Healing & Wellness
If you have struggled with a health challenge, chronic condition, illness, or maybe just lacking the energy and vitality you want - there is a lot you can do naturally to engage your mind and body for health and healing!
It's Amazing what your Mind and Body can do with focus and direction! With the right tools and support- you can discover how to:
- Find Greater Energy
- Engage your Body's Ability to Heal Itself
- Speed Recovery
- Reduce Symptoms
- Reduce & Control Pain
- Change Your Health Habits
- Reduce Your Stress
- Create New Patterns for Health
- Enhance your Well-being
- Improve your Ability to Enjoy Life Again!
There are many aspects to the Wheel of Wellness, including Nutrition, Fitness & Exercise, Stress Levels, Sleep, Social Support, and Positive Attitude. With the Health Coaching assessment, together, we look at all these levels, identify areas of focus and create an action plan for what you can do to balance your approach. Increase your health and wellness through changing your habits, increasing your positive attitude, reducing stress, and engaging your deeper mind to increase your body's ability to heal itself!
Through combining Hypnosis, the tools of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and Health Coaching - we can actually engage your mind to focus your own healing energies, rebalance your body, find your healthy lifestyle to support you, and move to your next level of health and greater well-being.
“I originally began working with Holly to increase my health. I had a (heart attack) the year before and from the ECG (Electro Cardio Gram), it showed tissue damage on the front and back of my heart. I had less energy and wasn’t able to be as active as I was before. Holly and I worked on a program, focusing my mind on healing as well as changing my eating habits. As we made changes, and I worked with self-hypnosis audios (that we recorded in sessions), I found I had more energy, and was able to be more active. My doctor has also decreased my medications. Now, 6 months later, I got the report from my Cardiologist and he said, “the tissue damage is gone, your heart is now considered normal.” They were amazed at my heart’s recovery. I have so much more energy, and this is the best I’ve felt in years.” – Paul Tucker, retired, age 70, Vancouver, WA |
Our thoughts and feelings have a direct impact on how our bodies function. The Bio-Psycho-Social Model of health is gaining notice as the best model of how our health responds to what we think, how we feel, and even our social interactions. A great example is the stress response. Stress can actually decrease the immune system's ability to function. On the other hand, positive social support, and positive attitude can actual increase it.
Take charge of your health and speed recovery! Easily change your habits to ones that support you, such as eating healthy foods and staying with your fitness program. Making dietary changes can be hard, but can have huge impact on how well you recover. Plus, with advanced forms of Hypnosis and NLP, you can increase positive focus, reduce stress, and engage your deeper mind to increase your body's ability to heal and recover.
The best approaches are integrated with your mind and body system. Your mind and body are connected. With advanced forms of Hypnosis and NLP, we can engage the deeper aspects of your mind and awareness to remove the internal blocks to healing. Once these are addressed, your body can better heal itself. NLP and Hypnosis have had amazing results in addressing anxiety, stress management, depression, pain reduction, controlling allergies, preparing for surgery, recovering from injury or trauma, recovering from stoke, and more!
You can maximize your body's ability to heal itself. Doctors can't explain spontaneous recovery, and there are many people who have recovered despite the best professional opinions to the contrary.
We have only just begun to uncover what the human mind and body are capable of. Perhaps it's time to take charge of your own wellness by using internal strategies to increase your health potential! Perhaps it's time to explore what your mind and body can do for you.
- Anxiety can be thought of as a recurring thought pattern. The thoughts we think send direct messages to our nervous system, and we experience a physiological response. By helping the mind create new thought patterns, anxiety can be unlearned, and the mind and body can learn new habits and responses. See also Anxiety, Stress.
- Stress has physiological effects. When we experience stress, the body engages the Sympathetic Nervous System "fight or flight" response. We have an increase in blood pressure, blood moves away from the organs and to the skeletal muscles. When the body is in fight or flight, it prepares to run away or fight off a threat, and its energies are directed away from the immune system. Stress is a major contributor to all our chronic illnesses. By learning new mental strategies, you can increase your ability to handle stress, feel greater sense of calm, and increase your well-being, which is also good for your immune system! See also Anxiety, Stress.
- Chronic Pain is an indicator that something is wrong in your body. It's meant to be an alert signal so that you will give the area of your body the attention it needs. Sometimes the signal can become confused,as if the signal is set on high alert all the time. Through internal awareness techniques, we can "negotiate" with the pain signal, lowering your body's pain response so that you can increase your focus with healing. (We never dissassociate the pain response completely).
- Allergies are increasing and can be a contributor to your overall well-being. Allergies are a mistake of the immune system. We can take an accounting of allergies, and then through advanced processes of NLP and Hypnosis, re-educate your immune system to be better at identifying the self from what is foreign.
- AutoImmune Challenges are also a mistake of the immune system. The path to healing and recovery can be helped through proper nutrition, rest, and positive mental attitude. With autoimmune challenges, typically, there is an underlying internal conflict which may or may not be consciously known. I work with clients to help them identify the root mental and emotional causes behind illness, and clear them! What might be possible for your recovery?
Meditation and Self-Hypnosis You can take charge of your health by working with the deeper aspects of your mind and body system. The body takes its orders from different systems of the mind. By focusing your awareness, we can guide you through meditations and self- hypnosis to help your mind direct your body's healing energies to the areas of the body that are in need.
Take Charge of your health! Call Now for your Starter Session and we can begin creating a Roadmap to your Health and Well-being!
Call Now to Schedule your consultation: 503-351-8021
Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR office hours and locations:
Escape Body Therapy:
120 NE 117th Ave. Vancouver, WA 98671
- Holly Stokes, Cert. Hypnotherapist, Cert. NLP Health, Coach/Trainer
- Office Hours: Tues./Wed. by appointment
Portland, OR
Integrative Chiropractic & Wellness Spa:
9955 SE Washington St, Suite 320 Portland, OR 97216
- Holly Stokes, Cert. Hypnotherapist, Cert. NLP Health, Coach/Trainer
- Office Hours: Thursdays by appointment, call 503-253-8818
Healthcare Professionals in Integrative Chiropractic Wellness Spa: Discover what your Health Potential! 503-253-8818
- Dr. Cyndi Myers, Chiropractic
- Dr. Julie Glass, Naturopathic
- Erin Brockmeyer, Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine
- Dori White, Licensed Massage Therapist
Expanding Potentials does not claim to diagnose, treat or cure illness or disease. Working with Expanding Potentials Coaches is not meant to replace or substitute for medical attention. Please continue to consult your regular medical professional.
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