Many clients have come to Linda-Ann complaining of anxiety, and no matter what they've done, it has continued to escalate. She tells them there's a simple technique that can immediately stop that cycle. Although relaxation is the best remedy to reduce stress and anxiety, sometimes a person under pressure can't let go enough to relax. Therefore, the first line of defense is something as simple as taking long, slow deep breaths. This presentation is based on a section from Linda-Ann's seminar "Breaking the Cycle of Stress," and can be an introduction to it.
Participants will learn:
How a person's thoughts could trigger anxiety
The cycle of anxiety and stress
Why breathing breaks that cycle
How to deep breathe
This presentation can benefit managers, employees, and anyone affected by anxiety.
Stress is an everyday occurrence. Pressure from daily life builds up and negatively affects every aspect of a person's life, from their health to their mood. Finding a way to combat stress by unwinding, relaxing the muscles, and taking a mental vacation can reduce the pressure and help the individual have more resources to deal with the challenges of their life. This presentation will show participants a simple way to relieve stress and live a happier, healthier life.
Benefits of this presentation:
Improved mood
More productive
More efficient
Healthier
Happier
Participants will learn:
What stress is
How stress affects the mind/body
How relaxation effectively decreases stress and improves health
Alternative, wholistic techniques to decrease stress and lead a happier, healthier, and more productive life
Participants will receive handouts to learn how to practice relaxation and the other techniques.
This presentation can benefit managers, employees, and anyone affected by stress. Especially beneficial as a breakout session of a convention.
"I've tried all the stress reducing techniques, from massage to exercise. But self-hypnosis, and its accompanying relaxation, is the only thing I've found that works for me."
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Seminars
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Breaking the Cycle of Stress
Stress is one of the worst by-products of our society, negatively affecting every level of life. It is known to decrease effectiveness at work, interfere with sleep, cause anxiety, erode harmony at home, reduce the immune system's effectiveness and cause many other problems. When a person is stressed, they tend to find nonproductive ways to deal with it, such as smoking, not exercising, eating too much and other self-destructive ways. Knowing this, it's worthwhile to learn an easy, safe, and convenient way to manage stress. This seminar will teach the participants how to deal with the physical and mental causes of stress and defuse them in a constructive way.
Benefits of this seminar:
Increased Productivity
Improved Harmony
Improved Health
More Creativity
Increased Motivation
More Peace Of Mind
Increased Efficiency
More Energy
Seminar participants will learn:
What causes stress
What stress is
The effects of stress
The benefits of stress
How the way they think about stress increases its effects
How to change the way they think about stressful events
Three ways to break the cycle of stress
How relaxation short-circuits stress
What hypnosis is
How to use hypnosis to change the way they think
How to use hypnosis to reduce stress
How to practice self-hypnosis
Participants will experience a guided demonstration of relaxation and self-hypnosis
Participants will receive an audiotape of relaxation and self-hypnosis techniques to help manage stress
This seminar can benefit managers, employees, and anyone affected by stress.
"Linda-Ann presented this subject very clearly. I was skeptical about hypnosis, but it is not anything that I thought it was. It was very relaxing, and I enjoyed it. The stress in my shoulder and neck is gone."
Joleen Miller
"I found the information on ways to deal with stress very valuable. The best part of the seminar was the relaxing time."
Joann Cain
"Linda-Ann explained the stress portion and the hypnosis portion of the seminar very well. It was helpful to review the physical manifestions of stress. Reinforcing the power of visualization and relaxation to help change was very beneficial. And the actual hypnotic relaxation was one of the best parts of the seminar."
Brenda Stengel
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Discover Your Creative Process
Everyone is creative, from the business person to the artist to the everyday problem solver. Whenever a person cooks a meal a new way, finds a solution to a pressing challenge, or sculpts a masterpiece, they're using creative energy. However, most people struggle with doubts, fears and self-criticism. Those fears keep them from accessing their natural creativity. Learning how the creative process works opens up the ability to trust it and be more innovative. When a person trusts their creative process, they become more effective and productive. This seminar is taught by a published writer, and award winning photographer and weaver.
Benefits of this seminar:
Be able to solve problems faster
Be more innovative
Overcome creative blocks
Handle internal resistance
Increased self-esteem
Improved self-confidence
Participants will learn:
Understand the creative process
To trust the creative process
Become enthusiastic and play
To let the inner child out and play
To shift between the analytical mind and the imagination
To balance the analytical and imaginative minds
To stand up to the inner critic
Experience playful exercises and meditations that open the creative mind
How the right and left hemispheres affect creativity
This seminar can benefit managers, employees, and anyone who uses creativity in solving problems.
Emerson said "Self-trust is the first secret of success." To succeed in any area of life, a person needs to believe in themself. If they don't believe in themselves, then they can't trust themselves. And if they don't trust themselves, then they're doomed to create problems for themselves. And yet, many people learn to ignore their instincts, accept others' opinions over their own, and violate their values. This seminar offers techniques which will improve self-worth in the participants and thereby improve every area of their lives.
Benefits of this seminar:
Increased productivity
Improved peace of mind
Less stress
Improved relationships
More confidence
More self-reliance
Seminar participants will learn:
Why it's important to love themselves
To value themselves
How to be authentic
How to accept themselves
Live by their own standards
Participants will experience demonstrations of self-hypnosis to change their attitudes
Participants will learn how to do self-hypnosis
Participants will receive an audiotape of self-hypnosis for self-esteem and self-acceptance
This seminar can benefit managers, employees, and anyone who needs to improve their self-worth.
"Linda-Ann is great to work with! We received lots of positive feedback from the attendees. We were so grateful to have Linda-Ann share her joyful spirit and abundant creativity with us."
Rev. Julianne Lewis
Unity of the Southwest
"Very well-presented. I found it very valuable to learn the 'steps to releasing creativity' and silencing criticism."
Penny Connell
"The best part was getting in touch with my creativity. Seeing different ways to contact the inner self was very valuable."
Kimberley Smith
"Excellent. It was more than I expected."
Susan Wynn
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To contact Linda-Ann Stewart for more information or to schedule an event, email her at Linda-Ann@Cedarfire.com, call her at (928) 639-3335 ext. 2, or write to her at P.O. Box 10514, Sedona, AZ 86339.
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About Linda-Ann Stewart
As a certified hypnotherapist in private practice since 1990, Linda-Ann Stewart has taught hundreds of people how to reduce stress, improve their self-esteem, break negative habits, improve their lives and practice self-hypnosis. She's a frequent speaker at local service groups and community organizations. She's also given seminars, classes and workshops in Arizona, given workshops and presentations at a national hypnotherapy symposium, and lectured around the Texas Gulf Coast. Linda-Ann also works as a facilitator and tobacco-cessation specialist for the Yavapai County Health Department Tobacco-Free Partnership. Her website, Cedarfire.com, contains numerous self-help and motivational articles.
