So much of our work here at the hypnosis office is about empowering people just like you and me to use these incredibly powerful and intricate machines we call our minds. We help people to move away from the thinking that they are at the mercy of their automatic behaviors, and teach them to harness the ability to program their minds to work for them instead.

This week I’d like to share with you a story  that aired this morning on Morning Edition from NPR. This is an excellent example of how we integrate the signals in our brain to create a habitual response, and how we can use simple and easy-to-learn techniques to interrupt those signals and experience less pain.

How The Brain Shapes Pain And Links Ouch With Emotion

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“You Are What You Say You Are!”

You have heard me use the term before. This week I want to share with you why this phrase is at the foundation of everything I do. This phrase is the key to unlocking my client’s ability to make the real and lasting changes that they want to make in their lives, and it all starts with their Inner Dialogue.

We all have an Inner Dialogue. It is that constant silent stream of conversation that we have going on inside our minds every day.

There is a continuous conversation going on in everyone's head, all the time. A lot of energy, time and attention goes into maintaining these conversations, and their emotional impact on us is as real as anything else we might experience. This conversation goes on from the moment w...

Change Your Mind, Change Your Life!

My name is Karen Gray.I am a Registered Nurse, a Certified Hypnotist, and the Owner of Green Mountain Hypnosis. I first got interested in learning more about hypnosis when a friend of mine got certified as a hypnotist, and told me all about it.

At first, I was skeptical. As a Nurse, I worked in a world that consisted of science and evidence-based practice, and hypnosis seemed too far out of that field for me. But the more he told me about it, the more I realized that I had been using the fundamentals of hypnosis for years! As I was distracting patients from painful procedures by helping them to visualize a more pleasant experience, and assisting others to use their imaginations to reduce their pain, I was u...