by Eva Dameron
Daily Lobo
Christina Florence said she can help students relieve test anxiety, aid sour relationships, free writer's block and sometimes help the chronically ill find a road to recovery.
Her methods include emotional freedom technique (EFT), neurolinguistic psychology (NLP) and sometimes hypnotherapy. She was trained and certified over a three-year period for hypnotherapy and NLP.
She taps on points of the body with her finger to free clogged energy.
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"EFT works like acupuncture, but you don't use needles," she said. "You tap on the meridians with your fingers."
She once helped an anxious student pass a state board exam.
"She had studied once and taken it and failed," she said. "So we went over it like it was really happening, and we just tapped on all the anxiety moments, and the next time she went in, she wasn't scared at all, and she passed the test."
She said that anyone can ace a test, and while she can't guarantee her clients will score a 100 percent, they'll do well and won't be afraid anymore.
She's also had a client who wanted to be a singer but was embarrassed to go on stage.
After some tapping work, the girl sings professionally.
Before the South Valley native got into the business of intuitive healing, she was a ballet dancer in New York City for 12 years. She received her degree in dance from UNM.
"It always felt like there was
something missing," Florence said. "I'd always gravitate toward mysticism and healers. I didn't quite feel like dancing was the right thing for me, so when I moved back here, I started doing other things."
She said she studied anatomy for her dance degree, and that knowledge of the body has helped her in her new career.
"From the time I was a child, I've had this thing about wanting to help people, and I never thought about how I was going to do it," she said. "But when I moved back to New Mexico, I had a friend who did this kind of work - energy work. When she moved, I had to do it myself because there was nobody else to
do it."
She also does timeline therapy, in which you improve the karma you have with somebody. She calls it "going to the movies."
"I've had hypnotherapy cases where a client actually went to a past life, went to a person, found their name, researched it and found out the person actually existed," she said.
With timeline therapy, Florence puts the client into a light trance, and the client goes into a
past lifetime.
"Let's say you have a bad relationship with somebody," she said. "You go back to your timeline, and you look at the movie of it, and you see that that person murdered you. You go in there, and you redo the entire scene so your mind thinks it didn't happen. Somehow, it works. I don't know how, but somehow, it works if you think it didn't happen."
Christina Florence
Clinical hypnotherapist
For students, $50 per hour
and $30 per half hour
8300 San Pedro Blvd. S.E.
www.TheMagicofZero.com
