Susan found The Crossings in Austin, a spa set atop a beautiful hill overlooking Lake Travis. We saw the pictures on the site and Susan negotiated a discount (since it was a slow time) and off we went!

WHEN I FIND SOMETHING I LIKE….I LIKE TO TELL PEOPLE ABOUT IT!

The pictures on the website didn’t do this awesome place justice! It was gorgeous! They had walking trails, great food, a library, a scupture exhibit, beautiful views, a labarinth, a beautiful sanctuary, clasess such as yoga, a giant dream catcher to dream under and more!

The Spa offered all sorts of scrubs and massages. We opted for an orange blossom massage followed by a hot rock thingy and feet wrapped in herbal hot towels. Awesome! They also had a dry sauna, steam room and a big terrific hot tub. This place rocks and is all set in nature with birds, butterflys, squirrels, deer and more. We are definitely going back! It was, well, hypnotic!

So if you are looking for a vacation, meeting place for corporate events, a relaxing spa, outdoor beauty, a romantic get-a-way, a honey-moon, an excursion for the weekend, a place to hold a retreat, or just a reasonably priced gorgeous get a way in Texas hill country. This is the place.

Here is the link. You will just think you have died and gone to Texas heaven: http://www.thecrossingsaustin.com/about/

PS…other things a liked: Beautiful scuptures on the grounds, the best vegetarian entree’s I’ve ever had, great coffee, a large endlessly hot shower in the room with a bench in it, no phone or tv in the room, and most of all, un-snooty people running the place. This place is way more relaxed and down to earth than other spas I’ve heard about and been to. Really lovely place just built about 5 years ago.

Are you hypnotized yet?

 ”Learn to relax, love and forgive”  These are all things that hypnotists help clients do on a regular basis.  Helping clients overcome anger and relax are primary goals of any work I do with just about every client.  These things are as important as building self-confidence and self-esteem. 

 I hope if you are going through the challenge of cancer that you’ll consider getting help from a good hypnotist to assist you in your journey.  A doctor’s referral is necessary, but easy to get.  Just ask your hypnotist to help you get one.  

If you do opt for chemo and/or radiation:  Hypnosis has been proven very effective with helping clients to not lose their hair and helps very much with nausea too.

What I hope even more is that you will read this article on how to be proactive about your care.  Some of the amazing points you’ll be surprised about are:  Everyone has cancer cells, Sugar feeds cancer and milk causes mucous that is a food for cancer cells.  Find out more at: 

http://www.enerex.ca/articles/cancer_update_from_John_Hopkins.html

 See Number 15 on the Cancer update from John Hopkins above.

Bless you and be encouraged. You CAN overcome!

 listened to music and showed no substantial change.

Ulcerative colitis is is a disease that causes inflamation of the lining of the colon and rectum, is very painful and causes symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea.

The wonderful thing about hypnosis is that it works not only on Ulcerative colitis, but also is very effective on other “gut” and “bowel” issues such as irritable bowel syndrome and ulcers.  From the stand point of hypnosis, the reason hypnosis works on physical illness is that the body and mind are connected.

Negative emotions that dont’ get resovled become subconscious as well as the thoughts that support them, and after a while as new emotions that are similar in nature add to that “cup” of turmoil there is a straw that breaks the camels back.  When that happens we see physical disease, problems, or conditions. 

For some people once they have a build up of negative emotion, they may experience the symptoms of Ulcerative collitis and for others it may be migraines or something like asthma.  Negative emotions held subconsciously are stressful to the body, but hypnosis can help you uncover these emotions and help you nuetralize them so they no longer cause problems.  

Here is more on the study in the UK 

My mother is madly in love with Monk so I am exceedingly happy to hear this news, because she’ll watch it and say hmmm, maybe that Celeste is on to something. Hey, I still want my mom’s approval and I am 46 years old, but if this TV show is like so many other of Hollywood’s takes on hypnosis, it’s bound to be inaccurate LOL!

The media is constantly showing hypnosis to be used in ways it can not be used, or showing it to be ineffective (showing hypnotists with lack of skill doing the work and the outcome being less than what it could and should be). Still, I love a great story too, and very much love that hypnosis is moving even more into the consciousness of our society.

I’ve never seen “Monk”, but from what I understand he has a variety of fears. Fears that haunt him and make him behave in ways, that on the show, seem funny. Do you know someone like this? I promise you, if in real life they are having these kinds of fears, it’s not funny for them. Clients suffer greatly from a variety of fears and often well-meaning family and friends will play the problem down, laugh it off or worse, just tell them to “get over it”.

The great thing about using hypnosis for overcoming (not just managing) fear, is how quickly clients get better. Just today I worked with a 20-something for fear of testing. She would freeze anytime she had to take an exam. Her fear went all the way back to her Mom and Dad fighting. She was amazingly better in just 2 sessions, but we did 5 to make it more likely to be permanent. I like to do deepest and most thorough work I can do.

Moms and dads fighting in front of the kids. Boy, that is a blog topic I’ll have to make sure I expand on one day. Family fights often are the beginning of many of my clients problems.

Fear of flying, fear of heights, fear of testing, fear of relationships, fear of dogs, the list goes on and on. If you have a fear, an anxiety, an apprehension think about hypnosis and talk it over with your mental health provider and/or a qualified hypnotist. You can overcome this problem usually in 4-6 sessions. And from what my clients tell me….It’s great to be free!

Now, what celebrity would you recommend getting some hypnosis? Brittney Spears? Tom Cruise? Angelina Jole? Seems like some of them just go round and round and never get over stuff. What a shame. Aren’t there any good hypnotists in Hollywood?

One day, maybe one of my clients will write a book and hypnosis will get portrayed as the amazing tool for healing it is. Until then….what channel is that Monk guy on anyway?

Staying motivated when losing weight or maintaining weight is one of the biggest problems with weight loss. So we decided to offer a FREE way to keep weight loss goals top of mind with a FREE Weight Control book club that meets via teleconference…

Here’s what he came up (below) with and I think they are GREAT! If you’d like him to design your cards tell him to give you the “Aunt Celeste discount”. Here is his email address: [email protected]

Every girl needs an updated look so does a website, or at least mine did. Thank you David and Gracie