Shamanic Imagery Hypnosis
Enhance natural personal skills and assets and re-gather your potential
Use image-work to retrieve the power you need to build the life you deserve
Learn to hear your own wisdom as you determine your chief aims in life
Promote your wellness and recover your positive mental attitude
This is your life. Let it be lived!
From Steve:
“When researching for my dissertation, I was fortunate to meet several heart patients whose close call with death gave them a huge appreciation for life. They left me with an important reminder: search out now what we need and hope for, regain our positive mental attitude, and open up to life’s richness today.
How did humanity originally find its wellness, before civilization thrust its walls of concrete and pavement between ourselves and the Earth? I learned of the ancient, easily reached, trance-like state called the shamanic journey, where problem-solving and decision-making played out in fantastic images of power animals and teachers. I realized these figures were a valuable tool for imagery when clients pursued the self-help strategy of hypnosis.
Like the shamanic journey, the hypnotic state encourages heightened imagery along with relaxed concentration. This state supports a raised awareness where one is free to face issues and challenges, shed outworn ways of living, and determine personal direction.
In the shamanic journey, this relaxed state of heightened imagery is induced by the repetitive beat of a drum or ‘swoosh’ of a rattle. During hypnosis, this state is normally coached by the verbal, suggestive guidance of a skilled hypnotist. Realizing from my own experience how both deep hypnosis and the shamanic journey can facilitate our openness to change and assist us in the recovery of our potential, I began to integrate these in hypnosis.
We no longer need the beat of an actual drum, but can encourage relaxed concentration and heightened imagery by listening to a soft background of isochronic tones or monaural beats embedded comfortably in soothing music or the sounds of nature.
Discover how ancient shamanic images and contemporary hypnosis combine to help you let go of that which no longer serves you, where you can rediscover your self-direction and reach decisions. Your life is your opportunity; a gift you truly deserve.”
Steve specializes in assisting individuals to successfully work their way through significant life transitions. He always suggests at least two meetings at least a week apart, and recommends 3 or more to provide sufficient time and experience when working through such transitions. To schedule your sessions, contact Balance Health of Ben Lomond at (831) 336-1300.
He provides compassionate, client-centered non-therapeutic hypnotism for vocational or avocational self-improvement. He is a consulting hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists, (NGH # 33571). He does not treat emotional or mental disorders, nor does he diagnose, prescribe, or treat any medical condition. He does accept hypnosis referrals from properly licensed healthcare professionals.
Steve’s Ph.D. is in clinical psychology awarded in 2001 from the Center for Psychological Studies in Albany, California. He has utilized this to inform his research in potential applications of ancient shamanic principles in the contemporary world.