highland park trail

Hot as Heck July Hike

Ready for a REAL hike?  A pretty tough one that will test you…that is a good thing.  To push through the hard stuff allows you to take this natural endurance into the rest of the year (and beyond).  We will be attempting to go the 9 miles out and back to visit the region’s largest …

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How to Turn Your Bath into a Hypnotic Spa

Simply HYPNOTIC Organic Soap turns your bath into a spa, while allowing a little of your wild side to play. Valerie Grimes, the Hypnotic Hiker and creator of Simply Organic Soap, Sandy Palisch got together to develop a new organic soap bar, inspired by nature. It is called Simply Hypnotic Organic Soap. Valerie now encourages …

Hypnotic Trip: How to Connect to Creativity and Hidden Talents

Special guest Daniel Katsük talks about how when he is stuck creativity he goes in nature and finds the answer. His account of self hypnosis on the trail proves the power of mind over matter. More from Katsuk at his website. Today’s hypnotic trip happens in the studio where Daniel Katsük will perform his original …

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Hypnotic Trip: How to improve your mental health in nature.

How Hypnosis and Hiking Improve Your Mental Health Today’s Hypnotic Trip will show you how hiking and hypnosis can improve your mental health. It happens in Arizona at the Grand Canyon. And more specifically at the Kaibab Trail on the South Rim. Temps are in the 110s with little shade. Why am I hiking in …

The Badlands

Badlands Vs. Goodlands A Perspective Shift.

Who says what is good and what is bad? Our ego, the conscious mind? Others? Society? Or maybe the subconscious tells us so. Good and Bad is an example of dualistic thinking and when we subscribe to dualism, we have to, we must label…EVERYTHING. And, it is subconscious. I am Valerie the Hypnotic Hiker. As …

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Why is the best view the one from the top?

Nature as a teacher: Perspective. Climbing up to the top of a mountain whether on foot or by car is exhilarating, it is as if our body’s systems know and understand that we are rising above, freeing ourselves in some way. Have you ever experienced that excitement on one of your journeys upward? From that …

How Imprinting Affects Your Ability to Lose Weight.

Baby Ducks Imprint with Their Mothers Baby Humans Imprint with Their Mother’s Cooking. And how hypnosis transforms imprints from negative to positive so you can lose weight. In hypnotherapy training, we studied Imprints. Imprints are how our life experiences or life events effect us based on the meaning we assign to it.  The meaning is …

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How to Undo Chemical Addiction to Junk Foods.

They say food companies have proven formulas that keep us hooked on junk food. Michael Moss author of Salt, Sugar and Fat was recently interviewed on THINK, the radio program on KERA 90.1 hosted by Krys Boyd. What I gleaned from the interview was this: Junk foods have power over us, they are chemically addictive, …