AS I explain to clients, when they first start the Foundations Hypnosis and  Emotional Release Therapy program, I will not personally be able to make them do anything or stop anything, but what I can do is show them how they can use their own powerful consciousness and neuroplasticity to reduce the effects of the childhood trauma.

You have no control over other people and events, but you do have control over you and specifically your reactions or responses to other people and events.

We are all programed with images and messages throughout  our lives, and our earliest images and messages become our unconscious guides. These, often time, unconscious images and messages cause our three main arch types, the Inner Judge, the Inner Victim, and the Inner Warrior to come into play and whenever we come up against any situation in our lives, we immediately and unconsciously Judge the situation, (through our Inner Judge),  our Inner Victim accepts the judgement, and our Inner Warrior reacts with whatever coping mechanism we can, which can be coping mechanisms that we adopt to try and make our lives better.

Think about that, when you come up against any situation or event that our Inner Judge views as a threat to our well being, (something life threatening, or a verbal / personal attack, or any event that causes us to recall our imbedded feelings from childhood) our Inner Warrior responds by filling our bodies with more tension and more stress.

Stress and tension are the body’s response to what we perceive as harmful situations.  When you feel threatened, chemical reactions occur in the body that enables us to respond  in ways to help prevent injury. These responses are  known as “fight-or-flight,” or the stress/ trauma response. These stress / trauma responses cause, your heart rate to increase, your breathing quickens, your muscles tighten, and your blood pressure rises. You’ve now ready to act, it is how we  protect ourselves.

Using Hypnosis and Emotional Release Therapy, you will learn how to become very Mindful and Aware of these responses and how you are not those responses, but you are the Master of those responses, those thoughts, those Emotions.

Just listen to what one client said about this program:

For most of my adult life, I have been working to overcome the effects of childhood trauma and subsequent anxiety. Years of traditional talk therapy didn’t work for me. I could never get over the resentment and anger about my lost childhood and the adults that failed me. Wanting to to overcome these challenges, I knew I needed to try something new, something outside the box. – this led me to DL.

During the first few sessions, DL asked very deep, thought-provoking questions to get to know my goals, struggles, and thought processes. He developed a hypnotherapy plan for in-person sessions as well as “homework” for me to do in between our sessions. Our work together has enabled me to let go of the past and be able to see/feel those experiences as a witness rather than a victim. I feel like a better friend, wife, and mother. I have more patience and feel happier/more content overall.

If talk therapy hasn’t worked for you, then I encourage you to try DL Scott. He’s the best out there!

If you are dealing with the effects of Childhood Trauma, Addictions, (including Cigarettes, Food, Drugs, Alcohol), or any other Stress or Tension, then PLEASE call now, (206) 417-4900, Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching, and start living a Mindful, and Aware life of happiness and contentment.

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When a client comes in for their first session, I have them explain the symptoms of the issue that they are facing, whether that is  some form of addiction, nicotine, food, alcohol, or other drugs, such as Meth or Heroin. They usually let me know how they are stuck and cannot stop the behavior that, they believe, (think), is causing them some much stress and anxiety.

I explain that despite what we were raised to believe, “I think there fore I am”, in actuality “We are not our thoughts, we are not our emotions. Our thoughts and emotions define our personality, but we are beyond our thoughts and emotions.

If you drive a car, and I asked you to go out to your car, get in the car, turn it on, put it in gear, take the brakes off, then get out of the car, what would happen?

Almost all clients respond with the answer, “The car would roll around until it crashes into something”

Now I want you to think of your body as the chassis to the car, the brain, (or as I call it, the EGO) is the engine to the car, but where is the driver?

We are the energy behind the body, we are the life force, the consciousness that exists within the body, while we are on this plane of existence. To help us  take control of our thoughts and emotions, we must learn to we are soul, the chi, the prana, that gives us our life. We are NOT our Thoughts,  We are NOT our Emotions.

Our brains have been gathering information, (being programmed much like a computer),  from the world around us since  the day we were born, and according to much research we have started gathering information while we were still in the womb. This information, these images, and messages come from the people and events around us, especially the adults and authority figures in our lives.

We are programmed on what it means to be a good boy / girl, or a bad boy / girl. We are taught what it means to be successful, we are taught how important it is to be right, to win, and how to succeed, at any cost.

As we grow, those programs, those bits of information, because i road map. We basically create three main archetypes, The Inner Judge, The Inner Victim, and the Inner Warrior.  Each of these archetypes works instantly and automatically, without any conscious thought.

Think about when you run across any situation, a new person, a new place, a new event, no matter what we are faced with, we, (our Inner Judge) instantly and automatically, without any conscious thought at all, make a judgement about the person, place, or event that we are facing. This is exactly what is suppose to happen. Our brains, our egos, are designed to keep us safe, and we are always on the watch for anything around us that may possess a threat. In the olden days that threat was usually in the form of wild animals, being out, and unprotected, in nature. In today’s world  our greatest threats come from other people in the form of mental or physical abuse. Most of the time we are not in danger of loosing our lives, but our brains / egos, respond in the same way.

First our brain waves:

will respond by speeding up. You see, our hearts beat in beats per minutes, and our brains beat in beats per second. Generally we are in what is knows as the Beta state, a state associated with Insight, our normal waking state of consciousness, utilizing the five senses, sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell. When our defensive mechanisms are brought into play, our brain waves speed up and we are put into the Gamma state, which is associated with Alertness, attached to a heightened sense of awareness, this state activates the Sympathetic Nervous system which controls the Flight, Fight, or Freeze response, in an effort to protect ourselves. All of this comes from the programming, images, and messages, that we were programmed with as children.

All of this is usually taking place without any conscious awareness, but once you start using the power of Hypnosis we are able to become conscious of our thoughts, our emotions, our judgements, and we are able to choose our responses, instead of being at the mercy of these responses.

With the power of Hypnosis you can make friends with your thoughts and emotion., You can experience your thoughts and emotions  with awareness, and mindfulness. The brain, is very important, you can’t live without it, it controls your physical reactions in the body, the blood flow, the breathing, the internal processes, and it is designed to help you navigate and experience the world around you, but you need to remember that you are in ultimate charge, you are the ultimate master of your brain.

Over the last several years it has been determined through research and study, that all of our addictions are “Coping Mechanisms”. Things like alcohol, food, nicotine, and behaviors, are our way of trying to control our Fight, Flight, or Freeze, response. As I tell my clients, you need to recognize that you were trying to learn how to relax, how to go from the Sympathetic Nervous System, when our bodies and filled with chemicals such as cortisol, and adrenaline. to a more peace filled Para Sympathetic Nervous System, where our bodies are filled with chemicals such as norenepherine, dopamine, and Serotonin, that allow us to recognize our thoughts, and actually begin to focus on actual solutions, instead of symptoms.

So you can make a choice between Talk Therapy, where the focus is on the symptoms created by the issue, or you can ask yourself, Hypnosis how does it work? It works by focusing on the source of our issues, not the symptoms of our issues.

Call Now, Foundations Medical Hypnosis, and Life Coaching, (206) 417-4900. You will be amazed at how quickly and how much you can change your life around by becoming Mindful, and Aware.

Hypnosis, how does it work ?  It works amazingly well.

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First lets look at NLP. NLP stands for Neuro Linguistics Programming.  NLP started in the early 1970’s in Santa Cruz, California, when Richard Bandler, a 20-year-old psychology student at U.C..L.A.  met and became friends with Dr. John Grinder, an associate professor of linguistics at the college. It is the study or our words and images. By simply changing the structure of thes words and images you can change the outcomes in your life and life circumstances. 

NLP will show you how to attrack the thing(s) that you want into your life, instead of the thing(s) you don’t want. I was recently talking with Kay Ries a Life Coach and NLP practisioner, who talked about how NLP and the Law of Attraction are very similar. There are three basic steps to the Law of Attraction, 1) Identify your Desire, 2) Give your Desire Attention, 3) Allow It.  People put a lot of work into identifying their desires, and given their desires lots of attention. The step that they miss is number three, allowing thier desires to manifest.

The inability to allow something into your life comes from doubts and limiting beliefs.  With NLP and Hypnosis you will be given tools and skills that will help remove limiting beliefs, and eliminate doubt. These tools include creating allowing statements, and focusing on Appreciation and Gratitude.  You will also experience the power of ERT. This tool will allow you to move beyond self doubt and fears.

Get yourself unstuck, Call now, 206-417-4900. Start manifesting the Life you have always desired. DLScott Hypnotherapy, Seattle, Shoreline and Edmonds.

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During this time I have seen more disease, illness, and emotional unrest, then I thought possible. I have wondered what the real underlying cause is for these conditions. As a hypnotherapist I know that our mind controls our body, and as a chemical dependency counselor I know that we use drugs and alcohol, (including cigarettes and food), as a way to cover over and mask our emotional pain. fears, and traumas. Those things that we refuse to look at, those things that we suppress, are the things that cause unhealthy abnormal mental attitudes. Whether you are dealing with behaviors  that the” experts” label severe mental illness, or whether you are dealing with   behaviors that you consider road blocks, stress, and emotional trauma, there is a way to handle it. There is way of taking control back in your life.

You have the ability to take control of your life. Your mind can be focused on positive, effective, powerful techniques, and methods that can move you beyond addictions, anxieties, fears,  issues that have kept you stuck for months, or even years.

You can reduce, eliminate and end  states of depression, morbid emotions, excessive hate, resentment, condemnation of one’s self, criticism of others, jealousy, possessiveness, drug addiction, and a whole list of mental illnesses that continue to drag you further and further into states of stuckness.

I have seen clients who are deemed schizophrenic, bi-polar, and paranoid delusional who are unwilling or unable to move beyond their labels, and I have seen clients who make the decision that enough is enough, and by using hypnosis, and relaxation techniques they have been able to turn their lives around. They find ways of changing their thinking and changing their lives.

With the power of hypnosis, you can take control of your life! You can get a handle on the stress and emotional trauma that have kept you stuck in your own life circumstances, whether those circumstances are debilitating stress, addiction to nicotine, drugs, alcohol, anxiety, depression, lack of self confidence, disease, relationship issues, or fear of success, there is a way out. That way out is by going deep inside, and using the awesome healing power of your own mind.  Hypnosis can help you unleash that healing power of your own mind, and, utilizing Foundations Hypnosis and Personal Energy Mastery’s unique process of Emotional Release Therapy can help you overcome and win!!!!

Pick up the phone and CALL NOW!!! Sessions are can be arranged on an affordable bi-monthly basis, and a typical program lasts anywhere from 4 to 5 session. Foundations Hypnosis and NLP of North Seattle, Shoreline, Lynnwood, Edmonds, and Everett is just minutes from downtown Seattle by bus or car. Affordable, convenient evening appointments are available. The number is (206) 417-4900, CALL NOW, you will glad that you did. Sincerely,

DLScott CH.t /CDP / AASD Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Bellevue

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When a client calls my office, Foundations Hypnosis Seattle Everett, I am often hit with a barrage of questions such as, does Hypnosis work?  Can I be hypnotized? Can hypnosis make me stop smoking? Can I lose weight using hypnosis?  I feel stuck; I have low self worth can hypnosis make my life better? I have a problem sleeping, can you hypnotize me and make me sleep better. I am experiencing coming out issues, can hypnosis help? I am addicted to alcohol, can hypnosis make me stop drinking, or can hypnosis make me stop using drugs?

I am elated that the person has called Foundations Hypnosis Seattle Shoreline Lynwood Everett, and is seeking a way to stop their use of behaviors and / or substances that are causing them such problems in their lives. I am also cautious to explain in simply language that Hypnosis cannot make them do anything.

I have worked in the counseling field for over twenty years, I have discovered a few truths along the way, but none as helpful and exciting as the idea that NO!!!  HYPNOSIS CAN NOT MAKE YOU DO ANYTHING!  If it were that simple, then I would have long ago cured the ills of society and would have retired somewhere down in the tropics with a sizeable bank account and a bigger smile on my face than I already have.

Hypnosis is one of the most effective and powerful tools in my arsenal to help people create change in their lives. With the aid of hypnosis you can eliminate the effects of fears, phobias, addictive behaviors, PTSD(s), chronic pain, sleep disorders, depression, anger, and anxiety. You can actually eliminate nicotine, and other drugs, from your life forever, but if you want to know whether Hypnosis can MAKE these changes occur, the answer is NO.

First off you have to really want to make the changes that you are seeking. Once you have decided, I mean really decided to make these changes, you have won half the battle. The other half is in making a plan, choosing a way of getting to your goal. Hypnosis is one of the best ways of allowing yourself an effective, powerful, and long term solution to achieving your goal.

When I first started out in the field of hypnosis, I did so to help people deal with stress, and anxiety. I wanted to give people a way of dealing with pain and physical illnesses. Once I was trained in the ability to hypnotize people, I soon discovered that I needed a lot more than just one technique, one type of therapy, to help people deal with the types of problems I mentioned above.

Over the years I put myself through school, received a degree in social and human services, became a Chemical Dependency Counselor, and learned even stronger and more specific techniques, such as Dialectic Behavior, (which utilizes Mindfulness), Nero Linguistic Programming, and Emotional Release Therapy, which incorporates some of the most advance research available to help people actually change their brain wave patterns and eliminate the physical effects of stress, and trauma. Even with these tools and techniques I can never lie to a client and tell them that Hypnosis will make them do anything.

The proper use of Hypnosis can help them, and will almost guarantee that they are going to achieve their goals, but it is the client themselves who must utilize the tools, it is the client themselves who must do the work to get to where they want to go. Hiring a trained hypnotherapist and qualified counselor is like hiring a trained guide to get you through the wilderness or jungle. You may be able to eventually make it through the wilderness or jungle on your own, but fast, effective, powerful results can be increased by hiring the right aid.

When you come to Foundations Hypnosis Seattle Shoreline Everett, you will discover that you will be taught these powerful tools and powerful aids, such as Self Hypnosis, Mindfulness, NLP, and Emotional Release Therapy, and you will be taught these tools in just a few short sessions so that you can move on with your life, without having to return to your therapist on a weekly basis for the rest of your life. In fact, with Foundations Hypnosis Seattle, you will discover that you can actually acquire the same powerful results by coming to your few sessions every other week, instead of ever week, (this bi –weekly schedule is much easier on the pocket book).

So if you are ready to finally make the changes in your life that you have dreamed about, then CALL Foundations Hypnosis, (206) 417-4900 NOW!!!!!  Foundations  is located in the north end of Seattle right off the freeway, just minutes from down town Seattle, Everett, or The East Side.  There are night time, and limited weekend appointments available and results are seen after just one session.  There are also special discounts for Smoking Cessation clients. CALL NOW!!

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Can it really be that simply? After going through months, and years of traditional therapy, can they actually find the relief they were looking for within a matter of just a few minutes or a few hours.

The answer is YES!!!! With the power of your mind, you can learn amazing techniques that will allow you to become unstuck and move ahead in life, dropping behaviors, fears, emotional traumas, and anxieties and actually live the type of life that you have only dreamed of.

With Foundations Hypnosis, NLP, Seattle ~ Everett you can experience results within a very short time. Results that are powerful, and long lasting.

The secret is in the ability to recognize that you live your life based on the character and content of the images  in your mind.

By changing the characterand content of those images, our bodies react in a totally different way. You will go from experiencing fear and anxiety, to being able to experience new positive feelings  in just a matter of a brief time.  Think about that, you don’t have to forget or denay any thoughts or images, you just need to learn how to change the character and content of the problematic image.

Just the other day I was working with a client who had not been able to get himself to quit chewing tobacco, by simply having him look at, and change the character and  the content of the images and the messages related to chewing tobacco, he was able to drop years of cravings and addiction to this unhealthy and disgusting habit in a matter of minutes.

What is it that you want to change in your life? What do you want to experience in a new powerful and positive way in your life? It can be done swiftly and completely, and it will be accomplished with the resources that you have always had inside of you, but never knew existed.

Call NOW, (206) 417-4900, Foundations Hypnosis, NLP, Seattle ~ Shoreline ~ Everett. Both evening and day times appointments are available.

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You are looking for an easy,  affordable, successful way to quit smoking. You have just found that way, for about the same cost as a month’s worth of smoking you can quit smoking easily and completely.  Patches, nicotine gum, chantrex, and will power, have been shown to be very ineffective methods to QUIT SMOKING, Hypnosis Works.

Now the question is, what is holding you back. You have thought about it, you have dreamed about it, you have dreaded it, and you have feared it.

Why haven’t you stopped?

The reason that you have not stopped is because of your FEAR. I have recently learned a really great acronym for fear, F.alse E.vidence A.ccepted as R.eal.

Ask yourself the question, what is it that I fear?  Do you fear all of the stories that you have heard about gaining weight? Do you fear being without one of your coping mechanisms for stress, and relaxation?

On my business card, I make the statement, “we are not made up of Atoms, we are made up of stories”. Each one of the fears that you have just read is a story, and it is story made up of false information, and false evidence. With Foundations Hypnosis Seattle Bellevue Smoking Cessation Program, you will gain new coping mechanisms to handle stress and YOU will learn new skills to create and experience relaxation in your daily life. YOU will learn and utilize new skills that will allow you not to replace your former smoking addiction with excess food.

Foundations Hypnosis is located in North Seattle near Shoreline just a few minutes from downtown Everett, and Lynnwood. As a Seattle hypnotist I have worked with 100(s) of clients who have wanted to quit smoking, and are looking for a program that will provide more than just the basic Hypnosis quit smoking program. With Foundations Hypnotherapy you will receive an effective detoxification program that will allow you to decrease the amount of nicotine going into your system while you are induced into states of deep relaxation and trance that will allow you to accept and act upon images and messages that will alleviate stress, and cravings. With the Self Hypnosis that each client is taught, you will be able to reinforcement every skill and tool that you are given in session, and as an added bonus you will be given a Smoking Cessation CD to listen to further enhance and make this program easy comfortable and successful for you.

CALL NOW!!! (206) 417-4900, Foundations Relaxed & Free Smoking Cessation Program, created and delivered by Seattle hypnotist DL Scott is guaranteed to have you living the life of a Non-smoker in just 4 easy and affordable sessions.

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Welcome back, a friend of mine told me, as I arrived back from a two week retreat / vacation, on Cortes Island in British Columbia.

Things never really turn out exactly the way that you expect, and this vacation did not turn out as I expected. First off I had not expected to learn as much about myself as I have, and second off I never expected to learn as much about my counseling and hypnotherapist agency as I did.

Upon return from my vacation I opened up my e-mail and everything that I had been experiencing and learning was contained in the following e-mail:
                                   
   I know you’ve never heard this before, but you were RIGHT!! All the worry, stress, freaking myself out and falling into the deep Hole of Dispair and depression over an unknown factor in my Future…. with the Demons controlling my thoughts, though I should have been concentrating on the present moment fighting with Positive Thoughts, Self- Confidence and Keeping those Damaging influences at bay!!
      In my defense, and considering what I still feel my vulnerable personality , being down to less than $20. to my name and uncertain as to my continued U.I. and convinced that I had NO place to turn….
     As it ultimately turned out, a relative came through with $1000, AND the next day my paperwork and check and 15 week extension of Benefits arrived in the mail…
     So, sorry to ramble on like this , but I felt I needed to explain to someone! Thank you for your concern and your Help in facing similar situations in the Future!
       As it turns out, I’m almost Giddy at the moment about the way it DID turn out, but I know I probably did both further physical and mental damage
by the way I reacted to the situation…
     So, I’ll let you go for now and Hope you have a Fantastic Vacation in every way possible!!!!  Yours in Peace, xxxxxxxxxxxx

I have been in the field for about twenty years at this point in my career. I have clients who come to me for a variety of reasons, smoking cessation, drug addiction, self worth & self esteem, panic & anxiety, sleeping issues. pain management control, insomnia, gambling addiction, internalized homophobia, and coming out issues for the Gay and Lesbian community. When I first learned the art of hypnosis, I was trained in specific inductions, and techniques, that could help a client refocus or reprogram their minds. During all of that time as a Seattle Hypnotherapist, and Washington Certified Counselor, what have I found that works really well? What I have discovered over the years, is that clients don’t have to reprogram their minds, they simply need to be reminded that they don’t have to buy into every thought that is created or produced by the brain. They are actually the observer, the watcher, the Master of their thoughts.

I cannot repeat enough that a technique I use called Emotional Release Therapy, helps every single client let go of old lingering emotional wounds and traumas, while applying the techniques of Mindfulness, and Deep Clinical Hypnosis, provide very fast, and reliable changes in thoughts and emotions, that allow for permanent and lasting changing in the clients environment.

You see, we as a species do not create and live our lives from the outside in, but we do create and live our lives from the inside out. The outside world, our environment is a mirror of what we believe and have been taught about ourselves.  According to one of my favorite writers, Don Miguel Ruiz, “The Four Agreements”, we have been domesticated / raised with certain beliefs that we have accepted and agreed to truth. The interesting thing is, that very few of these beliefs and agreements are true.  We act as if every thought, every belief, that we have is absolutely the truth. When you come to Foundations Hypnosis, serving the greater King County area, and surrounding counties, you are taught that you are not your thoughts, you are not your feelings, you are not even really your body. You are something much more, you are the consciousness, the spirit, the soul, that inhabits that body, and it is your brain, (the most sophisticated computer in existence), that creates and produces 1000(s) of thoughts each day. Thoughts that we buy into, and believe to be true. Once you are able to become the observer or those thoughts, the watcher of the thoughts and emotions, that have ruled your life for years, you will be able to easily let go of anger, addictions, internalized phobias, fears, and insecurities that have kept you stuck for years.

Just listen to what one client said to me about how Foundations Hypnosis has helped him with his life long anger issues, issues that he had at one time been mandated to attend more traditional anger management classes:

“DL Scott, I just wanted to take a minute to tell you what you and Emotional Release Therapy have done for me. I know I still have a ways to go, but after just a few short weeks I feel more satisfaction and closer to reaching my goal than I ever did while spending almost two years in a traditional form of anger management. People in my life are already noticing the positive changes that I’m making and I’m beginning to feel myself getting closer to the ones I love. Thank you for the hope of happiness in my life.
K.L.
Oct 2009

(If you are wanting to know more about this powerful life altering experience, if you are dealing with emotional stress, and behavioral issues that have you kept stuck, and you want counseling that cares, then don’t delay, call or contact Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Everett at (206) 417-4900 today. <a href=”https://www.dlscottpersonalenergymastery.com/>

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