Hypnotherapy Potential

Hypnosis and the Aging Process
or Act Your Age!

As you read through my blogs, you will see several topics that you might not connect with hypnosis.  The truth of the matter is, you use self-hypnosis every day to sort through problems balance between the conscious and subconscious parts of your brain without even realizing that is what you are doing.  For instance, when you say, "I will weight the pros and cons of this particular problem and come up with a solution," you are using the conscious part of your brain, the decision maker.  When you say " I don't know how I feel about it, I'll have to sleep on it, my gut is telling me something different from the facts," that is your subconscious, the emotional portion of your brain speaking to you. So how is all of this worthy information related to aging? Well, it is something that happens right before your eyes, even if it does not make sense to you!  You may feel like a 25 year older inside, still flirtatious, excited about trips, new adventures, good music and feel like your can hike all day and party all night!  Oh yeah! That is definitely your imagination, the subconscious talking to you.  The decision maker, the practical conscious may argue back with your feelings stating: "dream on " did you forget that your knees give out, your blood pressure is high, and you have not stayed up past 10:00 pm for 10 years!

I encourage you to argue with the facts and go for the dream!  You can't change your age, but you can change your opinion about what you can and can't do.  Of course you are not going to dance "all night" but maybe say yes to s cruise, or an old hippie concert and boggie for a couple of hours.  Maybe you can't hike Everest, but a Foothill day trip with extra stops, water and even walking sticks might feel just as good. Remember what it was about you that really turned your partner on....or smile and talk to someone new....you are just older, you are not dead!  So stop acting like life is over.  Take a deep breath, come up with a dream of something that you would really like to do, or if you forgot how to do that, come up with a new dream.  Visualize it, see how good you feel, see a positive outcome and bring it to you.  So are there any hints in here about changing the aging process? No!  There is a subliminal message to change your attitude, concentrate on what you can do, not what you can't do!  Spend a few minutes every day re-inventing yourself, keep life fresh and see what unfolds...here's to your wild dreams and new adventures.  I leave you with a poem from one of my former clients.

Lord, thou knowest I am growing older
Keep me from becoming talkative and possessed with the idea that I must express myself on every damm subject.
Release me from the craving to straighten out everyone's affairs.
Keep my mind free from the recital of endless detail.  Give me wings to get to the point.
Seal my lips when I am inclined to tell of my aches and pains.  They are increasing with the years and my love to speak of them grows sweeter as time goes by.
Teach me the glorious lesson that occasionally I may be wrong.  Make me interested but not nosey-helpful but not bossy.
With my fast store of wisdom and experience it does seem a pity not to use it all.  But thou knowest, dear Lord, that I want a few friends at the end.  Amen.