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"I believe Resilience is key for both emotional and physical healing." It's an inside job! It's about your inner environment.

Focusing on Anxiety & Stress

Meet Jay Pullen

Jay entered the world of hypnotherapy driven by a passion for emotional healing. His focus shifted towards anxiety, recognizing it as a fundamental human function that has become increasingly prevalent in society.

Intriguingly, Jay discovered that many experts view anxiety as a physiological rather than a psychological phenomenon, aligning with his certification in medical support hypnosis.

Anxiety's complexity lies in its dual nature, potentially stemming from both emotional/psychological and physical causes. This interplay highlights the intricate connection between mental/emotional and physical aspects of human experience.

Through his work, Jay observed that addressing emotional issues and altering consciousness through hypnotherapy could lead to improvements in physical symptoms. These successes drew him deeper into integrative modalities, naturally leading to his incorporation of Biomagnetics and HeartMath techniques.

Jay emphasizes that wellness is a creative process, requiring time and attention to shape theworld we inhabit. He advocates for developing good daily practices that support the body's innate healing systems. His approach focuses on working in harmony with the body's preferred methods, supporting all systems and natural healing processes
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In his practice, Jay utilizes a combination of Hypnotherapy, (which includes certification in Medical Support Hypnosis), HeartMath, and Biomagnetics. He has chosen these modalities based on their effectiveness and their potential to guide individuals towards a new path of wellness.

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MEDICAL SUPPORT HYPNOSIS

Medical Support Hypnosis is about utilizing consciousness to support our physical wellbeing. There is a wide spectrum in ways to benefit from this, ranging from pain management to deep healing of serious conditions. The techniques can be used by an individual wanting to support their own wellness to supporting the work done by physicians and other practitioners.

To fully appreciate the value of Medical Support Hypnosis one needs to understand our body’s Autonomic Nervous System. Within this system lies what is referred to as the “fight or flight” system, or technically, the sympathetic system. In this response there are significant physiological shifts with breathing, circulatory functioning, and hormonal release, to name a few.

All of these functions support the need to run or fight. The problem with this, however, is that in modern times the “dangers” call for different strategies. Remaining in this sympathetic response without utilizing the physiological shifts can cause inflammation, which if chronic, can ultimately result in medical issues. Many medical experts now claim that a significantly large portion of visits to the doctor with medical concerns are related to stress. Chronic stress also creates normalized patterns not only with our emotions but with physiological functioning, sometimes reducing a person’s ability to revert back from the sympathetic response to a normal resting state. I use various tools including those in Medical Support Hypnosis to help clients address the stress and anxiety that becomes invasive in their lives. The effort is not to eliminate stress and anxiety because these are a part of our lives. The resolve is to create resilience, the ability to return to a normal resting state after the causes of stress and anxiety are not actively present.

In addition to stress and anxiety, Medical Support Hypnosis is useful in preparing a person for treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy/radiation. Numerous studies have shown that going into these treatments with a more positive relaxed consciousness results in tangible benefits such as less pain medication needed, diminished side effects, as in nausea, accelerated healing, and fewer complications.

Finally, many people have been able to reduce or eliminate pain with the use of hypnosis. The benefits of being able to address pain without medications are pretty obvious.

The Modalities

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Biomagnetics

Our bodies have an amazing intrinsic ability to heal. The body strives to keep many systems in balance, often utilizing the movement of ions to do this work.

However, illness, injury, pathogens, and other circumstances can upset the needed balance in local areas, impeding the normal healing process. In Biomagnetism we use therapeutic grade static magnets in pairs of opposite poles placed in strategic locations to create magnetic fields to work in tandem with the body to restore proper balance, thereby helping create the environment needed for our bodies to do what they naturally do.

Biomagnetics offers a unique way to support the body's natural healing capacity. which can include anxiety.

“If you want to understand the secrets of the universe , think in terms of frequency, energy, and vibration.” --Nikola Tesla

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HeartMath Coherence

What drew me into certification in this “Stress, Anxiety, and Self- Regulation” program was seeing scientific evidence in just how our emotions can have long term impact on our physiology. In this biofeedback procedure a client can see the evidence in front of their own eyes how positive renewing emotions can create a more healthful physical response, particularly in the area of HEART—BRAIN COHERENCE.

The benefit of this heart—brain coherence, besides the emotional ease that it engenders, is the efficiency it contributes to the communication and functioning of our bodily processes. It can be compared to doing a full tune-up on our automobile engines to maximize performance.

While the science behind this practice is quite complex, utilizing the practice is relatively simple and can have significant and positive impact on one’s enjoyment of life. Another great benefit of this procedure is that it utilizes obtaining measurement of Heart Rate Variability to deliver the feedback response. Heart Rate Variability is a valuable piece of information for anyone to have.

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Hypnotherapy

More and more people in various areas of science are recognizing the role emotions play in creating and maintaining good health and wellness, both physical and mental/emotional. The context where emotions reside is Consciousness. I use Consciousness with a capital C to
emphasize that the conscious includes the subconscious. Hypnotherapists have long emphasized the need to work with the subconscious as well as the conscious. It should be noted that other elements of Consciousness are important in the impact on our physical health.

These other elements include beliefs, habits, and environmental influences (ie.—social). Even though I have stated that anxiety is a physiology not a psychology, our consciousness (psychology) is intertwined with our physiology such that intervention with consciousness patterns can indeed have significant impact on physiological patterns and health.

The use of HYPNOSIS has long demonstrated itself to be a very useful tool in creating shifts in consciousness. Long considered
to be mystical and “woo-woo,” hypnosis has increasingly become recognized in the scientific world to be a valid and useful state of consciousness and worth using for therapeutic benefit. I have seen this born out in my own practice by seeing shifts in various physical states, such as
anxiety.

Practice Areas

I love riding the TRAM up to Sandia Peak and enjoying that special view of Albuquerque. In the past my experience was dampened by my breathing and panic issues. I have always had problems “catching my breath” and going up where the air is thinner really was stressful. I always carried my inhaler and had to use it at 10 thousand feet.

After my sessions with Jay Pullen, I was able to accompany my out of state visitors riding the TRAM up to the Peak and enjoy the view without any stress or breathing issues. I did not need to use my inhaler! It was an amazing experience. My sessions with Jay have enhanced my ability to live life with more gusto!

HELEN LEAL, New Mexico