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Leigh Steinberg Learns the Hard Life Lessons of Alcoholism on His Career and Finances – Vol. 139, February 16, 2012

Suzanne — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:00:18 +0000

How is it that a man who has represented so many sports legends finds himself having to have filed for Chapter 7, personal bankruptcy? It is as is so often the case that the impulsive behaviors that manifest one with alcoholism are to be the cause for much of this man’s sad situation in life. Even more sad for the positive impact that he has had on many men for whom sports became a way to having self-esteem while gaining a better understanding of the possibilities that were available in life through Steinberg’s donation to causes such as helping to raise over $660 million for college scholarships for young men as well as raising funds to fight racism and hate.

Unfortunately he let his eye of his business where one of his partners had unbeknown to him, taken a loan of $300,000 with one of their NFL clients which was in a forbidden act in violation of the NFL Players Association regulations. This brought about a suit forcing Mr. Steinberg to pay back the debt with any penalties that have accrued. With the negative press of his “no-show” to the court proceeding to resolve the matter, which he claims his lawyer told him he need not be present for having said representation by his own attorney, the presses went wild making him seem like a “deadbeat.”

Steinberg to his credit wrote an article to allow the public to hear his side of the story so he may once again be able to earn a living now that he has gotten himself sober with the use of a 12-step program of which taking responsibility of all his acts under the influence is a central part.

The lessons here are many. First, that one can indeed get the help that they require once they are willing to confess to themselves that they do indeed have a problem that requires outside help. Second, that the ramifications of the behavior associated with a problem of this kind once gotten out of hand can easily ruin a person, especially a person who has some stature in our society. Third, that what you read in the papers has little merit given that one is only hearing someone’s interpretation of what occurred many times without any point of the view of the one being spoken of. Fourth, that even when people do what they need to making amends and letting go of the offensive behavior, society finds a way to make that process even more difficult rather than giving credit where it is due. And lastly, if you want to have others stop harassing you, speaking negatively of you, you best take a stand for the truth that is your life without the need to blame anyone else or defend you actions. The only thing one need do is say their truth as they know it to be once the situation is seen for what it is and the actions necessary have been taken.

For anyone who has any sort of addiction issue, hypnosis is a great way to go. Really, it is because it is a matter of learning how to let go of the addiction which is the opposite of what the 12-step programs teach which is that you will always be identified with having this problem merely managing it. I have written many times of the manner in which I work with my clients based on my own belief that it is in the client’s own mind that the changes take place, to no longer have the urges or desire for any behavior that could be considered addictive. One merely needs to make the choice that they would prefer to learn how to not think or act in the manner of an addict, replacing that with thoughts and behaviors that are in line with that person’s values and beliefs, with thoughts and activities that are productive.

*My newly released book called “Do I Have an Eating Disorder? Now What? is now available on Amazon.com. If you are a “Select member” and have access to their free library you can access the book their for free. It is my desire to educate as many people as possible about this number one killer of teen girls so as to get them the help they need before it is too late.
Here’s the link for those who are interested:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00726SVZG/ref=s9_simh_bw_p351_d0_g351_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=13JRVZQ9RK6TQEP9BKTC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1345685042&pf_rd_i=1286228011

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Let’s Stop Labeling People

Suzanne — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:34:27 +0000

Originally posted 2009-03-01 19:40:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Vol. 74, March 2009- Let’s Stop Labeling People

There is this idea in the medical world that patients need to be labeled in order to be helped. What happens when a person is given a label? Generally speaking that person learns to believe that they have whatever that disorder or disease is labeled which in turn gives them a very good reason to not have to be responsible for them selves. They are the victim. You see, they are ill and that means that they can’t help doing or thinking the things they do. It is just the way it is. This is especially true for individuals who are given a mental health diagnosis or two or three or more. Being here in America, more often than not a medication or two will be prescribed in order to take care of the problem which keeps the pharmaceutical companies happy as well as those who are doing the prescribing since the patient then will need to see them on a regular basis. Of course there are some cases where a prescription is the wise choice where perhaps someone is suicidal, psychotic or is incapacitated in some fashion. However there are many fewer patients who fit these categories than all of the people who are now taking prescriptions because of their labels. For any of you who have been given one of these labels I am sure you were told that you would always be this way. You just needed to learn how to live with it. My next question would be: Where is the hope of ever being rid of the label in that case? You are lead to believe that you will always be SICK.

I work with all sorts of people who have been given all sorts of labels. In some cases the labels given would lead the allopathic world to believe that these people could never be a non-(put the label here). The interesting thing is that people create different thoughts and behaviors to deal with any limiting beliefs, negative emotions and losses. However in the majority of cases the person who has made the decision to shed the label is able to create healthier ways of being in the world and in so doing no longer fits the label given. In fact what I have found from my work is that if people are given the chance to be accepted for who they are and have the opportunity to shed the label by doing and thinking in a manner that would no longer support the label, amazingly enough they are healed and able to move on in their lives in a much more productive manner. What really needs to be done in most cases is to find out the cause for the destructive thought or behavior, clear it out, grieve any losses, do the forgiveness work necessary, while learning to set healthier boundaries in relationship to others. Guess what? All of a sudden the label is no longer pertinent in the majority of cases.

I had a client a few years ago who was anorexic. She had been in and out of special programs for her disorder and though she was no longer so thin she could have died, she was still acting out quite a few food rituals and allowing herself to be used and abused by the people who were close to her. She came to me because she wanted to be done with the anorexic food rituals.

The first thing that I told her was to think about the possibility of becoming a “non-anorexic” explaining that the way one accomplishes that is by doing the behaviors and having the thoughts of a “non-anorexic”. Her big brown eyes grew wide as she explained to me that all she was ever told was that she would forever have this eating disorder. I let her know that so far as I was concerned there was no one who was a God or Goddess who could tell her what she was able to achieve for herself and that she needed to think differently. It was at that moment that she learned that she had a choice. That choice was to either keep the label or let go of that label. Her choice was to let it be in the past where it belonged. As a result of our work together she was able to trace back to the very first time she felt forced to eat food she didn’t want when she was all of two years old. It was really at that moment that she decided that she could tell her parents how angry she was with them through controlling the food that would go into her body. The anorexia actually began to manifest when her mother had the client diet with her from the age of 11. By the age of 12 to 13 it had gotten out of hand and by the time she was 19 she looked in the mirror and saw her 95 pound skeleton upon her 5’ 9” frame and knew that if she continued she would die. It was at that point that she knew she needed to eat even if every time she did so it made her feel sick, though she really didn’t know why at the time. In fact she never felt good eating. By the time she came to see me she was 23 years old, and had enough of the whole deal. She was done having the anger toward her mother. She also was able to see that she was allowing her boyfriend to take advantage of her financially when in fact his parents were taking care of all his expenses as she was paying all her own bills which needed to be stopped. Most of she needed to learn how to love herself once again. Because the truth of the matter is that the reason that people create all sorts of problems in their lives is because they have come to the conclusion that they are not lovable or worthy.

What we in the hypnotic world understand is that the mind is the controller of the body and that includes neuro-transmitters. If you are unhappy or stressed the balance is gone. It is by doing the deep work of clearing out all the garbage that gets in the way that one can change the way the neuro=transmitters operate and with that many of the psychological problems that were there are no longer invading the person’s life – they are reborn into a happier healthier person – without the need for any label, and certainly without the need for medication. The client who I have written about wrote a very long and detailed testimonial telling her story in her own words on this website which you can find under: Carolyn S. New Haven.

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Announcing the Publication of “Do I Have An Eating Disorder? Now What” on Amazon.com for the Kindle

Suzanne — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:34:26 +0000

This book speaks to all those who both are experiencing the eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia and any practitioner who would like to know of an alternative method of treatment which really truly has the capability of putting these two sometimes deadly illnesses in the client’s past. I am honored to have the forward of the book be written by a past client of mine, Leslie B., who has successfully been free of ALL thoughts and behaviors related to her eating disorder for the past THREE plus years. It is my hope and desire that ending the devastation that these two illnesses wreak not only those that experience them, but also on all those people that the ill touch is in the not too distant future.

I have included access to an MP3 recording with the book based on the in-person work that I do with my clients.

Do understand also that this book came into being because Leslie B. and two other eating disordered clients that I was working with back in 2007-2008 assertively asked me to make this treatment option more well known to all those who could benefit from it. I trust that I did you all a good turn: Leslie B. Carolyn S. and Laura G. all who have blessed this website with their stories of healing with the courage it takes to do so. I sincerely thank you all.

I have dedicated this book to the first person that I knew who had anorexia back in 1972 before the medical community had any real understanding of it, Laurie Gilman, who unfortunately passed away November 29, 1973 of pneumonia her body too weak to fight off. She was 18 years old. I was a kid of 12 years old at the time of her passing.

You may check out the book here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=do+i+have+an+eating+an+eating+disorder&x=0&y=0

Anyone who reads the book who would be willing to write an honest review for those who are thinking of purchasing it would be entirely welcome.

I sincerely offer this book as my small way to illicit some much needed change in how we treat eating disorders both in the treatment modalities used and more importantly respecting the needs and desires of those afflicted to have a proactive involvement in their own treatment this being my largest learning from my clients.

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Are You A Woman Who Suffers From Sex Addiction? There is Help – Vol. 138, Feb. 9, 2012

Suzanne — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:08:15 +0000

It is believed that between 3% to 6% of the population is afflicted with sex addiction which renown sex addiction researcher Dr. Patrick Carnes defines as intense sexually arousing fantasies, urges and behaviors that is uncontrollable regardless of the ramifications of the behavior.

Women are less likely to seek help with this problem given the overwhelming shame they feel made worse by the negative connotations of words applied to such behavior like “slut” and “promiscuity” when applied to a female.

It so happens that women fantasize about being sexual in public, picking up a stranger with whom to have anonymous encounters, as well as spending many hours on the internet looking at pornography similar to their male counterparts. Some women spend hours online in chat rooms interacting with men while some women have many affairs while still others engage in exhibitionism and dangerous sexual practices.
All addictions are formed in the brain where the neurotransmitter dopamine is released into action bringing with it the great feelings of pleasure. Because of this biology, the addiction brings cravings for the rewarding experiences without regard to any negative consequences involved in the behavior. This is based on research that was done on addictions at the National Institute of Health Drug Addictions (NIDA) reported by it’s director Nora Volkow.
There are many possible reasons why there is an increase in sexual addiction in women including the ease of interacting on the internet, women feeling more free to do as they chose in society earning their own way in life, and of course there is the whole issue of being sexually violated at some point in their lives. The U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics from 2009 revealed that in 2008 females age 12 or older experienced an estimated 182,000 rapes or sexual assaults, while males experienced 40,000 rapes or sexual assaults.
To know if you have this problem you only need to ask yourself if your behavior is making you ashamed of yourself? Is your sex seeking behavior sucking so many hours of your day that it is intruding on the normal healthy activities of living? Are you spending more money than you can afford seeking to act on your urges? Lastly, are you living what you would call a “double life” as you work to avoid anyone in your life finding out about these sexual activities?
It is only when one gets real with themselves that it is possible to deal with the problem. The good news is that it is most definitely treatable to the point where you can indeed be sex addiction free should you go for help. I have helped many sex addicts as well as women who wanted to exit the sex trade becoming free of all of the thoughts and behaviors involved in sex addiction using a fairly straight forward program which released them from this problem in a matter of a month or less of out patient treatment.
Hypnosis and NLP are the way to go because with this treatment you are able to most easily access the part of your mind that creates the urges and behaviors that got you into this situation. The hypnotic state is an altered state by definition so any negative emotions or forgiveness work that would need to be done would be less emotionally trying in that state. Interestingly enough one is in a hypnotic state as one is surfing the internet or cruising for sexual partners according to Dr. Carnes’s research. All I do is use that same hypnotic state to help you to let go of the problem permanently.

If you choose to seek work with a hypnotist or NLP practitioner regarding this issue, please make sure they are able to prove to you that they have had success in freeing others from this addiction.

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Is The Pharmacological Business is Running Your Life?

Suzanne — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:00:56 +0000

Originally posted 2006-11-01 08:30:15. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Vol. 44, November 2006

Harvard Medical School professor of health policy Ronald Kessler headed a two-year study polling 9,000 adults country wide using the World Health Organizations diagnostic mental-health survey. Most cases begin in adolescence or early adulthood and often more than one disorder will strike at the same time.

Findings:

29% anxiety disorders
25% impulse control disorders
20% some sort of mood disorders
12.1% suffer from social phobia
9.5% Oppositional –defiant disorder
8.1% Attention deficit/hyper activity disorder

While there certainly are a large number of people in this country suffering from mental illness, do all these people need to be placed on medication to take care of these problems? There are approximately 22 million Americans currently taking psychotropic medications, many for mild conditions. Kessler’s study suggest that close to 60% of the people with serious disorders received no treatment between 2000 and 2003, and half those who did receive treatment did not even meet the diagnostic criteria for a mental disorder. This may be due in part to the fact that people are going to their general practitioners for treatment of mental health disorders by an increase of 150% in the past 10 years… But only 12.7% of patients obtained “an acceptable standard of care” because although well meaning, these doctors do not have the specialized knowledge to treat these patients. (Harvard Magazine July/August 2006)

There is another way to go to relieve yourself of many of the mental-health issues that are invading your quality of life. Use of Neuro-linguistic programming can easily relieve you of many of these issues. If you really think about it your physiology is controlled by your thoughts and your thoughts are controlled by you. The beauty of NLP is that you can change the way you think which can result in the decrease of many of the symptoms that create the diagnostic criteria for mental disorders. Hypnotist and NLP practitioners utilize their techniques to change the strategies that were learned and are located in the unconscious mind to strategies that work better for the client using the clients own self knowledge in the process. In many cases there is no need to help the pharmacological businesses get richer as you put their chemicals into your body and hope that your kidneys and liver are not damaged as a result. Because over time your body will definitely have some sort of reaction to clearing the toxins these very strong medications put into your body.

I know for I had direct experience with this particular issue long before I learned how to use the power of my own unconscious mind. And let me tell you, I was very happy to tell my ex-psychiatrist that I do indeed have much better ways of dealing with all things psychiatric than she ever will, and have proved it in the intervening years for I am now psychiatrist and medication free for several years without any relapses despite any personal or professional setbacks. That is how strong your mind can be once you learn how to use it to gain a joyful and passionate life without the use of medication in most cases.

I invite you to look at the testimonials on this website to see what others have been able to accomplish because their stories are a lot more fun to read and offer so much more hope than I ever could. They are truly inspirational.

Please, if you are suffering from any of the above issues, locate a Master Practitioner of NLP who is well grounded in Time Line Therapy ® as well as hypnosis to help you to be relieved of these strategies that do not work for you. In order to clear this stuff completely you need a higher level of care. When it comes to mental health issues you do not want to cut corners for way too much is at risk.

Call Tad James Company (888) 440-4823 for a referral of what I consider the most qualified people to handle these situations or email Ashley at: ashley@nlp.com They have people practicing all over the globe. Please tell them that you heard of their great work through my website newsletter for they would love to know that.

If you are in the New England area I would be happy to assist you in any way that I can. Feel free to call for a free consult. Mental health is too important to not act on it NOW!

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Think First Before You Swallow That SSRI Antidepressant Pill – Vol. 136, Jan. 26, 2012

Suzanne — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:00:55 +0000

This past couple of weeks has given me an illuminating insight into some of the notions that Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. speaks to in his book The Biology of Belief when he says, “we are made in the image of God and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our emotional health.” He continues on page 28 to explain that we are not powerless biochemical machines, needing to pop a pill every time we don’t feel we are mentally or physically well. Every time we take a pill we are not only throwing off the natural manner in which our body works, we are complicating the problem with side-effects without ever healing the cause of the problem itself, by merely placing harmful substances into our bodies.

One of my clients missed the holiday celebrations of Christmas week and New Years as a result of suffering from what is termed Antidepressant Withdrawal Syndrome. This occurred because there was nothing noted in any of the medication inserts, pharmacy literature or information given by her doctor that this could ever happen. She had taken the same medication in the past at a much larger dose without any issue even when she had taken herself off the medication in the distant past. So this is a warning to all of you who may be on some sort of SSRI – (serotonin uptake inhibitor) please have your doctor help you to titrate off of it safely because what was once true for you may not still be true as our bodies change over time. My client, Donna N. will be writing the follow-up weblog to this entry explaining exactly what she went through because the story is one that has many learnings for anyone who is associated with this classification of medications and the effects that they may have on the patients who take them.

Dr. Lipton is a pioneer in the area of science called epigenetics which studies how our environment influences the behavior of cells without changing the genetic code. He states that the membrane of the cell is the real brain of the cellular operation. This is because it is the cellular wall that determines if the cell lives by perceiving what is in the environment. In her book Molecules of Emotion Candice Pert, Ph.D., a biochemist explains her discovery that the feelings we feel control the bodily functions. She found that the same information-processing receptors were present on most if not all the body’s cells. Her research proves that the mind is not merely in the head, rather is distributed via signal molecules through the whole body.

Pert’s work further points out that the proper use of consciousness can bring healing to the mind and body where the inappropriate unconscious control of emotions can easily make a body diseased. It was she who determined that it is only through our healing of these feelings by a better understanding of them through the mechanisms that Dr. Lipton has alliterated in his book that we are able to truly heal ourselves once and for all.

Lipton explains that the term quantum physics is used to express how genes are physical memories of an organism’s learned experience. He uses the example of the many people who believe they are ticking time bombs waiting for cancer to infiltrate their bodies because a family member may have succumbed to the disease. Many others believe that failing health is due to the inadequacies in their body’s biochemical mechanisms. The truth of the matter is that only 2% of all illnesses are caused by genetic reasons like Huntington’s chorea and cystic fibrosis which can be blamed on one faulty gene. The truth is that many of the diseases that people find themselves dealing with including diabetes, heart disease and cancer all are a result of complex interactions including multiple genes and environmental factors.

The idea that genes control biology is a supposition, which Dr. Lipton states has been disproven by the latest scientific research. It is a signal from the environment, not the gene itself that activates the expression of that gene.

As parents dictate to their children both through word and deed what the beliefs are that are to be held, it can work either to the detriment or benefit to that child. Why is this so? Because it is when your conscious mind has a belief that is in conflict with a formerly learned “truth” that is stored in the UNconscious mind, that the intellectual conflict expresses itself as a weakening of the body and/or mind.

Since we now understand the inner wisdom of how our bodies truly work the idea of pushing pills to do this work is unconscionable given the long term effects of these so-called medications especially when we now know from recent research that there is only a 30% success rate when they are in use. This is no different than a placebo response. Why would we ingest these chemicals when we have all that is needed to heal us right inside that part of our mind that runs us – the UNconscious mind.

What this means is that your environment will dictate how your body and mind work. By releasing yourself of all negativity and unnecessary stressors while surrounding yourself with ideas and people that bring you a sense of love, happiness and fulfillment you can do much to make the issue of disease something of the past.

Dr. Lipton explains that as we live our lives, the experiences of our lives and of our world are sent back to that part of us that is our Spirit, the character of your “self.” This interaction corresponds with what we know is karma. These cellular insights prove the wisdom of the spiritual teachers throughout the ages. Each of us is spirit in the material form.

With this understanding I would ask you to think about what is going on in your life. If you are finding yourself stressed or worse, to the point of dealing with some sort of illness, I would ask you to think deeply and completely about what the under current issues are that are dictating your feelings. If it is the anger, sadness, fear, guilt or hurts that you are carrying around that are creating these symptoms than you have the means to get the symptoms under control. These two scientific researchers have proven over the past 40 years that once you get a handle on your whole mind, you will have gained control over the way your body and emotions show up in your life.

If for some reason you are feeling overwhelmed by these negative emotions do yourself a favor and work with the wisdom of your body by allowing it to tell you what is really creating the symptoms that you are feeling. It may be that all you need is a reframing of the perceptions that you currently are carrying around in your cellular memory. The quickest way I know to reframe these perceptions is with the use of hypnosis.

There are no side-effects and the results of my clients success speak for what is available to you on the other side of treatment. As always do make sure that the hypnotist that you choose to work with is someone who has proven success in the specialty area that you need help. Check out their websites and testimonials to get a better understanding of the hypnotist’s capabilities in helping you fully heal.

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Vol. 91, August, 2010 – Where Passion Creates Life

Donna — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:58:12 +0000

Originally posted 2010-08-03 08:24:57. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Written By Donna N.

I am fortunate to be working at something that I have become passionate about, healing people and creating new ways to do this. I have been in this field for over half of my life and no matter what the difficulty, I always seem to find the energy to continue to do the job I love. I started falling in love with the science and chemistry of medicine in high school after being lucky enough to have one of those teachers who taught as if she also suffered from passion. I call it “suffered from” because when one has this passion, about really anything, one knows that nothing will get in the way of what one is passionate about.

Recently I had the opportunity to go to a conference in California. Not having traveled, or taken a vacation in over 25 years or so, I had alot of fear around this trip. I really wanted to go because I felt passionate about the conference as it had to do with my work, however the “fear” thing was getting in my way. I guess it came down to whether the fear was stronger than the passion. It turns out in this case it wasn’t and I plowed through the fear riding on the wings of my passion. I am grateful I was able to have the experience for if I had not had the passion, I may not have had the vehicle to get through the fear. In fact it makes it easier to get up in the wee hours of the morning when most people are warm and cozy in their beds to go to work. I am grateful to have this passion because it makes me feel like I have a purpose and I enjoy this purpose. Without it, I would simply just exist. It is great from the perspective that I feel energized by it.

Purpose and passions can change over time, and become stronger. They can also lead into other areas which is the case for me.

I have been helping to write these newsletters now for just about 9 months, the time it takes to give birth to a child. It is ironic that I use this analogy because it sort of seems like a child has been born.

I came to Dawning Visions Hypnosis, Inc. just close to two years ago, having found the website out of desperation to “try” something new to cure myself. (See previous newsletters for the details on why and how it all worked for me, and many others before and after me.)

Having hypnosis work as fast and as permanently as it has in my life, may be the reason I have evolved my primary passion of the chemistry of medicine into this new passion of the chemistry of alternative medicine. After over 30 years of being medicated with drugs that never worked trying to stay one step away from suicide and one foot out the door of a psych hospital, working in chemical medicine gave me a “reason” for living. However, the use of hypnotism was the answer I had been searching for all those years. It gave me a reason to live that did not depend on chemical “medicine” or drugs, or twelve step meetings. I could just “live” my life because I wanted to.

Because of the success of using hypnotism I started doing more research into the field and found out that the science of the mind has been proven by the work of experts in the field of addictions which I now refer to as “the chemistry of alternative medicine”. This has became my new passion, getting this information out in the world. Dr. Daniel Amen has educated us through the brain scans of addicts along with the research that Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of National Institute of Health, Department of Drug Addictions, in the physiology of how addictions work. Dopamine is heightened in the brain of all sorts of addictions be they chemical addictions or addictions of behavior such as gambling, sex, etc. This has lead me to my new passion of proving the efficacy of hypnotism in creating “recovered addicts” in a manner that the old technologies have never been able to achieve in the 80 plus years of their existence. There is a difference between being in “recovery” and being “recovered” from abuse of drugs or any other addiction. Taking anti-depressants for depression and having them leave you merely functioning is to me the same as being “in recovery”. Clearing the reasons for the depression and being a non-depressed person, is what I would consider being “recovered” because there is no depression to be managed.

Because I found hypnosis I am able to be both recovered and non-depressed and I no longer have to deal with either of these problems or treat them with the ongoing medicinal chemistry as I was trying to do rather unsuccessfully. It was successful to the point where I was alive, but unsuccessful to the point that I was not “living”. I was able to clear both of these issues with alternative medicinal chemistry-hypnosis.

I have learned that without any passion in life, there is not much to live for, at least as far as I have been able to realize. After 35 years in one job, that fulfilled me, I realized that there was much I was missing in the other areas of life. Being with people and doing things outside the job, have brought some much needed balance into my life for I did not have the capacity to engage in these endeavors while I was still so depressed and on drugs as a “coping mechanism”. In short I shut myself off to everything out side of work that could have given me a fuller life. As a result of finally being able to function more normally I am currently able to do those activities that enriches one’s life as well as focusing my energies on educating anyone who will listen about the chemistry of alternative medicine as a much healthier means to a full life without the need to use chemicals either prescribed or abused to reach that end.

I am fortunate that I had the drive to continue to seek out an answer to the problems that I had in my life that were preventing me from living a fuller life that I now enjoy, instead of existing in a life that was dependent on prescribed anti-depressants and the abuse of mind altering drugs.

It has been the difference between just being alive and living life.

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Doing Something New – Vol. 99 April 21, 2011

Suzanne — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:58:11 +0000

Originally posted 2011-04-21 11:58:08. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

For the past nine years that Dawning Visions has been in operation the website newsletter has been published on a monthly basis. We are now going to publish it on a weekly basis, on Thursdays, going forward. There are a few reasons for this change.

First, Dawning Visions is growing with more offerings with products being developed and soon coming to market as well as increased services. A product page is being created currently for MP3s and CDs to help with the issues of lack of sleep, low self-esteem and increased motivation, fear of public speaking and of course the more serious areas of sex addiction, substance abuse and eating disorders with an ever expanding library of offerings.

Books are in the process of being written for download as well and purchase as well on sex addiction, eating disorders and drug abuse with hypnosis CDs included.

Also, within the last year Dawning Visions has been working with individuals who desire to add NLP and suggestive hypnotism into their businesses as well, offering mentorships that are individually formatted to fulfill the specific needs of the client. The projects that these clients are working on vary from developing product for a whole new business, developing a hypnosis business as well as adding these communication techniques to consulting work.

Second, because there are many items in the news that directly relate to the work that Dawning Visions is doing we feel it would be most helpful to those who visit our site to comment on these issues as they come up in the media. Most currently in the area of drug addiction we have had problems crop up with the use of synthetic drugs being sold as bath salts and other seemingly innocuous products to bypass the FDA regulations. Unfortunately the consumers of these products well realize their true use, creating toxic effects on many of those who are simply looking for a “good time”. There have been at least nine deaths of young people to date with the numbers growing. Interestingly enough 66% of those who use these synthetic drugs are middle aged people, so this is effecting many more people than one might expect, including those who we would least expect to tangle with these substances.

In the area of sex addiction, we have seen many articles of late. One of which spoke to the court case leveled against Match.com as a result of one of their customers being raped by a man she met through their service who was a known rapist, registered as a sex offender. The website is now forcing those to sign up to prove that they are not sex offenders as a result of this law suit.

Another issue that has come up in the last week has to do with some talk of creating an URL extension of .xxx for those who want to operate businesses in the sex trade. There are large ramifications for the better and for the worse relative to this designation. It would mean that people who want to visit these sites can easily do so, and yet it could mean that we have created yet another way to push the sex industry “under ground” if those who are in it feel that they will be unfairly treated as a result of such a designation.

With a monthly newsletter there is no way to keep you, our readers and visitors up to date with how it is that your life may be affected by that which you may be reading and hearing about in the greater world we all live in. With this in mind we here at Dawning Visions Hypnosis fill the need to fill that void to be of greater service to our community.

Third, I have been introduced within the last month to something that I feel all hypnotists , body workers, holistic healers and coaches ought to learn about called Access Consciousness. This is a modality that was developed by a gentleman by the name of Gary Craig who realized that there were some very easy ways to let go of stuff that didn’t belong to us, emotional garbage is the way I would put it. He has a bunch of “tools” as he calls them that go a long way in helping people to live outstanding lives by releasing this “garbage” from our lives in a simple and straight forward manner.

I have teamed up with the person who brought the teachings of Access Consciousness to me, Doug Turet, who is a gentleman who I have known since I was 16 years old. He told me that this was something that I would find great utility in learning and using given that I am a hypnotist. Being a person who is always willing to give something new a go, and knowing that Doug had a fairly good idea of who I am as a person and my intrinsic values, I figured that I ought to go to the meetup that he had organized with his trainers from San Francisco to find out more.

All I can say is that I was totally blown away not only with the utility of this work, more by the simple elegance of how it all works. I have implemented it into my practice even with the tiny bit of knowledge that I have gleaned so far. My clients from a woman in her late 30’s to a child of 10 years of age have easily been able to grasp the tools and put them to work in their lives making my work so much easier on all counts.

To that end I would like to announce that we are going to have what is called a “Bars Class” here in Haverhill for those who are interested in making their lives and their clients’ much easier. It is a one day course that Doug is running.

Date:    May 28th
Where: Haverhill Center – within a 2 minute walk of the Haverhill Center Commuter Rail
& Amtrak Station
Time:   10 AM till 5:30 PM or so
Cost:    $200

AND IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU VIEW YOUR LIFE!!!

Get more information on Doug’s Access Consciousness page at:

http://www.accessconsciousness.com/fac_detail.asp?mid=299

He has an amazing story about how he came upon this work. Also, I can vouch for his total passion in getting the word out about this work.

Please call me, Suzanne at: 781-315-1719 or email me at: suzanne@dawningvisions.com if you would like to ask any questions and of course to register for the training. The space is very limited due to the venue.

If you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to either comment here on the site, or better send an email to me directly at: suzanne@dawningvisions.com. I am always interested to hear your thoughts on that which matters most to you in the realm of how our unconscious mind is being affected in ways that we may not notice because it is indeed un…conscious, isn’t it?

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“The Long Journey Home” A Story of Incest, Drug Abuse & Healling – Vol. 135, Jan. 19, 2012

Suzanne — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:58:10 +0000

About a month ago I started to interact with other mental health professionals on linkedin. Being a person who works with sexual addicts I was drawn to a discussion that was called “Sex, Shame and Addiction: Who Turned on the Red Light?”

Interestingly enough, I missed the article that was originally posted from which the name came for the discussion. Instead I moved onto a newer post by a woman who created this most heart wrenching and heart warming of documentary videos 12 minutes in length. In it she details the story of sexual violation of her older daughter, the deeper ramifications in her life and that of the larger family. Culminating in the journey back home where the healing took place as the daughter first learns to take responsibility for her own actions getting out of the “victim” state and finds the freedom to be found through forgiveness.

You can watch the video here: http://vimeo.com/12008525

Please pass this video onto anyone else who you may feel can gain some hope and healing from it. The videographer, Janelle Vigil would like this video to be shared with anyone who can be given some hope and healing as a result of viewing it. We both thank you in advance.

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Are Chemicals Taking Our Capacity to be Compassionate Away? – Volume 112, August 4, 2011

Donna — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:00:20 +0000

Originally posted 2011-08-02 12:49:50. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

by Donna N.

With all the killings and deaths in the news lately I find myself wondering why it is that we human beings have such little to no regard for human life, or any type of life.

One case comes to mind that resulted in my wanting to write this newsletter and thereby ask this question.

The case of the Lynn, Massachusetts woman who went down the slide in a public pool, and never resurfaced. The woman was dead in the water for over two and one half days.The woman was at the bottom of a public pool used by hundreds of people during those two days. No one saw her at the bottom of this pool because according to reports the pool water was too murky. The fact that the Metropolitan District Commission that owns and runs the pool allowed users to swim in water that is murky and therefore most likely unhealthy is bothersome in itself. I have always owned pools and even in the deepest part of the pool one can clearly see the bottom, especially if there was an adult size body at the bottom. For the water to be so murky one cannot see a body at the bottom is disturbing.

An even more upsetting part of this story as the facts come out, the 9 year old that had preceded the dead woman down the slide had told not one, but two lifeguards that this woman went into the water and did not resurface. One lifeguard said she was on break and to tell another lifeguard.The other lifeguard said he’d look into it and obviously never did. How can one not locate an adult sized body especially if the boy, who at 9 years old stated she was down there? The pool should have been closed and searched thoroughly. We are talking about a human life here. I would think that the minute the 9 year old told the lifeguard there was someone in the pool who went under water and never resurfaced, he or she would have jumped in immediately. To me it would be an automatic response, like breathing.

I feel as a human being, and as part of the current class of humans we are really losing it as a feeling and caring species. I see and hear on a daily basis mothers killing their children, fathers killing their entire families. I am guessing they are stressed and this is the reason behind these killings.
Drunk drivers wiping out entire families, without even a thought of remorse. If they had any sense of remorse, they wouldn’t repeat the act over and over again one would think.They would do what ever it took to clear their addiction.

An interesting theory that comes to my mind as to why all this disregard for life has to do with drugs. When I mention drugs, I not only mean illegal drugs, I mean all chemical substances: prescriptions, alcohol, antidepressants, anti-anxiety, weight loss drugs, drugs to stop smoking, drugs that are put on our foods such as insecticides or in our foods such as antibiotics. All of it.

Dr. Daniel Amen has done numerous studies on brains that have been exposed to illegal substances as well as alcohol. He has shown in his studies that these substances literally cause holes in our brains. I am wondering if these holes are causing us as humans to have no feelings over the years.The feeling part of our brains just is not functioning and we are evolving into a non-caring species, without the regard for human life.

There is a drug for every human undesirable behavior one can imagine, as there is a drug for every desirable human behavior imaginable. All at our disposal.There for the asking, but do we really need them?

With all these drugs and chemicals in our bodies one wonders what is becoming of our brains over the years. What is our human body, mind and spirit morphing into from all this chemical use? The scary part is we don’t just have to go through the act of physically ingesting these drugs. We are getting “drugged” on a daily basis every time we eat or breathe. Chemicals in the air as pollution. Chemicals in our food supply from antibiotics in the chickens, to mercury in our fish, to oil in the shellfish, to radioactive iodine in our milk. Even a bag of candy M & M’s – read the package sometime and notice all the chemicals listed for the colors.

Drugs and chemicals are for the most part unavoidable. Even if we buy all organic and eat the best meat and food available, we still need to breathe. Every time we put on bug spray or even wash our hair or bodies, we are introducing chemicals into our bodies.

I just can’t help but wonder what these chemicals are doing to us over time. How are they are affecting out thoughts and our actions? Are our thoughts and our minds being changed because our brains are being slowly altered due to the ingestion of these chemicals?

I don’t believe that people are just born killers or rapists or drug addicts. I believe that for whatever reason our environment contributes to this in some manner. I feel if one treats their body in a healthy manner, they are at least doing all they can to ensure good health. Along those same lines, one needs to do the same for their brain as well. Just as one takes care of their body, one needs to take care of their minds and their brain. I can’t help but wonder how all the chemicals and drugs are effecting one’s brains.

I once did an experiment for a high school biology course. It involved taking apart a Sudafed and painfully separating the white dots from the red ones in the capsule. I placed the red ones on a live goldfish’s tail and we looked under a microscope and saw the blood flow speed up dramatically, we did the same for the white particles and the blood flow slowed down considerably. Now keep in mind you as the human consumer are taking both white and red together in the capsule as Sudafed, a nasal decongestant. Also keep in mind that your body and brain are getting these “medications”, as a harmless capsule, telling your body and brain to speed up and slow down at the same time. It is no wonder people are it seems, going insane? Please note that no goldfish were killed during this experiment, though they were a bit dazed when put back into the tank.

I for one, having found hypnosis make it a point in my life to avoid putting any chemicals into my body, as much as I reasonably can.
I stopped my need for antidepressants through hypnosis. I ended my addictions through hypnosis. I am eating more healthy food and working on weight control currently using hypnosis.

It just seems to me, any way I can prevent putting a drug or chemical into my body makes sense. I can’t totally keep my body free from all drugs or chemicals, but I can make a substantial reduction in the amount I choose to ingest. I just can’t help but wonder what all these chemicals might be doing to my body and my mind on a daily basis.

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