New Year

What will you do with this New Year?
Will it be happy and full of cheer?
Will you, yes, live in passion and power?
And be truly fulfilled in new every hour?

Yes, what will you do with this New Year?
Will you take time to heal every old tear?
And live in the purpose that guides your path
And commit to let go of all useless wrath

Yes, this is the time to embrace this New Year
To make a commitment to not live in fear
But rather, I say, to live with true courage
And with each brother and sister, only encourage

As you now enter, yes, this brand New Year
Live from the present, the place we call “here”
Fear not the future and grieve not the past
But live every moment as if it’s your last

Yes, on this first day of this happy New Year
Remember your friends and loved ones so dear
Be grateful, I say, and count every blessing
And cast out the thoughts which are only distressing

So, what will you do now with this New Year?
Will you embrace it and see it so clear
Yes, give it the focus of vision and goals
And this year will give you a life fully whole

So I now say about this New Year
I am a blessed man and I hope you can hear
Take every challenge and find, yes, the gift
The gift is the lesson that will make your life shift

Come with me now into this New Year
And go, yes, so boldly as a true pioneer
Play only big and never look back
Reap only diamonds and ignore any lack…

Ken “Keni Lee” Donaldson

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Take two  minutes and allow yourself to enjoy this video slide show made just for you and your soul!

And then take a quick visit to the bookstore!

Hypnosis is a state of focused and inward attention.  This focused inward attention creates a “trance,” which is best described as an altered state of increased awareness and heightened consciousness.  In this altered state, people are able to optimally connect with and fully utilize their inner resources, or better known as the subconscious mind.

The end result is that these people who are in this trance state are better able to make internal changes and, therefore, better run their own lives, from the “inside-out.”

Hypnosis (and self-hypnosis) enables people to use more of their full potential because they gain more self-control (which is in opposition to the myth that people lose control during hypnosis).

Clinical hypnosis (as opposed to self-hypnosis), and the results thereof, occurs with the assistance and guidance of a clinical hypnotherapist.

(Side note: A Clinical Hypnotherapist is a person – like myself – who has received extensive training in hypnotherapy. Additionally, the hypnotherapist should also be a licensed mental health professional. In the state of Florida, for example, if you call yourself a hypnotherapist, the law states that you MUST have a professional license as a mental health practitioner. I mention this because there seems to be a lot of confusion around this issue.)

Research psychologists suggest that the subconscious mind is 99% of our mind functioning, with the conscious mind being only 1%!

Conscious mind can reason and use logic, and directs purposeful activities. Additionally, conscious mind also can attend to, monitor or direct a limited number of activities at the same time.

Subconscious mind, on the other hand, has many more functions. The subconscious mind has many attributes, both positive and negative,  including:

• Controlling body physiology
• Directing emotions
• Creating dreams
• Sourcing creativity
• Storing information
• Directing many activities at the same time
• Not understanding logic
• Mistaking same for similar
• Confusing figurative with literal
• Confusing past with present
• Difficulty understanding negations
• Believing what you avoid is dangerous (i.e. phobias)
• Believing what you go near is safe (i.e. addictive behaviors)
• Confusing what’s imagined with what’s real
• Creating and doing what you consciously repeat

Therefore, as you can see, it’s imperative for shifts to be made at the subconscious level.

The primary goal of hypnosis is to get your subconscious mind to respond the way you want it to.

In a hypnotic state, the mind and body experience relaxation, and often times the healing process is accelerated at that same time. It’s very common for people who see me for hypnosis to have headaches, stomach aches and other muscle aches, which all significantly diminish even though our focus was on something completely different.

Personally, in my very first hypnosis training (1993), all of us were in trance as part of the training and at that time I was a habitual fingernail biter (and chewer…gross!!). Even though I said nothing to the trainer about this habit, nor did I even consciously think about it during the training, since that day, I have NOT bitten or chewed on my fingernails.

How cool is that!

The American Medical Association, British Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association have all approved hypnotherapy as long as it is administered by a trained professional.

If you’d like to learn more about hypnosis, or if you have questions about how this can improve some area of your life, feel free to call my office at (727) 394-7325.

Rapid Resolution Therapy is a highly effective and efficient hybrid blend of clinical hypnosis  and other proven therapuetic modalities.

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FAILURE AND SUCCESS
Quotes from Jim Rohn

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event.

You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Don’t take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and Obvious II in school.

It’s too bad failures don’t give seminars. Wouldn’t that be valuable?

If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you’ve just got to say, “John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?”

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are.

Success is 20% skills and 80% strategy.

You might know how to read, but more importantly, what’s your plan to read?

Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it.

These quotes are by Jim Rohn, America’s Foremost Business Philosopher. To subscribe to the Free Jim Rohn Weekly E-zine, go to www.jimrohn.com Excerpted from The Treasury of Quotes by Jim Rohn. Copyright © 1994-2008 Jim Rohn International. All rights reserved worldwide.

Some Days…

Some days are cloudy
Some days are sunny
Some days have bills
And some days have money

Some days are dull
Some days are bright
Some days are days
And some days are nights

The secret, I say, is to look ahead
Be not in the past, but “Forward!”, I said
The clouds do pass, as night into day
Keep your eyes forward, these words I do say

Because it all passes, yes, night into day
A time to think and a time, yes, to play
There is yang and there is a yin
Phoenix arises from ashes, again and again!

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