Is the job getting to you? Kids' schedules of soccer and dance classes too much? Health problems stressing you out? Finances in turmoil?

Make the time each day to take a little hypnosis coffee break and re-energize yourself. With a simple and easy process you can refocus your energy and get a grip on those stressors that seems to slow you down and block you from accomplishing everything you want to accomplish. Wellness practitioners and therapists will also get far greater results from their client and patients if they would stress the importance of taking just a few short minutes each day to relax and refocus on an inner sense of ease and well-being.

There are so many simple programs out on the market. Self-hypnosis programs in CD, tape and MP3 format to just use whenever needed. Some are better than others, but anything that can be used to relax and step back from challenges for a few moments will have some benefit.

If everyone looked at it like they look at taking a coffee break, it would become a natural part of the day and productivity and overall well-being would increase across the board. This concept of making time for just a few short minutes to refocus on well-being is exactly why I recently created a self-hypnosis program recording entitled HYPNOSIS COFFEE BREAK. In the time it takes you to go to the break room, get a cup of coffee and chit chat for a few minutes with co-workers, Or in the time it takes to stop your housework and make a cup of tea, or even in the time it takes to fold a basket of clothes, you can use a Hypnosis Coffee Break and really take back control of your well-being and focus.

The Hypnosis Coffee Break program is simple, easily learned and takes only 8 minutes to complete. What could be better? And if it isn't this particular program, there are plenty of other self-hypnosis relaxation and de-stressing programs out there that are 15 minutes or less in length. Certainly within the limits of a work break or easily able to fit into a busy day of running around the home.

Folks with health issues can even use the programs in their MP3 players as they wait in a doctor's waiting room for an appointment. What could be a better use of otherwise wasted time?

Get in the habit of taking those few short minutes to re-energize, re-focus and get back into wellness. Take a daily Hypnosis Coffee Break!

Many Blessings

Jim

James Duncan, C.Ht Diplomate - IMDHA 108 East 5th Street Suite F Royal Oak, MI 48067 (248) 635-2935 www.DuncanHypnotherapy.com

As wellness practitioners, many times in the course of our work we encounter a client who has endured pain that just doesn't seem to respond to any therapeutic approach. A very simple Hypnotic technique can teach them that they have the ability to control the intensity of the sensation. The key to the success of the technique is surprisingly in teaching them how to increase the pain.

Even in the hypnosis world, many practitioners fail to take advantage of using the client's own understanding of the pain to its full advantage by immediately working on reducing the pain sensation. For a client who has unsuccessfully tried every available means of pain reduction, this approach is often destined to fail, because they have developed a belief system that proven pain reduction methods do not work for them. The instant the concept of reducing or eliminating the pain is introduced, their belief in the indestructible nature of their pain overrides the suggestions for relief. While the suggestions may be expertly provided and may often bring the desired relief, they are not appropriate in every situation with every client.

In some instances it is best to teach the client that they can control the pain by first offering hypnotic suggestion to allow them to increase the pain sensation a bit. During session work the client will be asked to rate the sensation on a pain scale before beginning the trance work. The induction of hypnotic state is then processed and again they are asked to rate the pain. At that point suggestion is then given to focus their attention completely on that sensation and to begin to use a dial or some similar metaphor to slowly INCREASE the pain. They are given a moment to process this and then asked to rate the pain once more. It is at this point that we have made the subconscious acknowledgement that they can control the sensations they experience.

The key to using this increased pain and subconscious understanding to the clients advantage is to now fully explain in the session that they have just demonstrated quite easily how they are able to control the pain by increasing it. This is the transformation point of their pain experience. We then use this understanding by suggestion that they now use that same dial, or whatever metaphor that was chosen, to slowly dial down the sensation. First by bringing it back to the original level the client had stated in increments, and then continuing that dialing down of the sensation to a lower level. When they have achieved this goal, reinforcement of the accomplishment is anchored.

It is often beneficial to repeat the process of increasing the sensation again and then reducing it even farther. This demonstrates for the client that the reduction was indeed in their control and not a singular event. This success is also reinforced. At that point it is best to have the client dial down the sensation to the level that is best for them right now and allow them to confirm when they have reached it. The client is then asked if this level would be good to keep in place for the remainder of the day. If so, suggest that they lock this setting into the dial for the remainder of the day. If they feel that it should be even lower, have them dial it to that setting and when they acknowledge success, lock that into the dial.

Additional suggestions are now given that they are easily able to close their eyes and count down from 10 to 1 will cause them to easily access this state at any time they need or desire to adjust the dial as they see fit. It may be beneficial to offer suggestion that every day now that they have mastered the control of the situation that they easily and comfortably awaken each day at the lowest level of discomfort that they experienced the previous day, and they easily access this state to dial the sensation down even further to the best level for them until they have completely dialed the sensations down to zero and maintain that level permanently.

The amazing benefit of teaching a person to increase their pain in the process of reducing it cannot be stressed enough. The goal is to give every client a feeling of control of every aspect of their well-being and this technique is one of the most tangible aspects of regaining that feeling of control.

Many Blessings

James Duncan, CHt

www.DuncanHypnotherapy.com