Sep 21 2023

Should a Therapist Talk To You About Losing Weight? Vol. 644 – Sept. 21, 2023

This was a question from a person on Quora and how I answered it: 

I do not know what therapists do because I am not one. I could tell you two things:

First, from the perspective of being a hypnotist, I would never tell a client of mine to deal with weight loss. My clients employ me to help them with their objectives for healing, not my ideas of what they need to be healed. For example: Many years ago I had a very overweight client ask me to help her to figure out a better way to market her small company since she hated making cold calls. So happened she found that she loved making presentations so that was the direction that she went in and did well with it. Did we ever deal with her weight? Hell no – because that was not why she employed me.

Second, I have a client now who tried Ozempic and I can tell you from the folks who understand how this stuff works it is a terrible idea. The reason is that it actually increases the number of fat cells a person has with its use so one will gain more weight back than one loses once it is stopped. I had a wonderful day yesterday because she told me that she is not going to continue to use this crap any longer and instead chooses to love her body the way it is at its natural weight. This is a person who has always had a higher set point weight for her height than the BMIs would put her at. From my perspective, this is a much healthier way to deal with a person’s weight than to put them on terrible drugs or forcing diets that will not work most people yo-yo dieting putting on weight each time they go off their diets.

Here is a video by Dr. Ken Berry that explains what this shit does to a person’s body:

Sep 14 2023

Can Hypnosis Change Your Life? Vol. 643, September 14, 2023

I have written on Quora many times how hypnosis cleared me of a brain tumor, bronchial asthma, and bipolar 2 all conditions that the conventional medical world says are impossible to be done.

The reason is that our mind is the most powerful tool that we have but only if we learn how to use it in the way it was created to be used.

Of course, in order for these things to be accomplished, one needs to know what to do, because there are many tools and techniques one who does hypnosis and in my case Neuro-linguistic programming as well.

It is important to find a hypnotist who has proven to be able to help heal the same issues that you need to be healed or is willing to say that they have never worked with a case like yours but are willing to do their best to help you out. Never see a hypnotist who says they can help you with everything. You want a specialist. My specialties, for example, are that of clearing emotional issues. Mental health is where I started my career and it lead me to work with hypnotism.

So, yes, it can indeed change one’s life for the better, but it isn’t a magic pill. There are still things that the client needs to do in order to gain the results of the hypnosis. As one of my colleagues always said, “Hypnotism is not magic, but it is magical.”

Here are the stories of how hypnosis changed my life:

Hypnotist overcomes manic depression, bronchial asthma and a brain tumor.

The best thing I ever did for my own health and the thousands of clients I have been able to facilitate healing for was learning how to do hypnotism!

Sep 07 2023

Signs of Being in Hypnotic State -Vol 642, Sept. 7, 2023

A person on Quora asked, “How can one get into a hypnotic trance, never having been in one before?”

Well, the fact is that we are all in and out of trance all day, every day, but those who have never studied hypnotism would not know that. Here is how I answered the question so you can better understand the hypnotic state:

Thanks for the question. First of all, if you are not a trained hypnotist, you are unable to assess whether or not you are in a trance. However, a trained hypnotist can look for physical symptoms of one being in a trance.

Some of those symptoms are:

Fluttering eyes as one imagines the scene the hypnotist is giving them in a guided visualization.

We look for circular breathing as one gets into a more relaxed state.

Slower pulses in the ankles and neck.

The lines in the lips get filled in.

Lacrimation: this is when the tear ducts relax and tears start rolling (it has nothing to do with one feeling sad at all).

The color in the face changes slightly to have a bit more color.

Some people swallow a lot more.

Eyes blink a lot less often.

From the client’s perspective, all they may feel is a bit of relaxation.

I always give the above indicators to my clients so that they are aware of the fact that I am looking for them.

Clients may feel tingles in their fingers or toes.

Clients may feel much heavier or much lighter.

Clients will sense that time has gone much more quickly than it actually has – this is called ‘time distortion.’

Now, to become better at trancing because we are all in and out of it every single day, but are unaware of it like when we daydream, get home without thinking about how we did so our minds on something else, or being on the computer for hours when it felt like minutes or suspending reality while reading a great book or watching a great movie – just takes practice. Going into a hypnotic trance on cue is like anything else – you need to learn how to do it and then practice it till it takes you a couple of moments to enter.

Thank you for your questions so that people can have a better understanding of what we hypnotists are looking for when one is in trance vs what those who have no idea what the hypnotic trance state is trying to define for themselves what it is to be.

Aug 31 2023

Overcoming Feeling Lonely – Vol. 641, August 31, 2023

Sometimes people feel very lonely and they do not understand why. From my observation, many people are too concerned about what others think about them instead of just being true to who they are realizing that we only have so much time for so many people in our lives anyway.

Yes, there are many people who may not ‘get us’ and may not like us for some reason or another and it is none of our business why to tell you the truth.

I am a rare breed in that I never cared what others thought of me – never really went along with the masses from the time I was young, through high school and college, I just did me.

I flunked out of the corporate world before I was old enough to care about it never willing to wear some superficial mask to fit into the ‘culture’ a concept I never knew existed till many years later.

I have always found that being authentically myself, and speaking my truth with a bit of compassion (admittedly learned later in life) has gotten me many friends that I could always rely on because they could rely on me to be there when they most needed me. I would sometimes offer help when I knew someone was having difficulty because they weren’t quite themselves and that was usually very appreciated.

We live in a time where people feel so alienated from one another given the simplistic and degrading manner of those who hold power these days doing their best to split us apart.

The question that we need to ask ourselves is: What can we do to make this world a bit better for our having been here? This need not be a life’s mission, it just needs to be an attitude of care and concern for those with whom we interact. To be a real friend to those you claim to be your friends.

When we live in this way we make real friends no matter where we live. I can tell you that this has been my experience in all the countries where I have spent a decent amount of time over the last many years.

Because when we stop judging ourselves and pretending to be something we are not and be true our ourselves, we attract just the right people into our lives making life much easier regardless of the chaos around us.

Aug 24 2023

Some Great Life Advice from A Fellow Quoran – Vol. 640, August 24, 2023

Sometimes when I come across some excellent life advice I like to share it with you. This morning I found a post on Quora that gives excellent advice based on years of working as a psychologist with thousands of patients through many years. Here is my take on her advice:

1. Don’t make decisions when you are angry or you will end up doing stupid things that will make your life harder.

2. Be yourself: There is no need to get cosmetic surgery to be ‘more attractive’ or do a job to make someone else happy because, in the end, you will be miserable.

3. Don’t sweat the small stuff: Choose your battles and let the little things go. Life is too short to always be feeling upset.

4. Know your worth: Never put up with anyone demeaning you in your personal or professional life. It is not up to someone else to determine who you are and what you are worthy of.

5. It’s okay to ask for help: It is true that when we are going through a tough time we can save a lot of further problems by asking for some help. This is as true in our personal life when things are not going well as well as in our professional life when we need some assistance to accomplish something we do not know how to do ourselves or need some help figuring out what we want to do next.

6. Be very discerning with the one you choose to marry: Marriages can be amazing and they can make your life more miserable than you ever thought possible if married to the wrong person. Make sure your partner is uplifting, happy, and supportive of your goals and that you share the same values.

7. Make time for the people you love: I know from my own life that I have lost many people way too early…so make the time you need to spend the time with them while they are still around. This is especially true of the elderly that you love.

8. The best revenge is living well: Anger and resentment kill, period. Let it go and make a lovely life for yourself no longer allowing these negative events into your life. Choose who you spend time with wisely, drop the judgments, and do those things that bring you joy and fulfillment.

9. Treat others the way you want to be treated: It is amazing to me how many people speak negatively to and about others and is then amazed to find that their friends are no longer their friends. This is especially true in marriages and partnerships where one mate is undermining the other. Most people will reflect back to you exactly what you bring into their lives, so be thoughtful in how you interact with those who are in your life.

Unfortunately, I cannot find the original post because I wanted to share it with you having mistakenly lost the tab where the article was and I do not know the name of the author.

Aug 17 2023

Are Your Friends & Coworkers A Bad Influence on You? -Vol. 639, August 17, 2023

I had a conversation with one of my clients yesterday who found herself in a situation that she found upsetting. It was a situation that she had found herself in once before with the same people and swore it was never going to happen again…but it did!

You see, one of the things that we need to always keep in mind is the behavior of those with whom we spend our time. Too often we either make excuses for their behavior, or in the case of this client try to play ‘savior’ by stepping in to prevent a bad situation from becoming even worse.

We cannot save anyone from themselves especially if they are unwilling to get the help they require to take care of the situations that keep coming up in their lives. We cannot pretend to know the answers for these people even when we have gone down a similar road which was true in this case.

All we can do is make suggestions to help them receive the help they need, but if they will not do that because they are not yet ready, there is not a damn thing we can do to help them out.

So, what do you do in these situations? You do what I told my client to do…you step out of their lives till they are able to see the light and get the help they need to stop attracting the drama and trauma into their lives. To do anything other than that is asking for your life to be interrupted. Worse, in similar cases to situations like your own, retraumatizing yourself through the negative behaviors that you are witnessing your friend going through.

I know that it can be difficult to let go of friendships that we have had for decades…but that is what we need to do when those we love are not willing to take a stand for their own health and well-being. Because in the end, they are the only ones who can make a better choice for themselves. I wish that were not true, and yet it is.

Aug 10 2023

Brainwashing: Are You Being Brainwashed?-Vol 638, August 10, 2023

I was watching a video of deprogrammer Dr. Steven Hassan who spent about 2.5 years in the Moonies back in the mid-70s from the age of 19 to 21. He was speaking about his experience of being so totally brainwashed by the group and how he finally made his way out of it. So happened it was being in a terrible automobile crash and falling asleep at the wheel due to forced sleep deprivation that got him away from the Moonies for a couple of weeks allowing his family to step in to get him deprogrammed.

We are living in a time when there are many people out there brainwashing us – hypnotizing us – yes I used that word – in negative ways because we allow our minds to be accessed by them. We listen to the negativity all around us, to people who are in power constantly lying about what is going on forcing our brains into a state of believing that which is and never will be real through their constant repetition.

I worry in these days of AI that false statements being placed in someone’s voice that one never said, false visual presentations again pretending to be something that isn’t will be creating a world that is so corrupted by the unreal that we humans will not be able to discern what is real and what is not. For this reason, I do not use AI, have no interest in it, and will probably lose some business as a result of it. However, I would prefer to use my own words to state my own truths than rely on something that has nothing to do with me helping me to write whatever I may be putting out there into the world.

We need to ask ourselves what it is that we are doing with our lives as Steven asked himself as he became a psychologist to help those in the profession better understand the means that were used to bring people into these cults.

I know for myself, having gone through the mental and physical health issues of my younger years, that do not use that which I learned from the healing process to help others would be a waste of all that I had been through.

Life is short. We all have our own journey to live and with that journey, there is something we have to offer that is larger than ourselves to make the world better for having been here.

My question to you is simply this: What are you doing with your life that is of value to others based on that which you learned the hard way – by having to live through it all to receive your learning?

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