Title: I Love My Life Workshop! Series-Relationship to Money
Location: Playa Vista
Link out: Click here
Description: Sponsored by Beauties on the Go! Every Tuesday will be a new topic discussed in a group coaching format. This week will be about improving your relationship to money. Check the events calendar on their site to find out more information about location and details of what we’ll be going over. See you there!
Start Time: 7:00pm
Date: 2009-09-29
Archive for September, 2009
I Love My Life Workshop! Series-Relationship to Money
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009I Love My Life! Workshop Series
Monday, September 14th, 2009Title: I Love My Life! Workshop Series
Location: Playa Vista
Link out: Click here
Description: Sponsored by Beauties on the Go! Every Tuesday will be a new topic discussed in a group coaching format. The topic for this week hasn’t been be determined yet. Check the events calendar on their site to find out more information about location and details of what we’ll be going over. See you there!
Start Time: 7:00pm
Date: 2009-09-29
I Love My Life! Workshop Series
Monday, September 14th, 2009Title: I Love My Life! Workshop Series
Location: Playa Vista
Link out: Click here
Description: Sponsored by Beauties on the Go! Every Tuesday will be a new topic discussed in a group coaching format. This week will be about improving your relationship to money. Check the events calendar on their site to find out more information about location and details of what we’ll be going over. See you there!
Start Time: 7:00pm
Date: 2009-09-22
End Time: 8:00pm
How Easy Is It To Manifest What you Want?
Monday, September 14th, 2009Asked a friend of mine, Jessica, who was working on the subject of financial abundance, a topic that seems to be prevalent due to the economy conversation right now. We chatted about how we all have belief systems about money as well as a relationship to money. It’s really about knowing what you want and magically, things can and will appear. After a little bit of coaching and some hypnosis on financial worries, she left that evening with a new perspective on what is sometimes referred to as the “green stuff.”
When we met the following week for a follow-up, she started to share with me what had happened that week. She was on one of her morning runs on the boardwalk in Santa Monica. She noticed in the distance a circular white object sitting on the sand. As she got closer she realized that it was whole, unbroken sand dollar.
She picked it up and continued on her run, holding it in her hand safely as to not break it as her feet struck the ground one at a time. When she got home she talked to a friend of hers on the phone who used to be a professional surfer and now teaches surfing lessons to others. Her friend was telling her that she’s on the beach all the time and never sees whole sand dollars and that what she had was a rare find.
Like the slice of beach that Lance and his buddy ended up on to go spear fishing. Lance had never been before and was excited to go. His friend brought him everything he needed: fins, mask, snorkels, a weight belt for buoyancy and an extra spear gun. They put on their gear and headed out into the water.
Within five minutes of being in the water a big school of fish swam by him. He targeted the fish he wanted to go after and mentally marked that fish. He was surprised to see that on his first attempt he got him! He felt pretty great about that being that his friend told him that it took him a few days before he was able to spear his first fish.
As Lance was walking back towards the beach, he had to climb over some rocks, when a big wave came and knocked him over. He dropped the spear gun and the fish that he had just caught, and in the process experienced some cramping in his feet. So he decided to go kick it on the beach and get a tan for a few hours.
After relaxing for a while he decided to go swimming and went back into the water to cool off. While he was swimming he felt something hit him in the head. So he opened his eyes for a second and couldn’t believe what he saw. As he shared this story with me, he proclaimed, “What are the odds?!”
Like the odds of Jack finding all the items he wanted to for his friend. A friend of his from back home had just moved to Los Angeles and into a new apartment. He didn’t have a lot of money and came home from his new job everyday to a pretty empty environment. So Jack told him he’d help him out if he can find some things for him but wasn’t sure how.
His friend loved music and had a stereo that someone gave him but no speakers to go with it. So the first item on Jack’s list was to get some speakers. A few days later, there were two large speakers that were sitting on the sidewalk close to where he lived. He wasn’t sure if they worked but threw them in the back of his truck anyway. When he got home he hooked them up to his stereo and was happy to hear the sound of music echoing in his living room from one of his favorite cd’s.
Jack was so excited that he took them over to his friend’s apartment the next day. He was welcomed with gratitude and was inspired even more to now find more things; some that had practical uses and some that would give his place some ambience. So he made a list; on it were items such as knick-knacks, some things to decorate the walls, and a coffee table.
There is so much power in speaking what it is that you want and maintaining that focus. It can seem magical when things just appear out of nowhere, or when we find out the exact information we were looking for, or someone we were thinking about randomly calls us on the phone. How random is it though?
When it comes to abundance there are all kinds of limiting beliefs or negative opinions about money that get in the way of us having it. Ultimately, doesn’t that perpetuate us not having it? We all deserve to have it, so wouldn’t it be best to know that you do deserve it and to have belief systems that welcome abundance into our lives?
I love the one about “money doesn’t grow on trees.” The hypocrisy of that is yes it’s true, money doesn’t grow on trees but isn’t money made out of paper, which technically is a tree? How fun would it be to think that money does grow on trees? How fun would it be to imagine a dollar bill turning into a $5.00 bill, and then a $10, then a $20, then a $50 and then a $100 bill? Then imagine a great number of $100 bills just flowing to you in any creative, magical way they can come to you!
Such as the magical experience that Jack went through one day as he turned down a street that he said he never really drives down. He wasn’t sure what made him decide to turn, but he was happy he did. He said it was as if it was slow motion as he drove by and noticed a bunch of items that someone left on the street after a garage sale.
He pulled over and parked across the street. As he approached closer to the pile of items, a big smile grew on his face. He started to load everything in the back of his truck and was once again excited to see his friend. He now had for him what he described as a beautiful painting, iron candleholders, and a coffee table for his friend’s living room.
He wondered what would have happened if he didn’t pull down that street and if he never saw them. What was the significance of it all? In simplicity, his inner guidance system, lead him to being at the right place, at the right time.
Such as when Lance just happened to be at the right place at the right time when he went swimming two hours later, in a different part of the beach than where he was earlier. What were the odds, that while he was swimming, the same exact fish that got away, bumped into head, still alive? At first he wasn’t sure but when he saw that the fish was injured with a hole in its side, as if it just had been speared, he knew it was true.
What was even more amazing was that he reached out and grabbed him, miraculously catching him a second time! He started to joke around about the analogy and metaphor of literally being hit in the head with something in order for him to get it. That even being in a completely different world, within a vast body of water, that with complete ease one can still take hold of what it is that he has his eye on.
Like the sand dollar that Jessica brought home and rinsed off in her bathroom sink. She enjoyed the humor that the sand dollar represented in terms of financial abundance and having what we think is unattainable. That sand dollar ended up being the first of many she would find within the same week.
She shared with me that she did a morning run four times that week. The second time she went running on Monday, her keen visual sense heightened allowing her to find 2 more that day. Then she went Wednesday morning and found five more. The day before we met again, I myself was in total awe when she told me that she found 12 on Thursday!
As she was telling me this story she started to take a small velvet tie bag out of her purse. By the time she got to the end of the story, she handed me this black bag and said she was giving it to me as a gift. It would be the first of many gifts she would be giving to other people to share those sand dollars with some friends and clients of hers. A perfect example of the flow of money and abundance, coming in and out of our lives with wonder and surprise, and wouldn’t be the last.
Quit Smoking and Treat Depression with Hypnosis
Friday, September 11th, 2009As seen today on the MSN Health and Fitness section, here is a great article supporting hypnosis as a way to assist smokers in quitting the habit, and also adds how the study done shows that hypnosis is also great in helping those who struggle with depression.
Can Hypnosis Snuff Out a Smoker’s Cigarette Habit?
Study shows hypnotism is an effective smoking-cessation technique.
By Lindsay Chura, U.S. News & World Report
Smokers trying to quit sometimes use nicotine patches to fight their tobacco dependence. But patches don’t work for everyone. Research suggests that patches might be made more effective if used in combination with hypnosis, just as they tend to work better when used in conjunction with professional counseling. A study showed hypnotherapy to be as effective as standard behavioral counseling when combined with nicotine patches in helping smokers to quit and stay off cigarettes for one year.
“This study provides much-needed evidence that hypnosis is indeed a very helpful treatment,” says lead author Timothy Carmody.
During hypnotherapy, Carmody explained, patients are coaxed into a relaxed state and then provided with a series of skills for coping with withdrawal symptoms and the urge to smoke. Patients are given an audiotape of this training to reinforce these messages at home, and over time it is hoped they will gain increased confidence in their ability to stay off cigarettes for the long term.
Hypnotherapy is one of many alternative therapies gaining wider acceptance at some of the nation’s best hospitals and medical research institutes.
The study, conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California-San Francisco, was published in the May 2008 issue of Nicotine & Tobacco Research. A total of 286 participants were randomly divided and received either hypnosis or standard behavioral counseling aimed at smoking cessation. During standard behavioral counseling, patient and counselor discussed the dangers of smoking and the benefits of quitting. Participants in both groups were seen for two 60-minute sessions and received three 20-minute follow-up calls to reinforce the messages discussed in either the hypnosis or behavioral counseling treatment sessions.
Hypnosis was particularly helpful for would-be quitters who reported a history of depression. That finding suggests that smokers who have struggled with depression—or perhaps with other psychiatric conditions, Carmody says—might someday receive hypnosis as part of the quitting process.
Brian Hitsman, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, called the results encouraging and added that the hypnotic intervention evaluated in the study may have the potential to serve as another nonpharmacological treatment option in addition to standard counseling. But Hitsman emphasized that hypnosis may boost smoking cessation rates only when combined with nicotine patch therapy. “This study says nothing about the potential effect of the hypnosis intervention in the absence of a nicotine patch,” he said.
What lies ahead for the field of smoking cessation? An important focus will be to evaluate the extent to which the effectiveness of hypnosis or behavioral counseling can be improved if patients remain on them long term (more than 12 months), Hitsman explained. He takes the perspective that nicotine dependence should be treated more like a chronic medical condition, much like the approach taken in the management of diabetes. “For most people, smoking begins in adolescence and persists across the life span, with multiple periods of remission and relapse. Acute care is the current model, with treatments typically given up to 12 weeks. For many, successful cessation will require ongoing intervention.”
According to statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 45 million people in the United States smoke. Despite antismoking ad campaigns blanketing the country, cigarette use remains the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, accounting for 1 death in 5. Smoking claims 438,000 lives each year. Kentucky, West Virginia, Oklahoma and Mississippi top the list of states with the highest prevalence of current smokers, while Utah, California and Idaho have the lowest percentages of smokers lighting up in the nation.