Peace & Wellness Center

Lightworkers Conference - Chicago, USA

2010-06-05T10:33:00.003-05:00

October may seem like it's a long way off; in any case, now is a good time to start planning for Autumn. We plan for Autumn when we plant our gardens knowing that we will be harvesting the vegetables and fruits as Autumn nears so why not start planning for the fun and fascinating too!

The Lightworkers Conference in the greater Chicago area is October 15, 16 & 17. People from all over the midwest and even from overseas come to share and learn about new developments in the world of energywork, mind-body-spirit work and sacred art/geometry and sound. There are discussions about Indigos, cellular memory, sacred art and sound.... there are presentations on the Mayan calendar, creating a new vision based on your deeper, inner knowing and so much more.

I'll be there, presenting and guiding the attendees through creating a New Inner Vision aligned with Highest Purposes. I'm also doing a group past life regression on Saturday night during the dinner break and another group past life regression after we finish the conference on Sunday. Throughout the days during and before the conference you can schedule a private session with me. You can schedule a private reading, healing session or past life regression or join the group past life regression. For more details about my services and fees pls go to www.patriciampoole.com or write me at watrish@aol.com

Hope to see you at the conference!

Catch Your Inner Saboteur and Make Him/Her Your Ally

2010-05-01T09:11:00.001-05:00

Do you think you have a hidden saboteur in your life? Is it possible that someone in your life, maybe someone you know really well is sabotaging you? Of course, it is possible that there is someone outside of yourself sabotaging you, but the most powerful saboteur is the one lurking within yourself.

That sneaky, little saboteur-within packs a punch to your self-confidence, motivation and self-esteem by whispering things to you such as “you can’t do it” and “who are you to do ______ “. Just as you are doing well in your relationship or work, weight-loss goals or any goal; it makes it’s appearance just long enough to make you doubt yourself all over again. The inner saboteur weakens your motivation, desire and drive to move forward or even laterally. The saboteur wants you to play it safe and assume the worst. It knows all the reasons why it’s better to say no to taking a risk. The saboteur encourages you to express yourself in all the wrong ways despite your intention to communicate succinctly. It can be so very frustrating.

The saboteur within can be a powerful force to keep you mired and stuck; but what if you could turn it around and apply all it’s power in a way to support you? What might you accomplish if you shook hands with your inner saboteur and agreed to work together to move forward on whatever goals you have? Of course you’d accomplish much more! Perhaps your saboteur would get fearful again and try to stop you in your tracks. If so, that is ok because we each have an inner saboteur that we each must tame in our own way and in our own time. It’s the taming of the inner saboteur that brings the healing, the promotion, the relationship, the new creative cycle. But how to tame that inner saboteur?

Usually we can tame our inner saboteur for awhile simply because the pain or cost of continuing in a disempowered, sabotaged way becomes too much and we push through to a breakthrough. But every once in awhile, our inner saboteur is too strong; reinforced by other people’s negativity and a lack of insight or perceived lack of some resource. This is when you need to dig deeper and find a way to make your inner saboteur your ally. As a professional hypnotherapist I do this with my clients. Hypnosis and self-hypnosis is one of the best antidotes for the inner saboteur. To get my help with your inner saboteur in person or via the telephone, contact me at watrish@aol.com

Next time you find yourself stuck in a disempowered state, feeling like some outside force or person or “curse” is keeping you from stepping forward address your inner saboteur and watch how it turns everything around. You’ll even find that your inner saboteur is much more powerful than any outside person in your life.

Address your inner saboteur by taking these 6 easy steps.

1) If you are still asking yourself “Why can’t I ___lose the weight, say the right thing, be more motivated, feel better, etc?” STOP! This is by far the most disempowering question you can ask yourself about anything. Right behind the question “why can’t I do x, y or z?” is “what’s wrong with me?”. These questions are good for a very, very short time for they may uncover some bit of helpful information. However, when you continue asking those why questions, you begin to hypnotize yourself in a negative disempowered direction by looking for what is wrong with you. Your subconscious will oblige you and come up with all sorts of reasons why you can’t do something – those reasons may even be inaccurate and untruthful! The subconscious is infinitely creative and will seek to give you an answer even if it has to make something up or misinterpret some past experience you have had. If you are going to do self-hypnosis let’s get you doing a positive type of self hypnosis, which you begin to do in step 2.

2) Sit down and write out what it will be like when you accomplish your goal and how you will feel upon it’s accomplishment. Include notes on how you will be different; how you will behave differently in a positive way, how others will respond to you. This will help you get a vision of where you are going.

3)In your minds’ eye begin to get a picture or movie of what it will be like to accomplish your desired goal. You will get there more easily with a picture and movie of how to get there; just like when you do a remodel of a room – if you start a remodel without a vision of what you want it to look like, you will have a heck of a time finishing it.

4) Listen for the naysaying of your saboteur. This will make it possible for you to make your saboteur your ally. Listen for what the saboteur wants you to be afraid of. The inner saboteur wants to keep you fearful so you don’t make the change; so it’ll make up all sorts of great things like; “if you succeed all your friends will judge you or leave you, if you succeed you will have no other goals to accomplish, your goal is stupid/meaningless/worthless, what’s the point,” etc. You get the idea. The inner saboteur will take out all stops and say whatever it has to, to keep you stuck in fear. No worries! The saboteur can be tamed and made into an ally! Mostly your inner saboteur just wants to keep you safe and protected; but safe and protected is not living and thriving using all of your gifts and talents that were given to you at birth. So write down the negative things you hear your inner saboteur say and do so without judging yourself; remember those comments and judgements are likely not even true! You can take those negative things that your saboteur shared with you and make them work for you.

5) Take your list of negatives and transform each one; one by one, into a positive statement of becoming. Eg. If I lose the weight, my friends won’t like me any more (because we won’t be able to eat ice cream together) and change it to: I am becoming even more likable because I like myself even more when I maintain a healthy weight; my energy is getting better, my blood and brain chemistry is becoming healthier and I’m even better company than before because I am eating right and exercising.

Hypnosis and Relaxation can help yr Skin

2009-12-08T16:10:00.003-06:00

Can chilling out actually help with skin conditions? Yes it can!

Relaxation techniques have physiological effects. When you relax using hypnosis, meditation or yoga your body relaxes numerous helpful and health-giving neurotransmitters. Researchers have found that psoriasis clears up faster oftentimes in those patiens who listened to meditation tapes along with getting ultraviolet phototherapy, than those who received ultraviolet phototherapy alone.

Stress and sleep deprivation raise stress horomone levels - this has all sorts of different health implications including making the body more acidic. A more acidic body will age more quickly and be more "friendly" to disease.

You wouldn't want to be completely free of stress. Even pets have a bit of stress; they have to get up and go outside or protect the house, etc. What you want to do is learn to manage the stress so that you do not internalize it. One easy affirmation to meditate on is "I am not my stress but the manager of it."

You can use the time just before you fall asleep to repeat helpful phrases such as "every day in every way I'm getting healthier and happier" and dwell upon that phrase as you fall asleep. Quickly you will find your body relaxing as you drift into sleep with this positive thought on your mind. The last thought on your mind is what will run through your mind while you sleep so it might as well be something positive yes? Doing this is a form of self-hypnosis.

If you are interested in meditation classes; I run one every 2nd Monday in Green Bay. Just email me at watrish@aol.com or visit www.thepeaceandwellnesscenter.com for more information. And for hypnosis, if you are in the greater Green Bay area I would love to help you with stress management and if you are too far away to come in person; I'm happy to refer you to a collegue in your area.

Allergies can be a Bummer!

2009-09-17T13:23:00.009-05:00

I'm lucky! I don't have allergies but many of my friends, family members and clients have allergies. They get tired of treating it with all the medications and inhalers and eventually give the essential oils a try. Most of them find great relief from this natural way of treating them.

Essential oils are nature's first medicine! Essential oils are like the blood of a plant so they each have a unique chemistry and vibration. In ancient times they were almost more valuable than gold! And I can tell you that with all these viruses running around; the oils are more valuable to me than gold too!

So what do my friends, family and clients do to treat their allergies. Well, for starters they use a therapeutic grade essential oil to insure that it is the highest quality. This is important because some of the less quality oils have had their molecular structure changed and adulterated so they can actually make things worse for your health than better. They prefer the brand I've been using for over 12 years - Young Living.

They start with Lavender from YL and put a drop or two on the back of their neck; if they have super sensitive skin they put it in a carrier oil such as olive, jojoba or some other natural oil. They also put a drop or two of lavender in hot water or tea at night and ingest it so that it can work as an adaptogen helping the body adapt to the environment. Some of them diffuse Thieves (I'll write more about that next). And most of them use the blends of RC and Raven which are designed specifically for the lungs. Overall the oils are not that expensive and generally are free of side-effects. If you'd like to order lavender, or some of the others; feel free to use my sponsor #77597 and go to http://www.youngliving.com/ They have offices in Australia, Europe, Canada, Japan and Mexico. You can set up your account easily via the internet.

Thieves is a powerful essential oil blend with a strange but accurate name. You might be asking yourself... what does she mean by that??? Dr. Young named this product Thieves because the recipe is based on a combination of oils that a band of theives used during the black plague so they could strenghten their immune system well enough to steal from those who had died from the plague without getting sick from the dead people. Amazing huh? Thieves is incredibly powerful against black mold, molds in general, airborne bacterias, viruses etc. If you are wondering... yes, I have some with me at all times and diffuse it regularly to keep my environment free of any pathogens especially now as we enter "flu" season. This is a link to a booklet on Thieves http://www.youngliving.us/pdfs/lit-thieves_booklet.pdf

If you have questions feel free to post here or email me at watrish@aol.com If you want to go right to their website there is great info about how to use the oils and the uses specific to each type of oil. You'll probably want to jot my sponsor #77597 down so you can use it when you set up an account later or you can just come back here to find it again. You'll need it to order any of the oils.

Healthy Happenings to You!

Spring is a time of new beginnings

2009-05-18T09:50:00.000-05:00

How excellent to start my blog during the season of new beginnings! Spring is my favorite season because it is so magical and leaves me pondering the way every tree and plant comes up slightly different with a variety of flowers and shapes. There are the intoxicating fragrances floating through the air lifting our spirits and our eyes as we seek out the source of the scents.

It is a time when we can become more actively involved in the magic of nature by planting a garden or tending flowers that we purchase at a store or garden house. And of course; in the work that I do oftentimes we think of the mind as a garden. The seeds that are in the garden of our minds are our thoughts. Whatever we sow in our garden of our mind we will harvest some time or another so it is good to review the thoughts we entertain regularly in our mind and start removing the "weeds" and planting more "flowers". For help removing those weeds and planting those flowers - look to affirmations and/or hypnosis; either self-hypnosis or hypnosis with a trained professional hypnotherapist.

If you are looking for a simple fun thing to do this Spring; check out www.thistledowngreenhouse.com for their Fairy Festival on June 20th.

May this Spring be a new beginning for you! If not in a big way; perhaps in a small way. Find something that you'd like to begin again or begin anew! And get those weeds out of your garden of your mind. :)