creating your better life

Expectations-Your Thoughts Often Create Your Reality

createyourbetterlife — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:55:40 +0000

Have you ever thought about how we usually get what we expect? Maybe you may have noticed that when you expect something to happen it usually does? It doesn’t matter whether it is positive or negative, it most likely happens. We usually get what we expect. Perhaps you’ve noticed that there are people that everything seems to turn out right for, no matter what the situation is? They expect positive outcomes. They get what they expect. Yet for some of us we worry and fear the worst. It is almost as if we are planning for the worst. We may not realise it, but we expect things to go bad, they usually do. Occasionally we might get a pleasant surprise and things turn out just right, but usually that is not the case. This holds true to so many aspects of life, whether it is financial, performance, relationships or even health. We tend to get what we expect, as if we are attracting it, creating it and making it happen.

When money is tight, new expenses always seem to occur. You may need to replace an appliance, repair a car or some other unplanned expense may occur. It seems like you just knew it would get worse, and it does. Almost as if your thought made them happen. Your performance is often a result of your expectations. Perhaps you worry that you will not pass a test. Or maybe you are about to participate in an athletic or artistic event and you are nervous or worried about how you will perform. You may not do as well as you had hoped because your worry and nervousness effected how you performed. Almost as if your thoughts created the outcome. Perhaps you always seem to have relationship issues. You may date the wrong people. Perhaps you may repeat patterns. Expecting the worst to occur and it does. Sometimes this is true with health. You fear the worst outcomes and sometimes that happens. Worry and stress can have a negative effect on health.

But what if you could change what you expect? What if you could be one of those people that no matter what the situation they expect to have positive outcomes and get positive outcomes? What if you could change your thoughts in to positive ones? What if you could change how you think? What if you could change how you feel? What if you could change how you react to things? Imagine how good you will feel when things work out to your advantage.

Hypnosis is one way that you can change your thoughts. You can transform your attitude. You can change your expectations and create more positive outcomes. Give it a try. Expect positive outcomes!

New Year’s Resolutions

createyourbetterlife — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:28:24 +0000

It’s that time of year when we are ready for new beginnings. We want to improve something about ourselves. Maybe we want to stop smoking, lose weight, give up an unwanted habit such as biting our fingernails, or maybe we want to create a new habit such as exercise. So we make our resolution or resolutions. Within a week or two or even a little as a few days we break that resolution. Then we feel disappointed or even guilty. It happens year after year just like a viscious cycle.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can step off this merry-go-round of false hopes and starts. We can make lasting, permenant and positive change. Hypnosis can enable us to keep our resolutions. It is easy, safe and natural.

My New Year’s Resolution is to stop drinking diet coke. I love the taste of diet coke. I don’t drink coffee, but I drink several diet cokes everyday, starting when I get up. I have been doing this since diet coke first came on the market. I did quit during my pregnancies, but went back afterwards. I have given up this habit in the past and gotten headaches for a few days. Later I went back to drinking it. It is (was…positive self-talk) a habit for me, and now I resolve to break that habit (commitment to myself). Sometimes when breaking a habit we create newer, healthier habits. So I choose to replace the diet coke with water. Of course I will make a self-hypnosis CD and listen to it daily to make this easier and permanent. I fully expect to tell you of my success.

Happy New Year

createyourbetterlife — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:52:00 +0000

May 2012 be a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous year for you and yours.

Particiapating in the Process of Change

createyourbetterlife — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:20:57 +0000

You may have heard that change is a process. Barring accidents or other life changing events, where something changes instantly, most change is a process. It may occur quickly or more gradually, but it is a process.

Hypnosis is a tool for change and change is a process. Usually when someone sees a hypnotist it is because they want to make changes. I always tell my clients ”Hypnosis is a process and it works better for you if you participate.” It works better if the client listens to the CD and if the client attends the number of sessions recommended. This does not mean that hypnosis won’t work in one session, it very well may, but why not increase the odds of getting the change that you desire?

The hardest part of being a hypnotist is convincing the client that hypnosis is a process. The media, Hollywood and many novelists have portrayed hypnosis as an evil tool or magic power. They let you believe that it takes away a persons control. Even worse they let the audience believe that it only has to happen once, like snapping fingers and everything changes. This is simply not true.

Hypnosis is a process. It is tool for training your mind. To get the most out of hypnosis one should participate. For most hypnosis to work better more than one session is needed because the mind learns from repetition, it recognized habit and familiarity. This is why a recording is often given at the end of the session for reenforcement. Why not participate and allow hypnosis help you make changes in your life?

Reiki for Balancing Energy

createyourbetterlife — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:43:38 +0000

Energy healing is based on the concept that you have physical, etheric and subtle energy bodies. The subtle and etheric energy is often referred to as the human energy field or aura. Within the energy field are energy center points called chakras. When one or more of these chakras are out of balance or blocked physical illness can occur. Stress can also occur when there is an imbalance or blockage. It is well know that stress can lead to illness.

Reiki energy is one of these energy healing methods. Reiki can be hands on, hands just above the body or sent from a distance. If you have been attuned to Reiki you can treat others and you can also give self-treatments. Reiki can even be used on pets.

Reiki is one method of promoting balance and removing blockages from the energy field. Reiki helps reduce stress. When stress is reduced and energy flows more freely you are more likely to experience wellness, balance and harmony.

Fears & Phobias

createyourbetterlife — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:59:05 +0000

Someone once defined fear as false expectation appearing real. Sounds so simple and yet for so many it can have devastating effects on their lives. It interferes with their lives. Fear prevents them from moving forward. Some are literally afraid to leave the safety of their own homes. You may have heard the old expression “paralyzed with fear,” for some people this can be true.

One of the most common reasons that someone sees a hypnotist is to get rid of fears and phobias. Whether it is public speaking, flying, height, bridges, dogs and so many other fears, or some of the more unusual ones, hypnosis helps and in most cases removes it completely. Using hypnosis can get to the reason the person has the fear, which in many cases is unknown consciously or it is something other than what the person thought it was. Once the reason is known, that intense emotional reaction to it is thus reduced and released. The reasons can be anything from something as simple as something that was seen on TV or perhaps something that was heard or seen to something traumatic that happened to the person. The point being that the emotional attachment is released and the person can move forward.