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Curious and intrigued, I set an appointment with the same practitioner who had successfully saved my family members from their despair through hypnosis. My voyage took me on a drive over an hour away to an office building in south Denver. I stepped into her office and felt a feeling of safety and readiness in my healing journey. Instead of working on sleep conditions or addictions, I knew that at the root of my suffering lay a deep-seated belief that I am unworthy and unlovable. After a brief intake and interview, we committed to a series of 3 sessions with the focus being on cultivating self-love.
As she began counting down from 20 to zero during that first session, I could feel myself slipping into an altered state and opening to the power of working with the mind to create consciously. I have done loads of self-work through my years of personal growth study in Landmark Education, Yoga, Meditation, Body-Centered Psychotherapy, Women's Groups, Authentic Relating intensives, and seeing my own therapists over the years, but this was something different. Hypnotherapy seemed to blend all of what I had been studying into a beautiful synthesis of spiritual and practical healing.
When the therapist brought me back into the room about an hour later, not only did I feel refreshed and recentered in a whole new way, a small voice inside of me said, "I think that this is a part of my life work." As a yoga teacher and massage therapist, I have been guiding people into a relaxed healing space through the use of my presence and voice for over a decade. Hypnotherapy had me excited and curious to learn more. All along the way, something inside of me has felt like a very clear and dedicated "yes' to this as a path of healing for myself that I would also love to support others in.
After working with Carissa for several months and finding lots of success, I started researching different programs to educate myself in the new art of Hypnotherapy. Stumbling upon The Boulder Hypnotherapy Institute through Facebook I found 'divine timing' as Kelly was offering her first six-week introduction to Hypnotherapy. Instantly I signed up and haven't looked back since! During those first six weeks, I committed to a 40-day self-hypnosis challenge and started rebooting my core beliefs and working with my mind around my self-discipline. I have continued my education to complete a six-day intensive with over 30+ hours of practice clients and am currently halfway through the two-year clinical internship to becoming an advanced practitioner.
What has stood out to me the most on my Hypnotherapy Journey thus far is ...
- healing energetically
- including past life regression
- using the mind to our advantage
- supporting me in becoming my own empowered healer
- healing of addictions
- finding home in the self
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~ MY HYPNOTHERAPY GIFTS FOR YOU ~
1. Hypno Healing with Lara - Self Hypnosis for Manifesting Power (Higher Self))
Hypno Healing with Lara - Self Hypnosis for Manifesting Power (Higher Self)
2. Hypno Healing with Lara - Self Hypnosis for Self Love (Healing Waters)
Hypno Healing with Lara - Self Hypnosis for Self Love (Healing Waters)
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3. Donation Based Hypno Sessions with Lara for supporting Insomnia, Addiction, or Sexual Trauma
Currently, I am inviting a hand full of folks to work with me on a donation basis to kick off my hypnotherapy practice. I would love to experience supporting you with insomnia, sexual trauma, or any addictions you are currently struggling with. Sessions can be live in person in Boulder or online worldwide.
To inquire please contact Lara at larastouch @ gmail.com and complete my intake form here:
New Client Intake Form ~ Hypno Healing with Lara
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~ A SAMPLE OF WORKING WITH ME ~
Hypnosis routes for curing and eliminating Insomnia:
1. Dropping into a trance state and seeding positive suggestions and increasing positive resourced states. (This is where we will start)
2. Extinguishing behaviors and habits that do not support deep sleep (maybe second session)
3. Regressing into past memories and experiences to explore where beliefs around sleep patterns originated and creating healing experiences (possible third session)
4. Rewiring the brain through the power of positive affirmations daily. (ongoing to be done by willing clients dedicated to supporting change.)
- I am relaxed and prepared for a night of deep sleep.
- My body’s natural sleep cycle helps me to drift off to sleep.
- I sleep deeply throughout the night.
- I experience restorative sleep each and every night.
- My bedroom is a sleep oasis.
- I wake up feeling refreshed and alert.
- I fill my days with sleep-promoting habits.
- Insomnia is no longer a part of my life.
- I accomplished what I could today and I will accomplish even more tomorrow after a night of deep sleep.
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What Is Hypnosis?
Hypnosis is defined as “a state of consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness characterized by an enhanced capacity for response to suggestion”(Elkins, Barabasz, Council, & Spiegel, 2015). Patients can be helped to engage in hypnosis with a hypnotic induction which is a sequence of instructions and suggestions that help an individual to become hypnotized, and which traditionally involve instructions for relaxation. Once hypnotized suggestions can be given for alterations in experience. With suggestions “one person is guided by another to respond to suggestions for changes in subjective experiences, alterations in perception, sensation, emotion, thought, or behavior”(Green, Barabasz, Barrett, & Montgomery, 2005). Suggestions are what lead to the most interesting effects in hypnosis. For example, if someone experiencing pain is hypnotized they may feel focused and relaxed, but it is not until they are given a suggestion such as ‘the painful area is beginning to feel numb and insensitive’ that they start to experience significant pain relief. One theory is that suggestions work by altering our expectancies of what is going to happen and our experiences follow from these response expectancies: a critical part of the hypnotic experience is that suggested effects are experienced as involuntary and effortless.
References
- Elkins, G. R., Barabasz, A. F., Council, J. R., & Spiegel, D. (2015). Advancing research and practice: The revised APA Division 30 definition of hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 63(1), 1–9.
- Green, J. P., Barabasz, A. F., Barrett, D., & Montgomery, G. H. (2005). Forging ahead: the 2003 APA Division 30 definition of hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 53(3), 259–264.
- Oakley, D. A., & Halligan, P. W. (2009). Hypnotic suggestion and cognitive neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(6), 264–270.
