Relationships & Counseling

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Creating Healthy Relationships
The key to creating and building meaningful healthy relationships comes from within.

Do you know the difference between fear of commitment and fear of intimacy? Sometimes we distrust our own judgment and other times we have a fear of getting close. Does anyone want to share their story about solving these problems? Share your comments and weigh in.

Weight Loss

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Ten Hypnotic Suggestions to try now for Weight Loss

Positive suggestions for well-being: Day by day, you will have increased feelings of confidence and assurance that you can and will reach your desired weight. You can and will become a more attractive, slender and vivacious you.

1. Positive suggestions for well-being
2. Eating as an Art
3. Symbolic imagery of a cloud
4. Handling emotions and emotional needs directly
5. Choosing long-term, not short-term rewards
6. Visualizing the goal
7. Suggestions for decreasing food intake
8. Shifting perceptions and reframing
9. Suggestions for exercise and activity
10. Suggestions about cravings.
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Steps for Pre-Op Hypnosis

Any surgery can be anxiety-producing.  A session guides you through the following steps to manage the surgery that can be so nerve-wracking.

1) Exploration and correction of misconceptions and fears about surgery. It is important to deal with the fear and anxiety surrounding the event, and to confront feelings about doctors, hospitals and pain.

2) How to induce numbness, coldness, stiffness  for analgesia/anesthesia.

3) Visualization: Use inner resources,  for example selecting a time when you went on vacation, and the injection that you receive before surgery will be your ticket to leave on the trip. You can also imagine all the background noise or voices of the surgery becoming  background noise associated with your trip.

4) Preparing for Post Operative Healing: How to ignore sensations of discomfort in the surgery area and how to eliminate post-operative pain, and preparation for returning home. Hypnosis will allow for the most rapid healing because inflammation will be reduced.

Financial Anxiety

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Financial and Mental Security
Removing the obstacle of stress to relate to challenges in a more effective manner.

Join our blog to discuss issues regarding:

  • Job loss
  • Shame of Bad Investments
  • Financial Values, Beliefs, and Attitudes
  • Your Spouse and Money
  • Friends and Money
  • Spending Habits
  • Resolutions Regarding Saving More and Spending Less

Many of my clients are having anxiety during this recession regarding money. Some of the issues that we deal with are financial values, beliefs, and attitudes. In exploring our belief systems, we discuss how to lessen the tension in our relationship involving money. Many people are in a new situation that you might also find yourself in, regarding job loss and or the shame of bad investments. Please leave a comment to join this discussion. January 2009

Smoking Cessation

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Share your Smoking Stories – leave a Comment

Stop Our Smoking!

Quite Smoking!  Stop Smoking Now.  Help with Cessatsion.

Feel free to leave your comments what you have tried to quit smoking.

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Hypnosis: An Answer to Chronic Pain

knotAfter three pain management and hypnosis sessions with Kathy, a client made remarkable progress from chronic pain!

For three to four years, the client had visited a variety of doctors, but could not find any explanation for her persistent back, knee  and stomach pain.  She was in a great deal of discomfort, anxiety, and stress. Her condition had taken over her life.

After three sessions, she was able to see that the doctors couldn’t provide her an explanation because she was healthy. Together, she and Kathy worked on pain management, stress management, breathing exercises, and her anger issues.  She used color, music and a variety of other mental training techniques to create healing imagery.

For example, Kathy guided her in imagining she was in a hot shower, with pain pouring off  her body, and washing it down the drain. She had her imagine stimulation in the back and knees. She envisioned being her own doctor and taking control of her health. Kathy also worked on some of her digestive issues.

Because of the psychobiology of thought, these thoughts get anchored and become calcified. It is through mental training that this client was able to get out of her own way and let go of so many of these thoughts.

Healing is a work in progress, but in three sessions, she’s made remarkable advances.

Stay posted for our topic, on pre and post op preparation for surgery with hypnosis.

In The News, Boxer Patty Boom Boom! Mind over Matter.

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photo fr. Chris Wheat article on thesweetscience.com

The Winning Mind of an Athlete – Patty Boom Boom.  Mind over matter.

Using a comprehensive approach, Kathy was able to help her client feel better, harder, and stronger, to win her boxing match. She used breathing, stress management, confidence enhancing, focus and flow, pain management, mental rehearsal, future pacing, modeling, and food counseling.

Kathy has also worked with many golfers and tennis players on the “inner game.”

If you find yourself seeking a competitive edge, these hypnotic suggestions may help:
  • The more you practice, the more anticipation, balance and concentration you will have.
  • You will have a protective shield for extra strength, stamina and power.
  • From the moment you start tightening your laces, you will tighten your concentration and focus.
  • Imagine you are washing away pain like running water.
  • With each breath you take, you will feel more flexibility, speed and stamina.
  • Imagine yourself before, during and after the fight.

Patty Boom Boom works with Kathy Gantz before May 30th Bout!

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Patty Boom Boom Hires Kathy Gantz
leading up to her next fight
May 30th, 2015
for the
The NY State Title for the Super Fly Weight Division

In addition, Kathy is also working with tennis and golfers on their
inner games to prepare for their upcoming seasons.
Two of them will be playing at the US Open in NY