The Westside Prosperity Circle

Kayla Garnet Rose, Ph.D. Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master: The Westside Prosperity Circle: Monthly workshops to engage your creative spirit in an interactive program that will activate greater abundance and prosperity into...

Hypnosis to Quit Smoking for Good

Kayla Garnet Rose, Ph.D. Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master: Hypnosis to Quit Smoking for Good: Hypnosis to Quit Smoking for Good Smoking is an interesting habit - people quit smoking for as many reasons as they started smoking - and ...

Frequently Asked Questions about Hypnosis

Kayla Garnet Rose, Ph.D. Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master: Frequently Asked Questions about Hypnosis: Hypnosis FAQs Q: What is hypnosis and how does it work?  A: Hypnosis is a very natural process of entering a state of deep relaxation. ...

Soul Contracts

Kayla Garnet Rose, Ph.D. Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master: Soul Contracts: I have a client I have been working with for some time now, who is extricating herself from an extremely painful relationship. There is mu...

Helpful People Boxes

Hello! We've just posted "Helpful People Boxes" on YouTube, our latest video in Kayla's teaching series. In this short presentation Kayla introduces the Helpful People box and its uses according to the principles of Feng Shui. We have included many practical examples of her own beautifully hand-decorated boxes, and how she has applied them.

This project makes our most extensive use yet of the "green screen" -- i.e., Kayla's kitchen wall -- to present accompanying images, most of which were shot expressly for this purpose.

For the full set of Kayla's videos, visit the Chayla Productions channel on YouTube.

Chip and Kayla's Zip-Line Adventure

When we're not empowering and inspiring our readers and viewers, we sometimes empower and inspire ourselves by slipping away for a little fun. Neither Kayla nor I had been zip-lining before, and there is a great course in Felton, just a few miles from Santa Cruz. On Sunday, September 18 2011 we took a short drive to a different world.

Located within the Mt. Hermon conference grounds, Redwood Canopy Tours offers a guided experience through redwood tree tops over six separate zip-lines and two sky bridges.

-- Chip

The Power of Journaling

“The most important promises are the ones I make to myself.”

- Maryanne Radmacher

• I use tarot & astrology as a daily meditation tool, to focus on my career, my relationships, and my creativity. They serve as moment in my journey where I look at the map of my life and decide which direction to take. But I don’t just stay stuck looking at the map - journaling is one of the steps I take to put into action what I have been contemplating.

• You can have many different kinds of journals, that you write in at different times of your life. Just as your checkbook is a record of your spending habits, journals can reflect your patterns and serve as a reminder of the positive “emotional deposits” Elisa talked about in her presentation.

• Kinds of journals: Business notes, daily affirmations, dreams (night and day), poetry, sketches, coloring books, blank books or notebook paper put into a binder, a photo album or scrap books, engagement calenders.

• Who is your audience? Well, you, of course, but it also could be your children, your spouse or lover, your business colleagues, your therapist, your best friend.

• Privacy: there is so much temptation to read someone else’s journal. When my lover read mine, I stopped writing for 5 or 6 years. When getting divorced, I read my spouses' journal and found out things I really didn’t want to know. Talk about Pandora’s box.

• There is a lot of power in writing in your journal (or on loose leaf paper) all your thoughts and feelings, and then burning or otherwise destroying them. Recently I drew a horrible picture of myself being controlled by my last lover - it was quite a relief to destroy it.

• Time: even just five minutes a day can grow into a disciplined practice (like flossing your teeth or exercise). This is time for YOU, time to focus on achieving something you desire. keeping a little notebook in your bag is helpful for those odd moments of standing in the bank line. Putting the TV on mute and jotting down thoughts during commercials can reactivate your brain waves.

• Your other favorite tool is your PEN: do you like blue or black ink? Pencil? Colored pencils? Markers? Paints? I highly recommend crayons...

• To quote from the 5 of Wands card - Keep your expression flowing. Stop editing yourself and let go of concern about what comes out. Be playful. The openness of play allows for inventiveness and newness in a way that high expectations do not. (from The Tarot of Transformation by Willow Arlenea & Jasmin Lee Cori)

• You are writing your story and you can change your story - one exercise I did was to divide the page into columns and in the first write a sentence that begins “I wish...” the second column is the same sentence that starts with “I will”. This takes you out of wishful thinking into your will power, because it pushes you to the next step of figuring out HOW to achieve your goal. Examples:

I wish I had more money to I WILL have more money

I wish I was friends with my ex to I WILL be friends with my ex

I wish I had more tome to write in my journal to I WILL have more time to write in my journal

• Other exercises:

- Goals in the next month, year, five years

- List what you are afraid of. Burn it.

- List what makes you happy. Keep it.

- Pull a tarot card, medicine (animal) card, or angel card. Sketch it.

- Cartoons of you

- Songs, poems, quotes by others that inspire you

- Same as above, go from “I fear...” to “I wonder...”

- Pure color (finger painting)

- Create a couples journal, or a friendship journal

- That letter you would never send

- Who am I?

- Love letters to yourself

• Some book recommendations:

Earth Art Critters coloring books by Sue Coccia

The Coloring Book for Big Girls by Sudie Rukusin

When Your Heart Speaks, Take Good Notes: The Healing Power of Writing by Susan Borkin

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity -- by Julia Cameron

The Creative Journal by Lucia Capacchione

“Turn your wish bone, daughter, into a back bone”

- author unknown