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Professional hypnotherapist and instructor Erika Flint, CEO of Cascade Hypnosis Center for Training & Services interviews professional hypnotherapist Heather Stewart.

Heather Stewart was 20 years old when she first became interested in hypnosis. She graduated from Cascade Hypnosis Center in Bellingham in 2017, and started practicing in December of the same year.

This is what we call going from “classroom to client” because your best teachers once you graduate training are your clients.

Before becoming a hypnotist, Heather's hypnosis helped her to stop spending money. Then, hypnosis also helped her trim a 2-POT a day coffee habit! Heather now drinks ONLY two cups of coffee a day and believes hypnosis is good for the brain.

Heather remarks a time “When I was 46 years old and I had been carrying around this stuff literally since I was a few days old in, in this little life of ours.

And so to get rid of it and unload it, I think very similarly to my clients, you have these moments of huge release and lightness. But there wasn't like this aha until the next time that thing came around.

Some clients come in who have developed a bad habit that's giving them a bad reaction within their life. They don't like the path their life has taken or how they're reacting at work or with their spouse.”

It's the emotional, like the emotional stuff that they're coming because it's an emotional thing. One of the biggest challenges is getting to the root cause that is driving behavior.

Can you tell us maybe a client win or a story that it ins inspirational to some of your potential clients out there?

Heather says doing hypnosis with a professional is different than getting hypnosis on YouTube. We notice things as professionals that clients might not notice, she says.

Heather says if you know you've got someone by your side going through it with you not leaving, it brings a whole other level of confidence to it. “I just love that with hypnosis we can get to that root cause and. The feeling is gone. They know it still happened, but the feeling, right? That's what we're doing in hypnosis. We get into that feeling space. And then we are able to get our clients results.

The technique Bi-lateral Stimulation is discussed - or what Erika calls “Diffusion technique” because it functions by “spreading out the anxiety across both hemispheres leading to a drop in perceived anxiety.

When you do something like you're crossing your arms across your body, it does diffuse the sensation of anxiety across the brain. So it almost is it just spreads it out and we can't notice that it's there anymore. It combats the fight or.

The importance of Anti-Anxiety techniques as hypnotists

As a professional hypnotist, you have to remember exactly what you're doing and it's important to stay calm in the moment. Heather says hypnosis can help you achieve more in five sessions than you would in 12 months of other types of therapies. Find the right therapist for you and be able to groove with the person that you're working with, she says. Heather says if you're thinking about becoming a hypnotist, just start doing it!

Heather can be reached at CascadeHypnosisCenter.com

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