Shared on Facebook this month; a Veteran who had lost both of his legs says that people often ask him how he stays so positive without his legs. He said he responds to this question by asking, “How do you stay so negative with yours?”

The Holidaze 2017 are fast approaching, and Facebook is starting to fill up with helpful advice on HOW TO NOT STRESS THIS SEASON...

Well here are our suggestions:

Take RESPONSIBILITY for your choices-In whatever you are doing or feeling, where-ever you find yourself, with whomever you find yourself: you are FREE to do something else. Own it and you are free to create more of what you want in life.

MINDFUL AWARENESS-savor the moments because there is no guarantee that any of it will be here tomorrow.

DEEP GRATITUDE. Delve deep into an awareness of all the the gifts you take for granted.

As our gift to you all-we share a FREE MEDITATION on DEEPENING GRATITUDE this month.Do not use while driving please. The Featured Hypnosis Downloads ar “Overcome a Stressful Christmas”and “How to Be the Life and Soul of the Party”.

In November, we offer our ever popular Weight Management through the Holidays with Hypnosis as the FREE November Meet Up.

And it’s finally here-to all the “Goddesses -in-waiting” The GODDESS SALON ORIENTATIONfor Winter 2018 is scheduled for November! Come play!

In December, we will offer your last chance to take our 1-Day Mind Mastery (Self Hypnosis) class before the end of the year and our FREE Meet-Up is entitled “Hope-nosis”.

Gift Certificates are available for the holidays and can be used for sessions, groups or classes. Hypnosis is a unique and generous gift. Contact us through the website to purchase.

Wishing everyone a Blessed Thanksgiving-

Can there really be “too much” of a good thing? Can “abundance” sometimes be its own “problem”?

Its like what happened when you turned up your Halloween basket to see what you had collected after a night Trick o' Treating. So many choices…you needed a strategy because you could not eat them all at once…can you remember how you would choose?

If you are like most of us-deep unconscious filters, in alignment with your most powerful goals and emotions (the pleasure of chocolate?) guided your decision, without much conscious thought.

Research shows that having an abundance of choices available sometimes leads to “overload”. Too many choices can lead to indecision (which is a choice), poor decisions, impulsive (habituated/default) decisions, a willingness to be influenced (as we seek to end the cognitive dissonance/discomfort by choosing) and even fuels the modern day “FOMO” (fear of missing out)-which can drive us into patterns that are distracting and unproductive.

There are many examples to be found as the holidays approach-with so many things to available to us like food, drinks, activities, gifts, gatherings…all competing for our attention, time and energy…

“This is a GREAT PROBLEM to have”-is a nice reframe that reduces stress (which allows for better thinking and choosing). You might just try 3 deep breaths and repeat that to yourself a few times when you are faced with all those choices…

But life in our Western world is full of choices, everyday. The hypnotic arts help you get clarity about matters to you most, helps to resolve inner conflicts between choice option,s and propels you into a momentum of positive change, all while facilitating those shifts in a way that is easy, quick, automatic and permanent-just an “effortless” way of being.

Lots of choices about how you can learn more before 2018 ends:

Our own FREE HYPNOSIS MEET-UP for November is the always popular “Weight Management through the Holidays: Hypnosis and Health”.

Gift Certificates are a tremendous holiday gift and right NOW you can get a Holiday Bonus- 100.00 sessions for customized “Stress management” or “Better Self-Esteem”. We are offering a 90 minute session which includes a your custom hypnotic recording to start the New Year right; for yourself or someone you love. Just email me at https://www.tampabayhypnotherapy.com to get yours!

Our Featured Affiliate recording this month is a follow up to our FREE October Meet Up on “Reducing Fear/Anxiety and Hypnosis”;“Instant Generalized Anxiety Treatment”. Though really-you should check out the over 100 specific anxiety related titles they offer-for example “Transform a Stressful Christmas Into a Peaceful One”.

Saving the last for best (that’s one unconscious strategy to choosing): FOR ANYONE with a interest in the hypnotic arts, the Hypnosis Education Association of Florida is holding their 20th Annual Conference in Orlando November 9/10 and 11th. We have an amazing line up of presenters and topics but our Featured Speaker is Will Horton, who will be offering a workshop after the event on Addictions and Hypnosis! Entertainment Saturday includes a Stage Hypnosis Show with our own Erick Kand! To learn more and register visit the announcement at http://heahypnosis.com/conferences/conference-2018-fall/.

Hurricane Michael Relief: We are open to offering up to 6 sessions of FREE supportive counseling and stress management to victims of Hurricane Michael by teleconferencing. I have extensive experience in disaster recovery and trauma resolution. If you know of someone who might benefit from having a safe place to talk, please have them contact me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. No gimmicks, all heart, its a choice.

And don’t forget to CHOOSE WISELY this election season. Until next time-gratitude gratitude gratitude for having so many choices…a great problem to have!

Tamera

Dick boasted while he ate a large slice of cake- “I didn’t need hypnosis to quit smoking, I quit through shear will power!”

Now his “will power” may have stopped the smoking habit but apparently Dick had picked up another habit-eating!  For that matter, his finger nails were looking like what he fed on, when food was not available. To give Dick’s “will power” credit, that was some mighty powerful change but perhaps, not in the ways Dick had thought.

It was immediately clear that he had a very determined mind; determined to CHANGE THE WAY HE FELT-SOMEHOW. That same determined mind was completely capable of ignoring the obvious, namely the 50 extra pounds he was carrying around his midline and the connection between all of this and having stopped smoking. Talk about some powerful Self-Hypnosis!

Habits-whether thoughts, feelings and/ or behaviors- are not necessarily good or bad, they are just useful or not useful. You are your habits.

And habits do change-think about it, you have been changing habits your whole life!

And they change quickly, and easily, when your unconsciously held beliefs and values are in line with your consciously held goals. BUT when the unconscious has another agenda... well, “will power” alone is often not enough or ignores the deeper needs the habit was intended to address.

Yet another couple has come through my office...their marriage falling apart...over politics. This has actually become so common, I am not the first to write of it.

One might be inclined to say that politics was just a metaphor for the real problem in this marriage but that would deny that we are living in very highly charged times politically, economically and emotionally.

Friends, families, the fabric of our community seems to be dividing into polar opposites; civility and rational discussions jettisoned as values collide in households and communities across the nation.

For we students of the ART of INFLUENCE, there is a lot to study about our country’s current state. Fear is a powerful motivator, but in activating the fight or flight response, it results in more irrational thinking and greater openness to suggestion.

Just want to encourage you all to VOTE.

To VOTE INFORMED, and not “Influenced”.

To VOTE WITH the COURAGE of your convictions, and not your fears.

I found the League of Women Voter’s to have been helpful: https://vote.lwvspa.org

Elections aside, and just in time for Halloween, our FREE Meetup for October is on “Overcoming Fear: Hypnosis and Life Mastery” with a special guest speaker, our fellow Mind Artist and CCHt, Ashley Caputo is leading!

Our November presentation is our annual holiday encore “Weight Management through the Holidays: Hypnosis and Health”.

Fear is but one of the emotions we must master, if we are to master our relationships, lives and even the fate of this great country. Anger, guilt, jealousy, shame, resentment…even love, kindness and compassion…our hypnotic download affiliate has oodles of recordings to facilitate “Emotional Intelligence”, too many to list. Check them out by clicking here!

The Hypnosis Education Association of Florida is lining up for our November 9-11th Conference in Orlando. Will Horton is on deck, for 2 presentations and he will be offering a separate 2 day post conference course on working with addictions using hypnosis. Anyone with an interest in the hypnotic arts can attend. Stayed tuned for official announcements at www.heahypnosis.com

Hope you all make time to enjoy the season change wherever you are…

Tamera

From our Affiliates at Uncommon Knowledge and Hypnosis Downloads: A trance that recognizes how habits serve purposes in our lives, even bad habits. Changing them is really a matter of finding more useful ways to get those same needs met. Remember, these are for general audiences. If it does not help as much as you want, we are here to help you get past your individual "stuckness".

Escape the compulsion to make yourself feel better with food

Do you turn to comfort eating more often than you would like?

Are the costs outweighing the benefits?

Life can be tough sometimes. And sometimes the things that make life difficult can go on for a long time. It's only human to want to help yourself feel better, and there's no getting away from it, what's easier to lay your hands on than what's in the fridge or food cupboard? Reaching for a tub of delicious ice-cream, a tasty deep base pizza or a packet of thick chocolate biscuits does not make you a bad person.

But although you get the instant reward of the great taste or the satisfyingly filling sensation, you've already discovered that reaching out for those sweet, filling foods on a too regular basis is bringing other consequences that you're not so keen on. And making you an unhappy person.

Which was why you reached out for them in the first place...

It's a trap, isn't it?  But there is a way out.

Hypnosis can help you overcome the habit of comfort eating

Stop comfort eating is an audio hypnosis session created by psychologists with wide experience in helping people with the psychological side of healthy weight management. It uses the power of hypnosis to help you break out of the behavior patterns that seem to have such a grip on you.

As you relax and listen repeatedly to your download, you'll notice that

• the problems and challenges you're facing start to seem much less daunting you find yourself getting creative about developing real, practical solutions you develop a new relationship with your own emotions, and feel more at peace with them you find yourself naturally eating so much more healthily, and enjoying occasional treats without guilt or anxiety you feel much more relaxed and confident within yourself

Download Stop comfort eating and take back control of your own life.

November 12th, 7-8:30pm

Acupuncture and Herbal Therapies

Register at our Meet Up Group

or at Face Book page.

or visit our blog

Halloween Candy, Thanksgiving and Christmas-Oh my! The "Season of Eating" is about to begin but you do not have to feel out of control, guilty or anything other than joyful. Tamera is going to present some hypnotic, meditative and NLP approaches to help curb your appetite, despite all the temptations of the season. The evening’s trance will reinforce your goals around food at holidays gatherings. A copy of the evening’s trance will be available for free to participants only.

Halloween Candy, Thanksgiving and Christmas-Oh my! The "Season of Eating" is about to begin but you do not have to feel out of control, guilty or anything other than joyful. Tamera is going to present some hypnotic, meditative and NLP approaches to help curb your appetite, despite all the temptations of the season. The evening’s trance will reinforce your goals around food at holidays gatherings. A copy of the evening’s trance will be available for free to participants only.

120 pounds lost-over a 5 year period.

It began with her walking, painfully and slowly to her mailbox everyday, then twice a day…. Then a walk to the end of the street, then the entire length of the street, then walking it twice a day.

Today, she can be found walking briskly miles from her home. A big smile on her face.

This began as a way of getting a break from daily work, and addressing the serious health complications of her obesity. It clearly wasn’t much fun at first.

Now she cannot imagine a day without it, and the positive results extend well beyond the weight she has lost.

You see, we keep doing what we are doing, until the day we decide that just does not work anymore. You do not have to wait until it hurts, and it doesn’t have to hurt before you change.

Our FREE MEETUP this month may well set you up for a momentum in a new direction. At “Loving Exercise with Hypnosis: Hypnosis and Health”, we will talk about the natural and learned resistances to changing our health care habits. We will also share some strategies that make it easier to integrate new habits, including the use of hypnosis to re-pattern unconsciously held beliefs about exercise.

What if moving your body…even challenging your body… becomes a joy and a lifelong habit you cannot imagine ever living without?Join us: https://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/263488692/

Speaking of habits...the recordings from our last 2 months of MeetUp (Prosperity Mindset and Better Rapport) are now available for FREE. We have gotten much better at the habit of recording these reliably, so just send a request at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like a FREE link to them. Not quite the same as being there live with us but better than nothing?

Nov 8-10th Michael Watson, Master NLP trainer, has agreed to be our Keynote at “Hypnosis, Tools for Change” for the FALL Hypnosis Education Association of Florida conference in Orlando. Anyone with an interest in hypnosis is welcomed to attend and we are still seeking speakers. www.heahypnosis.com

Wishing everyone a peaceful August…

Consciously, we are thinking “ I don’t want to eat too much this holiday.” “ I don’t want to drink too much…, spend too much…, you name the habit.

BUT it is the season of excess and so for many of us, those powerful unconscious impulses override all of our good, conscious, intentions. In the hypnotic arts we say the conscious and unconscious are out of rapport, they are on conflict with one another ( and a note: the unconscious almost always wins).

January 2nd arrives and we have put on an extra 2 pounds we will not get rid of ( research shows it adds up over the years), there may be long term consequences from the alcohol abuse, credit debt that takes until next December to pay off, and New Year Resolutions that we will probably not keep and feel bad about not keeping.

It’s easy to avoid those temptations…when your unconscious is in alignment with the consciously held goal. You do this everyday, you might be tempted to run a red light but your conscious and unconscious agree, you don’t want a ticket or to be in an accident so you stop (most of us).

The trick of course is aligning the conscious and unconscious, which is the goal of the hypnotic arts.

What if your unconscious agreed that that the rewards for your restraint are far greater than the rewards of your excess. Behavior would easily and effortlessly flow from this alignment would it not?

Our FREE monthly MeetUp for November to kick off the holiday season is “ Resisting Temptation: Hypnosis and Life Mastery”. On-line, Thursday 11/11 at 7pm.

If you have some specific habits of excess you would like to curb easily and effortlessly, our affiliate offers over 1200 titles of hypnosis downloads at really affordable prices (15.00 or less!). There are over 15 titles related to weight management alone in the top 100, and dozens more if you click through to their site. These downloads make really unique and meaningful gifts! Explore their catalogue by starting here https://www.tampabayhypnotherapy.com/help-yourself/hypnosis-audio-downloads

We will be doing our November COVID Support group call on WEDNESDAY the 24th, and am planning my favorite “Trance to Enhance Gratitude”. Everyone effected by COVID is welcome to attend. https://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/281655690/

Mark you calendars, our last Meeting of the year will be our Free December presentation “Recovering Passion and Purpose;Hypnosis and Life Mastery” to get your creative unconscious juices flowing as we head onto the New Year. https://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/279757459/

Hope you are all enjoying our Florida fall, and saying yes to the change in your life.

For just a little while, the sonic landscape of our daily lives; the low grade cacophony of sounds, frequencies and rhythms, that our unconscious minds screen out of conscious awareness through habituation... went as dead as the power grid that feeds the noise.

It was an interesting silence. For me, gratitude pervaded the whole of it; we had survived Hurricane Irma and the quiet seemed comforting, especially given the fear that Irma had incited. Not all silences we experience are the same, and not all who experience such silences have reasons for gratitude.

For us, the silence did not last long. Soon, all the generators and chainsaws came on-and there was a different kind of gratitude, they became the new background chatter in about 24 hours.

Most of us are living with a lot of “background chatter” in our own heads and hearts... inner voices full of self-limiting beliefs and self-defeating thoughts that have gone “unconscious” and “unquestioned” if only because they are there everyday. What if, one day, you woke up and all that “noise” was silent...? What WOULD you hear instead?

Of course, you do not have to wait for a personal “storm” to find an inner silence...we can help you create it from within.

FEAR is at the epicenter of this “chatter” for many of us and our FREE October Hypnosis Meet-Up is all about quieting our fear."FEAR Reduction with Hypnosis", October 12th, 7-8:30pm. October’s Trance of the Month from our affiliate is on ENDING the HABIT of FEAR and Anxiety.

Halloween Candy, Thanksgiving and Christmas-Oh my! The "Season of Eating" is about to begin but you do not have to feel out of control, guilty or anything other than joyful. In November, we offer our ever popular "Weight Management through the Holidays with Hypnosis" as the FREE November Meet Up November 9th, 7-8:30pm and a FREE Introduction to Hypnosis Class.

In December, we will offer your last chance to take our 1-Day Mind Mastery (Self Hypnosis) class before the end of the year;the best $100.00 you can spend, "Master Mind Training: Self-Hypnosis; Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Mind is Saturday, December 2nd. Our last FREE Meet-Upof 2017 is entitled “Hope-nosis”. We have a FREE Holiday Stress Management Hypnosis Recording in the works, stay tuned; it will be offered through our FaceBook page.

Gift Certificates are available for the holidays and can be used for sessions, groups or classes. Hypnosis is a unique and generous gift. Contact us through the website to purchase.

May your silences be peaceful and full of gratitude, Tamera

Dedicated to Peggy.

Hypnosis Education Association of Florida is beginning registration for the Fall Orlando Conference in November. Join us! http://heahypnosis.com/

“What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I lose this weight?”

The QUESTION IS THE PROBLEM.

A person asking questions like these, has just reinforced two very negatively skewed beliefs: 1) that something IS wrong with me and 2) I can’t lose this weight. That is some powerful self-hypnosis! It forces the brain to search for an answer. And the ever creative nature of the brain/mind is that it will find an answer to the questions asked of it.

Even if it has to make one up.

Even if it is not true.

Even if it is not helpful to solving the problem.

It has often been said, that the quality of our lives is, in a large part, determined by the quality of our questions and questions are powerful tools for change when asked from empowering frames. We will share some ideas on how to ask better questions when it comes to weight management in Our FREE October MeetUp “Hypnosis and Health: Weight Management through the Holidays”, which includes a FREE copy of the trance to participants.

If you think you are ready to explore hypnosis as a tool for change, or Tampa Bay Hypno-Therapy, we offer our FREE “Intro to Hypnosis” this month. Ready to take your skills up a notch? We are offering our last 2016 presentation of “Master Mind Training: Self-Hypnosis; Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Mind-1 Day Workshop” on December 10th. And by the way, seats for the February 11th, 2017 presentation make great holiday gifts!

The “Goddess Salon” experiment continues.

Reminder: The Hypnosis Education Association of Florida is planning their November Conference (11th-13th) in Orlando. The public is invited and hypnosis presenters are invited to submit proposals! http://heahypnosis.com/

The rest of the links are below. Wishing you all a safe and Happy Halloween! Tamera

Best $100.00 you’ll spend this year: December 10th 9-4pm, Master Mind Training: Self-Hypnosis; Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Mind-1 Day TouchStone Studios.

https://www.tampabayhypnotherapy.com/help-yourself/hypnotherapy-blog/115-master-mind-training-self-hypnosis-unlock-the-hidden-power-of-your-mind-1-day-workshop

The next presentation of the 1-Day will be offering it again February 11th 2017-a seat might be a great holiday gift!http://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/233793889/

FREE: October 13th, “Hypnosis and Health: Weight Management through the Holidays” with a FREE recording available to participants. Acupuncture and Herbal Therapies. https://www.tampabayhypnotherapy.com/help-yourself/hypnotherapy-blog/116-free-hypnosis-and-health-weight-management-through-the-holidays

FREE: November 17th, “Hypnosis and Health; Joe Dispenza’s “You are the Placebo”. YOU CAN HEAL. https://www.tampabayhypnotherapy.com/help-yourself/hypnotherapy-blog

FREE: October 18th, “An Introduction to Hypnosis”. TouchStone Studios. For people new to hypnosis or Tampa Bay Hypnotherapy. Next presentation is January 17, 2017.http://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/233796202/

$5.00: October 26th, 7-8:30pm “The Goddess Salon”, Classical Medicine. http://www.meetup.com/TampaBayHypnotherapy-Community-Group/events/229664888/

You already know the basic recipe for weight loss: less calories and more exercise so, why are you still struggling with your weight?

The trick to lasting weight management is to “think” like a person with a healthy weight and that means changing the way you think about food, about exercise, about health and about yourself! When you change how you feel about these things, a healthy weight and body, for life, are the natural result.

Now that may sound like a lot more work than another radical diet, a uncertain pill or invasive surgery, but it does not have to be.

Hypnosis is a tool for making EXACTLY these kind of changes in our habits of thinking, feeling and behaving, quickly and automatically. And yes, it can help you to lose weight and maintain that weight for life.

This presentation offers a basic introduction to hypnosis and its use in weight management. Participants will be offered instruction and opportunities to practice basic self-hypnosis skills for weight management that can be immediately implemented. The class includes a group guided meditation, a recorded copy of which is available to participants for reinforcement.

November 12th, 7-8:30pm

Acupuncture and Herbal Therapies

Register at our Meet Up Group.

or at FaceBook.

Halloween Candy, Thanksgiving and Christmas-Oh my! The "Season of Eating" is about to begin but you do not have to feel out of control, guilty or anything other than joyful. Tamera is going to present some hypnotic, meditative and NLP approaches to help curb your appetite, despite all the temptations of the season. The evening’s trance will reinforce your goals around food at holidays gatherings. A copy of the evening’s trance will be available for free to participants only.