Hypnotic Pro

The above title is the title for an upcoming event March 16 -> April 1, 2009 in Bali.

You will accompany Betty Alice Erickson MFT (Milton’s daughter) and Eric Greenleaf PhD Head of the Milton Erickson Institute of the North Bay.

“In this intensive experience you’ll witness living uses of trance in
community ritual practices and personal healing”.

They have lead this journey previously and always successfully. This is a moving experience as well as a great opportunity to visit Bali.

For more information click the link above or cut and paste ( http://www.miltonerickson.com )

Be in health

Keith

I just realized that very soon the Olympics are going to be taking place in China. This brought to mind the connection between athletic performance and hypnosis.

These athletes who are going to be participating have been training for this upcoming event for a long time, sometimes most of their lives. They have focus!

They start by working with one or more coaches, and trainers. They start developing their bodies for the event(s) that they feel drawn to. With their support team they start developing their particular routines for their event.

Where does Hypnosis come in? These people have been working toward this upcoming event, sometimes for most of their lives. They spend long hours with their coaches and trainers doing the physical part of their training ( I said that they are focused!). There is also another part that the really good ones participate in, that is the mental preparation for their event.

When they are not physically training, they take time to go over their routines again and again mentally. They work on the fine details of their physical workout. In their subconscious they fine tune their performance by going step by step through their routine to get it perfect.

They are getting into the hypnotic zone. This helps them program their body to execute their routine with perfection so that when they are out on the floor and engaged in their performance they do not have to think about each upcoming move that they need to do for their routine.

When they go out to perform their routine, before they start, they take some time to focus (you can watch them do this), they go into the Zone where they are being operated by the subconscious mind which has also trained extensively for this moment.

Sometimes during their performance they make an error, I believe that this is where they attempt to take conscious control of their performance versus using the internal programming they have developed.

When you see the Gold winner do their routine, what you see in flowing perfection of movement, every muscle is doing just what is needs to do at just the right time. This is the result of excellent self hypnosis in action! They have done that routine thousands of time both physically AND mentally. Self hypnosis is an excellent tool.

I invite comments either here for all to see or at “comments@HypnoticPro.com”

Be in Health

While I have my survey online, I have also been asking people on the street their thoughts about hypnosis. I have been getting some interesting answers. One was from a man and his first response was that he had been a successful subject at a stage show at the fair. He was not happy with the experience since when he was brought out of trance the whole audience was laughing at him. When he saw the video of the event he was somewhat upset. He had been told to smack his back side and yell “Who is your daddy?” and he felt he had been made to look foolish. He was in deep trance.

Next he said he had tried hypnosis to stop smoking and it did not work, then he admitted that he was not ready to stop.  He said he had the same results with loosing weight. When I want to eat those donuts I want to eat donuts, so it did not work then either.

Here is an example of a person who is a good hypnotic subject, yet he is not ready to do what is necessary to achieve the results that  he knows would be beneficial to him if he were to really want the results.

A lot of  the other people I talked with knew little or nothing about hypnosis, heard that it exists yet it had never been in any way near their lives so they had no real knowledge about it.

Others thought that it could be beneficial and they would like to achieve better self confidence and self worth, while a few were interested in stop smoking or weight loss.

I shall continue gathering this information to get a broader base for statistical purposes.

In the mean time please leave your comments here or email me at “Comments@HpnoticPro.com”

Until later

Be in Health

I thought that it would be good to involve my readers in a new project that I am undertaking. This project is a survey about hypnosis. It is composed of four short questions which are:

1) Male/Female

2) age,  20’s, 30’s 40’s 50+

3) What do you know about Hypnosis?

4) If it did work, what three things would you use it for?

Simple, straight forward. I ask that you submit your answers to “comments@HypnoticPro.com” and if you care to post comments  here in the blog feel free to do that.

Be in health.

A friend of mine recently was talking wit me about the less than great news that he had just received from his doctor. The Doc told him that he has an aortic anurism and it needed more tests before they go in to remove it.

I was telling him that if in fact they do have to go in that I can work with him so that to him it will be painless. He was liking that part, just does not really enjoy pain. He went in for more in depth testing and it turned out there was no anurism, just arteries that were accomidating too much plaque.

He was very happy that they are not going to crack his chest, and he still carries this reluctance to experience pain so eventually I will get to teach him how to do his own  personal pain control.

Be in health.

PS: you can add comments either here or at comments@HypnoticPro.com

I am finding it interesting that very few people post actual comments to any of my posts. You can do the reply by either just direct posting comments on this site OR you can post comments at “comments@hypnoticpro.com”

Anybody have any comments? Here or on comments@HypnoticPro.com.

Be in health!

I was watching the Dog Whisperer this evening and there was one particular commercial for allergy relief meds from big pharma. What I saw, was big drug companies pushing their philosophy of “If you feel something, take a pill from us to feel better”. My first reaction to the commercial was that the people should just get over it. Do something positive for yourself to feel better.

I then came into my office and looked at some email. There was a message from Al Sears MD. The title of his article is “Beat Allergies Naturally”. He then goes on to tell us that vitamin C, from lots of fruits and vegetables, Bromelain, from the root of the pineapple tree, and quercetin from many plants including apples, berries, broccoli, squash, and some nuts. All of these together are natures way of dealing with irritations naturally.

He then goes on to explain each of these sources and what they do to reduce/eliminate allergies. And all of the time I thought that I was using self hypnosis to deal with allergies. It appears that I have some help form eating a good diet of natural foods.

I believe in being an active participant in my own health and life. Eat good foods, exercise, do yoga and self hypnosis to help guide the body functions for good health, explore and enjoy life, have fun .

Be in health,

Keith

PS: I invite you to post comments either here or on comments@HypnoticPro.com

I was looking through a forum on hypnosis and there were posts about past life regressions. One in particular spoke to me.  I do past life regressions with some of my clients and it usually enables them to find some item or two that can be used by them to their benefit in this life.

This gentleman was escorted on a past life regression and was able to experience a few past lives. One in particular stuck with him. In one of his lives he was a Japanese Kamakazi  pilot who was killed on the ground attempting to help a buddy. He became very attached to this past life.

My point of view with past life work is to find something there  that can be brought back to this life for your benefit. Now this can be something that works well there and would also work well here or something that does not work there so that you do not have to learn all about it in this life the hard way. Either way, the life we are in is the life we are to be living now. Nothing wrong with learning more  about how to live this life better and more fully.

Hypnosis is a wonderful tool for learning more about self and improving your life and health. We all have our own specific past history (this life and others). we can not change our past, yet we can learn from it and change how we look at our past. Find the benefits in our history and when you access your past, use what you find to help yourself and others.

Be in health.

Keith

PS: I normally ask for comments about your thoughts on my blog. I have set up an email site for those of you who do not want to post in this blog. It is   comments@hypnoticpro.com  that is all for now.

Hypnosis is a very powerful tool for working on self or others. Hypnosis is not a cure all. There are some things that need to be dealt with before hypnosis can be used to do its work. There will be times when someone has physically related medical problems. These should be taken care of prior to doing the hypnotic work.

I liken this to when I was working in the alcohol and drug recovery field. Once a year My boss and I would go to the county mental health facility and give trainings on how to recognize alcoholism and drug addictions. Sometimes these alcoholics or addicts would be referred to the mental health clinic showing signs of some diagnosed condition.

The clinicians would interview them as usual and these clients would not give the full truth about their usage  of substance. The clinician would then start treating the client for the diagnosed condition and wonder why the treatment was not working over time. The client was still drinking and/or using like usual for them and were never going to respond appropriately while still drinking and/or using.

By training the clinicians to watch for certain  minimizing phrases and some physical clues given by alcoholic/addicts the clinician could go deeper into that area and then refer these clients to a rehab facility, ours or other private facilities. Then if the client was willing to actually participate in their own recovery and still exhibited symptoms of mental health problems, then they could go back to mental health. Usually though once they got clean and sober the apparent mental health symptoms disappeared.

So if you or I encounter a client with other physical/medical problems, have them get checked out by a medical doctor and follow the MD’s prescription for health and then go for the hypnotic treatment. Even Milton Erickson knew that there are limits as to what we can do with hypnosis. There are certain people who can not be helped, he talked about one sociopath who murdered five people and he knew that there was nothing that he could do to help rehabilitate this person.

So there are some limits as to who we can help to cure themselves. Start out giving them the best you can to help them improve, but if you are working harder at their recovery than they are,  that might be a clue that you need back off and possibly refer them to another practitioner who might be more qualified in that particular area. If that does not work then bless them and send them on their way.

The sad truth is that we can not always help all of them.

Be in health,

Keith

P.S. Comments are always welcome.

This post is a bit different in that I found a program that I feel many of us can use at some time. Now to the story.

I have been working at writing a report on hypnosis for about two plus weeks. Last Sunday night about midnight I was finishing my editing of this piece, and it was excellent! I was using MS Word 2003 as my writing platform. I was at the place where I had completed a very productive and inspires session and was ready to head to bed.

I hit the save button and up came all sorts of error messages and when the dust cleared what I had was a very corrupted temp file of all of my work and the original file that I had edited was gone! It was not in the recycle file, it was gone! I was frustrated to say the least. I figured the best course of action was to get some sleep and setup a mind search for a solution to my predicament.

In the morning I started by going into command line DOS to use UNDELETE. XP does not have UNDELETE. OK go to plan B. I was starting to install the electric, lighting and phone systems in a new house that morning with my electrical contracting company, so off I went to work on that. When I got back to my office I was back at finding a solution to my missing files.

I went to  Google and searched file recovery. Multiple pages of offerings were presented. I started by checking out various programs. Many would take lots of time searching my drive for lost files, then present a list and then want $50 -> $75 to recover them. Then there were the ones that would attempt to recover the file and only get the corrupted unrecoverable file.

This was getting frustrating yet I knew that my file was on my drive somewhere, at least my last pre-edit file. More Google and more programs. I then got to one from SoftPerfect, Recovery, a free download. It was a relatively small file as I down loaded it. OK here we go, press open. It started with its opening page asking what drive did I want to search and what tpe of file. I entered my drive and .doc as the file type, press continue and in seconds a page of .doc files was displayed, I think it was 147. None of these were in the file tree or recycle folder, just loose and hidden on the drive.

I selected the file I felt was the best most recent before disaster and pressed recover and waited with held breath. Three, four, five seconds and there is my lost and recovered file! I immediately stored it on two different drives, don’t want to have to go through this again.

I am totally impressed with this program, it is small, fast, it works and it is free. SoftPerfect has other programs at reasonable prices, check them out. I think everyone should have their Recovery.exe in your utilities folder for when that special file goes missing, especially since MS no longer has UNDELETE available.

Be in health, physically and on your file storage.

Keith