Starting Over - Again!

Welcome to my BlogAlong Self-Development Workshop. This online workshop follows my books/programs including Sugar....the Hidden Eating Disorder & How to Lick It, Beyond Disorderly Eating, the Mind & Body Fitness Boot Camp, Stop Nail Biting Now: 4 Steps to Success, as well as many of my CD/mp3 programs.

The BlogAlong workshop is both didactic & interactive. The latter includes active discussions, mp3 downloads from my available library, as well as some designed specifically for this workshop. To participate in the discussions you will need to join one of my email yahoogroups. There are ten of them, located on my website or you can email me for an invitation. I suggest you work with a three ring binder &/or a journal. This will accentuate your subconscious mind programs.

The yahoogroups will give you some idea as to the goals of some of the BlogAlong participants. Some are focused on specific problems or medical/health issues such as chronic conditions, disease management, disorderly eating, sugar addiction, other addictions, phobias, compulsions, lack of focus, emotional imbalance, low self-esteem, undesirable habits & are looking for solutions. Others are looking to manage pregnancy & parenthood, accelerate learning, enhance creativity, improve their thought patterns, confidence levels, write better, reach goals & to enhance the working of their mind & body by accessing their unique & powerful subconscious minds.

It's interesting to know that we will all benefit from the very same tools & I will benefit through my teaching & designing materials for the group, for every group is different & so my work doesn't finish.

Today is the first day of the BlogAlong Workshop & the first order of business is to learn to disassociate from everything & to locate our authentic self. I will post an mp3 session to begin this process, as well as to give you a mind & body exercise here.

MIND EXERCISE

It's imperative to know that you are not your problems or your desires. You are authentically separate & in a way, a conduit to anything & everything, both negative & positive, both useful & not useful. Everything is a choice. All your responses are choices. This will be the major crux for today.

In order to review & then program the mind for what you want & to edit out what you don't want, it's imperative to completely disassociate so you can be an observer instead of a participant.

We do this through very deep relaxation. It's easy to do this, but it takes practice. I've been practicing for over 25 years, but don't be dismayed. Results happen quickly, if you have full intention. Practicing just makes us more proficient at disassociating & therefore we can work more quickly.

Find a place where you will not be disturbed & disconnect your phone. This is a special time for you & you alone. Most of us do not feel comfortable in quietness & so this is something you will have to work on. Sense the chair under your buttocks & behind your back. Take a deep yawn breath in from the bottom of your feet & observe it traveling through your body. Hold it in your mouth for the count of 4 & when 4 arrives, allow the breath to exit through the imagined valves on the ends of your fingers ten.

Next, draw imaginary circles around chosen parts of your body. Start with the head & then nice deep breath. Next your neck, front & back. Shoulders.....right & then left. Big bag around each arm, breathing after placing these. Circle around your chest & inner circle around your heart & then lungs. Breath. Moving down to your lower belly, going inward if you like, especially if you feel tension points there. Breathe. Then a bag for the left leg & then the right one. Breathe.

Now draw an imaginary golden egg around all of you. You are now inside your golden egg. This is your place on the face of the earth. Everything else & I mean everything else, is outside. That includes desires, emotions, problems, people, sounds, things, etc. The only thing inside the egg is you & your mind screen. This is your connection to your subconscious mind & it is here that you will run your life from now on forward. And, while you will spend time in the outside world that resides outside your egg, you are only 1/200th of a second from being able to enter it, once you practice over & over. In othe words, you can enter in the blink of an eye.

The mp3 for your Authentic Self will be located on my website at the following link. AUTHENTIC SELF

ACTIVE AFFIRMATION CLUSTER

The seeds to my success are in my imagination in this very moment. I actively visualize all the things I want in my life in all areas. I actively make my mental blueprint and begin to build... Elizabeth Bohorquez, RN, C.Ht

Today I was working with a client of mine, I'll call Crystal. She, like so many others, has been frustrated by her search for what she wants to achieve in different areas of her life. She's changed jobs, houses, locations and even husbands in her quest for what she calls "perfection."

Now I always feel like running for cover when I hear that word, for most of us know that it simply doesn't exist, but for Crystal, it is a true destination. She reminded me of a gerbil on a treadmill, exhaused from her trek to nowhere.

Crystal is so busy looking outward, that she's lost her inner vision. Forget her resources. As far as she's concerned, she is a victim of life with nothing to show for it. How very sad....... She's only 32 years old.

I designed some active imagery for her based on the affirmation cluster for today. Interactive self-hypnosis gives us the opportunity to take an over-view of issues and then to develop a working metaphor in the theater of the mind. I needed to break Crystal's negative hypnotic mind states, of which there were many. Not only did she have a myraid of physical issues, but her thought patterns and sense of reality were quite distorted.

First off the bat, I needed the gerbil's attention. She talked incessantly, going over the same ground, truly stuck in the hypnosis of the turning wheel. To break this type of self-imposed negative hypnosis, we need to sweep the castle clean and then to begin re-furbishing. This was accomplished with a simple command of "shhhh....!!!! STOP.....listen." It never ceases to amaze me that a simple command given with kind authority can have such an effect. It was almost as if she were relieved that I stopped her. She was now in a submissive state and ready to receive positive hypnotic suggestion.

Affirmations are mini-mind programs that can pack a lot of power in a few sentences. When they are attached to active imagery or metaphor, they become even more powerful.

Anyone can work hypnotically. If you haven't experienced this before, here are few complimentary mp3 downloads. Each is a full interactive self-hypnosis session & part of a complete 2-3 track series. Each are filled with active imagery & affirmations.
Self-Image Affirmations
Making Changes - Affirmations & Imagery
Blending Work & Personal Goals

PLANTING AN ACTIVE AFFIRMATION

Let's work along with Crystal...

We always begin by reading the affirmational cluster out loud or slowly to ourselves. Prepare to spend some "real time" with yourself. Planting on the fly is not the way to go.

The seeds to my success are in my imagination in this very moment. I actively visualize all the things I want in my life in all areas. I actively make my mental blueprint and begin to build...

Gerbils are already in hypnosis from the movement of the wheel and so was Crystal. Once she stopped her motion, all that was necessary was some deep relaxation techniques. I utilized the colored circles around her body parts, starting at the head and ending at the bottom of her feet. I asked her to allow the cells that were in each part to slowly move apart from each other. Since she held lots of tension in her head, neck and shoulders, I placed additional inner circles in those areas. It wasn't more than a few moments when a good level of very deep relaxation was present.

I brought Crystal's attention to her mind screen and since she is very visual, I had her paint the gardens and the goal-den path. Then I appeared on it and put my hands out towards her. Like a lovely butterfly, she came towards me and gave me her disorderly backpack. I brought her attention to her lightness of being and how relaxed she felt as she walked along with my guidance.

I began to show her the gardens that contained all of her resources that she's collected over the many years of her life. Some were quite old, coming from childhood. Others were newer, and the newest ones were being planted as we walked along in this moment.

We then entered her workshop. This is where her resources were being utilized to build her successes. First we visited the planners who were working with blueprints. Next, we entered the construction area where many different projects were in process. Some were health-related, others having to do with work issues, prosperity and then relationships. I pointed out that everything she needed was already present. This was internal working.

The finishing area was over there. She could pick up and admire many of these projects, some of which she had indicated to me during our pre-hypnotic session, despite the fact that she reported not having been much of a success at anything.

Crystal has quite a bit of cleaning up to do in her pattern department, as well as in her thought and emotion areas. It was decided to remove the gerbil wheel and instead to spend active time relaxing and examining blueprints. While Crystal has much work to do, this was a good beginning