I got to be  guest blogger on a fun women's site. Here is what I submitted.

 

 

Gratitude and Abundance, the natural flow of the universe is to always give you what you choose to focus on and believe in. You receive abundance in whatever you believe in. If you believe in growth and healing then you will receive an abundance of growth and healing. Once you understand that the universe does respond to your dominant feelings and beliefs then you can take control of what you receive in your life. If you want to receive more of something the key is to be grateful for what you already have like that. By allowing your focus to change to what is good in life and take the focus off of what is not you allow the universe to offer you more of the good.

We choose our thoughts each and every day. We can learn to recognize the negative thought patterns and replace them with more positive ones. Emotional intensity is one of the keys to manifesting what we want. Whatever we FEEL the strongest about and BELIEVE the most in will manifest in our lives (good or bad). As women we have strong feelings about most everything in our lives. Start to pay attention to where your emotional energy is going. Is it going toward the things you want most or the things you want less of?

It is our natural state to allow our focus to be on the fear and other darker emotions. However as we do that we only manifest more of that. In order to change that process we need to find a way to identify the emotions and beliefs that bring into our lives what we don’t want. We need to both release those feelings and thoughts and replace them with feelings and beliefs about things we wish to experience in life. There are many ways to release negative thoughts and beliefs. If you truly desire to shift your focus in life set that as your intention, if you believe it then it can become a reality. Happy Manifesting!!!!

The site is www.bangleandclutch.com/blog/

 

 

From www.pnosis.com:  

Distinguished Practitioner Feature

Spotlight on: Liesl Anderson

 

"According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy." Jerry Seinfeld

Liesl Anderson practices at PeaceFromWithin in Hillsboro, Oregon. Her specialty is helping people overcome fear of public speaking using hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Rapid Eye Technology (RET). Liesl has been a life long student of human behavior and emotional health. Her passion is "to help those suffering to find freedom from fear and pain."

Trained in both the Arons and Elman induction, she prefers the former, as do most of her clients, because, she says, the relaxation is "like heaven". Liesl became interested in hypnosis while training in guided imagery in her RET training. She recognized the power of combining RET and EFT with hypnosis. Her programs are much like a three-course meal, frequently using all three techniques with most of her clients.

A member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Liesl conducts her practice as a "holistic life skills coach" and Craigslist is her best source of client referrals (and free!) (Like Pnosis's directory -- check it out!) Her course of sessions typically ranges from 4 to 6 sessions for fear of public speaking, and reports that her clients uniformly report that their conquest of the fear is sustained 3 to 6 months later.

 

Liesl has recently finished the first draft of a book on conquering fear of public speaking using hypnosis, EFT and Rapid Eye. Pnosis congratulates Liesl Anderson on being recognized as a distinguished practitioner!" 

 

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Pnosis has a lot of great articles about hypnosis to browse and enjoy.

 

 

Your Sports: Hypnotherapy for your golf game

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Above is a link to an article about hypnosis for golf improvement by the St Petersburg Times in St Petersburg, Florida.

 

 

 

Using Rapid Eye Technology to Create New Neural Pathways

 

Have you ever noticed that when you get up in the morning you have a definite routine that you go through? If you change your routine, you may wonder if you have forgotten anything. Once you establish a neural pathway, your subconscious mind puts the routine on automatic – saving energy in the process.

Sometimes we drive to a destination on “remote control” as such. Often if I’m driving somewhere routinely I like to try going a different way; and then when I have made this change a few times, a new pattern occurs because the old pattern is interrupted. More information is added to the old neural pathway. If I choose to drive the new way then a new neural pathway is created.
When a part of the brain is damaged, in some cases, the brain can create a new neural pathway that will eventually pass the same signals as the originally damaged area.
There have been many times that a stroke victim has lost function of speech or certain movements, only to find that with time and the use of stimulation through, say, acupuncture, they have regained this function.
Another example is a person who has ceased bowel function through paralysis and learned to evacuate normally after many colonics because retrained neurons activated to affect the release.
 
What is a neural pathway?

Neurons are nerve cells that transmit nerve signals to and from and within the brain. The pathways along which information travels through the neurons (nerve cells) of the brain are neural pathways. We create, recreate, and destroy many pathways every day.

 

How is a neural pathway created?
A lot of the programming in our body is similar to a computer. The hard drive in the computer is like our body and comes already “hard-wired.” The software directs the computer how to operate. The neural pathways direct how we operate. The brain reacts to old learned experiences.
Every time we experience something new and different the neural pathway can be changed and improved upon or updated.
Most would agree that it’s life’s experiences that teach us the most in life. Whether we travel, or live our life in one place, we learn new things every day.
The more we do and experience the more we learn and grow. For the most part these learned experiences are beneficial to us, even if at the time it doesn’t feel like a positive experience. After it is over we often express how we learned from the experience and have grown to be a better person as a result of that experience.
Unfortunately a lot of what we experience doesn’t always teach us the things that assist us. Here are some examples of both positive and negative neural programming: baby smiles at mom and she smiles back with delight, baby learns that if she smiles, mom smiles and appears happy, so smiling is good.
Child learns that when you touch the stove when it’s on and gets burnt fingers that it’s probably not a good idea to touch the stove when it’s on.
If someone has a bad experience when confronted by someone, they learn to avoid confrontation. This is not a good growth experience, as to always avoid confrontation means that you may allow other people to walk all over you.
Some experiences perceived as life threatening experience will cause what we call a trapped trauma. If information is life threatening we create a trapped trauma and that neural pathway message stays there until healing occurs. The process of Rapid Eye Technology assists the brain to go immediately to the cause or the event and gives a verbal suggestion to release it. Any other undesirable experiences that are related and recorded on the neural pathway are released as well.
Some people are conditioned since childhood that to reward yourself or to feel good you should eat sweet or fatty foods. This comes from the notion of the “treat” experience; so the neural pathway that develops is that if you want to feel good you should eat, or perhaps drink alcohol, or take a drug.
Some would call these habits, but they are still neural pathways. Ever wondered why it takes 21 days to break a habit, or wondered why it is hard to break a habit? Well, it’s because you have this rut called a neural pathway, that needs to be filled in, and a new neural pathway created for the brain to follow.
Neural pathways are responsible for the way we act differently around different people and how we react to different stimuli on a day-to-day basis. We can have all kinds of stimuli that trigger different pathways and different responses.

A smell, for instance, can remind us of a time in our life that something happened - good or bad - and this can cause us to react differently.

 

Why would I want to change my neural pathways?
Some pathways obviously serve us well and there is no need to change these. But some learned experiences or neural pathways do not serve us well, especially when it comes to relationships with people - partners, work colleagues, family, etc., and in how we treat and respect ourselves - our body, our health, and our own mind. The Rapid Eye process can assist us to change in a natural, safe way.
If you think about the types of thoughts that you have even just for a moment, you will notice that a lot of time is spent thinking about anything but how wonderful this very moment is. This in itself is a neural pathway.
This can be one reason why it can be so difficult to meditate for some people - until they keep practicing - and guess what? They create a new neural pathway.
If we are constantly thinking of how we don’t have enough money, then the neural pathway we create is to always do things that leave us a bit on the poor side of life.

We are taught in personal development to live in the NOW, but this is a very new and unfamiliar neural pathway for us and can take some reprogramming to set in concrete.

 

How to change neural pathways.
Just by doing things differently and repeatedly, is the quick way to answer this question.
It’s like creating a new habit - you do it repeatedly and if the end result feels good then chances are that a new neural pathway will be created. Some habits cannot be changed without pattern interruption.
REM sleep naturally processes all the input taken in from sensory in the body. It also processes all of our thoughts and files them into our memory banks. We do REM sleep 25 minutes of a 90 minute sleep cycle over and over all throughout the night. If the perceived input has been life threatening, that message in the neural pathway stays there and the body keeps processing that message and related incidents over and over. For example, I may be trapped in a relationship and on that neural pathway I am also trapped in a car, a box, or the birth canal - causing me to feel like I have to get away or I am stuck.
Rapid Eye Technology is a process that simulates this REM sleep state by doing the same pattern in an awake state. It is very powerful because in REM sleep the conscious mind that makes choices is shut down. In an awake state each of us can choose to see and do things differently. The Rapid Eye process goes deep into cell memory to cause pattern interruptions and release old trapped messages that no longer serve. It works on abuse and trauma of all kinds in a quick, safe, natural process.
Each of these “mindsets” or neural pathways need to be addressed to make a complete change, and some of the old pathways need to be cleared away. Fortunately, Rapid Eye Technology does this quickly, effectively, and with minimal discomfort.
In general it is good to expand and develop new neural pathways as much as possible, offering us more options and preventing us from becoming rigid in our personality. It is also important to release or heal old messages that are holding us back from reaching our full potential and be happy in all aspects of our lives.
Rapid Eye Technology is a two-part process.
1.  Simulate REM sleep with eye movement to release issues without reliving the old abuse and trauma.
2.  To teach new skills for living that promote new neural pathways.
 

Copyright 2008 Rapid Eye Institute

 

 

 
10 Secrets to Succeeding at New Year's Resolutions:
Success at last.
 
 
If you apply these 10 secrets to your New Year's Resolution or any other goals you will find greater success. Your results will be easier and longer lasting without all the struggle and disappointment.
When your conscious and subconscious mind are aligned with the same goal, success is natural.
 
  1. Pick a resolution YOU really want. Make sure you are invested 100% in this goal. If you are doing it for your wife/husband, kids or boss you will find it more difficult. Motivation runs out fast when it is not really what YOU wanted in the first place.
  2. Write it down and put it where you can see it with a date to accomplish the goal. Be realistic.
  3. Break it down in little steps. Make it easy for yourself.
  4. Create a positive affirmation stated in the future as if you have already accomplished it. An example would be: “I weigh 130 lbs. I love exercising and my body is healthy and strong. I eat healthy meals and enjoy my food.” State this affirmation each day at least one time.
  5. Consider using techniques that help you identify and release any resistance you might have in your subconscious mind to achieving your goal. When we fail at a goal that we really want we usually have some subconscious resistance to achieving the goal. An example might be if you wanted to stop smoking on the conscious level but your subconscious mind wanted to hang onto the habit to manage stress in your life in a familiar way. If the subconscious was not brought on board with the goal then the change will not happen. Some techniques that can help change subconscious sabotage are hypnosis, Rapid Eye Technology & Emotional Freedom Technique.
  6. Reward yourself for any movement in the direction of your goal. Find something that you really want or enjoy and reward yourself with it when you hit big benchmarks but remember to reward yourself with something smaller each day you move in the right direction.
  7. If you slip backwards, do not give up. Forgive yourself and ask yourself what might be blocking you and if you need to adjust your goal or change the date of accomplishment. Be realistic with yourself about what you can accomplish in the time given.
  8. Enlist a friend or coach to help keep you on task and focused. There is safety in numbers. It is great if you have someone who is trying to accomplish the same goal that you can lean on in time of need. For example, if you know someone is waiting for you at the gym to work out with you then you are a lot more likely to follow through. You can choose someone who is not working toward the same goal but can be a good support in the way you need it. Make sure your personalities match with your motivation style. Do you need a gentle style or a more rigid style of motivation?
  9. Determine how you are personally motivated. People are either motivated toward something positive or away from something negative. About 70% of us are motivated away from the negative. Find out how you are motivated and use that to your advantage. If you are motivated by positive reinforcement, then really make a big deal of the positive you will receive when you accomplish the goal. If you are motivated by negative reinforcement, then emphasize the negative. However, as you move toward the positive rewards of the goal then start to switch your emphasis towards the rewards of the goal and away from the negative of not accomplishing the goal. An example would be if you wanted to lose weight the negative would want to get away from the health problems and the way you look. But as you move closer to the goal start to focus more on how wonderful you are feeling and looking.
  10. See yourself already there. Take 10 minutes each day to close your eyes and see your goal already achieved. Feel what it feels like to be successful. Involve all of your senses in this imagery. If your subconscious mind can see you there and feels good about it, you will succeed.
 

All rights reserved. Copyright 2007 Liesl Anderson

 

 

 

 

What is Your Vibration?

That is the Question to Know.

By Liesl Anderson

What is your vibration? That is the question to know. Are you vibrating with joy, love, fear, anger, abundance, lack or peace?

The vibrations you put out into the universe bring back to you that which you believe in and feel. If you believe in love then you receive love back. If you believe in hate then you receive hate back.

So how do you know what vibrations you are putting out into the universe? Look at what you are getting in your life to discover what you are putting out. Most of your vibrations  are under your conscious level. They are the beliefs you hold about life, people and yourself. In your life you are constantly looking for your beliefs to be confirmed as true. So if you believe that people rip other people off then when you encounter that you will say to yourself and others; "see... that is the way it is." That then is reinforced in your beliefs and energy and you will continue to attract more of that, and the circle continues.

One way to break out  of that circle is to use energy clearing techniques such as NLP,Rapid Eye and EFT. Using these techniques you are able to identify when the beliefs started then  release the beliefs and feelings,. Then using both your conscious and sub-conscious mind you change your beliefs and feelings and in changing your beliefs and feelings you change your vibration and what you attract into your life.

 

All rights reserved. Copyright 2007 Liesl Anderson

 

 

 

No More Fear;

Eliminate Your Public Speaking Fear

By Liesl Anderson

 

Tomorrow is the day. You can't sleep. Your thoughts are racing. Your body begins to shake and tremble. The morning comes greeted by great fear and nausea. You feel paralyzed and have thoughts of escaping either back to bed or to a deserted island. Or maybe you could disappear altogether. What does the day bring? War? Surgery? Court? None of these. This day brings the expectation that you speak in front of a group, large or small. If you have lived this terrifying experience over and over again, you are in the majority of people in Ameirca. Public speaking is the number one fear in America even before death. Most of us would rather be in the casket at a funeral then speaking at it.

 

So why is that? I suggest to you that public speaking is not naturally stressful. Stress and fear around public speaking are developed through a few different possibilities. The most common one is a traumatic event while either speaking or performing in front of others. This could be as simple as a show-and-tell experience in kindergarten when someone may have criticized you or laughed at a mistake you made. It could be a bigger event such as someone calling you names or mocking you while speaking or performing in front of others. There are thousands of possible situations that could create a fear of speaking in public. Each one is a personal experience that creates specific beliefs that then trigger a string of negative thinking that leads to the feeling of fear. The fear reinforces itself each time it is experienced. You may, as you mature, be able to accept on a rational level that the fear is irrational. You can see that it really makes no sense in real life. But knowing the fear is not rational does not make the fear go away.You still experience the negative thinking and fear at the drop of a hat if you are expected to speak in public. You may tell yourself in your mind or out loud that you are fine -- that speaking is not scary, that you can do this calmly and easily. But when it comes to it you start to shake, your mind blanks out, your knees get weak, your thoughts race and you are off into the same old pattern. Your experience then just reinforces your beliefs, which lead to the negative thinking which creates your fear and all the symptoms that come along with it. Again.

 

Let's examine for a minute how our feelings of fear are created. Most people believe that we are subject to our feelings; that we have no real control or choice about what we feel. Feelings are powerful things. They lead to love, marriage, divorce, hate, anger, charity, our choice in jobs, having children and more. Most everything we do is based on our feelings about it. Even when we are thinking about things logically we are still seeing the logic through our own set of feelings. Let's look at an example.

 

Let's take a woman who loves to go camping and fishing with her husband and kids. On one camping trip in the summer they have an unusual experience. A normal activity becomes life-threatening. On this trip a friend almost drowns, their boat comes unanchored twice on a very large river and has to be retrieved, and they are forced to return to dock and navigate this same large river in the pitch dark in order to try to return home. On the way home the wife witnesses her husband fall asleep behind the wheel of the their truck and cross the center line, almost flipping their boat and truck. Thankfully, it was 2 a.m. and nobody was on the road. Six months later, this same woman develops a crippling fear of driving after dark or riding in the car with her husband. Also, over the years, she develops a significant fear of camping. Her life becomes full of fear. This is an example of how something traumatic can cause crippling fear in someone's life.

 

So how does this apply to the fear of public speaking, you ask? Well, somewhere along the line you likely developed a belief that is now creating your emotions of fear. This is your perception. As I like to say, the glasses you look through in life. We all see things such as public speaking differently, depending on the glasses we are looking through. There are many beliefs that are creating your own personal pair of glasses. The feeling of fear is usually connected to a situation that felt like it treatened your survival, either physically or emotionally. Fear is a natural response to something that could damage you in some way. However, when a situation has no real threat in it and the feeling of fear is keeping us from it then it is actually harming us instead of helping us as it was created to do. It is a self-enforcing cycle. It is believed in many schools of thought that we actually hold the fear in our neuropathways in our brain. And that each time we have a thought, speak a word or experience a feeling we are strengthening that neuropathway. So in order to break out of the damaging cycle of fear we need to interrupt the pattern and release the original belief that created the fear the first time.

 

 

Once the belief is released then the response of fear is no longer needed. This all needs to be done on a subconscious and energetic level of the mind and body. Some beliefs I have found common in people experiencing public speaking with fear and anxiety are:

 

It is not okay to make mistakes

Everyone is judging me

I am not good at speaking

Others will make fun of me

I will fail

I don't have anything important to say

I need to be perfect

I inherited this fear

 

Each belief is so personal depending on how and when the belief and fear started. It is important to discover your specific beliefs that created your fear. Sometimes it can be difficult to uncover our beliefs because we don't believe that on a conscious level. But remember, it is the subconscious, in the neuropathways of the brain, that we want to address the beliefs. You may not even be aware on the conscious level that you have some of these beliefs. Once you discover your specific beliefs you can then work to eliminate those beliefs. The techniques that I have found most helpful for releasing and replacing negative beliefs are hypnosis, Rapid Eye Technolgy and Emotional Freedom Technique. In all of these techniques we are working on both the subconscious level and the energetic level of the mind and body.

 

Hypnosis is used to discover the original event that created the belief and fear the first time. Our subconscious mind remembers all that happens to us in great detail. By contacting the subconscious we are able to ask directly for what we need to know about the fear. Hypnosis is also used to help teach the mind to have a positive experience and to use advanced relaxation techniques.

 

Rapid Eye Technology is used to facilitate the release of negative beliefs and energy that are being held in the neuropathways. We use eye movements and energy work to open up the neuropath ways in the brain to allow negative beliefs to be released. Clients frequently report that they actually feel the energy moving and feel a great emotional release while participating in Rapid Eye.

 

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is used to balance the body's energy system in relation to a specific thought or belief. It is believed that the emotion we feel comes from an imbalance in our body's meridian system. The meridian system is the same energy system that acupuncture is based on. The meridians can become either overcharged, undercharged or blocked. When our energy system is unbalanced then we experience the feelings that come with stress and fear. By lightly tapping on specific energy points while using specific wording we are able to retrain the body's meridians to stay balanced, and in doing so we help to eliminate the negative emotions and feelings that come when the system is unbalanced.

 

All three techniques are natural and safe to use. Each technique can be learned and used at home to facilitate release and self-empowerment. Self-empowerment is the goal of all my work. I desire my work to allow my clients to feel powerful and in charge of their own work. I am just a support person lightly guiding them when needed.

 

Public speaking can become an enjoyable experience for those who are ready to let go of the negative beliefs and feelings that are creating it. There is no sweeter experience then freedom.

 

All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2007 Liesl Anderson