Learn where in the brain your anxiety is coming from. Is it amygdala-based or cortex-based? You’ll find the TIPS for treating each type. It’s important to know the difference!
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Time for some SELF-EXPLORATION:
-you may first want to take some deep breaths, placing one hand on your belly, feeling it expand as you inhale and exhale, and the other hand on your chest (or over your heart). Certain breathing techniques can help reduce your anxiety, so that you can think more clearly and can introspect.
-grab a journal or notebook and write down thoughts, ideas and hunches that come up, using these prompts or ideas (writing on paper works better here):
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Anxiety affects all of us but some of us, more often and more intensely, than others. The good news: these days, there’s so much you can do about it. Important to know: you don’t have to do it alone. Reach out to others; reach out for help and know that you’re not alone! Many of us have or still do suffer and struggle with anxiety (me included); it doesn’t mean that you can’t live a happy, healthy and successful life………..
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Anxiety isn’t stress; it’s your mind and body’s reaction to stressful, dangerous or unfamiliar situations. It usually manifests itself as an excessive, intense, persistent worry and fear. Of course, a certain level of anxiety is normal, ie: public speaking. Anxiety (and trauma) get stored in the body, as ie: a hyperactive nervous system, or becoming nervous and fearful in a situation that’s not really dangerous.
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Everyone is born with both of these universal energies (feminine and masculine); each person in different doses. They don’t have a gender assigned to them, inherently, but it seems that humankind associated Yin with the feminine and Yang with the masculine. There’s no good or bad when it relates to the amount of each. Both of these energies make up the essence of WHO you are.
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BOUNDARIES are essential for healthy relationships and for sound and healthy living. For self-care, healthy boundaries are necessary. And, as humans, we all need self-care and self-love. Without boundaries, we can feel intruded upon, depleted, even taken for granted or taken advantage of…….
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It’s important to discover and create your larger, overarching view of what you really want your life and lifestyle to be (your intentions). In other words, it’s vital to create YOUR own version of success, both personally and professionally. You must define what SUCCESS means, is and looks like, for YOU! To figure this out, it’s a good idea to understand:
1)WHO you truly, authentically are
2)WHY you’re here: your purpose, passions and priorities and
3)WHAT you were born to be and meant to do here.
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As mentioned in the last blog post, these are the stages of the hypnosis SESSION:
-Pre-induction or Mindset (not always considered a separate stage)
1)Induction
2)Deepening (the TRANCE); use of post-hypnotic suggestions
3)Coming up (out of the trance state)
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Recently, I have been asked frequently about hypnosis. “How does hypnosis work?” “What can it help me with?” “I’m not the type to lose control; can I still be hypnotized?” Yes, is the answer to this last question.
It’s time to respond to these inquiries. Before that, let’s talk about what hypnosis isn’t and clear up some of the common myths about it.
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To summarize: people-pleasing is a big waste of your time and energy, time and energy that you could be using to discover the authentic you and why you’re here (purpose, passions) and what your unique definition or version of success is…………………and start living it. No matter what you do, there will be those who like you and those who don’t. As my French parents used to say, “C’est la vie----that’s life!”
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So, take a pause and give yourself the gift to:
1)relax and rest
2)refresh and rejuvenate
3)recharge and
4)reevaluate.
and then, friends, it’s time and you’re ready to take action!
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Why PAUSE?
1)Relax and Rest
2)Refresh and Rejuvenate
3)Recharge
4)Reevaluate
Then, my friends, you’re ready to take action……
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Hello again, friends! So glad to be back from my ‘pause.’ I’d like to get more intentional about this subject here. This particular pause was, not unlike the Covid pandemic pause, a ‘pushed’ pause--------in other words, I was pushed into it, without much choice. And yes; sometimes we need this, particularly in our fast-paced, constantly busy present American society; we don’t often create our own intentional and purposeful pauses.
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What is a LIMITING BELIEF?
It’s a state of mind, belief or conviction that you think to be true, that limits you in some way. It could be about you, your interactions with others, or with the society and world and how it works. These limiting beliefs often have a number of negative effects. They can keep you from making good choices, taking new opportunities and of reaching your potential. In other words, they keep you STUCK in a negative state of mind (mindset) and can prevent you from living the life you truly desire and dream of.
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Here’s a bit of a bold statement: In our present, everyday world, we don’t take words seriously enough!
I’m not saying that we should take life or ourselves too seriously nor that we should sweat the small stuff. But we do need to watch our words, not only those we use to express ourselves in the world but, more important, those we say to ourselves.
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Why was I so interested in so many different things: art, science, history, languages, travel and on and on? To me, the world is a big place, full of adventure, experiences and things to discover. I’m not the only one. We multipassionate humans or curiosity creatures, as I have named us, are intensely interested in so many things. We are often told that we are ‘too much……..’.It’s taken me and perhaps you, a long time to accept myself as I am and even like these curiosity, love of learning and creative labels I’ve been given.
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The truth is that if you would just focus on yourself and your life, who you are and what you’d like to express and give to the world, there would be a lot less comparing (and gossiping) and a lot more personal joy and fulfillment.
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Though the concept, feeling and behaviors of self-love have been around for as long as we humans (homosapiens) have, it is only in the last few decades that we’ve been talking about it, as a society.
You may feel that loving yourself first (self-love) is selfish but it’s not; it is self-ish, though. I’ll explain…………..
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To develop any kind of system, especially concerning mindset, it is important to start with basics.
To begin this system or framework of mindset change, there is an outline to follow that is simple, efficient and practical.
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