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Brains - You Have Three!

Steps to Self Acceptance

YOU CAN! Make Up Your Mind Now

They Are Just Excuses!

Enjoy Health Benefits Immediately When You Stop Smoking  (Published in the Winter/Spring 2005 Health & Fitness-The Wellness Magazine)

Hypnosis and Other Techniques

Financial Well-Being

Addictions & Health

Emotional Healing

Personal Development

Focus on Life

Parenting

Holiday Joy

Your Subconscious

Reinvent Your Body

Brains: You Have Three!

Recent research has discovered that we have three brains – the one we are so familiar with - in our head, and another one in our heart, plus one in our gut.  All three "brains" are memory storage and thinking centers.  Read More

A Bad Habit Solution: Hypnosis

“New Years Resolution Season” is here! You may already be thinking about plans for improving your health and your life in the coming year.   I offer a few thoughts here on using NLP and hypnosis to ignite and augment your personal will-power. Read More

Hypnosis:

The "New Therapeutic Tool"

If the word "hypnosis" conjures up images of stage acts that make people quack like ducks and do other zany antics, it may be time for you to update your perceptions of hypnosis.  Read More

Hypnosis: What is It...

and Why is It so Effective?

Hypnosis, one of the oldest and most natural modes of healing known to man, is considered to be a potent and safe adjunct to medicine as well as an effective procedure for positive personal growth. Hypnosis can be used to improve general functioning – to make you feel better mentally and physically.  Read More

New Energy Psychology Methods: The Perfect Compliment to Hypnotherapy

I always want to learn more about anything that might help me get faster, more lasting results.  In the last two years, I have been combining hypnotherapy with EFT, and BSFF, bringing the success rate to close to 100%.  You may already be familiar with these acronyms – if not – stand by – and get ready for an overview of these fascinating positive change tools.       Read More

On Dependency

We provide education to help clients take advantage of the structure of their thinking and the way their personal model of the world is set up.  We view each of the following aspects of the change process as pieces of the puzzle in creating a new way of being in the world.  All of the techniques used can support medical intervention or the individual who wants to make changes with the assistance of educational coaching.  Read More

Technologies for Change

Most of us have spent more time learning how to operate the food processor than we have spent learning how to use our own brain. We struggle with frustrating aspects of our lives that could be easily improved with recently developed  techniques that have been researched and proven effective by behavioral scientists around the world.  Read More

Emotional Freedom Technique

When we have emotions, we can be thankful that a part of the brain is sending a signal of support.  When we are willing to trust our emotions, knowing that even though we don't understand them at the moment, each and every one is there to support us in making a positive change, we will begin to get the messages and feel a movement toward simple solutions and more peace and success in our life.  Read More

NLP: A Technology for

Personal Excellence

We Unknowingly Create What We Don’t Want We all know that our thoughts and self-talk influence our personal reality.  What we may not know is that we may be re-running old movies of ourselves in unpleasant experiences from the past or worrying about possible traumas in our futures.  Repetition increases the power of these suggestions even more helping us to very successfully create what we do not want.  Read More

Tapping Into Your Money Potential!

“If the emotional thought is stronger than the mental thought, then the physical result is often no action at all.  Emotion overpowers the mental idea. …  When one mental idea changes – it often requires changing emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. "  - Robert Kiyosaki, Author of Rich Dad Poor Dad  Read More

Tapping Into Your Money Potential

- Stop Your Self-Sabatoge!

“We are all so powerless as children and money looms so powerfully.  As we grow up we claim our power in one way after another, taking on jobs, families, commitments, responsibilities.  Yet we don’t grow up to claim our financial power until we look money in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back." – Suze Orman, Author of The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom  Read More

Tapping Into Your Money Potential - Create the Conditions for Success!

We often unknowingly sabotage our own success, thinking that we are doing what we have to do to motivate ourselves. Clients who come in for coaching to clear up their weight problem, or their performance issues like procrastination, report that they have been prodding themselves, chiding themselves and they are usually in a highly critical state because of their failure to solve the problem.  Read More

Tapping Into Your Money Potential

- You Are a Magnet!

“Each of us is a magnet!  And as a magnet, you do not have to force success and prosperity to yourself.  Instead, you can develop that exalted, expectant, prosperous state of mind that is a magnet for all good things of the universe to hasten them to you, rather than entertaining the tense, critical, anxious, depressed unforgiving, possessive state of mind that is a magnet for all kinds of trouble and failure.” - Catherine Ponder author of The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity  Read More

Tapping Into Your Money Potential

- It's All About Values!

“Values are the base that defines our responses to any given situation in life. They are the ultimate key to understanding and predicting your own behaviors and the behaviors of others - the master key to unleashing the magic within.”  – Anthony Robbins author of “Unlimited Power”  Read More

Tapping Into Your Money

Potential - Ignite Your Power

to Create What You Want!

“What you THINK about is what you BRING about. What you FILL your mind with is what your life is FULL of. Whatever you FOCUS upon gets bigger in your life.” - Jacquelyn Aldana, author of The 15- Minute Miracle  Read More

Enjoy Health Benefits Immediately

When You Stop Smoking

Health experts have said for years that it's never too late to give up smoking.  While studies have shown the effect on lung cancer rates can be dramatic, a recently published study in the British Medical Journal gives the clearest evidence yet of how beneficial it can be.  Read More

YOU CAN Make Up Your Mind Now

If you are still smoking chewing tobacco, you probably do plan to stop in the future. Most people do stop – sooner – or later. Maybe you are waiting for a vague “something” to help you make up your mind. I hope this article will assist you to do just that – make up your mind.   Read More

They Are Just Excuses

Many newcomers to this area often comment on the seemingly high number of people here who smoke and use chewing tobacco.  Maybe it’s because smoking is allowed in more public places here than in other states and it's just more visible.  I've been doing some research into smoking in Montana.  Here are some interesting statistics.        Read More

Smoking: Addiction or Habit

The US government commissioned a study on nicotine several years ago and the end result was a 600 page document written by leaders in the field of chemical addictions and do you know that not one of them said smoking was a chemical addiction?  They all said things like, “It could be”, “It might be.”  But not one of them said it was.  That’s kind of interesting isn’t it?  Read More

Stop Smoking

There are three main groups of serious smokers: The first group acknowledges the hazards of smoking, yet they continue to smoke because of the danger.  These smokers mistake the risks of smoking for bravado.  They derive a distorted sense of excitement from smoking in spite of the admitted danger.  They resist treatment.  These people may pay lip service to quitting, but usually lack serious commitment.  Read More

Imagination In! Willpower Out!

Since it is the time of the year when those new years resolutions begin to fade and you may be starting to beat yourself up about it, here are some thoughts on how to become your own friend and encourage yourself all the way to success.  When you beat yourself up or even mildly criticize yourself, you create anxiety in your body and that anxiety makes it more difficult for you to make the change.  Read More

Amp Up Your Moods

"Dopamine gives us clarity, energy, and motivation.  Serotonin gives us comfort, contentment, and optimism.   And endorphins increase our sense of well-being to help us to cope effectively with stress." - Dr. John Gray,  author of "The Mars and Venus Diet and Exercise Solution" Does this statement make you want more dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins?  Read More

Your Body: Friend or Foe

“When you make it your goal to create the perfect relationship between you and your body, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone you are with, including your mother, your friends, your lover, your children, your dog.

When you have the perfect relationship between you and your body, in that moment your half of any relationship outside you is completely fulfilled.” -“Mastery of Love” by Don Miguel Ruiz      Read More

Engage Your Inner Power to Change - On Addiction

Revising our model or map of the world is a key piece of the puzzle.  To simplify the vast world outside of us it, we use our senses to explore and map it.  Our map then generates our behaviors on the basis of what we perceive in our personal model of the world.   Read More

Disease: A Friend in Disguise

Disharmonies in the subtle bodies, like unexpressed buried emotion and negative beliefs, have a powerful influence on our bodies. One of the responsibilities of our physical body is to signal when we are out of balance. A physical symptom is a message that it is time to notice and release emotional and mental disharmonies. By paying attention to what the body is trying to convey, deep beliefs and emotional patterns that have been hidden from our conscious thinking mind can be cleared.  Read More

Energize and Stimulate Your Brain Cells

Several factors influence brain cell health and brain functioning. Some of these factors have an impact on the functioning of all cells in the body as well. Nutrition, exercise and thought apply to brain health just as they do to the health of the cells in the entire body. Here are some specific tips as they apply to brain functioning.  Read More

The Dark Side of Caffeine

Are you planning to improve your health and your self care in 2007? If so, you may want to reduce your caffeine intake as a first step! Caffeine is a drug linked to palpitations, panic attacks, hypoglycemia, gastritis, insomnia, and PMS, to name a few.  Some people are so sensitive to caffeine that a fruit drink with hidden caffeine can cause their symptoms. Many people develop increased sensitivity to caffeine in their thirties, forties, or fifties after years of using it.  Read More

Steps to Self Acceptance

Individuals who come in to do coaching with me are generally very functional successful people who want to make a positive change in one or two areas of their lives that are not meeting their own personal standards.  The specific situations vary, but there is a common pattern among all of us when we are not experiencing the success we want.  The common pattern usually is represented by varying levels of criticism and anger toward self and/or others.  Read More

Learning Self Acceptance

Until recent times, it was thought to be sinful to appreciate yourself.  If you weren't berating yourself for your weaknesses and imperfections, you were obviously missing an opportunity on the royal road to self improvement.  In this old paradigm it was thought that if you applied enough self-loathing you might motivate yourself to change.  Read More

The Power of Visualization

for Healing the Body

"The body and mind are essential parts of the same system. Neither can be isolated from the other, … and all symptoms are messengers."  -   NLP Presupposition

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There have been numerous experiments using imagery to combat certain diseases.  Perhaps the best known clinical work of this kind is that of Carl Simonton(1982).  They pioneered the use of visual imagery as an additional treatment for cancer patient.            Read More

What Does Your Birth

Have to Do With It?

By now in your life, you are aware of how some of your thought and behavior patterns developed due to the family culture you were raised in and experiences you had in your childhood.  You may have put some effort into clearing limiting beliefs and patterns that no longer serve you, but are you aware of the impact that your personal birth experience still has on your life?      Read More

Feel Bad, Feel Good

"We all know how to feel bad, and we know how to feel neutral. What we need to learn is how to feel good. Feeling good is a natural right, you can do it all the time, with no artificial stimulants."  - Gay Hendricks author of Conscious Loving  Read More

Bad Parts

You may have noticed that some parts of yourself connect easily and deeply with your spiritual nature – that as you pray or meditate or study some parts of you bask in the experience.  At times it may seem that you have shifted into a permanent state of grace.  Read More

Guilt

“It is easier for most people to forgive an enemy than it is to truly forgive themselves.”

Guilt is a feeling associated with a belief that one has done something wrong.  The synonyms for guilt are remorse, regret, shame, disgrace, etc.  Guilt is a painful feeling of self- reproach for having done something that a person deems immoral or wrong.  Read More 

Take a Breather

Relaxation is beneficial for mind and body and spirit. This process will not only relax you physically, it usually brings about a profound feeling of inner peace. If you hang out in this relaxed state, it will take you into a powerful connected state where you will enjoy more fulfilling  prayer or meditation or creativity as you  contemplate any aspect of your life to discover new insights.  Read More

Those Stubborn Habits

Do you wonder why it is so difficult for you to change your unhealthy habits with food, tobacco, gambling, shopping, internet pornography, alcohol? Do you find yourself repeating the unhealthy pattern over and over even though you know that you would be healthier physically, emotionally and or financially if you changed stopped doing it? Who is pulling your strings?  Who is pushing your buttons?  What makes you sabotage your good intentions?  I've had new clients tell me it's almost as if, "The devil made me do it."   Read More

Saying What You Mean

Do you know what you’re saying?  Of course you do.  Otherwise you wouldn’t be saying it, right?  If you say something to me, your message is passing between us.  For the message to be received it requires both of us to participate.  Read More

Your Memory and How it Works

So many people complain about their inability to remember things. Here are some tips for developing a better memory:In order for your memory to be really useful to you, and to be able to trust it you must have strategies for:  1)  Knowing where you are going to put the information and, 2)  Knowing how to retrieve the information when you want to retrieve it.  Read More

The Art and Power of Listening

Effective people monopolize the listening. Others monopolize the talking. Our ears are our intake valves.  They feed the mind with the raw materials of insights and ideas which stimulate our own creativity and effectiveness.  We learn little from telling, and there is no limit to what we can learn by asking and listening.  Read More

Mapping Out Your World

The world around us is so vast that even in a whole lifetime, we can experience only a very small part of it. The only way we can experience the world and learn about it is through our senses.    Read More

Your Senses Are Talking

We all use all of our senses in communication.   From birth and maybe even in the womb, we begin experiencing the world with our senses of sight, sound, feeling, taste, and smell.  It is now believed that most of us gravitate to one type of sensory experience over the others.   That sensory preference begins to show up in our learning strategies, how we express and receive love, and it also stimulates our interests in hobbies and careers.  Read More

You Are Always Right!

Isn’t it a wonderful feeing to know that you are always right? All creation begins with the energy of a single thought.  A thought becomes even more powerful when it becomes a belief.  A belief starts life as a thought that coincides with body sensations or feelings.   The feeling and the thought get linked together and we generalize the causal experience into a belief.  Read More

8 Steps to Get What You Really Want

This series of questions will assist you in developing and realizing your goals/outcomes in a way that brings a sense of true satisfaction and fulfillment.  Read More

Minding Your Own Business

A dear friend sent me a book recently.  The tile is" Loving What Is" by Byron Katie.   In this article, I share some of the perspectives in the book, as they are simple and powerful enough to shift unhealthy ways of thinking about others and enjoy more peace within.  They are little lightening bolts of insight and I share some of them here with you  .  Read More

Hidden Beliefs Create Your Life

We all have beliefs that we are consciously aware of. We have religious beliefs and political beliefs and lots of opinions based upon our own personal life experiences.

In this article we will explore the power and influence of our hidden beliefs .    Read More

If you don't ask, you don't get!

If you are like most people, you find it difficult to ask anyone for anything.  What keeps you from asking for what you want? Do you identify with any of these thoughts?

  - "I am not sure I deserve it"

  - "I can’t stand rejection."

  - "I get uncomfortable."

  - "It’s too much trouble to ask."       

  - "I would rather do it myself."

  - "I might get criticized for asking."  Read More

The Truth About the Truth

In one of my recent articles about thoughts and emotion, I mentioned, “ the mind is full of lies.”  We all develop our own personal rhetoric - our often-repeated “stories” that are based upon lifetimes of beliefs left unexamined.  Read More

The Truth About the Truth  Part ll

Do you think of someone in your life that "should" be doing things differently? If you have a story such as:  I'm angry with George because he never listens to me. Investigate your statement with these questions in the Inquiry process.       Read More

It's About Time to Re-Parent Yourself

I am still enthralled with Dr. Bruce Lipton’s book, The Biology of Belief.  In his chapter, Conscious Parenting, Dr. Lipman describes how parents can improve the prenatal and childhood environment, and in doing so, empower themselves to act as genetic engineers for their children bringing out their best traits and giving them the best chance for accomplishment and joy in their lives.  Read More

Diamonds of Love

I often show my clients how to use a very powerful strategy for setting healthy boundaries. One step in the strategy is to think of someone you find easy to nurture. Try this yourself right now.  As you close your eyes and focus your thought on a person or animal that is special to you, ask yourself what it is about them that makes it easy for you to nurture them.  Read More

Questions Are the Answer: Part 1

You always get more of whatever you focus upon.  Questions direct your focus. They can direct your focus and give power to what you want or what you don't want. This is the first in a series of four articles on the power of questions. I invite you to demonstrate the power of questions for yourself.  Read More

Questions Are the Answer: Part 2

"Why Not Ask WHY??" "Why am I so depressed?" "Why can't I ever succeed?" "Why do I lose mt temper?" "Why do I feel so stressed out?" "Why can't I get to sleep easier?" "Why did I let myself gain all of this weight?" "Why can't I do better in math?" "Why me Lord?"

In my work as a personal coach, I find that most of my clients have been asking themselves questions similar to these.  Read More

Questions Are the Answer: Part 3

Take just a moment and ask yourself these power questions:  What are you truly happy about in your life right now?  What are you grateful for?  As you think about the answers, notice how good you feel as you bring thoughts of these things to mind.  Read More

Questions Are the Answer: Part 4

Whether the problem is great or small – even if a problem seems so big that it threatens to destroy your life in some way, these questions, along with the Power Questions in Part I, of this series will put you in a more resourceful state and open up new perspectives and opportunities to explore solutions.   All of our communications with others and with ourselves can be generated from the presupposition that everything happens for a purpose.  Read More

The Power of Purpose

Purpose is about serving.  It's about taking the focus off of you and your self –interest, and serving others in some way.  You build because you love to build.  You build to make others happy.  You design because your heart directs you to.  But those designs are in the service of others.  You write because you love to express yourself in words.  But those words will help and inspire readers." - Wayne Dyer  "10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace"      Read More

Shadow Stuff

We all have "Shadow Stuff." Some parts of ourselves connect easily and deeply with our spiritual nature.  We meditate, we pray, we study to develop our spiritual nature.  And then we have these other parts that seem to get in our way – parts  that get angry, that feel jealous or self-loathing, that are enraged at things, that feel intimidated sometimes, that procrastinate.. parts that fall short of our personal standards and values – that seem to conflict with our desire to live our full potential or be more spiritual or God-like.  Read More

Worrying About People

"Kill the habit of worry, in all of its forms, by reaching a general blanket decision that nothing which life has to offer is worth the price of worry.  With this decision comes poise, peace of mind, and calmness of thought which will bring happiness." - Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich          Read More

Present Moment Awareness: Part 1

My next few articles will be focused upon the development of Present Moment Awareness – the power of truly living in the present.  We are going to explore thought and emotion as they relate to living in the NOW.  Read More

Present Moment Awareness: Part 2

How much time (that precious commodity for getting what you want) do you spend thinking about or RE-membering unpleasant experiences of The Past, having the feelings associated with them?  Feelings like guilt, shame, anger, grief, remorse, sadness and self pity, are usually linked to the past.  Read More

Present Moment Awareness: Part 3

If we get stuck in thoughts about problems that lead us around in circles back to the place we started, has thinking become a disease in itself?  Eckhart Tolle reminds us that the mind is a superb instrument if used properly.  Used wrongly, however, it becomes destructive. Or, as he puts it; "It is not so much that you use it wrongly – it is that you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. That is the disease"  Read More

Tips for Parents with Students

Who Struggle in School

Often, when a student starts to struggle in school, the parents or teachers start reacting to the student as though they were struggling on purpose.  In other words, they assume negative intention behind the behaviors.  They sometimes call the student lazy or unmotivated.   The perception of the student when these types of labels are used is that something is wrong with him or her.    Read More

Understanding Attention Deficit Disorder

School has started again and students, parents, and teachers are focused upon the learning process. Attention Deficit Disorder seems to be at epidemic proportions today and we all experience some of the symptoms of ADD.  During my training in the Rediscover the Joy of Learning , an NLP based approach to dealing with learning difficulties, I gained a better understanding of the pain and suffering that children and adults with ADD experience.  Read More

Positive Intentions

“Underlying every behavior is a positive intention.”

“People always make the best choices they have available to them in their model of the world.” - NLP Presuppositions

If we adopt these ideas as operating principles  as we interact with our children and other adults, we would reduce violence and empower ourselves to influence others much more effectively.  As we separate an unwanted behavior from the positive intention behind it, we open up a whole new world of possible ways to satisfy the positive intention in a more acceptable, more satisfying way.  Read More

Those New Year's Resolutions

If our brains are a kind of computer, then our thoughts and actions are like our software.  The limitations we experience are primarily in our software, not the hardware.  Use your brain’s own language to change its programming and get immediate positive changes in your performance, thought, and feelings.  Read More

Seven Ways to Have a

Joy Filled Holiday

Make the choice to be happy.  The greatest gift you can give anyone who cares about you is to be happy.  Your children especially, will be inspired and uplifted by your happiness.  That is what all the people who care for you truly desire for you and the gift they would give you if only they could.   Read More

Holiday Stress Busters

If you are fitting holiday projects and activities into an already full schedule, forgive yourself in advance for not being able to get it all done.  Then compare your To Do List with your deepest desires and values (family, spiritual, charitable, personal care).  Eliminate the ToDo’s  that would interfere with your success in experiencing “the really important things.”  Notice the change in your energy already, as you give yourself permission to focus on your highest priorities. Read More

Be More You

There are some principals at work as we begin to make positive change in our lives.  In my work as a personal coach I often see people trying to force themselves into compliance with a new goal by using willpower and mistakenly giving themselves orders to “power out” the old behaviors.  Read More

Your Faithful Servant

Your Subconscious: Part l

Are you a little confused about the existence of what is commonly called the subconscious and its role in your life?  What is it?  Where it is located?  How does it operate in your life?  How can you instruct and use it for good purposes?    Read More

Your Faithful Servant

Your Subconscious: Part ll

Your Subconscious Mind Where is it?  Your subconscious mind is located in every cell of your body. It is present in the brain, spinal chord, and nerves that branch out through your entire body.   Read More

Your Faithful Servant

Your Subconscious: Part lll

We are all aware that we are not using our minds to their fullest. It may even seem like your mind is working against you – and it probably is working against you in some areas of your life.  You can truly revitalize every area of your life by learning how to take advantage of your richest resource – your mysterious and powerful subconscious.  Read More

Your Faithful Servant

Your Subconscious: Part lV

Our subconscious is constantly communicating to us.  Our world as we experience it in terms of our relationships, our body, our accomplishments or seeming failures, is a reflection of our inner beliefs and experiences.  Read More

Your Faithful Servant

Your Subconscious: Part V

Effects of Negative Subconscious Programming - "The Bad News" Without consciously knowing it, we are all highly programmed to limit ourselves, automatically, in a variety of ways and/or to repeatedly experience many of the following problems and feelings:  Read More

Reinvent Your Body: Part l

Thinking Yourself Thin - We all know by now that diets don't work.  We even know that our health can be impaired by dieting, but that's not all.  What about our self image? How many of us can emerge from the relentless torture of repetitive dieting feeling fearless, secure, and self–assured? Repeated failure brings about fear.  Fear induces lack of trust and confidence in oneself.  Read More

Reinvent Your Body: Part ll

This article is the second in a series of five articles focused upon staying in optimum shape in a healthy and balanced way.  The first article in this series discussed the importance of developing a self image that is consistent with what we want to look like and feel.  This article addresses the strategy to use for selecting our food.  Read More

Reinvent Your Body: Part lll

This is the third in a series of five articles focused upon staying in optimum shape in a healthy and balanced way.   Read More