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When ever I help a client stop the use of Nicotine, I am so elated and happy to have helped save another life from the dangers of using Nicotine.

I use to smoke when I was much younger, (almost two packs per day), back when cigarettes cost fifty cents and then a dollar a pack, and the tobacco companies had so totally lied to the public  about their Nicotine product and the safety of its use, that they even advertised on kids shows like the Flintstones.

Nicotine, like any other behavior or substance is a coping mechanism. As human beings we are taught from the time of our birth, (and some people say that it is before we come out of the womb), we are geared toward self protection, and survival. Like myself many of my clients tell me that they wanted to be accepted by their  school mates and so I, and they started smoking to be cool. Within 21 days, any substance that we put into our body becomes a physical addiction, and thus a coping tool that we adopted to help us feel more relaxed around our friends, is now causing or can cause such medical issues as SOB, Cancer, Emphysema, Heart Issues, and a whole list of other medical issues which will eventually lead us to death,   not to mention the smell, and the damage to our taste buds.

With all of the methods to quit that are now on the market, Hypnosis has shown the highest success rate compared to such methods, as Nicotine gum, or Nicotine patches.

We are not our thoughts, we are not our emotions. That is one of the things that clients at Foundation Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching are taught as they easily, and calmly, regain control of their lives.  When you use Hypnosis to quit smoking you will be amazed at how easy and quickly you can complete quit, without any withdrawals, or cravings.

If you are ready to quit spending more and more money on a product that ultimately harms you, (cancer, heart attacks, and strokes),  causes you and your clothing to stink, takes away your ability to taste your foods, and now makes you more and more of an outcast then DON’T DELAY, call Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching today, at 9206) 417-4900, or e-mail the studio at dlscott2@comast.net.

In just four short sessions you will be living your life free of your Nicotine addiction.

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I was trained and certified as a Hypnotherapist back in the early 90(s),  at that same time I was earning a degree in Social Work, where I received training as a Substance Use Disorder Professional, and during  one of my first Substance Use Disorder jobs, (during the early 90s), , I was sitting in the lunch room with my new co-workers and we were talking about recovery techniques. I mentioned the term Harm Reduction, and the room grew silent, this was followed by huge explosive talk about how the only way to work with Addictions is treat the addiction as the Problem instead of a symptom of a larger problem..

Some of the biggest names in the field today, such as Gabor Matte, have promoted the idea that addictions are coping mechanisms that we use to deal with emotional issues and traumas.

Think about that, and ask yourself the question, what were the benefits of my addiction , when I first started using? For most addicts, the use of substances became an escape. No matter what the issue was, stress, anxiety, social anxiety, low self worth and / or esteem, once you began to feel the effects of the substance and you could release your self of those emotional traumas, you began using more and more.

Now one of the issues is that your body becomes physically addicted to the substance, and so in many cases you should consult with a Dr. or Substance Use Disorder Professional, when you first start going through addiction treatment.  Make sure you seek the advice of professionals as you go through this process.

I have worked with daily users of Alcohol, Nicotine, and Methamphetamine, who had lost, or were facing the loss of their jobs, their relationships, and their homes. After just  six sessions of Foundation Personal Energy Mastery, they were able to reduce and / or eliminate their substance usage completely, through techniques used in harm reduction treatment.

One of the first things I explain to my clients is that they deserve a big pat on the back for seeking out methods to make themselves feel better. The problem is that the client chose a coping mechanism that had many severe consequences that were attached. What they would be taught, and would now start using as healthy coping mechanisms, is that WE ARE NOT OUR THOUGHTS, WE ARE NOT OUR EMOTIONS. Through Hypnosis and Emotional Release Therapy they would learn how to break the link between their thoughts and their emotions. I never want the client to forget what the original thoughts or images are, I want them to be able to view those thoughts and not respond with the flight, fight, or freeze response.

The new responses come from changing our brain wave frequencies through Hypnosis, Mindfulness, Meditation, and Awareness.

We can not control the people or events around us, but we can control ourselves, and our responses.  Using Techniques and tools taught by Foundations Hypnosis, you will learn powerful techniques that will allow you to become mindful, aware, and in control of the responses you put out.

I wonder what the scene in the lunch room, with my new co-workers, would have been like if I had mentioned the term Harm Reduction, today?

Are you facing the consequences of addiction, are you trying to deal with consequences of excessive substance use. CALL now, (206) 417-4900, Foundation Hypnosis and Life Coaching,  get started on a life filled with Mindfulness, Awareness, and Peace and Joy.

Remeber (206) 417-4900, or e-mail me at dlscott2@comcast.net. You will be so GLAD that you did.

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From the moment we are born, (and some research / studies suggest that this process begins in the womb), we are inundated with the sounds, frequencies, and vibrations that exist all around us. From the people, and media around us, we are taught what it means to be a good boy or girl, what it takes to be successful in our culture, how we can fit in and how to succeed in this environment. Your brain is programmed with an operating system that allows you to take in and adapt the information that you are going to be filled with, from everyone and everything around you. Basically this sounds like a good system of operation, BUT holed on!

Our brain, (both consciously and unconsciously), activates the nervous system, and our nervous system is composed of two different major parts, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Para-Sympathetic Nervous System. The Sympathetic Nervous System activates and runs our defensive responses, our Flight, Fight, and Freeze responses, by causing neurochemicals, such as adrenaline and cortisol and Norepinephrine to be released in the body. These responses have kept us relatively safe for thousands of years. In the past they kept us safe from wild animal predators, and other natural threats. As our society has grown, and progressed,  we no longer have to worry, as much. about many natural dangers, as most of us live inside of structures that provide protection from such things.  This fact has not stopped the Sympathetic Nervous System from doing its job and cause us to respond with the Fight, Flight, or Freeze response when ever we feel threatened, which includes being yelled at, and bullied, (mentally abused and attacked). To reduce and eliminate these responses, we have to learn to activate our Para-Sympathetic Nervous System, which activates and runs our more positive responses, by causing neurochemicals such as Dopamine,  Oxytocin, Serotonin, and Endorphins which allow us to feel sensations of happiness, closeness, and joy.

Everything that exists, including thoughts and emotions, are composed of Vibrating Energy, and every vibration produces a frequency.

This fact has given rise to the Law of Attraction, for just like Magnetic Waves, Vibrations attract Vibrations, and since our thoughts and emotions are vibrating energy, they do attract corresponding vibrations and frequencies.

For years, we have been taught, primarily in the western culture, we are out thoughts, and we are our emotions. Rene Descartes, a sixteenth century philosopher introduced the idea that most of us have heard, and been taught, throughout our lives, “I think therefore I am”. This is  incorrect. We think because our brains are designed to produce thoughts / ideas / and images. These thoughts / ideas / images are what cause our Central Nervous System to switch from the Sympathetic to the Para-Sympathetic Nervous System. Many of us unconsciously follow along with these thoughts and images and different thoughts and images produce various frequencies and vibrations, that flow out of us like radio waves and combine with other thoughts and images of the same frequencies and vibrations. (Much like when we tune into various radio and television channels by switching the tuning dial. Given the fact that we are not taught that we are in control of our thoughts and emotions we feel trapped by the resulting responses caused by these thoughts and images).

YOU are in control, and with the technique of Hypnosis you can learn to change your thinking and emotions, and thus learn how to allow the body to move from the Sympathetic to the Para Sympathetic Nervous System, and consciously create and experience your choice of responses. With Hypnosis and specifically with Foundations Personal Energy Mastery you will CONSCIOUSLY be able to reduce and eliminate things from your life such responses as Anger, Stress, Anxiety, various coping mechanisms such as smoking, over eating, drug and alcohol use, and many other consequential behaviors.

Are you ready to control of your life? Do you want to change your thinking, your Frequencies. and Vibrations, and thus take control of yourself. As it is stated in programs such as 12 Steps, or other support groups, you cannot control other people and outside events, but YOU CAN Control Yourself. Learn one of the most effective tools / techniques to take control of your life and responses to life.

Call Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching now, (206) 417-4900, or e-mail Foundations at dlscott2@comcast.net. Within a matter of one or just a few sessions you will feel better and be more in control of your own life.

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Our bodies natural defenses lie in our Sympathetic Nervous System which causes our Flight, Fight, or Freeze response. (When we are faced with things, we perceive as danger, our body is filled with such neurochemicals / hormones, such as Adrenaline, and Cortisol.) Since our species began we have always had our natural defense to protect ourselves. In the past it was about threats from wild animals, hunger, and outside dangers from nature, and other people. These defenses, (our flight, fight, or freeze responses), have stayed with us, and evolved into protecting us from anything that we deem as an attack, such as bullying, shame, guilt, and not being good enough for those around us.

The information and messages / programing that we are given; from the time we are born, and into our adulthoods; lead each and everyone of us into a chronic state of fight, flight, or freeze, by our rush to school, competing for good grades, competing in sports, being told that we have to achieve, and perform as the #1 winner.  This chronic state of flight, fight, or freeze, causes chronic inflammation. Learning to be Mindful, and Aware, raises our level of stillness, quiet, and playfulness, which causes the body to move away from the Sympathetic Nervous System, and move into the Para – Sympathetic Nervous System; and with the flooding of body with positive neuro – chemicals, such as dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, and Endorphins

It seems to cause a bit of a surprise to my incoming clients, that the focus of Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching is on using Hypnosis to gain Mindfulness to help ease body inflammation.  Many clients come in and expect to be given a magic bullet which will end their presenting complaint or problem. When they are shown that their own power and energy will cause Mindfulness and Awareness, thus lower stress, anxiety and Inflammation, they are amazed at how much power they have. It is not other people and events which cause our stress and anxiety, but it is our programmed responses to other people and events.

One of the most popular and effective self groups, that has been around since 1935, is Alcoholics Anonymous, and one of the things that is taught by this group is the idea that we have no control over other people or other events, but we do have control over ourselves and our responses to outside events and other people.

Another way to describe our responses is to describe them as coping mechanisms. These coping mechanisms come in many forms, substances, such as alcohol, drugs, nicotine, food, and anger, to name a few.

When You start treatment through Foundations Medical Hypnosis and life Coaching, You taught how to start using more powerful, and less consequential coping mechanisms, such hypnosis, self hypnosis, meditation, cognitive behavioral therapy, expressive writing, gratitude, and Vagus deep breathing exercises.

Clients walk away from these sessions with tools, and techniques, that will help them reduce and or eliminate their presenting issue(s), and last them throughout their lives.

Don’t delay, call Foundations Hypnosis Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching NOW, at (206) 417-4900, or send and e-mail to dlscott2@comcast.net. Start your new life NOW!!!

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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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Milton Erickson Psychotherapist, was the founding president of American Society for Clinical Hypnotherapy. Erickson believed that people often resisted Hypnosis because they were hesitant to change their own behaviors.

I have always admired and respected the works of Milton Erickson, and it was due to this admiration and respect that I spent so much time working in the field of Social Work as a Substance Use Disorder Professional  trying to develop tools and techniques to pass on to my client’s to get away from talk therapy and give the client tools to deal with and eliminate the cause of a problem instead of working with just the symptoms of the problem.

Milton Erickson dealt with severe physical handicaps, such as Polio, which he developed at the age of 17.  During this initial recovery period, Erickson was unable to walk, and unable to speak. He became immersed in the significance of nonverbal communication, such as body language and tone of voice, and how these non-verbal expressions often over road the verbal communications.  Think about it, how many of us recall the anger and negative emotional reactions that were exhibited by our parents and care givers. Things like body language and tone of voice create much more stress and anxiety than the verbiage itself.

Erickson learned that by focusing on the sources of issues, such as his own body memories, he was able to get out of bed and spend the remaining years of his life moving around, working, and enjoying life, without just working on the symptoms of his disease. Milton had discovered over the years of his practice that his own psychotherapy worked with the symptoms of his client’s presenting problems, but with the addition of Hypnosis, he could utilize the power and energy of images, emotions, and thoughts, that are the basis for our mental health, and in many cases our physical health.

After being in the field for over thirty years, I have adopted and used several techniques utilized by Milton Erickson, and over the last decade plus, I have seen other members of the Counseling Field / Social Working Field adopt and expand on those same techniques and theories.

Stop just talking about symptoms, address the root causes with Hypnosis and Life Coaching. Call TODAY, (206) 417-4900 or e-mail me at dlscott2@comcast.net. Regain the life and power that have been kept buried for years.

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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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So many people are trying to keep themselves and others safe as they tend to stay inside away from large crowds and even when they go out, they generally try to limit the amount of people that they are interacting with. The isolation, the staying in one place, is creating a lot of Cabin Fever symptomology, such symptoms may include feelings of depression, restlessness, irritability, and loneliness.

Traditionally, people may have had to stay indoors due to snowy or icy weather conditions or travel restrictions. Today, people around the world are experiencing cabin fever while physically isolating in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

While there are different tools and techniques, such as Hypnosis and Meditation,  to help deal with these symptoms, the following tips are just a few of the things you will learn, through Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching, that can help you manage cabin fever and limit its psychological, physical, and behavioral effects.

1. Learn to relax: Using meditation and deep breathing is a powerful tool / technique to change your thoughts and emotions. The power of Hypnosis is a very effective way of learning how to change your brain wave patterns, and lower the levels of negative chemicals, such as Adrenaline, and Cortisol, that cause stress and thus symptoms of Cabin Fever, such as depression, restlessness,  and irritability. Using Hypnosis and meditative techniques will also allow you to learn how to flood your body with more positive chemicals such as norenepherine, dopamine, and serotonin. By learning to produce and increase these chemical levels your focus on the positive increases., which leads to the next tip:
2. Focus on the positives in your life: Sometimes this is harder than we think. With all of the negative news and chatter on social and news media we need to  express and consciously focus on gratitude every day. One of the things that you will learn with Foundation Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching is to create a daily list of what it is you are grateful for and how do those things make you feel. Writing them down you can reflect on them at later times. Some examples of these things may include:
   • the blessings you have in your life: such as your friends, family, and other people who are in your life.
   • having the time to be creative and learn a new hobby or finishing a project you have been putting off for a long time.
3. Go easy on yourself: No matter what methods you use, it can take time to adapt to a new way of living. As the fourth step in “The Four Agreements” states, always do your best. This means that some days you will find yourself doing all the right things and somedays you will find yourself falling flat on your face. Remember when a child is first learning to walk, they take a couple of steps and they fall. Well if they stay down and never get up, they will never learn to walk, Each time they get up they increase the amount of steps they take. Keep at it, continue to practice. Using techniques such as Hypnosis and Meditation will give the perfect tool to lean to keep your focus and get to your goal.
4. Develop routines and stick to them: Creating, developing and following a routine can help you feel in control of your life and situation.
5. Follow a healthful diet: A healthful, balanced diet is important for mental as well as physical health. Develop a plan for eating healthy and stick to it.
6. Keep physically active:  Daily or routine exercise can helps keep the body fit and boosts the positive mood level. It doesn’t have to be a gym routine that leaves you sweaty and exhausted, but but by  developing  an exercise routine that you can perform in your home or garden you will be amazed at how this will lift your spirits.

So move past your symptoms of Cabin Fever, pick up the phone and call Foundations Medical Hypnosis and Life Coaching, at  (206) 417-4900, or e-mail Foundations Medical Hypnosis at dlscott2@comcast.net. You will be very happy you did and you will start living a positive and happier life.

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