When I first started working in the social and human service field I focused on two avenues, Hypnosis and Substance Use. 

I started in the Addictions field in the early 1990(s), when the prevalent belief was that the only way to quit using was through complete abstinence and regular attendance of 12 step groups.  Harm Reduction Therapy was still off to side and considered useless by many counselors. At one of my first positions with a professional agency I mentioned the term “Harm Reduction” in the lunch room and the initial silence was deafening. This was followed by an explosion of arguments as to why Harm Reduction did not work and why it was dangerous to believe that it would work.

In the late 1950(s), Bill W., who started AA and made the statement once an alcoholic always and alcoholic, claimed that he had been cured of his alcoholism. This cure was brought about by his being given micro dosing of LSD while seeing a psychiatrist.  According to Bill W. he went through a spiritual experience that allowed him to no longer desire or crave his drug or choice alcohol. Bill had been diagnosed with Addiction / Addictions and for many decades stuck with his statement, (once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic).

Things have changed a lot during those early days of the 1990(s). All Addictions, whether they be food, drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, or inappropriate behaviors, are now considered Coping Mechanisms.

A coping mechanism is any or the above listed issues that is used to help a person cope with their stress, anxiety, or what they believe is self protection.

For generations we were afraid of such things as lack of food, housing, wild animals, and attacks by people or events around them. The human mind is able to activate both our Sympathetic or Para-sympathetic Nervous Systems. It is our Sympathetic Nervous System that causes our bodies to be flooded with neuro – chemicals, such as adrenaline and cortisol that will activate our Flight, Fight, or Freeze responses.

When you are using a coping mechanism, (in this case drugs or alcohol), you were not doing anything wrong, you were simply trying to make your self feel better, you were trying to make your self feel safer. You had no idea of the dangerous side and after effects of these substances, and once you developed a physical addiction to these substances you now had to deal with these effects, plus you still had the original issue that you were trying to cope with.

Hypnosis teaches you how to switch from the Sympathetic Nervous System to the Para – Sympathetic Nervous, by lowering the frequency of your brain wave patterns and filling your body with positive neuro chemicals such as dopamine, norepinephrine. oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins. As you learn to create a positive effect in your body, you are also able to find safer and more helpful coping mechanisms, such as exercise, gratitude, and self hypnosis / meditation.

As I mentioned in the beginning of this blog, Hypnosis has a 77% success rate to alleviate the effects of Addictions as compared to the 25% success rate of 12 step / AA programs.

Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching works with clients who have been dealing with Addictions for years and they are on the edge of loosing their jobs, and their relationships. You will be introduced to and taught the ability to use technique of Emotional Release Therapy which works just like EMDR, only this is stronger because you are already in a relaxed state through the trance induction of Hypnosis.

CALL TODAY, Start your new and non-addiction life style. (206) 417-4900 or visit my website Foundations Personal Energy Mastery. Within a few short sessions will regain control of your life and your future.

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Whether we recall them on a conscious level or unconscious level, we start collecting memories while we are developing in the womb. Our memories may not be in the form of verbal language, but we do take in feelings and frequencies from all of those around us, especially our parents and family members.

When I first started working in the counseling and social work field, I did so due to advice that I had received from several Drs. that I was working with on an Oncology Unit of a large Hospital in Seattle Washington.  I was working as a Medical Asst. and was told that patients can receive all of the radiation therapy, and chemotherapy that you can give them, but if they are dealing with stress and anxiety, then the radiation and chemotherapy therapy will not be as effective. These words sent me on a thirty + year journey that has brought me to my current role as a Social Worker, Hypnotherapist, and Life Coach.

Over the last thirty + years I have worked in the field as a Substance Use Dependency Professional with a large focus on Mindfulness and Awareness, and also in Private Practice as a Clinical / Medical Hypnotherapist and Certified Life Coach.

When I first started work in Chemical Dependency Agency, the field was following ideas, rules, and treatment, that came from 12 step programs that primarily held the rule that “Once an Alcoholic / Drug Addict, always an Alcoholic / Drug Addict”.  It was believed that there was no cure for Addictions. Things have changed over the years.

Dr. Bill W, who started the 12 step program, claimed in the newspapers that he had been cured of his alcoholism.

HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?

As many of you have heard, more and more states are legalizing drugs, such as Psilocybin, (magic mushrooms),  to be used in micro dosing during Mental Health Therapy.  This is not a new idea, back in the thirties, forties and fifties, , when Dr. Bill was seeing a Psychiatrist, William Duncan Silkworth, he was being given micro dosages of  LSD. According to him, and his Psychiatrist, Dr. Bill was cured of his Alcoholism by the controlled micro dosing of LSD. Both Psilocybin, and LSD change the intensity and frequency of our brain wave patterns, and in many cases will cause spiritual experiences. Now please remember that Dr. Bill was not just randomly taking LSD on his own, but he was under medical supervision while taking this powerful drug.

Generally our brain wave frequencies beat in beats per second, just like our hearts beat in beats per minute. When we are under trauma, i.e., stress or feel in danger, our brain wave frequencies speed up and we are placed in the Sympathetic Nervous, where are bodies, our muscles, are filled with chemicals such as cortisol, and adrenaline, to allow us to prepare to protect ourselves from the danger or stress that we sensed, by readying us for Flight, Fight, or Freeze.

In the ancient past this Sympathetic Nervous response, the flight, fight, or freeze, response helped saved us from attacks by wild animals, starvation, or any number of actually things and events that could take our lives. In our lives today we still experience the flight, fight, or freeze response when we feel stressed or under attack, but that stress or attack can come from things like verbal abuse, bullying, emotional abuse, and the lingering effects of child abuse.  To have these types of responses does not mean that you are mentally ill, or unstable, it simply means that you are a perfectly normal human being, who is geared toward self protection.

The mind knows no difference between a real or imaged event. Much of what we respond to are memories, and we have been gathering since our time in the womb. What I have learned from my practice as a Hypnotherapist, is that YOU have the power to take control of your responses to your thoughts, images, messages, and memories. By using Hypnosis, and the Foundations Medical Hypnosis technique of Emotional Release Therapy, you can lower the frequency of YOUR brain wave patterns and take yourself out of the Sympathetic Nervous System, and place your self in the Para – Sympathetic Nervous System, in which your body, muscles, are flooded with positive chemicals such as Norenephrine, Dopamine, and Serotonin, which cause a profound sense of peace, and relaxation. Just like the effect of such drugs, such as Psilocybin, and LSD, you can learn to switch from the Sympathetic to the Para Sympathetic Nervous System and change your responses to stress, anxiety, and trauma.

It has been determined that addictions to anything, such as drugs, alcohol, food, and nicotine are coping mechanisms. These coping mechanisms are used to try and change our feelings, our brain wave frequencies. Instead of thinking of your usage as bad, and evil, think of your usage as your attempt to make yourself feel different. The biggest problem is that the usage of these coping mechanisms cause physical addictions which often times need  the guidance and help of medical detoxification.

Once you have dealt with your detox issues you will need to find healthy and positive coping mechanisms. Hypnosis, especially hypnosis that utilizes such tools as Emotional Release Therapy, will teach how to use Coping Mechanisms that are healthy and actually produce positive effects in the body, you will find that your cravings for your former addictions, are no longer required.

So I ask again, where are your memories held, and how can you change your responses to these memories?

Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching has helped literal hundreds of people change their Response from unhealthy, and often times deadly, Coping Mechanisms, to Healthy, Positive, and Life Changing Coping Mechanisms. Don’t delay, CALL NOW, (206)417-4900, or e-mail me at dlscott2@comcast. net,  and get started with your new life.

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We have been taught that drugs and alcohol are the enemy, that all we need to do is completely eliminate the drugs and / or alcohol, and our lives will be happy and productive again. Recent research and studies have shown that this is not the case. Drugs and Alcohol, (along with other substances and behaviors are the symptoms of the issue, they are not the issue themselves).

I have worked in the Social Work Field for over 30 years, and when I first started in the field, it was dominated by 12 step programs that made such claims as “once an alcoholic, always and alcoholic”, or “once a drug addict always a drug addict“.

In fact Dr. Bill, (who was one of the creators of 12 step, always followed these ideas, until the late fifties when he announced in the newspapers, “I am cured of my alcoholism”. The cure is inside yourself, and once this is awakened through Hypnosis and Addiction you will be astounded at the changes you will see in your life.

It has been proven over and over that when a person uses drugs and or alcohol to help them change their moods, they have adopted the use of drugs and or alcohol as a coping mechanism, and the coping mechanism helps them reduce the flight, fight, or freeze response that is produced by their Sympathetic Nervous System.

Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching teaches you how to take control of your responses to your thoughts and emotions. By using a special technique called Emotional Release Therapy, you will learn how to switch from the Sympathetic Nervous System,  activates the Fight, Flight, or Freeze  response, and switch to the Para Sympathetic Nervous System which activates our positive responses, such as mindfulness and awareness. When you are mindful and aware, you can fill your body with positive neurotransmitters, and neurochemicals: such as dopamine, norenepherine, and serotonin.

Call Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching RIGHT NOW!!!! Learn coping mechanisms that are positive, healthy, and lead to Mindfulness, and Awareness. Call (206) 417-4900 NOW!!!!

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I started work in the Chemical Dependency Field over thirty years ago. At the time the client’s drug of choice was considered the enemy. Whether a client  came in for issues of addiction to Alcohol, Cannabis, Heroin, Nicotine, or even sugar, the substance of choice was considered the enemy, and the client was instructed that they could never touch the substance again.

The program AA, (Alcoholics Anonymous), gave the message, once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic. This message remained the same, although the success rate of AA was being recorded as around 25%.

Soon a new idea began to emerge, and that idea was called Harm Reduction. Despite the fact that Harm Reduction had seen so much success in things like seat belts, nicotine cessation programs, and diets, the people who joined and eventually became leaders in the AA movement refused to even consider that a harm reduction approach might work. (It is interesting to note that the founder of AA, Dr. Bill, always said that a drug is a drug is a drug. In the mid 1950(s) Dr. Bill came out in the newspapers claiming that LSD had helped cure him of his alcoholism)

Move ahead several years, and such leaders in the field, such as Gabor Matte, continued to research in the field, that lead to the idea that using addictive substances, Gateway Drugs,  is a coping mechanism. The coping mechanism helped the addict deal with such things as Trauma, Childhood Abuse, and Neglect.

When a client comes to me with issues of addiction, I help them to understand that their use of substances, such as Alcohol, Heroin, Meth, Cannabis, started out as a smart idea. They were simply trying to cope with some form of stress or trauma, but the tool, (their substance of choice), has to many negative consequences, and negative repercussions. Using Hypnosis, and Mindfulness, I am going to teach the client new coping mechanisms, such as Self Hypnosis, Vagus Nerve Breathing, Mindfulness, and Awareness. The consequences and repercussions of these types of coping mechanisms produce no negative consequences or ramifications.

The substances and behaviors that the client has been using as a response are definitely physically addicting and often times require a period of withdrawal, sometimes with medical guidance, but once the client starts to detox from their drug of choice, they realize that they are creating a new path, a new course in life. This new course can allow them to develop responses and coping mechanisms that are very beneficial and positive.

One client that I worked with, came in with complaints of Alcohol Addiction. He was about to loose his job, and his wife, and he had been warned that if he did not stop using, he would surely loose both of these things. After just one session of Hypnosis with Foundations Medical Hypnosis, and Life Coaching, he never picked up another drink.

Another client had a similar experience, but he eventually decided to have a glass of wine with dinner, (what he was once told was his Gateway Drug(s)),  while he was out eating with friends. The client was amazed that he slowly drank the wine and went back to comfortably having an occasional glass of wine,  the Gateway Drugs.  while he ate, and has not been drinking addictively since he went through this program.

People have jokingly said that wine was the glue that held 2020 together as we maneuvered through the early days of the Pandemic. Has the joke taking over, do find that Wine, or other addictive substances have become a problem in your life? TAKE charge of your life, learn to use hypnosis, meditation, mindfulness, and awareness, to regain control of your life.

Call Now: Foundation Medical Hypnosis, and Life Coaching, at (206) 417-4900. You will be so happy and amazed at how you can Master and Take control of your life.

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I have spent the last 28 years of my professional life working with Hypnosis, Life Coaching, Mindfulness, and Addiction. During those years there have been many changes in the field. When I first entered the field, it was dominated by a 12 step view of addiction. This meant that the substance was the cause of the addiction. According to 12 steps, if you get rid of the substance and you get rid of the addiction.

Over the years it has been discovered that the physical addiction to the drug / substance can be taking care of through the process of detox. In fact, before a client can enter into Inpatient Treatment, they are usually required to participate in medically monitored detox. The guestion is, if you go through medical detox, then why would you need any more?

According to more recent research and evidence, both Chemical Depency, i.e. Addiction, and Mental Health, are primarily caused by Trauma. The best way to address Trauma is with Mindfulness,  Hypnosis, and Life Coaching.

As I teach my clients, we are not our thoughts, we are not our emotions. Our trauma stems from our memories, thoughts, and emotions. With Hypnosis and Minfulness, you will let go of addictions, old thoughts and emotions, easily, and naturally.

I have worked with hundreds of people who have done just that. They have eliminated addictions from alcohol, drugs, and nicotine. They have reduced and eliminated the effects of stress, trauma, and anxiety, which are now known to be the biggest cause of addiction.

Traditional Therapies have a very low success rate, somewhere around 25%. Hypnosis carries a success rate of about 96 to 99%.

Call Now, (206) 417-4900, Foundation Hypnosis Seattle, Shoreline, Lynnwood, Everette, 337 N. 143rd. St. Seattle Wa. 98133, or contact me via e-mail at dlscott2@comcast.net.

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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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