During the past year, some of you have asked about reduced rates on our teleseminars, webinars, and e-courses. And more of you may be wishing for discounts but haven't asked! So during a month when we hope you are using some of your hard-earned money to have a well-deserved vacation break, we want to help you purchase some of our high quality programs when  you might have more time to listen, or when you can at least use less money to purchase them so you can take care of learning and CEU needs whenever the time is right.

 

Here are our sale products that have been reduced by 50% or more (take a quick look here now to see what I mean). Please note that the term "boxed set" does not mean they will come In a box, you will receive appropriate download links when you purchase. CEU's can also be purchased for an additional small fee for all titles as can the Highlights (edited transcripts) to help you prepare for post tests. To read more and to order, click here.

 

I. HYPNOSIS BOXED SET

In these audios, Maggie interviews Dr. Michael Yapko, Dr. Eric Greenleaf, and Dr. Bruce Eimer on the latest practices in Hypnosis and how they can help with depression, pain, anxiety, stress and recovery after surgery.

• Hypnosis and Depression with Michael Yapko
• Hypnosis and Recovery from Surgery with Eric Greenleaf
• Self-Hypnosis for Pain, Anxiety, and Stress with Dr. Bruce Eimer

 

II. PETER LEVINE BOXED SET

These three teleseminars provide specialized training in using Somatic Experiencing effectively with specific clinical and mind-body problems. Emphasis is placed on methods to access natural reservoirs of resiliency for the healing process, especially in cases of complex trauma, multiple diagnoses, and hard to treat disorders. The full audio recordings create a special learning program that is the next best thing to participating in one of our live workshops. 

• Somatic Experiencing®, Dissociation, and Depression (consists of 1 recorded teleseminar)
• Resiliency, Sexuality, and Somatic Integration (consists of 1 recorded teleseminar)
• Solving The Puzzle of Pain: Healing the Trauma-Pain Connection (consists of 1 recorded teleseminar)

For more information and to purchase, click here.

 

 

III. EGO-STATE THERAPY with Claire Frederick

Two 90 minute teleseminars and e-book written by Dr. Claire Frederick and Dr. Maggie Phillips specifically for this course featuring new methods, and the science that supports them to help you understand and work with internal conflicts that can block even the most well-conceived healing efforts.

• Empowering the Self through Ego-State Therapy: 180 minutes of audio and e-book  

 

IV. EMDR BOXED SET with Laurel Parnell

 

This collection of two 90 minute teleseminars and one e-course with Laurel Parnell explore important uses of bilateral stimulation to identify and integrate resources and healing potentials, uses of Laurel's "Tapping In" approach to successfully resolve emotional and physical pain, and EMDR-based methods to resolve childhood trauma and neglect.

 

Important topics include ways of establishing a therapeutic container, multiple uses of resource tapping in treatment, ten types of effective resources used by EMDR clients who have experienced various types of childhood trauma, and what to do when clients are either highly dissociated or flooded during trauma processing. Savings are more than 50% for this series.

• Tapping In and Tapping Through: EMDR Resource Installation with Emotional & Physical Pain (consists of 1 recorded teleseminar)
• Tapping In and Tapping Through Highlights (edited transcript)
• Attachment Focused EMDR, a telesemnar on Laurel's most recent book

 

V. CHRONIC PAIN Boxed Set

In these two programs, Maggie interviews well-known experts about their approaches to chronic pain. Neurologist Robert Scaer reviews the links between pain and trauma and proposes neurobiology based healing methods. Neil Fiore uses Ericksonian principles and ego strengthening to tackle the challenges of chronic pain problems. 

• The Neurobiology of Trauma and Chronic Pain with
  Robert Scaer  

• Using Your Strongest Self to Reverse Chronic Pain with
  Neil Fiore

 

REMEMBER: These prices are good only until September 1st. Act now so you don't miss out on these great values!

 

VISIT OUR SALE PAGE HERE

 

  

The Transparent Eyeball

Many of you are on vacation journeys this month. However long your journey may be and wherever you roam, you may have experienced that wonderful feeling of excitement and release that lets us know we're truly free...of work schedules, of daily routines, of outside obligations and other people's pressures.

 

We've all experienced those moments, perhaps too seldom, when time seems to stand still. Without noticing that anything has happened, your cares disappear, and your whole awareness is occupied with a single flower, a painting, an insight, or a fragrance. When was the last time you felt this way? Was it gazing out at the sunset? Watching your child sleep? Visiting with the cat? Cooking your favorite meal? Maybe it was on a stretch of open highway or hiking a mountain trail among tall trees or feeling blown about by ocean winds.

 

Whatever this experience was...bring it to your awareness now. Explore what the feeling are awakened. Then find someone, anyone, and tell your listener all about it. Where were you? What was happening around you? Why was this moment so compelling? Did it change something fundamental in your outlook, or simply afford you a moment's respite from day-to-day stress? Describe the richness of the experience, or the simplicity and ease, the feeling of weightlessness you felt when time... just... stopped.

 

You don't have to be on vacation to have those moments -- yet there's something about summer that evokes them, along with past memories of "time out of time." The days are long and the nights are easy, without the urgency that goes along with our busy work lives.

 

The American writer Emerson called this experience the "transparent eyeball," that state of mental calm when you feel like your individual identity has taken a vacation and you simply become part of the whole of creation, space and time.

 

Another poet, Mary Oliver, relishes this feeling of peace and connectedness in her poem "The Summer Day." To instruct her reader on the delicacy of life and savoring its most minute gifts, she explores the tiny movements of the natural world. Watching a grasshopper eat sugar, she likens this attunement to prayer and urges us on: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

 

How do you connect your passion for living with your call to provide some benefit to the world? How does that mission link with the whole of creation? What would you say is your place in the great network of life on our planet? How does it feel to be part of eternity? And finally, what becomes possible for you in this frame of mind? What unexpected insights arise when you soften your focus and expand your view in this way?

 

Whether you're working in social services or in a specialized clinic, or struggling in a difficult economy to keep your private practice viable, whether you're just getting started in your career or have been at it for thirty years, whether you've got a family to look after or more fully dedicated to your professional life... you've got to find a way to take a break. Relax, for everyone's sake.

 

Your daughter is angry with you? Relax. Together. Do something you can both enjoy, whether it's gardening or roller derby.  

 

Another big invoice is coming due? Relax. For at least five minutes. Then take a deep breath and figure it out.

 

When you notice yourself getting riled about the potentially irksome things happening around you, maybe you'll remember that glorious sunset over the ocean and the profound peace you experienced as you took it all in. Rick Hanson, author of Buddha's Brain and expert on neuroscience and contemplative practice, writes about "Loving the world" as a mental discipline. Cherishing those moments of connectedness and expansion changes the way we relate to the world we live in. Not only does it actually help to re-wire our neurology, it also shifts our perception over time. Instead of seeing a daughter's rebellion as an ugly competition we might see her striving to express a creative part of herself in a new way. Rather than raging on about a speeding ticket, we might come to notice the virtues of slowing down.

 

Whatever gifts August brings, I hope you get to savor some timeless, "transparent eyeball" moments this month, and take in the nourishment that comes from knowing that all of life is interconnected, and that you are an amazing part of that whole.

 

Have a great August,

Maggie