This was a question that was asked by a person on Quora which I found quite ammusing, but obviously needed an answer. So this is what I told him:

Thanks for the question.

First, choose a hypnotist that actually knows what they are doing. A well-trained person will be able to do many different techniques with you, not just read a bunch of prewritten scripts. In fact, the best people don’t need a script to work with you because they understand how to actually do the work – imagine that!

Second, find someone who has proven that they have expertise in the area that you are looking to get the hypnosis to heal/work on. There are many hypnotists out there who say they can do anything and everything, and your job is to figure out which person is best for you – not based on their marketing, but based on what they have on their websites. You are interested in seeing that they have a knowledge base to help you. I spent several years working with psychiatric patients and elders before I ever entered the world of hypnotism. I also had about a year’s worth of nursing school under my belt (I dropped out because I hated nursing, however, it helped me to understand medications and how the body works medically speaking.)

If you have a lot of trauma in your past, find someone who knows NLP very well because that is the best way to clear it – in minutes, not hours, days or never…I know, isn’t it great to know that one needn’t live with that in their lives forever? I know it worked great for my clients.

Lastly, have a free consult with whomever you choose to work with to make sure that you are a good fit, because trust is the most important aspect to having one go into a nice state of hypnosis to do the work – it needn’t be deep, but it does need to be present – something that a good hypnotist is able to see in your physiology and something that for you may only feel like being ‘relaxed’ because it is a ‘relaxed’ state as you know.

I never thought that I would see the day when experts in the field of health would be censored by those who believe that they have the power to shut others up, and yet this is what is going on as I type this message to you this morning. 

Listen, I come from a family that was raised by a conventionally trained dentist. I worked in my dad’s office for the 7 years while I was in high school and on my breaks from college. The man was dearly loved by his patients because he was fair and never ever sold them anything that they did not need. He felt there was no need to as he was making a great living by being more than fair with his patients. The integrity that I saw in my very first role model in the world of providing healthcare is something that I ran into exactly two other times working for others over my very long time in the field. So, I do get that there are some real good people out there doing real good work with integrity. However, there are far too few of them and the reason is because the media and the government are shutting them up in the race to make ever more money, because this is the system that runs the US. I don’t know about other countries, I only know what I have learned from doing a Master’s program in medical sociology where it was quite clear that the drug companies will lie about their numbers getting rid of the people who are not getting the results that they desire to demonstrate the efficacy of their newest poison. There are also many ways that the numbers can be interpreted and many ways that the language used in the journals can be played to confuse the average person who has no idea what all the medicalise means never mind the way in which the articles are written for academia. Add to this the fact that the editors of two prestegious health journals left their 20 year professions with their respective journals because the journals were paid $400,000 USD to get their articles printed – and NO, that is not the way the process is to work. Peer review means, peers reviewing the contents of the articles to make sure that what they say is being said is true. Paying for an article placement is the exact opposite of vetting the articles for peer review which was what gave these prestigious journals their prestige. 

Now, there are many D.O.s and chiropractors on the internet who have been deplatformed because they dare to tell the truth. It has also happened to MDs as well – regarding this whole COVID mess. It is deplorable to know that these men of great ethics who have spent many thousands of hours to teach about the bodily functions on social media and what we need to do to stay healthy are being made invisible to google these days. Some of them have been thrown off of Facebook and Youtube for good. What that means is that we the consumers of medical care have only one narrative and that one is being told by those who have the most money to make. And, do understand that MDs for years have been hired by big pharma to give speeches at hospitals being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so – so not exactly your most unbiased of people out there. 

Dr. Mercola has a huge following as well he should for the amount of content and the indepth interviews that he has done over many years for others to learn from in all areas of health care on his website mercola.com .This is an article of his that I wanted to share with you which only made it to me becuase I am on his email list.

This censorship is very scary and has much to do with why I am very uninterested in ever living in the US again – well it is among many reasons – but it is one of the more serious of them given how much time I lost to my health issues and the inability of the conventional docs to help with three of my chronic health issues. They are no longer a part of my life due to my finding out how to use the power of my unconscious mind along with the right processes to rid myself of each of them – an unconvential path to true health and wellbeing for me.

Please do read what Dr. Mercola has to say in his article. I would also invite you to follow Greenmedinfo as well as he does much indepth work on how the holistic avenues of healthcare can help you well, all of it well researched. He is married to Kelly Brogan, MD a holistic pyschiatrist helping her patients to safely come of their psychophamicological medications and helping them to holisitically heal whatever needs to be healed so that their brains function optimally. 

Here is the URL to Dr. Mercola’s article and while you are there do sign up for his email newsletter. I have zero financial interest in what any of these experts are doing, however, I do have a responsibility to let you know the facts of how we are being used and abused by our own industrial medical complex. 

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/02/12/google-banned-mercola-videos.aspx?ui=03d36c241c6d4ebc51dae0e669aaa69cb4a71396b9487963293012a27452a2ab&sd=20120105&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210212&mid=DM802680&rid=1082143936

This is a question that many people have including the person on Quora who asked it. Here I give the reasons for anyone to have resistance to hypnosis and what to do about it.

Hi, As a hypnotist for over 20 years, I can tell you that there are only 3 reasons why a client will not allow themselves to be hypnotized.

1. Fear of being hypnotized – which can be taken care of 98% of the time by experiencing it without any suggestions, just a chance to feel what it feels like to be more relaxed than you’ve ever been in your life before.
2. Lack of trust in the hypnotist – which means that one needs excellent rapport with the person that they are employing to hypnotize them.
3. It is very important for the client to truly want the outcome that they are coming in to be hypnotized to clear. For example: If I have a person who says they want to stop smoking, but it isn’t they that want it, but perhaps their parent or spouse, it isn’t going to work. It also won’t work if a doctor tells them that they have to stop smoking as evidenced by many prospects who called for smoking cessation who were on oxygen due to emphysema who never followed through. So, the desire for the outcome is most important. Because, though I am an excellent hypnotist, I will fail if I have a client who just isn’t interested in stopping the habit or is feeling more safe holding onto the problem than finding out what life is like without it. So, my job is to only hire clients who are ready to make the change “now” and are willing to do whatever it takes to do so. Anything less will not work.

Not long ago I had 52-year-old women call me because she knew that the trauma that she experienced from her youth was getting in the way of her current quality of life. Her fear of being hypnotized is what she said kept her from going forward. However, what her fear most likely was, was not knowing who she would be without all these issues she had been dealing with all of her life. It can be very scary giving up what you know and are used to for something that is unknown. In this case, I did what I could to educate her, but realized that she wasn’t ready to move forward, so I let her go knowing that she wouldn’t be a good hypnosis candidate. One never wants to force a service on someone who isn’t ready, ever!

This is a question that a person on Quora asked which I believe is both very interesting and helpful for anyone who is seeing a therapist to understand. Here is how I answered the question:

I am not a licensed mental health person, so I am answering it from the point of view of a hypnotist with a ton of experience on both sides of the aisle in the world of therapy.

The main thing that needs to be taken into account is the type of client that is in front of us. People with borderline personality disorders don’t want to hear anything about their therapist in many cases – it is all about them!

Second, if any personal disclosure content is being shared, it needs to be done as a way to demonstrate how the issue at hand was overcome, or more easily dealt with. In other words, it is never about the therapist’s problems, rather it is ALWAYS used as a way to more deeply connect with the client to help the client to better understand the issue they are dealing with in the therapy and give them tools and techniques to use to help them deal with said issue. It is a form of role modeling as far as I am concerned and one of the things that my clients have found gives them a ton of hope that they had lost, as well as concrete ways to help themselves.

Frankly, it is only through true authentic communicating that people are going to care about what a person has to say. So, I have always had a down-to-earth manner of relating with my clients which has worked really well for the great majority of them. For others who are more used to the more classic style of psychotherapy – I am NOT the right fit for those people and that is quite fine.