In this podcast I explore one of my favorite topics to cover with clients – the power of the Vagus Nerve, what it is and what it does, and how you may be unintentionally reducing its ability to calm your heart and mind.

In today’s podcast we will learn:

1. How your Vagus nerve connects your brain with your heart, gut, and all your internal organs and serves as “the captain” of your parasympathetic nervous system-which is your body’s natural relax, rebuild, and repair response team.
2. How proper functioning of your Vagus nerve keeps chronic inflammation in check, putting the brakes on all major diseases and regulates your heart beat, maximizing heart rate variability which is a major marker for heart health.
3. A simple exercise that will both immediately trigger the Vagus Nerve to calm your body and mind, and which will actually “tone up” your Vagus Nerve over time to help keep you calmer, naturally.

Listen in as Dan, a past client of Cindy's at ChangeWorks Hypnosis Center in Apple Valley, MN, discusses his history with 9 years of crippling anxiety, and how he finally succeeded (after "trying everything") in overcoming his anxiety.

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Cindy Locher, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, discusses hypnosis for relief of anxiety. Did you know that prior to the 1960's and the invention of Prozac, that hypnosis was THE "go-to" treatment for anxiety? Find out what makes it effective and how it can help you to feel more in control of your emotions.

Cindy Locher, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, discusses hypnosis for relief of anxiety. Did you know that prior to the 1960's and the invention of Prozac, that hypnosis was THE "go-to" treatment for anxiety? Find out what makes it effective and how it can help you to feel more in control of your emotions.

Here's a hypnosis session to help you begin to accept yourself, just as you are, and to accept the world around you, for what it is. So much struggle that people feel comes from trying to change things that you don't have control of. As the saying goes, "change what you can change, and accept what you cannot change." This is not about condoning things that are hurtful and wrong to yourself and others, but learning to accept yourself and your life as fundamentally whole and good; to appreciate what is beautiful in and around you. Enjoy!

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Join Cindy as she talks with Julie, a recent client at ChangeWorks who came in with issues of workplace anxiety and "monkey mind." Julie shares with us how she came to ChangeWorks and what improvements she experienced as a result of the work she did and strategies she learned.

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Join Cindy Locher on KDWA radio for a show on tips of how hypnosis can help you to be a better public speaker and overcome the "#1 fear in America."

Show originally aired on KDWA 1460 AM radio in the Twin Cities.

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Join Cindy Locher and Dr. Michael Baza, a leading authority on age management medicine (or "anti-aging"). The two discuss age management medicine and the role of hypnosis and the mind body connection in age management.

Find Cindy at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://www.hypnosisfirst.com

Many people don't realize the full potential of their lives because they don't follow through on the commitments they make. If you could follow through on a greater percentage of your commitments, what difference would that make in your life?

Think now back to a commitment you made in the past and didn't follow through on. One that would have made a difference in your life, perhaps in the lives of others. Now imagine how your life would be different if you'd followed through and made that commitment a reality!

The following program is about how to make commitments the right way, so that you have a much greater likelihood of following through to completion, and the hypnosis session at the end anchors in that desire to follow through! Enjoy!

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Are you a perfectionist? Is it in a good place in your life, or has it become a problem? Are you experiencing any of the following:

Analysis paralysis, the procrastination or inability to take action for fear that you won't be able to do it well enough?

Low self esteem because your efforts never live up to your expectations?

Damaged relationships because others can't live up to your standards?

Perfectionism is a predictor of clinical depression, anxiety, and other issues. But the good news is guess what? It is a LEARNED behavior and it can be CHANGED!

If you're ready to start cutting yourself, and others, some slack, you'll take a lot away from this 1 hour teleseminar. A list of resources and references is available below, and are referenced in the audio.

Resources:

Never Good Enough: How to Use Perfectionism to Your Advantage Without Letting It Ruin Your Life, by Monica Ramirez Basco, PhD

Mindset, by Carol Dweck

http://www.positscience.com/blog/2011/10/04/learning-from-your-mistakes-means-you-learn-more-faster/

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Join Cindy Locher, Board Certified Hypnotherapist, for this interview with a past client of ChangeWorks Hypnosis Center.

"Jen" came in complaining of always being tired, with a diagnosis of Idiopathic (unknown cause) Hypersomnia (tired and sleepy all the time).

Listen as Jen explains how for between 5 and 6 years this affected her life and despite seeing multiple doctors and sleep studies, nothing had improved the condition until she tried hypnosis; and despite being skeptical, her problem was completely gone in 3 sessions.

Techniques used included direct suggestion, metaphor and affect bridge regression.

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

This is a hypnotic teleseminar originally produced on 12/18/12 for the ChangeWorks Hypnosis Center Hypnosis Club (http://www.mn-hypnosis.com and http://www.hypnosisminneapolis.com)

Join in a discussion of the amazing, unexpected benefits of creating a habit of gratitude. Recent research has born out what good advice-givers have told us for centuries: feelings of gratitude not only benefit the recipient of the thanks, but the giver as well.

Learn simple processes for creating a habit of gratitude in your life, and of course anchor it all in a 30 minute hypnosis session. Led by Cindy Locher, BCH

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Are you ready to go from "making resolutions" to getting RESULTS?

Here are some facts about Americans and New Year's Resolutions. In our seminar on the 24th, we'll address these common issues and give YOU the tools to make this year different!

➢ Some discouraging information: Most people fail in adhering to their stated New Year's resolutions. Specifically, 22% fail after one week, 40% after one month, 50% after three months, 60% after six months, and 81% after twenty-four months (Norcross & Vangarelli, 1988, as cited by Koestner 2008, p. 60).

➢ Three reasons for failing to achieve one's stated goals (Baumeister and Heatherton 1996, as cited by Koestner, 2008, p. 61):

(1) Unclear and vague goals.

(2) Failure to gauge one's progress toward the stated goals.

(3) Weak self-control and self-regulation when facing challenges that impede one's ability to achieve the stated goals.

Learn with Cindy why

*Making resolutions may not be the best way to make changes;

*If you're going to make resolutions, or goals of any kind, how to make them stick.

*What do you REALLY need to have to make changes easily.

And of course it's all anchored by a 30 minute hypnosis session!

Remember to Improve Your Memory!

Or don't forget to improve your memory, with hypnosis of course!

In this hour long tele seminar, Cindy covers the following:

**An overview of how memory works in the brain (and why you would want to keep your memory sharp throughout your life!);

**An explanation of how hypnosis helps to improve memory;

**Cindy's FAVORITE NLP technique for better recall;

**A bunch of great tips for memory improvement;

**And of course a full hypnosis session on memory improvement!

Did you know: 1 in 3 Americans has some form of dementia when they die? And more people, when surveyed, are afraid of losing their cognitive skills as they age than are afraid of death itself!

Keeping your memory and cognitive skills sharp and fully functioning as you grow older is not only possible, it's easy and it's fun. As with ALL change, this too begins with awareness. So start the process by tuning into this excellent teleseminar with Cindy Locher!

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Science now knows that our brain can re-wire itself, sometimes quite extensively, throughout our lives. This gets great press involved in such wonders as people who have brain injuries who relearn skills such as language, writing, and walking. But did you know that it's the same process involved in learning or unlearning any behavior? If you create a new habit in your life, you form new neural pathways. If you extinguish a habit, your brain rewires the old pathways, and creates new ones to support the new behavior.

Join Cindy in a hypnotic exploration of three distinct ways to engage process to accelerate the changes in behavior that you desire. Come to this session with an idea in mind of a new behavior that you want to create in your life. (Not a habit you want to get rid of, but a new behavior that you want to do, or do more of.)

Note: the second half of this program is hypnotic in nature and should not be listened to while driving or operating machinery, or while performing any task which requires your full consciousness.

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Program your mind? You know, it's already been programmed--by influences around you since birth. Your parents, teachers and others who've been figures of authority or influential. Your experiences have shaped you. Sometimes you like the outcome, sometimes not so much.

Dr. Alfred A. Barrios has created a system for changing the programming of your mind, and it's very easy and amazingly effective. It's called SPC. Self Programmed Control. It's been used in universities, government agencies, and industry. It's helped people overcome addictions and even cancer.

Never heard of it? This may be the best kept secret of the self improvement world and Cindy's going to let you in on it in this episode!

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Join Cindy Locher as she interviews rising hypnosis star Scott Schmaren. Scott, who appeared on Oprah when he lost 160 pounds and was recently on the Howard Stern show, shares his secrets for setting and accomplishing incredible goals, his "Visionary Mind" process. Scott shares with us the story and secrets to success of his weight loss and other personal and career success stories.

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

Hypnosis for weight loss? Really? Absolutely, yes! Learn how and why hypnosis really does work, when it's done right, to help people lose pounds and keep them off. Join Cindy Locher in this episode of The Hypnotic Radio Hour. 

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

(Part 2 of 2 Part Show) From the archives of the Hypnosis Today show, this is a classic from October 2009. Cindy Locher interviews Paul Scheele, inventor of the Paraliminal, best selling author of Reclaim Your Genius and expert on the human mind and the Law of Attraction. Enjoy this "Best of" show and learn from one of the brightest minds on the planet, be inspired and create your best day!

Find Cindy hanging out at:

https://www.MinnesotaHypnosis.com

http://fearofpublicspeakingminnesota.com

https://HypnosisFirst.com

(Part 1 of 2) Join Cindy Locher on memory lane as she pulls one of her best shows out of the archives. This one from October 2009, with guest Paul Scheele. Paul is the inventor of the Paraliminal technology, best selling author of multiple titles, including Reclaim Your Genius, one of the smartest people on the planet and a great guy! Join Cindy and Paul as they discuss the human mind, the Law of Attraction, and more. Enjoy!