How We Hypnotize Ourselves

How We Hypnotize Ourselves

by Rainya Dann, Director of the Institute for Transpersonal Studies

(A Hypnotherapy School in Santa Cruz, CA)

You are invited to learn more at a FREE meetup event or contact Rainya Dann.

 How we Hypnotize Ourselves:

Milton Erickson, the father of modern hypnosis, once said something like "If the conscious mind could have figured it out it would have. Since it has not, we need to go to the subconscious." Awakening from our subconscious programming allows us to open more fully to the magnificence of each moment. As Ram Dass said, "We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds (the subconscious) wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!"

According to Buddhist psychology there are two basic states of consciousness - awareness (awake) or unawareness (asleep). As you are looking at these words you may be aware of sounds around you, you may be aware of your breathing and you might notice yourself noticing thoughts. This is being aware, being here and now. When we are unaware of this present moment we are in unawareness. Or, another way to express it, we are in a state of hypnosis, we are dreaming. A helpful exercise you can do throughout your day is ask yourself, "what is here and now?" (Look around, see what you see, listen to the sounds and feel the textures, your breathing, your body.) The second question is ,"what am I dreaming about?" (Notice thoughts, feelings, beliefs) Then ask again, "what is here and now?" Without judging either as good or bad, right or wrong, just noticing gives choice.

Ever driving along, feeling great, in the here and now, you look in the rear view mirror and see a red flashing light inviting you to pull over!? Or, you hear an old love song and it triggers a flood of memories? What happened was your subconscious memories got triggered. What to do? First step is to recognize that you just slipped into a memory. Second step is to ask yourself, "what memory got triggered? " Third step is to choose to be here/now. Adya Shanti says, "It's hard to suffer without your story." If you have a difficult time stepping out of the past you might need to go deeper into the memory/feelings. With guided hypnotherapy you can go into the memory safely to heal it and explore the hidden treasures there.

Understanding these two modalities starts to give you more choices about how you can experience your life. As you learn about what thoughts and feelings come from your own subconscious programming, you can begin to make positive adjustments for a happier life. Exploring hypnosis and learning self hypnosis techniques can allow you to relax with what is here for you now in each precious moment.

Watch, next time you hypnotize yourself into believing in a memory. Just stop for a moment, take a deeper breath, and say, "I was believing in the past." As time slows down, space opens up. You are standing in a doorway to a different possibility. Take another deep breath and open to the presence of what is. Call grace to you and relax.

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -Maya Angelou

Rainya Dann offers a free complimentary consultation which can be done over the phone or in person. Rainya is Director of The Institute for Transpersonal Studies, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Trainer and has been teaching hypnosis for over 30 years. To learn more about any of these techniques or get a private consultation call (831) 425-7837 or visit www.RainyaDann.com.  The Institute of Transpersonal Studies also offers Certification Training in Hypnosis, NLP, Voice Dialogue, WealthyMind and more.

This article appears in The Connections Magazine, June 2013 article

The Five Keys of Manifesting Change

The Five Keys of Manifesting Change

[Click here to read about the Free Meetup Event: April 24, 2013]

Article by Rainya Dann, as published in Santa Cruz's Connections Magazine April 2013

Barbara Walters was interviewing multi–billionaire Bill Gates and asked him, “Now that you’re the richest man in the world and you can have anything you desire, what more could you possibly want?” Gates replied, “To never stop changing. Whatever I do today, will be considered history tomorrow. I have to make sure that I never stop changing, and that I am always creating.”

This time of year, when taxes and Springtime are on our minds, we naturally reflect on how to make our financial and personal lives more fruitful. I want to share with you the five key concepts I use to help my clients consciously bringing forth changes that they want.



A first key is to have a clear vision about a goal. Goals are energetic attractors. Envision yourself doing the thing you want. One famous phrase the Buddha repeated over and over again is "all that we are is the result of what we have thought."

A second powerful key is to set your intent. "Intent" comes from the Latin "intendo" which means to "stretch forward." Say, "I wish I could go to my car." Now say, "I intend to go to my car. " Notice how "intending" is more empowering than "wishing."




A third key is to become aware of your limiting beliefs and change them into beliefs of empowerment. The Oracle of Delphi said that the key to bringing forth what you want is in "knowing thyself." This includes knowing what your limitations are and what empowers you. Recently, one client of mine uncovered his limiting belief that "you have to work hard for your money" and we changed it to "money comes quickly and easily to me." I guided him through an NLP "Four Step Belief Change Process" that released his limiting, subconscious memories. After that day he attracted new, positive experiences around wealth.



A fourth key is to gain closure in all areas of your life by cleaning up past unresolved issues. You may hold issues with people, places or things that create anger, betrayal, jealousy, or other negative emotions. To let go of those emotions first acknowledge what you feel, honor it, then consciously say, "I choose to let it go."



A fifth key is to trust in the morphogenetic field of all possibilities. The word morphogenesis means "beginning of form" and implies that all living systems reside within an energetic field where synchronicity and exciting "coincidences" happen. Trust in positive possibilities!

I trust these five keys can help you be the powerful creator of your own future. You can harness the creative potential that exists within the seed of a plant or the mind of a billionaire. Whenever you catch yourself with a negative thought, just say, "DELETE." Then say, "I choose, trust and know....then visualize what you do want. You will be amazed at the new changes you attract to your life!

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Rainya Dann offers a free complimentary consultation which can be done over the phone or in person. Rainya is Director of The Institute for Transpersonal Studies, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Trainer and has been teaching hypnosis for over 30 years. To learn more about any of these techniques or get a private consultation call (831) 425-7837 or visit www.RainyaDann.com

Awaken Awareness with Voice Dialogue Techniques

Awakening Awareness with Voice Dialogue

by Rainya Dann, Director, Institute for Transpersonal Studies

(This article appears in the February 2013 Issue of "Connections" Magazine.)

Rainya Dann is offering Voice Dialogue training on March 9-10 & 30-31 at The Institute for Transpersonal Studies (ITS) and a free Voice Dialogue Meetup event at The Pacific Cultural Center on February 27.

"Just wake up!" say the mystics throughout the ages. Traveling deep into our hearts, minds and spirits to awaken our consciousness from the daydreams, and sometimes nightmares, of living will lead to more fulfilling lives. It is in our moments of true awareness we find the presence of peace and contentment.

Over the past 30 years I've researched HOW to awaken from old feelings, beliefs and memories that seem to project unconsciously into the present. I found Voice Dialogue to be an easy and inspiring method for revealing a map of one's psyche, for understanding how our "inner selves" subconsciously limit or inspire us. Developed by Drs. Hal and Sidra Stone, Voice Dialogue techniques let you discover your own inner cast of characters, to fully realize "Who" you are. A masterful tool for clarity, it increases your capacity to exercise more conscious choices and to see yourself and others with more compassion, awareness and grace.

Voice Dialogue work explores your inner "selves" that were formed since you were a vulnerable child. Those primary selves developed to protect that child and they now form the core of your personality. Since before birth you were feeling, watching, and making decisions about the way life is, forming your core beliefs. As you grew you encountered rules and judgments in your family system, behavior-guiding experiences that caused you to "disown" some inner selves. Those "disowned selves" eventually became an energy pattern that could be judged or even punished. You might have developed inner selves such as a strong "protector," a "perfectionist," an "overachiever" or a "rebel." These are like your inner parents that are still deep in your subconscious causing you to react to situations today in ways you may not understand. For example, one part of you likes staying up late and another part of you likes getting up early. One part of you loves ice cream and another part wants to eat greens...

Voice Dialogue techniques give you the power to make more conscious choices! You realize it's okay to feel conflicted in areas of your life and to accept who you are. When you identify and embrace all parts of yourself (and conflicting needs) you can make more conscious choices rather than reacting out of habit or duty.

Voice Dialogue will give you more understanding of others, too. Anything you judge in another person is an opportunity to examine your own "disowned selves." Try this exercise:

1. Close your eyes, take a deep breath. Think of a person who annoys you.

2. What quality are you judging in them?

3. Were you allowed to have that quality as a child?

4. Your reaction to that person reflects a part of you that you have not accepted inside yourself.

5. Open your eyes and write down that quality. That's a "disowned self"!

6. Ask yourself to honor that part of yourself, it needs your acceptance.

When we shine the light of awareness onto our selves, consciousness awakens!
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Rainya is Director of ITS, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP Trainer and has been teaching hypnosis for over 30 years. To learn more about any of these techniques or get a free private consultation call 831-425-7837 or visit www.RainyaDann.com

Sacred Saturday Seminars, February 2, Santa Cruz CA

 Sacred Saturday Seminars on February 2, 2013

at The Institute for Transpersonal Studies, Santa Cruz, CA

"Be the Love You Seek"

Saturday Morning, February 2, 2013     9:30-1:15 pm   $35
Using NLP, hypnosis and self inquiry we will journey to dissolve the blocks
 and allow our true nature to emerge. Are you tired of the old beliefs such as when you say to yourself, "I'm not loveable -- I'm not good enough -- Something is wrong with me?" Ready to let go of them? Join us at this seminar to learn to build internal resources of confidence and self love. Forgive yourself for judging and Love Who You Are!

"A Sacred Journey Into Your Being"

Saturday Afternoon, February 2, 2013    1:30-5:30 pm   $35
Breath Workshop
Join us for an experiential process that can release what is not You. Breathwork lifts the veils (of conditioning) so you can have a direct experience of the recognition of yourself as Spirit appearing as a human being. Give yourself the gift of basking in the Divine Radiance of your own Being with kindred Spirits.

at The Institute for Transpersonal Studies
420 Happy Valley Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95065

Please email or call 831.425.7837 if you plan to attend. Space is limited.
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About Sacred Saturday Seminars:

In 2013 we will be offering "Sacred Saturday Seminars" on the first Saturday of every other month. You can come to a morning or afternoon or both. The morning will be devoted to transforming beliefs with NLP, Hypnosis and Self Inquiry. In the afternoon we will be utilizing Breath work to release our most tenuous issues and receive their gifts. As many of you have experienced, these Sacred Journeys allow our Spirits to soar!


2013 Sacred Saturday Seminars Schedule:
February 2, April 6, June 1, August 3, October 5, December 7
(First Saturday of every other month)

Announcing "Sacred Saturday Seminars"

New Sacred Saturday Seminars at the Institute for Transpersonal Studies in 2013

In 2013 we will be offering "Sacred Saturday Seminars" on the first Saturday of every other month. You can come to a morning or afternoon or both. The morning will be devoted to transforming beliefs with NLP, Hypnosis and Self Inquiry. In the afternoon on many of the seminar days we will be utilizing Breath work to release our most tenuous issues and receive their gifts. As many of you have experienced, these Sacred Journeys allow our Spirits to soar!

We would love to share a morning, afternoon or day with you!

Rainya Dann, Director
Institute for Transpersonal Studies

2013 Sacred Saturday Seminars Schedule:
February 2, April 6, June 1, August 3, October 5, December 7
(First Saturday of every other month)

Breathwork Event "Awaken" - December 29 2012

Breathwork Event  "Awaken" - December 29 2012  NEW

I had the good fortune of co-leading a workshop with Astrologer Susan Heinz last weekend. Her talk inspired me to offer a day of breathwork in response to the collective call to awaken! I hope you join us! - Rainya Dann

Saturday, December 29, 2012  9:30am-5pm  $75
420 Happy Valley Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95065

email  or tel: 831-425-7837
(Please call or email when you decide to attend, space may be limited.)

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Envision a Magnificent 2013!

"We live in a holographic universe. It's nature is unity. We have direct access to the divine. We are connected through compassion."  ~Gregg Braden

The Mayans call it  "The Great Cycle" which is ending after 5,125 years. We are leaving the era of the patriarch, the male, yang, linear and moving towards the era of the matriarch, the female, yin, receptivity.

To move into the new paradigm we need to flush out feelings of polarization and separation. As we leave the world of duality, breaking down the old, we can let go of feeling like victims as we embrace being conscious co-creators.

Open to the call from your Soul to see yourself as Sacred. Honor the interrelatedness.

It is a time to strengthen our hearts and build community.

Access Creative Vision - Workshop Dec 8 2012

Access Creative Vision (Workshop)

Join Rainya Dann and Susan Heinz, December 8th 2012

Take a personal journey to
"Release the Old and Anchor Your Intention for 2013"

Astrologer Susan Heinz and Hypnotherapist Rainya Dann take you on a personal journey to release the old and anchor your intention for 2013, as we access our highest creative and visionary abilities together...

Saturday December 8th 2012 10am-5pm $70 

At the Center for Transformative Visions
819 1/2 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95060

[Registration Req'd, Call 831 479-3751 or Click here] 

(Also, on Friday Dec 7th "Through the Portal" at 7pm, $15)

(For details or to register visit The Center for Transformative Visions)