Empowered Within with Jennifer Pilates

From Turmoil to Inner Peace with Ann Hince

July 06, 2022 Ann Hince Season 6 Episode 68
Empowered Within with Jennifer Pilates
From Turmoil to Inner Peace with Ann Hince
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Ann can show the way…From Inner Turmoil to Inner Peace. In the process, as dis-ease is released, our bodies can move more into alignment. Ann's goal is to reach those people who really want inner change, inner peace, those who have the desire and will to do the inner work. There are many who do not want to look inside, but if you are someone who does, who really wants change, then it is Ann's pleasure to show you the path.

When Ann was 19, she woke one morning to find her mother dead in her bathroom. Twenty years later the tears from that trauma were still just under the surface. Ann found a simple technique that helped her release these emotions - but she went further and can now put her awareness inside her body - and has changed the bone structure of her skull and grown ½ an inch at age 55. Ann has found that seeking out our truth, what we truly feel, and accepting those feelings, is the key to inner peace.

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welcome to empowered within a soul glinting transformational podcasts that will set your soul on fire through candid and inspiring conversations. Leading experts, celebrities, healers, and I share our journeys of how we've overcome challenges to living an empowered life from within I'm your host, Jennifer Pilates. Welcome to another episode of empowered within. Hi there and welcome to the show. I am honored to have with us today's guest and hints. When Ann was 19, she woke one morning to find her mother passed away in the bathroom. 20 years later, the tears from that trauma were still lurking under the surface. And found a simple technique that helped her release these emotions and has developed the ability to sense inside her body and release a physical tension stored in her connective tissue using solely the focus of her. And has found that seeking out the truth, what we truly feel and accepting those feelings is the key to inner peace. Welcome to the show. And thank you. It's lovely to be here. I am so honored to have you, so take me back to that moment where your 20 years' worth of trauma came back up to you. What was the result of that? Well, it came to me through a business altercation when a couple of other. And I was in my late thirties at the time and they thought I'd done something wrong. And they were very confident self-assured women and I was not, and it just went over and over in my mind cause they thought I'd done something wrong. And I didn't think I had, and I couldn't sleep for days. And that's when I realized that maybe. Yeah, other people don't do this. Maybe this is a little weird and maybe there's something from my childhood that I need to start looking at because it reminded me of how I would react when my dad would tell me I've done something wrong and I didn't think I had, so that was kind of the first inkling. But then fairly soon after that, and I don't remember the timeframes, but I actually went to a doctor's appointment and he was a holistic physician and he recognized I was more stressed than I should be for where I was, because I was a stay at home mother with two young boys. So it should have been okay. But he asked me my stress level on a zero to 10 scale and I said it was an eight. And then he asked me. And it was that question that I knew then that it was from my mother's death 20 years earlier at this point, because the tears were still just on the surface. Wow. That is so touching. So was it through this doctor's appointment that helped you to develop this mind technique? What brought you down that. Yeah. He actually used this technique with me. It's called emotional freedom technique called EFT, and it's also called tapping. So he used it with me for about 15 minutes working on my mother's death. And I walked away from that appointment. Being able to tell the story of her death in my mind. Without the emotions there anymore. So to me, that was the first realization that we keep these memories and these emotions stored physically in our body and that we could release them. That is amazing. Now, how do you use that technique today? Well, I don't use it as much today because I kind of moved beyond it. What I've realized over time is what it does is it opens up the subconscious mind and expands our awareness. So I did use it a lot to begin with for years, and I still use it once a week for a group I have, but I went through all my childhood traumas. I wrote them all down and I tapped through one each night for about an hour to an hour. Each night until I'd gone through them all. And I found my mind becoming quiet, which was my goal. I want it in a piece, so it was happening. So I just wanted more and more. So I realized the expansion of awareness, which I didn't know what that meant when I started this journey. You know, we use that word a lot, but I started to become aware of my emotions during the. And then as I went through this process, just working with it more and more, I became aware of the physical sensations underneath that, the emotions, right? Cause we use the words like sadness or anger or frustration, but what we're really describing is the tension that we're holding inside our body. Right. Because we can see when someone's angry by how they're holding themselves. But I wasn't aware of that to begin with. I could not have been aware of those physical sensations when I started this journey. Because I just wasn't aware. I didn't have that awareness, but as I released layer upon layer of emotion and tension, I became aware of those physical sensations. So then I worked with bones, which is like a deeper level. And at that point I didn't feel like I needed to use EFT as much. That is incredible. Now, while you are going through this process, using the EFT, where you doing this hand in hand with your doctor, or was this something that you were able to do on your. I did it on my own. I went home that day and I looked online because the person who developed it, Gary Craig gave him. To, to the world for free. So you could just look it up online. You still can. There's many, many people out there using this technique. I would just warn people. If you're going to go online and learn it, learn it from one of the original people like maybe Gary Craig and I have a video on my YouTube channel because a lot of people have moved more towards the positive. And I know from where I am now, where I can sense inside my body. What we want to do is find the negative, the darkness, the shadow we use, all those words, find the negative that stuck inside of us and release that. And that's what UFT is so powerful in doing. It's finding those feelings, finding that darkness, that stored emotion go. That is incredible. What do you think has been your biggest aha moment along your healing journey? Oh, well there's many aha moments. The biggest one, well, one of them was probably a little bit further down my journey, so right. I've only really talked about the first step. Then I actually started feeling those sensations inside of me. And they would shift. They would let go. Once I was aware of them, I could hold my awareness on them, on that tension. Mostly for me, it was fear in my stomach. I would focus on that tension and it would shift and then I would do it again and again and again, and it would just dissipate. So at some point during that process, I noticed that I could keep my awareness inside my body. Once the tension had really. Which is a little weird. I've never heard about it. And so actually started doing some research. I believe it's the original meaning of the word insight, because I'm actually able to see or sense inside my body. And that was a big aha moment for me. Cause, cause I didn't know what it was and I didn't know what I could do from there. Ons. I started using that. I started playing, I felt like I was playing. It's like, okay, can I do it again now that I've done it once? Can I do it again? And once I could do it again, what could I do with it? So I started moving my awareness around inside, and I noticed that I could find tension. Or no tension, right? I could actually just differentiate tension for neck tension, so I would play with it. And I would find a place that had tension hold my attention on the tension and it would shift, it would release. And as I would do it over and over and over again. At some point, it took many, many months, but I could actually get my awareness inside my head. And once I got my awareness inside my heads, this was another shift it's like, there was so much pain and tension and the forces inside my head, pulling my head out of alignment that I had not been aware of. For 50 years at this point. So we live with so much tension inside of us that we really have no idea we're living with. Our awareness is not there. So now I'm at a deeper level of awareness. And so I started working on this a little bit at a time over and over again. And over a period of time, the bones have actually shifted, released into a more aligned. Which is like, it was great having those x-rays last year. So that was another point, right? When she had the x-rays taken and a half comparison once since 2013, that shows the changes in my skull bones that this release of inattention has created that blew my mind to actually see those x-rays. And then again, just a few months ago, I had my son measure me and I've grown half an inch as a 55 year old. That is incredible. So to maybe go another step further in explaining this. When you say that you're holding attention, is this similar to thinking a Reiki healing? Cause I'm sure that maybe people are thinking that way. How could you describe it a little bit more so that we get there with you on this? Because this is quite interesting. Right. So I had never heard of this either. So when I'm feeling sexy inside the way I try and explain it as, imagine you have a toothache or a stomach ache, you know, where that pain is coming from, right. You're aware of it. But once the pain has gone, you're no longer aware of the exact place where it was. You can't kind of get to where that place was. Again, I could do that. I could keep my awareness inside my body. Which is kind of weird. And then I would just hold my awareness. So imagine, you know, you've, you've stubbed your toe or something. Right. You know, that pain is there. Can you keep your awareness? Can you keep focusing on that place in the body, your toe, where that pain is? Right. We can kind of imagine what that is. I'm doing this on the inside. Of my body and moving around on the inside. So it is, if I'm not using my mind, I'm not using my thinking mind to do it. I'm using my sensing mind. So I'm feeling and not thinking, Hmm. Now, is this something that you now transfer and practice on other people? Or is this something that you teach other people how to use this? I can show other people how to do it. I don't, I could not have got to where I am now without going through those early phases. Right. Using the EFT and feeling your feelings. And I talk about it in my book. I talk about the different stages that I went through and on my YouTube channel. So anyone else can do this, but it does. Dedication. I really, really wanted to change. So I really had that will and desire to do this work and other, anyone else can do that too. What challenges do you feel that you've overcome through the healing processes and the different modalities that you've worked through? Ooh, there's all sorts of things. As we let go of tension on the inside, right? As we become more peaceful on the inside, we become more peaceful on the outside. So I not as reactionary as I used to be, I'm not as negative. Right. One of the fun things for me to experience is once we let go of the negativity, the positive thoughts, actually just around. We don't need to try and think them. They are just there. So that it's really, really fun. We actually become lighter too. Right. We're actually lightening our burden. I think it's part of the enlightenment process is that releasing of the burden and actually feeling later, right. Being able to laugh more, to smile more easily. That is really fun to me because I actually felt heavy. Um, I remember feeling really. Held down weight down for so many years, and that's really fun to have had that change. And one of the fun things that has happened fairly recently, as I know that our skull is our echo chamber for a voice, so had so much tension in my skull. He used to have migraines for many, many years. I had migraines, but I'd been releasing that tension over and over so I can actually see. Notes now that I couldn't sing before. So it's actually fun for me to sing in the shower or the car more so than before, because my voice has actually changed. That's incredible. This is just so amazing. What advice would you give to others who are attempting to recover from traumatic incidents or trauma that they've experienced, you know, as a young child. Well, I would encourage people near. The first thing to do is actually just to become aware of your emotions during the day and not get caught up in them. And that in itself is not an easy step. It takes practice to do an awareness to do, um, but also learning something like EFT for me, I actually had, when I went home and learned how to do it. I practiced it. I actually had an experience with my cat 17 year old cat. We were told he was, his kidneys were starting to fail and he needed to have a daily Stateline shot. So the first time I gave him one, I was so scared. My hand was shaking so much and I knew I wasn't gonna be able to do this every day. Cause it was just too much for me. So I tapped about. I tapped about my hand shaking attacks about my fear of hurting him. And I talked about all my memories from injections. Cause I'd had very many over the years and the next day the needle just slid right in. There was no fear left inside of me. And that's when. The freedom is on the other side of the emotions, right. If I can get to the other side of that fear, that freedom, that's where I want to be. So knowing that right. Having an experience of that. So maybe learning EFT and tapping on something that's fairly simple. So you can see that the freedoms on the other side, and then. Then you just know that those feelings and those emotions just stuck inside of us. It's just energy that we've held inside and it wants to be released. We just have to give it an opportunity to be released. And that's what this work does. I love that you use that example because some people may just be thinking of like, Horrific traumatic event. And, and that is, and I feel for you, I've been through that with my senior kitty. So I told I was giving shots every day for years. I totally understand. And it is, it's very traumatic. I would have never thought about tapping. So I love that you gave something that is traumatic for us to go through is for baby parents. But at the same time may not be as traumatic as dealing with a loved one's passing. So that people can see that difference there in that variation, I've had a lot of success with using tapping, never would have thought to use it for that though. And I'm really glad you, that you gave that because you can, it can be something simple and it doesn't have to be something. And I think that right. People need to understand that. And maybe you can share a little bit more on this when you're going through the tapping process. There are emotions that come up they're supposed to come up so that they can just be released, but we don't want people to think that through tapping, they're going to go into the rabbit hole of darkness either. So will you kind of walk people through that? Yeah. And you know what I found over the years, it's like, you really only shown as much as. Able to handle at any time. So it's layer upon layer, right? If I had been aware of all that tension inside my head, 10 years ago, I could not have born that pain and those forces, but over the years I was actually, you know, my awareness expanded and when I was ready to deal with it, I was shown it. Right. So as we're walking through some traumatic event that happens, we have emotions to work on. So with my mother's experience, my mother's death. The first time I'd worked through at night, I'm just actually guessing here. Cause I can't remember the specifics, the details, but I imagined that I just told about finding her in the bathroom and the fear and everything that happens then. And then what you do is you walk through the whole story, tap through the emotions as they come up. Then you go back to the beginning of the story. And as you do that more details come up, more specifics, come up and more emotions come up and you just walked through the story again, and then you bring it back to the beginning and you do it again. So eventually I would get to the place where I remembered that when I woke up in the morning, It was quiet. And my mother always had the radio going. So even that was a sign that something was wrong, but it wasn't necessarily something I picked up on the first time I had to get rid of those surface emotions first and then come back and do it again. Well now do you feel when, when you were going through your process and we'll call them maybe rounds of EFT tapping through that was that. Well months process, a year's process. How did that timing go for you with that healing? When I started out just using it daily, I started just becoming aware of my emotions during the day. So maybe I would only become aware of them once during the day at that point. And I would tap, but over time I would notice it more and more. So I would do it more and more during the day. But I noticed things changing. I noticed myself getting better. That's when I write down all my childhood, I don't call them traumas necessarily, but every emotional memory that I could think of from childhood and it was three or four pages of memories. So I went through that one each day. So that was multiple months process. And then, you know, even then I would go on, it opens up the subconscious mind. So memories will come to mind. Like later on that had been hidden before, because you weren't ready to see them. So then I would just keep going. So yeah, over the years, I've just, it's actually been about 15, 16, 17 years since I started this process. And it was quite a few years before I was actually able to put my awareness inside. And so now do you feel that years later, has anything come back up, you know, specifically surrounding the incident with your mom passing? Or is it really just nothing. It's just a story. It's just words now. Yeah. And that's what this does. It frees up those words, those memories so that they don't, they're not triggers inside anymore. So at this point, I'm actually, I will actually go out of my way to find triggers. I will watch the news. I want to know what's happening inside of me so that I can actually get to deeper. Levels of healing. And if something does trigger me, I have a 19 year old son. He does mountain biking. And so I, when I go and watch him, I use that as an experience to feel inside and to let go so that I can actually become peaceful at a deeper level. And working inside, I am still doing that. So I'm actually working inside my bones, inside my two throughts and holding my awareness inside there and letting the tension go, which I think is subconscious programming. I think I'm letting go. Our subconscious programming at this. Right. And to be so open about saying I'm looking for things to trigger me. Meanwhile, everyone else in the world right now is triggered 24 7. And, and everyone is looking for triggers because she just is so peaceful. How do we get there? How can we get our listeners to this place of peace or to any place of peace right now, it takes doing this work. It takes becoming aware of. Of us being triggered, right. Rather than staying triggered. Right. Become aware that you're triggered and then do something about it. Because I think that we have signals, right. And every signal in the moment is what we're attracting into our future. So if we're triggered right now, if we're in fear right now, then we're attracting that feeling of fear back into our future. So if we want that to change, we need to come to peace now. So we can do this work. You've been taking a deep breath, right. Is going to relax this more. It's going to change our signal in the moment. And that itself changes our future. I believe I love that. So right along the lines of the law of attraction. Absolutely. Yes. I use the law of attraction as a tool. I'm not talking about manifests, dating, manifesting things. I'm just talking about every day that we're emitting a signal and we're attracting back into a future based on that signal. And because I now know how much tension we stored inside of ourselves from our past, that I believe is the biggest part of the signal. So do you think maybe that we're here to go through these experiences as an, as a child? Cause there's a lot of people that don't remember their childhood and maybe this is how we release them and maybe you don't need to know what you're releasing, but you're still releasing the emotions. Does that make sense? Yeah. I didn't remember most of my. Not at all. So this process actually allows you to remember it, right? Because we suppress it because it's things happened that we don't want to look back at. So then, you know, that's part of this process is actually having to look back at that. You don't have to start at the hardest things. You can start with the easy things, but it does it it's, it's all stored inside. And I believe it's stored as dis-ease inside of our connective tissue. Right? So as we're doing this work, even with EFT where we're just tapping on the body, as we're talking through something, I believe that is even releasing of the physical level is releasing dis-ease inside of ourselves. Absolutely. To the listener out there who may say well, and this sounds all great, but I think I'm at peace. I don't think I have any. What do you say to that listener? I say that probably just not aware of them. Yeah. We, we suppressed it all so much and we're not aware now that also means that those people may not be with. To do this work. Right? I think sometimes I do believe that the more trauma we have in our childhood, the greater capacity for spiritual growth, but we also have more will. Right. We also wants to do it because we've been in that dark place and we don't want to go back there. So this will actually allow us to move further in the other direction, but people have had a really calm, peaceful, loving, happy childhood. They don't have the will necessarily to do this work. So just someone who then says, what if I don't understand the difference between a trigger and an annoyance, then you just tap a being an annoyance. Okay. It's whatever, you've actually finding your truth in the moment. Right? So. It's not always easy to find our truth in the moment because we hide it. And because we don't think we should be thinking some things that we are thinking, right. So if we're really hating something or someone we think, oh, I shouldn't be doing that. I'm not supposed to hate. So I say, find that hate, right? Tap it out. I would much, rather than have that heat be gone from my body than have it sitting inside of me as part of my signal and attracting into the future. So that's, uh, it's, it's tricky to do. It gets easier over time to actually find your truth. Mm. Do you feel for someone who wants to try and wants to watch your videos, read your book, what would you suggest would be a good protocol, a good program, a good way to start for consistency so that you can help someone see results. I would say, start with Lenny EFT. That's what I have in my book. I have the steps and the details on EFT and what I did. Right. So what you can do, and it goes, you know, you can get as deep as you want to go, but as your awareness expands, right? So I'm very aware that deep level, now I'm aware of. The tension inside of us from a single word or a single thought, right. So I could actually tap at this point on just the word and I know it would be releasing so you can get as deep as you want, but you wouldn't start there. But I do have those in my book. I have actually a list of trigger words that someone could work on. Perfect. And tell us what the title of your book. It's called a pathway to insight. And where can our readers find your book and get in touch with you to find out more about. She'll my books on Amazon, or you can ask your local store to order it. I have a website and him still calm and you can actually see the x-rays on there. And I also have the x-rays in a video on my YouTube channel and I have a public Facebook page that I love to explain things on and I'm happy to interact. Thank you for sharing that. And, well, we are getting to this time in the show where I asked this one pressing question, are you ready? I am. Okay. What is one thing that no one knows about? Okay. Not many people know this. Um, when I was nine to 11, kind of eight to 11, I actually lived in Hong Kong and I went to the same school that Anita Moorjani went to. If anyone knows her. And while I was there, there were actually a couple of twins. They're identical twins. They were the first identical twins I'd ever met and their names were Simon and Dunkin. So this is like a fun extension to that story. So. When I was at 15, we lived in Bahrain, which is a little island, 4,000 miles from Hong Kong. And I was with my mother and she wanted to go to this little tiny local store there in Bahrain is Arabic Arabian store. And I walked around the corner and there was Simon and Dunkin. Oh, wow. That blew my mind. Just amazing. That is quite amazing. So you've lived, it sounds like quite, quite a lot around the world. Yeah. Yeah. We moved to Barbados when I was six months then to Sierra Leone in west Africa, then Hong Kong they're borrowing. Do you have a favorite place out of all the places that you've. I loved Hong Kong because I loved the food. Yeah. Yeah. Chinese food, really the original, authentic Chinese food was amazing. Delicious, delicious, well, and I cannot thank you enough for being here today and sharing your incredible stories and your insights that I know are going to help. So many of our listeners around the world. Thank you so much. Thank you. It's been great. Oh, so wonderful. Well, everyone, all of Anne's information will be in our show notes over on Jennifer dot com. So you can hop over there. You can find out her website, her Facebook page, where to grab her book and learn more about E F T. Thank you again. And, and as we say until next time, Thank you so much for tuning into another episode, please remember to rate, review and subscribe to empowered within with Jennifer Pilates. Your feedback is important. It helps me to connect with you and gives me insight into who you are and what you're enjoying about the show for today's show notes and discount codes from today's spot. Head over to Jennifer dot com until next time, may you live an empowered life from within