{"id":355,"date":"2016-06-29T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2016-06-29T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:21:02","slug":"unexpected-gift-from-a-hypnotist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"UNEXPECTED GIFT FROM A HYPNOTIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sleep.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-357\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sleep-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"sleep\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sleep-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sleep-768x356.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/sleep.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was at a meeting of my chapter of the National Speakers Association, watching a presentation by a new member who is board certified hypnotist. My mind wandered for a minute, remembering how my friends and I used to pretend to hypnotize each other when we were kids. It never worked! But somehow, we knew, even then, that the mind is powerful and full of untapped resources.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to the speaker&#8217;s statistics, I&#8217;m impressed by the examples she shares, but then she comes to a slide that really hits me. It&#8217;s a photo of a shirt-less man, taken from the back, showing off his muscles. Her point was&#8211;do you muscle your way from one project to another, or do you tap into your subconscious and make decisions from a deeper, more intuitive place? I knew instantly that I was and am the muscle type. In fact I have a name for it&#8211;I call it my bulldozer. I get an idea and I charge ahead, no matter what the obstacles are, or how exhausted I become. In other words, I ignore myself.<\/p>\n<p>As a speaker who works extensively to help groups stop burnout, I didn&#8217;t miss the irony of this revelation. Since I believe that small steps can lead to big changes, today, my therapy dog and I are having lunch with friends on a dock with incredible water views, and then we&#8217;re going to the rehab facility where we volunteer every Wednesday. We&#8217;re now into our fourth year there and love seeing the comfort and joy that our dogs bring to the residents.<\/p>\n<p>My bulldozer is waiting for me, it likes the crash and burn excitement of charging ahead, but today, I&#8217;m not getting on it. I&#8217;m having an anti-burnout, slower day, and am thankful for this unexpected gift from a hypnotist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a meeting of my chapter of the National Speakers Association, watching a presentation by a new member who is board certified hypnotist. 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