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Hot Stones at The Self Center

Experience Serenity Firsthand with Kristn Harrison.

Smooth basalt heated stones, soothing aromatherapy, foot reflexology and the healing energies of Reiki make for a truly unique massage experience. The combination of energy placement, trigger point pressure and heat helps to open pathways, improve circulation, and promote deep relaxation.

Kristin says ...The foundation of my work is an energy based Swedish-style blend of circulatory massage and trigger point pressure, which is very relaxing and lulls many of my clients into a restful sleep. This style uses long flowing strokes and focuses on helping your body feel balanced and nurtured. I specialize in bodywork that combines a soothing touch with deeper techniques that both relax the senses and break up areas of tension. When doing deeper tissue work, I don't believe in more pain, more gain. Muscle tissues will tense in an attempt to protect your body if the pressure is too deep. I prefer to work with your tissues to find the depth in which your muscles can melt open and relax. I also incorporate Energy Healing, Aromatherapy and Foot Reflexology techniques to further release tight muscles and to assist the body’s natural healing process.
I am a Nationally Certified and Massachusetts Licensed Massage Therapist, and Reiki Practitioner, with a certified membership through ABMP (www.abmp.com). I graduated from Healing Touch Institute in Wakefield, MA in the spring of 2004. I have taken various courses and workshops to further enhance my knowledge and skills to better service my clients, including Therapeutic Massage for Fibroymyalgia, Foot Reflexology, Hot Stones, Chair Massage, Aromatherapy, and Energy Based Modalities.
Using my intuitive wisdom and healing hands, I tailor a specific treatment designed to suit the needs of each client. Each body is unique, and I enjoy the challenge and discovery that unfolds in each session. I enjoy helping people and it comes through in every massage that I give.
Additionally, I hold a B. S. in Exercise Physiology and am certified as a personal trainer through the American College of Exercise. I believe strongly in the mind/body connection and am very passionate for all aspects of fitness and wellness.

HYPNOTIZED ON MAIN STREET

Hypnotized on Main Street
By Lydia Crafts/Staff Writer/Winchester Star/Winchester,MA
Thursday, February 22, 2007 - Updated: 11:03 AM EST

Driving along Main Street, shops selling mass-produced coffee, automobile oil-lube joints and ubiquitous stoplights can overshadow the little red house on the edge of the road. But once inside The Self Center, it’s the world outside the windows that falls into the background.

To merely walk inside The Self Center is almost enough to alter your state of mind. Low hanging horsehair ceilings, scented candles, ivory walls, curtains and carpets and exotic rocks from tropical locales create an environment that is both homey and imbued with possibility.

“It’s the energy in this place that does it,” said Pearlan Feeney-Grater, the owner of the Self Center, as she moves through the rooms pointing to where the kitchen table and master bedroom would have lain during the 1860s. She knows every nook in the 19th Century building, as it used to be her childhood home.

“My father always told me you have to have a business in here, Pearlan,” she said.

Practices that some regard with skepticism and apprehension, such as hypnotism, Reiki and handwriting analysis, are right at home inside The Self Center.

When some think of hypnosis, they imagine seemingly normal people being transformed, until before you know it they’re clucking like a chicken in front of a room full of strangers. The effect can seem odd and frightening, and perhaps that’s one of the reasons hypnotism is left largely unexplored.

But the reality is that hypnotism is for much more than entertainment purposes. Feeney-Grater said companies realized its benefits long ago and integrated hypnotic techniques into their commercials. There’s also trance-inducing music and hypnotic writing. “We are getting hypnotized all the time,” she said.

While sometimes used a manipulation tool, hypnotism can also be harnessed for your own purposes — to boost self-esteem, quit smoking, cure a phobia, perform better in a soccer match, release creative energy or to be better at simple, everyday tasks. This is what Feeney-Grater uses hypnotism for.

“We can make conscious decisions to stop smoking or not be stressed but the subconscious always wins over,” she said. “The subconscious is where persistent behaviors reside and through hypnotism we can redirect the course.”

Hypnosis takes place on the second floor, up The Self Center’s tall, narrow steps to a room in the back of a house with a slanted ceiling and floor. The space is small and the setup is simple; a table and chair and warmth emanating from a few candles on the walls.

Feeney-Grater has no one way to lure her subjects into a trance-like state. Through just the rhythm and use of her words and tone of voice, she can help people to retreat into their subconscious mind.

Sometimes she decides the technique to use by first decoding her patient’s personality through handwriting analysis. She said there are 300 characters in handwriting that reveals a person’s intelligence, intuition and creativity, the type of partner he or she needs, among other things. “Handwriting is a neuro-muscular response,” said Feeney-Grater. “It’s brain-writing.”

She also has subjects fill out a questionnaire asking them for their favorite colors, their goals, areas that need improvement in their lives. Once the hypnotic state has been achieved, Feeney-Grater makes suggestions that help her patients imagine their world differently and ultimately achieve their goals.

“I often quote psychologist Emile Coue who said a person’s free will always yield to the imagination,” said Feeney-Grater. “The imagination resides in the subconscious and with certain techniques we can quiet it. What you think is your reality.”

Feeney-Grater began her career as a speech and language pathologist. Needing to learn more about the mind, she was browsing the “holistic” section of the bookstore when a book on handwriting analysis dropped to the floor. It was a sign, she thought, and she later found out that an ancestor of hers had worked as a handwriting analyst years ago.

Then about 10 years ago, she signed up for a course on neuro-linguistics, which actually turned out to be a course on hypnotism. Feeney-Grater soon fell in love with it. “It was very serendipitous,” she said.

Now she said all the pieces of her life have coalesced into her business on Main Street. “It is my way of life to be and do and have whatever you want,” said Feeney-Grater. “To just be who you are and to value how powerful your mind is and use it respectfully and wisely — that’s what I do for myself and aspire for my clients.”

What's THE SECRET amongst friends?

Pearlan asks "What was I thinking?"

For those of you who know me, every August, I attend the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention. My gift to me! Imagine being in a major hotel for days or weeks with hypnotists, NLP'ers and the like! WHEW! Take a breath! Ongoing positive energy beyond what you have ever experienced.

So back to "What was I thinking?"

Last spring, I set a goal to learn from the masterminds about hypnotic marketing. I thought about it morning, noon and night and even imagined the best of the best in my presence. So, when the convention packet arrived in the spring, I was not a bit surprised to learn that the course of my dreams was being offered by a mastermind. Yes. That's right! The exact course I had dreamt about, thought about, visualized and no doubt knew would be available to me ... WAS. Here's the clincher, the course was offered by none other than Dr. Joe Vitale. Now if this name is of no meaning to you ... Think again (or be joining me soon ... more on that later ...) Did you see OPRAH recently as she revealed "The Secret"? If you did, you may have seen excerpts from the movie. Featured in this movie were the star teachers of The Secret including, Dr. Joe Vitale, Mike Dooley, Jack Campbell, Bill Harris, Bob Proctor, Bob Doyle, John Gray, Marie Diamond, Dr. John F. DeMartini, David Schirmer, John Assaraf and more .... Not to forget the mastermind Rhonda Byrne-Producer.

So back to “What was I thinking?"

Last spring what I relentlessly thought about ...came about in August. "What was I thinking?"... Was exactly what I attracted. I attracted the masterminds I was seeking. Even more, the days to follow were filled with “close encounters” of the best kind.

So, “What was I thinking?” Indeed!

Could it be that all along, that my thoughts were in line with The Law of Attraction as portrayed in The Secret? WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT ... COMES ABOUT. How fortunate can one be? As fortunate as you want to be!

So , “What was I thinking?”

I was thinking, it is time for me to share "like thoughts" with those of you who are ready. First, you are cordially invited to see The Secret, compliments of The Self Center.

Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007
Place: The Self Center
805 Main Street, Winchester, MA
Show time: 6:00-8:00
Hors d'oeuvres will be served during this viewing.

Now ... in doing this, you will secure your attendance at The Self Center for 3 classes on The Law of Attraction - Thursdays, March 29, April 5, April 12, Time: 6:00-8:00, Fee: $81.00

In this 3 week course you will:

.Understand and apply the principles of The Secret to your life
.Learn about The Law of Attraction and the power of your thoughts
.Set your Intention for what you want to be, do or have
.Create your own "Attraction cards"
.Learn to use your mind like the masterminds
.Learn of the role of the subconscious mind: Watch your thinking
.Experience a group meditation session for that which you are attracting
.Experience a group hypnosis session to attract exactly what you intend

A last thought ... As the masterminds say: Human Beings are like magnets ... Whatever thoughts you focus on for better or worse is what you will pull into yourself. A penny for your thoughts ... Make them positive ones. Learn how ... Join us. Please respond ASAP … this course will fill quickly. Deadline: Registration and fee due by March 15, 2007. Call or email Pearlan at 781-721-7299

Accept This Gift of Knowledge

How many of you asked for the Gift of Knowledge this last holiday season? Hum ... thought so! Perhaps, one gift still on your mind or did we regift it? Do you know it was the number one gift that could have brought you everything else for so little money? Take knowledge of health, for instance. No, really … TAKE IT ... 3x daily like an antibiotic for your mind.

It is with the knowledge of health that YOU can be, do and have whatever you want. As Benjamin Franklin said, “While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us." Well, knowing this, what would you say to allowing yourself the gift of 6 hours of knowledge that would give you this control to acquire whatever other gifts you need and want, on your own? Enter The Self Center ... The door is wide opened. I am giving you short notice so that you have very little time to think about this ... You will either seize this upcoming moment or wish you had.

How many times have you WISHED YOU HAD? You know what that feels like ... Of course, you also know what saying YES to something so vital to your existence feels like ... So, what is this all about? Simple ... Read on. On Thursday, February 1, 8 and 15, The Self Center is offering you the gift of knowledge for achieving your ideal health in mind, body and spirit. Just 3 classes (everything comes in three's, you notice?) will give you the knowledge to make positive choices about your health once again.

See this as a gift you give yourself, that keeps on giving and increases with ongoing use. Join Pearlan Feeney-Grater, M.S., CGA, CH and Michael J. Ricks, CNM-I, MA-C, to learn about the most basic Universal Law: Cause and Effect. Ignoring or challenging it, is costly to your health and longevity … Understanding how this law relates to your well-being gives you a sensible road map for healing and longevity. Read on about THE GIFT OF SELF-EDUCATION IN HEALTH AND LONGEVITY:

Thursday, February 1, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Are you glowing for all the wrong reasons? The Effects of Chemicals and Radiation on Your Health

Thursday, February 8, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM: What’s eating you? The Effects of your diet on Assimilation, Consumption, Elimination and Depletion

Thursday, February 15, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM: What Were YOU Thinking? The Effects of Your Mind on Health and Longevity - If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.

You don’t know you’ve been entrapped in dis-ease… Until you’re set free with the gift of knowledge. Accept this gift by joining us … Call or email Pearlan, now, to reserve your space. 1-781-721-7299 ... Fee: $27.00 for each class … $81.00 total must be paid in full prior to January 27, 2007 to guarantee your reservation. Registration information will be sent to you.

TIME TO BOOK IT FOR WORLD HYPNOTISM DAY

Even though you are most likely involved in holiday planning, it is time to book it! That's right. Book your night of enjoyment at The Self Center, Thursday, January 4, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Be my guest in celebration of the third annual World Hypnotism Day and YOU! World Hypnotism Day has proven to be one of the most impressive displays of professionalism and sharing of knowledge and skills by hypnotists around the world. Go to www.worldhypnotismday.com for free resources available to the public . Read about the popularity and benefits of hypnotism. We have read and heard the headlines about hypnotism in Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Canadian Living, Shape, O magazine and on popular syndicated television shows. Now it's time to come out and learn more about how hypnotism can help you. Enjoy relaxing, refreshments and rubbing elbows with the expert hypnotists. Call to reserve your space for the group relaxation at the end of the night. You will take home a relaxing CD to enjoy again and again in the privacy of your own home. Call Pearlan ASAP.

Show your hand ... Then open your mind.

Imagine being fear free. It begins with a single stroke and continues with words of wisdom, tailor made for you. That's right. Show your hand ... then open your mind. First I read your handwriting and then together, we rewrite the scripts of your mind as you need and want to be. Sounds simple? Well, it is. Life is to be simple. When it is not, perhaps we need to reexamine what we are doing and decide what works and what needs changing. Using Handwriting Analysis and Hypnosis together (H.A.H.), we can achieve this easily and painlessly. Try it and decide for yourself. Then breathe ... H.A.H. What do you have to lose? Nothing, except that which is no longer YOU. Visit http://www.theselfcenter.com/ or call me at The Self Center and find out more. The more you know ... the more you will want to know. The more you want to know ... the more you will know what you want.

Kristin Harrison, Licensed Massage Therapist

Pearlan is proud to present Kristin Harrison, Licensed Massage Therapist at The Self Center. Kristin is now offering therapeutic massages on Tuesdays and Sundays for her clients. When you book with her, your will experience serenity firsthand. See yourself snuggling into our cozy heated sheets… quiet your mind from your daily “to do” list, as the soft sounds of tranquility surround you. Awaken your senses to the calming blend of aromatherapy as you inhale deeply allowing your mind, body, and soul to relax… Imagine how you will feel after this massage for deep relaxation and rejuvenation. No need to imagine, call us. Give yourself the gift of serenity… you deserve it. The benefits will be tenfold with Kristin Harrison, who is a Nationally Certified and Massachusetts Licensed Massage Therapist. Specializing in muscular therapy for deep relaxation and therapeutic massage for Fibromyalgia. Kristin incorporates Reiki techniques to assist the body’s natural healing process in removing blockages. In addition to Massage Therapy and Reiki, Kristin also practices Foot Reflexology. Kristin holds a B.S. in Exercise Physiology and is certified as a personal trainer through the American College of Exercise. Kristin believes strongly in the mind/body connection and is very passionate for all aspects of fitness and wellness. When you book a session with her, you'll book again and again.