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Your mi nd is far more powerful than you think! Learn to unleash its resources and use them to break through whatever keeps you from living your life as you feel fit! A fulfilling life is not just given to the luckiest, nor reserved for a privileged few; health, serenity, and happiness are life goals that everyone can pursue and achieve. Dare to glimpse a new reality!

Somatic Hypnotherapy is a holistic naturopathic approach that can help you better understand the complexity of human nature, tap into the vast resources of your subconscious mind, and thus liberate yourself 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. All this by targeting the underlying causes with a simple, pleasurable, and quick process - almost as if by magic! Overcoming problems by tackling their root causes is not only natural, intuitive, and remarkably simple, but also much faster than learning to live with them. The "No results - No pay" policy, and my excellent references are a guarantee of my integrity and the seriousness of this approach.

As long as life spoils them, people tend to believe that their well-being is the exclusive 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 emotional, or somatic (physical) feelings. When trauma, pain, stress, anxiety, anger, desire, shame, thirst, hunger, or other intense or persistent feelings* get involved, they tend to influence, disrupt, and even bypass the rational mind, thereby triggering deeply ingrained excessive or inappropriate behavioral patterns. However, not all feelings are bad! When faced with complex or consequential decisions, those well-connected to that ultra-fast, instinctive form of intelligence called intuition or gut feeling, make better decisions and more accurate predictions. Whatever their nature, valence, or intensity, our feelings* and emotions influence every aspect of our lives; paying attention to them, cultivating emotional awareness, and staying connected to this reality is the only way to lead a healthy and fulfilling life.

When it comes to solving emotional issues, there is no one-size-fits-all solution, because every human being is unique! Thus, if you are one of those who are emotionally aware, and believe humans are sentient, spiritual beings with a meaningful life, because, in your case, things that really matter to you, such as: joy, happiness, pain, stress, anxiety, or misery manifest "within you" - and you feel them, then, Somatic Hypnotherapy is your approach of choice. Expect out-of-the-ordinary results! Or, if your worldview is metaphysical, you don't feel much, and you truly believe that humans are just an evolutionary accident, or bio-programmable machines - intelligent, but soulless and purposeless - and above all, that what really matters in life: love, happiness, serenity or misery, are only thoughts crossing your head, or philosophical concepts shaped at will by your rational brain, then you are just as right. In this case, unfortunately, Somatic Hypnotherapy is not your approach of choice! As strange as it may seem, whether you believe that humans are spiritual, sentient, emotionally aware beings, or soulless,  heartless rational machines , you are certainly right. 

I believe that humans are, first and foremost, sentient beings with an innate capacity to experience physical and emotional feelings*, and thus acquire a subjective awareness of the world, and their place in it. This innate ability to perceive one's own state (of mind) and the associated emotional signals (feelings) - called emotional awareness - is essential for healthy emotional response patterns, long-term memory, empathy, and social interactions. Impairment of this ability - known as altered emotional intelligence - can impair social skills and lead to self-centered attitudes, difficulties understanding the feelings of others, and even a sociopathic personality. Thus, most people terrified of tiny spiders, airplanes, elevators, are not naive; they know these things are not dangerous. Yet they may still overreact because of their irrational, visceral, fearful feelings* that make them panic when encountering them, not because of a fit of madness or because they suddenly forget spiders, elevators, and airplanes, are not dangerous. Whether rational or irrational, strong feelings* can easily disrupt the conscious mind and take over thoughts, decisions, and behavior. 

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, daily reality does not necessarily stem from people's wishes and desires. Even if you can think what you want about your feelings, and through your willpower you manage to control to some extent the behavior induced by your emotions, I doubt that your willpower alone can put an end to your pain or anxiety, just by wishing it away! Because by all scientific standards, your feelings*, long-term memory, and emotional patterns are processed and regulated by the limbic system - a part of your brain that evades control of your conscious mind. If you're doubting, try to erase the feeling (sensation) of hunger, thirst, or pain, or try to selectively erase a disturbing memory or image and see if that works.

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 live better 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 hesitate to ask questions if you have any doubts, choose an approach you understand better or that offers better guarantees, but don't fall into the trap of believing there is nothing more you can do to change your destiny! If you neglect your negative feelings, they can build up, cause collateral damage, 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 is distinguished 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. Thus, this approach can help you free yourself from uncomfortable feelings that keep you trapped in the past and prevent you from living in the present moment .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. 

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**! 

The surprising power of Somatic Hypnotherapy lies in its disarming simplicity and ability to bridge the gap between the ancestral know-how of traditional healing and the rigor of contemporary scientific principles it incorporates. In this approach, emotions are not abstract and ill-defined theoretical concepts, but, as defined by most of scientifically recognised models of human behavior, the outcome of a mental process of reading (mirroring) of "emotional feelings," which are sensory experiences that one feels and lives "whithin" - regardless whether one calls this "whithin" the body, the subconscious, the soul, or the nervous system. Clients are guided to the heart of their unresolved and deeply rooted emotional tensions, and are offered a highly personalized path to release them. The therapeutic process is deeply human, non-intrusive,  intuitive, natural, and remarkably effective. 

What makes this approach truly exceptional is its pragmatism, its unwavering commitment to what actually works, relying more on ancestral wisdom and verifiable scientific models validated by direct experience, than on speculations or pure theoretical models. Somatic Hypnotherapy follows a clear and pragmatic phenomenological approach: anything that can be described as a feeling (bodily sensation) that can be felt, located, followed, modulated or released, becomes a reliable path to healing. Because pain is still a painful feeling, whether we call it physical, emotional, or idiopathic. Add to this the surprising power of language and rituals as coherent semiotic systems, and the ability of neuro-linguistic modulation to shape not only perception and behavior but also various phenomena at the somatic and physiological level, and you will understand how this innovative approach not only covers a wide range of issues, but consistently delivers good results and often succeeds where other methods fail.

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, or through in-depth study - that emotions are not just random thoughts crossing your brain. Joy, happiness, serenity, stress, anxiety, and misery are states of mind that manifest within as emotional feelings* - that your conscious mind senses, interprets, integrates, asses, and conceptualizes as emotions!.   And even if a clever one were to find a way to remove the bad feelings or add some good ones through the power of his intelligent brain, he might never actually be able to do so, because the neural pathways involved in conveying emotional-motivational and affective components of sensory experiences to the brain are ascending sensory tracts! Starting from within you, from body and viscera where feelings manifest, passing through the peripheral nervous system, the spinothalamic path or the vagus nerves, up to the limbic system which interprets and integrates feelings, and where the conscious mind actively mirrors them.   

If you ever doubt any of the above, prove me wrong by inducing pain or any other emotional, motivational, or affective sensory experience within yourself, using nothing but your willpower. Good luck! In Somatic Hypnotherapy, you are not simply going to do things on your own, nor passively you will undergo 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**.

Even though by the end of your first session, you will most likely notice a significant boost in self-worth and an improvement in the state of mind, attitude, posture, and you will most likely feel relieved 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 assess 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.

What you already know may not be enough to guide you into the future. 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.

The "No Results - No Pay" principle guarantees my integrity and applies to all my therapies***.

As stress and anxiety are most likely the leading cause of your issues, before filling in the appointment request, please self-assess your anxiety online and make an informed choice.

Contact me and book your appointment today! Let this be the most exciting experience of your life, and I will be happy to help you on your journey.

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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. 

For any medical emergency, call the Info-Santé service by dialing 811.

*In Somatic Hypnotherapy, the terms "feelings" and "emotional feelings" are often used interchangeably and refer to sensory experiences perceived onto or within the body, assessed, interpreted, and integrated through interoception and conceptualized by the rational mind as "emotions." - which is consistent with their  traditional, biological and medical meanings , but differs considerably from the meaning of the term 'feeling' in cognitive psychology, where it often converges and merges with the term 'emotion'.

**The results may vary from person to person.

***In other words, if at the end of your session you don't see any improvement in the issues addressed in therapy, I won't accept your money!

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