NEW BEGINNINGS THROUGH HYPNOSIS AND COACHING

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by Althea

It’s the beginning of September and many of us recognize the familiar feelings that arise in us as the year shifts to the latter half. There is a sense of new beginnings, as if a new year has begun. We shift from a casual lifestyle of flip-flops and brightly colored clothing to attitudes, clothing colors and behaviors that speak to a more serious mindset. This new mindset focuses on getting back to work, back to school, organizing our homes and evaluating our finances, our relationships, jobs and even our hobbies. Many have a sense of change coming, newness and beginning again—but what does that mean?

This can create stress and bring on fears often not recognized or named. It can create cycles of procrastination, hesitancy or self-sabotage and we become “stuck”. As the saying goes, “Why do I continue to do that which I don’t want to do?” The cycles bring more stress and self-defeating thoughts and behaviors which, over time, becomes our perspective of how we see the world and the way we think about ourselves. Our beliefs garnered from childhood and throughout our lifetime can keep us “stuck” at times in our life, not knowing a way out.

Many are experiencing overwhelm and burnout in these past 18 months, as stress is continually coming at us in forms of new fears, with the dissolving of what was once predictable and reliable and known. So, we ask ourselves: Who am I really? Who’s the true me? Who do I want to be? The human being wasn’t designed to live in “fight, flight, fall” stress mode, but that’s what many of us are doing. Stress in all its many forms causes the body and mind physical, emotional and spiritual chaos—acute and chronic—and it takes its toll on us. According to WebMD data from December 2019, 75 to 90 percent of all doctors’ office visits are for stress related ailments and complaints. This was before the pandemic and stress has since escalated, taking new forms.

The future is now—for new beginnings, releasing old thought patterns and making space for new ones. Who do we want to be? That starts with an assessment of self, our beliefs, our values, our attitudes, our behaviors, our expectations and our stories and programming from birth. During the approximate first seven years of our life, we are absorbing, taking in our environment, receiving into our subconscious mind, to be applied and used later in life as we grow older. We were collecting our perceptions, beliefs, values and culture from our environment—those around us.

There are many modalities that can show us a direction to uncover and explore our subconscious minds, which hold answers to who we think we are, and to open and transform to become our true selves.

When we are feeling stuck and unable to find a way to freedom after many, many different tries that didn’t work, we may realize that we need one-on-one guidance—we need a coach. Coaching keeps one focused, exploring new questions to ask oneself, new directions and thoughts to explore and being accountable. Being in a collaborative relationship with a professional coach, “aha” moments occur by identifying resistances and old patterns that don’t work, gaining self-awareness and new insights and exploring the where and why of our limiting beliefs and mindsets that keep us stuck.

As we seek solutions to becoming “unstuck”, we’ll often have intuitions, hunches or a deeper feeling that something needs to change, shift or needs clarity, but we “can’t put a finger on it”. Fears can keep us frozen. Even though the origin of the fear itself may not be known, it is our subconscious alerting us to look at something differently that is troubling and causing conflict in our lives or internally robbing us of peace.

We can discover many aspects of our problems and concerns through hypnosis, which can open our subconscious mind to beliefs and attitudes that may have been there for decades, but only now are signaling to be released—to free us to become our true, authentic and genuine self.

The future is now, to recalibrate our old patterns, thoughts and behaviors into who we truly wish to be—our true self. Transformations as we open to our subconscious can bring freedom and can change habits and fears, reduce stress and bring clarity in relationships, careers, lifestyles and choices. Hypnosis combined with a professional coach can keep us aligned and balanced as we create a new beginning.

Althea, which means healer, is a registered hypnotist and credentialed professional coach who works collaboratively with clients to release from where they are stuck to where they would like to be. She uses the modalities of hypnosis, coaching, emotional freedom techniques and others in a safe, tranquil environment. Connect at 203-451-3383 or UniversalIntelligence.info. See ad, page 31.

We can do it thru chant and love songs. We can do it. Embrace the change. We can be it. Yes, we can be it. We can become the new change. We can say it. We can sing it In silence, so contained.

The emptiness of a yoga mat, waiting for asana to begin With intention and pranayama, Ethereal Om-ing, temple bells ring. Tear the skies down with thy love. Tear the skies down, for my sacred beloved. Kindred souls along the path. Howling minor thirds, perfect fifths.

Embrace this present moment with a call and response. Sounding out your emotion, Join me in a sound. Perhaps a hoot, howl or cry. Beating our chests, waving our arms, stomping our feet. Removing grief, fear, doubt-struck emotions. So we can fully resonate the stillness of peace and harmony with our love. Creating a safe place for our sacred space. Be safe. Be sound. Hummingbird Sound Yoga.

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by Barbara “Bobbi” Soares

Space is the place. Knowing where we are, proprioception defined. Reconnection with primal vibration, inside the pause between inhale/exhale, Time stands still enough to glimpse the future in this deeply present moment.

Does this silence have a sound? One hand clapping, a stop sign in the desert? 40-plus days of sheltering in place, a new normal arrives. Inside of gratitude and kindness. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Mother Earth for your beauty! We will take care of you, all our relations, As you will take care of us who strive to find new beginnings.

An active invitation to spirit of the wind. Stirring the fires of the belly to burn away third chakra inertia, Calling for jaguars to protect us. Becoming one with our sound, our soul. The essence of the one, the many faces of God. All the saints, our children’s children. Flying on the wings of great spirit, Kindling patience and passion.

Self-inquiry amidst a deep chant to practice spirit of bobcat, owl, house wren. Using music and sound vibration to open a portal to the other side of reality that calls us: Wash your spirit clean, Wash your hands, Wash your heart, Wash your spirit clean. So that subtle bodies will grow stronger in truth, Birthing allies of sound in breath, rhythm, space and words. A lullaby to our becoming who we were supposed to be. Barbara “Bobbi” Soares is a certified sound healing coach and vocal yoga practitioner in New Milford. She hosts Gong Sound Journeys on Wednesdays, bimonthly at 6pm; reservations required. For more information on classes, call 860946-9470 or find Hummingbird Sound Yoga on Facebook. See ad, page 8.