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Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. We probably all realize that this childhood verse is far from the truth. Words do injure; words wound. Teasing, hatred and disgrace, all are a source of injury, and when it is conveyed in childhood from a child’s peers or a respected…
With the people, I have helped in my career, I have found that you get what you think about the most. Your thoughts can be emotionally charged. When you desire something, say, a new house, apartment or other living space, you also feel emotion each time you think about having that place where you…
Visualize this picture: As a hypnotherapist, I have two clients. They are a similar age and are the same gender. Both experienced the loss of a partner at roughly the same period in life. Therefore, I can rationally expect that both will have a similar reaction to their loss and both will benefit from similar techniques…
I have assisted many individuals experiencing difficulty with self-awareness and confidence. Life is not always easy and we sometimes experience anxiety, remorse, and other emotional pain. Indubitably, this is expected and many times necessary. These are “life lessons.” I have spent many hours assisting my clients to review where each has come from, what each…
Last Saturday evening, after attending a one day workshop, I was reviewing messages left during the day. One of the messages was from a man who had scheduled an appointment to see me in two weeks, after I arrived back in the states after my current trip. He asked if we could meet the following day,…
Dissociaters I have hypnotized many people who had fit the “fantasizer” description, people who are highly hypnotizable. But then I saw many who did not fit this prototype. Some of the people I had hypnotized could not remember ever having experienced vivid imagery. When I assessed highly hypnotizable people who would not go into trance instantly, I…
We are becoming wise to the fact that mutually biological and environmental factors can forecast how deeply an individual goes into a trance. Identical twins raised apart often have extraordinarily similar responses to hypnosis. Additionally, an “eye roll” test, developed by Herbert Spiegel, M.D., measures how far a person can roll his eyes up under…
As a hypnotist I have worked with various clients caring for difficulties from chronic pain to poor study habits. Andrea was a few minutes late for our first session as she was standing outside my office building lighting, what she thought would be, her last cigarette. As this habit had developed so had her severe asthma and a…
While the placebo effect can be powerful, it is sometimes stated incorrectly that hypnosis works as a placebo, and that the effects of hypnosis are merely a placebo effect due to the patient’s beliefs and expectations. While positive expectancy is an important part of hypnosis, hypnosis is not the same as the placebo effect in…
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez The Power of Words on Children This week I had a teenager in my office for a hypnosis session concerned that something bad would happen to his family. This young man was growing up in the midst of a possible divorce between his parents ; it was not a surprise that…