The Alpha State Advantage for Type-A’s

Picture this: It's movie night at home, and you're about 45 minutes into a murder mystery...

You're engrossed in the visuals, the plot, the characters.

You're noticing clues characters left behind and others overlooked.

You're seeing all the red doors the characters should avoid and the yellow ones that could get them to safety.

In this moment, your brain and nervous system are ON enough to process a tremendous amount of information, yet OFF enough to prevent the kind of panicky analysis that spoils the fun for yourself and others.

This is the hypnotic state of mind.

It's not some party trick, and it’s not meditation. It's a state that your nervous system and brain already know how to drop into, and you can bring it to work with you too!

The Alpha State Advantage

When new clients seek me out and describe the pressure, anxiety, and loneliness they feel in their leadership roles, I know that talk therapy or coaching won’t be quite enough.

They need something they can do at their desks or between meetings, something that helps them briefly drop in and remember what it feels like to be safe and fully capable; to relax back into their authority. Guided hypnosis and self-hypnosis are explicit and directive techniques that can help you do just that.

These techniques temporarily calm down your nervous system (sympathetic and parasympathetic), which governs your fight-or-flight responses (incl. breath, heart rate, and digestion), so your brain can shift into what neuroscientists call the Alpha state.

The Alpha state is when neurons fire at a moderate frequency of 8-12 Hz and the brain hovers between active thinking and deep rest.

In this state of mind, surface-level chatter quiets down, and the neural networks that govern your emotional regulation and information processing become more malleable and intuitive.

And while your bodily alarm bells are being turned down, you can ask your brain to do what it does best: look around, take in the bigger picture, make unexpected connections, and find more of those yellow doors to walk through.

Accessing the Alpha State

The reason I’ve shared guided hypnosis and self-hypnosis techniques with my Type-A clients since 2023 is that they make it easier to drop into your Alpha state.

Each technique consists of a series of personalized cues that train your brain and nervous system to drop in for 5-10 minutes - no extra app on your phone, no proprietary mantra required.

So if you're a Type A leader who knows all too well what pressure feels like, but you need a little help remembering what leading with relaxed authority feels like, I'd love to help you.

Together, we can create a simple, personalized technique that will make the challenge of doing your job and leading your team a whole lot more fun.