Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery ®
What is SMGI®?
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Somatic Mindful Guided Imagery®
SMGI® is a special kind of parts-work. We use hypnotherapy & inner journey work to change what you want to change, by working with the power of your subconscious.
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How does it work?
The SMGI® counselor asks thought-provoking questions that tap into the innate wisdom of your subconscious, bringing into your conscious awareness the answers you already possess within you to heal what you need to heal.
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Is this method right for me?
If you desire to heal trauma, addiction, or other wounds and traditional talk therapy (or other modalities) have not seemed to create lasting change - SMGI® could be right for you!
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How will SMGI® help me?
SMGI® can connect you to the inner power, worth, and strength that has always been present within you. By connecting you with this wisdom, you now have the power to create lasting change.
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If you value the way Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, developed by Francine Shapiro, reduces the charge activation of traumatic episodes, you’ll love how SMGI® empowers the completion of incomplete rites of passage, leading to an experience of achievement, triumph and initiated wisdom.
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If you admire the “bottoms up” philosophy of Somatic Experiencing, developed by Peter Levine, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easily, gently and quickly SMGI® gets you resourced so you can release the unexpressed survival responses held, stored and carried in the mind-body system.
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If you appreciate the Internal Family Systems model, developed by Richard Schwartz, you’ll love how SMGI® simplifies parts work, with some similar, yet different understandings and protocols that heal and integrate the various parts quickly and gently in simple ways.
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If you know of the benefits of releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma with the Trauma Releasing Exercises developed by David Berceli, you’ll appreciate the subtle and gentle ways SMGI® supports one’s own Natural Expulsive Reflex to release what’s no longer beneficial from the mind-body systems.
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If you’ve heard how psychotherapy has benefitted from incorporating Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, developed by Janina Fisher, into a less pathologizing way to increase motivation to overcome self-destructive impulses, you’ll be relieved to know that with the simple formula in SMGI®, you can support healing of complex trauma by allowing the client’s own inner wisdom to show the way.
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If you admire the way the psychotherapeutic method of Compassionate Inquiry, developed by Gabor Maté, explores the root cause of addictive behaviors along with the distorting impacts of traumas, while helping the therapist uncover what’s beneath the surface, so they can create recognition and liberation, then you’ll love the ease of the SMGI® steps that educe all this from the client’s own inner wisdom in a way that is ideally suited to support their desired outcomes.
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If you value focus on calming inner chaos while resolving the root cause of problems, and ending traumatic events without reliving them, as with the Instinctual Trauma Response model developed by Louis Tinnin and Linda Gantt, you’ll be surprised at how little mapping-out of the details of traumatic events is required with SMGI®, as your inner wisdom takes you to where you need to go to create the results you desire.
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If you’ve explored the benefits of bringing your attention into the present moment in a nonjudgemental way, you’ll find the SMGI® version of Mindfulness to be super simple to use, easy to incorporate on your feet, eyes-open, in up-tempo life situations, and a quick trick for calming, settling and stabilizing your nervous-system.
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While high quality Guided Imagery has been shown to support sometimes miraculous change, the invitational and interactive way it’s used in the SMGI® formula incorporates an elegant trifecta of receptive, directive and interactive forms that educe your own most beneficial images, according to your own inner wisdom. With this model, there’s no need for the facilitator-guide to come up with images for the client-journeyer to comply with.
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In 1800s Paris, France, Dr. Pierre Janet primarily used hypnosis with hospitalized trauma patients to help them heal, with astounding results. Though it went out of fashion for a while due to politics in conventional therapy at the time, its power and popularity have remained in the background, until its recent resurgence in popularity, as it has continued to resolve trauma in the hands of skilled practitioners - even before conventional psychotherapy came round to naming PTSD and later rediscovering that trauma is healable. SMGI® incorporates and demystifies some of the most beneficial elements of Hypnotherapy in easy, simple, clear ways, and shows how our most ancient ancestors used it to heal with the power within.
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Really a category of a style of journeying within, Shamanism has been something all peoples have practiced to communicate with multiple levels of existence, experience, and life-forms to access information, personal power and healing. SMGI® goes beyond conventionally taught shamanism with simple steps that connect you to your power and resources, so you can clear your inner clutter, and retrieve your soul fragments so you can be whole, integrated and free.
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The best Life Coaching draws your own best ideas and solutions out of you and helps you realize your strengths. SMGI® incorporates powerful subconscious blocks clearing methods along with specific coaching components that help you access the power of your deepest desires, so that you will be easily propelled into and beyond the dreams in your soul.
How is SMGI® different from other healing methods?
FAQs
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The first session is unique, as we’ll spend time laying the groundwork for you to get the most out of subsequent sessions by going over the subconscious priming Questionnaire. And you’ll leave that session with some mind-body skills to easily incorporate into your life that work like magic to calm you.
In subsequent sessions we’ll do a helpful check-in; then guide you inwards to connect to inner sources of strength and support, clear away obstacles, and retrieve the parts of you that you need to accomplish your dreams.
You’ll experience how easy it can be to follow the images and sensations that organically arise from your own Inner Wisdom. It’s like a kind of directed day-dream and treasure hunt, that leads to profoundly life-changing experience, designed for you, by your own Inner Wisdom.
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How many sessions always depends on the individual and the layers needed to be strengthened and cleared so the love, comfort and freedom can blossom bigger and fuller.
Most people work in sets of 3 or 6 sessions at a time, for as many times as feels right. If you're not familiar with this work, you can experience an initial session, at the end of which you will know for certain if this work is for you, at this time.
We typically meet weekly, or every-other-week initially, and for those who desire continued support after completing substantial work together, monthly and bimonthly sessions can be scheduled.
The more you do, the more you get!
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You’ll experience benefit in each session - even if you only have one. You’ll notice certain things are different, better and easier because of the time we’ve spent together. How do we know this? Several years of clients reporting it! And a few only came one time, but sent many other clients because of their life-changing experience!
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Each session lasts 90 minutes, up to 2 hours.
Ideal spacing between sessions is 1-2 weeks.
I work with people all over the world over the internet and sometimes in person or by phone.
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The gently powerful process in SMGI® provides two branches of support: 1) tools for effective nervous system calming on your own, outside our sessions, and 2) inner journeys of exploration and discovery where you can resolve the root cause of your suffering - sometimes in one fell swoop, other times incrementally over time.
Your experience being guided into your inner world by an SMGI® Guide is unique in how non-bossy, nonjudgmental, and spacious the experience is with a light hand from your guide.
There won’t be anything for you to get right or get wrong, as your experience will richly unfold and organically arise from within you.
Your Most Complete Inner Wisdom will bring you the most beneficial experience for you at the time of each session. We see this again and again.
What wants to be known to you, by You, and for you?
Experience this work and find out!