Guest blogger: Dr. Jay Polmar

It was just another Sunday, or really it wasn’t, after all the World Series was on, it was 1982, the St. Louis Cardinals against the Milwaukee Brewers, and I could use the day off, after all working with patients six days a week – at least back in ’82. We could call them patients. I had been a doctor, a Ph.D – with a specialty in hypnotherapy research, for two whole years already. I had been studying for almost 18 years, and I knew the field well – but what could I do with it, other than some habit control that was soon to be tested.

So, as I sat with my Grape Juice, in front of the TV waiting for the first pitch, a knock on the door, and I recognized, Deana McNatt from a consulting position I took, with her mother – at the door. Now, Deana and I didn’t always see eye to eye, but she was there on a mission. Drag Jay back to Lovelace Hospital, in due haste.

What’s going on? “My baby sister is in the hospital and is having a baby, and she is demanding you be there.” Deana’s baby sister was truly a baby herself. She was 15 years old, a high school sophomore, athletic and strong, and about to bring her own baby into the world. Deana’s mom was not happy about having a strange man help deliver her baby’s baby, her grandchild.

But, why not go and help? It was a government hospital, Sandia National Labs and an Air Force base nearby – what’s the worst they could do to me, throw me in the brig? There was a young girl, in trouble J, who needed my help – and I got to see how the hospital worked from the inside out.

There I was, a birthing room with all the craziness of the sisters, 2 of them, trying to be present when the birth took place … “Well, if Dr. Jay can be here, why can’t I – they cackled?” And, then, I said to Mrs. McNatt, we need peace – and all the girls were pushed out. Then, the young husband to be comes in “I want to be here” – and his future mother-in-law, pushes him out. Finally, it was me and the grandma to be, and a midwife nurse pops in. “I hear you’re going to do hypnosis. I always wanted to watch this”.  This was going to be a fun session.

“So, Shawna, now close your eyes, and relax – breathe deeply, and relax every part of you from your toes to your head”. And I continued for 45 minutes and the midwife, sat at the end of the bed, looking into Shawna’s womb, as if she was a catcher at the World Series ready to catch the pitch.

At each contraction was a suggestion for releasing the muscles’ tension and each push was a pleasure. No labor pains, but delivery was a pleasure. And slowly but surely out came the cutest little cone head baby I had ever seen.

As grandma and I smiled, the midwife cleaned up the after birth, I washed up, and walked out of the hospital, and went home, happy that I had once again come to help someone in need.

And when I went to the supermarket, I was amazed even a year later. That women would walk up to me and say – I remember you. You are that hypnosis doctor who delivered that baby at Lovelace Hospital, aren’t you?

Sometimes, I just think: Life Is Good!

We all have our own concept of the perfect power nap; after we’ve mowed the lawn, in the office at 2:30 with the door closed, in the parking lot at the supermarket while the spouse does the shopping. We even joke about the power nap, but taking a break to rest and rejuvenate your brain is more beneficial than you can imagine.

Sometimes all it takes is just 15 minutes rest to help stress and worry reach the exit door. Your brain can revitalize and you can be ready to conquer all challenges and everything on your ‘to do’ list without being worn out or making mistakes. It is the perfect solution to the “I just can’t get it done” problem.

By using a power nap hypnosis mp3 you will be training your brain to ‘go off line’ on demand. It really does work amazingly well. The short hypnosis mp3 takes you through relaxation and helps you shut down your brain. Just like turning off the lights. Each time you listen it will get easier and easier to turn off the sounds in your head and let your brain go offline for a much needed rest. You can do this anywhere you can be comfortable and undisturbed.

Listening to a power nap hypnosis mp3 allows you to let go of everything except for those suggestions that you hear. Your brain responds to these suggestions and you get a rejuvenating nap. The best part of this is that you do not have to do any of the ‘thinking’ yourself. You listen to a series of suggestions and your brain goes where it is supposed to go ‘sleep’. The hypnosis program will also wake you up at the end of the approximately 30 minute recording! That way you’ll never oversleep or miss an important meeting or phone call. The power nap will change the way you look at work and convince you that hypnosis can be a powerful tool that will improve your focus and drive for greater successes in your life.

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Happy New Year Everyone! Well the holidays are over and you may find that you are settling down a bit and thinking of yourself a little. Maybe you are thinking it’s time to deal with those issues that nag at you year after year. You made your New Year’s Resolution but are you going to do anything about it? Have you thought of using Hypnotherapy to address some of your issues?

What is it that you really want to change this year? Is it just a thought in your head that you would like to loose weight or stop smoking? Do you think about it a couple times a year and do nothing about it because you are too busy or it seems like too much work?

The first step is acknowledging that you would like to change and that is a good thing. The next step is finding a way to do something about it and that is where most of us give up. Maybe it isn’t just exercise motivation or stress management which many people associate with hypnosis. Maybe your relationship needs work or you are grieving a loved one. Perhaps you need advise on money management or you are depressed because of the economy and there seems to be no solution. Do you need to forgive someone or deal with a divorce? Have you ever thought that these problems could be addressed through hypnosis? You have thought about psychotherapy but it takes so long and is very expensive so it doesn’t seem to be an option for you especially in this economy.

So many issues can be helped with just simply listening to hypnotherapy recordings. www.journeysinward.com It seems so simple and it is in a way; the trick is that you need to be consistent and listen every day for 21 days. The results will be truly amazing! Napolean Hill said, “What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve,”

Hypnotherapy works! Quite simply, hypnosis is a deep state of relaxation where your subconscious mind is more receptive to ideas and suggestions. I call it “Coached Meditation”. You have been in hypnotic states when you daydream or when you are driving and so focused on your thoughts that you miss your exit. We all experience that “miles away” feeling from time to time. The advantage of hypnosis is that you have that day dreamy feeling but you are being directed at the same time to focus on your goals in a very creative way. Hypnotic states are a wonderfully pleasant state of relaxation. Hypnosis is an effective, scientifically proven tool to help you reach your goals. Hypnosis is not a magical cure. It is simply a tool. An effective tool!

When we access the subconscious mind we find a whole internal world of support that we may not have known before. It is very creative and helps us to unleash our potential, change our unwanted habits and behaviors, and find solutions to our problems and concerns.

During the recordings you are led into a very deep relaxation with gentle background music and maybe the sound of ocean waves.

You are then led through a progressive muscle relaxation from head to toe. Once all your muscles are relaxed it is much easier to relax your mind. You will then be led to a beautiful scene that takes your mind on a journey to someplace very comforting and peaceful.

Once deeply relaxed, your subconscious mind will be receptive to change; you will be given a number of suggestions. One of the most powerful tools of the suggestion process is in “seeing” the outcome. You will see, sense or feel yourself as a person who “used to smoke” but does no longer, or you will experience yourself at the desired weight you wish to be. You will be led through a series of visualizations to help you anchor this new way of being, like: “You see yourself in the mirror wearing that dress you remember looking so slim and beautiful in and you can feel your body gliding across the dance floor so gracefully. You can hear others commenting on how fantastic you look and how did you do it?

You will then hear affirmations that are similar to these suggestions like, “I enjoy eating small meals 5 times a day or I love how I look and feel in those clothes I have been wanting to wear and now I can”. You will be given a post hypnotic suggestion to seal in the positive suggestions and then brought back to full waking consciousness feeling very relaxed and confident that you will follow these new suggestions.

It is great to be able to just download an MP3 and listen to the recording in the comfort of your home without having to go anywhere but to a comfortable place in you house, put some head phones on and everyday do a little work on yourself.

It is probably the most powerful way I know of accomplishing your goals in a very short period of time.

~Mariah

Being addicted to Alcohol is something that most people do not recognize or acknowledge. However, there are some simple questions to ask yourself that will clue you in: 1. Do you have to have a drink every day, other than four oz. glass of red wine for your heart? 2. Do you crave a drink when you don’t have one?  3. Do you feel that you need it to make you feel better? 4. Does it already impact your health and your well-being?  5. Does it change your behavior?

Are you wondering about your answers? Do yourself a favor right now – You need to get a grip. Realize that you can feel great without alcohol consumption, and there is an easy way to limit your drinking while at the same time prevent backsliding (falling off the wagon).

Taking control of a drinking challenge can be easier when using hypnosis. It’s one of the most highly effective ways to address this challenge. Alcohol rehab facilities, with psychiatrists on staff, often implement hypnosis regimens to assist patients with reprogramming themselves to get a handle on their emotional instability while they work with fighting the addictive cravings.

Using hypnosis mp3’s allows anyone to overcome hurdles, and have breakthroughs by destroying the biggest obstacles that they bring to the table. Difficult cases have benefited from the use of hypnosis in rehabilitation programs because the focus can be put squarely on the symptoms and the emotional ones can be addressed as separate issues, as they indeed are.

Individuals have successfully used hypnosis mp3’s on their own to overcome alcoholism and the issues related to it.  Certainly, a great many people feel they have the endurance to use the mp3’s at home. In doing so, they can go on to live healthier lives. Physical and emotional improvement can be made through the use of hypnosis which circumvents the need to drink.  Often, people find that hypnosis creates the states of being they have really sought – when they drank, they hoped to have a certain calm, relaxed mind, no worries, and a light heart – but never achieved it. The majority of those using hypnosis reach those states naturally, and therefore, the need for alcohol disappears. Take the first step towards lasting sobriety with our Conquer Alcohol Addiction Hypnosis MP3:  http://journeysinwardhypnotherapy.com/mp3/addictions/conquer-alcohol-addiction-hypnotherapy

We all know what it feels like to be worried, to have something or someone weighing down on your mind.  As well as the frustration of being unable to find a way to let it go or let them go.  There are often times when we’re struggling with our options and our need to find a way to move past the worry, so that we can really identify the source(s) of the issue.  We need the clear mind to work out the best solution for everyone concerned. It’s hard to get to that place where we are sufficiently detached from the negative emotions of the troubles in order that we can be able to do that. Unfortunately, worry can become all encompassing and can drive our lives in the wrong direction.

When troubles and worry take control, people can become totally paralyzed by it. Sometimes it is love, other times it’s finance, but when troubles and worries aren’t mastered, these problems related to someone we deeply love can become a compulsion, or an obsession. More than just worrying, letting trouble take control of our lives is a situation that can seem like we are drowning in fear and that our problems now define us.

The simple and effective solution is to reprogram the way you think about your problems. Instead of allowing them to pile up and hold you down you have another option of using hypnosis to refocus your thoughts and actions and effectively transform the problems to easy challenges, or even better, to opportunities for personal growth. With a mindset like that and hypnosis to guide your path to solutions intuitively coming to you –  it is easy to solve those problems and leave your troubles behind!

Hypnosis takes you step by step toward relaxation and on the way teaches you how to program your brain to react differently to everything you’ve struggled with. In a deep state of relaxation, your brain can hear and process information in a very different way. The benefits of hypnosis aren’t only relaxing or training your brain to release worries. It goes much further than that. Hypnosis can allow you to search the subconscious for catalogued ways of handling stress and process all of your troubles so that you can find solutions faster and more efficiently. Click here to get rid of all those troubles today:
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Living with stress is common for most people in this day and age. We all have stress in our lives due to personal relationships and finances; we have stress related to our jobs and our children. And, boy do we get stressed just driving in traffic back and forth to work. The result of this commonplace environmental stress is that it piles up on us, and it builds to the point that we can’t tolerate it any more. Eventually we simply adapt to living such an enormous level of stress that we don’t even realize what the cumulative effects of stress on our physical bodies and our minds and emotions really are. Stress is a killer, if you let it, so … let me ask this – where is the high school course on managing life stress that everyone needs to learn?

Actively dealing with high levels of stress daily, and working diligently to counteract it, helps us to chip away at the effects of stress and keeps us feeling better and more centered. Living a high stress life with no attempt at stress relief will create side effects (otherwise called dis-ease) that we never expect and disease can certainly be devastating. In this case, it is important to learn to use the best stress relief techniques available to you to avoid getting ill. You can reverse the effects of stress but you need to learn how to reprogram your brain and your life to fully conquer to its effects.

A deep relaxation mp3 will assist you in reducing the stress in your life by using multiple senses at one time as hypnosis is used to reprogram your brain and re-educate your body on exactly how to relax and let go of all the stresses of your life. As you hear the hypnosis MP3, your thoughts will be guided through a deep relaxation exercise that helps you to enter a deeper state of relaxation despite the daily stress you now experience.

Using this audio mp3 will cause relaxation to be immediate, and has been proven to be effective and with the mp3, you will learn how to allow your mind and body to enter a state of deep healing level of relaxation and improve your quality of life immediately. Here’s where you can find it:  Click Here to Relax.

Letting go of your anger and forgiving someone who has hurt you is one of the greatest gifts you can give to yourself. Holding on to resentment and hurt really just makes you feel bad. By not forgiving, by not moving on, you are refusing to let the bad feelings go away.  The worst thing about being unable to forgive is that the person you can’t forgive usually has no clue that they hurt you as much as you think they did. They forgot about the incident that caused you pain as soon as it happened. You have been letting it poison your life, and they could care less. Although the truth is they just didn’t know how bad it was for you.

Remember that forgiveness is all about you.  When you forgive you do not allow bad behavior, or the hurts you have endured, to be ok or acceptable behavior from others. In fact, you are only acknowledging that something bad has occurred. If you must, keep your distance from those people who continue you to hurt you, but allow forgiveness to release your bad feelings and the hurts that they have caused so that you can live a happier, healthier and fuller life.

Using hypnosis audio mp3’s to forgive is a great way to retrain your brain to let the bad feelings and hurts disappear and to place positive thoughts and feelings in its place. You can save relationships that are stressed and transform a negative attitude by filling your being with forgiveness. Why allow bitterness to ruin your friendships and relationships?  Hypnosis mp3’s utilized once a day can help to reprogram your thoughts and make forgiveness an easy and natural state of being. You owe it to yourself and to those you love. Forgiveness will open your mind and your heart to new possibilities and a positive, healthy future. If you want to accelerate the process of forgiving others, try this:  http://journeysinwardhypnotherapy.com/mp3/relationships/finding-forgiveness-mp3 and you might just find, it’s a lot easier to forgive yourself for choosing such difficult lessons of life to grow on.