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Hit the Reset Button with Hypnotherapy by Linda Sechrist
M The Universe is 98% energy! everything found in, above and under has its own dynamic energy! Our entire body continually vibrates at a subtle level, moving energy and information through our connective tissues.
The L.i.F.e. sysTem
scans nearly 7,000 energy patterns. By identifying which energy vibrations are out of balance, the system can put them back into harmonic balance, allowing your body to return to a state of rest and healing.
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my clients this effective, elissa Stefanaski, solution-based tool for director and achieving goals, whether founder of it be to reduce stress, lose Insight Hypnotherapy, in weight, quit smoking, pass Fort Myers, and Knowa test or build confidence,” Stress-Zone.com, has says Stefanski. been helping individuShe advises that while als to deal with anxiety, hypnotherapy seems overcome challenges magical, it’s not magic. and make significant “Improving will power life changes since 1998. to replace a bad habit After earning a Bachsuch as eating unhealthy elor of Science degree in Melissa Stefanaski food or snacking between Psychology from McGill meals with a good habit takes more University, in Montreal, Canada, in 1996, than thinking, ‘I won’t eat that piece Stefanski resumed studying and in 1998 of cheesecake’. What’s likely to happen earned a Master of Arts degree in Counis that after thinking about not eatseling Psychology. ing it, you’ll do it and think, ‘I’ll start A search for an additional tool my diet tomorrow or I’ll make a New that could help the clients she served Year’s resolution and start fresh after the in settings such as inpatient substance holidays.’ Hypnosis offers what I think abuse rehabilitation centers, behavioral is missing to building willpower—the programming treatment facilities and inemotional commitment to making the dividual therapy at mental health counselchange that will make us happy. Hyping centers, led the Fort Myers resident to nosis is a tool for tapping into emotions hypnotherapy. While helping clients with that help get us excited about making the new self-help tool since 2011, she disa commitment to change, rather than covered that the science-based approach relying on our intellect,” she advises. helped her overcome her lifelong personal “Insight Hypnotherapy, your very struggle with worrying and nervousness own reset button, is about turning inward, that presented itself as headaches and looking for your answers inside you. Many physical uneasiness. individuals get stuck in the category of selfToday, as certified hypnotherapist help, looking for a guru or special program through the National Guild of Hypnotists, to tell them what to do. The missing key to she refers to hypnotherapy as her “labor your life and the goals you want to accomof love”. “I used to worry so easily and plish is you—the main contributor to your throughout the years. I bought numerous success. Inside you is where insight comes products and countless self-help programs from, uncovering the answers that are in search of that ‘thing’ that was going to already there and committing to activate make the terrible feelings of anxiety to go them in your life. That’s the real reset butaway. I wasted a lot of time and money, ton,” enthuses Stefanski. remaining stuck in self-help hell until I was trained in self-hypnosis, which has For a free consultation or to make an appointa natural affinity with psychotherapy. ment, call 239-980-2507. See ad, page 57. Now I consider it a labor of love to teach
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