Jan 19 2023

Common Responses Clients Experience While In the Hypnotic State, Vol. 615, January 19, 2023

A person on Quora asked me what the common experiences that people have while they are in the state of hypnosis are. This is how I answered that question:
 
Having been hypnotized myriads of times both in the clinical setting and on the stage of a few stage hypnotists I can tell you the following:
 
1. There are responses that allow one to know that one is hypnotized. A clinical hypnotist will tell you what those are so that you know that you have been hypnotized. Some of these responses are swallowing a lot more than usual, pulse and heart rate slowing down, circular breathing from the diaphragm, eyes will flutter, the hypnotist will be looking for the lines in your lips to be less deep, a slight color change in your face to a bit redder. (Some hypnotists will give their clients convincers like sticking their feet to the floor unable to move them to prove to the client they were indeed hypnotized).
 
2. The client may feel like they are heavy or lighter, sometimes one feels tingles in their fingers and/or toes, and time feels much quicker than it actually is.
 
3. It is much easier to gain access to the subconscious material that needs to be found and worked with while one is in the hypnotic state which is why it is used.
 
4. The work goes a lot quicker than conventional talk therapy because we are working. in the subconscious mind where the transformations need to happen.
 
5. In stage shows one realizes that the suggestion may not be real, however, the volunteer acts as if that suggestion is real. i.e. A suggestion given that a man is pregnant and giving birth – the man knows that he isn’t pregnant, but will act out the suggestion as if he is a good hypnotic subject.
 
6. Stage hypnotists have to be very good at discerning the volunteers who are actually hypnotized and those that may be pretending which they can tell by giving suggestions and seeing how the volunteer responds along with the above-given symptoms of hypnosis.
 
7. Mostly, when one is in treatment with a hypnotist who knows how to use the tools and techniques well, one can go to those hard places in one’s memory and transform it quickly to let go of that which no longer works and create thinking that does work better for the client.
 
I have been practicing hypnotism for the past 20 years and my clients have reported that this was the one way they found to clear out their issues when everything else they tried failed. It is important to find a hypnotist who has proven that they are able to help people with the issues that they have so that you receive the results that you are employing them to help you receive. Because the reality of the situation is that no one can heal another – all we as practitioners can do is facilitate another’s healing to the point that they allow us to. This means that we have to know everything that is bothering our clients so we can help free them of the issues.

Jan 12 2023

Can Hypnosis Help with Anxiety and PTSD? Vol. 614, Jan. 12, 2023

I have been able to help my clients let go of PTSD with hypnotic techniques. It is not a matter of 1 session because one session isn’t going to be able to take care of all the requisite issues involved in this situation.

I have a program that I use to help let go of PTSD (any type of anxiety of which PTSD one forms, no matter what the type of anxiety is being treated). It involves going back to the very first incident that occurred and desensitizing it and all the incidents based on that original incident up till ‘now.’ meaning when the client is doing the work with me.

Then I do another neuro-linguistic de-sensitizing technique.

Next, we do the inner child healing work because it is the inner child(ren) in the client’s subconscious mind that needs to know that it is safe and no longer needs to create the PTSD symptoms to keep the client safe.

Because I take this multifactor approach to help my clients heal, I have a 95% success rate. Those who are unable to heal with this work are those who are not ready to let it go. I do have other techniques to get the subconscious mind to let go of its protective defense mechanisms, however, the client needs to be ready to allow these techniques to work.

I also have learned over the 2 decades I have been doing this work to screen out those who are not yet ready to let these symptoms go. I know it sounds counterintuitive to say that, but we need to understand that there is a protective reason for any problem to remain even though it looks from the outside to be a damaging situation. So, my job is to get people to be ‘at cause’ for their problems so they can let them go. It’s not about blaming anyone for anything as much as acknowledging that our subconscious mind is doing its job and that we need to do what we need to do to transform the negative thoughts and behaviors to life-giving fulfilling thoughts and behaviors.

Thanks for the question giving me the opportunity to explain how this all works. It isn’t difficult to work, it’s actually quite simple. However, the client needs to be ready to do it and follow through with it all – luckily the great majority are more than willing to do sick of dealing with their anxiety be it PDSD, C-PTSD, generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, etc.).

Jan 05 2023

How Does Hypnotism Work? Vol. 613, Jan. 5, 2023

 
Hypnotism requires many things but as Larry Elman stated breathing is not always an important aspect of having people enter the hypnotic state such as when one uses instant inductions – meaning the person is put into a trance in a matter of 10 seconds or less.
 
That being better understood there are many ways to induce someone into a trance state besides the instant induction which is used during the stage shows because the audience is not interested in watching the volunteers go into trance – I have seen some of the more talented stage craft hypnotists do it with a person merely reading one line on a paper that was handed from one volunteer to the next with the induction occurring as instantly as can happen – like as quickly as reading one line of type.
 
I do a take on the Dave Elman induction (Larry’s father) who is the hypnotist I believe was the best at the art of helping people heal with hypnotism and he was a ‘lay’ hypnotist – meaning he didn’t have any licensure to practice medicine or mental health, yet taught thousands of dentists and doctors how to help their patients heal through offering workshops all around the US where the medical pros would bring their hardest cases for Dave Elman to demonstrate how true healing is done!
 
The induction that I used takes a matter of 2 or so minutes and I do indeed include a few deep breaths that are held for a few seconds before exhaling because this act calms the brain naturally with the oxygenation of the blood in the brain. From there I begin the actual induction into hypnotism.
 
Others love to use progressive relaxation which I personally feel is a waste of therapeutic time because as the late great Jerry Kien (who learned much of how to do hypnotism in the fashion of Dave Elman’s work) stated when you can put a person into a deep trance in 2 minutes, why waste a half hour doing that? Great question and one that many need to better understand because relaxation occurs as soon as the person is in a trance so one needn’t waste all that time.
So, to understand how one is led into a hypnotic trance state, it is all about heightened focus, and giving suggestions that prove beyond a doubt that the person is in an altered state, i.e. the trance state by having them experience interesting sensory input that a conscious (person who is in the normal waking state of the brain operating in beta wavelength) would never be able to create without the trance state where the brain waves are slowed down to alpha (like when one suspends reality such as when engrossed in a great novel or movie) or theta where they are more deeply entranced and can perceive things that aren’t in front of them, yet they see them anyway, or don’t see those things in front of them given the suggestion that the individual cannot see the object being asked about.
 
However, the best reason to learn how to use hypnotism is to empower yourself to do those things that you do want to do and to stop doing those things that you realize are against your best interests. To be able to understand when others are playing with your brain and stop it at once because there are many folks out there who understand how to use the hypnotic state to get you to do things they want you to do most especially the marketers on the television and computers, the internet pornographers (I specialize in helping sex addicts and wrote a book on this subject so learned how the pornographers get their viewers to do things that they never had any interest in doing before and can’t figure out how that happened to them), politicians, and religious leaders especially on the internet and television who are asking their viewers to donate money that the viewer may not even have for that purpose. These folks hypnotize you without your even realizing it by repeating endlessly to you in a very emotional manner to get you to act! And, that is indeed how many people end up with the emotional and physical problems they have, by having authority figures yell at them putting them into a heightened emotional state, usually when a person is under the age of 8 when they can’t reason, judge, rationalize, or understand the other person was just upset with someone else before they entered the home and just took out that upset on the poor kid who was there at the time.
 
I am happy to bust some myths and educate people on how to use this beautifully relaxed state for their own positive lives, instead of never understanding how everyday encounters can indeed be a form of hypnotizing them, without understanding how or why it is done.

Dec 29 2022

What are some common experiences one has when hypnotized? Vol. 612, Dec. 29, 2022

This was a great question asked by someone on Quora and this is how I answered it: 

Having been hypnotized myriads of times both in the clinical setting and on the stage of a few stage hypnotists I can tell you the following:

  1. There are responses that allow one to know that one is hypnotized. A clinical hypnotist will tell you what those are so that you know that you have been hypnotized. Some of these symptoms are swallowing a lot more than usual, pulse and heart rate slowing down, circular breathing from the diaphragm, eyes will flutter, the hypnotist will be looking for the lines in your lips to be less deep, a slight color change in your face to a bit redder. (Some hypnotists will give their clients convincers like sticking their feet to the floor unable to move them to prove to the client they were indeed hypnotized).
  2. The client may feel like they are heavy or lighter, sometimes one feels tingles in their fingers and/or toes, and time feels much quicker than it actually is.
  3. It is much easier to gain access to the subconscious material that needs to be found and worked with while one is in the hypnotic state which is why it is used.
  4. The work goes a lot quicker than conventional talk therapy because we are working. in the subconscious mind where the transformations need to happen.
  5. In stage shows one realizes that the suggestion may not be real, however, the volunteer acts as if that suggestion is real. i.e. A suggestion given that a man is pregnant and giving birth – the man knows that he isn’t pregnant, but will act out the suggestion as if he is a good hypnotic subject.
  6. Stage hypnotists have to be very good at discerning the volunteers who are actually hypnotized and those that may be pretending which they can tell by giving suggestions and seeing how the volunteer responds along with the above-given symptoms of hypnosis.
  7. Mostly, when one is in treatment with a hypnotist who knows how to use the tools and techniques well, one can go to those hard places in one’s memory and transform it quickly to let go of that which no longer works and create thinking that does work better for the client.

I have been practicing hypnotism for the past 20 years and my clients have reported that this was the one way they found to clear out their issues when everything else they tried failed. It is important to find a hypnotist who has proven that they are able to help people with the issues that they have so that you receive the results that you are employing them to help you get. Because the reality of the situation is that no one can heal another – all we as the practitioner can do is facilitate another’s healing to the point that they allow us to. This means that we have to know everything that is bothering our clients so we can help free them of the issues.

Dec 22 2022

How do I fill the void in my heart? Vol. 611, Dec. 22, 2022

This was a question asked by a person on Quora and this is how I answered it: 

Voids in the heart are due to a lack of loving yourself and then being unable to accept the love of others based on my 35 years in mental health.

So, get yourself in front of a mirror and find those things that you appreciate about your appearance.

Then get into a comfy chair or lie on a bed and get relaxed and go deep inside yourself to find those wonderful attributes you have as a person – friendly, caring, smart, resourceful, etc. as examples.

Find like-minded people interested in those things you truly enjoy doing.

So many people have been told they aren’t good enough as they are, or more likely coded some angry remark made by an overworked stressed-out parent to mean they weren’t good enough when the comment wasn’t even about them really. They were too young to understand this thing called ‘projection.’

Dec 15 2022

Why is it so hard to find a decent therapist? Vol. 610, Dec. 15, 2022

This was a question that was asked by a person on Quora and this is how I answered it: 

It seems to me that there are many therapists who state that they can help those with anxiety disorders. However, the apathetically trained therapists will give you outdated methods of dealing with it like cognitive therapy, or will give you some antidepressants which could work if you are in the 30% that experience relief.

Anxiety always has a cause for being there, it doesn’t come out of anywhere, so until you understand what caused it and why your body keeps reacting to situations with anxiety you will be hard-pressed to ever get rid of it, which is most likely your end result.

Those of us who practice Neuro-linguistic programming is able to fairly easily and effectively help you release your anxiety without toxic drugs of minimum efficacy and endless therapy appointments.

We use our subconscious mind to figure out the cause of the anxiety being there and help us to let it go. We have a few different techniques that we can use to help with this process.

Additionally, as a clinical hypnotist, I add deeper work to help my clients let go of the negative feelings held toward those who caused the trauma that was the origin of the anxiety disorder as well as doing the inner child work so that the inner child is no longer running the older individual.

Most people do not realize that when thoughts and behaviors show up that are no longer serving them and indeed are causing problems, their inner child is doing its best to protect them. The inner child is in the individual’s subconscious mind so one has to know how to access and work effectively in the subconscious mind to let go of anxiety (and many other emotional issues) once and for all.

Dec 08 2022

Doing the Hard Things: Vol. 609, Dec. 8, 2022

Today we are going to speak about something that most people do not want to pay any attention to and that is ‘doing the hard thing.’

There are many areas in life when it is best to ‘do the hard thing’ even though every cell in your body is screaming for you to do anything. However, here are some reasons why it is more than worthwhile to do the hard things in life.

1. Taking a stand for someone who is incapable of ‘being heard’ maybe because they are mentally ill, and won’t be heard even by their so-called psychiatrist or psychologist. Unfortunately, once someone is given the stigma of a mental illness, their voice is no longer heard – I know because I lived through this bullshit even after I had no symptoms of any mental illness for a number of years.

2. Elders can easily be scared into handing over their money to anyone who will ‘take care of them’ even if it is a horrible living situation. I know because I had to rescue my mom from such situations twice before she died. All the elder wants to know is that they have a safe place to live and the basic necessities will be taken care of since the person is no longer able to do this for themselves.

3. Youth, who are being treated in an abusive manner. Too often the are predictors about the family (not necessarily the family of origin though that can certainly happen as well) abusing the young child – many times in sexually inappropriate ways even before the kid is old enough to understand what sex even is, never mind making a decision on his/her own to be involved. Older kids can be manipulated into it by older and much stronger adults as well even if they know it’s wrong, they don’t know how to stop it. Many would say tell your parents, and I can tell you that many of my clients did just that to be blamed for being victimized further emotionally damaging the victim in the process.

4. Taking risks to try something new because you know it’s scary to do new things. However, it is only when one goes outside the ‘comfort zone’ that one learns more about both the greater world and one’s self. Taking risks and failing also builds resiliency because you realize that you are still standing and can continue forward with a new idea.

5. Taking a stand for yourself and what you believe is most important – never by defending yourself to a bunch of ‘smucks’ as my dad would refer to such people, but by holding firm in your beliefs and doing what you decided to do anyway. There are only two questions one has to ask oneself self if someone is giving you advice whether or not you asked for it: 1) Who is this person in my life? 2) Is this a person who I respect in regard to the situation at hand? If the answer is ‘no’ you keep quiet and move forward with your intended plan of action. Pay attention here: If you do not follow your own heart and soul, and listen to your own gut, you will never feel either any sort of confidence and worse never find true fulfillment in your life. It is never up to someone else to tell you what you should be doing or how – meaning what you put your life’s energy and emotions into – that is your choice and yours alone. Yes, we can most certainly seek guidance, just make sure that you find the correct guide for you. One who will allow you to do what you so choose and guide you to success in that pursuit – so someone who has successfully accomplished what you want to do. In NLP we call this ‘modeling excellence.’ In fact in Tad James’s NLP courses – that is the answer to the test question as to what NLP is so it is an important concept to understand as we make our way through life.

6. Take those scary opportunities to travel to new places, and advance in your career – because, one can easily turn that feeling of being scared into that of ‘excitement.’ It is just a matter of having the butterflies in your stomach fly in formation. Physiologically speaking both these emotions feel the same in the gut, so turn it from a negative label to a positive one, and you are set to go. This is in fact what the major sports and entertainment figures do every day to do their jobs as successfully as the successful ones do.

7. Fail fast: This was already brought up before, but it is so important that it deserves its own listing Look, how are you ever going to know what works and what doesn’t if you don’t give a thing a shot? You can’t and worse you are not allowing yourself to build self-confidence by learning what you can do and what you can overcome in the process as well as denying yourself this ability to be resilient in the face of adversity.

Learning: By doing ‘the hard thing’ you are building up your sense of self-integrity because you took a stand when you saw fit to help another being get treated correctly. Was it fun? Probably not. Was it worth it? Hell, yes every single time. By taking risks we learn what works and what doesn’t and in so doing we are able to build self-confidence and resiliency – both very important in being able to be a productive and happy person.

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