January 26, 2007

Volume 3, Issue 1

Welcome

We're celebrating our 10th year of the Ontario Hypnosis Centre School and Clinic and are very excited about achieving this milestone. It's all thanks to you, our clients, students and customers.

To thank you for your support, we have developed an e-book called The Hypnosis Power Guide. If you would like a copy of this guide, send an e-mail to info@ont-hypnosis-centre.com and we will gladly send you one for free. As another gift, we will be offering a different hypnosis CD each month of 2007 for just $10 -- only through this LifeChanger.

And talking of celebration, we've just come off celebrating the 3rd annual World Hypnotism Day. We had a terrific event in Toronto with nearly 200 people attending and lots of media coverage.

Our colleagues all across Canada held events, some small, some large, but all celebrating the power of hypnosis and how it can help change your life.

New Research Project: Please let us know your perspective on hypnosis by taking a quick survey of just 10 questions. It will take only two or three minutes of your time, and we'd love your input. Just click the link below or copy and paste it into your browser to get started -- and thanks!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=24053137782

This year, as you plan your year, don't think about what you want to change, rather focus on what you want to celebrate. And make 2007 the year you are kind to yourself.

Namaste,
Georgina

Colour Your Home Healthy
by Celeste Keller
WARNING: What you are about to read may cause you to surround yourself with real colours.

My name is Celeste Keller and I am a colour junkie. Trained as a classical painter, a Feng Shui practitioner, an interior decorator and a colour consultant, I feel it is my duty to break people out of their neutral colour habits. It's time to change our stagnating, anesthetizing, beige ways. We are in desperate need of vibrant, beautiful, invigorating colours that will bring our homes and our energy to life!

If you feel you may be one of those people living in a space lacking colour and would like to make some improvements in your life, then grab a pen and some paper and let's not waste another beige second.

Step 1
Make sure you are in a good, positive mood. Suspend all your fears and self-doubts and just relax. Take a really deep breath, hold it and fill it with all the fears you may be feeling about colour. Then let it go, fears and all. **It is important to feel your way through this exercise, not think your way through it.

Step 2
Go through your home room by room. Spend a few minutes in each room, paying close attention to how you feel as you are in each room. Pay closest attention to the rooms you spend most of your time in…your bedroom, your den, and your kitchen. Take notes.

Step 3
Be aware of the colours in each room. Do they raise your chi? (My what? Your chi. 'Chi' loosely translates to 'energy.') Do the colours make you feel something? Are these feelings positive or negative or non-existent? Take notes.

Step 4
Have a look at the objects in each room. How does each object make you feel? What colours are these objects? Keep taking notes.

Step 5
Go to your bedroom closet, open it up and have a look at your clothes. Yes, even the clothes on the floor. How do you feel? Is your chi responding to the different colours? In what way? More notes, please.

Step 6
Once you've gone through each room, gather your notes and let's examine your findings.

I had my husband do this exercise in our home and this is what he found. Almost every room makes him feel blah. Certain objects that he has made and that he has acquired through traveling make him feel happy. Cluttered areas make him feel tired. The solarium, which looks out onto his pond and garden, make him feel relaxed and rejuvenated. The storage area, where he houses a lot of his tools, makes him feel useful and excited.

We recently moved into our home. The previous owner had painted the entire home in pale, beigey yellow. BLAH. In our den, my husband installed a new, modern fireplace and mantle and I applied metallic copper plaster to the walls flanking the fireplace. HAPPY. The office is where papers and books accumulate. TIRED. The solarium is filled with big windows from wall to wall allowing us to see the entire back garden and pond. RELAXING and REJUVENATING. The storage area has a wooden workstation, is painted in a bluish-grey tone and is filled with tools. MACHO.

What does all this mean? The colours of your home and its objects have a huge effect on YOU and your physical and mental well-being. I have discovered that although colour has psychological effects on all of us, the emotional effects are specific to each of us.

Make sure you surround yourself with all the colours YOU love, colours that uplift YOU and make YOU feel alive. Calling in a colour consultant is an excellent way to take the guesswork out of the overwhelming colour choices but YOU need to be the inspiration, not the consultant and definitely not the designer trends.

Celeste Keller is the owner of Celeste Keller Studios. She can be reached at celkeller@hotmail.com or 416-809-9601.


RELEASING ADDICTIONS
THROUGH HYPNOSIS AND NLP

Presented by Gilles Brideau, B.A., M.A., M.Ht.
Gilles has 12 years experience working as a substance abuse counsellor in individual, group, marital and family therapy.

Whether your client has an addiction to street or legal drugs, alcohol or food, this is one workshop you won't want to miss! Increase your market potential by learning how to deal more effectively with your clients' everyday addictive behaviours and expand your hypnotherapy practice to include working with more complicated addictions.

Dates: March 10 & 11, 2007
Location: Downtown Toronto
Fee: $600 (incl. all materials)

"Gilles is a very experienced teacher who conveys his subject passionately and in the most effective way. He has lots of tips one can use in a broad range of areas, personal and professional."
- Fatma Nur Ozmizrak, Ph.D, C.Ht., Ottawa, ON

Register online or call (416) 489-0333 / toll-free (866) 497-7469.

Cooling the Flash

Have you ever removed layers of clothes, opened windows and fanned yourself in response to a hot flash? Perhaps you have been woken from a deep sleep to throw off the covers only to find that you also needed to change drenched nightclothes and soggy bedsheets?

If so, you are not alone. In 2005, four million Canadian women had reached menopause.[1] Of all of the symptoms of menopause, including insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, depression and weight gain, hot flashes can have the most dramatic effect on our lives.

Pharmaceutical medications can be helpful, but not every woman is able to use them and drugs can carry potential risks.

Isn't there a completely safe and effective way to help you through menopause?

Yes, there is -- hypnosis.

"We conclude that hypnosis appears to be a feasible and promising intervention for HF [hot flashes], with a potential to improve quality of life and insomnia." [2]


The Ontario Hypnosis Centre introduces an exciting and effective programme: Cooling the Flash. In a dynamic group format, you will receive:
  • Training in self-hypnosis (a powerful tool for life)
  • Four hypnosis sessions guided by an experienced Board Certified Hypnotherapist with years of expertise in women's issues
  • A hypnosis recording on CD suitable for daily use
  • A workbook with scripts, helpful coping strategies and a diary to record your progress
Cooling the Flash

Dates:
Wednesdays from 7 - 9:30 pm
April 11, 18, 25 and May 23

Location:
Ontario Hypnosis Centre
94 Cumberland Street, Suite 310, Toronto

To register call 416-489-0333 or send email to info@ont-hypnosis-centre.com.


[1] The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
[2] "Mind Control of Menopause", J. Younus, MD, et al at the London Regional Cancer Centre, ON. Women's Health Issues. 2003 Mar-Apr;13(2):74-8.



PAEDIATRIC HYPNOSIS

Presented by Barb Keshen, C.Ht., M.Ht.
A valuable course for the professional hypnotherapist

ADD? ADHD? Indigo Child? Barb has worked with them all very successfully. Come to this workshop and learn how. This pragmatic and effective workshop gives you the tools you need to help young clients alleviate bedwetting, nail biting and hair pulling, to improve study habits, and much more. Plug into this growing segment of clients -- if you want to work with children, this workshop is a must!

Date: Feb 3, 2007
Location: Downtown Toronto
Fee: $300 (incl. all materials)

Register online or call (416) 489-0333 / toll-free (866) 497-7469.


View an illuminating interview with Gregg Braden, author of The God Code, at the Think With Your Heart blog.

The folks at Six Cent Press are specialists in producing pin back buttons. They have superb customer service and quick turnaround with no extra rush charges -- a joy to deal with!

MyBrainTrainer and Happy Neuron are web sites offering cranial calisthenics to keep your brain fit and your mind sharp.




FREE HYPNOSIS
POWER GUIDE

Please email us for your FREE copy of the Ontario Hypnosis Centre's Hypnosis Power Guide.


Have You Lived Before?

Who were you then and what did those lives teach you that you can benefit from today? Discover the secrets to making past life regression work for you in my new book, Return.

"We love the book. I bought your Past Life CD and can't wait to get a chance to try it. I am doing a talk about hypnotherapy and past life regression next weekend. I can't wait to promote your book!"
- Sandra Craib, Ottawa

"I just finished reading your book. Did I ever learn a lot...It was easy to read and understand. The format is attractive and enticing. Your facts are presented crystal clearly. I could feel your honesty... Thank you so very much for this incredible gift."
- Eleanor Levine, Toronto

View the table of contents

Read a sample chapter

Learn more or buy Return: Past Life Regression and You.

Call for Stories

If you have a story about how hypnosis changed your life, or how a past life regression session gave you some insight or wisdom about your current life, let Georgina know. She's looking for stories for her next book -- you could be in it!

Please e-mail your story with the subject line "Book Story."

THIS MONTH'S
SPECIAL OFFER

This month, we offer the first of our $10 CD specials for 2007. Start the new year in a big way with our Creating Abundance CD. You will learn to harness the power of your mind to bring abundance in love, health, peace and prosperity.

Remember, the CD is just $10 (that's more than 50% off!) but only until February 16, 2007.

To order, call (416) 489-0333 / toll-free (866) 497-7469.
Please mention the January LifeChanger when ordering.

Proud to Be Involved

The Ontario Hypnosis Centre is proud to be the preferred and official hypnotherapy clinic for the PWA, the Toronto People With AIDS Foundation. We are thankful for the opportunity to contribute to our neighbourhood community.



Questions or comments about this newsletter or any of our products and services? We'd love to hear from you!

Ontario Hypnosis Centre
E: info@ont-hypnosis-centre.com
T: (416) 489-0333
Toll-free: (866) 497-7469

94 Cumberland St.
Suite 310
Toronto, Ontario
M5R 1A3
Canada

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Unlock the power of your subconscious mind with hypnosis. Dr. Georgina Cannon, a certified master clinical hypnotherapist, is an international teacher, lecturer and founding director of a hypnosis clinic and school in Toronto, Canada.

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