Life Coaching

Life Coaching


Stay the same size your wedding dress was made for
Anger management
Emotional Eating
ADHD
Athletic performance
Medical test fears
Cosmetic hypnosis
Stop smoking
Struggling students
Fears and phobias
professional confidence

Cosmetic effects of hypnosis

When I first began doing hypnosis sessions in 1998, one of the first things that I noticed about my women clients was they almost all returned from trance looking younger. It seems that when we set aside our past limiting beliefs and clear up issues, the body shows its relief by allowing the tension to leave the body.
When I was first experiencing hypnosis sessions for myself in 1997, I was asked to book a massage for the same day if possible. My hypnotist understood that when we change a characteristic way of thinking through hypnosis, we can also break up the “muscle memory” held in the tissues.
Those who have been dealing with stress for a long time become unaware of the tension until it is released. It is noticed by its absence rather than its presence.
So I invite you to take command of your life.  Use the power of the hypnotic process  to remove the “thought viruses” which you  may have accumulated over the years.
Not only do you get more freedom – you get to look younger too.
When you use hypnosis to stop smoking, you then help to reduce the squint lines near the eyes and tiny lines around the mouth from drawing on a cigarette.

Hypnosis and Pain Management

“Most patients benefit from the use of hypnotic suggestion for pain relief,” says Guy Montgomery, PhD, a behavioral scientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. ( Montgomery published a meta-analysis on the subject in the April 2, 2000 issue of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis.)
Tapping the Power of Suggestion
During hypnosis, subjects enter a state of inner absorption,concentration, and focused attention, in which they pick up suggestions particularly well. In this condition, they can tap into normally unused mental powers to create new possibilities of experience. “Hypnosis is simply a refined form of applied imagination,” says Donald F. Lynch Jr., MD, aurological oncologist at the Eastern Virginia School of Medicine, who has used the technique to help patients alleviate the pain, anxiety, and depression associated with cancer.
Results from several papers have recently furnished compelling new evidence for the powers of hypnosis. The April 29, 2000,issue of the journal The Lancet reported that hypnosis reduced pain, anxiety,and blood pressure complications in patients undergoing invasive medical procedures. (Hypnosis was compared with standard care and supportive attention,such as encouragement and active listening.) In addition, the procedures took significantly less time in the hypnosis treatment group, probably because the health care workers didn’t have to interrupt their activities to deal with the patients’ pain or to stabilize blood pressure, says Spiegel. Patients in the hypnosis group also required less than half as much painkilling medication as those in the standard group.
Patients most commonly employ the technique in addition to other treatments, but it can also be used by itself. Alexander A. Levitan, MD,MPH, a medical oncologist in Minneapolis, has participated in numerous surgeries, including hysterectomies and tracheostomies, in which hypnosis was used as the sole agent for pain control.

How Does It Work?
No one knows exactly how hypnosis works, but scientists have several ideas.”Hypnosis changes your expectations about how intense the pain will be,” says Montgomery. “That alters your experience of the subsequent pain.”
Spiegel offers an alternative explanation. “You focus your attention on a competing image that blocks your perception of the pain,” he says.
Researchers are currently testing these theories by way of various experimental approaches. Some studies, for example, are documenting the physiological changes that occur under hypnosis. The process activates certain parts of the brain, including the portion that focuses attention. “By concentrating elsewhere, a person inhibits the pain from coming to conscious awareness,”says Helen Crawford, an experimental psychologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
In a study by Spiegel and Harvard psychologist Steven Kosslyn, PhD, published in the August 2000 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, subjects were hypnotized and told that the black-and-white pictures they were looking at were color. Blood flow increased in the part of the brain that processes color vision. In other words, although the subjects were viewing black-and-white photos, their brains behaved as if they were seeing colors.
Hypnotizing Yourself
Hypnosis sessions can allow the patient  to incorporate a deepened sense of relaxation into their  daily life, which alleviated the stress that was partly responsible for triggering their migraines. People often picture specific images to achieve a goal. To soften a headache, for example, the person might conjure up an ice pack on their head. Another technique is to notice the colour of the pain, then move that or those colours into an imagined painting on the wall. This painting, containing the transformed pain is then removed from the room by two big men in overalls.
Most people are quite unaware of what a trance or hypnotic state really is –if you easily get absorbed in novels, for example — you very likely can be hypnotized. The technique employs powers of attention similar to those involved in watching a film. When you enter a theater, you’re aware of the other 200 or300 people. When the movie begins, you concentrate on it and lose track of the audience. You choose to switch your focus.” Motivation plays a key role in hypnosis, and the best way to find out if it will help you is to try it. My experience has been that most people who need hypnosis for pain control can use it successfully.
All hypnosis is really self-hypnosis. The hypnotherapist is guiding you to do something for yourself. The hypnotherapist is teaching you how to use resources you already have, for your benefit in a chosen area of your life.
Patients must realize that hypnosis is never an alternative to appropriate medical care and supervision. It should be viewed as part of a total approachto health and undertaken as such.

Hypnosis in the birth process.

Hypnosis can be used to achieve maximum relaxation, comfort, and relief during childbirth.
According to Dr. Dick-Read, an expert in the field, the use of hypnosis during labor helps laboring women break what he termed the “Fear-Tension-Pain syndrome” which makes labor more difficult. He believed the syndrome actually caused blood to flow away from nonessential organs such as the uterus to large muscle groups in the legs. He theorized that relaxation achieved through hypnosis would prevent that from happening.
Marie F. Mongan, another authority, says that with the aid of hypnosis, a woman can bring her body into a state of deep relaxation in which the body’s muscle scan work the way they’re meant to during childbirth. She says it feels similar to daydreaming, or the feeling you get when you are lost in a book or movie.Those who have used this technique report feeling: relaxed, calm, aware, and in control.
How does it work?
Hypnosis in the birth process is based on the power of suggestion. The laboring woman uses positive affirmations, suggestions, and visualizations to relax her body, guide her thoughts, and control her breathing. She can either do this herself (self-hypnosis) or receive assistance from a hypnotherapist. Sometimes women work with a certified hypnotherapist to learn self-hypnosis. They often play a tape of verbal affirmations that help them enter a calm state of self-hypnosis.
A hypnotherapist may or may not be present during the birth, depending on the needs of the laboring woman. For some people self-hypnosis is easy to achieve,while others respond better to the assistance of a therapist.
The Benefits of Hypnosis
• It’s a natural form of pain management. There are no medications with potential side effects for you or baby.
• It can provide comfort, relaxation, and relief during labor.
• It can decrease stress and fear during childbirth.
• It allows you to remain alert and awake.
Common Myths Associated with Hypnosis
• Hypnosis is a form of mind control or brainwashing.
• Hypnosis puts you in a deep sleep.
• A person who’s been hypnotized has no free will.
• You can’t perform usual tasks and functions if you’re hypnotized.
• You’re unaware of what’s going on around you when you’re hypnotized.

Anger Management

We are surrounded by an environment full of possible emotional triggers. There is an old joke between couple that starts out “don’t look at me in that tone of voice.”.  Words and phrases or issues which are neutral to some people are “hot buttons’. When the emotional part of the brain kicks in, it is sometimes outside the ability of the logical hemisphere to control.  Men particularly “flood” and take longer to calm down that women. Daniel Goleman offers a detailed account of this process in his books on Emotional Intelligence.
I once touched off an angry tirade with a friend by innocently referring to his siblings. He had had a particularly unpleasant family life full of violence and emotional abuse. This one word heated him up for hours. As Mr. Spock would say to Captain Kirk “It s not logical, captain.”
Our emotional brain is not logical, neither by structure or function.
The emotional triggers can usually be dismantled or at least lessened by techniques from the field of Neuro Linguistic Programming.

Gordon Greig is a Master Practitioner of NLP.  Hypnosis is useful for regression to cause-gaining access to the origin of the anger trigger.
Many times those responding with anger are unaware of the nature of the trigger. They react rather than respond. Gordon’s approach gives them a chance to respond more often to their world.

Overcome anxiety about your MRI scan

The prospect of an upcoming MRI scan makes many people nervous. Whether you have had an MRI scan before and found it unpleasant, or have just heard reports, the fact is, the MRI process can be uncomfortable for many.
What happens during an MRI scan?
During an MRI scan you are basically lying down in a large tube. MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is a way of generating pictures of the body parts that are not amenable to X-rays. MRI scans are very sensitive to movement so you have to keep still for anything from around twenty to sixty minutes. MRI scanners work by displaying clear and useful images of tissues, muscles, nerves, discs and ligaments and even the brain. The information it can provide can help you so much.
Remember during your MRI scan you should be able to talk to the radiographer through an intercom system. But bear in mind that after accessing your previously arranged cues for a relaxed state you might not particularly want to talk as you are so relaxed!
Knowing the facts doesn’t overcome the fear
Knowing these facts about MRI scans doesn’t always help because once the emotions kick in, rational thought goes out the window.
Of course the best way to keep still during your scan is to relax deeply -there are no side effects to MRI scans so it’s actually a perfect opportunity to hypnotically relax. That is what having a  session with a trained hypnotist before the procedure is all about. It sets up the process that you then use at the time of the procedure.
The beauty of priming your self hypnotically for your MRI scan is that hypnosis is the perfect state to drift into during the scan. Why? Because during hypnosis you can be any where you choose – in your mind. In your mind you can always have enough space around you, just as when you dream and ‘travel’ beyond the confines of your bed.
Hypnosis is also a wonderful way of using ‘time distortion.’ In fact time distortion is a natural every day phenomena but can be directed consciously.We’ve all experienced time flying when we are pleasantly absorbed in something(or someone) and time dragging when we are bored for example. This session can get you feeling as if time has surprisingly flown by during the MRI scan.

Contact Info

phone: 226-567-4927

14 Kent St. South
Simcoe, ON

N3Y 2X8

email: gordgreig@gmail.com

Leave a comment