About Me
Certified Hypnotherapist, and Certified Master NLP Practitioner trained and specializing in Pain Relief and Management, Stress Management, and Personal Growth Motivation. As a psychic I also bring a strong intuition to my practice.
Music
Mine - I compose a variety of music, including for hypnosis work
Vices
Speaking my mind, which sometimes gets me in trouble.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007, 04:28 PM EST [General]
Hi Everyone:
This is just a quick post to let everyone know that I will be "missing in action" for about the next week as far as the internet is concerned.
Starting tomorrow morning, and for what I know will be four absolutely fabulous days of learning, healing, and diving deeper into life in general, I'm going to be taking Dr. Wil Horton's Master NLP course in Toronto. And since I know from the Basic NLP course that he has a two-part exam (one part you complete on Saturday night, and the other part you complete after the course is finished), I've decided I will apply myself to finishing off the second part as a priority, rather than let it drag on for a month as I did last time. I had to put that in writing to hold myself to it!! ;)
So, I will be looking forward to catching up on blogs about a week from now. And, of course, reporting about the course - the first one was a blast, so I know this one will be, too. Having spoken to him this morning, he reports that we have a good sized class of at least 16 persons coming along for this course. So there are going to be several more very well trained hypnotists in Southern Ontario (many people come quite a distance for these courses) at the end of this weekend.
Friday, September 21, 2007, 09:44 PM EST [General]
Inspiration...
Sometimes when we are searching for a way to help our clients, we get help from out of the blue. Like today.
This morning I was taking my shower, and rummaging through my thoughts on what kind of script or technique I would use to get started with my new weight-loss client. I knew I had several scripts tucked away on the computer, and also in some binders, but as my mind catalogued each, nothing seemed to fit.
Suddenly, I was inspired to create a scene where we were going to the House of Mirrors at the mid-way of the Fall Fair. So, as I finished my shower and put on my makeup, the patter I would use fell into place - and I was sure I didn't need it typed out. Sometimes it's good to have a typed script, and I probably use them about half the time, but other times I have much better results all around with ideas that "just come" to me.
So I used the idea of having her enter the House of Mirrors via a ramp (at the count of three), move through the door, and look at the first mirror, which was her in present form. Then I moved her forward by month across the next six months, with a gradual decrease in her weight, gave her direct suggestions around eating and exercise, and just how great she was going to look over that period of time. To exit the House of Mirrors, she had to turn her back away from the mirrors, and move back the way she came into the building. I then continued for about another five minutes with direct suggestions and reminders of the experience in that building.
Several interesting things happened when I emerged her. First, she told me that she hated looking in the mirror at herself because of her weight, so this was a really good exercise in getting her to look at herself, and to get her motivated to take off the pounds. But because she didn't like looking in the mirror alone, she decided to take me with her, to help me get rid of some of my weight, and to make it more fun to do it together. Which was very interesting, because I tend to go with my clients into whatever place I send them anyways when I'm hypnotising them, and I seem to straddle both the inner and outer worlds when I do these kinds of scenarios
Her description was of the two of us (we're about the same age - she is about forty pounds heavier than me, though) struggling to get up the ramp into the place, and then each of us peaking around the mirrors. But as we were coming out of the place, we were laughing and fairly skipping down the ramp like kids. She emerged from hypnosis with a big smile on her face. She was really pleased with her session today, and fairly bounced out of here, which was a big change from the tired, discouraged woman who walked through my door earlier.
It should be interesting to see how all of this plays out. I'm going to make this one of my major weight-loss tools, for myself and for my clients. Inspiration needs to be treated with respect, so that it continues to flow.
Saturday, September 15, 2007, 12:14 PM EST [General]
Hello Everyone:
I'm just wanting to take this opportunity to say "Thank You!" to everyone who posts here. Especially those who post in the forums with information that helps others. I have learned so much here over the past couple of months, and also managed to get more confidence in finding out that I sometimes know much more than I realized I knew, that it has sparked a new energy for me, in getting out there and doing the work.
As a result of that, I've been putting out a much stronger "accepting" vibe, and my days and weeks are gradually beginning to fill up with clients - not anywhere near what I'd call full-time right now - but I expect that this will be coming a lot faster now than it would have otherwise. With knowledge comes confidence - and with confidence in knowing you're doing it "right", comes the vibe that lets others know you can help them. The support system from my certifying instructor has been next to nothing (once per month meetings IF you bring client files with you), so for quite a while I have relied on what I could glean from those who share their stuff on the internet - and Cal Banyon has been a major contributor there, along with several other top names as well.
Part of the chain of events this last week has been this: A friend of mine whom I've actually been unsuccessful in getting to stop smoking sent a "stop-smoking" client to me. That client is now well on her way to being smoke-free (a two packer for the last 30 years, now down to less than 15 butts a day in less than a week), and has now signed up for weight-loss hypnosis, which is something I've avoided doing up to this point in time because of my own weight issues. Not only that, but she's also got a friend of hers to come to me for weight-loss as well. I think perhaps the Universe had a little to do with that, because now I'm focusing on helping them with their weight-loss, it has also added some needed pressure on me to start again in earnest to shed a few pounds of my own. This seems to be happening a lot for me - if I'm having an issue, I end up with a client with the same or similar issue - and we both end up benefitting from the hypnosis sessions. There is no conscious intent on my part for this to happen - I don't get to pick the person that shows up here - but I do find it quite fascinating that I'm being given the opportunity to help, and be helped, all at the same time.
I also did a "Corporate Stress Management" luncheon lecture this week - something I'd been wanting to do for a while now, but lacked the major confidence needed. The company actually invited me to come to see them! While the turnout wasn't very good (only four out of the original fifteen people who signed up actually showed up), those who were there have indicated they are going to speak to their co-workers and bosses, and they hope that I will come back again - this time for putting on a Seminar (for which I'd get paid next time :-) ), and they each took a handful of my brochures and business cards with them as they left to go back to work. What I'm wanting to stress here is that I probably wouldn't have done near as well, or had near the confidence to do this, without the help I've got from being here at Ourhypnospace.
So, especially, a big "Thank You!" to Cal for putting up this place for us, and for those who share freely here of the wealth of information they have gleaned over their careers.
This is a cross-post from my blog on Zaadz.com, a social-networking Web2 site to which I belong, in response to their question of the day which was: "What, in your mind, would be the most noble or most admirable profession to take on?"
I think the most noble profession in the world is to be a Hypnotherapist or Hypnotist (depending where you live). What we do is to assist people to unlock and unblock their minds, and provide them with the tools to create the kind of life that they'd like to have. That's the basic description of what we do: we affect change - rapidly and generally permanently - so that a person can get on with living the kind of life they have the potential and willingness to live. The potential for helping people using hypnosis and guided visualization is pretty much unlimited.
When a person comes to me, I need to set aside and suspend my own issues, and concentrate fully on what it is the client feels they would like to accomplish. Focused listening to and watching the client describe their situation is very important. Guiding them, at times to uncover what the core issue is, is also very important. I then assess their ability to follow instructions and how they intersect with life. Some people are very visual, and if they are not too analytical at the same time, they are the easiest to help. Some people are very kinesthetic - they intersect life at the feeling level, so if I can get them to really bring up a feeling and follow it back to it's initial appearance in their life, it is then easy to access the subconscious mind to make the changes, by suggestion and by guiding the mind to better thoughts, to move the client into a more dynamic flow of life. As each person is unique, there are many variables that need to be considered and worked in, around and through to affect change.
We are motivators. We help clients to discover what their prime motivators are, toward what they want to accomplish, and then we work within the subconscious mind to remove or re-arrange certain thought patterns that have, in the past, prevented them from realizing their potentials. Whether the motivation is for sports, or to break a bad habit, or to bring up the body's own ability to heal itself into greater focus, carefully crafting the way we work with words and "turn on the lights" in the mind, we move the client toward being their best, and thus to achieve their own unique spiritual greatness.
So, yes, I believe we have a very noble profession in Hypnotism. We work with the one tool everyone has, and for which no one has ever been issued a manual, and where there is great responsibility to do no harm, because the tool is priceless - the mind.
Just popping in from Mississauga, Ontario Canada to say hello to everyone that got here ahead of me. (I was out of town attending my Mom's funeral - she passed away two weeks ago today). This is my first ever blog post, anywhere, and I'd just like to say a big "Thank you!" to Cal for opening up this space here for us.
I'm here for networking, and whatever I can learn from all the great people I see have gathered here. I'm hoping eventually to be able to take Cal's 5 Path™ Hypnosis Course. I've been following along quite faithfully to all of the podcasts since they started last year, and I've learned a tremendous amount just from those and a few other teleseminars I've been on through various organizations.
I'm an NGH Certified Hypnotherapist, and have also taken my basic NLP course with Wil Horton. I'm looking forward to doing his Master NLP course in October in Toronto, and then I'm going to be looking around to see who is teaching the next CI course after that. I've been wanting to stretch out and run with this for some time now, and circumstances in my life have now lined up to make that all possible. I've never been too big on travel, but decided today that maybe it's time I applied for a Visa so I can actually fly to Florida, California or wherever, to get training with the BEST!
My plan is to get moving very quickly now, so that by the time the next World Hypnotism Day rolls around, I will be opening up a centre here in Mississauga, which is one of the fastest growing (and really lovely) cities in Canada presently. I found out recently that we're really in need of good hypnotists in this neck of the woods, and since I love to teach (been teaching deep meditation techniques and psychic development for about 25 years now), it's only a natural for me to expand that into the hypnotism field as well.
My personal web-sites are: Hypno-Dynamics and Channeling The Herald, which is where you can find my profiles (major bio is on the Channeling web-site).
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