Roy Sullivan, a United States park ranger in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park is recognized by Guinness World Records as the person struck by lightning more times than any other human being. Between 1942 and 1977, Sullivan was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them.

The odds of being struck by lightning seven times is estimated at 1:100007 or 1:1028 . For the non-mathematical among us, that’s a 1, with 28 more zeros behind it! And those are some pretty astounding odds.

Sound like a lucky man?

In fact, Roy’s life took a grim turn; he became exceedingly paranoid that the lightening strikes were “bad luck”, and was convinced they would occur again. People began to avoid him (for a lot of reasons), and he ended his own life at 71 over unrequited love.

Maybe “luck” is where you find it.

Come FIND YOUR GOOD LUCK at our FREE MeetUp this month which is intended to help you find your “internal lucky charm”. Become the “Master of Your Own Good Fortune” in our 6 week “Mastering Your Emotions, and Your Life; Mindfulness, Meditation and Hypnosis” course. Our FREE trance of the month comes from MindValley, a morning meditation that can help create more magic in your world with just 15 minutes a day.

FREE-Let’s Get Lucky! Creating Good Fortune Through Trance. Thursday March 12, 2015 "Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it did work for the rabbit." R.E. Shay In honor of St. Patty’s of course, we will explore the subject of “luck”. Is there such a thing as “luck” ? and if so-do you have any influence over whether yours is “good” or “bad”? Are some people “born” with “good luck”? or is it something you can cultivate in your life? How does someone improve their “luck”? We’ll chat and share ideas about "luck", and as usual we will share a little research, offer some practical ways YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR GOOD LUCK and of course, offer an optional trance experience at the end of the meeting intended to help you experience more good fortune.

FREE INTRO Class-Tuesday, February 17th 6pm. Introduction to Hypnosis/ Medical Hypnosis. Is it right for you? A CONFIRMED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event is repeated bi-monthly, the next event is on Tuesday, April 21st 6pm.

Healthy Mind, Healthy Body. No matter what the current status of your health may be, you may already have discovered that there are things you can do that make you feel worse. Did you also know that there are things you can do to make your health better? What you think and do concerning your health matters. When you are ready to take back control over your well-being, this is a great place to reclaim your power.

Mastering Your Emotions, and Your Life. WARNING: THIS CLASS MAY RADICALLY IMPROVE THE WAY YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE. "It’s like finally getting the “Owner’s Manual” to your own mind." Mindfulness, Meditation and Self Hypnosis. Both classes are 6 sessions long and offered Quarterly. 299.00 or 500.00 for (2) registrations.

Free Trance of the Month: This is a 15 minute meditation structure that some of our clients have found quite useful. “A 15 Minute Mind-Hack to Massively Enhance Your Brain Power and Emotional State: Vishen Lakhiani” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waYNEDZxEPY&feature=em-subs_digest

A Calmer YOU

Did you know, you were born with only 2 innate fears-a fear of heights and a fear of loud noises? And while research seems to show that we may have a genetic tendency to learn some fears more quickly (for example, snakes!), the fact is ALL OTHER FEARS ARE LEARNED. If those fears are working for you, that’s great (for example, my life IS better with a healthy respect for snakes!)

But if it feels like your fears are working against you, if parts of your life trigger you into uncomfortable storms of emotion know this: YOU CAN RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN TO STATES OF CALM. In the hypnotic arts, we call these “Resource States” and you can learn to “trigger” them, at will, with just a little effort.

We share some strategies for creating more emotional control in this month’s FREE Meetup, “Hypnosis and Stress Management: 10 seconds to a CALMER YOU!”. In our July Goddess Salon, we will be discussing a whole different kind of “Resource State”. Lastly, we are still registering for the August presentations of “Master Mind Training: Self-Hypnosis; Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Mind-1 Day Training” and our bi-monthly “Introduction to Hypnosis”, a great space for people new to hypnosis, or to us, to learn more without any obligations.

May you all be “in-joying” a safe and memorable summer...live it like you will have to give a report on the first day of school, and make it a good story!

FREE: “Hypnosis and Stress Management: 10 seconds to a CALMER YOU!”. Acupuncture and Herbal Therapies. That’s right, a CALMER YOU, imagine the possibilities....https://www.facebook.com/events/1552581848380549/

Our August presentation, by special request of a special Meet Up MindArtist will be: Hypnosis and Life Mastery: Values Clarification to Manifest A Life Worth Living.

FREE: June 21st, An Introduction to Hypnosis. TouchStone Studios. For people new to hypnosis or Tampa Bay Hypnotherapy. http://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/232314240/

$5.00: June 29th, “The Goddess Salon”, Classical Medicine. https://www.tampabayhypnotherapy.com/help-yourself/hypnotherapy-blog/106-announcing-the-goddess-salon-march-23rd-2016

Best $100.00 you’ll spend this year: August 20th 9-4pm, Master Mind Training: Self-Hypnosis; Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Mind-1 Day TouchStone Studios. http://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/231311837/

In keeping with outr theme of "Personal Revolutions", this month's featured trance from our Hypnosis Download Affiliate is all about exploring new ways of being and wht we KNOW is that exploring alternatives is the begining of intentional CHANGE and GROWTH.

Hypnosis can help you escape your pigeon-hole, climb out of your rut and reinvent yourself in surprising ways Have you been feeling that's time for a real change in your life, but not sure how to go about it? Do you feel constrained and limited by the expectations of other people?

Whether you do what you do because it's what you've always done, or because it's what people ‘expect' of you, you can end up dissatisfied. Is this all there is to life? Is this the end of your potential?

Is it really possible to recreate and reinvent yourself?

Of course, as soon as you start to think about this, your common sense tells you that there is no end to life's possibilities. You can consciously think up any number of things that you could be doing, or ways that you could be as a person, all quite different from what you do now. But when it comes to making any of these alternatives real, you might understandably hesitate.

What would it be like to do X? How would my family or friends or colleagues react if I started being Y? Would I really enjoy it? Would they all disown me? Would I know who I am any more? These are unsettling questions, and sometimes we get so unsettled by them that we just put them aside and continue as before. At least we know what we'll get from that.

But the fact that you're reading this page indicates, at the very least, that some dissatisfaction with your status quo is eating at you. Maybe the way people have ‘always' labeled you is chafing. Maybe you harbor a secret dream that you long to fulfill. Maybe you just want to see what you can do when you put your mind to it. But how do you go about making a potentially major change like that?

einvent yourself is an audio hypnosis session created by experienced psychologists with an in-depth understanding of the way humans really grow and develop. As you let yourself get carried away into deep trance, you'll discover that;

• you can safely and fully explore alternative realities you can experience different ways of being and ‘try them on for size' you can ‘test' what you want to do and ‘walk through' the results

when you've decided what you want to do, you can rehearse how that will be until you feel really ready to make a start you really can change your life

Download Reinvent yourself and look forward to enjoying life in a whole new way.

I had a professor who confessed he often purposefully “ran out of gas” on a second date, to see how his date responded to a “crisis”. It was more important to him than her appearance.

Because it is nice when we are all getting along, is it not? When human interactions; whether at home, in schools, at the workplace, even in politics...are harmonious, it’s easy.

But truth is, if you interact with other people, you are going to have conflict.

Tempers will flare, buttons get pushed, boundaries are crossed…fight or flight can kick into high gear and most of us just “react”.

AND the real measure of who we are, individually, in our relationships, as a culture and even, as a species, is how we manage discord with others.

I had a professor who confessed he often purposefully “ran out of gas” on a second date, to see how his date responded to a “crisis”. It was more important to him than her appearance.

Because it is nice when we are all getting along, is it not? When human interactions; whether at home, in schools, at the workplace, even in politics...are harmonious, it’s easy.

But truth is, if you interact with other people, you are going to have conflict.

Tempers will flare, buttons get pushed, boundaries are crossed…fight or flight can kick into high gear and most of us just “react”.

AND the real measure of who we are, individually, in our relationships, as a culture and even, as a species, is how we manage discord with others.