eating whole cakes, hiding credit card bills……eating anything because it is free or sweet.

Those are all good things, not to do.

So you might say to yourself: I will not eat free candy. I will not smoke another cigarette. I will not cheat. Your mind hears..cheat..candy…cigarettes.

You are doomed. Sorry!

Here is the 1 in Resolutions 101: 1. Do not mention what you are escaping.

Spinning works wonders for politicians, the tobacco industry, the makers of partially hydrogenated oil, corn syrup, and now you!

You want your internal press release to pull your emotional strings in the right direction.

For stop smoking try: I love smelling kissable.

If you are cheating, try this: I love looking at myself in the mirror and saying, “Sure honey, my cell phone is your cell phone and here is a list of all my email accounts with passwords.”

And for parents with big balloons in the back yard, “I recognize that my children are smart competent human beings whom I love and respect.”

LESS is a zero in 101. LESS is ambiguous. Less confuses all of us. When the mind is confused, it goes back to what it knows. That’s right, more smoking, more cheating, and spurious calls to the news.

Less demands specific directions. After the third drink, I will taste onions in my mouth and remember that I have to work and I love my clear driving record.

After one piece of cake, I will immediately begin to obsess and make myself so miserable that at the sight of cake I will want to add icing, box it up, and send it to ex-husband’s new wife.

The next resolution category is…..DO MORE.  If, at the sound of “DO MORE!” you had a reaction and it did not include jumping up with enthusiasm, you may want to keep reading.

You could DO MORE to save more for retirement; use the gym membership you are paying for. Yes, you should do more of those things and more of many more things.

Do MORE is a heavy freight train, heading down hill, carrying the guilty Woulda! Shoulda! Couldas!

Officially, we do not have enough qualified priests to absolve all the guilt from not doing enough!  We have to give DO MORE a zero too.

I know that last zero makes this Resolution 1001. But if I mentioned that in the title, you would not be reading this. I am just saying…….

The final 1 in Resolutions 101: the mind likes benefits. Stuff your resolutions with specific directions and benefits.

I weigh (insert # here) and feel like a tiger..tigress?

I can smell fresh air, flowers, perfume. I love having a great sense of smell.

The more veggies I eat the better I feel!

Resolutions, like affirmations are statements of truth in advance.

If, when writing your resolution with benefits, you run into a problem like this; I love my kissable breath, but I really don’t want to kiss the person I think I am supposed to kiss!!

CALL ME IMMEDIATELY!

Sometimes you need a little help figuring out just where to start.

WISHING YOU ALL THE BEST IN 2010!

Lisa Crunick

Helping You Change Your Mind!

206-941-1287

August was a hot month for change. A software engineer came in to stop an embarrassing, long-term habit and we took care of it in one session.

I had to call him two times to get this information. When we finally talked I said, "Don't tell anyone you saw me. I think it was a coincidence."

A woman came in because she was sure that buried somewhere in her mind was abuse. She felt that she had so many of the symptoms and was just tired of living with them. We were able to shift some of her thoughts; she sent me an encouraging report on how she is feeling as she processes. There is still more to do.

Someone bothered with fibromyalgia came in for pain reduction. I think she was shocked by what a difference EFT made for her. Within twenty minutes her range of motion increased dramatically. While her pain subsided, we did not manage to get her to zero pain. I taught her some things to do and made her a hypnosis recording. I am hoping for her to be free of pain. OK.

This one is from July, but it is fun. I got a text from a beautiful and talented Goddess. She said, "I have been saying no so much this week- and it is delicious and bubbly like champagne! Thanks, you changed my life."

A few people came in for help with processing some painful family relationships. I think of these emotional clearings and picking up the arm on an old record player, and moving it to a new tune.

Some times changing your mind is just that easy!

And then there was the handsome baseball player, who came in with his wife to improve what he called "his head game." His game is on. There's more. She came in for weight loss. Now she is going to Rumba Class and has sent her friend to me.

Another client came in and gave me the high five, " Twenty-five pounds freer!" I love what I do! 

What would changing your mind do for you?