All the best wishes to everyone participating in WHD tomorrow!  I am inviting HUGE success  for each and every one of you, and I am looking forward to hearing about everyone's events!

Thankyou, again, Tom, for gifting us (and the world) this special event !  

Good luck, everyone!

Debbie Y 

Creating Change Workshop with Deborah Yaffee, CH, CN

Saturday , January 19, 2008

10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Unity Church at 6 Arch St, Greenfield, MA

Suggested Love Offering: $15

A life filled with joy and abundance is the Divine Intention for each of us. Yet this Divine Intention is fulfilled only with our free-will cooperation. Many of us grow up without a foundation in the principles of Spiritual Science. We learn, instead, many skills with which to Edge God Out. E.G.O. supplants our true joy and abundance but the heart designed by God cannot be fooled indefinitely.

How do we realign ourselves to realize God’s Intention for us? In this workshop, Deborah Yaffee will explain the basic principles of mental programming and introduce a simple,effective program for Creating Change. Participants will receive essential instructions for continuing to work with this program on their own or with a qualified hypnotherapist.

This event is one of the hundreds of exciting educational programs being offered worldwide as part of this year's World Hypnotism Day. For more information about World Hypnotism Day, and to find out what events are happening near you, visit www.worldhypnotismday.com

Deborah Yaffee is a Certified Hypnotherapist and president of the Western Massachusetts Chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotists. Offering Hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Technique and Zpoint Process, she specializes in the area of Spiritual Hypnotism, Forgiveness Work,

Self Image,Stressand Anger Management, Pain Management, and 7^th Path Self Hypnosis. She serves clients locally in her western Mass. office and worldwide via telephone and email support. Contact Deborah at 413-625-2800 or email deb@riversidehealing.com

World Hypnotism Day at Pothole Pictures in Shelburne Falls, MA

On Friday and Saturday January 4^th and 5^th, Pothole Pictures will join with the Western Mass. Chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotists to celebrate World Hypnotism Day (which falls on January 4^th) for a showing of the 1931 black and white John Barrymore classic film SVENGALI accompanied by a discussion led by the Hypnotists Guild about hypnosis fact vs. fiction.

SVENGALI is a harrowing tale of unrequited love as a run-down music teacher in Paris falls in love with a woman who becomes a singing sensation while under his hypnotic spell. Featuring bizarre Parisian sets, memorable visual effects, an enthralling performance by Barrymore, and an unexpected shocker of an ending, this seldom-seen expressionistic masterpiece is THE film which initiated the mythological image of the evil hypnotist in the movies and , indeed, hypnotized audiences into believing many serious misconceptions ever after.

Deborah Yaffee, president of the Wesstern Mass. Chapter, will introduce the film both evenings and Yaffee, and other members of the local guild, will conduct a question and answer session after the film both nights to help folks separate "movie" hypnosis from "real" hypnosis.

As an added bonus, Tom Nicoli, founder of World Hypnotism Day who has taught students and faculty at Harvard Medical School about the mind/body healing connection, will speak at Saturday's show.

A raffle and free-drawing for hypno-gifts from chapter members will also be held.

More information about World Hypnotism Day can be found at www.worldhypnotismday.com.

The discussion and film begins at 7:30 both nights but there will be live music on stage by the classic jazz band The Illiterati starting at 7:00.

Tickets are $6 at the door for adults, $4 for kids under 12, and PotPix advance season tickets are also accepted. For this special show, advance tickets for $4 apiece are available online at www.nghwmass.com or by calling Trish Casimira. Chapter vice-president, at 413-772-0023.

It should be noted that absolutely no barking or clucking will be allowed in the theater for this event.

Pothole Pictures is an all-volunteer-run, non-profit, 420-seat community movie house, with a BIG screen, located at 51 Bridge Street in Shelburne Falls, MA. The theater is fully heated and handicapped accessible.

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I have just returned from my week of spiritual retreat at St Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, MA .  Yeah, it's the Trappist monastery where they make the jam.  This hypnotist's ears perked up during the reading for Vespers last night.  It is from Paul's letter to the Phillippians:

 Rejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice! Your kindness should be known to God.  Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.  Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true , whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.  Keep on doing what you have learned and received and seen in me.  Then the God of peace will be with you." 

So, what do YOU think? That Paul was some Spiritual Hypnotist, eh?!!  

Shelburne Falls,MA- Certified Hypnotherapist team, Martin and Deborah Yaffee, smile at the news that international author, speaker and trainer, Tom Nicoli, is the winner of their artistic donation to the Show Us Your Bra 2007 auction.

Since 1998, Show Us Your Bra has become a favorite annual fundraiser event for the Breast Form Fund. The mission of the non-profit organization is to increase awareness of breast health, and to provide financial assistance to uninsured and under insured women to purchase post mastectomy prostheses and bras after breast cancer surgery.

The Show Us Your Bra contest invites all “bratistes” and “bratiste wannabees” to create and submit a specially themed bra creation. The bras are judged by a panel of professional artists and then auctioned off at one very well-put-on gala event. The competition was the inspiration of Judith Fine, owner of Northampton’s premier lingerie and specialty bra shop, Gazebo. The store has a dedicated and well-trained team of saleswomen to help every woman with fitting and selecting the proper bra and/or prosthesis.

“All women deserve to feel good about themselves” is the statement declared on Gazebo’s website. Deborah Yaffee and her husband, Martin, couldn’t agree more. “Our hypnosis and wellness practice is dedicated to helping people with their mind over what matters. Assisting others to restore a strong and positive self-image is our specialty. This is especially important work for women who are recovering from breast cancer,”they said.

Deborah and Martin Yaffee are the owners of Riverside Healing Arts Center in Shelburne Falls, MA. Their primary modality is client-centered hypnotherapy and both are members in good-standing with the National Guild of Hypnotists. In keeping with the fun and creative challenge of the contest, they submitted a creation titled, “The Stripnotist’s Hypnotits”.

The entry sports a bright red bra featuring rhinestones on black trim that encircle each cup in a classic hypnosis spiral, and elegant heart-shaped, rhinestone-studded pendant pocket-watches dangling from the center of each cup, all finished off in elegant silver and black trim. The piece is literally framed for hanging, and although it was not one of the top 3 prize winners of this year’s show, it was prominently displayed and received many admirable comments.

Bratiste exhibitor and ceramic artist, Molly Cantor of Shelburne Falls, is one of the admirer’s of the Yaffees’ entry. “It’s fun. It’s clever…and it’s classy,” she remarked. The piece fetched a sum of $80 to be donated to funding a breast form.

To learn more about the Show Us Your Bra contest and how to donate directly to the Breast Form Fund, please visit www.showusyourbra.org and to contact Deborah and Martin Yaffee, call 413-625-2800 or visit www.riversidehealing.com