How many of you are looking for solutions and resolutions to serious problems with Stress, Trauma, Addictions, and other  Mental Health Issues? Can Hypnosis help with these issues?

Most clients are amazed at the results that they encounter after just the first session of Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching.

One of the running jokes during the Pandemic of 2020, was “Wine, the glue that held 2020 together”. As funny as that might sound, it turns out that many people were and still are turning to alcohol, such as wine, or heavy liquor, as a coping mechanism to deal with the isolation and stress caused by the effects of COVID 19.  Many are finding that learning the tools and techniques of Hypnosis Emotional Release Therapy, give them the strength and knowledge of new coping mechanisms that will help eliminate the source of their issues and thus eliminate the symptoms of their coping mechanism.

Whether you are seeking help with Stress, Trauma, Anger, Addictive behaviors, (including Nicotine, Alcohol, and Food), Hypnosis Emotional Release Therapy can and does allow you to create and attract great new and powerful coping mechanisms that will reduce and eliminate the responses that you produce based on the original thought, image, or imprint that has programmed into your mind.

Listen to what one client stated about his alcohol issue:

DL is amazing. I went looking for help with my alcohol cravings and it totally worked. I’ve yet to have a drink since I started work with DL.

Or this client who was also working with cravings:

I had been thinking about seeing a Hypnotherapist for dieting for a couple years now because I had so much success when I went to one for quitting smoking many years ago. Within the first few weeks that I started going to DL Scott I was actually beginning to feel better about myself. For years I haven’t been able to shed some weight that I have gained after starting Menopause. My biggest problem seems to be an addiction to Peanut-butter. I have loved peanut-butter my whole life, and I loved it so much that if I woke up in the middle of the night I would go all the way downstairs into the kitchen and eat heaping tablespoonfuls of the stuff, almost daily. That has been my biggest problem, along with nighttime snacking.
As soon as DL Scott introduced the “Weight-Loss” audio, and added his personal Hypnosis for the avoiding PB, I have completely given up the stuff! I feel free from that craving and uncontrolled hunger for that and junk food in general. It’s totally amazing to me that with only a few visits and my daily listening to his “Weight-Loss” audio that I’m somewhat cured. I believe strongly that this process is the only way for me to get control in my life.

Ask yourself the question, what do I really want in my life? What would I like to wake up to each day, and experience my highest good. What is it that your behavior and actions are attracting into your life, and how can you do things differently?

Call, or e-mail, now and schedule an appointment with Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching, learn the secrets of Personal Energy Mastery and take control of your life.  (206) 417-4900 / dlscott2@comcast.net.

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I have more and more clients calling to seek help dealing with stress and anxiety, that they believe is caused by thee Social Isolation that they are being forced into Social Isolation. Clients are telling me that despite the fact that they are experiencing good things in their lives, such as  working out of the home, and or working in what is called essential businesses,  and able to pay bills. Despite the fact that they have figured out how to still see friends by meeting outside, (many restaurants are setting up outside covered areas with heat). Despite the fact that they are having to wear face masks to help slow down the spread of Covid-19, (the state of Washington is a good example of keeping infection rates and deaths down due to the fact that more and more people are complying with safety protocols), they are becoming very stressed by the fact that they are unable to see their friends or sometimes family members as conditions change and they are finding it harder and harder to meet in an outside open space.

What exactly causes stress? Dr. Stephen Wolinsky PHD, believes that the majority of our stress and anxiety is caused by coping mechanisms that we originally used to pass safely through a Traumatic event in our lives. As stated in his book, “Trances People Live”, Stress is caused by our thoughts and emotions. In each and everyone of our pasts we have experienced some form of trauma. What this actually means is that as children we will we will try to keep ourselves safe by behaviors and mental states that are most helpful in buffering us against the first experience that we are not able to integrate, such as being bullied, abused, or generally treated in a less than fashion. While these events are called Trauma, or Crisis, they are actually any event or interaction that exceeds the child’s capacity to fully feel, process, and integrate. Since the original response or behavior worked to protect you in the original context, our brains have unconsciously created an automatic response to the environment in general.  To put it simply, our brains are designed to protect us, and when we run up against something that the brain feels is a danger or might cause us harm in some way, the brain will continue to use coping mechanisms or tools that were designed to help us with the original stress.   In other words the Stress and Anxiety become and remain our unconscious coping mechanisms.

With Foundations Personal Energy Mastery, the client is taught that although they have no control over other people and outside events, they do have complete control over themselves. Utilizing Hypnosis, Emotional Release Therapy, Meditation, Deep Vagus Nerve Breathing, and tools from the rapidly growing field of Mindfulness, you, the client will be able to reduce and eliminate such coping mechanisms as Cigarettes, Drugs, Alcohol, Anger, Anxiety, Depression, and Stress.

Call Now, (206) 417-4900, change your coping mechanism from one with a lot of serious consequences, to a healthy and powerful coping mechanism, that will allow you to live each day of your life with less and ultimately no stress or anxiety.

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The health impact of Covid 19 upon the population of the world leads to certain protections that people are being asked to implement to lessen those health impacts. Sad to say, one of the protections that people are being asked to implement is social distancing and isolation. The very act of social distancing and isolation is also causing health issues.

I once lived in Alaska and left after a few years due to the long stretches of isolation during the winter, which create Cabin Fever. I researched and found that Isolation / Cabin Fever cause harm and stress to our Mental Health. I felt that I wanted to live somewhere in which I would not have to deal with long periods of isolation. I had no idea that the entire world would one day be dealing with isolation and what can be called Cabin Fever.

If you are experiencing stress, and anxiety due to isolation, and social distancing, if you are experiencing stress, and anxiety, due to being asked to wear a mask, and you are needing skills and tools to help you reduce and or eliminate the stress and anxiety, then look no further.

Hypnosis, Mindfulness, and a special technique known as Emotional Release Therapy, has been shown to be some of the most effective and powerful tools against stress and anxiety. I have treated literal hundreds of clients for stress and anxiety, and the clients have been astounded by their new found ability to reduce and; in most cases; eliminate stress and anxiety in their lives.

Call now,  (206) 417-4900,  Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching. Start living the life of relaxation, calmness, and awareness, that you have always dreamed of.

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A lot has changed in the last several months. We, as member of the LGBTQ community, have fought long and hard to gain simple rights such as the right to marry whom we choose, or the right to be open in our careers, (including professional and military). Now on a daily basis we are reading about and hearing about how certain members of the government want to strip those rights away from us, we are constantly reading about not being accepted by others, and thus lessening our own Self Acceptance.

As stated in an earlier blog, do you ever wonder why the gay community has a higher incidence rate of suicide, alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, and a higher rate of HIV / AIDS. While at the same time you read about how the members of the gay community have a higher expendable income than most. Perhaps it is time to turn our attention to what is inside of ourselves, instead of constantly focusing on what is going on in the outside world.

Utilizing the tools of Hypnosis and Life Coaching, you can start turnning inwards and develop, self awareness and self acceptance.

From the moment we are first born, we are taught how to exist in the culture that we were born into. Our conscious minds, our EGO is fillied with images, messages, and agreements that we carry through out our lives, that tell what it takes to be a good boy, or a bad boy, or a good girl, or a bad girl. Unfortunately, most of us in the community, are taught that it is not natural to be attracted to someone of our own gender. If someone is attracted to someone of their own gender, they are taught that they are not as good as, and they do not deserve the same abundance and prosperity that their straight counter parts deserve. Our Self Acceptance is very low, sometimes almost non existant. Many of in the community still feel as though they have to hide themselves from certain segments of the population, they constantly feel attacked and belittled by the majority of the population. After years of fighting for basic rights, and struggling to come out, there still seems to be a tough road that lies ahead.

Our unconscious minds, our EGOS, contain three main archetypes that pretty well run our lives. The Inner Judge, The Inner Victim, and the Inner Punisher. Without any conscious thought, we judge everyone and everything we are exposed to, based on the information that we were given by the adults in our lives,  Parents, School, Friends, Churches, Movies, Books, etc. These judgements include our selves.How many times have you been focused on “I am not good enough, I am going to loss my job, I am going to loss my relationship, or in some cases I am going to have my rights taking away”.

In the case of many in the LGBTQ community, our Inner Judge is constantly creating self talk that is very negative and self defeating, from old messages and incidences. Many people find Self Acceptance hard to achieve when they live with the scars of “bullying” about our same sex desires and feeling”. As the Inner Judge deems us as unworthy, not good enough, our Inner Victim accepts this judgement withour much question. Then the Inner Punisher takes over, and merits out whatever punishment is felt necessary to take care of the Judgement, such feelings of low self worth, low Self Acceptence, constant stress, anxiety, or serious and long bouts of depression.

What can you do?

The first thing to do is learn how to shift your attention. Learn how to meditate using self hypnosis. With Foundations Hypnosis you will learn how to let go of emotions with a technique called Emotional Release Therpy, (ERT).

By learning to meditate, by learning how to use Hypnosis, and ERT,by developing Self Acceptance,  you can begin to take charge of your emotions and your thoughts and start attracting the kind of life that you want instead of the kind of life that you don’t want.

I have been a hypnotist and chemical dependency counselor for a little over twenty five years. I have been exposed to numerous therapy techniques and ideas over the years, but the ones that work are based on the idea that we are not our thoughts, and we are not our feelings. We are actually the consciousness behind those things. We are master of our thoughts, we are the master of our feelings, and until we learn some simple and basic techniques to actually start taking control of what is on the inside, until we start actually learning how to switch our focus from negative old belifs and ideas, and start focusing on posirive and powerful images and messages, we are going to continue to get stuck in a life of addictions, phobias, low self worth, fears, and anxieties.

Foundations Hypnosis, Life Coaching Seattle and Everett, has a program that is guaranteed to get you moving in the direction that you want and desire.  Just listen to these two satisfied customers:

“I strongly recommend D.L. to anyone looking to seriously face their challenges/fears. He has an amazing ability to zero in on an issue and not waste time talking about all the trivial stuff. During the toughest period of my life, D.L. was one person who I knew believed in my ability to overcome the greatest challenges. Rather than allow me to focus on the problem, he helped me see things in a new light and discover a completely new way of living. Today, I enjoy my life and have a hopefulness and confidence I could never have imagined. I believe that D.L. was the spark that helped fuel my new life.”  S.S.

Over the years I’d managed to define my existence with a whole lot of, I can’t. I can’t find love, I can’t get a job, I can’t go to school, and so on. With DL’s patient wisdom and experience my eyes began to open and realize there was an entire lifestyle out there for me that I’d yet to tap into. The only thing holding me back was my own belief system. And now the only thing “I can’t” do is be restricted by self imposed limitations. I now enjoy healthier relationships with my partner, friends, and family and am very excited about my progress as a student working towards the career of my dreams. Thanks DL.

So whether you are a member of the LGBTQ community dealing with comming out issues, or simply dealing with your own issues of self worth, and esteem, or stress related issues that include obsessive compulsive behaviors and you are seeking help in dealing with those issues, Call NOW!!!! Ccall for your first session now, and start living the life you have always dreamed of. Foundations Hypnosis, and Life Coaching Seattle ~ Lynnwood ~ Everett, (206) 417-4900. https://www.dlscottpersonalenergymastery.com

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ERT or Emotional Release Therapy uses the same process that has been around for 1000(s) of years. This process goes under many names, EMDR, EFT, just to name a few, and each of these techniques attempts to rid the body of the effects of the emotions created by the original trauma.

With current research, and new understandings, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, and Mental Health Counselors, are in agreement, that mental health issues, including addiction issues stem from trauma. The source of the trauma can vary from childhood events, or events during your adult life, but either way, such trauma can and does cause the body to experience bouts of fear, anxiety, stress, and  a feeling of separation.

For many years western culture has advocated material realism, which promotes the idea that we live in a world of separation, we are separate from each other, and our minds and body are separate. The most recent research now promotes the idea that we are all connected, everyone and everything is connected by the fact that we are all made of vibrating energy. In essence this means that our mind and our body are connected, inseparable. What we experience in our minds, our hearts, our emotions, greatly affect our physical body.

By using the power of that connection, we can overcome the combination of mental and physical stress and separation, that triggers our fears, and anxieties, that trigger what we consider mental health issues and addiction issues.

Foundation Hypnosis and ERT is one of the fastest and most effective ways of eliminating the effects of separation, and putting us back in control As I tell my clients, “you are not your thoughts, you are not your emotions, but until you take control, you will continue to experience consequences of these two aspects of yourself”.

Don’t delay, call My office in North Seattle, Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Everett at (206) 417-4900. The office is located at 337 North 143rd St. Seattle, WA. 98133 take the 130th St. exit off of I-5 north, or the 145th St. exit off of I-5 South.

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By the end of first session of Emotional Release Therapy, or ERT, I have seen clients cry with relief. they say that it feels like a great weight has been lifted from their shoulders. In reality it is the stress and anxiety being cleansed from the cells and tissues of their body.

Where does that Stress and Anxiety come from? Your / our Mental Health and Chemical Dependency Issues come from Trauma. The Trauma is based on several different factors. The two major factors are: we are biologically designed for survival, and constant negative messages from the adult authority figures in our lives.

As a species we had to always been on guard to protect our very lives. Our ancestors were constantly under attack from predators, wild animals, who would attack and kill us for food. This self protection caused a flight or fight response to kick in whenever we were in danger.  Things have changed greatly, and we are no longer under constant life threatening attack, but the flight or fight response still guides us on an unconscious level.

The second factor is just the way we grow up in this culture. We are constantly exposed to often times well meaning images and messages from the adult authority figures in our lives. How many of you reading this can recall receiving messages such as:

• You are not smart enough
• Why can’t you act more like _______
• We don’t have enough money
• Life is hard
• Everybody is corrupt
• If anything can go wrong it will go wrong
• Face it, you will never get ahead, settle for what is handed you
• Buck up, act your age, your gender, (whatever the perceived role was suppose to be)

Every  time that an adult or a person in authority made a negative comment, it registered permanently in your mind.  These negative comments became our unconscious Agreements with life. They have been the cause of most of your stress and anxiety.

Stop the madness!! Let go the Past, let go of unconscious Agreements, and Conditioning.  Let go negative conditions and beliefs that have kept you stuck in a life of Stress, Anxiety, Addictive behavior, or whatever else you have been dealing with.

Learn how to change your life around  don’t allow the negative images and messages, that we are carry around in our conscious or unconscious minds, and continue to be hit with on a daily basis, fill you with frustration, anger, and negativity. . Don’t delay; call  Foundations Hypnosis Seattle “Everett”,  (206) 417-4900 today. You WILL be glad that you did.

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Using Hypnosis, and ERT,  I began working with a new client for Counseling -Hypnosis in North Seattle, Shoreline. His long term partner had left him for someone younger, and he was left struggling with fear, stress, and depression. This fear and stress is based upon his belief that  he is bad person. One of his long held agreements is that there is something wrong with him, or his partner never would have left him.  He came to Foundations Hypnosis to help learn how to eliminate the beliefs, the stress and anger that have kept him stuck for months.
As I explain, with all clients, these beliefs are the result of agreements made long ago, and those agreements embedded in the EGO are designed to keep the EGO safe, secure. They would not necessarily kept him happy or living a life of success & joy, but they would allow the EGO to  keep itself in a position of safety and security.

How can this be possible, you may ask.

It was Rene Decartes, in the 17th century, who declared “I think there for I am”. This premise has been shown to be wrong over the years. You think because your brain was designed to think. It was designed to control your actions, from your heart beat, blood flow, respiration, and muscle movement. It also contains, a vast library of images and messages gathered from parents, teachers, churches, friends, television, movies and now social media,  that have been adopted by you and agreed to by you, whether the information is true or not.

The biggest fear that the EGO has is that of death, complete & total annihilation. When you die, when your physical body dies, the EGO is done. The thoughts, the memories, the images, the totality of our mental scripts, are gone. Now the energy, the awareness, the consciousness that is the true you will go on in some fashion, it is energy, and energy never dies, it simply continues in another form, what that other form is, is still up for debate, and one that I cannot answer. What I can answer is that for you to truly enjoy your existence, for you to truly live a life of success, happiness, and joy, you have to step into the driver’s seat. You have to take control of your life, let go of traumas, fears, addictions, phobias, and anxieties. Forgive your past, and start living your present.  (As someone once said, Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having a better past).  The past is done and over with, it is simply a memory, an electrochemical bit of energy that keeps replaying over and over in your  brain. You have no control over this, but you do have control over the present moment, the choices you make in the present moment, and whether you are going to live and EGO centered life, or whether you are going to live a life based in conscious choices and deliberate creativity.

How can you do this?

First you must let go of old attachments, traumas, emotional stresses, and images, and beliefs. You must allow yourself to believe that you can have the life you truly desire.

With Foundations Hypnosis Seattle – Lynnwood – Everett, you will experience The Power of Emotional Release Therapy. You will learn self hypnotic techniques, powerful NLP processes, mindfulness techniques, and how to use the power of your words to create positive outcomes, positive relationships, and powerful events in your life that will eliminate addictions, phobias, pain, fear, and anxieties.

Don’t delay CALL, Foundations Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, NOW!!!!! (206) 417-4900. Join the hundreds of people who have obtained their goals through sound counseling methods enhanced by the Power of Hypnosis, NLP, and Mindfulness.

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Trauma comes in many different forms and many different levels. While seeking out and talking about the original trauma, has been proven effective in some cases, the most important thing to remember is that your memories and images of the original trauma(s), create emotional responses, such as stress, anxiety, guilt, loneliness,  all leading to seeking relief through addiction /addictive behavior.

It was Einstein who stated, “you can’t solve the problem at the level of the problem”.  With the help of hypnosis and specifically a technique called ERT or Emotional Release Therapy, clients have found fast relief from the emotions of trauma within the first session. Once a client is able to obtain release from the emotions that have been causing stress, and the continued relief through addictive behaviors, then the work of finding a more appropriate response outside of addiction, and addictive behaviors can begin.

Using Hypnosis and ERT, has helped clients stop addictions to Crystal Meth, Alcohol, Nicotine, and a long list of other substances, and behaviors.  While there is no magic cure for any kind of chemical dependency / addiction, there are many tools and supports that can help ease the stress, and anxiety from trauma, and addiction. In my 25 years as a hypnotherapist and my work in the chemical addiction field, I can guarantee that Hypnosis is one of the most powerful and effective tools.

Don’t delay, call My office in North Seattle, Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Everett at (206) 417-4900. The office is located at 337 North 143rd St. Seattle, WA. 98133 take the 130th St. exit off of I-5 north, or the 145th St. exit off of I-5 South.

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The results of this experiment were used to prove that once the subject is introduced to the chemical substance, in this case cocaine, it would become addicted to the drug, and nothing else would matter, it would ingest the cocaine until it died.

Now mind you, this was not the only experiment that was used to prove how addictions work, how it takes over your life, and how the drug becomes the only thing that the addict cares about, but it became one of the better published experiments, and it was promoted as proof as to how we must fight drugs as the evil, awful, enemy, and how only through constant vigilance against the drug, can an addict become free.

In the mid 1980(s), a professor in Van Couver, by the name of Bruce Alexander, started questioning this experiment. He thought about the fact that in the original experiment, the rat was put in a cage, alone, with nothing to do. He decided to add to  the experiment. He took a whole group of rats, put them in a cage with many distractors, such things as running wheels, tunnels to run through, other rates to interact with. Then he put in the two sources of water, the one laced with cocaine, and the one without.

It turns out that the rats in the plush cage, tried the cocaine laced water a few times, but then left it alone. They preferred the clean unlaced water.

Now what can this mean”

All treatments for drug addiction must first look at a detox period of some sort. This can be done in your own home, in a hospital, or a detox center, It depends upon the type of drug, how much has been used and over how long of a period.

Once this is done, the subject must look at their life, their cage. Are they comfortable? Are they focused on what they really want, or are they focused on the negative emotions, images, and messages of their lives?

It is important to know what you were feeling when you decided to ingest the drug. Like the rat in the first experiment, where you alone, anxious, stressed,  unhappy, and feeling depressed about your cage / life. If you were feeling these things, what were you doing, or what were you focused on that brought these types of feelings up. What, if any, past or current trauma, or past or current situation, was creating such feelings?

Over the years as a counselor, and hypnotherapist I have worked with clients who have come to me with various claims of being addicted. Some are addicted to food, some are addicted to smoking, some are addicted to drugs. What ever the complaint, the therapy is same. Some form of detox is called for, and then you must change your focus. You must release what ever emotional anchor you have to a past or current trauma or situation, so you can develop new, positive, emotional anchors, images, and messages.

The quickest way I know of, to accomplish this is through Emotional Release Therapy. Emotional Release Therapy is the Foundation of what I teach and use in Foundations Hypnosis North Seattle “Everett”.

These clients have moved on to new positive behaviors, new positive activities. Don’t delay; call Foundations Hypnosis Seattle “Everett”, (206) 417-4900 today. You WILL be glad that you did.

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