You Don’t Have to Settle!

Posted on January 6, 2012 by admin

Laughing Longevity, and this website, are  all about answering the question “How Good Can You Feel?”

After over 30 years in the field of experience enhancement I have collected an array of resources that can help anyone be unexpectedly surprised with their answer to the question “How good can you feel?”

Whether your answer to that question involves a major behavior change, like losing weight, or stopping a bad habit (like smoking); or simply learning to minimize stress and enhance your ability to experience pleasure, Laughing Longevity has a resource and implementation  strategy that can help.

I use powerful technologies of hypnosis and NLP, and the common sense practice of nutritional supplementation to assist my clients in reaching their goals.  You will feel better, and look better after working with me, guaranteed.

Isn’t it time to stop settling, and make an appointment today?

You can reach Rick at  503-693-9101

My office is located in the beautiful RoseSprings Center for the Healing Arts  in Hillsboro, Or.

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A New Tool for Emotional Freedom: PSTEC

Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin

There is nothing I like better than running across a brilliant new tool to help people change.  A fellow therapist recently pointed me towards what is now one of the coolest techniques in my coaching toolbox.  To say that the effects of this tool are amazing would be a gross understatement.  This is perhaps the most consistently effective tool for positive change that I have ever used.  My experience using this tool, to date, would put it in the same elite class as meridian tapping (EFT), standard suggestive hypnotic behavior enhancement, and the really cool Neuro-Linguistic Programming interventions. It will often work where those other techniques seemed to have stalled.  The name of this new tool is “percussive suggestion technique” or PSTEC for short.

PSTEC is the brainchild of British computer programmer turned hypnotherapist Tim Phizackerley.  The process PSTEC provokes when followed is interesting and effective.  I don’t want to give it away, but Tim does (literally).  If you click on any of the PSTEC links in this blog you can download free information and two free PSTEC audio files.  Please don’t confuse free with worthless.  The tracks he is giving away are the very ones that I use in my practice.  Priceless is a more apt description.

While PSTEC is a great addition to my coaching tool box, it lends itself equally well to the “do it yourself-helpers”.  Tim offers a range of products for both coaches and therapists, and those adventurous enough to take on their own emotions.  If you feel you’d like a bit more emotional freedom in your life then I strongly recommend that you check PSTEC out.  The price is certainly right.

Be Magnificent!

Rick Lefever

Laughing Longevity

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Can You Lose Weight While Feeling Magnificent?

Posted on March 22, 2012 by admin

A Press Release for my new class:

 

The numbers are so staggering that they are almost too big to wrap your head around.  According to the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) in their 2011 Obesity Report  “Today…more than two-thirds of adults…are overweight or obese…(page 8).”    Most of us have a general idea of how we should eat, and act, to enjoy a leaner, healthier and longer life.  Surprisingly, more than two-thirds of us just don’t do it.

It’s time for a change.

Rick Lefever,  Master Hypnotherapist and Hypnotic Behavior Enhancer,  is offering a free introductory class prior to the next offering of his powerful “Magnificent Body”  weight loss class.   In this free session Rick will explain what he describes as the unique and effective approach of his “Magnificent Body” weight loss program.  In this ten session program Rick guides his clients to experience what he calls “the incredible magnificence of their bodies”, and then lets that experience serve as the foundation upon which to build a new set of  routine daily behaviors that determine how their bodies look and feel.  Rick’s ability to guide his clients through change was featured in a recent “Portland’s Best Doctors” issue of Portland Monthly Magazine.

In his over 30 years in the fields of hypnosis, NLP, and behavior enhancement Rick reports repeatedly observing that long-term weight loss is rarely accomplished through grand or heroic behavior changes.  Rather, according to Rick, those changes that last the longest, and have the greatest cumulative effect, are the small, consistent, and repetitive behavior changes.  Small changes in eating that include eating the right foods; in the right amounts, begin the effortless gentle process of supporting your body becoming lean and healthy.  Additionally, Rick adds, gentle adjustments to behaviors concerning physical activity, practiced over time, can result in major changes in one’s life.  Rick describes these small, relatively easy behavior refinements as the route to life long weight loss that his approach pursues.

Rick says that he also incorporates easy and safe techniques from the newly emerging science of energy psychology.   Using a simple “tapping” technique, Rick claims to  help his clients literally dissolve barriers  to having the desired experience of their bodies—their “magnificent”  bodies.

Further details about the Magnificent Body program, as well as other programs offered by Rick Lefever, and his company Laughing Longevity can be found at the website www.Howgoodcanufeel.com.

Rick invites you to come enjoy the fun and empowering free introduction to Rick’s “Magnificent Body” class.  The regular cost of the full Body Magnificent Program is $300.  Portland Perks is currently offering a 50% coupon.

What:  Free Introduction to Magnificent Body  weight loss program.

Where:  RoseSprings Center for the Healing  Arts

5215 NE Elam Young Parkway, Hillsboro, Or. 97124

When:  Monday March 26th at 7PM and repeating Thursday March 29th at 10 AM.

Contact:  503-693-9101  www.Howgoodcanufeel.com

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Once upon a scale…or…How much does Magnificence weigh?

Posted on March 16, 2012 by admin

You are Magnificent!  Even if you don’t feel that yet…you will…trust me.  I am getting ready to launch another voyage of my Magnificent Body class.  The purpose of this 10 session class is to help you redesign your day-to-day activities to support your experience of your body’s magnificence.  You will design new behaviors around eating and activity that will support your body and help it thrive.  One delicious result of this experience of your body’s magnificence is that you will release unwanted  weight (or, if more appropriate, gain wanted weight).

Magnificent Body is not a typical “weight loss” class.  Those rarely, if ever work.  Much like most ill-fated diets, in a typical weight loss program you can usually get short-term results  based on conscious volitional actions…”will power”, but those results are usually temporary.    The problem is, “will power” is totally a function of your conscious mind.  It requires intentional effort.  Like holding your breath, or making a fist and holding it, you only do that for so long before you have to let go…out of energy, out of oxygen, and out of attention.  Instead, we are going to employ hypnotic technology to create lifestyle and behavior changes at an unconscious level, where you live the majority of your life .  Unconscious changes do not require “will power” or effort.  They are as automatic as breathing.

This is a permanent behavior design class.  We are going to apply ourselves to creating and implementing new life-long behavioral habits that support experiencing your body’s magnificence–experiencing your body the way you want to, in a way that is most satisfying to you.  We will be crafting this experience in small, manageable, incremental steps that will be easy to implement, and will continue operating automatically long after our class time is over.  You will find yourself performing these new behaviors without having to think about them and without having to work at them.  We will also develop ways to dissolve any barriers you might have to experiencing your magnificent body so that nothing can stop you.

You will learn to relax into the most amazing changes…into the experience of your most magnificent body.

The ten session class  will consist of five “in person” classes, and five conference calls.  In addition, you will have unlimited phone support during the class. The cost of the class is $300 (but, through March 21st you can purchase through Portland Perks for $150).  This class will lift off March 26th…don’t miss it!

For more information you can call Rick Lefever at Laughing Longevity   503.890.8120

To Enroll in the class call 503-693-9101

Rick and Laughing Longevity are located at:

RoseSprings Center for the Healing Arts

5215 NE Elam Young Parkway

Hillsboro, Or. 97124

 

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Step on up!

Posted on March 14, 2012 by admin

Have you ever momentarily stepped back from life…just a half a step…and discovered that somehow you had been a step or two back for sometime?  Like someone, somewhere inside, asked you step aside.  Being polite, you said “Sure”.  You stepped aside, and stayed there.  The ultimate noble gesture, permanently stepping aside to let yourself pass.  Only, you never do.  Being a step back, life is visible, but just out of reach.  Suddenly several years, and more than several potentially significant events–they could have been significant had you only stepped up–have mysteriously passed on without your direct participation.

From the perceptual position of being “a step back” you get to watch the parade of life go by, but you miss the juice, the glory, and the anguish, of being in the parade.  Life is never as rich from that remote perspective.  It may be interesting, perhaps even entertaining, but it lacks the flavor of immediacy.

In NLP this perspective is called “dissociated”.  It is a marvelously useful state for some therapeutic processes, but a good therapist will always make certain that you are “associated”, or plugged back in, before you leave their office.  We are , however, not always as kind to ourselves as a good therapist would be.  We don’t always make sure we have fully stepped back into life before we let our attention wander off.

The challenge of wandering off from life is that it diminishes the potency with which you navigate through life.  Sometimes that potency is so reduced that you forget, or feel  unable, to wander back.  Here dwells the domain of feeling helpless: a victim to circumstance.  It takes some kind of outside push you bring you back the life’s table.

Conversely, there is in my experience, a state that is the polar opposite of dissociatic ennui.  Let us call this state “stepping up”.  It is the ultimate act of intention.  When you “step up” to life, you step back into the flow and wonder.  Life is so much bigger, bolder, and brighter here.    Sure it has it’s bumps and bruises, but it has more than a fair share of smiles and delight.  It is well worth the price of admission.

 

 

So, my gift to you—and it is free— is the following very simple hypnotic suggestion:

Take a deep breath, and STEP UP.  Literally imagine step up and into your body from wherever you might have been.

Dare to step back into the flow of life, whatever that means for you.

And Smile.

 

My newest Body Magnificent class is starting March 26th with a free introductory session.  Step up to the your magnificent body!

 

 

You can reach Rick at  503-693-9101

My office is located in the beautiful RoseSprings Center for the Healing Arts  in Hillsboro, Or.

 

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