SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER (209) 538-4014 MEMORY ENHANCEMENT and RECOVERING MEMORIES Memory Enhancement: Your unconscious mind is where your memories are stored. It's job is to serve you up whatever memories you need at a particular moment. Here's the way it works. Your conscious mind can only keep track of a certain number of things at one time. For instance, you don't go around remembering your phone number all day (in your conscious mind), you just think of it when you need it (your unconscious mind serves it to your conscious mind). Sometimes the wires get crossed or the learning is state or context dependent. Most of us have had the experience of meeting a person in one place and then seeing them in another place - and not remembering their name or who they were. That's a case of your mind not "reaching into the correct folder" to retrieve the information. Hypnosis is a much broader, more fluid state of mind. In a trance we can instruct your memory to "share information across folders". Almost everybody knows that not only is hypnosis good for memory enhancement but for recovering lost memories. In a hypnotic trance, awareness and recall are boosted (by some estimates up to 2000 percent!) Some people can literally "re-live" events as if they were there and almost everyone's memory is enhanced significantly. Whether you want to boost your memory power or get access to lost memories give us a call to find out if hypnosis is the right approach for you. SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER  (209) 538-4014 PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT Performance enhancement has long been a hallmark of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. We all know that much of how well we do anything is mental. In fact Yogi Berra once said about baseball "Ninety percent of this game is half mental". Sports psychologists, professional athletes, top students and others understand that the proper mind-set is crucial to getting things done well. Many well known athletes and teams have used hypnosis and guided imagery to lock in and create their goals. Whatever it is you want to do better, having all parts of your mind, fully and congruently oriented toward achieving your goals can skyrocket your performance level. Give us a call to see if we can help you get your performance where you want it. SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER (209) 538-4014 SELF CONFIDENCE Can Hypnosis increase self confidence? Can low self esteem be helped through hypnotherapy? The answer lies in how our minds work. The conscious mind can only keep track of so much, so it's left to our unconscious mind to create and maintain things such as our self image. In order to produce a self-image our minds refer back to past incidents or create possible future scenarios and then produce feelings related to those imaginations or memories. Often this activity is out of our conscious awareness, we only know that we have a good or bad feeling. Each of us has memories or can imagine things which affect us in a positive emotional way or a negative emotional way. Sometimes the negative emotions play an important role. If you accidentally placed your hand on a hot burner, you wouldn't want to have to think about it - you want your unconscious mind to move that hand immediately! Lack of self-confidence is created by us constantly remembering or imagining negative situations and getting bad feelings as a result. Since these thoughts are often out of consciousness and "automatic" to a certain extent, it's difficult to retrain yourself. Affirmations are a way to retrain your unconscious mind. If you repeat an affirmation enough times, with your conscious mind, with the proper emotion and with belief, your unconscious will eventually get the message. Hypnosis goes right to the boss - the unconscious mind. Let's get the message to the part of us that can do something about it quickly and comfortably. The unconscious mind is a great learner and can be trained to refer to things that give you good feelings - self-confidence. If this makes some sense to you or you have some questions, feel free to call now to discuss whether or not hypnosis could help with your situation. SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER  (209) 538-4014 MOTIVATION Motivation - what is it really? We believe motivation is when your mind is fully aligned and congruent about accomplishing something. When your mind is, at all levels, motivated - you just do it! There's no thinking about it, putting it off, making excuses or "waiting for the right time." You just act. If there's something that you would like to do but aren't doing it's likely that some part of you isn't fully on board. Use hypnosis do discover what it is that's stopping you and to help you get fully and completely aimed toward achievement - then motivation happens! Give us a call ! SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER  (209) 538-4014 PUBLIC SPEAKING Fear of public speaking is the number one fear in America (according to some polls). Called by many names - stage fright, speech anxiety, shyness, fear of speaking, performance anxiety, and speech phobia, fear of public speaking can have a negative effect on careers and the ability to get things done. How would your life be better if you could comfortably and confidently speak in front of groups, a job interviewer, presenting a toast at a wedding or speaking up for that meeting in your office. Hypnosis can help you to reach and bring out the inner confidence you have in one area and attach it to another area. If you feel confident cooking a soufflé hypnotherapy can help attach that same confidence to speaking in public. If you feel confident speaking to your 3 year old hypnosis can help to create that same feeling while performing public speaking. You're welcome to contact us now if you have questions about whether or not hypnosis might help you rid yourself of fear of public speaking. SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER  (209) 538-4014

EXERCISE Have you ever made up your mind to exercise regularly and then lost your motivation? How is it that a person can consciously decide to do something and then not follow through? The answer is that some part of you is in opposition to your exercising. If you fully and congruently wanted to exercise you would experience what we call motivation. Many times, the part of you that doesn't want to exercise does not operate at the conscious level. The unconscious mind, being more powerful, usually wins out in the end. No amount of berating yourself or making promises to yourself will help. Hypnosis can help to align all parts of your mind toward the goal of exercising regularly and the satisfaction, health, vitality and energy that go along with it. You still have to do the work but doesn't it make sense to have your mind on your side? Call now and we'll figure out whether or not hypnosis is an appropriate approach for you. SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER    (209) 538-4014 LOSE WEIGHT Lose weight, reduce, diet - it goes by many names. For some dieting and exercise come naturally. Others try the chemical methods - drugs. Sometimes they work, often they don't. Have you ever wondered why? Let's look closely at the reasons people are overweight. For some people overeating just a simple habit. Hypnosis has long been known as an effective way to change habits. Dieting and exercise are a part of any health regimen but they don't address the habit issue. Drugs suppress habit impulses chemically (that includes herbal drugs folks) but don't get to the root of the problem - habit. For others, eating has a deep emotional significance or serves some need - usually a feeling of safety or comfort. Is diet, exercise or chemical intervention going to satisfy that need? No. The unconscious, deep-seated needs will continue to express themselves through overeating until they are resolved. Weight loss will not be possible long-term until you can do this. This is why so many people lose weight for a while - then gain it back. Hypnotherapy is extremely valuable in finding permanent and more healthy ways to get those feelings of comfort. Other folks have trauma in their past. Sometimes, the unconscious mind believes that having a layer of fat is the only way to keep a person safe. In these cases, when someone loses weight they will become increasingly edgy and possibly begin to experience anxiety or panic until they begin to regain the weight. Will diets and exercise alone solve this problem? Will taking drugs and chemicals help resolve these past issues? No. Hypnosis can help resolve past issues by re-processing them in a safe environment - allowing folks to lose weight and feel fine emotionally. Then exercise and eating healthy food can have a full positive effect. There are some people who have a genetic disposition toward overweight or a medical condition which has overweight as a side-effect. Hypnosis is not a cure-all or panacea but it can be of some benefit in these situations. We have never seen a medical condition that does not have some mental or emotional components. The can be addressed through hypnosis. The unconscious mind's resources can also be marshaled to ameliorate symptoms and change or adjust metabolism or other bodily functions that are out of control of the conscious mind. Doesn't it make sense to have all of your resources aimed toward meeting your goal? Whether it's losing weight or achieving another cherished goal, hypnotherapy can help. Call to find out more. SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER             (209) 538-4014 STOP SMOKING Stop smoking, quit smoking, smoking cessation - it's called a variety of things but the idea is the same. For your health and for the health of those around you stopping smoking can be the critical factor. We've found that people smoke because, in their mind smoking has become tied to something important. Smoking represents freedom to some and rebellion to others, it's a James Dean image to some and it helps others relax or gain perspective. Together, we find the reasons you smoke and find better ways to accomplish those things. We've found that when these needs are addressed ahead of time, and more healthy & conscious means are found to satisfy them, the desire to smoke drops dramatically. Exploring "smoking triggers" is another facet of our approach. Do you smoke after you eat, when you're on the phone, before bed, while you're driving? We, together, find all the examples of the time you know "it's time to smoke." Blowing out those triggers takes smoking out of the "I just found myself with a cigarette in my hand" category and into the category of conscious choice. Hypnosis can help you to stop smoking. It works best under the condition that you truly want to quit - not because someone is nagging you into it, but for yourself. Hypnosis has been shown to be one of the most effective tools to help someone quit smoking - and Hypnosis is not a magical cure-all. The hypnotist doesn't quit smoking FOR you, you areare still the one that has to quit. Knowing that, hypnosis can be a powerful tool to strengthen your motivation and dissolve the hold that your current "smoking triggers" have over you, in addition to decreasing or even erradicating cravings, and making the whole process easier and much more likely to succeed. Call if you have any questions: SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER    (209) 538-4014 STUTTERING Stuttering, in our experience, can be helped with hypnotherapy. Stuttering often occurs as a result of an unhappy event in childhood in which a child cannot express themselves. Hypnosis can help find and then re-live events that led to the stutter and re-process them in a way that allows you to speak normally and fluidly. Through re-living these past events from a safe comfortable perspective we can add our adult understanding and resources to what was likely a frightening or frustrating experience for a youngster. Experience the freedom of speaking fluidly and freely in your daily life. Feel free to call about your situation, We'd be happy to talk to you.  SEVERIN HYPNOTHERAPY CENTER   (209) 538-4014

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