Holistic Hypnosis
Irene Nichols has been certified since 1994, by the National Guild of Hypnotists, which was founded in 1951 and is the oldest and largest hypnosis organization of it’s kind. Professional membership in the NGH signifies that an individual possesses specific qualifications, agrees to abide by a strict code of ethics, and will pursue continuing-education studies for annual recertification. Medical or psychological referrals may be required for certain conditions.
The applications of hypnosis is effective for dealing with such matters as :
- habit control
- stress
- excessive eating
- smoking
- fears
- motivation
- self-confidence
- concentration
- learning enhancement
- insomnia
- goal-setting
- relationships
- past lives exploration
- and other areas which lead to unhappiness, dysfunction or difficulty in achieving personal goals.
Hypnosis and its uses is rapidly emerging as a highly effective science in solving the problems of people. It can be very beneficial in many cases as a therapy in itself. It is a valuable adjunct in psychotherapy and psychiatry. It is probably the lowest risk procedure available from the standpoint of contradictions. Yet few therapeutic procedures are less understood, or more plagues by misconceptions and misunderstandings. Before considering what hypnosis is, perhaps it would be appropriate to establish what it is not! Most hypnotists/hypnotherapists, on interviewing a new client will ask what he or she thinks hypnosis is. Replies range from sleep to unconsciousness to surrender of mental powers and control. All are in error. Hypnosis cannot be sleep. In most cases the subject is fully aware of communication and is able to respond on request either verbally or by signal. Nor is unconsciousness involved. A subject asked to make a specific movement will comply with the request unless it is objectionable, in which case there will be a refusal.
Irene is also a Reiki Master Healer. Reiki is an ancient healing art for stress reduction and relaxation with many therapeutic benefits. Depending on her client’s needs, Irene will combine Reiki with Bach Flower remedies for emotional balance, Energy Medicine, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), and BioGenesis tools to balance the Chakras and integrate physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual healing. These therapies require a 3-day post-healing period where the new energy shifts into all the five bodies for permanent rejuvenation.
There is no surrender of mind of control.
A person who does not want to be hypnotized cannot be hypnotized or be induced to do or say anything, which violates personal standards of behavior or integrity. Any hypnotist can explain the actions or behaviors seen in stage, film or television shows, where the subject seems to follow directions mindlessly.
Actually, hypnosis is better described than defined. It is often considered an altered state of consciousness featuring “selective perception,” a process in which the subject (who is in control) chooses to see only what is relevant to his task, blocking out everything else. Hypnosis involves guided concentration. The guidance; however, may be provided by a qualified practitioner or in the case of
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE
In your first visit with Irene, you will learn about hypnotism and become comfortable with it. Irene will discuss your interests and your desires to determine if hypnotherapy can accomplish what you want to achieve. If you both feel that it will be worthwhile to proceed, she may give you some small tests to determine your type of suggestibility, your ability to relax, your skills at visualization- procedures which help your therapist adapt to you as an individual so as to design programming personalized for you which will be acceptable to your subconscious, retained and acted upon in a manner leading to full achievement of your goals.
Irene Nichols is a Certified Transformation Healing Practitioner ( THM )
The transformational Healing Method ( THM ) is a healing process for transforming darkness into light. Based on transformational hypnotherapy and combined with EFT, (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and the Wise Mind Process, it is a profound and comprehensive healing modality for working with most emotional, physical and spiritual issues. With this method you can transform life's challenges into states of well being, move through such fundamental challenges as physical issues, abandonment, abuse, addictions, habits, past issues, fears, emotions, and sabotaging thoughts. Ultimately, you can move into your true essence of strength, love, healing, and positive redirection. You receive emotional and physical healing as well as support for spiritual transformation.
THM has four phases: Interview, Preliminary Techniques, Deep Inner Healing, and Tape-Making. The Deep Inner Healing phase has three stages: Experience, Release, and Transform.
A. The Four Phases of a Session: Description
THM has four phases: Interview, Preliminary Techniques, Deep Inner Healing, and Tape-Making. The Deep Inner Healing phase has three stages: Experience, Release, and Transform.
- Interview: The Interview process is an inquiry into your past, present, and future.
- Preliminary Techniques : During this phase you will experience for yourself techniques such as the Wise Mind or EFT, a process in which Irene will tap on specific stress-relief or acupressure points while talking about your issues. You will find that the issues are reduced in intensity or completely released.
- Deep Inner Healing (Transformational Hypnotherapy) : In the third phase you have the opportunity to relax very deeply and explore the deep inner mind for whatever is important to pay attention to. Here is where we look deeply within to experience and understand issues as fully possible. We then release and transform challenges into states of higher consciousness. You will be able to find relief, love, guidance, wisdom, deep peace, and great healing.
- Recording : In the final phase Irene will create a recording which deeply relaxes and gives positive expression to life issues.
The THM healing system also includes special techniques to discover the root cause of issues and to release obstacles.
Some of the Results of The Transformational Healing Method are:
- Stress and anxiety relief
- Release of fears and phobias
- Trauma release
- Spiritual growth support
- Grief and loss relief
- Relationship clarity
- Pain relief
- Habit cessation
- Weight control
- Regression therapy
- Life transition support
- And more…
This healing system embraces all levels of consciousness.
With the combined powers of your subconscious mind, higher consciousness, conscious mind and energy system, you can resolve the dilemmas of your life. You can do self-healing or work with someone else.
The subconscious mind is a repository of all that you have been and done. It's the storage place the database, of all that has taken place in your experience. You can visit it and take a journey into its vast terrain. You can put it on “search mode”- ask it what you need to know at any given point in time.
Higher consciousness is a built-in enlightenment system. Through it you experience the love, healing power, wisdom and compassion of the universe.
The energy system is a system of meridians or energy pathways in your body. Getting in touch with this system can help to create a state of well being in your body, mind and emotions.
And because the quality of your thoughts naturally has a deep effect on your healing process, we also address your conscious mind .
The way out is through
This is a system for healing whatever in your life is obscuring your essence. The results are both practical and transcendental. Its philosophy is that “the way out is through,” that there is nothing inherently bad or wrong with anything you're undergoing. Everything is material worthy of being paid attention to. Everything you're experiencing is an opportunity for understanding and self-knowledge.
Inside your own being is an essence that is ready to shine beyond the difficulties that life presents. Through the Transformational Healing Method, you receive tools and techniques and ways of extraordinary healing. As you move through the stages of “Experience, Release, and Transform,” you first allow yourself to fully experience your experience, to come to know what's taking place within you. Next, you're able to release the experience and then you can transform it.
Every experience carries richness and has value. Paying close attention is the first step in the process of self-knowledge. It is a process of looking with an inner microscope or magnifying glass and just seeing what's there. It's about looking, for example, at current experiences that are taking place in your body- pains, constrictions, tingling, holding- whatever is happening in the moment. It's also about looking at the mind and emotions- seeing whether there is sadness or rage or tightness or shame. It's about looking even more deeply at the experience, possibly finding the roots. The roots may be in childhood or they may go all the back to the womb. Or they may go another lifetime or to a belief or a tendency of the mind.
Sometimes release happens naturally as a direct result of “looking deeply” or “paying attention”. Other times, we can assist in the release process by using techniques such as energy therapy (EFT), which taps away old traumas, fears, resentments, guilt, grief, shame, anger and emotional trauma.
Release is a clearing out of your consciousness. It's like cleaning out your closets and drawers, releasing old correspondence or outworn clothes. As you discard these, you ready yourself to invite in a new level of your life. You're ready to initiate an opening of reality that had previously been either closed or unknown.
Release, again, often takes place as a natural outgrowth of paying attention to your experience. As you stay with your experience, often a miracle happens. One person found a lotus at the bottom of a murky pond. Another felt as if she were experiencing a birth process through a very dark tunnel and out into an experience of light.
We remember that healing is the work of a lifetime, that healing is a cyclic process. We know that in this process we continue to transform darkness into light and to experience love and compassion.