With Marlene Sugey
Marlene Sugey is a certified hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner. She started her awakening process back in 2017 when her relationship ended. She started questioning everything while she was going through her very dark time and didn’t know what to do.
One of her friends lent her a book titled A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles” by Marianne Williamson and as she was reading the book, another friend invited her for a trip to North Carolina. Since she needed some time away from everything, she flew out to North Carolina for a couple of weeks.
It was at this time while reading her book that she realized a greater perspective of why people come into our lives and that became the beginning of her awakening journey. She started seeing her relationships from a different perspective.
Why do people come into our lives?
According to Marlene, a lot of people come into our lives to teach us lessons and so it’s upon you to realize the type of lessons they’re teaching; it can be good or bad depending on your perspective. To grow as a person, you have to go through certain lessons and processes because you can’t just grow in your comfort zone; you grow through challenging times and how you handle them.
There are also benefits of the devastating moments of our lives if we can look at them from a long-term perspective. Sometimes it can be hard when you’re going through it or even a short while after because you don’t understand what’s happening.
However, once you step back and look at it from a different view, you start seeing what needs to change and start taking responsibility for your actions as well because you can just see the bigger picture. During her journey, Marlene also listened to motivational audios like Abraham Hicks which further opened doors for her spiritual manifestation.
The healing and transformational journey
Once she started undergoing her spiritual manifestation, Marlene’s world started changing and she felt she needed to undergo a healing. Her healing journey was inspired by the difficult times she was going through.
With bills to pay and a lot of things going on, her first manifestation was how she was going to make more money in her life.“I started changing my thoughts when it came to money and once I started seeing that happen, it just trickled down to like every part of my life,” says Marlene.
She thought of starting her own business but since she didn’t know what to do yet, she decided to continue working and trading her time for money. Her healing journey was however not an easy path until March 2020, when she noticed it was her time to rise and do the healing all by herself.
The universe was forcing her into everything. She was able to go through her awakening during COVID and that gave her the understanding of what was going on; it gave her the strength to be able to keep pushing forward because she had already gotten out of her dark place.
Even though the awakening process is hard because it can also lead to some dark places, Marlene found it beneficial for her healing journey. For her, 2020 was her healing period when she was diving into personal development, spirituality and manifestation.
It was the time she felt that her life had changed when she started controlling her thoughts and understanding how powerful they were. She decided to start using her techniques and affirmations to have a more positive mindset. Once she started doing that, she got more opportunities that helped her start her business.
According to Marlene, she has had a conflicting relationship with money. Although we still need money to survive and do everything, it’s hard to completely go without money. Even though money seems like an outdated system due to the emergence of resource-based economies or money-free societies and society also labels money as the root of all evil, money is still the energy we need.
Therefore if you have that limited belief that you don’t need money then you’re not going to receive money. If you align yourself saying that you are worthy then money will come into your life easily and effortlessly.
If you believe that you’re worthy then people will believe in you too. Therefore whatever energy you’re vibrating in, that’s what you’re attracting but everything has to be an energy exchange even if you are doing something for free.
For instance, when Marlene started doing her hypnotherapy sessions, she would offer them for free because she was still practicing and wanted people to know what she was doing. However, she would ask for their testimonials like an honest review of their experience which she still considered as an exchange even though not money-related.
While her clients got her services, she would also get something out of it and that made her more passionate about her work.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a healing practice that makes you understand how your subconscious mind which is responsible for 90 per cent of your reality works.
Everything that you’re attracting to you is energy and it comes out of what you truly believe in. When you believe in your values, your beliefs and how you emotionally handle things then hypnotherapy can help you in any area of your life’s struggles.
Between the ages of 0 and 7, your subconscious mind is wide open and so it absorbs everything around you. These can be traumas you went through in your childhood, any emotional thing or if you grew up in a home that believed that making money was hard; all these become programs in you.
After the age of 7, your subconscious mind comes online and you are now wired to replay those same lessons until you learn them. It’s from that time that you become aware of your thought process.
But a lot of people get stuck because they just react to the circumstances or what’s happening around them but they don’t respond. On the other hand, others think that they have control over the majority of their lives yet in reality, it’s much less than you think.
Anything negative is just programming so becoming aware of it can be the only way to change it. You can either do it with hypnotherapy which can help you instantly or choose to do it with affirmations which are a bit slower but repetitive and can help you change those thoughts.
In her journey to healing, Marlene mostly used affirmations. According to her, she would listen to a lot of audiobooks like Napoleon Hill and dive into all the things at work and home but affirmations are what got her started.
When she came across Kathrin Zenkina who is a popular coach in the personal development world, she took one of her hypnotherapy and subliminal messaging programs and that’s what opened her door to hypnotherapy.
After using both affirmations and hypnotherapy for a couple of years, she decided to get her certifications because she felt that she had used these techniques on herself and fully believed in them. She wanted to be a coach too so that she could also help others.
In her life and throughout her healing and transformation journey, Marlene learned that in whatever you’re called to do, do it but if you’re not ready or hesitant, you shouldn’t go into it.
As for her, she was ready for the transformational journey. She still feels like that was her purpose because she wants to help through sharing her story which probably resonates with a lot of people. After all, she came from a place where she didn’t even know what she was going to do next.
According to Marlene, it’s important to learn these things when we are at a much younger age when we should take NLP and learn about how the mind works and how reality is created.
Using the NLP healing technique
When Marlene was doing her coaching program with Kathrin Zenkina who used a lot of NLP tools, she also found herself using a lot of NLP on herself and eventually, she got certified as an NLP practitioner.
NLP allows you to go deeper and heal traumas compared to hypnotherapy which is more surface-based and is just about tapping into the subconscious mind. You therefore need the NLP to go deeper and get rid of rooted traumas which are not easy to heal or face.
Trauma is just a repetitive cycle that people play in their heads. Sometimes it’s so embedded in there that it becomes hard for people to see it or go deep in trying to discover where it came from. According to Marlene, she doesn’t believe in coincidence because, to her, everything happens for a reason.
The subconscious mind takes notes of everything that’s happening around you and it’s like a memory bank. If it doesn’t have anything you’ve never done before, it’s going to pull it from something familiar and that’s why change sometimes becomes so hard because you’re going into the unknown and the subconscious mind doesn’t know what to do.
You have to push through your fears and have those tools to be able to push through. That’s where hypnotherapy comes in to help you because you have to go in there and change those beliefs.
Having gone through her healing journey, Marlene was able to see the difference in herself and other people. She became aware of how personal development changes life and when she took time to analyze everybody around her, she realized that a lot of people needed such things.
It was at that time that she decided that that was what she wanted to teach.“I was always talking about it advising my friends, co-workers and everybody and then I just figured like it’s time,”says Marlene.
Even though there are a lot of people who still question it, Marlene believes that when you’re ready to receive that message, you’ll receive it because her main work is just to plant seeds and not to force anybody to do anything.
She also believes that people who are ready to start the healing and make real changes in their lives will be attracted to her and she will be able to help them. According to her, the best thing is just to live your life and make people curious about the change in you.
When she first started her awakening and healing journey, she was so excited about all the things she had been learning that she wanted everybody to know about it. However, soon she realized that people were not ready to hear these types of messages.
She stepped back and started doing it on herself because she knew that through being an example, she would be able to show how this is powerful. Although she still talks about it all the time, now she can see and tell when somebody is interested and wants to learn about it.
Marlene lets people come to her since many people aren’t ready for such kind of work. That has led to a lot of resistance when it comes to personal development because many people are scared of the word hypnosis.
Hypnosis is just about learning how to control your thoughts and knowing what is in your subconscious mind and what type of reality you’re creating for yourself. That explanation has made people a little bit more at ease knowing that they were not just going to get hypnotized and start doing all kinds of crazy things.
In her hypnosis session, Marlene has always been careful with what she says because there are certain things that her client doesn’t believe in and so their subconscious mind is likely to reject it. Therefore, to be successful she needs to have this process and say those suggestions in their own words.
The programming techniques
We get programmed every day through televisions, other, people, family, teachers or through something that’s being repetitive to us. Programming is a way of making you start believing anything that gets into your subconscious mind.
Your subconscious mind takes in everything put out there whether it’s good or bad and so it’s up to you to do your research and figure out what the truth is because people can make you believe something that is not true.
People who tend to lead others into rejecting certain narratives are the ones who seem to be awake to what’s happening. For example, if you grew up with parents who had any type of limited beliefs passed on to you, you have to become aware of it and break that cycle and start creating something else for yourself.
However, a lot of such changes only happen when we get tired of the same things over and over again or when we hit rock bottom and start questioning what life is.
“I was just in this program living my life thinking that that’s what life was but it wasn’t until I hit rock bottom, then I’m like, there has to be something else and through those questions that I was asking myself, the door started opening,” says Marlene.
That’s why you need to ask yourself different questions because once you start asking the right questions, your subconscious mind has no choice but to answer those questions and so you start attracting the right answers to them.
Even though there’s a lot more information on these kinds of modalities and what to do in the awakening process, you still have to go searching for it. For instance, when she was going through her awakening journey, Marlene never had anybody in her life who was also going through any of that.
For a while, she felt very alone and couldn’t talk to anybody. According to her, the awakening journey can get very lonely especially when you are not surrounded by people who are going through the same things or have the same type of beliefs as you.
However, once you realize that whatever you’re going through is okay and normal, then you start attracting more people to your life who either think the same or are in the same vibration as you. As your frequency or vibration increases, you need to be surrounded by the right people who are on that same wavelength, but it also helps when you’re in the right location.
Currently, Marlene is creating a program where you can learn manifestation and how to create your reality through your thoughts and your subconscious mind. Since this changed her life, she’s very passionate about it and feels like everybody needs to know about it.
In case you are interested in working with Marlene, you can hook up with her on her Instagram @themarlenesugey or reach out on her website at www.marlenesugey.com.
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