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It's never too late to become who you were meant to be! You only have one life, so live it as you feel fit. Live it well, flourish, and enjoy it to the fullest!

Your mind is much more powerful than you think! Learn to unleash its resources and use them to get rid of anything that is preventing you from living a happy, fulfilled, and serene life or to regain control when things are not going well. The mind is an intangible set of faculties comprising various cognitive and non-cognitive aspects, called the conscious mind and, respectively, the subconscious mind.

The consciousness is the accessible part of the mind that governs thoughts, intelligence, short-term memory, judgment, and coordinates thoughtful actions. Meanwhile, the sub-consciousness stores life experiences, long term memories and makes most of our daily decisions on autopilot, guided primarily by habits, intuition, instinct, and emotional patterns. Though they function differently, both the conscious and subconscious mind are at your service, helping you survive, navigate life's challenges and flourish.

Although everyone wants a happy life, happiness, serenity and fulfillment are not acquired, nor granted randomly to a few lucky people: they are goals that everyone can pursue and achieve. Somatic Hypnotherapy can enhance your understanding of human nature, tap into the vast resources of your subconscious and unconscious mind, and thus liberate you from anything that prevents you from achieving your dreams. This approach can help you overcome trauma, stress, anxiety, phobias, anger, grief, guilt, shame, insomnia, pain, tics, spasms, and much more. My satisfaction guarantee policy, and excellent references are proof of the seriousness of this approach and my integrity.

As long as life spoils them, people tend to believe that their well-being is the exclusiv result of their desires and rational, considered choices. Only when things go wrong or get out of control, and people try to regain control but consistently fail, do they realize that their rational control helps them do whatever they want only if and as long as they are not overwhelmed by strong feelings. When stress, anxiety, trauma, craving, thirst, hunger, pain, or other intense or persistent feelings get involved, they tend to influence, disrupt, and even bypass the rational mind and thus trigger ingrained patterns of behavior that may cause one to react inappropriately. It is by following their feelings that people most often end up overreacting or reacting inappropriately, without really meaning to.

Most people who are terrified of tiny spiders, airplanes, elevators, etc, are not naive; they know these things are not dangerous. Yet they may still overreact because they experience an irrational, visceral fearful feeling that makes them panic when encountering them, not because of a fit of madness or because they suddenly forget spiders, elevators, airplanes, and so on are not dangerous. Because, whether rational or irrational, strong feelings can easily override the consci ous mind and take over thoughts, decisions, and behavior. Let's suppose you overreact to something specific, such as an excessive fear of flying. In this case, my goal would not be to convince you that airplanes are not dangerous but to help you reset the feelings (somatic component) of your irrational fear of flying so that you will no longer feel afraid to take a plane and never overreact to flying again.

Your patterns of emotional responses are not only the most significant ingredient of your identity and a major aspect of your quality of life, but they are also the most undeniable proof that you are not a soulless, heartless, and purposeless biochemical machine but a sentient human in search of meaning, purpose, and happiness! Of course, everyone wants to be happy. Yet, since there are so many unhappy and sick people, everyday reality doesn't emerge necessarily from people's wishes and desires. Even if, by your willpower, you manage to control to some extent the behavior induced by your emotions, I doubt your willpower alone can end your pain or anxiety, just by wishing it! Because by all scientific standards, emotions, long-term memory, and stress response are processed and regulated by the limbic system - a part of your brain that evades control of your conscious mind. If you're in doubt, try selectively erasing a particularly disturbing memory or image and see if that works.

Of course, when you mentally review your emotionally significant life experiences, your thoughts can change your "state of mind" by triggering emotional feelings related to those memories. However, contrary to popular belief, none of the 82 known behavioral theories claim that intentional thought alone could create or induce emotional feelings. Even though emotions are mental experiences, it does not mean intentional thoughts can create emotional feelings out of sheer willpower; neither happiness nor misery are created by your intentional thoughts. While thoughts are pure mental experiences and feelings are sensory experiences, emotions are defined as the result of a process of cognitive reading (mirroring) of emotional feelings. It is important to understand that by any linguistic or scientific standard, feelings, thoughts, and emotions are concepts with substantially different meanings.

While the cerebral cortex is in charge of your intentional thoughts, when it comes to feelings and emotions, all roads lead to the limbic system (LS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS), which regulates unintentional processes. Whether it is about inducing (generating) emotions, about their expression (smiling, laughing, crying, screaming, etc.), their experience (the way we feel them: blushing, heartbeat, nausea, breathing difficulties, tightness, stiffness, pain, etc.), or even the recognition of emotions (happiness, surprise, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, etc.), the role of LS and PNS is essential. Even though these complex processes linked to emotions are non-intentional and the brain's ability to control them by your sheer will is therefore very limited, understanding their coherent nature is the right key to achieving control over the disruptive emotions you would like to overcome.

Your emotional feelings are deep-rooted and can get stuck where they manifest within you, whether you call that depth of yourself your subconsciousness, your soul, your spirit, your peripheral nervous system, or simply your body. When you feel trapped by stress, anxiety, traumas, or other disturbing feelings, you have the choice to see them as an inevitable part of life and to believe that the best you can do is to learn to deal with them, or to see them as a harmful presence that you wish to uproot and leave behind. I believe that you not only can but must let go the disturbing feelings that keep you trapped in your past. Living with stress, anxiety, or other unpleasant feelings is like walking with pebbles in your shoes! You will no longer be able to focus on your priorities. Your uncomfortable feelings will distract you, interfere with your thoughts, and drain all of your energy. Learn to listen to your body's whispers before they turn into painful screams!

Don't fall into the false belief that there is nothing you can do to change your fate! If you neglect your negative feelings, they can build up and wreak havoc on all aspects of your emotional, mental, and physical health. Surprisingly, what can impact all aspects of your daily life is not the objective assessment of past events but the associated emotional memory you perceive as lingering emotional feelings that are aroused when recalling the subjective perception of those events. Although you cannot change the factual past, you can still control the emotional memory of your past experiences by reprogramming the subconscious patterns of your unpleasant emotional reactions. Whether you are at the beginning of your distress or already living with unpleasant negative feelings on a daily basis, Somatic Hypnotherapy can be helpful.

Hypnotherapy has evolved considerably throughout its existence, especially since Dr. James Braid described it in terms of an empirical medical approach in 1843. The different types of hypnotherapy available today differ greatly in their philosophy, approach and results. Somatic Hypnotherapy is a very particular type of therapy under hypnosis which distinguishes by its pragmatic approach and, above all, by its spectacular results. While conventional types of hypnotherapy focus on adding successive layers of positive feelings on top of your lingering negative feelings, Somatic Hypnotherapy helps you identify, assess, and ease or heal unpleasant emotional or somatic feelings, as you see fit. Since behavior is determined by how you feel rather than what you think about your feelings, the easiest way to change behavior is to change how you feel. 

Unlike conventional hypnotherapy approaches that aim to help you "learn" new patterns of positive emotional responses, this approach helps you "unlearn" your negative patterns. Thus, through its personalized approach, Somatic Hypnotherapy can help you free yourself from uncomfortable feelings that keep you trapped in the past and prevent you from living in the present moment. Through the awakening of somatic awareness and hypnotic release, Somatic Hypnotherapy can help overcome trauma, stress, anxiety, phobias, grief, anger, guilt, shame, pain, tics, spasms, undesirable behaviors, bad habits, insomnia, and much more. With time and experience, the principle of "No Satisfaction - No Pay" has become the guarantor of the seriousness and ethics of my work, and it applies to all of my therapies. I love my work and my excellent references are proof of that.

When looking for out-of-ordinary results, you better consider out-of-the-ordinary approaches! Most conventional approaches aim to teach you how to develop a good lifestyle and avoid thoughts, images, and situations that would trigger your lingering unwanted feelings. However, I hope you have better things to do than to constantly learn how to deal with your disturbing emotional feelings. Dare to think outside the box! You are entitled to live the life that suits you! You should be able to browse through the images of your unpleasant memories and think about anything you want, without the fear of triggering your once unpleasant feelings. What if, as if by magic, you could achieve the level of serenity where you could think about anything you wanted, and your thoughts would no longer trigger any of your formerly unpleasant or painful feelings? Incredible as it may sound, this is what Somatic Hypnotherapy can help you achieve! 

While the conscious mind's process of consciously learning a new desired reflex, habit, or emotional response pattern may require time and sustained effort, the subconscious mind's learning process is almost instantaneous. It only takes a split second for the subconscious mind to learn an unhealthy emotional response to a situation that is perceived as life threatening, dangerous, or emotionally stressful. The good news is that with this approach, the subconscious mind can unlearn unhealthy emotional response patterns as quickly as it has learned them. This is how, at the end of your therapy, by mentally exploring your worst memories, you will have the impression that your heart has relieved, or even completely forgotten, the stressful, anxious, traumatic or painful feelings (sensory component) of the unpleasant events of the past or future projections on which we have worked - while your cognitive memory keeps intact the associated images and factual details.

For these transformative changes to unfold like magic, you need to grasp—whether intuitively, through education, or scholarly insight—that joy, happiness, serenity, stress, anxiety, and misery are states of mind that manifest within as emotional feelings (sometimes termed morphic fields) that your conscious mind will evaluate and conceptualize as emotions!. If you truly believe that emotions are just random thoughts crossing your brain and that we should update the way we talk, and so, istead of saying “I feel” or “I am” happy, stressed, anxious, miserable, etc., we should say “I think” happy, stressed, anxious, miserable, etc., then you are probably right, this is your reality. In this case, unfortunately, this is not your approach of choice.

With Somatic Hypnosis, you are not undergoing a passive script therapy. The beauty of this approach is that I'm helping you rearrange your perception of your reality as you see fit. Your subconscious mind will obediently respond to your wishes and follow your instructions. I will be there for you, guiding and assisting you throughout your change process. You will become the master of your own change. While under Somatic Hypnosis, the moment your subconscious mind agrees to break with the unpleasant feelings of the past, your new emotional reality will kick in and you will clearly feel that there is no longer any unpleasant feeling associated with the events we have worked on*.

Although at the end of your therapy, you will most likely be free of your feelings of anxiety, stress, trauma, pain, or other unpleasant feelings related to the past events we have been working on, you are only at the beginning of your healing process. Even though Somatic Hypnotherapy helps you reset your past issues, this approach is not a magic spell that will protect you from future problems. This approach is not meant to make you believe that you have become a "Superman" and to push you to live like a carefree sleepwalker for the rest of your life.

My job is to help you identify and remove the padlocks that keep you locked by your self-limiting metaphysical beliefs. I can help you reset your past issues that keep you trapped in your past and prevent you from moving forward. Whatever the nature of your emotional wounds, I can help you trigger such a profound healing, that by the end of your therapy, you'll feel as if they never happened. However, learning from your experiences and living your life is your job. Somatic Hypnotherapy can help you even if nothing else has worked for you. Yet the only "magic" ingredients for a spectacular change are the skills of your hypnotherapist and your willingness to change.

This innovative approach to wellness is so efficient that you can solve several interrelated issues in one session and asses your results on the spot throughout your session. My promise is that you will see significant improvement in your issue right after your first therapy session, provided the problem you wish to work on is within my expertise and you are not in psychosis, in severe cognitive decline, or alexithymic (emotionally numb). If you don't see any improvement at the end of your first session, I will not accept your money.

Discover how to use your subconscious mind to beautify your life by turning your stress, anxiety, trauma, and pain into serene, distant memories. Learn to listen to your heart, to trust your intuition and the wisdom of your spirit. Your heart and your spirit are much smarter than you think!

You are here for a reason, and whatever that reason is, don't allow it to cripple your life: it's a safe bet that Somatic Hypnotherapy can help you.

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Disclaimer: The content of this page reflects the opinion of its author, is provided for educational and general informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical, psychological, or professional advice. I do not make any diagnoses according to recognized classifications (DSM-5, ICD-10) and I do not interfere in any way with ongoing treatments.

If you are already under medical care or treatment, follow their advice and treatment. I am not a doctor or licensed psychologist in Quebec; therefore, I cannot establish or continue a treatment based on your diagnosis. If you decide to consult me, be prepared to tell me what is bothering you and how you feel about it. 

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