General Public

We've certainly come a long way. Or have we? Ever wonder what basic tenants of hypnosis are the same as they were a century ago? Can you spot hypnosis disguised as other "miracle modalities" from the nineteenth century? Are you able to discuss the development of hypnosis through the decades, what they had plain "wrong" back when, and why the modern shifts in models and techniques are more effective?

If these kinds of questions have ever crossed your mind, and if you have a few minutes until your next client appointment, you might want to check out all of the free ebooks on Hypnosis available on Google Books. You can read them on your desktop, laptop, and now also on your iPad or phone using the Google Books app.

http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=hypnosis&as_brr=4

Explore centuries of hypnosis literature, discover where some of the most persistent (and annoying) myths about hypnosis originated, and brush up on your fodder for sparkling party conversations by browsing scores of books dating from the early 1800's through the 1970's. Newer titles are available for purchase as ebooks, too.

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

My professional services consist of a wide range of therapy modalities: Jungian, Gestalt, Cognitive, and the specialized TIOT modality, for example.

As long as there has not been any surgery performed to the area involved there is a good chance of resolving most issues regarding mental / physical health. Whether the issues concern grief, depression, addiction, anxiety, insomnia, insecurity, or low self-esteem chances are they can be resolved within a short period of time. What will hinder or advance progress is sometimes based on whether or not one is taking heavily prescribed medicine.

STRESS REDUCTION

Among some of the worse health issues are those debilitating conditions, such as emotional disorder, mental strain, and / or the lack of physical dexterity. Indeed, physical flexibility has a profound effect on how the mind / brain enables, or restricts the body from functioning.

ISSUES RELATED TO STRESS:

I use visualization techniques a lot to get rid of niggling complaints like headaches and other minor pains, for stopping colds before they develop, and to clear up minor infections. But I've also used visualization to get rid of an allergy to cats and to handle IBS.

I'll tell you both of those stories in brief.

I worked on the cat allergy years ago, when I was living temporarily in a cottage that came with a cat. She was a sweet creature, but she really kicked up my allergies. I worked with a friend who was skilled in visualization techniques to clear up the problem. Meeting in a setting that contained no cats, he guided me into a hypnogogic state and had me imagine holding the cat in my lap and burying my face in her soft fur. I started to sneeze! That's when I realized how even allergies can have a mental component. He helped me discover that as a child I had been inadvertently "programmed" to respond allergically to cats. He had me work with the image of the cat until I could imagine having my face in her fur and not sneeze. After that I had no more problems with the cat.

I became a healing coach after experiencing undiagnosed chronic pain for six years. With or without a diagnosis, I realized that the medical profession had only one cure for my pain—PAIN PILLS. I made the choice to find my own cure! Eighty to Ninety thousand dollars later, I decided to start my own business helping people to heal, and with faster and less expensive methods for changing their health.

So, what is a Healing Coach?

A healing coach is an educational-resource-person who helps clients explore their health holistically and to design a “life plan” aimed at eliminating disease, chronic pain, depression, migraines, weight issues, and much more. A healing coach will help you examine your health and teach you about the physical, mental-emotional, and spiritual aspects of yourself that can, and do, aid in your healing.

A hypnotherapy session always begins with a client sharing their concerns, problems, or issues at hand, just as one would do to begin a regular talk-therapy session. The hypnotherapist listens and takes careful notes to insure that key words or phrases spoken by the client be used during the trance-state portion of the session. By attending to the exact verbiage, it takes the client deeper into their emotions where their real work begins.

An induction into a state of hypnosis can involve many different techniques, however, the goal is to bring the client into deeper and deeper states of relaxation. It’s common for a client to feel like they are not hypnotized, as the conscious mind remains active throughout the entire session. The more a client allows themselves to let go into deeper states of relaxation, the more beneficial the session. The ironic thing is, though, most clients don’t call a hypnotherapist unless they are ready to do the deep work of their soul. So relax and enjoy!

Whenever a person wants to look into the future, even if only for a year, a number of approaches come to light. What source do we activate to conduct such endeavors? Tea leaves, a crystal ball, tarot cards, throwing bones, psychic readers, remote viewing and clairvoyant numerology are all possibilities that have left humanity with proven results.

Past and present cultures rely on predicting the future. Most noted are indigenous tribes of the Hopi, Maya, Chinese, Hindu, African and Australian Aborigines.

One thing we do know for sure is that ‘we are the sum total of our entire past”. Present futurists such as David Icke, Jim Marrs, and Jesse Ventura glitter the future of conspiracy theories while in the past we have the predictions of Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus. Even the ‘70s popular past life hypnotist Dick Sutphen conducts present weekly interviews on his Sirius Radio show “Dick Sutphen’s Metaphysical World”. (Recently I concluded my fourth one-hour show with him, looking to more.)

Stop for a moment and think. Think about what happens when you get totally and utterly immersed in a story. What it’s like when you read a book or watch a movie that is so exciting and compelling that the story sucks you right into the reality of that story. You don’t care whether or not what’s happening is possible or real you just eagerly follow along and enjoy the ride.

You can experience physical sensations and emotions like your heart racing as something exciting happens, maybe a feeling of attraction towards one of the characters begins to grow inside of you, the anticipation of what’s to come that keeps you wanting more. All of these feelings all of these emotions are being experienced as if you were a part of that story.

Now all of these sensations are happening inside you while sitting in a room filled with strangers looking at an oversized TV screen, or in solitude with a stack of paper in your hands reading.

How is it possible to have a strong physical reaction to something that isn’t actually happening to you?

Because you were in fact experiencing hypnotic effect at that moment. Yes you were hypnotized.

If you are new to using hypnotherapy or self-hypnosis as a tool for improving your life and health, you may be wondering why the core of it all seems to revolve around relaxing and relieving stress and tension.

Most of the inductions (hypnosis sessions) that you can download online or on CD uses a progressive relaxation process to reach a deep state of trance. Many free downloadable sessions are only focused on deep relaxation and releasing stress and tension from around the body - and nothing else.

Why is that? In today's modern world we expect direct, efficient, cause-and-effect, software-controlled, exact science and results-driven approaches and methods. You may have a dozen issues you would like to address directly with hypnosis, why waste time on this basic relaxation stuff?

A good quote is from Dale Carnegie's book, "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living":

“Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of
their fears and worries.”

The impact of a direct suggestion can heavily depend on its meaning to the individual being hypnotized. When offering suggestions, it’s essential to consider the language being used. A good example of this would be a particular case involving an individual from a different country where a common implication (as opposed to their dictionary definition) of the word “fat” would mean healthy, whereas calling someone “fat” in English would commonly be used offensively. In other words we benefit from considering cultural connotations, before we rush to decide that our own language is what works for the person being hypnotized. Rapport building and conversation is key to knowing the best approach. We are not the same, but the same in that we are all different.
Cultural environment plays a factor when indirectly influenced. Since studies have shown that indirect and direct language can equally be effective, it makes sense to consider the cultural desires and dislikes of the client when using indirect suggestion before putting the person into a deep trance.