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All you have to do is read and comment on my blog during TT's $100 promotion for a special gift.

That's right, comment on this blog before March 1st, 2007 and I will send you a $29.99 complimentary copy of the Professional Version of my E-Book "How to Get Unstuck" co-written with Alan Barsky.

This is over and above your chance of winning the $100 that TT is offering, an opportunity you get to win cash every time you post a comment on any of the blogs during this promotion.

I really would appreciate your advice and comments regarding a couple of questions that I have listed below and, for your effort, I am happy to send you a Complimentary E-book as my way of saying thank you.

INTRODUCTION: Guided Focusing is concerned with improving the quality of human life by teaching people how to relax, recharge and focus their attention in ways that promote health, healing and well being. But more urgently for many patients, it can also be used to reduce or eliminate emotional and physical pain.

Now, you might ask, how does Guided Focusing differ from Hypnosis, Meditation, Guided Imagery and Cognitive Therapy, evidence-based disciplines known to often achieve the same results?

The answer is simple.

Hypnosis, Meditation, Imagery and Cognitive Behavior Therapy all work by activating the same inner-mechanisms. Guided Focusing takes advantage of this fact, enabling you to take advantage of it without requiring mastery in these otherwise effective healing arts. You can start using Guided Focusing immediately and expect wonderful results.

How is this possible? Research has confirmed that no conventional trance induction or psychotherapy is needed to effectively reduce pain. The "magic" is within your client's innate resources already - the process is what lets the "Genie" out of the bottle. Guided Focusing is a series of mental exercises that activate this process, exercises you can guide a patient through right now without already being a hypnotist, yoga master or psychotherapist.

I am confident that every one of you can easily help reduce or eliminate your patients pain by simply guiding them through the two Guided Focusing® pain relief exercises that I shared with you.

Please understand, I am not suggesting that Guided Focusing be used as an alternative to conventional pharmacological treatments. I am saying that at the very least, Guided Focusing should be considered as a supplement to conventional pain management.

These easy-to-learn mental exercises offer therapists and counselors who use other well established methods for dealing with pain another tool for improving over-all patient care, and quickly. Helping your patients this way can also allow pain specialists to lower the dose and reduce the adverse effects of painkillers, steroids and other drugs currently used to manage pain. And as you will quickly discover, in many cases Guided Focusing can even make painkillers unnecessary.

And there is more! Not only can Guided Focusing teach your patients how to tap into their relaxation, coping and self-regulation resources, it can help you feel better and be more effective too. Don't take my word for it. All you have to do to discover for yourself the many benefits and advantages of using the Guided Focusing relaxation is to do the exercises that I have shared with you previously.

Then notice how things improve at work and play. This is because when you are relaxed, in the moment and focusing on what you are doing you are automatically better at what you are doing. And if both you and your patients are in these enhanced states of being, just imagine what you'll be able to achieve in your sessions!

So, please - help me help you and your patients by participating in the following short survey.

Question #1 is: Would you be more likely to guide a chronic pain patient through one of my Guided Focusing Pain Relief exercises YOURSELF, or would you be more likely to refer that chronic pain patient to a Certified Guided Focusing Guide?

A) Do it myself ________

B) Refer _____________

Why___________________________________________

Question # 2 is: I'm considering renaming my approach. In your opinion, which name do you feel best captures it's spirit?

A) COGNITIVE FOCUSING®

B) QUANTUM FOCUSING®

C) GUIDED FOCUSING®

D) Other ______________

And question #3 What designation or title are you most comfortable with? To be called a Certified-

A) Guide

B) Facilitator

C) Practitioner

D) Coach

E) Other _________

After posting your comments - email: alan@quantumfocusing.com for your complimentary E-book. Thank you!