so i understand that you're a clinical hypnotherapist what got you interested in that arena

Well, that's exactly the intersection where I noticed that some practices relate to the non-physical and some practices relate to the physical.

So medicine obviously addresses the physical body, but not the person living in this physical body.

And let's say therapy, primarily engages the person living in this physical body, but it's still doing so in a very limited way.

And hypnotherapy or clinical hypnotherapy is one of those very practical, pragmatic tools that we can use to bridge the gap, to connect the dots, to engage both the physical body as well as the person living in this physical body.

So it's just a very practical standpoint for me.

There's not too many tools, therapeutic tools that can help us do that.

Does having a practice of gratitude and hope help in that healing process then?

Tell me more.

Sure.

So the therapeutic vehicle, if you will, is the subconscious mind.

We want to access that part.

And to do that, we need tools that are a bit different from traditional therapy.

In talk therapy, we sit and talk about our problem, which is useful.

But essentially, we are talking to the conscious mind, which is rational and logical.

Because informed choices begin with credible science.

untangle that

because it's just very, it can get very, yeah, very messy.

Being a human being is a messy business.

And to be a thriving human being rather than just a surviving human being, that requires... new information and new patterns and new skills that we can learn.

And if there is a state of joy is knowing, because I feel that joy and happiness are not necessarily destinations.

They're kind of like the resonance from moving in a certain way toward better, greater realization of who we are.

If you are moving in that direction, if you are on the path of self-discovery, you will have a lot of joy.

Thank you.