Self hypnosis and classic meditation are powerful tools to calm the mind and improve both mental and physical health. But sometimes you want something else, either due to your state of mind, surroundings, time constraints or other reasons. Did you know listening to meditation music has a positive impact on one’s mental and physical well-being? It can help you relax your body and mind without you having to think about it, which can reduce your stress levels. Stress-inducing changes may also be alleviated by listening to music. Meditation is one of the most popular stress management treatments f ..read more

Cindy Interviewed by Joan Steffand I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the delightful Joan Steffand, formerly news anchor at KARE11 TV and also the host of Decorating Cents on HGTV. Joan covered a lot of ground with me! Wow. The time flew by! Watch to learn a whole lot about my experience with hypnosis from being hypnotized at 3 1/2 years old all the way up to my current practice and the most rewarding experiences I’ve had as a hypnotherapist. The post Cindy Interviewed by Joan Steffand appeared first on Minnesota Hypnosis ..read more

Want to absorb more information? Prioritize sleep! What happens when you add liquid to an already-full cup? It overflows. If you want to add more, you have to pour some out. Your brain appears to work in a similar fashion…while you sleep. In a recent study, researchers found that at night, the brain shrinks some of the connections between brain cells (called synapses) that have grown during the day. This “selective forgetting” is thought to make room for new information and skills. Other research has shown that memories and learning get consolidated during sleep. It appears, then, that while ..read more

ChangeWorks Hypnosis is open for in person hypnosis as of June 1, 2020. (Yay! We can do hypnosis in the comfy chair again!) Due to COVID-19 I was only offering distance sessions in the latter part of March, and in April and May. As of this week I am running sessions in the office again! Here are a couple of points/answers to questions you might have as a prospective client: For the foreseeable future, consultations will continue to be held on the phone only.  This gives us a chance to learn about each other and for you to be informed of how things work in the office and learn about our po ..read more

By Mayo Clinic staff (This article is reprinted with the permission of Mayo Clinic, Rochester and was written by Mayo Clinic Staff writers) Have you ever been totally absorbed while reading a book or cooking or watching a movie? Did you zone out to the point where you didn’t notice what else was going on around you? If so, you have experienced a type of trancelike state or focused attention that’s similar to what happens to you during hypnosis. Although its medical uses aren’t entirely understood, hypnosis, when provided by a certified hypnotherapist or other qualified clinician, appears to he ..read more

“Wow, you have a lot of followers on Twitter. Did you buy those?” Ummm….no. Funny what people will ask you, but I’m glad you asked.  I haven’t ever bought followers on any platform. I’m not tremendously active, paradoxically, on social media, but I do publish content out on Facebook and Twitter. Those are the ones that I use, primarily. And LinkedIn, which I really like. I have a pretty large following on all 3 of those platforms, but my largest following–as of this writing over 40,000 people–is on Twitter. And again, no I didn’t buy them. I am one of those people who feel like if I did s ..read more

A Simple Exercise to Train Focus, Relieve Stress What if there was a simple exercise that you could do in 3 minutes or so that would train your brain to increase your ability to focus and concentrate, give you the ability to create a sense of mental relief by shifting your mental focus and reduce stress and feelings of anxiety? What if you already had everything needed to perform this simple exercise? What if this simple exercise was given to you in the podcast right here on this page? Well, OK then! This week’s podcast introduces you to a simple exercise that does SO much. It’s one of those ..read more

Tone up your Vagus Nerve to Relieve Anxiety, Irritability and Improve Your Sleep Your Vagus NerveWelcome to another podcast! In this podcast I explore one of my favorite topics to cover with clients – the power of the Vagus Nerve, what it is and what it does, and how you may be unintentionally reducing its ability to calm your heart and mind. In today’s podcast we will learn: How your Vagus nerve connects your brain with your heart, gut, and all your internal organs and serves as “the captain” of your parasympathetic nervous system-which is your body’s natural relax, rebuild, and repair respo ..read more

Can You Inherit a Fear? The other day I was having a consultation with a woman who asked me this question.  She shared that her whole family had a phobia of the same thing and she wondered if it could be genetic. What a great question! And a good topic to cover in the blog, so here goes. The simple answer to the question as asked? No. Fears and phobias are not inherited, nor are they genetic in nature. Temperament is a heritable trait, so you may find that your family shares a sensitive or more nervous nature, for instance, but not specific fears. But it gets more interesting than that, a ..read more

10 Mindfulness Habits for 2020 These days you can’t pass the magazine stand at the grocery store or surf the net without seeing references to mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation; live more mindfully; cultivate mindfulness, how to lose weight with mindfulness; mindfulness for anxiety, etc., etc. So what’s the big deal? The big deal is that mindfulness actually helps. It’s a remedy to today’s fast-paced life and faster pace of incoming information. Practicing mindfulness gets you closer to what our neurology is capable of handling well. As I like to say, “everything works better when you work W ..read more