Living Hypnotically

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On this fourth episode of Living Hypnotically, Erika Flint interviews professional hypnotherapist and author Pam Leno.

Pam shares her journey of how she got into hypnotherapy after working in the fitness industry for 30 years and going through a difficult phase in her life.

She had initially tried life coaching but found that it required too much work from the client and that's when she stumbled upon hypnosis, she was hooked.

Pam was trained in 5-PATH and 7th Path Self-Hypnosis by Erika Flint and has been exploring and fine-tuning her skills ever since.

Both Erika and Pam agree that the structured approach of 5-PATH help their clients get immediate results and that they enjoy helping their clients by getting to the subconscious level.

Pam shares one of her favorite go-to techniques with clients, and we discuss her book.

Pam can be reached at: PamLeno.com, order her book now, Weight Loss Hypnosis: weightlosshypnosisbook.com

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Professional hypnotherapist and instructor Erika Flint, CEO of Cascade Hypnosis Center for Training & Services interviews professional hypnotherapist Heather Stewart.

Heather Stewart was 20 years old when she first became interested in hypnosis. She graduated from Cascade Hypnosis Center in Bellingham in 2017, and started practicing in December of the same year.

This is what we call going from “classroom to client” because your best teachers once you graduate training are your clients.

Before becoming a hypnotist, Heather's hypnosis helped her to stop spending money. Then, hypnosis also helped her trim a 2-POT a day coffee habit! Heather now drinks ONLY two cups of coffee a day and believes hypnosis is good for the brain.

Heather remarks a time “When I was 46 years old and I had been carrying around this stuff literally since I was a few days old in, in this little life of ours.

And so to get rid of it and unload it, I think very similarly to my clients, you have these moments of huge release and lightness. But there wasn't like this aha until the next time that thing came around.

Some clients come in who have developed a bad habit that's giving them a bad reaction within their life. They don't like the path their life has taken or how they're reacting at work or with their spouse.”

It's the emotional, like the emotional stuff that they're coming because it's an emotional thing. One of the biggest challenges is getting to the root cause that is driving behavior.

Can you tell us maybe a client win or a story that it ins inspirational to some of your potential clients out there?

Heather says doing hypnosis with a professional is different than getting hypnosis on YouTube. We notice things as professionals that clients might not notice, she says.

Heather says if you know you've got someone by your side going through it with you not leaving, it brings a whole other level of confidence to it. “I just love that with hypnosis we can get to that root cause and. The feeling is gone. They know it still happened, but the feeling, right? That's what we're doing in hypnosis. We get into that feeling space. And then we are able to get our clients results.

The technique Bi-lateral Stimulation is discussed - or what Erika calls “Diffusion technique” because it functions by “spreading out the anxiety across both hemispheres leading to a drop in perceived anxiety.

When you do something like you're crossing your arms across your body, it does diffuse the sensation of anxiety across the brain. So it almost is it just spreads it out and we can't notice that it's there anymore. It combats the fight or.

The importance of Anti-Anxiety techniques as hypnotists

As a professional hypnotist, you have to remember exactly what you're doing and it's important to stay calm in the moment. Heather says hypnosis can help you achieve more in five sessions than you would in 12 months of other types of therapies. Find the right therapist for you and be able to groove with the person that you're working with, she says. Heather says if you're thinking about becoming a hypnotist, just start doing it!

Heather can be reached at CascadeHypnosisCenter.com

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Catherine  Witt is a professional hypnotist who started seeing clients in 2018 and quickly found success in her new, rewarding career. 

"When I was 12  I thought I wanted to be a drama therapist.

Fast forward to now...and now I know I love dealing with things on a deep psychological level.

I also love storytelling.

I love the aspect of how our stories heal.

And the way we tell our stories, which is the  backbone of drama and theater. 

It's  the human story.

And so I, I actually then became a teacher. 

I decided teaching would also be pretty exciting."

"Four and a half years."

"When I was 12 I was part of a stage hypnosis experience.

I thought it was powerful how you can be  suggestible and that you can get your mind into a state that where you're willing do anything.

I've come to learn that people have their own boundaries, and they don't do it if they don't really want to. 

I found it  fascinating add to that the fact that I was so into it in that stage show! 

I was a hundred percent focused on whatever we were doing and I thought that is a powerful instrument." 

"When I was in college, I read a book called The Power of Your Subconscious Mind. 

I was harnessing that power - like planting suggestions, planting ideas and then watching them come to fruition and play out.

I thought -  this really is something here. This really works."

Catherine and Erika continue, pointing out that the intention with stage hypnosis is different - it isn't to really to alleviate suffering from the people in the crowd.

It's primarily for entertainment.

Stage hypnosis opens people's eyes and minds and hearts to the possibility. 

If you can do that on stage - I wonder what else you can do? 

"I'm more flexible with it.

I remember my very first couple clients, I was just so stoked.

The way  that 5-PATH©️  has this methodology that allows us to work with people right away and  empower people from your first client.

It helps us be successful immediately because of the structure.

I  really love freeing people from old patterns.

Like empowering people to create new actions and powers and, and patterns in their life."

"They got results. 

They quit smoking, they're getting along better with their spouses. 

I just was so stoked and I still am - I still have that feeling of excitement.

And we can just make clients lives better. 

It, it was, and is so thrilling.

It was that feeling of - here.

I'm here. I've arrived." 

"I like helping with -  it's sort of a reluctant thing, but I do feel like I get a lot of progress with people who have underlying resentment and anger issues.

And after working with them,  they find that they are at peace around these people that gave them problems in the past.

They can handle their own thoughts and imaginings and feelings around it.

So now they can go to the family evens again.

They can find that sense of peace  and centered inner spirit within themselves." - Catherine Witt

"I think where the anger comes from is a sense of injustice.  A sense of not being heard.

Or being neglected or abused.

 And by working with me they have the ability to find compassion for their own self.

And not have to project all of this negativity onto the other people.

So you're not sitting there judging, assigning blame or responsibility and constantly keeping track of who owes, who owes what to me and who did wrong to me.

And keeping like this ongoing track of fairness and, you know, respect or something in our lives."

"Absolutely, Erika I mean, I don't know what I ever did without it.

Well, actually I do know, I mean, I had coping mechanisms.

Like I used to smoke.

I used to binge eat.

Now I live hypnotically.

I just, I just really love my hypnosis and I do it like at least three to five times a week usually."

"I like a lot of novelty so I'll do different things.

Sometimes I will sit down and just close my eyes and just breathe deeply and try and connect to the spirit until I'm getting to this place where my body isn't sort of like edgy.

And then I will do a form of mantra hypnosis.

Sometimes I will listen to music and float, like in a hot tub.

And as as soon as my feet hit the ground, like I'm going for a walk -  I just get into this meditative state.

I feel really focused again on that center and I'm able to process thoughts and feelings and witness myself.

And I know it's a habit like exercise.

I know if I don't do it, then I start feeling on edge"

"I would like them to know that whatever it is they imagine for themselves and and want for themselves is completely within their realm.

And let's get on it.

Let's get going." 

"That's a big part of our work, yes, shifting that belief. There's nothing wrong with you.   Erika that's why I really am drawn to you - you know this, you know how key it is that people understand that there is nothing wrong with them.   The advertising kind of industry is all about telling us you're not okay. You know?   You need to have this to be happy and we're hypnotized by that. Very hypnotized. That's why we go by our mascara." - Catherine Witt

"With hypnosis clients get that pause ;  and that the pause is where everything is.  You don't get that knee-jerk reaction.

If you're getting tapped into this other information and you're just doing your thing over and over some say like up to 80% of our actions are subconscious. "

"You will have those moments of pure presence and joy that just drop in only when we're paying attention.

You walk outside and the rain had just stopped and on this day, because you did hypnosis, you take it a little bit more slowly...

You notice the raindrops hanging off the leaf right in front of you, and as you get closer, you see the entire world reflected around you...

You think - this raindrop, Hey, have you guys seen this raindrop?

And everybody's walking by this raindrop. And we have the ability to look at a raindrop and see the entire universe in that.

And then we get to, we get to help our clients have that same type of experience." - Erika Flint

"I had this, this, this one young man who was so sweet, such a sweet young man, but you know, he had so much on his plate with being a young father and trying to be a husband, trying to take care of all these people.

He also had a marijuana and pornography habit  - and he knew that it was clamping down his life.

We did some wonderful, beautiful work together where he really opened up and connected to his heart and he became more free to be the man that he really wanted to be of integrity.

And he got  into the military and is doing all these great things.

He told me ' I'm noticing flowers. ' Those little comments from our clients mean and tell so much.

"Hypnosis is an answer to our times. It's an answer to polarization in our world.

It's a connector.

It connects us to ourselves and then allows us, therefore to connect better."

 -Catherine Witt

"Realize that all you need to start a hypnosis practice is Five minutes a day at to begin with. And then you start getting this habit and you're like, okay, I can do it."

 "You've been lovingly working  with us for quite some time, and we really appreciate it.

Catherine, you've helped so many people, so thank you."

To all of our listeners and fans out there, thank you so much for joining today and thank you, Catherine Witt, for being here and all of the love and heart that you have put into your practice starting from when you were  little and wanting the drama therapy.

How brilliant are we when we are little?That's just such a beautiful story.

So thanks for all of the great work that you do, Catherine.

Catherine can be reached at : CatherineWittHypnotherapy.com, or https://cascadehypnosiscenter.com/catherine-witt.

I'm Erika Flint. You can find me at CascadeHypnosisTraining.com, and I hope you have a wonderful day living Hypnotically. 

I hope to see you in the hypnosis classroom soon!

Lisa Finn is a professional hypnotist who started seeing clients in 2020 and quickly found success in her new, rewarding career. 

How did Lisa become a professional hypnotist?

Lisa previously worked in the corporate world, and was feeling unfulfilled -- especially when 2020 hit and life was changing quickly for everyone. 

She began exploring energy healing, reiki, and took a course on being a life coach, but felt there was so much more that could be accomplished if she could find the right way to support the mind in the mind, body, and soul connection.

Lisa Finn, Professional Hypnotist 

While doing the dishes and listening to a podcast, she learned about hypnosis and its effectiveness in transforming the subconscious mind.

This felt like the missing piece she was looking for, so she signed up for professional hypnosis training at Cascade Hypnosis Center for Training & Services in March of 2020.

She quickly began seeing clients and integrating her new hypnosis training, and found great success with the results.

People were experiencing some difficult internal struggles, and she was able to help them find relief, and transform their subconscious to ascend into the life that they truly wanted -- it was incredibly rewarding to be able to help people that were feeling so lost.

Lisa continued her education and has built a large toolbox to help people manage all sorts of different issues.

Her goals are to help each client discover and understand that they are inherently lovable, worthy, and valuable - even when they've believed the opposite for so long.

Hypnosis is able to help people because it gets to the root of the issue, and creates deep, subconscious perspective changes.

A hypnotist will recognize the importance of self-talk, and help the client to pivot the language they are using with themself.

The words we use for our self-talk are important indicators about how someone is feeling, and we want to emphasize when we notice positive changes in self-talk language while going through the hypnosis process to really highlight the transformations that are rapidly occurring between sessions.

Hypnosis is not mind control - it is a natural state where the hypnotist can direct the suggestions you've been trying so hard to consciously make, to your subconscious mind where results happen quickly and with less stress.

Lisa also uses the proven 2 Breath Hypnosis technique to address stress and anxiety with her clients. It is a simple practice that involves visualizing two different colors while inhaling and exhaling two deep breaths. It helps us reconnect with a peaceful state, and work through moments of overwhelm.

Enjoy the full video interview above to learn more about Lisa's success, and how hypnosis can help you, or even become your new career!

Lisa can be reached at LisaFinnHypnosis.com