I found this article on Google News today and knew you all would be interested. I'm sure you can find lots of ways to use this. I've already printed it out. 

Some excerpts from an article today on ABC news. Find the entire article here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=3533002&page=1

--This study was published Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

--Researchers at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York showed that a 15-minute hypnosis session reduced side effects including pain, nausea and emotional distress in patients undergoing breast cancer operations.

--"If this were a drug, it would be very successful," said lead study author Guy Montgomery, director of the Integrative Behavioral Medicine Program at Mount. Sinai School of Medicine.

--After their surgeries, the women who had hypnosis experienced less pain, nausea, fatigue, discomfort and emotional upset than their counterparts — and these differences were substantial, the study's authors reported. Not only did hypnosis reduce the side effects from surgery, but it also did this while reducing the amount of anesthesia used during the surgery. Additionally, the researchers showed that hypnosis decreased the amount of time spent in the operating room by almost 11 minutes, leading to an overall cost savings of about $770 per patient.

--In addition to being effective, hypnosis may also prove to be a versatile tool. The benefits of hypnosis have been shown in previous research to extend to other procedures as well, including gynecological surgery and coronary artery bypass.

--"This could become part of standard care," he said. However, he added, "it's not a panacea for everything, but rather a tool in the toolbox that we can use to address specific problems."

Wow! I don't know where to start! I just had the worst day and the best day! You never know what you're going to get. Today was my code inspection (needed for my biz license). They just give you a time between 9 and 4. But you can call in the morning and speak to the inspector and get a closer time. Now my office is pretty quiet. Nobody is really there much. I don't want to sit there all day with this nice list of things I need to do instead. But when I call, no answer and no call back. I call and call but end up going in by 9:00. No breakfast! And I'm hungry. Finally get hold of someone at Code Enforcement and it turns out the guy's number they gave me is off today. hmmmm... frustration. But I am scheduled and they put me through to someone else who says everyone's in a meeting so I can safely go get breakfast without missing them. So I do. Thank God, I was so hungry.

Back in the office, I think he was going to have someone call me but after we hung up I wasn't sure. So I wait. I did bring some things to do - hypnosis books to study - hmmm.. maybe I'll practice some self hypnosis for confidence - I do that - good stuff. I feel pretty good about that. Read some more. Walk around the office. Play a game on my phone. Read the whole Newsweek mag I brought. Hours pass... bored and hungry again. Ahh! the door - he's here. I go out and introduce myself and ask him if he wants to see the place and after walking him back I am starting to get a weird vibe because even though I'm talking about looking around the office I'm not getting the right feedback and finally he says - well, I was here to see Kelly... great - he's a client. of my associate. a little embarrassing  but we are laughing now.

So he says, "are you the hypnotist" and I say yep that's me. He asks if I can help him with his golf game. (See my blog from yesterday) and we proceed to talk about that. This is where it gets good. He tells me a little about his issue and I realize even though I know nothing about golf that this probably won't be that hard. He's just nervous when he does this certain shot and can't remember what he planned to do when it's time. Then he asks me how much I charge - This is the first time I get to answer that question. Everyone knows it's a little tough figuring out what to charge and a lot of consideration has gone into me figuring this out - so good or bad I have an answer. So I tell him $125 for the first session and $99 for each session after that, understanding that it might take multiple sessions. And get this----- he says's---- "okay, that's reasonable".... Wow! That's what I was thinking... just Wow! He takes my card and says he will call me in two weeks- because I should have my business license by then.. This day just gets better. I'm feeling pretty good : )

So now everyone is gone and I am back to waiting and trying to entertain myself. The phone rings at 2:30 and it's the Code Enforcement guy wanting to know when I'll be there... frustration as I tell him "I've been here all day". So he says, "I'm sorry if I'd known I would have been there this morning" (What can you do? just be nice and say well I'm here now) So he makes it there in the next half hour. Comes in and says I just need your paperwork to sign, that's all. But you know, I'm just glad it's fast. Plus I am starving!

This is the best part. I decide that I am going to just run around the corner and have a sub from Jersey Mikes. I get there, park my car and say hello to the older black man with the full grey beard sitting outside having his lunch by himself. It's beautiful out and breezy where the tables are and so I take my sandwich out and sit at the other outside table.  He strikes up a conversation and we must have talked for 2 hours. I'm not sure why but it was just the best conversation. We talked about local politics, children, teenagers, marriage (he's been married 41 years) parents, tough times and it was just great. It was a very uplifting experience. I don't know why but he said the thinks God sent me there today. I left there feeling joy and peace like I haven't felt in a while and I'm not even sure why.

So what's the moral of this story ... you never know what your day may bring .. no matter how it starts there may be something really good in the middle or in the end.  

Sherrie
"really lovin life today"

In order to allow myself the time I need to be a hypnotist, I am feeling the need to outsource some of my web site work. I am a do it your self type person but I am realizing that my time would be better spent preparing to open my business and after that doing what I want to do the most which is hypnotize and all that great stuff that goes with it. 

 So if anyone knows of a company or a person who can work within Microsoft Web Expression please forward their contact information to me. I don't need anyone to actually design a site. I have done the basic design myself. I need someone who can tweak it for me and who can finish adding the filler and make updates as I have more to add to it. 

Right now it's pretty simple but it might get a little more complicated later as I expand and become more successful. YEA!

Thanks for any help.

Sherrie 

Tom, this is sort of in response to your latest blog.

Keep talking, we're listening. This is good stuff. I know that it's helping me to move forward. Some of us have lots of issues :) - you know, you could actually have fear of failure and fear of success all wrapped up in one body.

But you'd be proud of me. I am taking your advice and "Failing Forward Fast". I made myself a checklist of what must be done to take that first client and am clearing it fast. For some reason every time I take the steps to move forward the Universe just takes 4 more for me. I know it's that Law of Attraction and the Art of Allowing stuff I keep doing. I love it and I hate it.

So, yesterday, I had scheduled the fire inspection at my office (needed for business license - checking off my list fast) and the massage therapist is there who I rent from, and she says she is ready for me to hypnotize her (exchange of services) for exercise motivation. And I think, okay, that should be pretty easy. So I say I'm ready, let's schedule you.... (she is very excited that I am there but wants to experience it herself before she can wholeheartedly recommend me to her clients.) So everything is good until...

Then she says that she also wants me to hypnotize her 12 year old for 1. thumb sucking and 2. for losing control when she plays poorly in sports. Of course, I say. "Children are so easy to hypnotize, it's very successful with children, I'm looking forward to helping her." Now, I'm thinking, "okay, never hypnotized a child before and these sound like kind of tough issues." (yep, fear is setting in).

Then her client comes in while I am there and of course, I am very good at talking about how great hypnosis is, so she is interested in me hypnotizing her husband for his golf game. So I say, "sure no problem, that's really easy." But I'm thinking, "I know nothing about golf, and haven't even looked at a sports script yet." Now at this point, I'm still smiling but yep, more fear. I'm pulling back on those reins, thinking, whoa... Then she says, she would like to be hypnotized too and I was thanking God at that point that she had to go in for her appointment.

So, now, I'm practicing my "what ifs"....
(I learned this from the book "The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent"

What if... I am so successful when I hypnotize the massage therapist and her daughter that she praises me so much to her clients that I get lots of business right away from her.

What if... I find hypnotizing children is easy and I really help her daughter.

What if... every time I hypnotize someone it goes great and it gets easier and easier

What if... after I post this I get some great advice from some awesome hypnotists out there which results in every one of the previously mentioned sessions being highly successful.

What if.. I find out it's really not that hard hypnotizing people and I just happen to be really great at it!

So, Tom, thanks, I'm "failing forward fast" .

Sherrie
"just loving life"

Okay, this is a lot scary for me because I am not one to invite criticism (constructive or otherwise) upon myself. I am just so damn thin skinned. So PLEASE be gentle... I really want some honest input, so here goes. I have created a business card without any real input from anyone with marketing or graphic expertise. I just went with my gut. I am looking for opinions mostly on the graphic I chose (It is not a logo- just for impact) I would use it on other marketing materials also. Without explaining my thought processes behind it - just trying to get some first impressions. So I'm putting this out there to all of you and hoping you'll take a minute to tell me what you think.

Sherrie