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Joyannah Lonnes, DCH, Richmond, VA (2026)

05/08/2013

Learn EFT: it’s very easy. It helps you:

• Remove Negative Emotions
• Reduce Cravings
• Reduce or Eliminate Pain
• Implement Positive Goals

EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional dis-ease for over five thousand years. The good news is: no needles needed. Instead, you will learn how to tap these energy meridians with your fingertips which will input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest. You and I will do this process together while you focus your attention on your specific problem - whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. -- and at the same time you will learn how to let the pain drain away. Yes, I know, it sounds really hokey. Yet, when you experience the process, done correctly, chance are very good that you will immediately feel a shift in your internal landscape and you will KNOW something good has happened.

EFT is a form of psychological acupressure, based on the same energy meridians used in traditional acupuncture to treat physical and emotional ailments for over five thousand years, but without the invasive needles. Instead, simple tapping with the fingertips is used to input kinetic energy onto specific meridians on the head and chest while you focus on your specific problem - whether it is a traumatic event, an addiction, pain, etc. -- and replace the painful response with an empowering response

Proper EFT Tapping
The basic EFT sequence is straightforward and generally takes my patients only a few minutes to learn. They have the advantage of me personally showing them the tapping points, but you should be able to pick up these points relatively quickly. With a little practice, you will be performing each round in under a minute.

It's All in the Fingertips
The first thing to understand is that you will be tapping with your fingers. There are a number of acupuncture meridians on your fingertips, and when you tap with your fingertips you are also likely using not only the meridians you are tapping on, but also the ones on your fingers.

Traditional EFT has you tapping with the fingertips of your index finger and middle finger and with only one hand. Either hand works just as well. Most of the tapping points exist on either side of the body, so it doesn't matter which side you use, nor does it matter if you switch sides during the tapping. For example, you can tap under your right eye and, later in the tapping, under your left arm.

You can find tons of info on EFT on the internet. I encourage you to research as much as you want to. I would like to clue you in however about learning EFT: it works best if an experienced practitioner like myself helps you to gain some mastery of the process in your early days. The part about focusing on the problem while you tap can actually enhance the unwanted symptoms unless you know how to configure your language, the words you say while you are tapping, to diminish the problem state and simultaneously expand the new empowered state that you are installing. These are little, shall we say, tricks of the trade that you will learn in our sessions together. Of course, once you know them, then they are yours forever. (No extra charge!)

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Phobias

Hypnotherapy acts as a gentle, but powerful, tool to overcome any phobia. I have had clients with a life long fear of flying overcome their phobia in a single session.

No matter what phobia you may have, and there are more than a thousand of them, they can become increasingly restrictive on your life. You may have tried facing up to them in the past, but unless you were successful you probably now have a strategy for avoidance of the triggering circumstance. You will do anything to avoid being confronted by the thing, event or situation that brings on that awful feeling the phobia is associated with.

Phobias are many and varied. Types of Phobias vary, from common Phobias such as a fear of the dentist or fear of heights or fear of flying, to the much more unusual, but just as debilitating Phobias, such as a fear of looking up, or a fear of paper. Ridiculous or amusing as some of these Phobias sound, they are a massive problem for the sufferers who must alter their entire way of life to avoid situations that may trigger a Phobic reaction.

Phobias are the result of a one time over stimulating learning experience. It is estimated that 7% of the population suffers from Social Phobia to a greater or lesser extent (Social Phobia is the fear of social situations that involve interaction with other people – a fear of being judged or evaluated by other people). So a person who usually becomes anxious in social situations but is fine when alone could be suffering from Social Phobia. Social Phobia is now considered to be the third largest mental health problem in the world today.

However the good news for sufferers of any type of Phobia is that help is available! I can help you become free of a lifelong debilitating phobic response often in just one session.

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Panic Attacks

Panic attacks are sudden feelings of terror that strike without warning. They are generally brief, lasting less than ten minutes, although some of the symptoms may persist for a longer time. Panic attacks are the result of high levels of anxiety where the adrenalin and physical affects of the anxiety are not ‘used up’ by appropriate reactions such as fighting or running like hell!

Panic Attacks are sometimes caused by remembering a trauma, whether it be an accident or health scare. Panic attacks are common, affecting as many as 10% of the population in a single year. They are frightening but fortunately physically harmless episodes. Panic attacks can occur at any time of the day or night and are so disturbing that many people have been rushed to emergency medical centers, since panic attacks are often mistaken for heart attacks or seizures. However, panic attacks are not known to affect the heart or precipitate a heart attack.

When having a panic attack it is important for you to try to find some way to relax yourself. Some people find that taking slow deep breaths helps them relax. Other people find calming music to be the trick that cuts their panic attack time to the minimal amount of time possible. Some people like to smell a perfume or oil that they have previously associated with a calm relaxing situation. Only you will know which relaxation technique works best for you.

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Depression:

If you’re wondering when depression is going let go of you and give you back your life, you’re asking the wrong question. You need to ask yourself how are you going to take control of the situation and overcome your depression.

Hypnotherapy isn’t a miracle cure for depression. Nobody can force change from ‘outside’. My aim is to help you create change from the inside. Your hypnotherapy session for overcoming depression targets the creative unconscious part of your mind – your creative mind is the part of you that can design your life the way YOU want it to be. It is what you can use to reprogram your emotions and behavior to be the way you want them to be

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Stress Management

The prolonged negative effects of stress can lead to many emotional and physical dis-eases. Most stress management programs include the use of various mind body techniques including hypnosis. Some benefits include feeling more relaxed, having a better attitude, eating a healthier diet, exercising regularly, and sleeping more soundly.

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Fears & Phobias

Fear is our bodies healthy response to a dangerous situation, while a phobia is an intense and irrational fear. Hypnosis is often used to overcome common irrational fears and phobias.

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What is Hypnosis used for?
Hypnosis is a very effective tool to facilitate building of confidence, self esteem, overcoming shyness, attracting romance, improving study habits, sports performance, and for eliminating fears, phobias, anxiety or panic states, depression, PTSD and for basic stress management. It can also help overcome addictions along with a structured support system like AA. The more popularly known uses of hypnosis are for weight loss, stopping smoking. Hypnosis is often used for overcoming sadness and grief because of loss of a relationship--break-up, divorce, death. We become habituated to relationships and life circumstances much the same way as we can become dependent upon drugs smoking; any repetitive patterns. It is the emotional pain of these stressful changes that can be alleviated by the use of suggestive hypnotic techniques.

05/08/2013

Hello Friend. Do you ever experience difficulties that come from thoughts that seem to bounce randomly through your mind? Do you ever feel nervous, worried or anxious for no reason? Do you sometimes have trouble focusing and concentrating? Would you like to feel more calm and peaceful more of the time?

Thoughts are encoded in your brains in terms of the sensory input from our 5 sensory channels: sight, sounds (mostly the human voice), smell, taste and touch. An event occurs and we perceive it, then we automatically react to it emotionally with responses of varying degree of intensity, depending on what we judge our level of safety to be. These stored thoughts which we now call memories have informational pieces (images, words, sounds and the meaning we attach to them) and those informational pieces have certain emotional states associated with them.

We replay these personal memory movies, sometimes on continuous loops in our head, sometimes even when we don’t want to. Sometimes we get so enamored of the movie that we forget how to turn it off. Now if most of our movies are happy movies, we will go through life whistling a joyful tune and have a sunny greeting for all we meet. But, if some or a lot of our movies are scary movie or tragic, chances are we won’t be going through life with a smile on our face.

After we have played a movie at the conscious level of awareness for awhile, the movie will tend to sink down to the unconscious level of awareness, but that doesn't mean that it’s really forgotten. It will continue to send out it’s emotional message to the body-mind all the time. If the movie is a very sad movie, it will precipitate some level of depression. If it is a scary movie, it will precipitate some level of anxiety all the time. If it’s an overwhelmingly frightening horror movie, it can pop up to the conscious level without warning even at totally inappropriate times. It can precipitate anxiety, phobias, panic attacks, insomnia and a host of other fear related conditions. The underlying emotion is fear and that can also show up wearing an angry face as well. Even panic states that seem to be coming out of nowhere, have some unconscious thought trigger.

Emotions drive all behavioral responses in life. We can’t get rid of our emotions. We wouldn't want to. They are part of what makes us human. They also protect us from real and present dangers and they give us experiences of spectacular elation and profound human connection called “love”.

The good news is that, if you want to, and when you are ready, I can help you disconnect the offending memories from the underlying unwanted emotions. You won’t forget the event, you will just develop a relaxed, “OK so that's just what happened”, attitude toward the memory. You don’t even have to “believe” in hypnosis, for my processes to work for you.

When we work together to help you make all the internal changes you want to make, I will also be teaching you a process called EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). The beauty of EFT is that, once you learn it and develop a certain level of mastery with it, you can use it to help yourself cope with any immediate life situation that threatens to throw you off kilter emotionally, anywhere and anytime.

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