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Hypnosis is a state of mind.  In the state of Hypnosis, your body is relaxed and your mind is alert and aware.  In this mode, your subconscious mind — the deep part of your mind — is more accessible.  Your subconscious mind accepts the affirmative statements that it is given …  it, then, carries these out when you are back in your fully-awake state.

So, what can Hypnosis be used for?  You can undergo hypnosis for weight loss, hypnosis to stop smoking, confidence hypnosis, public speaking hypnosis, anxiety hypnosis … and much, much more.  Hypnosis is GREAT for facilitating  habit change.  Would you like your life to be better?  Hypnosis is the tool to help you create this outcome!

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By Marlene Shiple Ph.D.

Book: HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS

HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS: Power Up Your Life! This book provides an in-depth description of the powerful experience of Hypnosis and a full workbook to guide you in your experience. Hypnosis — that mental state in which the you, as the subject, are physically relaxed, while your mind is alert and aware.

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HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS: Power Up Your Life! gives an overview of Hypnosis, then details the way Hypnosis works with your subconscious mind to create powerful outcomes — outcomes of your choosing. Whether you want to lose weight, stop smoking, release fears, or make other changes in your life, hypnosis works with your subconscious mind to help you bring about these changes successfully!

After describing how hypnosis can help you create positive changes in your life, HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS relates the specific process to bring about the hypnotic state. So, if you want to get started with Hypnosis, this book tells you how!

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• Relationship interaction between you (the client) and your coach impel action.
• You set more effective goals — desirable goals that move you along, rather than goals you have to push yourself to accomplish.
• You develop additional skills … use of these lead you to even greater success.
• You take more effective, focused action immediately.
• You stop settling for what has been dragging you down.
• You create energy to carry you through getting successful results.
• You set goals that are specifically what YOU want.
• You take yourself more seriously:  You become a force to be reckoned with … by YOU!

To see if Life Coaching might be for you, can you imagine yourself enjoying these benefits?:

• Are you tired of doing what you think you “should” do, rather than something that is special and meaningful for the rest of your life?  Many people are in the same situation.  When you can’t see what this is and/or can’t find a way to reorient your life around it, a life coach can help you to do so.
• Do you recognize how simple it can be to accomplish something that several years ago seemed out of your reach?  Do you have the time and resources to invest in your growth?  More and more people feel the same.  They are using the large tool kit of their life coaches — and the process of professional life coaching — to make their dreams into reality.
• Are you beginning to recognize that greater non-tangible potentials — spiritual realities — require a place in your life?  An effective life coach can help you to better tune-in to yourself and to others.

If you answered, “yes” to any of these, Life Coaching just might be for you!  To find out for yourself, contact Dr. Shiple at (602) 266 -6662 or with a brief email to mshiple@thelifecoachdr dot com (that domain is “thelifecoachdr.com”).

If you know someone who is seeing, or has seen, a Life Coach and was pleased with the results and the assistance provided, you can ask him/her for a referral. If this is not available to you — or if it is not a direction you wish to pursue — other avenues exist.

1. In the Yellow Pages (physical phone book or online), find the heading that addresses the type of treatment you desire e.g., “stress management” to learn to coping skills to deal with stress; “hypnotherapy” to change destructive habits; “pain management” for handling pain-complex distress.

2. Look at the credentials of the Life Coach

• Where did s/he receive her/his schooling?
• What degree(s) has s/he earned?
• In what organizations does s/he hold membership?
• What certifications and/or licenses does s/he hold?
• How many years has s/he been in practice?

If necessary, call to get this information.

3. Consider random factors, variable among different coaches; e.g., location, convenience of appointments scheduling, cost.

4.  Taking into account #1 through #3 (above), make a list of 3-5 possible treatment professionals.

5. Talk with each Life Coach on your list. Ask about his/her treatment style. For example, does he/she mostly listen while you talk? Does he/she offer practical suggestions for change? Is homework given?

Now, for THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of your selection process, consider the following:

a. How do these responses match what you think would work best for you?

b. Pay attention to your intuition while talking with the Life Coach

• How does this Life Coach sound and feel to you?
• Do you sense that s/he would understand you and your circumstances?
• Do you sense that s/he would be able to help you?
• Do you feel that you would listen to and follow the guidance s/he gives?

Listen to your “gut feeling” and make an appointment with the Life Coach whom you feel most strongly could assist you.

By Marlene Shiple Ph.D.                                                                      

Book: HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS

HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS: Power Up Your Life! provides an in-depth description of the powerful experience of Hypnosis and a full workbook to guide you in your experience. Hypnosis — that mental state in which the you, as the subject, are physically relaxed, while your mind is alert and aware.

HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS: Power Up Your Life! gives an overview of Hypnosis, then details the way Hypnosis works with your subconscious mind to create powerful outcomes — outcomes of your choosing. Whether you want to lose weight, stop smoking, release fears, or make other changes in your life, hypnosis works with your subconscious mind to help you bring about these changes successfully!

HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS describes the Myths and Realities of the hypnotic state. In addition, it stimulates the imagination with a section entitled, “9 Surprising Uses for Hypnosis”.

After describing how hypnosis can help you create positive changes in your life, HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS relates the specific process to bring about the hypnotic state. So, if you want to get started with Hypnosis, this book tells you how!

Then, as though this weren’t enough, there is still more! HYPNOSIS ESSENTIALS: Power Up Your Life! includes a complete workbook — a resource to guide you in the process of creating your own hypnotic, goal-oriented change.

About the author:
Dr. Marlene Shiple has earned a Ph.D. in counseling psychology. She is a life coach in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Shiple has provided life coaching, sex therapy and hypnotherapy to clients since 1975. She coaches motivated seekers to discover passion and joy in their lives and relationships!

For client care, Dr. Shiple designs practical problem-solving ideas and provides do-able solutions to life challenges. She has a passion to help people make desired changes — and she heartily enjoys seeing people grow and take strides in their lives!

Dr. Shiple brings this practical outlook to her writing, as well. She is both a multi-published author and an experienced seminar/workshop leader.

In office, Dr. Shiple utilizes traditional psychological coaching and psychotherapy techniques, hypnosis and self-hypnosis, hypnotherapy, EMDR therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), relaxation training, and other interventions. Emphasis is on working with patients to develop practical strategies that allow them to achieve their most-dearly desired goals. Her online resources can be accessed at http://thelifecoachdr.com

At home, Marlene enjoys reading, writing, playing instruments, spending time with friends and family, cooking, exercising, meditating, learning (almost anything), and attending to the “demands” of 5 rescue-kitties.

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Doctoral student in sociology and gerontology, Markus H. Schafer continues to explain, “If you feel old beyond your own chronological years, you are probably going to experience a lot of the downsides that we associate with aging. But if you are older and maintain a sense of being younger, then that gives you an edge in maintaining a lot of the abilities you prize.”

Schafer and co-author Tetyana P. Shippee, a Purdue graduate who is a research associate at Purdue’s Center on Aging and the Life Course, compared people’s chronological age and their subjective age to determine which one has a greater influence on cognitive abilities during older adulthood. Nearly 500 people ages 55-74 were surveyed about aging in 1995 and in 2005 as part of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States.

In 1995, when people were asked what age do you feel most of the time, the majority identified with being 12 years younger than they actually were. The researchers found that those who felt young for their age also experienced greater confidence about their cognitive abilities a decade after.

“We are not sure about what comes first,” Schafer explained. “Does a person’s wellness and happiness affect their cognitive abilities or does a person’s cognitive ability contribute to their sense of wellness.” This will be addressed in future research.

Schafer points out both positive and negative implications of this study’s findings. “There is a tremendous emphasis on being youthful in our society and that can have a negative effect for people,” Schafer said. “People want to feel younger, and so when they do inevitably age they can lose a lot of confidence in their cognitive abilities.”

“But on the other hand, because there is such a desire in America to stay young, there may be benefits of trying to maintain a sense of youthfulness by keeping up with new trends and activities that feel invigorating. Learning new technologies is one way people can continue to improve their cognitive abilities. It will be interesting to see how, or if, these cultural norms shift as the Baby Boomer generation ages.”

“There is a slight difference between men and women, but it’s not as pronounced as we expected,” Schafer said. “This was surprising because of the emphasis on physical attractiveness and youth that is often disproportionately placed on women.”

These findings were published in January’s Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, and the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

Each of these folks were in their 60′s. To a person, they expressed that they were looking at the waning years of their lives. Each was concerned about having his/her life matter, to have it mean something.

In the past, the idea was common that one’s senior years — those years after one left behind their first professional career — was a time of “retirement”. The concept — and this word — often was synonymous with “marking time”.  Frequently, the “retirement” concept was based on the premise that one’s life was over, that productive activity was a thing of the past.

A year ago, I was talking with some friends. We were enjoying a glass of wine and discussing time. We were all in our late 50s and early 60s.  We were comparing experiences about age and how we felt — we agreed that we did not feel old.

We were all very active, physically and mentally. We compared our experience of being 59 and 60 with that experienced by our grandparents. We noted a shared fact: For each of us, our grandparents had seemed to us to act old at 60, both in action and in thought.

We speculated that, perhaps, now was a new time — a time in which we had been raised with different opportunities. We pondered the fact that one of these opportunities was to live longer. We extended this into an agreed-upon fact: We also had the opportunity to live longer, better!

We determined that “better” for us meant more active, more creative, more involved: In sum, more alive! We agreed that we did not have to stop living the life we chose — with quality and meaning — until it was our time to make the transition called death.

Such a conversation among friends can be used as a jumping off point.  It can easily serve as the foundation of a new view of senior years that is FILLED with meaning and purpose and quality and personal satisfaction. This view allows for active living of quality life for an additional 30 years past the traditional time of ending one’s first career. In essence, thirty YEARS provides ample time for a second time-of-satisfaction, a second life-direction!

It is just such life-direction that Retirement Coaching is designed to create.

• If it is exciting to you to think of the unlimited possibilities that can be yours during this 30-year period, Retirement Coaching is for YOU!
• If you would rather not leave the rest of your life to chance, Retirement Coaching is for YOU!
• If it is stimulating to think about what you would like to add into your life plan for that 30-year “retirement” duration, then Retirement Coaching is for YOU!

To learn more about designing for YOURSELF what lies ahead in your life, please  contact me:

• via telephone — (602) 266 – 6662
• by email me at mshiple@thelifecoachdr dot com (that is, “mshiple” “@thelifecoachdr.com”)

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1.  LEARN TO RELAX:   While this may sound almost too simple for  belief, go ahead and give it careful practice.  Relaxation benefits not only your physical condition, but your mental and emotional states as well.  Experiment to discover the ways of relaxation that work best for you.

2.  BREATHE DEEPLY & RHYTHMICALLY:  Breathing … now how tough is that?  You may find it surprising that many people do not breathe in a relaxing, stress-reducing way.  Stress-reduction breathing is deep and regular, with the inhale and exhale approximately the same length.  Often people breathe shallowly, or unevenly, or they hold their breath.  If you start to pay attention to others’ breathing patterns, you can easily see this.  If you start to pay attention to YOUR OWN breathing patterns, you can easily become aware of this, too.  Breath draws in vital oxygen, which is required by each cell to stay strong and healthy.  It strengthens your physical, mental and emotion energy.  It allows you to “let go” of tension and pressure.  Your breathing is a physiological function that is with you each and every moment … and breathing deeply, in an unstressed fashion, costs you nothing — it is free!

3.  FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE:  When a situation occurs, concentrate on all of the positive interpretations you can make for that situation.  Consider all of the positive outcomes that could occur.  Let your imagination get wild!  For any situation that occurs, there are a magnitude of ways you can think.  By purposefully selecting a positive way, you automatically relax and feel more optimistic within.  If you find this hard to do, you need to practice doing it much, much more.

4.  TAKE CARE NOT TO OVERREACT:  Chronic overreaction to not only life’s emergencies, but also life’s everyday situations  take a toll on your physiological system — on your heart, your arteries, your whole body.  Overreaction utilizes resources that you could highly benefit from using in other ways.  One way of putting life’s situations into perspective is to ask yourself, “How much is this going to matter in a year?”  For most things, you could easily amend this to “How much is this going to matter in a week?”  The things that seemed so upsetting often are forgotten in a brief time … to be replaced by something equally upsetting that will be forgotten in a brief time … to be replaced, etc.

5.  LEARN TO SAY, “NO”:  This is a safeguard against trying to do more than is realistically — and healthfully — possible.  It is also a safeguard against doing more than is realistically possible because others request or demand it of you.  You are the one in charge of your own well-being.  If you do not take care of you, no one else will.  You — and you alone — are the one that has been given the responsibility of safeguarding YOU.  You will do yourself grave disservice to ignore being accountable for being good to you.

6.  PRACTICE SAYING, “NO” AND FEELING GOOD ABOUT YOURSELF AND THIS CHOICE:  Sometimes people think that it is selfish to care for themselves.  Do you think that this is so?  Were you taught as a child to be giving and selfless.  These are admirable traits, traits that this world needs more of.  However, to do for others at the detriment of your own health — mental and physical — will never make the world a better place.  When you do things because others pressure you to do them, it is a good way to build resentment.  Resentment kills relationships faster than anything else that I know of.  Helping others only when you have the energy and reserve to do so will preserve the relationship with these others, as well as be a life-saver to you.

7.  SET REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS:  Stresses that derive from guilt and perfectionism are stresses that we each place on ourselves.  They arise from unrealistic expectations.  A good question to use with yourself in this regard is, “Am I taking on more than I can reasonably handle?”  Then, if the answer is “yes,” you might further question yourself regarding why you are doing this.  If your reason is you pressure yourself to do things perfectly, examine this habit.  A more realistic prospect is to aim for excellence, to aim for doing a good job.  As humans, we are incapable of perfection.  To pressure yourself to reach this takes a toll on your mental and physical health.  When you accept excellence in doing a good job, you get  the best of both worlds — an excellent accomplishment PLUS increased good health.

8.  CREATE GOOD FRIENDSHIPS:  Having close relationships with persons you can confide in, reduces stress and increases emotional satisfaction.  Having social support from other human beings whom you can count on in times of uncertainty allow you to live in a more relaxed, confident fashion.

No matter what might arise, when you have friends, you can rest assured of having whatever assistance you might need.  And, reciprocally, you have the emotional peace of mind of knowing that the help you are able to give is appreciated.

One final word about building the skills to deal successfully with stress:  It takes practice.  Just as with building proficiency with any other skill, stress-management skills get easier and more effective with repetition.  Using this principle, you can see why it is so essential to practice, Practice, PRACTICE!

What can you do …

… to focus your life in directions that serve you?

… to surround yourself with confidence and a sense of safety?

… to move your own experience to one of kindness and manifestation?

You can start NOW and take control of your own experience! You can stop listening to predictions of perdition and begin to create your own prosperity. And you can do so Right Now!

You already have the mechanism for doing this. It rests in the capability and creative power of your subconscious mind. The power of the subconscious mind creates what you are thinking. This is called “self-fulfilling prophecy”. Every moment of every day, your subconscious mind creates according to the thoughts you hold in mind.

If you believe that everything is doomed, it is. Not because — objectively — it has to be … but, once you’ve verbalized to yourself with intention, “Everything is doomed”, it has to be because you believe it so! AND you get to be right .. every time! That is the nature of your subconscious-mind creation.

Conversely, if you believe that there is abundance in the Universe … and if you believe that you share in this abundance, you do. Not because it has to be … but it has to be because you believe it so! AND you get to be right … every time! That IS the nature of our subconscious-mind creation.

Here’s what to do … Follow these 5 Steps to Abundance:

STEP #1: Experiment over and over with your thoughts.

STEP #2: Challenge your subconscious mind to create the MOST positive ideas you can imagine!

STEP #3: Let your imagination run wild!

STEP #4: Put those ideas into thought and command your subconscious mind to bring them into your life … starting this very minute!

STEP #5: Keep watch — notice the bounty that comes your way!

I invite you to use these steps over and over to create prosperity and abundance in your life.

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