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Relax with Preparing for Uncertainty

This Ericksonian hypnosis program by Dr. Eric Greenleaf will enhance your ability to feel safe and relaxed in new situations as they arise in your life. Use the program to prepare for a job interview, a first date, a new baby, a career change, or the challenges of everyday living.

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In a mellifluous voice, and brilliantly using stories, metaphor and music, Eric Greenleaf offers us a powerful way to prepare for life's unexpected events and challenges. Taking us on a journey where we equip ourselves with all that we will need along the way, we move first into a place of quiet, deep relaxation and then into deep trance.

This trance state ushers us through a preparation of mind, body, and spirit, together with feelings and actions, to help us find our own unique way to deal with this journey in life.

The CD encourages us to expect unexpected events, tests, performances, and trials along the road, and to prepare ourselves to remain calm and curious, and intrigued rather than overwhelmed by life's surprises and challenges. Dr. Greenleaf invites us to explore which tools to take with us on this life-long excursion, and identifies the many rich resources we all already have inside of us.

I plan to recommend this important and unusual presentation to my clients, colleagues and friends. Rich in detail, imagery and feeling, it can only be helpful to all of us as we face the challenges and surprises of living in an increasingly complex world.

— Joan H. Cole, Ph.D., LCSW
— Therapist and Training Supervisor

Preparing for Uncertainty is an easy, peaceful introduction to the hypnosis world. One is very gradually guided into hypnotic trance and given a series of subtle suggestions about how to deal with the various situations encountered by all of us who live in this ever changing hectic world. I find the CD particularly useful in grounding myself when I am anxious about a specific situation or making an important decision.

— Pat Salony

I eagerly listened to this CD to prepare myself for the greater financial and physical uncertainties of the retirement years. After listening for the first time, I found surprisingly that I walked easily, fluidly, effortlessly. Happy memories of past joys came to mind. I was detached from interactions that would ordinarily irritate me.

Though the CD is meant for a wide audience, it becomes personally meaningful because Eric includes so many different images that a person can select those most important to him or her. I look forward to the benefits that will come from listening to the CD many times.

— Jane B. Brooks, Ph. D.
— Clinical Child Psychologist

Dear Dr. Greenleaf, what a wonderful CD! I had been really stressed out about upcoming surgery . . . sleepless nights, irritability at work, a near miss accident in the car . . . a total mess emotionally. Your CD put me right back on track. It was like a travel guide to serenity. I owe you much. Thank you.

— R.L. Fuentes
— Graphic Designer

With Eric's caring and skillful support I was able to face precarious retina surgery on my sighted eye. His steadying voice led me to my own courage in a profound and lasting way. Eric is an affirming spirit, a poet, and a mensch.

— Marcelline Krafchick, Ph.D.
— Professor Emerita, Cal-State University, Hayward

What a stimulating journey into the unknown in Preparing for Uncertainty!

From initial image to final resolution, Dr. Greenleaf illustrates a deep understanding of what we experience as we face life's uncertainties. He offers us a wealth of practical suggestions on how to deal with such doubts, fears, anxieties, and questions. These down-to-earth ideas humanize our concerns and, at the same time, affirm our abilities to handle their multi-layered challenges.

He does not stop there, however; from the kaleidoscope of the ordinary world, he lifts us into a larger, more universal perspective. From here we glimpse possibilities of self-knowledge we only dimly realized we might have. This is Wisdom Healing at its best. Buy this program.

— Lois Silverstein, Ph.D., REAT
— Expressive Arts Therapist, Writer

Eric Greenleaf's inviting CD provides us with a clear guide for the most constant fact of everyday human life, its newness and unpredictability, and how we can best plan to face this newness calmly, flexibly, and successfully. His voice is that of a warm, supportive raconteur, informal yet systematic, colloquial yet well informed, urgent and directive without pushing, repetitive without monotony, like a drumbeat of varying tempos and emphases.

He encourages the listener, most of all, to have faith in self, faith that the will to succeed is nourished both by one's own style of preparation and by confidence that resourcefulness lies in periods of ''time out,'' when one forgets the subject at hand, in order then to return to it with a renewed skill. I recommend this CD to anyone concerned with strengthening the sense of autonomy and competence.

— Stephen Schoen, MD
— World Leader in Teaching Psychotherapy

Eric Greenleaf shows you how to turn anxiety about change and uncertainty into calm curiosity about what the future may bring, and a feeling of flexible preparedness for anything.

Like an athlete's warm up exercises, this trance builds your confidence that you will be able to respond to life's stressful events in your own way, using your own strengths.

— Judith Z. Gold
— Attorney

Eric Greenleaf's CD, Preparing for Uncertainty, is beautiful, moving, consoling, and freeing. It helps one meet life with thoughtful feeling and curious knowing. It empowers one to act and to receive life as fully as one would like, with ease and grace. It inspires courage and engenders hope in the midst of life's adventures, fears, tribulations, and joys.

Greenleaf approaches the listener of this CD in a remarkably nuanced way. He supports the authenticity and integrity of the individual as he deals with common human concerns and dilemmas. The beauty and juxtaposition of words and phrases, accompanied as they are by a tone of tender compassionate strength, foster and sustain friendship and play, action and character, silence and comfort, and the full expression of life's sorrows and joys.

As I listen to this CD, I become grounded, feel connected to others, find my spirit enlivened, and am empowered to speak and act with integrity. I have recommended this CD to friends, family, and associates. Listening to this reflective meditation is a wonderful way to prepare to meet the challenges and gifts of life.

— Mary Rose Bumpus, RSM, Ph.D.
— Religious Sister of Mercy
— Assistant Professor
— Seattle University

Eric, I found your Uncertainty CD just wonderful when I listened last evening. Listening to you as we went on this little journey had me feeling delighted. Loosening and lightening up to the experience of both the preparation and the walk itself left me smiling throughout. It seemed so colorful and whimsical. The trance really worked. Plus I am reminded of how to conduct a trance session in the best possible way with a Technicolor barrage of detailed imagery and metaphor. Today I am still transformed.

— Carolyn Finn Mitchell, PhD
— Adult and Adolescent Psychotherapy

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