Benefits and Growth Through Hypnotic Meditation with Mary Welp

Today, Mary Welp joins us. Mary is a craniosacral and hypnotherapist living in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband Jim. She's been in private practice doing body work and hypnosis for 20 years. She's worked with a nonprofit involving returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as served on the board of Linkup, offering assistance to those who've dealt with clergy abuse and related trauma.

Mary has designed and now teaches a practice for change called RISE Hypnotic Meditation. In this course, meditation meets self-hypnosis, and this practice allows one to target a habit, fear, or imprint for change. Mary says that you can use RISE for working on emotional, physical, or spiritual development, stress, weight loss, patience, abundance, and many other things.

Learn more about RISE online at https://www.risehypnoticmeditation.com/

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Life. I'm your host Magic Barclay. Today. Mary Wel joins us. Mary is a craniosacral and hypnotherapist living in Louisville, Kentucky with her husband Jim. She's been in private practice doing body work and hypnosis for 20 years. She's worked with a nonprofit involving returning soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as served on the board of Linkup, offering assistance to those who've dealt with clergy abuse and related trauma. Mary has designed and now teaches a practice for change. It's called Rise Hypnotic Meditation, and she'll tell us more about that in a moment, but meditation. Meet self-hypnosis is included in this course, and this practice allows one to target a habit, fear, or imprint for change. Mary says that you can use RISE for working on emotional, physical, or spiritual development, stress, weight loss, patience, abundance, and many other things can all be addressed with Rise. Welcome, Mary. That sounds fantastic. Thank you. Thank you so much. Magic. Yes. I've been having a great time, traveling and teaching it and presenting it. And it really does cross all the topics that we discuss here. So this is gonna be fantastic. I'm going to start with our standard three questions that we ask all of the guests, and everyone gives amazing answers, so I can't wait for yours. And here's your first question. What can your expertise do to accelerate health, not just physical, but also emotional and spiritual health? What I've been really concentrating on lately is our subconscious and how our subconscious holds all of our history. It holds all of our memory. It holds so many of our physical and chemical functions that our body has and how it's used and how it works, and how it reacts to life and to the world as we meet it. And so, by going into the subconscious, you can shift those things. So whether it's a physical issue, like you wanna boost your immune system or you want to, get that blood pressure in check or something like that, you can delve into the subconscious and work on those issues. I've also been working with people that have long covid and haven't gotten their sense of smell or taste back, and it's also been helpful for that. But it also helps emotionally. Maybe you have an anger issue or a patient's issue that you're ready to shift or to change that, you are wanting this change, not those around you, but you are wanting it. This is a great practice for that. And also I think sometimes we kind of get lost. On our path, and we get off of our path and start to wonder, I know I have anyway, start to wonder what is our reason for being here? What is my job in this life and am I doing it? Have I gotten off track in some way? You know, why don't I have that fulfilled feeling anymore? So you can also use it to kind of go inside and have a check-in and say, okay, what's working? What isn't working? And if you're willing and wanting, you can definitely shift and change out of some old habit, fear and patterning, imprinting. Definitely, and I was nodding along as you were talking and there's just so much there that we can explore. Now, we talk about wealth here as well. People think that's just financial, but it can be also personal and emotional wealth. So what are your top three tips to creating wealth, happiness, work on what makes you happy? If you're doing what you love and what makes you happy, it's not a job, it's a joy, and the abundance will come from that. the other, and this might be lining up with happy, but also, check, your thought patterns. Check where you limit yourself, where you might tell yourself, oh, you've never done that. You can't do that. Or, that's not really who you are. Or just where you set limits on yourself. Because our brain's job and what our brain really wants is safety and security. It doesn't want us to take these risks and to do things differently. and the other thing for wealth I think is also, taking time off, being sure that you take downtime to rejuvenate, to reflect. I know that a lot of my inspiration comes in the down moments and when we're not really engaging that conscious mind, you know, those little whispers can happen in your ear that kind of. Kind of step you in that place of, of wealth and prosperity. And it is not just about money, but it's about health and happiness. Definitely. And just from my own experience for the listeners, if you don't make time for downtime, your body will do it for you. And that's never fun. Absolutely. Just do a quick tip there. Totally agree. Now look, we do talk about weight loss here. I know I've kind of been on the rollercoaster of it most of my life, and I guess many of the listeners have too. So what can you offer around your own weight journey to maybe inspire the listeners or just even let'em know they're not alone, and what can your expertise do to help them with that journey? That is such a great question because I've been talking about this in my workshops. I've been talking about. Stories that we tell ourselves and the stories that we live in. And one of the stories that I've been sharing with my workshop participants is when I was about 11. I was probably 11, maybe 12. I was in a carpool with a high school boy and my brothers and sisters, and I had a crush on this high school. Boy, I just thought he was really cute. He was way outta my league, but he was really good looking and I just had this crush. I'd sit in the back seat and just kind of watch him. He'd sit up front in the passenger side and one day, and just in conversation, he casually referred to me as pleasantly plump. And I took that on as if that were my truth. And I was in that preteen kind of, you know, your skinny one moment and a little chunky the next. It was just me growing, but I took that on as my identity and I started buying bigger clothes. I started eating that extra donut, having that extra soda, having that second plate of food because I'm, I'm a fat girl anyway. I had already accepted that label. As me and who I am, although that really isn't my genetic predisposition. And so be careful of your stories and your emotional connection to food as well. You know where those self images came from. Who told you what, what did you read? What did you see? What did you think? And again, our brain wants safety, so did we put on a little weight For safety's sake, I also worked with a woman who was working on weight loss and we did a. Hypnosis session and in that session it came up that her grandmother raised her and her grandmother would always reward her and show her love in the form of sugar. So when she got a good report card, she got a cake when she, uh, did well on a test or cleaned her room or did the dishes. The reward was always sugar and there was always a lot of sugar around. And so she was realizing that she was substituting sugar for love and when she had that realization, she could also really shift her patterning and what she was thinking and what she was doing. Um, because these stories and these ideas live in us and we act out of them, our subconscious is just so full of our stories. But some of the stories don't hold true for us anymore. Some of the stories we've outgrown, and maybe even, they never really were our truth to begin with, but we just blabbed onto them because they were told to us by a person of authority, or maybe we heard it repeatedly. and so then we start to believe it for ourselves. So again, I would just really encourage people that are struggling with weight to look at your self-image and what you tell yourself. Couldn't agree more with you. And I know a lot of my weight gain came, well fact, all of my weight gain came from my marriage. And so for me it was, I didn't feel safe. At home. So I'm just going to make myself as unattractive as possible for safety. And that kind of changed the way my body reacted chemically and I kind of got stuck in that safe situation, which became unsafe. So yeah, I mean, really do look at where that's coming from. Listeners, you know, I'm, I'm a blank canvas. I'm an open slate. I will tell you my struggles not for sympathy, but, so you can learn from me that, you know, safety is key. We've spoken about this a million times on this podcast, but really look at, are you really safe? Because what your body is doing to keep you safe will eventually make you unsafe. Right, right. And can you find your safety? You know, once you do find your safety, then how can you coerce or soothe your body into accepting that it's, it's okay now. Exactly. Now look, I'm loving this conversation. Before we go on though, our listeners are used to us offering a freebie. So what can you offer the listeners? Where can they find it? Absolutely. I have a 15 minute guided meditation on my website for negative thinking, and it's, it's great for negative thinking, but it's also really good just to bolster whatever you would like to have more of in your life. It's really that much of an open book, but it's a wonderful self-hypnosis guided meditation. It's at www.risehypnoticmeditation.com and please check it out. There's also some other videos on the website that tell you about, um, how Rise works and why it works. Terrific. Now look, let's talk more about Rise. Many people think meditation is kind of sitting quietly and staring in naval contemplating life. So tell us about Rise. Tell us about how it targets what we need it to, and how can people start to apply this practice in their life? Um, well, what RISE is is an acronym for the four Steps of Self-Hypnosis. So when you relax, R is for relax. I is for imagine. SS is for suggest, and E is for Empower. So I wanted to make this practice really simple. So when you sit down to do it, you don't have to have a piece of paper. You don't have to get your headphones out. You can do it really as a first aid if you're in a car. Fender bender and you're sitting in your car waiting, or if you're having a moment of stress or panic even, it's a tool to use in the moment as well as one to use just to bolster something in your life and meditation does. I have really struggled with meditation because I also am a yogi. So meditation's a very important part of a yoga practice, so it was important to me to understand it and to learn it. But if I just sit and watch my thoughts or try to control my thoughts, it seems to get louder. I. And more chaotic. So what helped me was having these four steps that I'm giving my mind a job when it meditates. Okay, so when I'm gonna meditate today, my job for my meditation is gonna feel more inner peace and to relax my gut. I'm traveling tomorrow to go present at a conference in Las Vegas next weekend, and I've been a little stirred up. So my meditation tonight is gonna be just to relax all of that, and I'm gonna relax. I'm gonna imagine a beautiful beach scene where I can dig my toes into the sand and feel how it gets cooler. The more my toes go down in the sand, and I'm gonna smell that ocean water, and I'm gonna feel the breeze and hear the ocean, the waves crashing up on the sand. And then I'm gonna check in with my gut. And I'm gonna offer it love and convenience, and I'm gonna check in where it's tight and where it feels uncomfortable, and I'm gonna offer it soothing and comforting like a waterfall. And I'm gonna imagine a waterfall in my gut, just kind of rinsing and soothing and smoothing all of the tension that I'm holding in my gut. And then I'm gonna feel empowered by what I just did. That was a great thing. It was a great way, it's a great tool. So now I wanna stand and see myself on the beach in a superhero pose. Like, I can do this. I feel strong, I feel comfortable, I feel in my body and. Really look at this conference and this flight I'm taking tomorrow with excitement and with adventure because excitement and anxiety kind of has the same symptoms. So instead of looking this as being fearful and anxious, it's gonna be exciting. I love that. That's great. That's so much better than the staring at your navel meditation. Yeah. I couldn't do that. No, I can't. My, my mind just starts racing. Yeah. And I spend the whole time saying, calm down. Calm down. Yeah. And I think if we give it a job, we can even give it the job to calm down. You know, if we have a process, if we have a way of doing it, and maybe that's the way my mind works, but if I have a formula, if I know I can go from R to E and accomplish something, I'm much happier to do that than just trying to, to calm. I, I'm, I'm a doer, so I like a job. If I'm gonna sit and meditate for five minutes, I would like to do something purposely physically or mentally or spiritually. Ooh, me too. I love this. This is fantastic. Now, what haven't we told the listeners? I'm opening the floor to you now, Mary. Tell us what we need to hear. Well, I'd like to remind your listeners that our brains want safety. It's the prime directive is to be safe, not to be happy, not to be successful. Not to have a lot of friends, it's just to be safe. So question what you think. Question the thoughts that come into your head and whether they're really purposeful for you or not, or whether it's just you're reacting out of safety. And sometimes when you realize that, oh, I'm just nervous about this, I just don't, you know, it's a safety issue. You can kind of make a shift in your mind. That again, it can be something purposeful, it can be something positive, the way you feel, that is a mic drop moment, isn't it? I mean, you really do need to embrace everything that your mind embodies telling you. And we've spoken before on the podcast with the listeners about, Listening to those whispers before they become screams, but also allow your mind to guide you don't dismiss what it's telling you. Mm-hmm. No, and that's a wonderful point, magic because I have in guiding people through this, sometimes I'll guide them to a beach and they'll tell me that they ended up in their grandmother's attic where they used to spend time as a child or a bedroom that they had where they loved and they felt very safe. So your subconscious in your mind really does know what layer you need to take off next to heal. It knows what the best method for you is and where your blockages and your boundaries are, and what you need next in order to really thrive and survive. So, opening that up to your mind and following what it says, but with discretion. Definitely. I love that little addition there with discretion. That's so key. Now, we've spoken about Rise, and we can talk more about that in a moment, but off air. I was saying, you know that you've done craniosacral work. I see someone every two weeks for pain relief through that practice. We know that the, the craniosacral realm can really help us focus and get out of that pain response. So how can the craniosacral work that you were doing help with the rise meditation? Well really rise developed out of the cranial sacral work. I was helping people with pain. I was helping people with their bodies and, but then they would come in and ask me other questions that were more, you know, how can I stop smoking? How can I have more patients with my children? How can I have better boundaries with my mother, you know, they were coming to me with other bigger issues. Why do I fear? This crossing over a bridge in my car and I have to do it every day for work, but I panic every day when I drive my my car over the bridge. So these were very real problems that people were coming up against that I needed something a little bit more than the cranial sacral. They're a beautiful combination because the craniosacral really relaxes you very deeply and very profoundly, and it gets all of your cerebral spinal fluid and your, your circulatory system and all of your systems functioning really well. So that then when you ask to go deeper and you ask the subconscious a question, it happens much quicker and much faster. You don't really have to do the relaxation part because the cranial sacral already gives you that deep sense of relaxation. So when I was seeing people, when I see them in their homes now, or when I had an office in the past, I would, uh, do the first half of the session would be the body work in order to relax'em and to find any places in the body that were, where there were restrictions or blockages. And then the second half would be to address whatever issue or problem that they were challenged with at that moment that they would like to take on and shift. That is brilliant. Now, Mary. Outta your own experience with Rise, what have you been able to achieve? What have been the key focuses and the things that you focused on? Were they actually your takeaways? well no, there were actually some surprises. the work again, kind of has a life of its own, so it's really fun to do a workshop and see where people go. But it is really giving. People, a sense of accomplishment, and this is a practice that they can do that once they learn how to do the four steps and why you do it in a certain way, they feel like they have a tool for life. And that they may wanna take on a boundary issue today, but maybe next year it's about something else. Maybe they'll, you know, are going through a hard time for some other reason, or maybe they're an athlete and they wanna have a better performance. They wanna increase their speed or their flexibility or whatever they would like. That way too, they can also use it that way as well. So it, it's so multifaceted. You can use it really for whatever you would like more of in your life or less of. And it's really you deciding what serves you and what doesn't serve you, and making that distinction. Because when you set the intention and you say, okay, energy, I no longer want to do things this way. I'm ready to shift them and do them that way. Then the energy knows where to go. You've given it a job, you've given it a direction. You've told it what to do, and it will happily do that for you, especially if it's towards your healing. It will happen very quickly and very easily because our bodies want that. Our bodies want balance. Our minds want it. Our spirits want it. They want to be balanced, they wanna be happy. They want to be productive and fruitful. But we all run into times in our lives where we get in a hole, we get stuck, we feel off our path, we get swayed. we lose ourself either in someone else or something else. We kind of forget that sense of who we were when we came into this world and what our jobs were. So it's a great way too, to also go in and connect. And I'm seeing that in a lot of people that they're really kind of coming to life where they felt stuck and in a hole and now they're ready to wake up and they're ready to engage life again. And this is a wonderful daily practice for them, uh, to really bolster that. Listeners, we bring you so many things that we suggest you try or that you look into. This is really one that. I'm going to urge you definitely get onto this'cause guess what? Straight after this chat with Mary. I'm onto this website and it is www.risehypnoticmeditation.com. Listeners, I always bring you so much great stuff from our guests. Again, I'm urging you jump onto this. Really, you need to be at one with your mind. You need to allow your mind to guide you rather than shut it down. And I think we do so much, you know, to try and fix things, get some answers. This will give you some answers. I cannot tell you enough that you need to allow your mind to bring those answers to the forefront. So it's www.risehypnoticmeditation.com. Mary, I've really enjoyed this chat, and before we let you go, some of your work in your bio is fairly heavy. Helping returning soldiers working with a non-for-profit and certainly clergy abuse and related trauma. They're really heavy things. How did you get into those and how did you feel coming out of that? I got involved in both of those out of opportunity. The clergy abuse. I was working at an alternative health clinic that based their operation out of one of the offices in the clinic, and so I started seeing some of their clients and the craniosacral work was really helping them, and so they asked me to be on the board and it was very heavy, but it was also very rewarding because I could see the layers of the trauma come off of them. I could see them realize they didn't have to carry it so much or so heavily or in such a burdened way. And the working with the soldiers was also an opportunity. I was at a conference and met a gentleman who, uh, was a lieutenant in the army and was coming back and he had found reiki and cranial sacral work and found that it was very helpful with his trauma and with his P T S D. So he was getting a group of soldiers together and we had a bunch of different therapists together and we would do workshops with them a week long out in nature. And it was really my father who inspired me to do that work because my father was in the Korean War and he would never speak about it. And when I would ask him about it, he'd kind of brush it off and you could tell he just didn't wanna talk about it. And he didn't wanna share anything about it. And I knew he carried burdens from his experience. And even as a young girl, I could tell he was really carrying that experience very heavily. So I think I really, as a girl, I always wanted to help him. So as an adult now, my father has passed. He's no longer with us on this plane, but he helped guide me with these gentlemen. And, uh, one lady, and it was really a wonderful experience because in a way being able to help them made me feel like I was able to help my father because he didn't get any kind of work or help after the Korean War. He was just sent home and I know he experienced some very difficult things that. I don't think if we're gonna send our soldiers to war, we've gotta be willing to help heal them when they come back. And this was my way of being able to do that and really to help my father. And they were heavy experiences. I. They were really beautiful too. Like I said, when you see change, when you see things happen, when you see people light up again, that haven't been lit up in a while, when you see them starting to come back to who they are and feel comfortable in their bodies again, it's so rewarding. It's worth the risk. Thank you so much for sharing that because I know people were probably listening to your bio earlier going, but you haven't mentioned those things, so I really did wanna touch on that. Again, thank you, Mary. Thank you so much for joining us. This has been such a great conversation. Oh, so fun. Thanks for the invitation. Magic. My pleasure. Now Mary's website is www.risehypnoticmeditation.com. This was your episode. Two 16 of a Magical Life. Listeners, please go ahead and give us some Apple reviews. We would love to see those great reviews coming in. And look, I very rarely do this. In fact, I don't think I've ever done this before, listeners, but I would love to give a shout out to a very special listener who sent me a message on Facebook. Her name is Mara. She's the director of the St. Andrews Wildlife Shelter in Victoria, Australia, and she told me how much she's loving this podcast, and I would just like to say as lovely as that is, hearing from Mara, please. 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