Testimonial – Change your thoughts, change your world.

“Jane Ann helped me tremendously.   I came to her with my life long issues and marriage problems, including post-traumatic depression from the loss of my grand-father when I was a child.  My parents got divorced, and I was devastated and had cultural shock when we relocated  to the U.S. from Asia when I was a teenager.

For years, I carried feelings of deep anger, despair, low self esteem, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide, plus my marriage of eight years was falling apart, in addition to all this…I had my three year old daughter to take care of.

Before I saw Jane Ann, I was unable to think clearly; my ability to work was deteriorating.  I was increasingly withdrawn from my social circles and family.  All the problems I had were increasingly intensifying and my life was turning for the worst as time went by.

I came to see Jane Ann Covington at the Hypnosis Institute International School when all other conventional treatments had failed to help me.  Using and switching through different psychologists and anti-depressant medications was not effective for me. On the other hand, Jane Ann was very understanding, with vast insight in problem solving and counseling. I allowed my self to trust her and participate in her techniques and with her personalized for me self hypnosis recordings and interactive self visualization.  In just a few visits, I was able to come out with a different perspective for my inner issues and marriage problems.

Jane Ann gave me new knowledge, showed me how to think outside the box that ultimately helped solve my own problems and deep fears that had for years seemed impossible to do.  I am now happily divorced and stay on good terms with my ex-spouse. We are helping each other raise our little girl cooperatively and lovingly.

I also over came the problems that I had mentioned earlier; taking control of my own life and living in healthy ways.  My experience with Jane Ann was wonderful, she’s both professional and kind.  Thanks to Jane Ann, I am confident to say that I’m capable to over come any obstacles in my life, I feel truly blessed from my learning experience with her. Instead of being self critical, I can now be good to my self, my family and everyone around me.  Best wishes always.”

~T. P., Orange Park, FL

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How to End Obsessive Behaviors

©2010 Jane Ann Covington

In our life, anyone can learn to be obsessed with something or someone. Most people with these symptoms had family members with similar patterns and they were passed down to the next generation (not by genetic encoding, but by example).
Definition of obsess: (verb) preoccupy or fill the mind of (someone or something) continually, intrusively, and to a troubling extent seemingly powerless to resist.
What doesn’t work: If I just figure it out, then I can control it. Why this strategy isn’t a strategy that works is that the patterns are in the subconscious and the “figure it out” is in the conscious mind. The subconscious mind always wins the battle in the end by replaying that old unhelpful obsession or addiction, until the underlying causes or unconscious beliefs are changed (by hypnosis and hypnotherapy).
Bad habits can become Obsessions, and when taken to the extreme, can eventually be classified as OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). This pattern is similar to an addiction to something or someone. The underlying cause(s) of these seemingly out of control patterns tends to be an immature perspective, neediness, out of control emotions or anxiety, brought on by perfectionism coupled with a lack of self-esteem or an overindulgence in self-esteem.
All addictions are an attempt to give to our self. There’s nothing wrong with giving to ourselves or making ourselves feel safe, secure, and comfortable. However, we need to find appropriate ways to accomplish this in order to remain healthy, balanced, and appropriately in control of ourselves.

The key to get out of this seemingly never-ending cycle is two fold:
1) To address these bad habits/patterns in the consciousness mind through education about your mind (which hardly anyone has ever been taught how their mind actually works and how to work it to your benefit), and then practice using this understanding appropriately
2) Confront and reeducate the subconscious mind with masterful hypnosis and hypnotherapy to clear unhelpful beliefs and patterns; becoming open to reinforce new beliefs, patterns, and strategies.
Coming at the problem from these two angles, helps develop effective skills that dissolve the old unhelpful patterns, in order to regain control of your mind, behaviors, freedom and your life.
Some areas that must be addressed include: 1) make a plan/strategy (broken down to doable, manageable processes) to take back control; 2) set limits; 3) develop skills to redirect your mind to healthy, helpful thoughts and behaviors.
Finally, as we first mentioned, we can’t always make changes ourselves. Just understanding why we do something doesn’t usually make it go away. Successful people ask for help. We’re here to help! Our success rate using my personally developed methodology process is 95%.
Call to schedule a FREE 20 minute confidential strategy consultation session in person or by phone today.

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A noticeable difference…

After targeting my specific needs and having an open mind, I can absolutely say I notice a difference in my attitude, happiness, and a significant reduction in general anxiety.  Thank you so much!

-C., Georgia

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A powerful tool…

I believe hypnotherapy is one of the most powerful tools to overcome anxiety.  It helped me!

- Natalie H., Georgia

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Fear of Flying & Other Uncomfortable Blocks

Jane Ann Covington,  BA, CCHT, RBT
for The Piedmont Review

“It scares me to death to just think about getting on a plane!” This client has a fear of flying. She’s been through all the conventional attempts to deal with her fear–from self medication (alcohol), prescriptions and therapy, education about flying, to shear avoidance–all in an attempt to make the necessity of flying an experience that she can live with.

In Atlanta alone hundreds of thousands of people have this and/or other fears that stop them from fully living their life every day. Fear can affects us mentally and emotionally, as well as physically, socially, and even financially.

A specific circumstance or even anticipation leading to anxiety, in addition to the fear of failure, can stop people from acting on an opportunity that could greatly enhance the quality of their life. Excessive fear can make you feel paralyzed, numb, lightheaded, unable to catch your breath, make your heart feel like it’s going to jump out of your chest. Scary, often unrealistic beliefs can make your mind go blank, make you feel sick to your stomach, give you a throbbing headache and more, but mainly you feel totally out of control.

What greatly compounds the problem is an additional fear of looking foolish in the eyes of others backed up by being criticized for being irrational. For instance, statistics show that flying is much safer than driving, yet they easily drove themselves to our appointment.

Most of my clients are pretty successful in their overall life. They’re smart enough to have figured out that a fear such as the fear of flying mostly has to do with how they are thinking about their fear, especially when measured against the perception of others.

The good news is that most of our fears are learned responses. But telling people or yourself to “change your thinking” or “chill out” doesn’t make it any easier for these folks. When you think about it, that’s usually easier said than done.

Even more terrifying to many is that this out-of-control, anxious, total mind-body feeling can seem to come out of the blue. Nevertheless, the feeling is actually generated in our minds from our imagination and what we focus on. Then thoughts become habits; habits become patterns; patterns become knee jerk reactions.

When the client’s history is carefully reviewed there is often a moment in time when they typically have frightfully misinterpreted the world around them, or their own inner world, and perceive themselves to be out of control. This is where the problem begins.

My client, now age 42, amazed at her own recollection of the first time she had that same feeling, reports in hypnosis, “I am 16. My family and I are traveling to Hawaii for the first time. Everyone is excited. As we approach Honolulu, we hit turbulence and the plane feels like it’s going to drop out of the sky. Suddenly my heart feels like it’s in my throat. I can’t catch my breath. I am feeling sick to my stomach. I am scared that after all those hours on the plane, it will crash.”

After that experience, and increasingly over the years, every time my client would even think about taking a flight she would not only have the same feeling, but it had gotten worse and worse. Just the thought of flying would send her over the edge feeling overwhelmingly anxious by the time she came to see me.

Of course, these same reactions are common in people who develop fear of driving after an accident, fear of public speaking or making that presentation at the next meeting, fear of leaving that relationship that isn’t working for you or your partner, meeting new people out socially, and more.

Fortunately, there are ways to move beyond the old debilitating glitch back into balance. The goal, in this case, is for her to become comfortable with flying; to learn an appropriate response that allows freedom to act according to current conditions and goals rather than react in response to previous circumstances.

There’s no magic that can turn the tide and set her free. However, when taken through a very specific reeducation process including education, coaching, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, personal discovery, awareness, time, integration, and retraining with a little outside mindwork/homework, it may seem almost like magic because it can typically be accomplished over a 30 day period.

Although the client is coming to me to have me influence them, one of the most effective methods of the work we do is that they learn to influence themselves more appropriately. This regaining of control of themselves goes a long way to transforming their prior irrational response.

So, in the end, success is most often achieved by reeducating the conscious, logical mind along with retraining the subconscious mind’s reaction to flying.

Almost always, clients report how much easier and faster the change came when compared to their original expectation of what it would take, given the years they suffered with the problem. This is good! And, there is hope……because the mind is the common denominator in all that we do and all that we are!

Jane Ann Covington can be reached at Center for Developing Mastery (404) 442-8700 for more information or to schedule an appointment. She is a certified hypnotherapist, life coach, speaker, producer, writer, and educator. She is featured on the new CD Mastering Stress Overnite. She may also be accessed online at www.hypnosisinstitute.com

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This is the real thing…

“All my life I had a fear of failure. My mind would  create worse case scenarios that would scare me away going after my dreams.  I had read every book that I could find on positive mental attitude and overcoming fears, and quite frankly they seemed to have no effect.

With just a couple of sessions with Jane Ann, however, I feel like a different person. I understand that anxiety and worry won’t accomplish anything, and quite frankly, I don’t waste time on them anymore.

1000 times more powerful than the best self-help book ever written, the value of the Covington method is that it is tailored specifically for you.

Once Jane Ann understands who you are she applies the solution that is custom tailored to help you overcome your obstacles.

This is not one-size-fits all pop psychology. This is the real thing condensed into a powerful solution built just for you.

It is a lot more than merely helping you overcome anxiety.  The Covington Method can help you become the person you’ve always known that deep down you could be.”
- Reed S. (California Attorney), California

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Feedback from people who overcame anxiety, fears and obstacles

Stress

“Listening to the tape you made me as I go to sleep at night has transformed my life.”
- R. Jonnaski, Georgia

“The stress was killing me. I feel like myself again; thanks to a few sessions of hypnosis and learning how to easily and effectively help myself. Thank you, Ms. Covington.”
- A. Knight, Georgia

Fear of Public Speaking

“It was the most important meeting of my life. I was going before the entire state legislature to present the case for our agency funding. I never thought I could do it, but I was a huge success and got my points across! Working with you, Jane Ann, did more for me than help me overcome my fear of public speaking. My confidence has increased in all respects”
- N. McGhrath, Georgia

“The thought of speaking with more than one person at a time use to petrify me and I couldn’t breathe. My heart would race. I would break into a cold sweat and feel faint. My mind would go blank. I couldn’t believe how easy it was to get over this old pattern. It didn’t happen overnight, but within a few months, I felt like a new person. I’ll probably never be a public speaker, but at least I feel like I can live in the world with other people.”
- J. Roberts, Georgia

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