Healing and Changing Your Mind for a More Joyful, Successful Life

Nancy is a healthy middle-aged woman with a loving family, satisfying career and as she describes it, “a great life,” at least while she’s awake. But when she closes her eyes, it’s been a different story. Nancy has been chased by nightmares every night for as long as she can remember. Besides her rest being regularly hijacked by terror, her screams would awaken her family. Exhausted and looking for help, she sought hypnotherapy with clinical hypnotherapist Rosemary Powell.

I met with Rosemary. After just one session, I no longer have nightmares,” she said. “And, according to my family, my screaming in my sleep has ceased. I feel like a 100% better person.”

Not surprisingly, Powell, has become the calming night light for many sleep-deprived, nightmare-weary clients of all ages, from elementary school children to seniors. She also has helped clients lose weight, build confidence, reduce anxiousness, improve athletic performance, and reach personal and professional goals.

“An AQHA [American Quarter Horse Association] World Champion wanted to increase her focus and calm during practice and competitive events,” said Powell. “We taught her how to focus by holding onto her reins as an anchor for her focus and motivation. She anchored concentration and calm to her reins, and after yet another win, she said, ‘Hypnosis helps me focus.’”

As Powell explains, hypnosis is not about mind control but rather achieving a state of deep relaxation where we can deal with the root cause of anxiety, fear or negativity and even capture and remove those dream-stealing monsters straight out of our subconscious minds forever.

“The conscious mind is this little tiny bit of our brains and it processes only like 4,000 bits of information a second; whereas, our subconscious mind processes billions of bits of energy a second. It is 95% of our functioning mind. All of our memories, emotions, beliefs and imagination are stored in our subconscious mind.”

Powell says much of our programming takes place when we are very young, up until about age 11. Information is gathered and stored in the subconscious mind and has a powerful effect on everything we do. “We were either loved and accepted, or some difficult, challenging things happened to us. We have absorbed memories, events, things we’ve learned, and belief systems from parents, pastors, teachers, coaches, or other authority figures. All the experiences that we’ve had are in our subconscious minds and affect, influence and trigger us today.”

As a facilitator in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Rosemary uses NLP to assist clients to access and override destructive beliefs, thoughts and memories stored in the subconscious mind. “When the busy mind is relaxed, we can go back to the very first time we felt that difficult emotion. Then we can change the memory.”

One of the first steps in her guided hypnotherapy is getting the mind to relax. This sounds simple; however, early Buddhists understood the difficulty of this task. They came up with the idea of the monkey mind because it jumps around from thought to thought, like a monkey moving from tree to tree.

Powell says much of the time, our monkey minds are busy primarily with regrets, fear and dread. “We can calm our conscious mind by using relaxation breathing, and replace the fear and worry thoughts with positive affirmations. Pay attention to what you are saying because our subconscious mind is always listening.”

She teaches the power of self-affirmations. For example, she helped one client rephrase what she had been repeating to herself. Instead of “My life is just chaotic,” her self-affirmation became, “My life is busy and challenging and I’m up to it!”

Today, she is living her life’s purpose as a Board Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Medical Support Hypnotherapist and facilitator in Neuro-Linguistic Programming with advanced training in trauma recovery, pediatrics, geriatrics, pain control, past life regression therapy, weight loss and smoking cessation. As a certified medical support hypnotherapist, she treats hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, overactive bladder, anxiousness and depression, and many other conditions. In addition, Powell brings more than 40 years of experience as a Registered Nurse to her practice. She also was a hospice nurse for 30 years. This fall, she moved her Phoenix-area office, Joyful Life Hypnotherapy, to Tehachapi, California, where she provides sessions for many of her clients over Zoom, as well as in person.

One of the tools she uses is regression into past lives. She says these sessions help people understand where some of their false and limiting beliefs, destructive thoughts and old habits or patterns come from. In the case of Gloria from Fountain Hills, she guided her into the future.

Gloria is a terminally ill cancer patient who came to Powell because she is afraid of dying and also is in a lot of pain. “With the power of our subconscious mind, we can reduce and, at times, eliminate pain,” said Powell. “When guided into trance, Gloria learned and could see that as she died and crossed over, her death was going to be a pleasant, joyous experience. She was no longer afraid of dying.”

“She treated me with hypnosis and I feel wonderful,” said Gloria. “I want to be her best friend. That’s how wonderful she is.”

Powell says she loves doing hypnotherapy because of how profoundly it helps people and how rapidly it helps clear negative thoughts and experiences. “I am living my life purpose, which is to bring joy and to help other people improve their lives.” QCBN

By Bonnie Stevens, QCBN

To find out more, visit JoyfulLifeHypnotherapy.com or call Rosemary Powell at 661-238-9154.

For a guided meditation and to hear more from Powell, watch Zonie Living at StarWorldWideNetworks.com/shows/bonnie-stevens.

Courtesy Photo: Hypnotherapist Rosemary Powell helps people live their best lives by getting self-defeating thoughts out of the way.