Holy Moly It s: Hypnosis

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2 Holy Moly It s: Hypnosis Copyright 2009 ISBN Published and written by Tim Bartley at Smashwords Cover: Face rendered by Fred Hatt. Cover design by Tim Bartley. Smashwords Edition License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

3 Prologue Chapter 1 Perceptions of Hypnosis Chapter 2 History of Hypnosis Chapter 3 The Human Animal Chapter 4 Hypnosis Parts Chapter 5 Stage Hypnosis Chapter 6 Hypnotherapy Chapter 7 The Metaphysical Chapter 8 Final Thoughts About Tim Bartley Table of Contents

4 Prologue Holy Moly Book Series The Holy Moly book series immerses its reader into many fascinating and unknown worlds, investigating interesting but unknown or misunderstood topics. This book series is designed to be relatively short reads yet informative and riveting, giving the reader complete knowledge and understanding of the subject while being thrilled. It is a plethora of knowledge that will really get you thinking while moving you down new paths of insight. Each book revealing the truths behind these many curious topics. It s a fresh look into some hidden aspects of our world and this experience we now find ourselves in. Once the final pages of the book have been turned the reader walks away with a new found understanding of the topic, their world, and themselves. Our first book in the series is on the Mystical and Misunderstood World of Hypnosis Holy Moly It s: Hypnosis is the first book in this exciting series which reveals the human mind, an understanding of yourself that to this point has been unknown. We will unravel the mystery of hypnosis once and for all! It is an exciting journey you are now about to travel. Stage hypnosis, instant healing, tapping into the spiritual realm of past lives and spirit guide channeling, and a new understanding of how this world can truly change is now in the palm of your hand. Enjoy!

5 Chapter 1 Perceptions of Hypnosis Before you read a word in this book become aware of your perceptions of hypnosis as they are right now. Would it scare you if a hypnotist came into the room and wanted to hypnotize you this very moment? Would you let him or her? Do you think you could be hypnotized? Would you believe me if I told you that hypnosis could completely wipe away emotional, behavioral, and physical problems in your life? Do you think a hypnotist would be able to control you and make you act in ways that you would rather not? For you, is hypnosis something that goes against Gods word or your belief system? Would you believe me if I told you that you ve already been in hypnosis today? Do you think you could relive any event in your life, all the way back to your own birth and even into the womb? What about past lives? Have we lived before and can we access that information within the state of hypnosis? Could that even be real? Think about your responses to these questions for a moment. Better yet, write them down on a piece of paper, you could use it as a bookmark. When you have finished the book, come back and reread the above paragraph and then open up that piece of paper and take a look. I think you ll be surprised. Imagine actually being a hypnotist for a moment. Most children don t tell anyone, I want to be a hypnotist when I grow up. I don t think that s ever happened. But imagine that you are a hypnotist and you re meeting some new people at a party or speaking with business people inquiring about some service they provide. They happen to ask you what you do for a living. Your response, I m a hypnotist. Think of the reaction! I doubt if you ve ever even met a hypnotist in your life. Most people find it intriguing and very interesting but have no idea what it is or what I do. I have found that some people don t want to talk to me. I had one person who wouldn t look at me directly in the eyes as our short conversation came to an end. The old joke of, Are you going to make me cluck like a chicken? has long been worn out for me as you might imagine. I ve arrived at the point where I have developed something new, my own brand of hypnotherapy called Theta State Therapy. So I ve been calling myself a Theta State Therapist instead of a hypnotist, no one knows what that is, ha! This avoids a lot of the same questions that have been thrown at me through the years and allows me to simply tell people what I do without having to dispel misconceptions. Think of the hoops I have to jump through with new clients. When I first start working with someone new I first have to spend a considerable amount of time dispelling fears and misconceptions, and after that I can finally tell them what hypnosis is. It s kind of like a golfer who doesn t take any lessons and then after ten years gets fed up with their game and goes and takes some lessons. They have to unlearn what they ve learned and then learn the correct way to swing. That s what I have had to do. I first have to tell them what it isn t and then I can tell them what it is... It s kind of like being a lumberjack except that everyone in the world thinks

6 that a lumberjack is a person who goes around and blows up buildings. I have to tell people, No, no, no I don t blow up buildings I cut down trees. Then I meet someone new and again I tell them, No, no, no I don t blow up buildings I cut down trees. And again and again. Then I got an idea! Why not write a book so people would actually know what lumberjacks do! Hypnosis Perceptions Hypnosis, so what is it anyway? I can tell you this. It is not at all what you think it is. For a century we ve seen swinging watches, pendulums, spiral disks, and maidens surrendering their virtue under hypnosis. Stage hypnotists making people cluck like chickens! Some people believe in hypnosis and others do not. Some place hypnosis in the same category as the witch doctor or fortuneteller. Some religions associate it with the devil and are steadfast against it! Aside from all of this one can look up the definition in the dictionary and be misled. Hypnosis has nothing to do with sleep and the word trance implies mind control, which is also inaccurate. Actually, we are always in some form of trance So where does hypnosis then reside? Is it best suited for entertainment? Does it fall within psychology? Is it mind control? Is it in league with the devil? People do think of hypnosis from many different points of view mainly because they don t understand what it is. Hypnosis can entail so many things that people s points of view on the subject are usually misguided. These differences include entertainment, clinical therapy, the metaphysical, and the spiritual. Stage Hypnosis Let s discuss the notion of hypnosis as entertainment, the stage hypnotist. Hypnosis in entertainment is based on the premise that a hypnotist can make people act out in ridiculous ways. On the count of three, run up to that microphone, drop your pants and sing us a song one, two, and three! After the show the participants had no idea what they were doing, right? The hypnotist had them under his spell! This is what most people think of when it comes to hypnosis. You can be made to do things that you normally wouldn t do. But consider for a moment if it were possible to make people act as you command them to. Unethical hypnotists all over the world would be capitalizing on the ability to manipulate people s minds in the realm of behavior, passion, and finance. Maybe they would convince people to send them monthly checks for the rest of their lives! Perhaps a hypnotist could get others to conduct a series of crimes that benefited the hypnotist alone. If this worked, hypnotists would be wealthy beyond belief by controlling others and of course this would catch on. After a while everyone would become hypnotists and we d all be controlling each other. That hasn t happened. So how can the stage hypnotist get these people to do outlandish things in front of a large audience? They aren t out of control, actually they know what they re doing and we ll discuss how this works in greater detail. I love a good hypnosis stage show! Metaphysical & Spiritual There is yet another side to hypnosis, the metaphysical - past lives. This point of view is fascinating to many people because it involves very deep questions that we all have about ourselves. Have we lived before? Where do we come from, where are we going?

7 Philosophically and mystically oriented individuals wonder if the mind can remember past incarnations as well as spiritual memories. This particular line of thought is based on the premise that our inner mind remembers every moment and every event beyond our current incarnation. Other metaphysical thought ponders if the Subconscious mind is the conduit to the collective consciousness of the universe. Others speculate whether going into the state of hypnosis enables our consciousness to tap into psychic powers. You may have heard the term Regression but most people are unaware of the term Progression as it relates to hypnosis. Where regression is going back in time and remembering long lost lifetimes and events, progression is moving into the future and seeing what lies ahead. We wonder if this explains how the great psychics like Nostradamus or Edgar Cayce accurately predicted the future or whether gifted children labeled as prodigies have retained their skills from a past life. Speculations such as these are abundant and add to the mystery, acceptance, and lack of acceptance of hypnosis. You can see why some people may balk at the idea of seeking a hypnotherapist for a clinical issue. Clinical Hypnotherapy Now, let s talk about the therapy point of view, the clinical side of hypnosis. The clinical side of hypnosis deals with the manipulation of a natural state of mind. The point is to enhance that state of mind and to eliminate negative behaviors, feelings, perceptions, beliefs, emotions, and greatly help or remove emotional, habitual, and physical problems. This point of view maintains that the buildup of negative perceptions and feelings greatly affects one s emotional and physical health as well as our behaviors. Does negative unresolved emotion directly contribute to vast amounts of illnesses? Is hypnosis a lasting cure or only a temporary fix? Through the use of hypnosis is it possible to correct these problems permanently? How does this actually work? So you can see the word hypnosis conjures up all kinds of different thoughts and ideas doesn t it? As a hypnotist, I want to state that you have stumbled upon something that is better than finding buried treasure. You hold in your hands a discovery of monumental proportions! Who are we? Where do we come from? How do our minds really work? Can we heal ourselves? Do I have to continue to live with so many emotional and physical problems? These are all very interesting questions to be sure and ones that you may be able to answer after reading this text. Let s now explore the fascinating world of Hypnosis.

8 Chapter 2 History of Hypnosis So how far back does all of this hypnosis stuff go anyway? It actually goes way back, thousands of years, to ancient Egypt where they used something known as Sleep Temples. This method of healing was associated with Imhotep, the earliest known physician in history. Imhotep temples, his name meaning He comes in peace, were busy centers for incubation used for sleep therapy. Through specific rituals people who were ill were psychologically prepared for therapeutic procedures in these healing spaces. Later in history Romans also borrowed trance healing from the Egyptians and Greeks. Prior to the fifteenth century physical and emotional problems were considered to be punishment from the Gods. Healers of the time would use chanting, drums, and dancing while speaking suggestions of healing. The subject was placed in hypnosis by the means of these rituals and the mental expectancy of their Great Tribal Healer enabled the healing to actually succeed. The roots of hypnotism arguably can also be associated with Christian mysticism, Oriental meditation, and philosophies such as Pythagoreanism and Stoicism. Indian yogic meditation is sighted as an important predecessor to hypnotism as well. The precursor to modern hypnotism began in the eighteenth century in Europe. A physician named Franz Anton Mesmer ( ) used magnets in the treatment of many illnesses which became known as Animal Magnetism. Mesmer believed that when the ebb and flow of fluid within the body was disturbed or out of harmony with the universal rhythm, mental or nervous illness could result. This was a kind of supernatural magnetism as well, aliening his patients with the flow of the universe. He waved magnets that were attached to a wooden device over his subjects giving suggestions of healing. This is where the term Mesmerized comes from. Mesmer had made animal magnetism a household word. In fact there were more than 1,500 books published on animal magnetism and related subjects up until Mesmer s methods were investigated by scientific committees which pronounced against his theory of animal magnetism. They concluded that the effects were due to belief and imagination. Even though these committees ruled against animal magnetism his theory became the basis of treatment in the United States and Europe. It also took on other forms such as the laying on of hands which was very popular into the nineteenth century. This had a very strong cultural impact. From a healing basis, animal magnetism branched out into hypnotism, spiritualism, magnetic healing and parapsychological research. This is a good place to pause for a moment in looking back at the history of hypnosis. Let s talk about a very important part of hypnosis, and general healing for that matter, because it was the main healing ingredient of animal magnetism, tribal healers, the local medicine man, and the healing power of sleep temples. It also plays a part in modern hypnotherapy as well. This very

9 important healing ingredient is known as Mental Expectancy. What the mind expects to happen tends to be realized. This is why animal magnetism actually healed people. I m sure you have heard the expression of a self-fulfilling prophecy. A quote from Henry Ford is based upon this assumption. He stated, Whether you believe you can, or you can't, you are right. The same holds true for healing. I cannot tell you how many times people have come to work with me after they ve already tried everything else. They have had multiple MRI scans, been through a whole host of doctors and drugs. Actually the progression of what people typically do goes like this They go to a doctor, then another doctor, and then to a specialist. Then they go to a counselor, psychologist, and/or physiatrist and they still haven t found relief. Then they go to an acupuncturist, Reiki, or a tarot card reader. Then after all of that they show up on my door to try hypnosis, and guess what? Most of the time they become well. And my initial step with them is to let them know that even though they have failed with all of these other modalities, if they follow my simple directions, they will become well. When the person walks in my door I tell them, I move into their personal space a bit to make my point, We can quickly and easily remove this problem, I ve done this many times before. I ve done this so many times in the past and we can easily get rid of this for good. I also tell them not to Try or Hope because these are actually failure words. Anytime you ve ever tried to do something or hoped that it would work, you probably failed at it. We will achieve this change right now, today Mental expectancy works in other parts of our lives as well. When you were a teenager did you ever go to a concert? You buy the tickets months ahead of time and then you count down the days on the calendar. You play the band s music more and more as the date of the show approaches. Now it s finally the day of the concert and you get in your car with your friends, how exciting! This is going to be great! Well of course it will be great. You just spent several months anticipating this night and building mental expectancy towards it. Another interesting example of mental expectancy is the preacher you see on TV. You know the ones I m talking about. The church followers get a flyer in the mail informing them that reverend X will be coming to their town. They post the flyer on the refrigerator and begin to wait for the big event, the anticipation builds. On September 27th I am going to get this bum leg healed! When they arrive at the stadium, the grandeur of it all, so many people, the lights! It s a huge stadium filled with ten thousand people and he s up there with the microphone talking excitedly through a million watt PA system. They get in a single file line and advance one by one to the podium where the preacher is. They are seeing the people ahead of them falling to the floor and then getting up healed. Talk about critical bypass factor of the conscious mind, man that s it! They finally get right in front of him and he hits them with his bible which causes their nervous system to spike way up, then way down into hypnosis, (I do this same thing every day in my office, it s an instant induction), and they fall to the floor and don t know what hit them! They fall down and when they stand up, they re healed! And you know what? A lot of them are but why? Mental expectancy and are you ready for this? Hypnosis!

10 So if you lived in Egypt thousands of years ago and you knew people that were healed in the sleep temple then you would have a belief that you stand a good chance of becoming healed as well. If the tribal medicine man has special magic and he dances around you chanting words of healing to the Gods you probably will become well. Modern hypnotherapy is leagues beyond simply relying upon mental expectancy but it is an important factor towards positive change, no doubt about it. Marquis de Puysegur ( ) coined the term Somnambulism in The literal definition means sleepwalking. He was working with an artificial somnambulism or artificial sleep-like state but he still conceived of this as a kind of supernatural process. Today this is known as the third level of hypnotic depth. If I cannot achieve this level with my clients we reschedule for another day. At somnambulism the hypnotist s entire tool belt is available for use, so to speak. Regressing a person to an earlier event or the cause of their problem will not work unless the person is first in Somnambulism. Stage hypnotism will also fail without first placing the person into somnambulism. In 1815 Abbe Jose Faria ( ) develops the Fixed Gaze method of hypnotic induction. This of course is synonymous with hypnosis. We ve all seen the spiral disks, the classic swinging wrist watch and the phrase Look into my eyes, deep into my eyes Actually the process of focusing your mind on something slows the brainwaves down, which is hypnosis. James Braid ( ) a Scottish surgeon gave the phenomena associated with mesmerism a respectable scientific angle. Braid was a huge critic of Mesmerism. He thought it was a pseudoscientific and supernatural theory. Braid coins the term Hypnosis after the Greek word Hypnos which means To Sleep. He also uses derivatives of the word as hypnotism, hypnotic, hypnotize and hypnotic therapeutics. Braid s scientific approach to hypnotism with his terminology made it possible for people to embrace the subject and his assertion that hypnotic effects were subjective and not produced by the hypnotist. Hypnosis works through focused attention and suggestion rather than postulating any mysterious force such as animal magnetism. This was very important in the advancement of hypnosis as a therapy. Braid is therefore considered to be the pioneer of hypnotism as opposed to Mesmerism. In 1846 Scottish doctor James Esdaile ( ) performed thousands of painless operations with the use of hypnosis. These operations included nineteen amputations, removal of tumors, and three hundred major deep operations. His success rates and mortality rates were astonishing. If you think of pain control during this time, and before this era, it was extremely limited. The patient would usually get extremely drunk and a stick would be placed in their mouth to bite down on as the surgery commenced. There is a level of hypnosis that Esdaile used which is now called the Esdaile State or the Coma State. In this state and without suggestion such as, You will feel no discomfort you can actually physically pinch, cut, or perform surgery and there will be no pain. This was a breakthrough of monumental proportions in Esdaile s time. However this was superseded by the discovery and use of ether or chloroform to anesthetize the patient and was for the most part forgotten about. If you think about it for a moment, it would be much safer for the body to use a natural way to shut off pain than using a drug. Hypnosis conditioning of pain elimination is today widely being used for painless childbirth. Placing a

11 person in the Coma or Esdaile state is a recognized level of hypnosis. While in this state the person feels complete bliss, it is a wonderful place to be. Jean-Martin Charcot ( ) paralleled closely in the last quarter of the nineteenth century of that which Mesmer had accomplished in the preceding century. Between the two men you could say it was the first hundred years of hypnotism. Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He made hypnosis so widely known a phenomenon in his time there could be no return to the former widespread ignorance of it. (Because of the stage hypnotist today there IS wide spread ignorance of it again however.) Charcot presented a paper to the French Academy of Sciences on January 13, It was a formal presentation to the world of his Grand Discovery of the equivalence of hysteria and hypnosis. A large majority of the medical profession accepted his pronouncement. Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault ( ) was a French physician. He emphasized the psychological power of suggestion and combined elements of Braid s hypnotism with changes that came later in Mesmerism. He founded the famous Nancy School or the "Suggestion School" of hypnotism along with Bernheim. He is considered by many to be the father of modern hypnotherapy. The Nancy school held that hypnosis was a normal phenomenon induced by suggestion. This is in contrast to the earlier schools of thought which considered hypnotic trances as manifestations of magnetism or hysteria. In 1885, Sigmund Freud ( ), and friend, Joseph Breuer ( ), used hypnosis successfully in psychotherapy and produced their classic, Studies in Hysteria. Freud was convinced that powerful mental processes remain hidden from the consciousness of men. (So very true, the conscious mind does not know!) Dr. Hippolyte Bernheim ( ) was a French physician and neurologist. In 1886 he published the book Suggestive Therapeutics which is still considered a classic hypnosis text. Bernheim made a practice of hypnotizing all hospital patients for which he cared for. Within four years he had hypnotized around five thousand people which yielded a seventy five percent success rate in his healing statistics. Years later this number grew to ten thousand with a healing success rate of eighty five percent, which in that time was remarkable. Bernheim added credibility to the psychological model of hypnotism and revived interest in Braid s legacy. During WWI ( ) Germans used hypnosis to treat shell shock which allowed soldiers to return to the fighting almost immediately. After the second world war, Milton Erickson, theorized that hypnosis is a state of mind that all of us enter normally, spontaneously, and frequently. In 1933, Erickson and Hull published, Hypnotism and Suggestibility, which is arguably the most scientific treatment of hypnotism available. Milton Erickson ( ) is generally considered by many hypnotherapists to be the most influential hypnotist of the 20th century. His impact upon scientific research on hypnosis has been less significant and many have thought that only Erickson can do Ericsonian hypnosis. He is credited with developing the use of indirect suggestion; this is a method of speech which indirectly suggests changes to the patient.

12 Through the 1930 s 1960 s Dave Elman ( ) teaches hypnosis techniques to hundreds of physicians and dentists all over the United States for the use of pain elimination. His techniques of Regression to Cause are still used widely and vastly important. I use his modified techniques of regression in my office on a regular basis. His book Hypnotherapy is a must red for any aspiring hypnotist. Ernest Hilgard ( ) was a psychologist and professor at Stanford University. He developed the Standford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales along with his colleague Weitzenhoffer. This scale measures hypnotic responsiveness. Hilgard also developed the neodissociationist theory of hypnosis and was an authority on hypnotic pain control. Theodore X. Barber ( ) was one of the most prolific researchers in the field of hypnosis. He developed a non-state approach called the cognitive-behavioral theory of hypnosis. Barber and his colleagues produced a large body of scientific evidence in favor of their view that hypnosis was not a special state or trance but rather the result of ordinary psychological processes involving cognition and behavior such as imagination, motivation, and expectation. The British Medical Society recognized hypnosis as a legitimate medical tool in It was also recognized by the American Medical Association in Today hypnotherapy continues to gain popularity and is considered a hugely significant contribution in the treatment of emotional, psychological, physical, and habitual problems. From my experience, through conducting thousands of sessions, I can tell you that this process works extremely well. Its healings affects are permanent and the length of therapy required is short.

13 Chapter 3 The Human Animal Understanding yourself, how your mind works, and how we develop problems and perceptions is an extremely important and interesting phenomenon. The human animal is 100% based within emotion. Emotion dictates your mood, behaviors, and influences your physical health greatly. What is your favorite song and why do you like it? What s your favorite movie or book? The answer to these questions is this, because it makes you feel a certain way. If a song, movie, or book doesn t move you emotionally you won t like it or recommend it. Advertisers understand this. The content consumer doesn t consume. The first sentence in any TV commercial that is selling medication is to have you worry about something that the drug can cure. Other product advertising is based in how you will feel when you possess their product. What about your spouse? Why did you marry that person? Because of the way they made you feel, when those feelings go away divorce occurs. Presently fifty percent of all people who get married in the US become divorced primarily because of this shift in feelings. But the effect of emotions within the human animal goes much deeper than this to be sure. Perceptions that you formed on anything in our world are shrouded in emotion. For example if you perceive the world to be filled with friendly helpful people well there is a feeling that goes with that isn t there? But what if you perceive the world as filled with liars and backstabbers? There s a feeling that goes with that as well. How do you perceive your world? How do you perceive your past, present, or future? What about your childhood? From what I ve seen, if your perceptions of these things are negative you will probably have some challenges. Also every emotion equals a behavior including bodily behaviors, all based from emotion. For example if a person is angry what might they do? They might yell or might break something, but the very instance that feeling of anger is plucked out the behavior vanishes. The same holds true with, for example, fibromyalgia (a physical disorder that causes pain points and fatigue) which is a physical disorder. The second that you find and eliminate the feeling causing this problem the pain vanishes. Every feeling or emotion we have actually causes a physical response. An easy example to point out is when you cry. The feeling is sadness so the physical bodily response is that your eyes start leaking so many of the human animal problems are based within emotion. Think of the ultimate behavior associated with emotion, suicide. Japan has one of the world's highest suicide rates. The Japanese government reported the rate for 2006 as being the ninth highest in the world. It is the leading cause of death in men aged Human animals, all of us, do yet something else. We try to distract and comfort from feelings inside we don t like. Always, always distracting and comforting. While we are engaged

14 in the damaging activity, we are affectively distracting and comforting ourselves from feelings we don t like for a short while. For instance, the person who has become obese, is the food the real issue? No. You see the real problem is the feelings, beliefs, and perceptions within them they are trying to distract and comfort with food. When we develop problems, the sequence of why we have the problem pretty much goes like this It starts with a belief system, what you believe to be true. That then leads to negative self-talk. That leads to emotions or feelings. And these emotions is what dictates your behavior, it is what is force feeding you, making you drink, or causing that fatigue or pain. For example, let s look at low self-esteem, which most of us have to a certain extent. Let s say the person was picked on in school, or maybe a friend or two dumped them, or they have been through some bad relationships, etc. They develop the belief that I m not good enough I m not smart enough I m not pretty enough This then leads to negative self-talk. I ll never have a happy relationship Why do I keep failing? I m just stuck and I ll never achieve the things that I want. Then the emotions come in. Negative self-defeating emotions. And the final piece, their behavior. Maybe locking themselves away from the world, perhaps comforting themselves with alcohol, and in a lot of cases the behavior is expressed within the body fatigue, high blood pressure, skin disorders, irritable bowels The same holds true for the celebrities that keep going back repeatedly to the Betty Ford clinic to sober up. I don t know much about what they do there but I know that after I work with an addicted person and we find and clear away the beliefs and emotions that are causing them to drink or do drugs, the problem is permanently solved. Same holds true for cigarette smokers. When I build the urge to smoke the urge doesn t usually anything to do with nicotine, it s usually emotionally based. If this were not the case I would have had hundreds of people contact me for help in getting off the nicotine patch by now, that s never happened. The urge to smoke, drink, or do drugs doesn t usually have much to do with the substance they are using. Here is yet another thing that is going on within us. When we re born the slate is clean (most of the time, we ll discuss this with regard to past life regression later). Between the ages of zero and seven we become fully programmed. Children at this age are only downloading information. As children everything is new to us. There is a first time for everything. When a child goes through an event that is emotionally negative you can think of it like a seed being planted in the subconscious mind. As you progress through life you hit other events that feel the same way as this initial event. Every time you hit one of these events it s like someone taking out a watering can and watering that seed. The seed begins to grow into a tree the tree becomes bigger and bigger. And when this emotional tree becomes big enough you get symptoms. You become depressed or you develop unwanted behaviors, maybe your legs start to shake when you try to go to sleep at night or you develop other physical problems. Then your rational conscious mind steps in to try and figure it out. Whatever it futures out is usually wrong. And sometimes the negative event where the emotional seed was planted wasn t even real! If a child has a nightmare the seed is still planted and if they hit subsequent events in life that feel the same way it can grow and manifest into a problem. Your subconscious mind does not discern between what s real or imagined, so the emotional imprint is real to the subconscious mind.

15 How Our Minds Really Work Before you can understand what hypnosis is and how it works, you must really first understand how your mind works. It s impossible to truly understand yourself without knowing this. We really have three separate and distinct minds, not one. You can think of it like having three heads on your shoulders or being one in a set of triplets. These three minds are very separate, it s like one speaks German, one speaks Chinese, and the other English. These minds do communicate and interrelate, but not well. Because of this we accumulate problems as we progress through life. It s kind of like subconscious mind reality verses conscious mind reality. The conscious mind creates rationale for our behaviors but the truth of the matter is actually something completely different, the subconscious mind is hiding the root of the problem. The real answer lies in the subconscious mind. Each part of the human mind has a set of jobs or tasks it does and we have identified the functions of each part. This separation of duties is important to understand because it ends up causing us all sorts of emotional and physical problems. If there weren t this separation it would be easy for us to identify why we overeat, or become addicted or whatever and then we could simply stop the behavior by thinking through, correctly identifying where it actually originated. Unfortunately this doesn t happen. The Conscious Mind The conscious mind is where you are right now. When you are awake you are consciously aware and when you fall asleep it is the conscious mind that sleeps or drifts away. (The subconscious and unconscious minds are always online) This is where your daily thoughts and opinions reside, it s the rational you. This is the part that the clinical hypnotist would love to just shut down because it gets in the way during session (Which I can now do using something called Hypnosleep). Your conscious mind does not know why you are having the problem. Below are the tasks of the conscious mind. Analytical & Problem Solving The conscious mind is analytical and problem solving. It is highly trained to be responsive; it s a magnificent thinking and analyzing. This part of the mind wants facts, two plus two is four. It wants data and it wants to make sure the data is correct. Short-term Memory The conscious mind is also where your short-term memory resides: Where did I leave my car keys? It recalls phone numbers, people s names, and other things stored on a temporary basis. I ve worked with people who have had multiple strokes and their short-term memory was terrible, interestingly their long-term memory was perfectly intact (subconscious mind). Willpower

16 Your conscious mind is also where willpower resides. Please note that willpower was never meant for long term change, its only function is to supply short-term mental adrenaline towards any goal. People rely on this for losing weight, to quit smoking, and habit breaking, but when it doesn t work it makes you feel like a failure. Willpower is a thought. As long as you can keep that thought front and center in your mind at all times it ll work great for you good luck! The Critical Factor or Critical Facilities The last thing we ll talk about regarding the conscious mind is something called your critical factor, or your critical facilities. This is the part of the conscious mind the hypnotist needs to get around to induce the state of hypnosis. You can think of this part of your mind as a filter or a comparison mechanism. It filters what goes into your subconscious mind and what doesn t. We develop this filter between the ages of five to six years old. Before this part of your mind developed everything that was told to you went directly into your subconscious mind and became you, there were absolutely no barriers. Everything was accepted by you as your reality. (Tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Religious beliefs) What your parents, your friends, and strangers said to you or what you watched on TV or heard on the radio. All of this went into your subconscious mind and became you. Every child who has not developed this critical factor yet, is in effect in hypnosis at all times. In fact young children at or below the age of five are always in the theta brainwave state. The definition of hypnosis is: The bypass of this critical factor in the conscious mind and the establishment of acceptable selective thinking. Hypnosis can also be measured with an electroencephalogram EEG machine resulting in alpha or lower theta brainwave states. Think of this filter or comparison mechanism as residing between your conscious and subconscious mind. The job it performs is to evaluate all incoming data and it either accepts these suggestions/ideas or rejects them based on the programming that is already running in the subconscious. The determination of what is accepted is not based on whether something is positive or negative, good or bad for you. The determination is based on whether the suggestions or ideas match what s already been programmed. For example if you feel as though you re a stupid person and someone comes up and calls you stupid, then that s easy to accept and that suggestion goes into the subconscious mind and becomes a part of you. If you were really feeling down because you believe yourself to be stupid, and a friend calls you to boost you up and tells you all kinds of nice things like, Oh you re so smart, look what you do for a living, a stupid person couldn t do that. for an hour or so, you would hang up the phone and feel pretty good. In fact you might feel good for a few days after that conversation but track this person down in a week or so and you ll find that they are back on their original programming - I m a stupid person. So the power of hypnosis becomes evident at this point. Get around the critical factor, this filter/watch dog, and change the programming! I recall working with a woman regarding weight loss and her mind took her to a few very significant events in her life. In one of these events her mother was praising her for riding her bike so well but then added Especially with those chubby legs. Another event that took place a while later in her life was at a family get-together where her uncle had a few snide comments about her fat legs and thin upper body, after which everyone laughed. It all went right into her subconscious mind, into that subconscious computer; it programmed a fat legs thin

17 torso body shape into her literal subconscious mind. So all these years she has been trying to lose weight and when she does the alert goes out, Gain that weight back so I can successfully maintain the body shape that I know is correct for me! (Conscious mind VS Subconscious mind) Powerful Change So why can t I just change this feeling about me? Why can t I just recognize what the problem is? Why can t I rationally make a decision to stop a behavior and go on with my life without it? Why do so many people need counselors, talk therapists, and psychologists? And why after seeing these mental health professionals are some people still having problems? Talk therapy is useful and therapeutic. We need physiatrists, psychologists and social workers. My old office was located in a building where I became friendly with a licensed MSW (Master of Social Work). When speaking to her one day, describing my situation with my soon to be X she simply moved her hands in front of me. One went up, and one went down, like a scale. This instantly registered a truth in my mind. I asked her excitedly, What did you just do? She said that my X has a personality disorder. When she meets someone new that person is placed upon a pedestal and the person that she s with instantly falls away to nothing, thrown out like gum that has lost its flavor, no feelings involved. Through her insight and this simple hand action she healed me more than she could have possibly known. Through this I found out that I had been with a person that has a Narcissistic Personality Disorder, fits her like a glove. Through conscious talk therapy I was greatly helped, I had a new understanding of what just happened to me, but the feelings were still there! I was still deeply hurt. How do I eliminate that? You guessed it - hypnosis, bypassing the critical factor. Finding and eliminating a deep seeded problem boils down to getting around this critical factor. You can think of the critical factor as though it s a watchdog. When you re awake, he s awake and on guard. He s got his paw out saying, Wow, I really like what I m hearing but it doesn t match with the current programming therefore I will reject it. What this really means is that the person likes what they hear and it may help them for a brief period of time but ultimately it will not change them. Herein lays the power of hypnosis! You can think of hypnosis as putting that watchdog to sleep for a little while, finding the cause of the problem and then whispering in his ear new positive ideas. When the hypnosis session is over, On the count of three, eye s wide open and fully alert, one, two, three - that watch dog pops back up, back at his post - but something has changed. The new program is now online! You have placed a critical factor perception/belief on everything in your world. On objects, feelings, people, situations, etc. Here s a good example. I had a person come into my office and tell me that she has had a lifelong problem with men and relationships. She isn t interested in the Nice guys. She keeps finding the wrong men, men who always end up treating her badly. She found herself in one turbulent relationship after the next. Why couldn t she be interested in anyone who actually treated her well? We discovered that in her youth her parents argued a lot, it even became physical on some occasions. They would yell, swear, and even slap each other but in the end they always made up. So this woman s belief became programmed as: Love = Conflict.

18 Can you now understand how this critical factor can keep you separated from your desired changes? Your conscious mind really wants to lose weight, quit smoking, or end the depression, but it s battling those inner programs, those perceptions, beliefs and feelings in the subconscious. Father took me to McDonalds every time I got an A on my report card or when I did my chores without him asking me to. When this person became fat and desperately wanted to stop eating at fast food restaurants but couldn t, why is that? Well, now you know The POWERFUL Subconscious Mind The subconscious mind is the part of the mind with which the hypnotist wants to communicate. This is the real you, your true personality. It is literal and runs on patterns or programs. It is thousands of percent more powerful than your conscious mind. For example, if I asked you what your mother was wearing when she was first teaching you how to walk I just have the feeling you couldn t tell me. Your subconscious mind could. You can think of your subconscious mind in a few different ways. It s a very powerful computer running on programming, and that programming could be good, bad, or I m going to kill you programming. It doesn t rationalize anything - that s what the conscious mind does, your twin brother/sister does that. So if there is a program running in your subconscious that says something like, Food equals comfort, then you re going to have a really hard time losing weight unless you find and disable that program! For many people food does equal comfort, love and security. I build the feeling of overeating, regress on it and fix it. Then I take the person to just before they were born. When you were in your mother s womb your security and comfort level was as high as it will ever be, then when you are born it crashes to as low as it will ever be and then what do they do right after birth? They put something in your mouth! Actually that s what we do with our children, which reinforces this behavior. If they are scared, tired, cranky or just plain having a bad day we put something in their mouth: food, crackers, cookies or a pacifier! Hence the program is born and reinforced (Food = Comfort) putting something in my mouth comforts us. This is why smokers usually smoke more in social situations as well. A pacifier works great if your two years old, it doesn t work at all as an adult, but we keep on doing it don t we... You can also think of your subconscious mind as your twin brother or sister and your twin has been with you every moment of your life. Let s say something terrible happens and your father was killed in an auto accident when you were eight years old. Of course this event would be devastating but you d get over it after a few years, Time heals all wounds - consciously that is. Subconsciously that feeling grows, it gets worse. Your twin may still be in shock over this event and that negative feeling tends to grow bigger and bigger in the inner mind, it magnifies through the years (like a tree growing bigger). Also note that you had a reaction to every feeling you ever felt for the first time. New feelings never before felt but now discovered for the first time such as abandonment (happens in cribs a LOT), lonely, scared, confused If you never knew what a hard pinch felt like and your brother came over to you when you were just a baby and pinched you, that trivial little introduction to what a pinch is may be the start of a negative program. (This was a real case of mine) It may seem so trivial to the conscious mind but feeling that pinch for the first time was scary business for that little kid and that unsettling feeling may

19 be growing in the subconscious mind. Actually all of us have these emotions building in us, small or large, and unfortunately all of this is hidden from the conscious mind. Permanent Memory A very interesting part of the subconscious mind is the fact that this is where your permanent memory resides. It has stored every moment, every event of your life, and this goes all the way back to a few months old - in the womb before birth! A few months before your birth you reached up and hit the record button and everything since has been recorded. Your subconscious has stored everything you ve ever seen, touched, smelled, heard and experienced in your entire life. As a hypnotist I can take you back to any event you ever lived through. Sometimes the event is vivid, real, and clear as though you are within the event and other times it is more of an impression. A funny story here I had a woman come to me a while back who had strong feelings for this guy she had just started dating. In a very bashful way she told me that she got absolutely wasted drunk with him and did certain things with him, if you know what I mean She couldn t remember what she did and came to me to retrieve these memories. I stepped her through the entire night moving in increments of fifteen minutes and then asking her if she had an awareness of what took place at each stop. Several times, with a big smile, she said she did. I spared her the embarrassment of actually telling me what was transpiring. Another interesting fact about regression is once a person has Regressed, you can move them ahead or back by minutes, hours, or days and the subconscious will go there accurately. This is quite amazing if you think about it. Filtering Information As previously mentioned the subconscious mind stores emotions and it also filters information. The conscious mind can only handle so much information. There are thousands of bits of information hitting you all the time. Information like sound, lighting, temperature, movement, all hitting and reflecting off of different surfaces around you constantly, just a barrage of information. The subconscious paints a picture for you and only presents to your conscious mind what it feels is relevant. If presented with too much information we tend to lose focus or become confused. The subconscious will sometimes keep information from the conscious mind. This is known as a Repressed Memory. The subconscious does not feel as though the conscious mind can handle the event. I ve bumped into this a few times but it is rare. You can still clear the feelings and change the perceptions and with suggestion, You will remember everything from our session today that your conscious mind feels your able to handle the person may not remember that part of the session if the subconscious still doesn t feel comfortable with releasing the information to the conscious mind. Feelings & Emotions The subconscious mind is where all of your emotions reside. It generates and stores these emotions. I help people work through emotions quite a lot in my work. I target an emotion that is directly related to a problem (affect bridge technique) and have the subconscious take the

20 person back to the cause. Once there we change the perception of that event. These feelings and emotions are the things that get us into lots of trouble. We tend to hide, run from, or ignore our emotions. The two things we do are to distract ourselves from them or comfort ourselves from them. Generally we don t express them as they should be expressed. We have limited or destructive ways to release emotion. We tell our kids not to cry or express anger, or else! We are taught that it isn t good to feel sad, guilty, or afraid but these feelings do get generated and do need to be expressed - they will be expressed one way or another! What then happens to these emotions? If they are not released at the time they are generated, the subconscious and unconscious mind finds a place to put them, they will be expressed. They might end up in your legs, as in restless leg syndrome. Millions of people have generated unresolved emotions into pains in their neck, shoulders, back, and arms labeled as fibromyalgia. Maybe they will get placed in the head region and become migraines. A good place for these pent up emotions to affect us is the stomach and intestinal areas such as in the case of, irritable bowel syndrome. These bottled up emotions could form holes in the lining of your stomach known as ulcers, or result in high blood pressure. We ll discuss this further when talking about our unconscious mind below. Protection The subconscious also tries to protect you against things both real and imagined. This is possibly its biggest job. Way back when people lived in the forests, hunting and gathering, this protection was extremely important. Hearing brush rustling in the woods nearby may kick in your fight or flight response. This is a survival instinct but sometimes the reaction can trip us up. A woman came to me to rid herself of an intense fear of snakes (fears are generally very easy to fix). I asked her if she has ever been bitten by a snake, found a snake in her home, or known anyone harmed by a snake. She answered no to all three questions. Even though she and her husband loved their home she wanted to move from the five-acre estate because she had seen a snake in the grass one morning and freaked out. Through hypnotherapy we discovered that the initial event that triggered this intense fear was a nightmare she had when she was six years old. A dream! It wasn t even a real event. In the dream her father arrived at home in a pick-up truck filled with snakes. He had been bitten many times and was bleeding; a snake was still attached to his leg. Scary stuff for a six year old! Another example that I can relate to you was a session a colleague of mine had. He had a man come in to rid himself of an intense fear of heights. The hypnotist asked this person if the fear occurred when he was flying, he said no. What about tall bridges? Again he answered no. Well when do you get this fear? He said when standing on high balconies of tall buildings. The session continued and the hypnotist discovered that this man actually wanted to commit suicide and was planning to throw himself off of a tall building. His subconscious mind created a fear of balconies to try and protect him so he wouldn t do it. I had also worked with a woman who was mortified of thunderstorms. They sent her running into the closet where she literally curled up on the floor until they passed. She initially called me from her closet while lying on the floor. When she found herself in public during a thunderstorm, a grocery store for example, she would hide in the bathroom until all the noises

21 had diminished. Again, she had never had a close call with a lightning strike nor did she know anyone who had ever been injured in a storm. I had her follow that feeling back to the first time she ever felt it. She was seven years old, under her bed during a storm. She told me that it was the first time she had ever felt that feeling. When I cleared up that event and brought her back to the current time and place she uttered one word - Fire. Fire huh? I asked her what was up with fire, she had no response so I lifted her arm and told her that when her arm plopped on down she would go to the first time, situation or event that had everything to do with fire. She then became very frightened. She perceived it to be very late at night. She was seven years old and standing outside in front of a house that was burning down, the whole neighborhood was there watching. She knew the kids who lived in the house and even though no one was hurt, can you guess what her subconscious mind did for her? It linked the sound of thunder with fire and with that feeling to protect her. This fire wasn t caused by a lightning strike but that little seven year old mind put the two together. Good thing we solved this because she lives in Florida and Florida is the lightning capital of the US. Habits / Lazy The subconscious mind is also where all of your habits reside. Habits are programs or patterns of behavior which are governed by emotion. Habits are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously, without directly thinking consciously about the action or behavior. Using hypnotherapy a habit is always connected to an emotion. When working with smokers I build the urge to smoke and regress on the feeling. This feeling can be anything, anxiety, fear, a need to fit in with peers, and of course comfort and distraction are a part of the equation as well. It is also lazy, meaning it s easier to just let things stay the way they are than to make the needed changes - sort of how you might feel waking up on Saturday morning in a dirty house. It s just easier to let it stay the way it is than to run around and pick everything up. Your subconscious knows what the problem is, emotionally and physically. That s why hypnosis is so powerful. Change habits in a blink of an eye. Go back in time and deal with things that your inner mind is struggling with even though consciously you may be okay with it or may not even know the event even took place! There are even ways during hypnosis to scan your body for physical problems. People have reported physical ills while under hypnosis that had been missed by their last physical exam. Maybe you ve heard of world-renowned athletes who put themselves in The Zone. This is where the conscious mind is lessoned, where they can focus and rely on their senses and instincts. The zone is mind clear focused and alert, while the body is in a reactive state, which is perfect for sports. That sounds a lot like hypnosis doesn t it? In fact I ve helped many athletes acquire this frame of mind at will with the use of posthypnotic suggestion. The subconscious mind is a very powerful entity indeed. The Unconscious Mind This is the part of the mind that governs your body such as your eyes blinking, your respiration, your heart beating, and your immune system, you re physicality. The unconscious mind reacts off of emotions in the subconscious mind and adjusts the body accordingly. This is

22 why it is important to express your emotions because they will be expressed, either by you or a bodily reaction. IBS, RLS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraine headache, high blood pressure, skin problems such as eczema, and many more disorders are expressions of unresolved emotion in the subconscious mind and a reactive response from the unconscious mind. This psychogenic list of physical disorders can be treated with hypnotherapy amazing well and very quickly. There have been many clinical studies done that have affected this part of us. One of these studies, noted from the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, was run on fifteen AIDS patients. They individually drew the blood of this test group and documented the T-Cell count, which was very low and abnormal. Individually they were all put through hypnosis regarding their T-Cell count and given suggestions of normalcy with this regard. Afterwards their blood was drawn again and tested. All fifteen people in the test group tested at normal blood counts. With this study and hundreds of other clinical testing scenarios we cannot discount the affect hypnosis can have on the body in relation to the unconscious mind. I had worked with a crack cocaine user who had HIV. By clearing away most of the negativity stored in her subconscious mind her CD4 cell count has raised from 200 to 426! CD4 cells are white blood cells that help coordinate the various activities of your immune system. HIV targets CD4 cells more than any other kind of cell in your body. A normal CD4 cell count is about 600-1,200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood. CD4 cell counts usually fall as the HIV disease progresses. There is yet another test implemented on HIV carriers. This test is called the Viral Load test. Evidence shows that keeping the viral load levels as low as possible for as long as possible decreases the complications of HIV disease and prolongs life. After many months of HIV treatment my client s viral load tested at 35,000 and climbing. Public health guidelines state that treatment should be considered for HIV-infected people who have a viral load higher than 30,000. When this reading gets around 40,000 the person is considered to have AIDS, and the immune system is just not functioning. After working with my subject, which was not targeted towards her HIV, her viral load was tested at Undetectable. She came skipping into my office so incredibly happy with this news. I spoke with her on the phone nearly three years after our sessions together and the doctors cannot detect that she has HIV. She told me that they re completely stumped. I ve been written into her will. We can consciously dictate over some unconscious bodily activities if we want to. With thought we can slow our heart rate down. What about breathing? Your unconscious mind controls this system. It knows exactly how deeply to inhale and exhale to supply your body with the exact amount of oxygen. Take a moment now and concentrate on your breathing, you ll find that if you do, you ll mess it up. This is also true with male erection disorder. If a man has performance anxiety about his erection he will encounter problems. The moment he stops thinking about it and pays attention only to his partners feel, taste, smell and look, he will have allowed his unconscious mind to control this system and things will work normally - of course we have to find the emotional cause and clear it as well. (Note to women here, do NOT make any big deal about this if your husband is dealing with ED, it will only make it worse.)

23 Conscious Mind - Subconscious Mind - Unconscious Mind The conscious mind is analytical, rational, and problem solving. It also is where the short term memory resides and where willpower resides. The conscious mind also houses your critical thinking, hypnosis is the bypass of the critical mind. The subconscious mind is the real you, your personality. It s where permanent memory resides, habits, and emotions reside. It tries to protect you against things that are real or not real, it doesn t know the difference. It s also lazy, it would rather just keep things as they are instead of changing things for the positive. Then you have the unconscious mind. This is the part that governs your body. Bodily functions, immune system, eyes blinking, heart beating, respiration... Some textbooks combine the subconscious and the unconscious as one part of the mind. The human animal when beginning life, in the womb, downloads the mother s feelings and hears what is being said in the room around them. In my life I ve struggled with the feeling of weary. A session was done on me where the hypnotist regressed me back to the womb. He asked how I was feeling emotionally, I replied that I was feeling good and was excited about the

24 new life to come. Then he had me be very quiet and hone in on the feelings around me. About ten seconds later a heavy feeling came over me. Tired, struggle, weary! Then he asked, Are these your feelings or are you picking up on mom s feelings? I knew that they were mom s feelings. After recognizing they weren t mine he had me progress through my life stopping at any events where this feeling was prevalent. I stopped at an event in sixth grade where I could not understand the material, then again when I was twenty seven working a dead-end job, then later after an ended relationship. Once I recognized that these were not my feelings, weary was cast aside and I no longer live with that feeling. I ve used this technique on many of my clients since and the results are amazing. The unborn child also hears what is happening around them. If a parent or relative talks about not wanting the child or not being able to afford the child it is actually recorded within that child s mind. Now of course the baby does not know how to speak any language yet, but later when the child learns the language it s like a light bulb moment. Subconsciously it hits them, My parents didn t even want me! The seed is planted and if enough subsequent events happen that emotionally feel the same way it can lead to emotional and physical disorder. The human animal is a complex emotional creature with many facets. We haven t even discussed the spiritual side of things yet but as it stands you now have a very good understanding about yourself. Emotions run the show and our minds are divided in function. Time heals all wounds only in the conscious mind, in the subconscious mind the negative feelings are magnifying, they are growing like a tree and if they get big enough problems result. Do yourself a favor. If you are feeling any negative emotions express them. If you re angry go into a room and beat on a pillow for ten minutes. If you re sad let the tears out. If you re able to communicate to the person who has hurt you, do so. Feelings will be expressed one way or another.

25 Chapter 4 Hypnosis Parts Let s discuss the different areas of hypnosis to better understand what they are. One part, which is used in advertisements and very common, is something called Waking hypnosis. Waking hypnosis are spoken phrases that cause a reaction. This is not formal hypnosis but it does produce a response. If you see someone yawn or imagine someone yawning, you probably will yawn. Let s say you re sitting at a ball game and you re really into it and feeling comfortable, then someone makes a comment like, Boy, it is really hot out here. Right at that moment you feel the heat, Wow it is hot! You begin to sweat. Here s one for the medical community. Imagine the guy who just had a heart attack and they re wheeling him into the hospital, he then looks up to the doctor and asks, Doc, am I going to make it? The doctor looks down and says, We ll do the best we can. The patient then thinks to himself, Oh no, I m going to die. Why didn t that doctor just say, Your fine, this same thing happens in here every single day, you ll be out of here by tomorrow or the next day, no worries. Even words can be waking hypnosis. A nurse asks you, How is your pain today? The word pain brings on pain. It s a Painted word. Wouldn t it be better to use the word discomfort? What if a person is unconscious and pulled out of a wrecked car then placed into an ambulance, Oh, we ve got a bleeder, this doesn t look good, and I hope we can save him. Even if that person is unconscious it still goes into the subconscious and is interpreted by the inner mind. Waking hypnosis is a form of disguised hypnosis. What about advertisements? Ever see pictures of models with shiny white teeth selling cigarettes? What about skinny pretty young people eating a mound of fattening food. Commercials where there is a split screen, on one side there is a dancing chicken and on the other side someone is talking to you, selling you something your mind distracted by the dancing chicken while they fire in suggestions. The subconscious mind deals with emotions, how about the Ask your doctor drug commercials. The first sentence makes you worry about something going wrong with you and then they pipe in the soothing music at the exact time they prompt you to ask your doctor about their drug. These waking suggestions go on and on and on with advertising Waking suggestions even apply to how you talk to people, how you phrase your sentences. For example what if someone in your family is always making you late and you yell up the stairs, Come on we have to go, you re going to make us late! Hurry up or we ll be late. Don t want to be late so let s go! Wouldn t it be better to phrase the sentences in this manner, Come on let s go, we have to be on time. Hurry up, let s be on time. Let s be on time, so

26 let s go please! Obviously restating the word late is reinforcing late, it would be better to reinforce on time. Hypnosis is a natural state, theta brainwave states. We naturally go into hypnosis about a dozen times a day. Have you ever driven your car some place but don t remember how you got there? Remember being in high school with your teacher rambling on and on in a monotone voice and then all of a sudden you came back from wherever you were hoping that you hadn t drooled all over your desk? Did anyone notice I wasn t here? Ever read a book and kind of slip off somewhere else in your mind? After turning many pages you realize you have no idea what you had just read. If you answered yes to any of these questions then you ve been hypnotized before. People often say it s like daydreaming but I tend to disagree. Daydreaming is more when your mind is thinking of something, thinking about being on a boat or in some other specific situation or scene, this is more the Alpha state of mind. I know when I m driving my car and I slip into that Zone my mind is pretty much blank, I m not really thinking of anything. You can go into hypnosis by staring at a dot on the wall. The act of meditation will put your mind into the alpha or theta brainwave state, which is hypnosis. If you pray for several minutes you can go into hypnosis. Focused attention on anything will bring on the state of hypnosis. When you focus on something your brainwaves slow down, when your brainwaves slow down you are then connected to your subconscious mind much more. So you now understand that hypnosis is a natural state of mind, our minds go there with or without a formal induction. In my pre-talk with clients, before we begin the session, I will tell them what it feels like to be hypnotized and cover the fears and misconceptions they may have. Some of my clients are so fearful that while they are filling out my intake form their hands are shaking. When they arrive for their second session they are always very relaxed because in the first session they didn t even think they were in hypnosis, it was no big deal. With regard to the unwarranted fear that some people have just before going into hypnosis, if you think about it, hypnosis is really nothing let s talk about something that is really frightening in comparison. Have you ever described the state of sleep to someone? Okay in a moment you will fall fast asleep. During this time you will have no control of your mind or body. If I were to set the room on fire you may or may not be aware of it and it s possible you could burn up in the flames. Talk about scary! Hypnosis is nothing like that. You actually become more aware. One of my teachers actually had a client in deep hypnosis when he then fell over and died of a heart attack in session! The hypnotized subject instantly popped up and ran next door for help. Luckily the hypnosis office was right next door to a doctor s office and they were able to resuscitate him. So you can see that you are very aware of what s going on around you while in hypnosis, even more aware. All kinds of tests have been done. Eye tests, hearing, and memory recall all drastically sharper while in hypnosis. Fears & Misconceptions

27 People seem to always have at least a few fears and misconceptions regarding hypnosis. First of all, the hypnotist cannot control you and cannot make you do anything you wouldn t normally do or take advantage of you. If you are given a suggestion that is at all uncomfortable to you or something is stated that goes against your moral or religious beliefs, you will reject it. The stage hypnotist (entertainment) comes to mind on this one doesn t it? If the hypnotist was trying to take advantage of you by saying or doing something wrong you would most likely open your eyes and slap him! You will remember everything that was said while in hypnosis (unless in sleep hypnosis). This is true, although I give the suggestion that my client will remember everything their conscious mind feels they re able to handle. I do this just in case we run across an event that has been repressed. For example, if someone had been raped and they don t remember it consciously, is it really a good idea to allow that memory to surface in the conscious mind unless their conscious mind can handle it? That s why I leave it up to them to determine this. Repressing a memory is exactly like smelly garbage. If the garbage is stinking up the kitchen you move it into the garage. If you can still smell it once it s placed in the garage you move it outside. If there is a negative memory in there, some of us like to move it as far away as possible. This same thing holds true for negative emotions. Our subconscious mind generates emotions and they need to be dealt with, they need a place to go. As children a lot of us learn to hide our emotions, to bottle them up. The subconscious mind then may displace them into you resulting in emotional or physical illness, as I have stated. Another technique that can be of use (if you highly respect the hypnotist and if this person is of an Authority figure to you) is the acceptance of the suggestion of amnesia. Even if you did accept that suggestion during the session usually you will remember what was said within seventy two hours afterwards regardless. Some people have the fear that they will get stuck in hypnosis. This couldn t be further from the truth. No one has ever become stuck in hypnosis or unable to emerge from the state, (except for that one guy I put in my closet at the office tell no one). If the hypnotist were to leave the room and not return you would know it. After a while you would wonder if he or she is coming back and if they didn t return you would then simply emerge all by yourself wondering where the heck they went. And yet another concern for some people is that they will give up some deep dark secret while under hypnosis. This is also untrue. If the hypnotist wanted to get you to divulge something it would be much easier while you weren t hypnotized. Remember, your conscious mind is dull compared to your subconscious mind. They used to try and get criminals to confess using hypnosis but quickly found out that the criminal made up such a great story under hypnosis that they would let him go, only to find out later that he actually was the one who committed the crime. However there is one type of hypnosis where you can be manipulated. This is something called Sleep Hypnosis. It is possible to turn the state of sleep into the state of hypnosis and then back again without the subject remembering any of it. You can induce sleep hypnosis in two ways. The first would be to wait until your subject is in deep sleep, the second way is to

28 simply use the sleep hypnosis verbiage, taking someone from normal wakefulness into sleep hypnosis. Once the person is in REM sleep you can evenly and quietly say to them something like, Barb, you can hear me but you won t wake up. You say this to them about five or six times and at the end of the sixth time say, Raise your index finger when you can hear me. They then raise their index finger and now they are in hypnosis! Now you can conduct a full-blown hypnosis session. This means you can regress them, have them open their eyes, have them talk to you, whatever. When you re done and want them to go back to sleep, to change the state of hypnosis back into the state of sleep, you say the following, You now go back to sleep and won t remember we spoke, and again repeat this several times. By doing this they will not remember a thing! Hummm, I wonder if I should have told you that? Maybe I should get a part time job at a sleep clinic somewhere? After a while I could be receiving multiple paychecks in the mail on a daily basis! Besides a person already sleeping I have perfected an induction that places people into sleep hypnosis. When we sleep the conscious mind is what goes away, and right along with it is the critical factor. This is why sleep hypnosis is so powerful. Anything you say is taken by the subconscious mind as fact, there is no filtering. I took some training from a school in Ireland on this subject. One of the students there ended up doing a smoking cessation session on a man and inadvertently told him that he was so distant from smoking now that he would not even think he was a smoker. After emerging him he didn t know why he was there. They had to convince him by showing him his intake form. Wow! When conducting a therapy session there is no faster way to produce positive change than sleep hypnosis. If you think about this a little deeper it becomes mind blowing. What comes to my mind is miracle healing, the fountain of youth, instant change, total mental makeover kinds of things. What if you truly believed that you would stop aging? As it stands now we all believe and know without a doubt that every single day we get older, old people s bodies get weaker, and eventually die. But what if, at the very core of you, you believed that this was true for everyone else but not you. What if you believed that you grew young, what if we placed the blueprint back in of when you were twenty five years old and that is where you would stay? What would happen? There is one more very interesting topic with regard to sleep hypnosis. There have been studies conducted on people who have previously undergone surgery. These people were later placed in the state of sleep hypnosis and they could recall, word for word, everything that was said in the operating room while the surgery was being performed. They recalled every word, what the surgeons were saying and what the nurses were saying during their surgery, all while they were deeply anesthetized. This is where waking suggestions come into play big time. Even though the patient isn t awake their subconscious mind is still listening and recording everything. Hopefully the surgeon or the nurses weren t saying anything like, This doesn t look good - I hope she doesn t die. You can see how these suggestions later could alter a person s recovery rate or lack thereof! And for some reason trying to uncover what the subconscious mind hears during surgery will only work with the use of sleep hypnosis, regular hypnosis doesn t yield memories from the anesthetized mind.

29 Being in Hypnosis What does hypnosis feel like? Hypnosis feels a bit different in my office than just naturally going into it. After I induce the state of hypnosis, which most of the time is instantly, the person starts thinking even though my instructions were to not think. First they are thinking, Am I hypnotized? I don t think I m hypnotized, is this working? I don t feel any different. You see, most people have a preconceived idea about what hypnosis is going to feel like. They expect that they will be out of control, sleeping, or expect to feel something - but it s just not like that. After these thoughts die down then people generally start thinking about moving or adjusting their body. I m uncomfortable, is it okay to move? I have an itch, can I scratch it? Of course it s okay to move. I remember I had two clients in my office, one after the other, on two consecutive days for smoking cessation. Both of them were squirmers. They squirmed around so much that I actually swiveled my chair around and was kind of looking the other direction because they were bothering me! So yes, it s okay to move while in hypnosis, actually the definition of hypnosis says nothing about relaxation. I could hypnotize you standing up, with your eyes open. After the person gets by these sets of thoughts they all pretty much say the following after the session has been completed. Well I was listening to you and heard most of what you said but I kind of tuned you out here and there, I stopped listening to you after a while but then I came back and started paying attention again. This happens much more when I m doing most of the talking, if I m doing a direct suggestion kind of session then yes, the person tends to tune me out here and there a lot more, consciously that is. This tuning out does not mean that they aren t getting it though, in fact I believe my suggestions are getting in there even better during this time because they are so deep. Hypnosis is similar to a sleep pattern in a way. When you sleep at night you go through cycles of sleep where you shallow out for a while, meaning you are in light sleep, and then go into REM sleep, rapid eye movement, where you are in deep sleep. The same holds true for the state of hypnosis. That s why it s important to deepen your subject so when they shallow out they aren t coming out of hypnosis. Interestingly enough most people don t even think they were hypnotized when we have concluded our session no matter what took place. I was taught that it s very important your client knows that something was going on. Maybe that is important but I focus more on results. Nonetheless I use to do all kinds of things to prove they were hypnotized such as, In a moment I will count from ten down to one. At the count of one or before, your right arm will be so light that it will just float up to the ceiling. I won t bore you with the patter, (patter is the term used by hypnotists, it s what they say during a session), but their arm would be floating on up, waving around in the air. Sometimes I would have them open their eyes and look at their arm floating around. They generally laugh and think it s funny. Then I might tell them that when I snap my fingers the sensation in their arm goes from very light to extremely heavy and that arm will just plop on down at the snap of my fingers and, Snap! Their arm falls as if it s filled with lead, I then have them close their eyes and go much deeper.

30 After the session when I ask them what they thought about their arm floating up like it did they say that it was pretty neat but they still didn t think they were hypnotized! I would do things like the floating arm, or just regress them back to an event when they were very young. After the session they were amazed, Wow, my mom looked so young! But they still didn t think they were hypnotized. You see that s the thing, people expect hypnosis to be this wild out of control kind of feeling, it just isn t. Once in a while I get the metaphysical types coming in wanting an experience so if I take my usual approach they won t think they were hypnotized either. Here s the thing though, if you want someone to absolutely know they were hypnotized then you must deepen them quite a lot. Extreme deepening of hypnosis isn t generally necessary for most clinical hypnosis sessions, however I now deepen for about twenty minutes so the conscious thinking mind doesn t interfere as much, this takes them to the deeper theta brainwave state. The biggest convincer that you were in hypnosis is that time is skewed, time distortion. If a person is in hypnosis for an hour or ten hours, it pretty much feels like fifteen to twenty minutes or so. But again, the more they are talking the longer the session feels to them. The more you deepen the person, the more this feeling of being hypnotized increases. By counting, breathing, suggestions of letting go, and imagery, it is possible to have an experience while in hypnosis, most definitely. Another huge aspect of hypnosis is that you cannot induce hypnosis without someone s knowledge or consent (unless they are already sleeping). Most of the time I use an instant induction to place a person into hypnosis. We will talk about inductions later but if I were to just walk up to you and snap my fingers in front of your eyes and command Sleep! you d look at me funny! If you knew I was a hypnotist and you wanted to be hypnotized and I did that, you would then be placed in a wonderful state of hypnosis. Mental expectancy is key here. Suggestibility Suggestibility and suggestibility tests, what is this? These are tests given to people in order to size them up before hypnosis. What the hypnotist wants to determine is whether the person can pretend or imagine. Can they follow simple directions? There are many of these types of tests. Hypnotists sometimes use these before a formal induction into hypnosis to see how the person will respond. He might use them in group settings to pick out the best candidate, the most suggestible, to come up to the stage for a demonstration. Suggestibility is simply imagining something to the point where it is real to determine one s ability to imagine. Let s say you are the hypnotist, you re up in front of a group of people and you will later be picking out a person or two to hypnotize. You want to get the best subjects for the demonstration right? So you want to use a suggestibility test and here s a good one Okay, everyone stand up. Place both of your arms out in front of you, palms up. Close your eyes and now imagine that you are holding two buckets, one in each hand. Imagine that the bucket in your right hand is very heavy, its filled half way with sand. The bucket in your left hand, however, is so light as if it is filled half way with feathers. Your right arm is getting so heavy even heavier now as I pour water into that bucket. Imagine now that bucket is filled half way up with wet sand. Your left hand bucket is lighter though, it s a breezy day and most of the feathers

31 have blown out, it even feels as though the feathers are actually helping lift that bucket higher and higher. The bucket on the right is now extremely heavy as I pour even more sand in, all the way to the top, you can barely hold it up now You get the idea. As you look out into the crowd you ll get a mix of positions. Some people will have barely moved either arm at all while others will have one arm lifted way up towards the sky and the other down below their waist. So later when it s time to pick a person to hypnotize, of course, you ll pick out the people whose arms are high and low because they are the most suggestible and the most imaginative. Notice I used the word imaginative, or imagine. Everyone can imagine something but only around eighteen percent of the population can Picture something in their mind. This is crucial when you are talking to a hypnotized person because if you say something like, Now I want you to picture yourself at the beach most will be like Ah, sorry, no can do Another popular test is the hands clasped test. This one works much the same way as any other. You have the subject clasp their hands together with their fingers interlocking and give many suggestions that their hands are so tight, their hands are just made from one solid block of wood. The hypnotist gives several suggestions that the hands are indeed one. Now the harder they try to pull them apart the more locked down they become! Of course some people will easily pull their hands apart and others will not be able to. So if someone fails a suggestibility test does that make them un-hypnotizable? No it doesn t. In fact I don t use these even when I am a guest speaker or conducting a seminar and will later be hypnotizing someone out of the crowd. Maybe that s an error on my part but I ve hypnotized so many people and very rarely have I failed at it. The people that fail at becoming hypnotized are the ones that are thinking too much or have fears about going into the state of hypnosis. I always dispel the fears before working with anyone but I occasionally run into someone who just won t stop thinking. I dub these people with having the, Mile-a-Minute Syndrome. Most of these mile-a-minute subjects I can hypnotize but when I try to take them back in time, to regress them; it doesn t work because they are thinking too much. Let s face it, all I m doing is talking and if someone is mentally already talking over me there s not much I can do. I don t keep a mallet under the chair to knock them in the head even though sometimes I wish I could. My goal is to speak to the feeling level mind not the analytical mind. About one in ten people I work with I have to work much harder with to push away that thinking part of the mind. Induction into Hypnosis Inductions are used to induce the state of hypnosis. This is the bypass of the critical factor in the conscious mind. Historically hypnotists have used something called the Progressive Relaxation induction. This is a long-winded way to induce hypnosis. Typically you go through all the body parts, all the muscles of the body and suggest relaxation in each muscle group. This relaxation coupled with counting and deep breathing induces hypnosis. I have used this occasionally, more as a deepener really, but I do so very seldom. This induction is usually between fifteen to thirty minutes long and that equates to a lot of time wasted in a busy hypnosis office.

32 Other famous ways of inducing hypnosis is eye fixation, which is done by using a pendulum or spiral disk. You have the subject stare at something and use suggestions of relaxation. You could have a person point at a spot on the ceiling and tell them that their arm will start to come down at its own pace, when it gets half way down you tell your subject that their arm will then become very heavy, fall down, and when it hits something their eyes will close and they will be in a deep state of hypnosis. I have used this on a few occasions, one time it didn t work. The person just kept the arm at the same level so I slapped the arm, fired in the word Sleep and she dropped into hypnosis like a rock. That s an instant induction. Another very popular induction is called the Elman induction. This is about four minutes and works very well. I used to use this in almost every session. This relaxes the mind and body and has tests built right in so you ll know if the person is at the proper level of hypnosis. The hypnotist who created this was, Dave Elman, hence the name. In this induction you have the person close their eyes and imagine that they cannot open them, deepen the state physically then mentally and then test. By just having someone imagine or pretend that they can t open their eyes and then testing for that eye relaxation induces hypnosis. The induction of choice for me is the instant induction. This takes a person from the normal waking state into the state of hypnosis, instantly. It s simple and very affective and can be modified a million different ways. Anytime you have ever been startled in your life you were deeply hypnotized for a fraction of a second. When your brother or sister jumped out at you and yelled Boo! you went into somnambulism, deep hypnosis, but came out of it just as fast. This instant induction is basically spiking the nervous system. The startled person s nervous system instantly spikes way up and then drops way down into hypnosis and then recovers to a normal conscious level all very quickly. If you spike that nervous system, command the word SLEEP and keep talking for about thirty seconds the subject does not recover and stays in very deep state of hypnosis. The first twenty times I did this I was more than nervous, it s just hard to wrap your mind around it because it is so simple. You don t think it will work on everyone, but it does. The possibilities to modify the instant induction are endless. You can snap your fingers in front of the eyes, clap your hands in front of their face, smack their forehead right after the physical shock, and to the bystander it appears as if you are doing the physical shock and the command at the same time, shout or command the word SLEEP! then keep talking. It doesn t matter what you say for the most part. You could even recite your grocery list if you wanted to, very simple and effective. Of course it s important to pick the right induction for the right person. When I lived in Florida I would get a number of older clientele. I don t shock little old ladies who appear to be a hundred and seventy years old. (Well honestly, sometimes I do tell no one.) The Instant Induction I Use Place your hand in mine. (Your hand on bottom, theirs on top, their hand hovering just over the chair or for more of a shock over their own leg.) Look at me right here. (Point to the bridge of your nose conscious mind confusion.) In a moment I m going to count from one to three, at the count of three press down against my hand and I ll be pressing back up against your

33 pressure, then follow my instructions, got it? (Conscious mind confusion again - Why am I doing this? ) One, two, and three. Press, press good. Now close your eyes and take a deep breath. On the exhale remove your hand very quickly. This action makes the person slap their hand down creating the nervous system spike, just a fraction of a second later command the word, Sleep! You only have a fraction of a second to give a suggestion and, of course, they are not going into the state of sleep but then again you don t have enough time to say much else, the mind interprets this as to relax. A very important point now is to - KEEP TALKING! do not stop talking after commanding sleep. Now you listen to my voice and relax your body Here you can say anything you d like but I generally give suggestions of relaxation and comfort. After the command of sleep you ll want to talk continuously for at least thirty seconds or so. A very interesting and startling response to the hypnotist here can be that if you don t close your subject s eyes they may stick in the open position. Sometimes you fire in that word, Sleep! and their eyes become stuck wide open. If this happens gently rake your thumb and index finger over them to close them. The first time that happens to you is usually a bit unsettling, but interesting as well. Cautionary Note Here*** No doubt that some of you reading the above paragraph will want to try and hypnotize someone. There is something you should be aware of before doing so. There is something called an Abreaction that can occur. Without warning in the first few minutes of the hypnotic trance a person can have an abreaction. An abreaction can be profuse crying or in extreme cases the person can immediately become physically agitated to the point where their arms may be flailing about. (Out of the thousands of session I have done so far I have only encountered two crying abreactions and one physical one, it is a very rare occurrence.) What has happened is that their subconscious mind has instantly taken them back to a situation that needs resolution. All of a sudden a man might be storming Normandy Beach in a horrific battle, dodging bullets, and/or possibly yelling. These are on the rare side but possible, most of the time the person will just begin to cry. If this happens it s very important to NOT get excited by it. If this happens, state the following, The scene fades and tend to your breathing, repeat this several times. The person having the abreaction will not instantly come out of it though. If the person is being loud you must talk over the person by raising the volume of your voice but not allowing the abreacting person to know that this event has shaken you. On the flip side I love it when this happens because I then can have the person follow this feeling back to the first time they ever felt it and clean it up. Are You Hypnotized? So you ve done the instant induction and talked for thirty seconds continuously and relaxed your subject. How do you know that they are in hypnosis? First, there are physical signs given off by the hypnotized person. Some people show all of these physical signs, some show a few of

34 them and some show none of them. The most prevalent one is noticed by looking at the person s eyes. Their eyes are closed but you can notice a fluttering of the eyelids or the eyes are moving back and forth under the closed lids (windshield wiper under the eye affect), or both. Try that same thing right now, close your eyes and move them back and forth as if you re looking to the right and left. You ll find that it becomes very uncomfortable almost immediately. This is the sign I usually look for, if this is pronounced I generally skip testing for trance depth because I know they are in somnambulism. The other, less noticeable signs are that they may become warmer. The body tends to swell a bit during hypnosis. Some people swallow more because their sinuses are relaxed and draining. Their tear ducts may open up and release a tear. You could have them open their eyes and would notice a red tint. This is also a sign of deep hypnosis. Above and beyond the physical signs I generally regress all of my clients to a happy time in their childhood. If this works then they are at the proper depth. If the regression fails I will deepen the state for a while and then retest with another regression. If they regress they are in somnambulism. There are other tests BUT even if they pass those they may not regress so I always regress them to make sure they are at the right depth and to make sure they are not thinking and can follow direction. Levels of Trance There are five levels of hypnosis or hypnotic trance and they are as follows: Light, Medium, Somnambulism, Coma (or Esdaile), and Ultra-Depth. Light and medium levels are selfexplanatory. Somnambulism is the third level and is the trance level where age regression work is successful. Below somnambulism is the Coma state. Being in the hypnotic coma state is not the same as a person in a hospital that is in a coma. It s actually a state of euphoria, a wonderful place to be. In this state, without suggestion, the subject has no pain. This is where surgery or painless child birth can take place and it is also a great place to work to rid someone of pain forever. This is accomplished by bringing on the pain hard and heavy about fifteen times in a row, then with a post-hypnotic suggestion, like a finger pinch or word the pain vanishes or is turned into warmth instead of pain. The hypnotist suggests that the discomfort will subside completely. The hypnotist emerges the person in a special way that will keep their muscles loose and limp so they are pain free. If the discomfort ever comes back they can use the post hypnotic suggestion of the finger pinch or word and the discomfort goes away and stays away even longer. The coma state is achieved by deepening the mind and the body much more than usual. Some people go into this state naturally without the deepening. So how do you know that they are in the coma state? I usually test to see if they are there by first simply giving the suggestion that they will open their eyes on the count of three. If they are in the coma state they are pretty much ignoring me so at the count of three they do nothing. A second test would be to get right in their face and loudly speak, Open your eyes! and again, if no response they are there. You could then pick up their arm and give them a really good pinch, and again nothing. The best and most interesting test is that you can position their limbs in any position and they stick there. They can maintain this seemingly awkward position for hours and will have no ill effects from it. To the person in the coma state they are actually having such a good time that they want to ignore you completely. Sometimes a person will dive into this state naturally without a lot of

35 deepening and the hypnotist has to determine if they fell asleep or if they entered the coma state. The person really does hear you but they choose to ignore you. Later, to emerge the person from hypnosis, you have to give them the coma threat or else they will continue to ignore you. At the count of three you will become fully alert and if you don t I ll never put you in this state again! And now they emerge perfectly. There has been another level found below the coma state called Ultra-Depth. Walter Sichort created an induction that is similar to a progressive relaxation induction that can place people in this state. It s very difficult to get people to go into ultra-depth but once done it seems to be a place of instant miracle healing. To my knowledge he worked on the induction for around twenty-five years changing a word or phrase here and there and then he would test it once again. I haven t learned of any recent advancement in this work as of this writing. There are other ways to categorize trance levels and I will explain each here briefly. Stage one is called the Hypnoidal stage, demonstrated via eyelid catalepsy. Stage two is called Light Hypnosis demonstrated via arm catalepsy. Stage three is Medium Hypnosis demonstrated via aphasia and body catalepsy. Stage four is labeled the Threshold of Somnambulism demonstrated via amnesia and analgesia (bodily sensation without pain). Stage five is Full Somnambulism demonstrated via anesthesia and positive hallucinations (having something appear that isn t there). And finally stage six, Profound Somnambulism which is demonstrated via negative hallucinations (I m here talking to you but you don t see me). Your brain is always producing electromagnetic brainwaves that have a measurable frequency and magnitude. The characteristics of your brainwaves at any given moment determine your mood and state of mind. The frequency range and magnitude identify whether you are alert, aroused, asleep, or anywhere in between these states. People are looking into ways of expanding our knowledge of how our brainwaves can be harnessed to create peak states of consciousness. For example, the best moments of creativity, those Eureka flashes, occur mostly when theta waves are predominant. The hypnagogic state verging between waking and sleeping is characterized by theta brainwave activity (hypnosis). This explains why we have such great ideas before falling asleep or when first waking. This border-zone time period has been utilized by many scientists and other great thinkers who have had flashes of insight while experiencing this holistic state of mind. Thomas Edison used to sit on his porch in a rocking chair clutching ball bearings in his hand, palm down, over a metal bucket. He would close his eyes and drift down into Theta. If he fell asleep, delta, his hand would open and the ball bearings would fall into the bucket and wake him. He would then grab them up again and start all over; this is how he trained himself to go into this state at will. There are also four different stages of brainwave activity. The first stage of activity is the BETA stage. Beta is upper level thinking, that s where you are right now. You are aware, rationally thinking and awake, it s the analytical state. Beta waves are 13 to 30Hz and are the fastest waves, most commonly found during our waking state. It is associated with outward awareness, engaged mind, arousal, actively perceiving and evaluating forms of data through the senses; also present with fear, anger, worry, hunger, and surprise.

36 ALPHA is the next stage. This is a relaxed, daydream state. Alpha waves are 7 to 13Hz and associated with non-drowsy but relaxed, tranquil state of consciousness. Here there is less engagement and arousal, pleasant inward awareness, body/mind integration, present during meditation and states of relaxation. The THETA state is a dreamlike state where we are not completely asleep or unconscious but almost, consciousness just above sleep. Theta waves are 3 to 7Hz and are associated with increased recall, creativity, imagery and visualization. Free-flowing thought, future planning, inspiration, drowsiness, present during dreaming and REM states. This is where I place my subjects. It is very useful in getting the conscious analytical mind out of the way. And finally there is the DELTA state, where we are unconscious and sleeping. Delta waves reside in the.1 to 3Hz range and are associated with deep dreamless sleep. Deep trance state pituitary release of growth hormone, self-healing, present during deep levels of non-rem sleep. There are a few ways to discuss the levels of trance. First there is light, medium, somnambulism, coma, and then ultra-depth. Another set of terms for level of trance is: hypnoidal, light hypnosis, medium hypnosis, threshold of somnambulism, full somnambulism, and finally, profound somnambulism. The brainwave activities for these states are: beta, which is a normal waking state, then alpha, which is like going into a daydream. Lower alpha states is going into hypnosis. Then you have theta, which is hypnosis or a meditative state. And finally delta, which is sleep. Testing for Depth It s a good idea to test to see what level of hypnosis your subject is in because your regressions, taking people back in time, will not work unless they are at the third level of hypnosis called somnambulism. At this level you have all the necessary tools to do your job. You ve most certainly heard the word Trance when you hear people speaking of hypnosis or the phrase Depth of Trance. I don t really like the word trance because it stirs up all kinds of images of someone being controlled or out of control and that most certainly is not the case. Trance to me is just someone with his or her eyes closed and relaxed, I don t put any more on it than that. Okay, so they appear to be in hypnosis, now is a good time to test for depth. There s a million ways to do this. One of the ways I test is to give a suggestion of amnesia. In a moment you ll count out loud from one to ten but this time there just isn t anything between four and eight. I have modified this lately as some people just skipped the numbers because I told them to. Now I tell them that the numbers between four and eight will be there in their mind possibly but they ll be unable to speak them, You will be unable to articulate the numbers between four and eight, they are just unspeakable numbers. They smile and continue counting at nine or get confused because they can t understand why they can t say the numbers. Most of the time I ll just regress them back to being six years old or some other very low age. I think regressing a person is the best way to test because I m about to build the affect bridge, or in more technical terms, rattle their cage. I need to know they will be able to move back in time so we can clear the negativity away.

37 This testing for depth is important. When I was a newbie hypnotist I would sometimes spend a lot of time deepening the trance state before I was certain the person was actually hypnotized. I would then launch into some sort of therapy and it wouldn t work. When it didn t work I would then have to launch into yet another induction (using multiple inductions without the subject knowing is referred to as Pyramiding ) then test, and then deepen. This is a gigantic time waster! Since I have developed my own brand of hypnotherapy, which I call Theta State Therapy, I do not test anymore. If the regression fails it is because they are thinking. I then have to remind them not to think and use other techniques to get them to stop. I spend a good ten minutes in the first session discussing where I want them to focus their minds and to not analyze what I m doing or the information that comes forward. Since doing this I rarely fail within a regression. Deepening the Trance State Deepening, Going Deeper, you ve heard this word used all over the place with hypnosis. And now you go deeper, deeper, and deeper relaxed... This is used to relax a person but it also does something else, the word deeper also makes your subject more suggestible and that s what we want. Deepening is the process of suggesting to a person that their mind is clear and focused and their body is completely, heavily relaxed. If you do this successfully it s as if the body is parked in another place and the mind is focused. It s my belief that deepening is creating greater separation between the thinking conscious mind and the feeling subconscious mind. Generally when I m working and have multiple sessions in a day I like to work fast. Depending on the person you may have to deepen the state more, or less. If you deepen a lot, let s say for a half hour or more, believe me, they will know that they were hypnotized! After that much deepening when you emerge from hypnosis you feel as though you ve just come back from another world, it s a nice experience. To deepen a person you can use counting with suggestions of relaxation. You can go through their body and describe each muscle letting go. You can use a period of silence, And in this period of silence each breath just takes you so much deeper than the previous and that period of silence begins now. You can also use imagery. Have them imagine they are flying over a forest or feeling the warm sand under their feet while walking along a beach. I use a little stereo in my office and tell them, I am now going to give you a moment of silence so you can enjoy this relaxation. In this moment of silence every breath takes you deeper than the previous and I will turn up the relaxing music that will allow this relaxation to become even deeper. I have been working under the context of doing things quickly, not spending much time to deepen the state - wanting the subject to quickly respond to me when I ask questions so they don t engage their conscious mind. I ve now gone the other way and deepen much more into the theta regions. If the subject is very deep in hypnosis the answers are just there, very quickly and easily. If you deepen enough with the right suggestions they will enter the Superconscious state where they will be able to answer questions regarding detailed spirit world memories. We

38 will discuss these topics later in chapter six. The act of deepening is pushing the thinking conscious mind to the side and allowing the powerful subconscious to become dominant. The Hypnotic Session After they are hypnotized and deepened it s time to get to work. The whole part of hypnotizing and deepening, testing for depth is mostly a sidebar. It s what you do when they are in this state that is the important part. The hypnotist has many options at this point. He or she can read from a script, such as a smoking cessation script. You can build the negative emotion (Affect Bridge) and regress to a cause and fix the root of the problem. You can use something called Parts Therapy, where you call out different parts of the persons psyche and act as a moderator between the parts. There is also a session where I call out the persons Offenders, the people who have hurt them and get forgiveness - this includes dead people and aborted babies. This is based off of Fritz Perl s chair therapy from traditional psychotherapy. It can also become a spiritual session where you take the person back to before life and find out why they chose bad parents or a crippled body and discover what they are supposed to learn during this incarnation. You can use various tried and true methods to correct whatever the problem is that you re dealing with. Finally when you re nearing the end of your session you have to emerge your subject. I didn t say you have to wake them up because they aren t sleeping to begin with. Before emerging the person you have the opportunity to do a few things if you want. To prove to them that they were indeed in hypnosis you can give them post-hypnotic suggestions, such as their arm is glued to the chair and they ll find they will be unable to lift their arm until you snap your fingers. You could tell them that the color red will stand out to them for a few days, that they ll just notice the color red, and when they do they will be reminded of the good work we did here today (or it will reinforce that you are now a non-smoker, or that you are just as good as anyone else ) I ve suggested that they will forget their name and when I ask them their name the name Rumpelstiltskin pops into their mind until I snap my fingers. I successfully did this to my mother. Not only are these fun but you point out to your client how well they did and how powerful the suggestions for change have been ingrained in their mind. These do not work every single time however, it depends on the person. There are a number of ways to emerge a person from hypnosis but it is important to give the person the following two suggestions no matter what you do. I think it s important to give a suggestion of them Coming back to their normal waking state and the other suggestion of having A lot of energy. Again, when I had just started as a hypnotist I encountered a few of my clients coming in for their second session telling me that they were tired the rest of the day after our first session. My goal is to help people heal and achieve their goals not to create a legion of zombies after they walk out of my office. Generally you want to give them suggestions of feeling good. In a moment I m going to count from one to three. At the count of three and not before, your eyes will open, you ll become fully alert and feeling better in every way with lots and lots of energy. One - feel yourself rising up, coming back up, because you were able to relax so deeply you were able to heal deeply. And two. Just under your normal waking state now, the blood flowing, breathing in and out, all sounds returning. And now, three. Eye s open, fully alert, lots of energy and feeling good in every way.

39 At this point you usually will notice that their eyes are very red, however this redness in the eyes is not uncomfortable for them. This is a sign of profound deep hypnosis. It s kind of funny because this is when I will ask them, So, do you think you were hypnotized? As they rotate their head towards me (imagine this in slow motion) with their eyes beaming red, they say, No, I wasn t hypnotized. It will take a few minutes for them to fully become normally aware. If they were in deep hypnosis for two or three hours then this feeling is more pronounced and I will count from one to five instead of one to three to emerge them. Right after they open their eyes and are emerging I will sometimes have them look at me and then I will go over the main points of what we were working on in that session. This is a compounding technique, just getting the suggestions in there even more. Self-Hypnosis The last part of hypnosis to talk about is Self-Hypnosis. Actually all hypnosis is selfhypnosis because you are allowing the process to happen, be it by a live person or a recording of some type. Self-hypnosis is powerful to a certain degree but it is limited mainly to direct suggestion. Direct suggestion is just patter you listen to while you are hypnotized, no regression, no parts therapy, just talk - although you can modify this. I have created self-hypnosis CDs that do regress you and employ a modified parts therapy. There is no interaction with a trained professional, but the compounding of desired suggestions will yield good results if compounded, or listened to enough. It is important to note that when you are in deep hypnosis the subconscious mind tends to become very positive. Negative words such as not or don t can become blanked out of a sentence in the subconscious mind. If you were listening to a self-hypnosis recording and it kept repeating, or compounding the suggestion of, You will not eat past eight o clock at night. Your subconscious mind very well may take out the word not and you will be hearing: You will eat past eight o clock at night omitting the negative word Not. Yikes! That s no good, why am I eating more after eight o clock now? Some self-hypnosis recordings are designed incorrectly, they take you into a deep, deep sleep. If you fall asleep while listening to it or it s designed to put you to sleep and continue with life changing suggestions after you re sleeping it generally won t work. The state of hypnosis and the state of sleep are two different states, two different mental stages (Alpha/Theta for hypnosis and Delta for sleep). If you find yourself falling asleep while listening to selfhypnosis recordings then sit up next time, turn on a light, or listen to it at a different time of the day when you re not so tired. In the state of sleep, the Delta state, the suggestions are falling on deaf ears unless setup correctly with suggestions previous to sleep.

40 Chapter 5 Stage Hypnosis Now you may be thinking to yourself, what about the stage hypnotist? I ve seen those shows on TV. I ve seen what they do in comedy clubs and he was making those people do all kinds of crazy things! Well not exactly, kind of sort of let me explain what s happening. The stage hypnotist is looking for two kinds of people, the extrovert or the person that hasn t been to a nightclub in ten years and is feeling like, This is my night and I m going to let loose! It s kind of like getting drunk in a way. When we drink our inhibitions are reduced, but even so, not everyone goes crazy when drunk. If you had a room filled with fifty drunken people and you went around with a lamp shade and asked everyone to put it on their head, get up on the table and dance around, most wouldn t do it, but some would. These are the people that the stage hypnotist is looking for. Also, the professional stage hypnotist wants an audience of at least seventy five people or more otherwise his odds of success decline greatly. Out of one hundred people thirty of them will be great in a hypnosis show. They drop like a rock, go very deep, and are animated. Another thirty will be good but will require more deepening. Yet another thirty percent will go into hypnosis but will need a lot of deepening and will not be animated enough. The last ten percent will not allow themselves to be hypnotized - so it s really a numbers game. Some stage hypnotists will conduct suggestibility tests on the entire audience and pick out the ones who seem to be the most suggestible. Other stage hypnotists will conduct one on one tests. He will call the volunteers to the side of the stage one at a time to do some evaluations. First he wants to make sure they re not drunk, after all it is a night club right? He also is looking for the most suggestible people and people who can follow directions. He ll say to them, Take a nice deep breath in - really fill up your lungs with air. If they take a shallow breath he politely sends them back to their seat and calls for the next volunteer. He ll also run some suggestibility tests on them. If they pass these tests and he feels they will be a good hypnosis subject then they are picked to participate in the show. The last thing he might say to them is something like this, Know that this is a show, it s entertainment, so get into it, be animated, have fun, be an actor! Okay you ve been selected now take your seat on the stage! He has interjected some mental expectancy here for sure. Most stage hypnotists will also pick ten to fifteen subjects for the show. He will line them up on stage. The main reason for this is because if he only picked two or three people, the odds of the show failing increase a lot. If you ve seen one of these shows you ve noticed that by about half way through the show usually several of the people are just slumped over in their chair, and they appear as though they are just sleeping. The hypnotist seems to completely ignore them and many times they are removed from the stage altogether by him or his assistant.

41 In the show what happens is he ll approach one of the hypnotized subjects, tap them on the shoulder and say something like, In a moment I m going to count to three and when I do I want you to run up to that microphone, drop your pants and sing us a song. Here we go, one, two, and three! And they do nothing Why is this? Well, they have rejected his suggestion. They don t want to do it! So he leaves them and goes to the next subject and gives the same suggestion. This person complies and the show continues as the other is escorted off the stage. While the show progresses the stage hypnotist starts with very light suggestions, ones that anyone would do. He watches his subjects very closely to pick out the ones that are the most animated. These are the ones that he will select for the final crazy antics. A lot of stage hypnotists will also suggest that their subject Forget. Forget about you worries, forget your troubles, forget, forget, forget... Forget about everything, we are just going to have fun here tonight. If this suggestion is accepted by the participant they will not initially recall what they did on stage adding to the enjoyment and mystery of the night Did I really do that? No way! I remember a night at a Florida beach, Sharkey s down in Venice Florida, where my friend was going to conduct a hypnosis stage show. We arrived early and ate dinner and he was nervous because he was just beginning to do stage shows. For encouragement he and I went off away from the people and I did a mini hypnosis session on him to up his confidence. When we went to the area where the show was to take place it was a real mess. Most of the people were drunk and the sound system was inadequate. So he called up about fifteen people and had them sit in chairs in a semi-circle. Everyone was being tormented by bugs called no-see-ems. No-seeems are little flies that you cannot see that give little stings over and over again. My job was to come up and emerge the people who were not animated enough and send them back to their seats, which I did once during the show. So he s up there with several people in various stages of hypnosis, one guy in particular was really deep. He had his head bowed into his lap. I couldn t tell if the others were hypnotized or not as they repeatedly kept swatting at themselves due to the no-see-ems. So the show isn t going well. He gives his very first suggestion, he states, Now in a moment I m going to count from three down to one. At the count of one you re going to notice a smell, a horrible smell. It will appear to be coming off the person sitting next to you. The smell is so bad that you just want to get away from it, just a horrific smell. Okay here we go, 3, 2, and 1! At this moment no one, I mean no one even looks like they heard what he said except that one guy whose head was bowed. All of a sudden he pulls his head up with a foul look on his face; he stands up and runs off the stage and down the beach, never to be seen again! I have never seen something so funny in all of my life! I m laughing right now as I write this. Wow, the only person who was in hypnosis gets up and runs right off the stage, what a show! That pretty much concluded the performance. I wonder if he s still wondering on that beach somewhere smelling that disgusting odor. So the professional stage hypnotist only works large rooms. He will call up to the stage no less than ten people and usually works with an assistant to keep the people safe, so they don t fall off the stage, and to emerge those who are not animated. The assistant will also at times go into the audience and emerge people who have fallen into hypnosis. The hypnotist steps through the

42 initial part of the show, deepening the state while conducting the first sets of commands or performances. This is his trick. With suggestions of deepening and telling people to forget, many will have a wonderful time. The shows skits become more and more outrageous as it continues. The hypnotist keeps an eye on the participants who are the most flamboyant to use in the finale. Most people associate hypnosis with the stage hypnotist and this is really unfair to people like myself who use hypnosis in a clinical way to solve people s problems. There really should be a different name to distinguish between the stage hypnotist and the clinical hypnotist but there isn t. Even when people see the word hypnotherapist they still think that they will be made to do something, this is unfortunate. So now you understand that even the stage hypnotist cannot make you do anything. The ones that are in hypnosis but are not performing will be removed from the show. The remaining people know what they re doing but feel okay doing it because this state of mind has lessened their inhibitions. If you have never seen a hypnosis stage show I would highly recommend it, just watch out if the venue is on a beach in South West Florida.

43 Chapter 6 Hypnotherapy Using hypnosis to help people relieve themselves of emotional, habitual, and physical problems is the basis of hypnotherapy. This is what I do for a living. From my experience I believe that hypnotherapy is the absolute best healing tool out there, it is cutting edge. With the use of hypnosis and working within the very powerful subconscious mind hypnotherapy actually finds the cause of the problem and clears it at the source. Instead of calling myself a hypnotherapist what I really am is a lawyer, a detective, and a teacher. In the beginning phases of a session I build the case, just as a lawyer would. Then I become a detective, tracking down clues that lead all the way back to the scene of the crime. Once there I put on my teacher cap in order to change the perceptions and emotions of what took place. When done correctly amazing changes take place. My Approach to Positive Change To heal someone I take a very specific approach and if I only end up helping the person I feel like I failed because hypnosis usually completely heals the person you re working with. You first pinpoint the emotion relating to the problem, regress to the first time they ever felt that feeling, and change that perception. Once the specific issues have been handled then you clear away the negativity inflicted by people who have hurt them. This process is three fold. You want to first pinpoint and release trapped emotional energy relating to the offending person. Next your subject needs to understand that what happened has nothing to do with them, it was really the Offenders programming. If I could go back in time with a magical crane and pluck you out of any of those situations and place any other little girl there, you know your father would have done the exact same thing to her. It s not your fault that your dad acted this way. It had nothing to do with you. He was just acting out of his own programming. These offenders could be living people, dead people, or bullies that go all the way back to third grade. They now forgive and set free the major offenders. Once this process is done with the major offenders you have their subconscious mind reveal to them the minor offenders. Friends, business partners, school kids and have them send forgiveness to each one. And finally we arrive at self-forgiveness. Next you clear away any residual negativity in their inner mind. I have them imagine their inner mind as a room. Stored in this room are all of the negative thought and emotional energies and feelings like hatred, anxiety, rejection, fear, doubt, guilt, and unhappiness. These feelings are represented by imagining red bits of what appear to be paper. You have them imagine that they are tearing these red bits of what appear to be paper down from the walls and dispose of them down a hole in the floor so they can never get back in. Once this process has been

44 completed the spaces left by the red bits are then replaced with white bits of paper the positive feelings, energizing helpful emotional energies and feelings And finally it s time for direct suggestion and future pacing. Looking to the future in a way where there are no blocks, the future is theirs, it s positive and bright. They own this world and deserve all the joy, all the riches, all the love and all the health this world has to offer. They are special, very special. I also build self-love and self-respect because if you love something and respect it, you take care of it! It s kind of like buying a new car. When you buy a new car you usually wash it a lot and don t generally take it through McDonalds and wad up the bag and throw it on the floorboards. You take care of it because you love and respect it. The interesting thing is that the negative feelings that are causing all of these problems aren t even the feelings of the person in the current time and place, but rather they are the feelings and emotions of them as a child only magnified through time from events that are years and years in their distant past. The subconscious, because it is literal, reacts off of situations. It s like a trigger which instantly brings forward an emotional response. It doesn t figure anything out, that s what the conscious mind does. We are human beings, we are imperfect and we are living in an imperfect world. We begin as children and the child like mind is where we originated. That childlike mind is much different than the one you now have as an adult. The child looks to its parents, schoolteachers, and everyone who is taller in stature as authority figures. Children are taught to respect their elders, they are right and I am wrong. The critical factor doesn t even develop until the child is between five and six years old so everything goes directly into and is registered inside of their subconscious mind at this early age. When a child s parents get divorced the child-like mind takes it personally. What did I do to cause you to break up? Was it when I didn t clean my room? Was it when I didn t listen? When a child is sexually, physically, or verbally abused the child like mind asks what it did to cause this to happen. The adult mind is the opposite. If someone came into the room and started yelling at you or tried to physically hurt you, you d probably say to yourself or out loud, Man, what s your problem? You ve got some nerve doing this to me! The child does none of that. Therein lays the beginnings of the downfall, the selfdestructive thought process. When this person grows and becomes an adult the pattern of kicking oneself is in place. The negative accumulated thoughts and patterns can become a negative self-fulfilling prophecy. I ve seen this time and time again. We all do it to a certain extent. You can think of the child being stamped with a rubber stamp right on their forehead. Shame, Guilt, Worthless, whatever the feeling might be. Unresolved mounting emotion is the root of so much physical and emotional trauma and it is all just a perception of oneself, others, or of certain events. The child also has a lot firsts. The first time they fell down, the first time they hear an argument, the first pinch, and the first scrape. You re a child sitting there feeling okay and then it dawns on you for the very first time - you ve been abandoned! Those two taller beings are not there and you need them! Aaaaahhhhh! I actually think we should rethink using cribs for our children because I cannot tell you how many times I ve discovered the ISE of problems when a child was in a crib. Also it is so important how you perceive your past, your present, and your future. This is monumental in eliminating problems of the mind and body. If you think about how our minds really work, it s unfortunate for us. Our immature mind as a child absorbs the negative feeling

45 which stems from certain events or people. That feeling grows through our lives and pulls us down. Our culture here in the United States is one that largely treats these symptoms of unresolved buried emotion with drugs, both prescription and illicit. We are also told as children to cover up any bad or negative feelings. My father used to tell me, Stop crying or I ll give you something to cry about! The subconscious mind generates these feelings and they need someplace to go, they need to be expressed. If you learned to constantly stifle your feelings and put on a happy face, illness occurs. We don t teach our children how to correctly release emotion. We teach them that displaying negative feelings is wrong. Anger, fear, jealousy, pouting, sadness are all no no s. So what do we learn? What have we learned from our childhood? We pretend to be happy. We put up a front so others perceive us as being happy and successful. Let s say you re having a crappy day and you walk by Sue at work and she s having a crappy day as well. She says, Hi Tim, how s it going? I reply with, Good, how are you? She says she s good. As you pass each other, two steps apart now, walking by, both of you hanging your heads low These negative emotions that have not been expressed cause us varying degrees of problems. Keep stuffing those negative feelings back in, they ll go away - yea right. So what hypnotherapy is really doing is wiping the slate clean and changing perceptions. Let s face it, after living a while and getting kicked so many times it causes ISEs in our psyche. Most people enter adulthood carrying all kinds of garbage we were programmed with from our childhood. But when we are born the slate is clean, right? (most of the time ) We just started to live a new life and minus the fetus picking up on negativity from others speaking around it or from the mother, things are going great. I first want to understand their problem. I want to take the time to listen to them because if you allow your client to tell their stories they will repeat certain words and phrases. These are key words that give you insight into what s really going on and how they are really feeling. Also in session I use their words. This makes it easier to evoke emotion because they can relate to what you are saying if you mimic back to them their own words. Then I want to answer one question, and that question is Why? I m fat, well why is that? I m depressed, why? I have Fibromyalgia, again why? Once you solve why the problem is there you then work through the people who have hurt them. We clear these people away and then move to the future, how they will be reacting in the future when they hit events where in the past they were having difficulty? Good / Bad Subjects So, can everyone be hypnotized? Are there good and bad subjects? The answer is no, and yes. Anyone with an IQ of seventy and over can be hypnotized if they want to be. I ve worked with the young and old, I ve even worked with children. Children respond very well to hypnosis. They usually drop like a rock, works great. But if a person has a fear of what you re going to do or a misconception of what hypnosis is they won t allow it to happen. If they don t know that you re about to hypnotize them it probably won t work, they ll just look at you funny and ask you what the heck you re doing. Some people have what I call the Mile-a- Minute syndrome. They think and think, always thinking about something, thinking and analyzing. I had two of these just last week! If a mile-a-minute person follows my simple

46 instructions the whole process will work very well. If they don t there isn t much I can do. If they are thinking it s as if they are interrupting me while I m speaking to them, they are thinking over my words and not listening. My instructions to every client are very simple. Don t think, don t try, and when I ask you questions I just want the very first thought, the very first impression that pops into your mind. If you think of the answer it destroys the whole process. If I were to ask you what your favorite color is and you blurt out kangaroo, then if kangaroo was your first thought, kangaroo is the right answer. So the problem isn t that it s hard to hypnotize someone, they all become hypnotized. The problem is that some people cannot stop analyzing your questions or they cannot follow directions. The smarter the person is the easier my job becomes. My job is very challenging with people who have lower IQs. So what can end up happening at times is that a mile-a minute client is in deep hypnosis but as I m counting down for a regression and getting to the last number they don t see anything or go anywhere. I then ask, Are you inside or outside? They might say, I think I m inside. And I m like, I told you not to think! Or they might say, I don t see anything. A lot of people will start thinking the very moment you give them instructions. In a moment I m going to lift your arm and drop it. When it drops you ll be reliving a happy event when you were six years old, (and drop). While you re giving these instructions they will be cycling through old photographs in their mind trying to remember what they looked like back then or trying to remember where they lived when they were six. Of course the regression fails because they ve activated their thinking conscious mind. Sometimes people have to learn how to relax their minds, it s like training a dog. I sometimes give self-hypnosis CDs to clients who have this mile-a-minute syndrome and tell them to come back after they have listened to it for a few weeks. Most of the time they come back and go into deep hypnosis, they stop thinking through everything and we get the job done. I want to talk to the feeling level mind not the analytical mind. I want them to respond off of feelings and intuition, or it s like having a hunch as if using their sixth sense. I find that older people tend to not listen as well to instructions, older males in particular. I ve worked with ADD (ADHD) people as well and for them it s actually not a deficiency in attention, it s just that all noises and distractions hit them with the same attention value. These things can be overcome and greatly improved if they are willing to do the work and if they are willing to do what you tell them to do. Some people simply cannot follow directions. For the most part this is a very small percentage of people. So pretty much everyone can be hypnotized but once in hypnosis it s a matter of if they will follow directions from that point forward and keep their conscious mind quiet. You must simply go with the flow. All of this is kind of like when you re at a party and you meet someone new, he tells you his name is Bob. You talk with Bob for a minute or two and then he leaves. Twenty minutes later you find yourself talking with Bob again but you cannot remember his name! You sit there and think to yourself, Man, he just told me his name. What is it? Ahhh, was it Gene, Chris, Tim ahhhh. The harder you try to remember the name (conscious mind) the more elusive it becomes. Then you finally give up and about fifteen seconds later Bob pops into your mind! That s what I m talking about. Set the thinking mind to the side and allow the information to flow up from the subconscious. In general hypnosis is a great tool for the masses. Young and old, children and adults, most everyone can benefit greatly from this buried treasure called hypnosis. If they truly want the

47 change they are coming to me for, if they can follow simple directions and don t think about the answer before answering, then hypnotherapy is incredible for curing or greatly helping most people. Anything that stress makes worse hypnosis makes better. For people who are actually mentally ill I would not recommend hypnosis, this is around five to eight percent of the population. For all others hypnotherapy is the best healing tool out there. What is Hypnotherapy Good For? Hypnosis is extremely powerful in healing a wide variety of problems. Emotional problems such as depression, anxiety, fears, phobias, anger, panic, grief, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and self-worth issues can be resolved. Habitual problems such as alcohol, smoking, drugs, weight loss, pornography, shop-a-holics, gambling can be eliminated. These can be classified under the too much issue s. Drink too much, smoke too much, eat too much, etc. Then there is a whole host of physical problems, I will not mention them all here because I do believe all physical problems can at least be helped with the use of hypnosis. Physical problems include fibromyalgia, restless leg syndrome (RLS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), migraine headache, high blood pressure, many skin problems, sleep disorders, allergies, arthritis, sinus problems, and even cancer. Pain can also either be removed completely or can be turned into the sensation of warmth instead of pain. Painless childbirth is widely used. Also any disorder that has doctors scratching their heads over, pseudo disorders, and any disorder with the word syndrome attached to it. Hypnosis works so well with these problems because we are dealing with the subconscious mind which is light years more powerful than the dull stupid conscious mind. Working where your long term memory, your habits, and your emotions reside is it, it s just the place where the answers are. If you go to a talk therapist you are dealing with the conscious rational mind, it doesn t know the answer. It thinks it knows the answer, but it doesn t, plus it doesn t remember where the problem started a lot of the time. You have to work with people on the emotional level because we are emotional creatures. Also every emotion equals a behavior whether you recognize it or not. If you re angry that s an emotion, what is the behavior associated with that? You might yell you might break something, right? What if you re depressed, that s an emotion. What might you do? You might lock yourself away from the world, or you may drink that emotion away with alcohol. The second you eliminate the emotion, is the second that the behavior ends. There are bodily behaviors to emotion as well. If you live a stressed out life for an extended period of time, well that s an emotion. If that emotion isn t released, if it isn t expressed it will be expressed through your body. You might develop holes in the lining of your stomach (ulcer) or develop high blood pressure. If the emotion of anger is welling up inside your subconscious mind you may develop restless leg syndrome (RLS). With many of my fibromyalgia clients I have discovered that dad or mom physically or emotionally left the family at a young age. This develops into a strong emotion of negativity, and then it causes very real bodily pain later in life. This connection between emotions and physical change in health is known as psychosomatic, psychogenic, or somatoform.

48 Psychosomatic: Bodily ailment or symptom, caused by mental or emotional disturbance, in which psychological stresses adversely affect physiological (somatic) functioning to the point of distress. Psychosomatic disorders may include hypertension, respiratory ailments, gastrointestinal disturbances, migraine and tension headaches, sexual dysfunctions, and dermatitis. Psychogenic: A set of symptoms or complaints whose origin likely lies within the complex interactions of the frontal lobes of the brain and the system in which the complaint manifests. These disorders can often result from mental or emotional conflict. In most cases, a structural or anatomical abnormality has not been identified, as seen in an organic disease. The traditional duality that divided mind from body is no longer accepted by the mainstream of science. Somatoform: Any of a group of psychological disorders (as body dysmorphic disorder or hypochondriasis) marked by physical complaints for which no organic or physiological explanation is found and for which there is a strong likelihood that psychological factors are involved. The moment that you find the emotion causing the disorder and clear it, the disorder vanishes. This is at the core of hypnotherapy. Everyone needs to go through this process. What we do as human animals is we distract and comfort ourselves from negative emotions. If the negative emotion in you is lonely, if you are feeling lonely what might you do? You may sit down with a bowl of ice cream right? While eating that ice cream you are comforting yourself and distracting from the emotion of lonely. The real problem isn t the excess weight gain. The real problem is feeling lonely. Eating a bowl of ice cream or the whole half gallon will never change the feeling of lonely. Make sense? Correct the underlying emotion and the behavior or problem goes away. Disease, either mental disease or physical disease is caused by dis-ease (DIS-EASE = DISEASE) plain and simple. If you are at ease in your mind your body and mind will be healthy. Disease cannot grow in a body that has a healthy mind. As we progress through life we go through good times and bad times. These are learning experiences and unfortunately we not only learn lessons going through these events but we also collect negative emotion. You can think about it like we are going on a trip and along the way we learn lessons and become smarter and wiser but we also collect negative emotional energy. As young children we only had a carry-on bag, life was easier then but as you progress through life it s like picking up suitcase after suitcase, piling them up on our backs. We learn but we swing yet another bag on up and after a while we have accumulated so much baggage we can barely walk. Going through hypnotherapy clears the baggage. It identifies where and when the emotional baggage was placed upon us and gets rid of it. We all perceive ourselves a certain way as well. We perceive our past, our present, and our future a certain way. People who have hurt us are still controlling us and it doesn t matter if they

49 are living or dead. If you identify these areas and people, then clear them away, you will have no choice but to live inside a healthy thin body. Everything starts with a perception, that leads to a belief system that leads to negative self-talk, that leads to emotion and finally that leads to the problem. Hypnosis is great at tracking this back and changing all of those aspects of the problem. Interestingly enough all of the labels I mentioned above, the things that hypnosis can fix, they are all the same thing! They are all unresolved emotion in the subconscious mind but are being expressed differently in different people. The doctors evaluate you on your symptoms. Once they know your symptoms they prescribe drugs for those symptoms and then see how you do. This works great if you need an antibiotic but a lot of the drugs that are dispensed (Psychotropic Drugs) will never cure your shaking legs, the migraine you deal with, fibromyalgia, or whatever your Symptoms happen to be. If I took a test group of fifty people and their father walked into a room when the test group subjects were all five years old and the father beat up the mother then left the family, a few things would happen. Some of the test group subjects would not have any long term lasting effects. Some would develop fibromyalgia; some would become clinically depressed later in life. The symptoms would be different but the cause would be the same. So when someone comes to me for IBS or depression I treat it the same way and I get the same results because I know what it really is. The medical community is out in left field on labeling people the way that they do. It s big business for the drug companies to have so many identifiable disorders. It is really all the same, unresolved emotion in the subconscious mind. I use the same approach, more or less, whether someone is coming to me for depression or restless leg syndrome. It cures both, so I can assume I am right. Also when someone comes to me for, let s say, depression, most of the time it ends up being something else like grief or sorrow. Labels are usually wrong. Too much of any negative emotion equals stress too much stress. Take a moment and grab a pencil and a piece of paper and think of the things you would like to change in your life. Think about the physical, habitual, and emotional things that may be troubling you, as well as past events that were difficult for you. Think of people who have hurt you. Perhaps you become scared at night or are uncomfortable in certain situations. Look for patterns of behavior in yourself. If you re honest with yourself you should have a list of at least four or five issues when you have finished. This list could be eliminated quickly using hypnosis and if you think you know what is causing these issues, the conclusion that you have formulated is most likely incorrect. These feelings go way back, believe me they do. Your conscious mind does not know the real reason for them, your subconscious mind does. Hypnosis Methods for Change A hypnotist has several choices and approaches he or she can choose from depending on what they feel will help their subject the most. Every hypnotist has their own style to incorporate these therapies. The best hypnotherapists have a tool belt that has many therapies and approaches depending on the person they are working with. Also many go through the same cycle of therapies in the same order for every person they work with, sometimes omitting some techniques they feel are not needed.

50 Direct Suggestion Traditionally a hypnotist would only use direct suggestion. They would place the subject in hypnosis and simply talk to them directly about their problem. Direct suggestion uses imagery and compounding of suggestions which is the repeating of suggestions to the person such as: I am now a non-smoker and will remain a non-smoker for the rest of my life. With a direct suggestion session the subject doesn t communicate, the session isn t a conversation but simply the hypnotist reprogramming the person. Many hypnotists today still use direct suggestion only, which is a severely outdated approach. Direct suggestion is very powerful but not always long lasting unless the suggestions are repeated enough to elicit permanent change, and even when this occurs sometimes the results are not sufficient. Self-hypnosis products work wonders if the person actually spends enough time listening, but going to a hypnotist and doing a limited number of live sessions when only using direct suggestion generally will not permanently elicit the change that they seek. They will walk away from the therapy in amazement because they feel so good but many times later realize that the problem has returned. You can think of it kind of like this. If you have a child and tell them to look both ways before crossing the street and only tell them once, do you think they ll do it the next time they cross the street? No, they won t. How many times would you ultimately have to tell that child before he will actually do it? I would guess it would take hundreds of times and the process would last several years. This is the compounding of a suggestion. If you placed that child in hypnosis to train them to look both ways before crossing a street it would take a whole lot less times repeating it but it would still have to be reinforced many times. When using any other modality of hypnotherapy direct suggestion is always used in at least part of the transformational techniques. Direct suggestion is best suited for reprogramming and reframing but I always want to find out why the person has the problem first, fix that, then use direct suggestion. For instance if you have low self-esteem and come in to work with me, we will spend a session or two tracking down when and why you became programmed this way. Let s say we discover that it is an event when you were six years old where an authority figure made you feel inadequate and the feeling was compounded through a few other childhood events. If you only used direct suggestion then yes, you would feel better at least for a while, but the initial cause of the problem would still exist within your psyche. For permanent change you must find the program that is running in the inner mind and uninstall it. Age Regression Age regression is taking a person back to an event in the past to clear away negative emotions or to change a perception, or both. This is by far the best tool in the hypnotist s tool belt. Age regression finds the cause of the problem. This is where the detective work is accomplished. If you are not an expert at age regression you will not help a lot of people, it s that simple. If you are a talk therapist you can get certified in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR). If you use NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) then the process is accomplished using Time Line Therapy. Age regression is just like climbing into a time

51 machine and going back in time to a negative event and reliving it again but this time you have a friend there who will help you get through it. Once you do this correctly the negative emotions fall away from the event and the person becomes well. Dave Elman ( ) used to take all of his subjects back to kindergarten. Once there he would ask them if the problem exists. If it didn t he would know that he was before the initial sensitizing event (the event that started the problem - ISE) so he would then progress them in time. If they had the problem in kindergarten then he knew that they needed to go back further in time. You move them backwards and forwards until you reach the point where the problem first started and clear it there. A newer better way to do this is something called building the Affect Bridge. In less technical terms this can be referred to as Rattling your cage! If they are coming to you for fear of heights you have them imagine that they are in a situation where the fear of heights would rear its ugly head. You build that feeling and have them follow it back. Before doing this I employ techniques so they will not have any anxiety, panic, or physical problems - heart rate normal, breathing normal, etc. With hypnotherapy the person must face the feelings that they do not like but you can do it in an associated or dissociated way. I might build the fear of heights something like this Imagine you re in a plane and you have just fastened your seatbelt. The plane begins to taxi out onto the runway and that feeling you don t like has crept in. The plane spins around and you start moving, moving quickly down the runway. Faster and faster now, you re about to take flight! You have a window seat and for some reason you cannot stop looking out that window. The plane takes off. You re at a forty five degree angle now - you re getting higher and higher. Looking out the window you re almost up to the clouds and that feeling is building inside of you. That feeling that has so much to do with heights. You re feeling it now like a volcano about to explode! Nod your head when you re feeling that feeling. Good. I now count back from ten down to one. You are going to follow that feeling back to the very first time, situation, or event that you ever felt that feeling. Here we go, ten Your client is now feeling the emotion very powerfully, their subconscious mind is directed to follow the feeling back to the first time they ever felt it. They usually don t do this. Their mind will usually take them back to a very significant time that has to do with that feeling - it may have nothing to do with heights at all. To absolutely clear the problem of this fear you must find the very first time they ever felt this feeling. This is known as the initial sensitizing event (ISE) as I have mentioned above. If you find the second or twentieth time they felt this way and clear the feeling there you will not solve the problem. These other events are known as a subsequent sensitizing events or (SSE). A lot of the time the ISE is a mundane event, that to the conscious mind is a real no big deal kind of thing, but to the subconscious mind it was huge, it s where the emotional hook was placed. To solve the problem you must desensitize this event, there are many ways to do this. After I believe the transformational work has been done it s now time to test. I ll bring them back to the current time and place and clear their mind and deepen the state a little bit. Then I will place them in a situation where before they were really feeling it. Okay, you re on a plane

52 again. This plane goes higher than any other plane you ve ever been on. You re getting higher, and higher, looking out the window, looking way down at the clouds! Now try hard to find that feeling you felt so strongly a while ago. Try hard! If they cannot find the feeling they are cured of the fear. Then I will say, Now let me ask you, the feeling that the adult was feeling. Was that the feeling of the adult or do you think that the adult was maybe just feeling the feeling of the X year old, but only magnified over the years? Which do you think it was? They will say that it was the feeling of the child every time. Now I do some direct suggestion. Yes it was the feeling of the child wasn t it. But the child feels good now doesn t she? And you just tried hard to find that feeling in the adult but it s gone now isn t it? So that connection is broken and those feelings are gone, in the child and now in you as the adult. You ve punished yourself quite long enough! You now realize that the fear of the child has been controlling you as an adult, but not anymore! Those feelings are gone now, gone forever and you are now free. Free to live your life without fear of heights or fear of anything. You control you, no one controls you especially those childlike feelings, never again! From this moment forward you will feel comfortable and relaxed while flying in a plane. You will feel happy and relaxed when in high places. Now you will always use prudent caution when in a plane or in high places but no longer will that negative feeling be there. Safe, comfortable and relaxed just as you are now when on a plane I did a session with regard to fear of heights with a woman who was flying overseas. She didn t think she would be able to make it for the ten hour flight. I built the feeling and she regressed back to a few scenes where she was flying in a plane and then one where she was very high in a building. However these were not the events that placed this fear inside of her. Her mind then took her back to being four years old. She was standing on a chest in a rented lake cottage and was surrounded by her brother, sister, and a few friends. The chest wasn t very high at all but the other children were chanting, Jump, jump, jump She became frazzled, she just couldn t jump, she couldn t do it! So she plopped down, her butt hit the chest, and she slid down and ran out of the room in tears. That was the ISE. It doesn t sound like much does it? But you know the child like mind is much different than the adult mind. This could have been the first time she was introduced to failing in front of others, or the first time she felt out of place. Think about it. For every one of us we had these first times these first events where we were introduced to a negative feeling. We didn t even know the feeling existed. I cannot tell you how many people I have regressed to being a child in a crib, the ISE of feeling abandoned or feeling trapped. There you are a child, never having any idea whatsoever that the feeling of abandonment exists in the universe then there it is! ISE. So how do you know you found the ISE? Initially I was taught to just suggest to them that they would go back to the first time, situation, or event where they ever felt the feeling. Then you would assume that they did that. You would then bring them back to the current time and place and use direct suggestion to smooth everything out, and then take them back until they felt okay. Then I was trained to do this same thing but wherever their mind took them you then had to ask the following. Now I m going to ask you a question and I don t want you to think the answer, I want you to feel the answer to this question. This situation you re in, this feeling you

53 have. Is this the first time you ever felt this, like it s a surprise feeling or is it more like an old friend you ve known before? Which is it, old or new? If they tell you they ve felt it before then you keep going back until they say that it s a new feeling. At that point you assume it s the ISE. Then I was trained to do it yet another way. You do the above, the asking if it s a new or old feeling until they say that it s new. Then you regress them back one day or one week, find out where they are and then ask them if they have the problem or feeling here. If they say they don t then you can assume you have the ISE. The problem with this is that your client may take you through many, many events or get kind of lost along the way. In one regression they might be at the age of eight, then six, then ten yikes, ten? How did that happen? Also I ve conducted sessions where their mind has taken them to like fifteen places in their life and then finally they arrive at the initial event, whew! Currently I build the feeling and regress to a significant event, not the first event. Then I regress them back to before they ever knew this feeling ever existed in their life. I then progress them to the first time that led them to having the problem or feeling. This works really well. For a while I would then regress them back a day or week just to make sure that I had the ISE but I always do so I don t test for that anymore. Age regression is the stuff; it is a major key in transformational work. Parts Therapy Parts therapy is based from the idea that we have different parts of ourselves, how we have conversations in our own minds. It s the process of pulling out different parts of a person s psyche and speaking directly to these parts. You need to explain this to your client before doing it with them. Patter: Let me explain that we have different parts of ourselves and they communicate with each other. For example when your alarm clock goes off in the morning a part of you wants to hit the snooze button or just unplug that clock and go back to sleep. Another part of you hears the alarm and says, I d better get up and get around so I m not late for work. Another example might be that you re at the shopping mall and you see a pair of shoes you really want to buy. Part of you says, I must have these shoes, they re awesome! Another part chimes in and says, Well maybe I should wait for a sale, I d better watch the money. These conversations go on inside of our minds until a decision is made. So what you do is call out the part that really wants to change, we ll take the example of a smoker. Now there is a part of you that really wants to be free of cigarettes, that wants to be healthy, that wants to be a non-smoker. You know the reasons why (list reasons) and there may be reasons that you re not even consciously aware of and that s okay. Now I d like you to imagine this part taking a shape. Imagine a shape to this part now, this shape it could be anything. Now what is this shape you re imagining? Good now this part of you has a feeling, it emotionally feels a certain way, what is that feeling? Good now this part of you usually only communicates with you but today I d like to talk directly to this part of you so what is your name, or what shall I call you?

54 Now that I ve identified this part I have them imagine that we are sitting around a table. I have them imagine they are sitting there, I am sitting there, and this non-smoking part, are all sitting in chairs around a table. The subconscious mind works best off of imagery and emotion so this therapy works extremely well. It s now time to call out the causative part, the part that is responsible for them smoking. Go through the patter above to acquire the shape, the feeling, and the name of this part and place that part at the table with everyone else. When I do this I go through the things that the client told me in our consultation before the session so I can describe this part to them well. I want to begin to build an affect bridge here (an emotion) so I can get the part well defined. Many times when I do this the part and name that they identify will have something if not everything to do with the ISE. This would be the smoking part in this example but it could be the part that is causing depression, panic, anxiety, fibromyalgia, migraines, or whatever If my client has come to me for panic attacks, migraine headaches, PTSD, or anything that I would be worried about setting off, it is possible to build an emotion and set off a panic attack or induce a physical response. I set the stage so this won t happen. Before I call out the bad part and build the affect bridge, I tell the client the following: Okay we are all at the table now Now client, would it be okay with you if during our session today you feel physically and emotionally well and safe? Okay, I am getting up from the table and am placing a magic cloak around your shoulders. During our session emotions that are causing PROBLEM will instantly be absorbed into this protective cloak you are now wearing. It s kind of like a sponge. It absorbs all the negative emotion, anything that might cause you PROBLEM to keep you safe. During our session your heart rate remains normal and steady like now, your breathing remains normal and relaxed. At times you may feel the cloak becoming very heavy. Now you will always have an awareness of these feelings and emotions but they simply cannot harm you in any way. Or something like that For traditional parts therapy you now ask each part if it s okay that you speak to them and that the other parts are allowed to listen in. You thank each part for showing up and recognize that they are all an important part of your client (even the one causing the problem). In traditional parts therapy the hypnotist acts as a moderator. You ask the negative part a few questions such as: Are you here to punish or protect? How do you accomplish this? At what times do you come forward to do this? At what age did you first find it necessary to show up (when were you born in client - ISE)? Where does client feel this feeling (mention feeling) in the body? (Usually it s in the head, heart, or gut) You would then talk to the Good Part and have the parts talk to the client and to each other. The roll of the hypnotist is to moderate the meeting so all parts can be satisfied with the new plan of action. You cannot force any parts to do anything - you can only persuade and use reason. If you re strapped for time and have to end the session you just ask the parts if it will be okay that we meet back here at the table in our next session and continue. During the break between sessions you can suggest that the parts will come to even more awareness as to why they are there and how to solve the problem. Also if you don t fix the problem in the first session you can give the parts a trial period to do some new tasks to see how things will progress.

55 In the example of the smoker you could ask the smoking part if it would be okay to cut down to a lesser amount of cigarettes a day until we meet again. I veer off course from traditional parts therapy quite a lot Once I ask the Bad Part the initial questions I roll right into an age regression. I don t have to count or build into it at all, which is great. When I ask the bad part, How old was client when you first showed up? and I get a response of let s say, five years old. I then feed back to the person what I have learned. Okay, you re five, you re five now in the event where Bad Part Name first showed up. There s the feeling I now roll into the regression. Are you inside or outside? Is it daytime or night time? Are you alone or with some one? Give me a full report, what s going on? Here is why this is SO cool! You haven t just built a feeling - you have clearly defined a part of your clients psyche. You ve given the problem a face. Instead of just a feeling you have a shape, a feeling, and a name. It s been placed in a separate chair at the table. Also you will get people that are not great at regression. With this technique you are speaking directly to their subconscious mind. This is also based on imagery so they get into it and go deeper. After the regression and fixing the ISE, to test, you first progress them into the future and see if you can rattle their cage. If they cannot find the bad feeling that was causing the problem then a second test is to have your client imagine they are back at the table again. You ask them to look around the table and ask them who they see. The response you get here is amazing! This will tell you how well you have done your change work, most of the time the bad part isn t there anymore. Other times the negative part s shape is now white instead of black or the shape is still there but smaller. You can now ask if they still have that heavy feeling in the heart or the bad feeling in the gut. If they don t have that feeling anymore it s a great indicator that you have helped them. Sometimes the part is still there but upon further questioning you discover that it is only a shadow of what was there, it isn t there anymore. I conducted one session where the bad part was a black raven with a big pointy beak and huge talons, the feeling was death. When we returned to the table after the regression this part had turned into a soft baby chick that now had positive feelings success! This approach to parts therapy and testing is something that I have created. Another cool thing about this is when you re at the table, at any point; you can call out the Higher Self or the part of them that is the Wise part of them. This is where you can interject some spiritual therapy into the session if your client is so inclined to this, even if they are not this part usually shows up. I like doing this at the end of the session. You can call out the older, wiser part of them, the part that knows everything about them. When it arrives, and it always does, ask this part for any other guidance or wisdom so we know that PROBLEM is completely gone. Does this part have any other wisdom to share with client? This is yet another test. I once was working with a woman who was depressed, hated herself and her mother, had suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, and was pulling out her eye brows and pubic hair. We were in our second to last session and had just completed the regression work. At the table the bad part was gone so I called out her higher self. During the regression we found the ISE but she would not tell me what was happening, I did the best that I could do without any information. I must have done a good job because the bad part was no longer at the table. Her higher self told her that she needed to tell me what happened in the regression event. So she then told me that it was a sexual

56 event with another girl and an older boy. This was the last step needed in clearing away the problem. She is doing great by the way, all issues solved. She had been to a whole host of talk therapists before me and three psychiatrists. Her current psychiatrist now refers patients to me. Another interesting thing that you can discover is that the part sometimes is not really a part of them at all but really a spiritual attachment. We will discuss this more in chapter seven. While questioning the part that is causing the problem I will ask the person if they feel as though this part is internal, meaning they created it, or external, meaning it has nothing to do with them. If they tell me it is external I then discuss this with the part directly. I ask it if it agrees. If it does I will ask a few questions to find out if it is a deceased person or an energy that never had a physical body or identity. You could call this a spiritual possession, and it is prevalent out there as strange as that sounds. I worked with a woman who was going through my weight loss program. In our second session she told me that she was a heavy drinker and if we could work on that as well. In the next session we discovered that the part causing this problem was a spiritual attachment. All I did is cross this dead person over; I did not do any other change work just to see what would happen. She came back in the next week and told me that she only had one drink all week and it took her two and a half hours to drink it. The problem was solved. So in the case of these attachments, their influence can range from mild to extreme. And yes I know how this all sounds but it is out there, it really is Gestalt - Chair Therapy Chair therapy has been incorporated and modified from talk therapy into hypnotherapy. The premise of this session is to release negative emotions and to have the client forgive those who have hurt them. I call these people Offenders. Most people, including myself, before I became a hypnotherapist, don t realize the negative impact that others have over you. To release the emotional energy I have people repeatedly slam their fist into a punching bag type of pillow until it is all gone. If it s a cry that is trapped then I get them to cry it all out. In my opinion everyone needs this session! This takes a person from being hurt by another person and changes it to them feeling sorry for that other person instead. It removes everyone who has ever hurt them and gives them new perceptions about the people who have hurt them. What you do is start with a bit of a story. You explain to the client that their life is kind of like a history book where bad things have happened, and in the history book of their life certain emotions took root. These experiences of life are learning experiences, nothing more. They are there only to learn from. Then I tell them that they have three places in which to live and they can only live in one of three places, the past, the present, or the future. People who live in the future are daydreamers; they only think about what they want but never take the steps to achieve that future. Other people (most people) live in the past. They allow all the negative things of their past to affect them in the now. Or you can live in the present, let go of the past, and plan for your future. Then I explain to them that people who have hurt them in the past are not even thinking about what they ve done to them. Those offenders are out there living their lives and the only person who gets hurt by that is you (or my client rather). By allowing this to happen it s like being convicted of a crime. When you allow people who have hurt you to control you it s like the jail term that gets longer and longer and longer...

57 After this section I talk about guilt. Guilt is an after the fact emotion, it only comes in afterwards and we say to ourselves, Oh, if only I wouldn t have done this, then this wouldn t have happened and then guilt comes in. Or if only I would have done that, then this wouldn t have happened and then guilt comes in. And do you know that guilt causes fear - all kinds of fear? If you could let go of all the guilt and other negative emotions do you know you would feel absolutely marvelous? What I m doing here is building a case just as a lawyer. I m setting the stage for them to be able to forgive those who have hurt them. I explain to them that the people who have hurt them are just products of their own programming. I must have them understand that if they weren t there being abused that the offender would just have been acting out this way with someone else. It had nothing to do with them. I also talk about other negative emotions that have come in through their lives as well. Once the case has been built you explain forgiveness. To forgive someone it doesn t mean you have to like them and it doesn t mean you condone their behavior. When you forgive someone it just means that you understand that they are just a product of their programming, just like you are, just like I am. Then you have them imagine that they are sitting in a straight back chair. There is another straight back chair about five feet in front of them, facing them. On the count of one I want you to put in that chair the one person who has hurt you more than another other one. Three, two, one! Who s in that chair? Usually it s mom or dad. Then you have your client speak to the person and say the things that they need to say. You want to have them release emotion here, this can get very intense! If the feeling is anger you slip a pillow under the persons hand, have them make a fist and then get them yelling, crying, and pounding that fist into the pillow until there is no more negative energy left. This is AMAZING! The emotional release from this is so transformational I cannot explain it to you in words. After the emotional energy has been released we work through the rest of the process, they see the offender as a child getting programed. They understand that this programming and what was done to them had nothing to do with them. Once this person has been processed you have them put any other person in the chair that has hurt them and go through the process again. I always ask women if they have had an abortion before this session, and how many. If they have had an abortion I will place the baby, or babies in the chair and have the woman speak to them. I will speak as the baby to allow the woman to release the guilt. I know abortion is a hot topic, so to speak, but I can attest to the fact that women do hold in a load of guilt from getting an abortion. When I ask if they ve had an abortion in the pre-screening I ve had many women nonchalantly tell me, Oh yes, I ve had three No big deal. No big deal to the conscious mind but to the subconscious mind they are weeping with sorrow and guilt. I also place deceased people in the chair when needed. I ve placed deceased pets in the chair as well. I speak as the dog or cat. I know that sounds ridiculous but it serves its purpose. The transformations in people s lives after a session like this are astounding. Words can t describe the healing that takes place from this process. A funny side note here is that for the last few years my office has been in a building with many other offices. I ve bumped into people in the hallway more than a few times and they react with, What the hell is going on in there?

58 Once you get the major offenders cleaned off I give the client a period of silence. In this period of silence the names or faces of everyone who has ever hurt you will come into your mind and you will forgive them truthfully and honestly. When no more names or faces come into your mind you ll let me know that you re done by simply saying out loud, I m done. So now your subconscious mind is directed to give you the names or faces of any person that has ever hurt you, living or dead, and you ll forgive them truthfully, honestly, and completely. That period of silence begins now. Once they say they re done its time for self-forgiveness. I ll now have them imagine they are standing in front of a full length mirror and say, Now that person in the mirror is the person that needs your forgiveness more than any other one This is the final part, self-forgiveness. I ll do the mirror imagery or I ll go into parts therapy and get the forgiveness there and change the roll of a part that used to be self-defeating into a more positive part. This chair therapy is so powerful, it really is. You have no idea what names or faces will surface. I had the name and face appear to me that dumbfounded me when I went through it. It was a girl I knew from first grade. I don t remember any conversation I ever had with her and I certainly don t remember her ever hurting me but there was something in my subconscious mind that needed clearing. Changing Perceptions Direct Suggestion Stories In the first or second session I will tell a few stories and then during chair therapy or within a regression I will site parts of these stories when needed. I first talk about mistakes and that we all make them. Mistakes aren t stumbling blocks there building blocks Then I ask my client if they ve ever dealt with a difficult person or been through a difficult situation. I sum these three themes up to have them feel that not only have they been through difficult times but everyone else has as well. You see when you have a problem, it is really close to you, so my job is to take a few steps backwards and look at the bigger picture. When people come to me with a laundry list of problems or had a bad childhood, we need to step back even further which leads to the bigger questions, questions like - what s life all about and why are we here? A lot of people have a victim mentality. They feel as though life hasn t been fair to them. The truth of the matter is that we all get knocked down, pushed down, accumulating all kinds of scratches, dents, and bruises but this is how we learn and grow. I then explain that before they were born they were handed a plate and it had one word written on it, Experience. It s kind of going to a buffet where you can put different foods on your plate. On their plate of experience there are three main categories of experience. You have the good experiences, the boring ones, and the happy ones. As this story progresses I have them understand that most people associate into the bad experiences. They feel as though they are not good enough or have a bad mental image of themselves because of the bad experiences that are on their plate. I then have them realize that these are just events they lived through so they could learn and have nothing to do with who they really are. The final story I tell is probably the most important. It is to have them understand that everyone is just a product of their own programming. We are programmed by the age of seven

59 and we act out on our programming. This includes the people who have hurt us. To prove the point I have them imagine that there is a six year old boy whose parents are murders. Every so often they go out and kill people and then they come home, sit this boy down at the kitchen table and tell him all the grisly stories, all of the details. Now when this boy becomes a man, when he grows up, do you think this would affect him? Would he get programmed by this? Maybe he d fall in love and get married but be unable to show his wife that he loves her. Maybe they would have children but he would hurt his children in different ways. This is a big deal because if I am conducting chair therapy and my client has her mom in the chair and mom never told her that she loved her, I will then ask my client how mom s life was when she was a little girl. Did mom come from a loving supportive household? The answer is always no. If the person has never heard any stories of mom s childhood I instantly know that it was a horrible childhood. People who have horrible childhoods do not speak of it. People who just had really bad childhoods will tell a few stories but not many. And people who had good childhoods will tell a lot of stories. But a great way to change the perceptions of people is to identify who hurt them and then have them realize that this person was just a function of their own programming and if they weren t there this person would just be hurting someone else and they probably did. Cover All Bases If someone tells me they are depressed, that label Depressed is like a huge banner and doesn t come close to the very specific road we ll have to travel to find the real negative emotion. I ll ask them when they feel this way the most. Is it in the morning, at night, when alone? I ll try to narrow it down. In session I ll have them imagine themselves in that situation and have them feel the feeling that arises during those times. Remember, in hypnosis your mind is much sharper so imagining things is almost real. Use your wonderful imagination and imagine that it s night time, you re all alone and those feelings are creeping in, those feelings you don t like. I never use a label like depressed when building an emotion because you are Leading the witness so to speak. You re all alone and those feelings you don t like are creeping in, coming in strong now - I will count from one to five and with each count those feelings you don t like will double. If you try and push those feelings away the stronger they become! To be a good hypnotist you must use voice inflections. You basically have to be a vocal actor and get into it. If you sound like a robot the subconscious is unresponsive. Your voice must reflect the emotion you are trying to elicit. This is the exact opposite from what you see in movies. This is the part of the mind where emotions reside so you must speak with emotion. If they are sad I put a cry in my voice. My voice becomes gruff if I am building the feeling of anger. If I want them to relax I use a relaxing tone. You might wonder how I get a feeling from physical symptoms like chronic headaches, chronic fatigue syndrome, high blood pressure or fibromyalgia... I wasn t trained in this but have invented a great way to find those underlying feelings to the physical issue. The biggest problem that faced me when I first started working with physical problems was how I would build up the feeling without bringing on the symptom. You wouldn t want to bring on a splitting

60 headache and then have the client follow that feeling back I simply use the imagination of my client, I ll have them imagine they are at the doctor s office and the doctor places a label on their arm, such as Migraine. I tell them that the glue holding this label to them are all the feelings and emotions they don t like, all the feelings of why they have migraines to begin with. You will have no physical symptoms but you start feeling those feelings now, they re coming in now. Hypnotherapy Case Let s go through a typical case of depression and see how hypnosis solves the problem. In describing our subject we will give them the following issues: She has been sexually abused as a child, she has had an abortion, she is consuming large quantities of alcohol (tequila) and she is clinically depressed that s our case. After interviewing our subject I have written out about three separate roads I want to regress her down. So we know that our subject is drinking a lot, which always means that they have a feeling of worthlessness, not good enough. In the interview we found out that her drinking occurs more when she is alone and on the weekend. Drinking will require at least two separate regressions. One for the feeling of Worthless and in the second regression we will want to go after the feeling that leads her to drink, the urge (the feeling that is force feeding her alcohol). The third regression will be targeted to her feeling of depression feeling. [She is hypnotized and has been deepened into somnambulism] Building the Urge to Drink Feeling Hypnotist (speaking with excitement) - So we are here today to take care of feelings you don t like, feelings that have everything to do with why you drink to excess. If you do what I say we ll pluck these feelings right out so you ll never have to feel them again and you can get on with your life without drinking all that poisonous alcohol. There s a feeling you have about yourself, a feeling you don t like. You ve tried to run from it, you ve tried to hide from it, you ve tried to drink it away to numb it, but today you face that feeling! Imagine in your mind right now that you re at home all alone and it s the weekend. That feeling starts bubbling up in your mind, there it is, and you ve felt this feeling so many times before You can t stand it anymore. You look over and on the counter is that bottle of tequila, one shot, just one shot, you ve got to have it! You reach for the bottle, pour a double shot and pick the shot glass up, you can smell it. The feeling is powerful in you now as you raise that shot glass to your mouth it s almost there but the weirdest thing happens! It s now two inches from your mouth but all of a sudden your arm turns to stone! The harder you try and drink that shot the more locked down your arm becomes, and the more locked down it becomes the more that feeling builds in your mind, that feeling that s causing you to drink in the first place! You ve got to have that drink! Okay now, nod your head when you re feeling that feeling. (Nod, yes) Okay focus on that feeling, hold on to it. I m going to count from one up to five, with every count that feeling

61 becomes more powerful, it doubles with every count! When I say five this feeling is bigger than it has ever been, that urge to drink. And one, there it is, you re already feeling it! Two, building and building that emotion! Now three, feeling that feeling powerfully. Doubling again with four! That feeling spilling into your mind and now bigger than it s ever been - five! Bigger than ever before! There it is hold on to that feeling! Focus on that feeling. The Regression So the feeling is strong in her mind, next we regress. This will take her back in time to find the initial event where this feeling originated. There are many ways to do this and I use many different ways depending on the subject or how I feel that particular day. Sometimes I will have my subject give me a word that describes the real and true cause of the feeling we just targeted. Other times I ll just regress off of the feeling and do a count from ten down to one. There are many ways to do this part Hypnotist Hold on to that feeling, focus on that feeling! In a moment I m going to count from one to three at the count of three you will give me one word. I ll ask for this word letter by letter, this word will give me the real and true cause of this feeling. One, two, three - quickly give me the first letter! (D) Excellent, second letter quickly! (E) Third letter! (A), you know the word what is it? (Dead) Good, now I m going to count from one to three again, at the count of three I want you to use the word Dead in a sentence or phrase that describes your real and true cause of this feeling. One, two, three quickly, one sentence now! (Panny is dead - Sob) Okay in a moment I m going to count from ten down to one, you go to the very first time, situation or event that has everything to do with the word dead, Panny is dead. Ten, drifting back and letting go. Nine and eight, further and further back. Seven, six, back to a scene, situation, or event that has everything to do with Panny is dead. Five, becoming small possibly, smaller arms, smaller legs, a child possibly. Four, moving quickly now, back to that even that has so much to do with that feeling. Three, becoming vivid real and clear. Two, on the next count it s as real as real can be, you are there in that event of significance - and one! Are you inside or outside? (Inside) Is it daytime or nighttime? (Day) Are you alone or with someone? (There are people around me) Good, give me a full report, what s going on? (Sob - I got home and Panny is dead, she s died.) Who s Panny? (Our dog) I see - this feeling you have right now, have you ever felt this way before? (No) Okay, come back to the current time and place on the count of three, one, two, three, current time and place deeply relaxed, your mind is now clear and your body is heavy with relaxation, deeper and deeper and deeper I will take my subject back a few days before this event to see if the feeling can be found just to make sure the ISE has been found but for this example we ll say we have found the ISE, her dog died. Notice how fast I got her out of the event? I do this if the event is a negative or difficult one. Most of the time the person will not go back to the ISE in the first regression but for simplicity sake we will arrive at the ISE in this case. We Know the WHY!

62 So we have discovered something very important, she is reaching for that shot of tequila because of the feeling she had when her dog died... Huh? What do you mean? Remember that every behavior is connected to a feeling and the feeling is the very negative specific feeling of when her dog died. Here s the thing The feelings she is feeling right now in her adult life that make her drink are not the feelings of the adult in my chair but rather the feelings of that child only magnified through the years. To cure this woman of the drinking problem you don t cure the adult but you have the child feel good both physically if that is relevant, and emotionally, at the event where their subconscious mind took them. In this case the event is the death of her dog. This is where true, instant healing occurs. This is the power of hypnosis, right here!!! You find the source of the problem, the source of the feeling and change that perception in that initial event. It s just like going into a time machine, drifting back to a difficult situation but bringing with you the knowledge and wisdom of the adult so that you can get through the event without the emotional baggage. Of course our society uses talk therapy (critical factor watch dog on guard). If we drink too much we go to fifteen step programs and attend meetings forever - not necessary! In fact the alcoholics I ve helped can go have a drink if they want. They are just like everyone else now, they may go to dinner and not drink while everyone else is or occasionally they may drink a little too much. Get rid of that ISE feeling that is making them drink and they no longer are controlled by that feeling. When you pluck out the offending feeling they no longer have anything to comfort or distract themselves from. ISE Discovered Now Fix It! So we have found the feeling that led to the event, how do we fix it? I won t go through the entire process but depending on the person it can take about two minutes or it may take ten minutes or so. I worked with an X prostitute who came to me for an addiction to smoking crack cocaine. We fixed that urge in the first session but on one of the regressions she was stoned and her little baby boy was in dirty diapers and had been for quite a while. He had a terrible rash and she was unable to take care of him. This made her feel very bad about herself as a mother, she felt very guilty. I had to give her some words of encouragement to change her perception of herself, many words, before taking her back to the scene to correct it. Okay, you are now in the current time and place deeply relaxed. Let me ask you, even though that situation was hard, you did get through it right? (Yes) It is sad when we lose people or pets that we love but you know you got through it. Did you ever get any other pets? (Yes) So you see, life does go on and it was time for Panny to go back home. Was she an old dog? (Yes, very old) Okay, I understand. You love Panny and Panny knows that. In a moment I m going to count from three down to one, at the count of one you will be right back there where you were a moment ago when you discovered Panny, actually it will be five minutes afterwards and you re going to notice that you feel so much better. Now, you may not be jumping for joy but you did get through this situation and you know that everything happens for a reason, it was just Panny s time to go and you ll see her again. In a way our pets have it better than we do. They don t know what death is, they just change at the moment of death and keep on going. Boy I wish I didn t know that I would die someday, wouldn t it be nice to not know like Panny? (Yes) Okay here we go, at the count of one you ll be back there right after it

63 happened and notice how you feel. The negativity of this situation has dissolved and dissipated. Three, two, and one - there you are, it s about five minutes after you discovered Panny and you re with your mom. Now tell me, you have an awareness of how you feel, how do you feel right now? (I m okay) Are there any negative feelings here right now? (No, I m okay) If there were still negative feelings I would bring her back to the present and then back to the scene of Panny s death again with more suggestions of feeling good. If it s really a bad scene or we can t get the bad feelings to go away I ll go back with her and have her talk to the child in the situation. This is called the informed child technique. When I am confident that we have resolved the problem, I will test to make sure. I will have the subject imagine a scene, maybe the same one I started with (her arm turning to stone while trying to drink a shot of tequila), and have her try and find those feelings. Try hard to find those feelings that made you want to drink so strongly! If she can t find them, the urge to drink is gone. If she can find negative feelings we roll up our sleeves and dive back in. We would again build up those feelings and go back using that same regression technique. Around twenty percent of my clients will still have feelings at this point but in the cases where they do still have feelings the road we go down the second time is different than the initial regression. They will end up at an entirely different event. With our subject, we would then build, regress on, and eliminate the worthless feelings that are associated with every alcoholic. We would also do this with the depression feelings. She was also sexually abused. Sometimes I regress on this and sometimes I don t depending on the person and situation. This can be fixed with chair therapy or with the use of regression or be desensitizing in the theater (watching the movie over and over until there is no emotion). I never put someone in an abuse situation or a situation where there was trauma. What I will do is regress just before this happened and/or ten minutes after it has ended. When confronting these situations I always ask how they feel physically as well because sometimes they are hurt. If they are hurt you can easily suggest to them that when they go back to that situation they are feeling physically fine, and they will be. If someone does regress into a horrible situation I pull them out of it as soon as possible, almost instantly. Many other hypnotists do have the person go through the negative event several times until they can without the negative emotion. I do not believe this is necessary, I ve seen positive lasting results without making them relive the traumatic event in its entirety. To conclude the regression segment of therapy I will have them look into a mirror, a magic mirror or magical pool that shows them all the feelings they have about themselves. These are the feelings that no one else knows are there but you. All the feelings and emotions that you have about you are revealed inside this magic mirror. The feelings of when you have those private conversations in your own mind are in front of you now. The feelings and emotions that has everything to do with why you were drinking / depressed Now tell me, do you like these feelings, yes or no? If they say no then I build these feelings and regress on them. Once this process is done I place them back in front of the mirror until they like the feelings. Do you now see the power of hypnosis? It s just like stepping into a time machine and arriving at a difficult event or arriving where a misperception was formed and stepping through it again with more insight, more courage, and with the adult mindset. I ve solved so many

64 problems with this technique. You can think of it like this. The ISE event is where a part of them was born. That part still has the view point, wants and needs, and intelligence of the part at that age. This part is out of line with your current wants, feelings, and desires. We need to grow these parts up! Once all the regressions are done and once I ve gone down all the necessary roads we move to the next phase. Now it is time to change the perception of people in this woman s life that have hurt her, time to get rid of the Offenders. It s chair therapy time. You get forgiveness for their offenders. As I stated earlier if there is a trapped tear in there, tears that have been there for decades, you must get those out. If they are angry you have them make a tight fist and beat on a pillow until there is no more anger left. In our case I would place the aborted baby in the chair and reconnect the woman and fetus in a positive loving way and get the tears out. I always end this segment by the baby asking the mother to think of happy thoughts when thinking about the baby she had to let go Chair therapy can get intense, and it should because a huge reason we develop problems is due to unresolved and unexpressed emotion. I ve had people s glasses fly off their face while pounding on the pillow, legs kicking, even yelling and swearing at this point. Those are the unexpressed emotions that have been hurting them, finally released. Sometimes the person arrives at the ISE but is unwilling to look at what is going on. Sometimes people repress memories because they are so bad or damaging, sometimes the conscious mind has no idea that the event even took place! Secondary Gain One problem that sometimes rears its ugly head is secondary gain. This happens when the person either consciously or subconsciously wants to hold on to their problem because they are gaining something from it. Even though you have cleared the problem completely it can return if they have secondary gain. The best way to describe this phenomenon is to think back to when you were a child. Let s say you were so sick that you couldn t go to school. Now even though you feel terrible you might gain a few things. One perk is that you don t have to go to school. Another may be that you receive special attention. Perhaps you get a toy and a special lunch from your parents. So you are gaining from your illness even though you really don t feel well. Have you ever known a person who is constantly complaining about how they feel or always telling you about their problems? They are gaining something from doing this. When this happens you can simply use parts therapy to clear it. You call out the part that really wants the healing to last and then call out the part that is gaining by the illness. I usually ask if they are gaining attention, money, or love. This is very easy to clear. Painting a New Picture You can think of the person as kind of a hallowed out shell at this point. The garbage has been taken out and disposed of. They are fixed at this point but the person is kind of hollow, purged of the offending negativity. So now it s time to build! The icing on the cake is direct suggestion. This person came to me for depression and alcoholism so I ll give general suggestions of feeling great, a bright future, maybe read some patter regarding self-esteem I

65 know they are already fixed but doing a great direct suggestion session is very important for placing them on a new path where they will be happy and successful and feel as though they can do anything they want in life. Remember, what the mind expects to happen tends to be realized and now we need that inner mind, the goal oriented mind to know that there is a positive future waiting. It s time to reprogram while the critical factor is napping. I deserve all the love, all the riches, and all the health that this world has to offer now. I grow young, I grow strong Maybe I ll place them on a timeline and have their past stretch behind them, leaving all the negative events and people of their past in their past. These were only lessons to be learned anyway. Then we ll look at their future timeline, only bringing to the future positive energy and thoughts, etc Another possibility at this point is reviewing past lives that may have something to do with their initial problems. Of course this depends on a few things. Does your client believe in past lives or are they open to seeing if there is something there? Do they want to invest the time and money for this step? The vast majority of the time I do not do this, I see myself as a clinician and past lives falls into a completely different realm. In many people s eyes this subject just sounds silly, right? However if I had it my way I would travel this road with every person because so many times it does unveil important links and information which can lead to even further healing. We ll end our case study here. I hope you can now understand how hypnotherapy helps people overcome a wide variety of problems. When you are in the theta brainwave state and go through a series of sessions like we ve just described, it is the most liberating experience. It cleans the slate and makes people whole again so they can continue with a different kind of life. The name of my business is Renaissance, this means rebirth, and for many that s exactly what it is. Direct Suggestion VS Regression I had a fear case a while back with a thirteen-year-old girl. She had a fear of chewing and swallowing food. She had just gotten out of the hospital after a three week stay. She had a feeding tube. I believe her lung had collapsed and when she arrived with her parents at my office she weighed only sixty seven pounds! Her parents told me they thought the eating disorder was present because of two incidents where she had been choking badly. One was on a cruise ship while eating potato chips. The other occurred when she was swishing her mouth out with some kind of dental fluid at the orthodontic office. Can you guess what I m thinking? This information is all conscious level information. The conscious mind doesn t know where the problem originated. So we did the session and I had a very strong feeling she was just telling me things I wanted to hear. She regressed back to both of these events and we changed her perceptions and feelings of them from bad to good. I received a call a few weeks later from her mom who said she was doing much better for a few days but then slid down into the fear of chewing and swallowing again. Her parents were at their wits end at this point. She had already seen two psychiatrists, one psychologist, and a host of doctors without relief. She came in for a second session. I decided to get in this girl s face a little bit. I told her what I expected. I told her that I didn t want her to play along this time so we

66 could find the real cause of this problem so she would leave without ever having this problem again. (Some mental expectancy here) We start into the session and I find the ISE at the age of three and clear it (ISEs usually stem from very early events). She leaves and I didn t hear from them again until I received the most wonderful homemade thank you card in the mail. Every letter was in a different colored marker and it said something like, Just want to tell you that the thirteen year old thanks you and the three year old thanks you too, I m going great! I brought this case up to make the following point. Some hypnotists will rely on the traditional method of direct suggestion. Fewer will use regression. This family had actually gone to a different hypnotist a person who was one town away. He quoted them that he could fix her in seventeen sessions. Seventeen sessions, holy cow! Most problems I work with can be solved within just a handful of sessions. So what was he doing? All he was going to do was sit that little girl down, hypnotize her and, you guessed it, use direct suggestion. Would it have worked? Most likely for a while. But without finding the cause of the problem that program would still be running in her mind. I d bet that at some point the feeling would have returned and she would have returned to the familiar pattern of behavior. Don t get me wrong though direct suggestion is a very powerful tool. When using hypnosis you must change perceptions of people, events, and of your clients past, present, and future. All of this is done using direct suggestion. Even more powerful than words is using imagery. The subconscious works more off of imagination. Just last night a hypnosis session was being conducted on me with regard to my chronic sinus problems. The hypnotist had me imagine I was entering a wind room where powerful wind would be blown into my ears and out my nose. In this wind a mist consisting of a special agent would be used to finally clear away the gunk and blow it out of my nose for good. This was extremely powerful in my mind. I was smiling, wanting to get into this room so I could finally be free of my sinus problems. Of course this imaginary wind room was only used after finding the ISE, which in my case was an event that happened when I was four years old. I jumped into a swimming pool and half the water washed up my nose. It was a great session and I feel much clearer now than I have in many years. Real Healing Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud stated that, All psychosomatic problems, psycho meaning mind, soma meaning body, are hidden from the conscious mind. There is no effect without cause and the cause is usually deeply hidden from the conscious mind. Amnesia lies at the base of all neurotic symptoms and our goal is to reveal those forgotten memories through yet to be learned methods. Freud understood back then that when people have a problem there is always a hidden cause related to the problem. He knew that we had to go back into the mind and find the hidden cause of the problem. It sounds a lot like the hypnotic age regression doesn t it? The only problem Freud had was that he didn t have any idea how to do it back then. He did know what was needed to solve the problem and his Psychoanalysis method resembles what I do in my office.

67 It is amazing to see emotional, physical, and habitual problems be quickly and neatly put to rest by finding the cause. In fact many times just discovering the cause of the problem is enough to fix it, serving up the information to the conscious mind so it can finally be analyzed and picked apart is a huge part of the work. You must remember that your conscious mind doesn t know where the problem started, it is hidden from you. Your subconscious mind, which is thousands of percent sharper than your dull conscious mind, knows the answer. It knows you physically and emotionally. It knows the time and day when you were stamped with that crippling emotion. It s like that feeling is stamped right on that child s forehead and there it remains. As time passes that feeling gets bigger and bigger and then manifests into emotional and physical problems. These are real problems that hurt and cause dysfunction. The symptoms are real and can medically be charted. Unresolved emotion changes us chemically. Hypnotherapists who use regression understand the process. Find the emotion, magnify it and find where it started. They have the subconscious mind follow that feeling back like a thread to the very first situation that they ever felt it and then change the perception of that situation. Even if the person had felt that feeling hundreds of times in their life it is unnecessary to go to all of those events. If you clean up the first one they will be healed. I like to fix the initial event and maybe one or two other subsequent events if they seem significant, but this isn t required. You can think of it as an inverted pyramid built of bricks. Even though every brick contributes to a person s problem, by kicking away the lowest brick, the one holding up that inverted pyramid, the whole thing comes crashing down. As you might imagine there have been hundreds of thousands of regressions done by thousands of hypnotists through the years and certain patterns have been noticed. If you were to have a clinical test group of one hundred people all with let s say, Test Anxiety, most of them would have very similar causes that are rooted in the feeling of a fear of failure. That s what test anxiety usually is. They would all have very different events but those events would be linked to this failure fear. Let s take a look at some patterns that have been noticed. While reading through the list below just remember that what I bring up isn t always the cause but these are patterns that come up a large percentage of the time. As you read this list it s possible a light bulb may pop up in your mind if any of these problems happen to be yours. Illness = What Emotion? Cancer and/or chronic illness have been found to be strongly connected to a person s experience as a young child, baby, or fetus. The feeling or perception that its parents, the ones that are supposed to love it, don t want it to live. There is talk of abortion around the fetus or perhaps a failed abortion attempt. Abandonment, blame, deep hurt, can all be causes. The feeling of: I don t deserve to live or somebody would be better off if I weren t here. and/or I am a burden to parents because they cannot afford me. This is the powerful subconscious feeling level mind actually hearing these words before the child can even understand the language in which it was spoken!

68 How can an unborn or newborn baby possibly know this? As you now know the subconscious mind is thousands of percent sharper than the conscious. The baby does hear what is going on around it and it is recorded. It doesn t interpret the words until the child comes of age where it has learned the language. At that point it is translated by the subconscious mind and the program comes online. It s the same as if you had a very good friend who spoke Chinese and after knowing this person for a while you finally decide to take a Chinese language course. In class you now begin to understand what they have been saying to you. The first day of class the instructor gets up and teaches you a sentence and its interpretation and a light bulb goes off in your head, Oh, that s what she s been saying all this time! It s the same thing with the subconscious mind of the infant. Beyond the interpretation of words the subconscious mind has also been picking up and recording emotions. I cannot tell you how many times a person has regressed back to the womb and the problem (ISE) was the feelings of the mother coming through into the child. Also cancer can be repressed anger. Put into words anger means, it s not fair. This is yet another cause and you can see where a child or person who wasn t wanted could feel as though it isn t fair. Fibromyalgia equates to deep buried sadness, usually something in line with being crushed by the weight of life or a feeling of heavy burden. A lot of my fibro clients ISEs were found around five or six years of age when the father left the family. One case was when the mother left the family emotionally. A lack of love expressed from the mother stemming from the birth of a sibling. Fibromyalgia is a very real and wandering pain. Most people describe it as being focused in the muscles predominantly in one area, but the symptoms come and go as it travels to different locales throughout the body. I just watched a TV commercial on fibromyalgia and it showed a split screen of four people in pain and crying, this of course was produced by a drug company It fired me up so much I wrote an article for the local paper saying, I just fixed this yesterday in my office again! There s no need to drug that person - but who would ever know that a hypnotist could remove fibromyalgia, right? Stuttering usually if not always stems from one or two types of specific scenarios. The child was not allowed to cry in situations where he or she felt it necessary. Usually a father figure standing over a little boy, Boys don t cry, cut that sissy stuff out right now! In addition the child on many occasions wanted to say something, interject something into a conversation but was repeatedly told to shut up. Attempting to pronounce words became stuck in the throat. A stifled cry or hushed verbiage is a great way to embed stuttering in a child. Allergies and hay fever are produced during a period in life where the person or child cried a lot. No allergy itself is emotionally produced but all reactions to allergies have an emotional basis. If you were to go and get an allergy test to see what you are allergic to you would still be allergic to the same substances with or without hypnosis. An allergy attack or hay fever attack happens from a trigger. The trigger might be rolling around on a carpet made of wool when wool is what you re allergic to, or it might stem from an emotional trigger that may cause the attack. The same holds true for someone who has asthma, producing the asthma attack is a triggered response. Many times asthma is related to a lack of bonding between mother and son or daughter when young.

69 Obesity is a need for security and comfort similar to nursing from the mother at infancy. Some neurosis is there as a trigger. Many times the subconscious has a body image that was imprinted at an early age due to sarcastic remarks made of one s own body. Another prevalent cause is sexual abuse at an early age. The subconscious responds in this way - If I add these layers no one will ever touch me like that again. Also when we are born the first event that happens is that something is placed in our mouth. We go from the most secure comforted place we will ever know, our mother s womb. To the most insecure we will ever feel, the moment of birth. At that moment they place something in our mouth, which is interpreted by the subconscious mind to relate to security, it becomes an anchor. As children any time we were tired, cranky, sick, or board our parents stuck something in our mouth - a cracker, a cookie or a pacifier! No wonder we shove food in our mouths when we seek comfort or security later in life, think about it (Same with smokers, they smoke more in social situations and when they are stressed) Alcoholics and substance abuse cases always involve the feeling of worthlessness. It is the feeling of a person not being as good as everyone else. They drink or do drugs not to feel good, party or celebrate, but to feel as good as others, for a while. What they are doing is comforting and/or distracting from negative emotion that is inside. Got to get away from that negative feeling inside if only for a little while. The label Alcoholic is a misunderstood label. When you hear that term you generally think of the homeless bum who is urinating on himself and living in the street. This is not the typical alcoholic. Most alcoholics hold down good jobs, they exercise and have families. After work, they have a drink, then another drink with dinner. Maybe they ll have a glass of wine or two, maybe a few beers while watching the game, and a nightcap right before bed. This is the typical alcoholic pattern. Test anxiety. This is when you ve studied hard and you know the material for the upcoming test but when you sit down to take the exam your mind blanks out on you. This is due to a fear of failure. I was working with a woman once for smoking cessation and had completed two really good sessions with her. She called back three days later and was still smoking. I told her to think about why she thought she was still smoking. When she came in she said all she could come up with was that everyone was watching her to see if she would be able to quit. Her husband, her kids, and her parents, everyone at work kept asking how it was going. Then an idea hit me - maybe she feared she wouldn t be able to quit with everyone watching her? I asked her how she did with tests back in school and my suspicions were correct. She informed me that she Blanked out and didn t do well most of the time. Test anxiety! So I regressed her on the fear of failure. The initial event causing this was while in eighth grade, at a track meet, she was pulled into an event she had never participated in before which turned out to be a relay race. One of the girls on the squad didn t show up and they needed a fill-in. Everyone was at the track meet watching, her parents, friends, and school mates I corrected her feelings in this event, barely even mentioned smoking in the session, and she immediately became a non-smoker. Who would have thought, consciously thought that is, that test anxiety was the key for her to quit smoking? The subconscious mind is its own animal for sure. Ulcers & indigestion are usually fear-based experiences that have the people literally Eating away at themselves. I discuss ulcers and high blood pressure a lot when trying to have

70 people understand that emotions and feelings are directly related to physical problems. I think most people can relate to the fact that if you are always stressed out or on the go, then an ulcer or high blood pressure could likely be the result. What about binging? Binging on anything? Emotionally, binging equates to one thing. The problem the person is having is the same thing that comforts that person. It s a vicious cycle. People binge on food, sex, alcohol, drugs, shopping, and gambling Let s say you re trying to stop drinking but you mess up and drink to excess one night. The next day you feel really bad physically and emotionally, kicking yourself because you promised to lay off the booze! Well the booze is the thing that comforts you so you find yourself with a drink in hand once again and the cycle continues. Everyone tries to comfort themselves, that s just part of being a human being. If that comfort food or activity is hurting you it s generally simple work to find out where it started and derail the program. (RLS) Restless Leg Syndrome happens to people usually at night just before or after falling asleep. Their knees start knocking, they can t fall asleep because of it or it wakes them up after sleeping for a short amount of time. The ISE of this problem usually has to do with repressed anger. A lot of the people that have this repressed anger are so nice; everybody likes them, but inside the anger has built and is being expressed, through the legs. The Practicing Clinical Hypnotist After you ve been out there a while as a practicing hypnotist it hits you The problem with hypnosis is not that it doesn t work. The problem with hypnosis is the word Hypnosis! Fears and misconceptions run ramped in our society, that is one reason I wrote this book. Some people are so nervous before their first session they can barely even listen to what I m saying to them. I find that I am a broken record, just saying the same thing over and over, looking at the face of one person after the next, telling them I cannot control them, they will remember everything from the session, they won t be out of control or sleeping... After they work with me, the one thing I hear over and over again is, Why doesn t everyone know about this? The word hypnosis is probably keeping this healing modality in the dark ages more than anything. It s kind of like when they use the last names of scientists who discover something as a cure or method. Joe Nazi has now cured all genetic diseases! Go to Nazi Genetics today and get healed. Yea right! Even if the guy did have the cure, who would go see him with a name like that? I was discussing this with my mother on the phone a while back and she said I know what you mean, try telling people that you are a Mormon! This stigma has been applied to hypnosis largely due to the stage hypnotists who will make you cluck like a chicken and make you do other outrageous things. I also use Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), but when I tell people I use that they don t seem to care because most of them have no idea what it is. I actually changed the name of my business to Renaissance Alternative Health Center from Renaissance Hypnosis. I did this because I helped a high ranking marketing executive and even though people at his work could notice a huge positive difference in him he told me he wouldn t tell anyone because he didn t want people to know that he went to a hypnotist.

71 I've developed a new ways to regress and use parts therapy as well as other new or modified techniques and I ve been calling myself a "Theta State Therapist" lately. I like it a lot. It gets around all the garbage. If you go out and ask 50 people, "What do you think hypnosis is?" You'll get 50 different answers, none of which has anything to do with what I m doing. When you get away from the term hypnosis you don't have to dispel fears and misconceptions, they don't know what is, right? You do NLP, no one knows what that is, so there is no fear. Hypnosis literally means the God of sleep, somnambulism means Sleep walking, and the word trance is downright scary! Hypnosis is really placing someone in the Alpha or Theta brainwave state. I was trained to test to see if my subject is in somnambulism. This literally means that I am going to test to see if you are sleep walking. That doesn t make any sense. Spinning disks, swaying watches, pendulums, mind control what I do has nothing to do with those things. It s like a golfer who never takes lessons, plays for ten years and then finally gets fed up and takes lessons they have to unlearn what they ve learned before they can learn how to swing the golf club correctly. That s what I deal with every time a new client calls. No, no, no, hypnosis isn t that, it s this. I ve been taught that I need to prove to my client they are indeed in hypnosis. I don t want to prove anything! I just want to help the person. Wouldn t it be better to start from zero and then simply tell them what it is without having to tell them what it isn t? Okay, I ll step off of my soap box now there I m down. Honestly hypnosis, the word, has gained a lot of ground from where it was but I still here these things all the time. Who s Getting Sick? Hypnosis is the world s best-kept secret according to what I ve seen. Go to the cause and fix it. Change your life s perceptions from negative to positive. Clear away the guilt and healing takes place. If you think about it, it really does make a lot of sense as to how unresolved emotions can cause distress. Guilt is a huge emotion that causes all kinds of illness. These emotions become trapped in the subconscious mind and if enough time and/or enough supporting events happen in one s life, these feelings may cause physical problems as well. If unresolved emotion has built up enough causing a tumor to grow and the doctor cuts that tumor out, the subconscious mind, the goal oriented part of us says, That doctor just destroyed all my hard work! Now I have to grow another tumor and this time I m going to make it even worse! This is a program that is calling for extinction. Derail that program and the tumor shrinks back to nothing. Programs running on your computer are very similar to the subconscious mind. The three pack a day smoker who is eighty years old and is still as healthy as an ox. He s got a program running in him that he s strong and that nothing is going to take him down. But what about the twenty something year old woman who is thin, eats only foods that are healthy, works out daily, but is sick all the time. What program is running in her mind? Are certain people more susceptible to these programs than others? Yes. The insurance companies know this. Who will become sick this year? The answer is the same people who were sick last year. A person s childhood has a lot to do with creating initial sensitizing events. Poor parenting or no parenting, I ve had several people whose parents took them to funerals as children and made the child touch the corpse. Verbal abuse, sexual abuse, non-feeling, or

72 overbearing parents cause a lot of problems and ISEs. The parent that criticizes the child on everything they do. You got an A- good for you but you should have received an A. This child can never do anything good enough. Those programs get in there and then that darned critical factor filters out ideas that would have those programs change. Also the childlike mind misunderstands all sorts of events and these misperceptions continue and are brought into adulthood. Perceptions build beliefs, and beliefs influence your thoughts, and those thoughts produce emotions, and those emotions build and need to be expressed, they will be expressed whether you verbally speak them or not. If you don t speak them your body will. The people I see who have the biggest problems tend to be, and I may ruffle a few feathers here, are very strict religious people. As I said before, children under the age of five to six have not developed the critical factor in their conscious minds yet. Everything goes right into the subconscious and is permanently programmed in there. If you think of damnation for sins, divorce, mistakes, or sexual conduct, you can easily see how strict religious beliefs can pile guilt up in the inner mind. Strict religious people kick themselves more than any others. When I work with these people it is usually much more difficult to change their perceptions because they have been programmed from a very early age. They tend to be closed minded towards ideas that go against this programming. Health & Modern Society I also would like to mention a few things with regard to our society in the United States and drug companies. Have you noticed the rise in TV commercials relating to drugs? Currently one quarter of all TV commercials are selling drugs. In these commercials, the very first sentence that is spoken is designed to make you uncomfortable. In this fast paced world have you ever stopped and taken a moment to think about the breakdown of the cartilage between your fourth and fifth vertebrae? Clinical studies suggest that one in thirty people lose cartilage here, which may result in paralysis of the back, resulting in three percent of men over fifty years of age becoming paralyzed. If you haven t noticed it, start paying attention! How many times a week do you hear these words in commercials? Ask your doctor. In fact they say the word, doctor, at least five times during each commercial with the last sentence telling you to, ask your doctor. If I sit and watch TV for an entire evening I will hear that catch phrase repeated like a thousand times. We are made to feel uneasy about things that we don t even need to think about. Know this - A consumer only consumes if they feel uncomfortable, if a consumer is content there is no reason to consume. That s marketing one-o-one. We now have a lot of newly labeled diseases such as acid reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome, restless leg syndrome, and fibromyalgia. Where did these come from? I ll tell you, glad you asked If a drug company can get something labeled as a disease or syndrome, they can then patent their drug and make huge revenues. Without problems being officially labeled they are unable to get a patent on the drug. Psychiatric disorders are submitted into a book known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - better known as the DSM. If something gets into this book a drug can be patented for it. Once a year new disorders are added into this book so drugs can be marketed to the public. So we as a society are going down the road of medications and chemicals more and more. This is big business. It s telling us to endlessly ask our doctor for their drug. The diseases and syndromes I just mentioned ALL can

73 be greatly helped, or more likely cured with hypnotherapy, its better than putting a chemical in your body and suffering the side effects. I believe our society needs to stop drugging away our symptoms and start going to the cause of the problem and fixing it there. I haven t been making up these Hypno Healing stories that you ve been reading about. They are real cases that I have been involved with and witnessed personally. It really doesn t matter if you believe in hypnosis or not, it s just simply how our minds work. Hypnotherapy, if done correctly, finds the cause of the problem and eradicates it. The perception our medical community has towards hypnosis is that it is affective but doesn t last. That is true if the hypnotist is using only direct suggestion. If this is the case it s really no better than prescribing a drug for a symptom, because the hypnotist is only masking a symptom for a short period of time. You cannot suggest away a problem, as you already know, the program in the subconscious mind needs to be found and derailed in order for that person to be permanently helped. Hypnotherapy Success Rate - After 600 sessions of Psychotherapy there was a mere 38% success rate. - After 22 sessions of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy there was a 72% success rate. - After just 6 sessions of Hypnotherapy there was a whopping 93% success rate! Dr. Alfred A. Barrios (PhD) conducted a study for the Psychotherapy Magazine (Volume 7, Issue #1) to investigate the effectiveness of Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Psychoanalysis (Psychology).

74 Chapter 7 The Metaphysical Yet another aspect of hypnosis is the premise that you can tap into the metaphysical, past life regressions come to mind for most people, but there is much more to it than just that. There have been several popular books written on this topic, but when diving into this arena the mind can remember and connect into many other aspects as well. Progressing into the future, life between lives spirit memory, enhanced psychic powers, negative energy attachments, going into ultra-height (which is a spiritual state), remote healing, and channeling your own spirit guides. So is this phenomenon real? Could it be real? And how does it connect to the subconscious mind? One thing we should discuss up front is that the subconscious mind works with things both real and imagined. Remember the woman I worked with who had the intense fear of snakes? It was a nightmare when she was a child, it wasn t based in reality. Also if a child turns on the TV and sees someone s head get blown off their shoulders it s possible, while in a hypnosis session later in life, that they could interpret this as a past life event. These types of events can become false memories. I have even had many people regress into past lives without my guidance. I d say one in twenty five non-directed regressions end in a past life scene. Let s decide to look at this phenomenon with an open mind placing past belief systems and religious thinking to the side for just a moment. The stories you are about to read did happen. Nothing in this chapter has been fabricated. I cannot tell you for sure that this is real; however I have had more than a few personal experiences with all of the topics presented. Who can really know until we cross over to the other side? It s kind of like describing love to someone, if you ve never experienced it, how can it be real? When I regress my clients with regard to an emotion, what I am essentially doing is something known as a Non-Directive Regression. This means I am not telling them or directing them to go to a certain age or event. I have no idea when or where their minds will take them. Of course sometimes I will take my clients back to a specific age or event. This is called a Directive Regression. With directive regressions we know where we will end up. For the non-directive regressions I will get a person every other week, or every three weeks or so, who ends up in what they perceive to be a past life. If you do regression work you will deal with this, it will come up. To me it really doesn t matter. If they go back to a past life I correct it the exact same way I would as if they ended up as a child in their current lifetime. I once had a woman follow her fear back in time, and she perceived herself as a man in Egypt walking up a steep hill with some kind of wooden carrying device over his shoulders with gourds hanging from both ends (yes, we change sexes in different incarnations). This was the first time she/he ever felt the feeling. I ve had five clients, to date, go back to the German death camps in WWII.

75 I had another woman come to me with a mix of different problems a while ago. When I started working on her problem regarding a professional block, a day trader who couldn t trust her trading plan, she became very emotional. She regressed to being six years old, outside, nighttime, and with people. She saw herself in a courtyard of some large structure standing next to a huge bond fire with all the other homeless and poor. Her father had just been imprisoned, which was a death sentence back then, and her mother was already dead. She found herself orphaned and had nowhere to go. The tears soon followed. Another person I was regressing, I don t recall what we were working on was in deep hypnosis and followed her fear back to a previous life as well. She was wearing a Victorian style dress, black with white lace and she started to cry and cry... I asked her what was wrong and she conveyed to me that she was running out of her home and the house was on fire. It was just a shell of a house that was totally engulfed in flames and her three children were inside. She couldn t save them and they died there. One thing about regression work is this. To the person going through it, it s not just remembering, it is more like reliving the event. They are reliving it as if they are there for the first time. As you can imagine this invokes real fears or joys depending on where the person might end up. Sometimes when I am working with a person they start talking in past tense like, I saw my mother hit me. It s up to me to put them back in the situation, back in the moment, by saying something like, No, you see your mother hitting you. It s happening, continue. Sometimes it s my fault. If I change the tense they ll go right along with me. The proper way to conduct a regression is to keep it in the present tense, What happens next, instead of what happened next. Sometimes if I have really good rapport with my client, and they are interested in past life regression, I ll just go for it. I ll ask permission first of course, but when we are nearing the end of our work together I might say something like, Would you like to go back and see what you used to be in a past existence? (Sure) Okay, in a moment I m going to lift your arm and drop it, when it plops on down you are going to go wayyy back in the memory of mind. When your arm plops on down it will be a different time, a different place, and a different you. (Plop) Here I ll ask the usual questions. Are you inside or outside? Is it daytime or nighttime? Are you alone or with people? How old are you? These questions get them into where they have arrived. I also suggest to them that it will be vivid, real, and clear. Clearer each time we move forward or backward. I will then have them look at themselves and tell me if they are male or female. I ask how they are dressed and what s going on. Now to see if their conscious mind is making this stuff up, or if they are really where they say they are, I fire off a series of questions that should be very easy for them to answer, questions like, What s your name? Where do you live? In your current life you have dollars, quarters, nickels, and pennies, what is your monetary system here? If these answers come out easily and quickly I assume they aren t making it up, but if they are struggling with the answers I m not buying it and it s categorized as a Wanna-be Regression. What the mind expects to happen tends to be realized, it s true. It s true even with past life regressions. If someone comes to me and says, I think I was Abe Lincoln in a previous life, then guess who s going to show up? You got it, old Abe! Of course the answers to my questions will come out slowly and be

76 difficult for them, or they won t remember what Abe s mothers name was if it s a wanna-be regression. I have to tell you that I come from the perception of a clinician. I know what I m doing. I do it step by step and by the numbers. I don t even list on my web site or in my brochures that I do past life regressions, can you guess why? Let s face it, if you are considering coming to me with a very real problem such as depression or fibromyalgia and you notice I also do past life regressions well it really takes the professional wind out of my sails doesn t it? So are these past life regressions real? Do we reincarnate? I ll let you decide as you read through this chapter. I should mention that there have been some past life regressions that will just floor you! Names, facts, phone numbers, places, and people who are still living that verify the facts that originated from a past life regression. Is this a past life? Has the person in hypnosis somehow become psychic? Is someone or something telling this person all of these facts? I ll let you decide for yourself, but if it is true that we reincarnate, instead of putting RIP on people s gravestones it should instead read BRB. HA! Past Life Regression - Pearl Harbor Girl When conducting a past life regression it really isn t much different than a normal regression that happens in my office several times a day. You must of course first achieve somnambulism. I like to deepen the state a little more when conducting one of these. You can use almost the exact patter as you would when doing a regular regression or something different. There is a way to build into one of these that I prefer to use; I call it the hall of doorways. Imagine that you are standing in a hallway. On the left is a smooth wall, on the right is a series of doorways extending as far as the eye can see. Each doorway represents a past life you have lived, a past incarnation. If you are doing this at the end of a clinical session you could then suggest the following, Today we have been working on your depression. If there are any events in any of these past lives that are significant to you having depression, that doorway will light up, it will be illuminated at the count of one. Three, two, one (Snap fingers.) Are any illuminated? (Yes) How many? (Three) Okay, those doorways are now reassembling; they are now one after the other right in front of you. Which one is the brightest? (The one in the middle) Okay on the count of one you will step through that doorway in the middle and find yourself in a very significant scene that has everything to do with depression. It will be vivid, real, and clear. Here we go three, two, one (Snap fingers.) Here I would ask the usual questions such as, Are you inside or outside? Is it daytime or night time? Are you alone or with someone? Are you male or female? Look down at your feet, what do they look like? These questions get them into where they have arrived, first person. Of course you want to get a full report to find out what is happening. With past lives you do not need to conduct any kind of therapy, you just need to show them what was going on. Once they relive the event you can have them go to other significant events in that life that has to do with depression, or whatever the problem is that you re working on. When you re through with going to a few events of that lifetime you have them come back into

77 the hallway. Once here, you again have them walk through the next door and collect what is happening there. You can suggest that this person has lived and died and that anything that they went through were just events that cannot affect or disturb them in their current life. If you are not at the end of a clinical session and just conducting a past life regression then you can have them go through any door they are drawn to, or arrange the doorways from most recent all the way back to their first incarnation. When a person goes through one of these there is no difference between reliving an event from six hundred years ago or one that happened ten years ago in their current life, it feels the same. Pearl Harbor I ll first start this section off by conveying to you two regression stories that were told to me by the director of the Omni Hypnosis School in Deland Florida, his name is Gerald Kein. This one took place years ago in Florida. He was in a small crowd of people and he ended up doing a recreational past life regression for a teenage girl. He said she was fourteen and pregnant, with her second child Yikes! At the time of the session she lived in Florida and had never traveled outside of the state. She wasn t that knowledgeable or worldly by any stretch of the imagination. He hypnotizes her, does some deepening, and then recites similar patter as I did above to take her back to a different time, a different place, and a different you She finds herself working in a law office. She s there on the weekend to catch up with some typing but doesn t mind doing the overtime because she likes to be caught up and have everything in order by Monday morning. She tells him that the year is 1941, and she finds herself typing away while listening to the radio. Gerry asks her who is playing on the radio. She answered by reciting a few musical groups from the time. Benny Goodman is what is currently playing. So after collecting all the small details of this particular day he then says to her, Okay, in a moment I m going to lift your arm and drop it, and when I do I want you to go to the most significant day of this life (Plop.) She finds herself, once again, still typing away at her desk listening to the radio. It s the same day, the same event, and he s like, hum okay we re still here All of a sudden she hears an announcement on the radio. We interrupt this broadcast to announce that Pearl Harbor has just been attacked by Japan! Her voice becomes very excited, and in her mind she hops up, shuts the radio off and excitedly expresses (out loud in session), I ve got to run home and tell my parents! She races down the stairs, runs out into the street and gets hit by a bus! She s killed instantly. Wow, hit by a bus! I guess that was the most significant day of her life. During this regression she had recited names, addresses, and phone numbers of people that she knew. She remembered the name of the town, the name of the law office, her brother s name, etc. After this amazing past life session, about six weeks later, Gerry receives a call from her mother. They ve been checking out all of the facts and details that came out during the regression and they have been adding up! The law office still exists today under the same name as back in 1941 and it does reside in the town that she described. They even tracked down and called the brother. Can you imagine? Hi, my name is so and so, I used to be your sister - I m your dead sister

78 reincarnated. Click - hang up! Gerry asked them to kindly inform him that if they get any more information to please give him a call back. It turns out that the former brother of this Florida teen, AKA dead sister, finally listened to what she was saying and reluctantly agreed for them to fly up so they could meet. In this meeting they took her to the law office and she described the interior of the building as if she knew it. When inside she noticed changes to the architecture, some that she liked and some that she felt they shouldn t have changed. It turned out that the sons of the retired and deceased fathers, who used to be the lawyers running this practice, were now running the office. This Florida girl had mentioned details to them regarding their father s law practice and their fathers themselves that directly correlated with reality, there is no way she could have possibly known this information. They then took her to the house where she had grown up. Her brother, in her past life, was still living there. He had inherited the house from his parents after they passed away. She was taken inside the home and she knew the layout of the house as if she had lived there. She was taken into her old bedroom and she became very excited. She asked for a crow bar or screwdriver or some kind of prying tool. She went into her old closet and started prying at the baseboards in one particular spot. The baseboards were the old types that were really tall. She got the baseboard off the wall and reached around inside the wall. She then emerged grasping a mason jar full of money! Old money, like silver dollars and other currency from that time. She was saving to buy a car and had just remembered where her stash was! Later they took her to the grave of herself, but she had no emotions about it one way or another. Wow, what a story! Can you even imagine a stranger contacting you that had details of someone that had died in your family decades ago? This is an actual case history and there have been many others just as exciting. Could this have really been the reincarnated soul of this person s dead sister? If it wasn t then how could this have ever happened? Is it possible that while this teenage girl was in hypnosis that the spirit of the deceased office worker was speaking through her? Could she have become psychic? Irish Ladies Man The second account from Gerry was a man who came to see him whose neck was atrophied. This man could not move his neck left or right very much at all. He was an older Italian man with a thick accent who had been to many doctors over the years with regard to his neck. The doctors could not discover any physiology that would be impeding his neck whatsoever. They begin the hypnotherapy and a non-directive regression takes place on the cause of this neck problem. All of the sudden the client, who was speaking in a thick Italian accent, is now speaking in a thick Irish accent. Gerry asks what s going on and he replies, Can t you see good man? Gerry says, well no can you describe what s happening please? Well there about to hang me on this morning. The whole damn towns here to see it. Gerry says; Hang you, why are they going to hang you? Well I deserve it, I do. While the men are out in the fields working for their families I was sneaking in the back way and making time with the ladies, if you know what I mean. I deserve to be punished, I broke up families, children without fathers, and they re going to hang me now.

79 So Gerry has him go through the hanging, but without any physical discomfort, and tells this man to let him know when it s all over. In a few moments the man grabs at his neck as if grabbing rope and his face is flush. It turned out that they tied some weight to this Irish man s feet but the rope that was holding it on him was rotten and immediately broke. Instead of a quick hanging he suffocated in terrible pain for several minutes. It turns out that why this Italian man s neck wasn t working is that he was still punishing himself subconsciously for what he had done. Gerry explained to him that if he would have been sent to prison over this that at most he would have gotten thirty years max. He explained that this self-punishment had gone on far too long and that it was time to be free. After the session the man was able to move his neck! He did require some physical therapy to build the muscles up to full strength but the neck was functioning again. Isn t that amazing! Here you have a man who has two different accents and comes to terms with his self-induced punishment. Talk about lasting guilt, it doesn t get much worse than that! Indian Girl and Wife of a Senator Let s explore another case history of past life regression. While I was working with one of my clients, in our last session together I asked her if she would be interested in knowing about her past lives. She is very open to this and very interested, actually I believe her to be quiet psychic. I decided to regress her back to her most previous past life. While in deep hypnosis I lifted her arm and told her to go back to her most current past life. When her arm dropped down she found herself in a tent. She was in a fairly small tent with her father. She noticed that there were animal skins covering the floor like a carpet. I gave her a few moments of silence so she could become acclimated to where she had just arrived and all of a sudden she proclaims, I m not in a tent, I m in a teepee. I m an Indian! I had her describe her surroundings inside this teepee and asked her about her father. I then asked her for the year, one number at a time. She gave me the numbers, 1, 8, 2, 6, ! I asked which country she was in or where she was living in the world but she couldn t tell me. I then lifted her arm up and directed her to go one month into the future. When her arm hit the chair she became very happy. I asked where she was, she replied, I m naked. Wow, I m so beautiful. She was looking down at herself and saw herself bathing in a river alone, eighteen years old. She kept going on and on about how beautiful she was with this big smile on her face. She described herself, the river, and the landscape with vivid detail. I then decided to go back a little further, When your arm plops on down I want you to go back, way back again in the memory of mind. I want you to go back to the person you were before this life as a female Indian. Once I released her arm, her demeanor visibly changed. I asked her where she was and what she was doing. In this life she was the wife of a senator, very proper, very rich, and very powerful. She was wearing a rather uncomfortable long dress that was tight around the neck and waist. She was in a large building that she perceived as a public government building and there were many around her. I then asked her for the year one number at a time. This time it was I asked her what she would look like if she were to see herself

80 in a mirror or in a reflective surface. With a gasp her mouth opened with almost a startle. My god, I m so old, I m an old woman I m ugly! Her being old and ugly seemed to have distressed her quite a bit because she went on and on about it for a few minutes. During this part of the session details came forward, such as how she felt about her life and husband, and her thoughts about society. While she talked to me, it was like looking at a different person. She had a different look about her as she went on and on about her life as the wife of a prominent government official. Starving to Death Twice! Towards the end of working with a weight loss client of mine we ran into a few bumps. She could not stop overeating. We did all of the usual regression work and direct suggestion but she just had a major compulsion to overeat. She was more than open to see what might be at the root of this behavior, so I placed her into the hall of past lives. We went through the first doorway and she found herself in a dungeon. She was chained to the wall and seated on a dirty cold stone floor, her cloths were rags. She was very unclean and emaciated. Her mindset was just as ragged, she was close to death. She was wrongly imprisoned for stealing. I got the strong sense of absolutely no liberal rights for anyone during this time, especially women. They never did feed her and she only got water once a day, but it wasn t enough. She died there in a broken physical and mental state. I progressed her to her death and then talked to her. (you can talk to them just after death) She felt much better now and realized that it was just a learning experience. It seems that people come to earth school for one particular lesson that they want to learn. For this life, she was supposed to learn compassion. We then made our way back to the hallway and proceeded through the second illuminated doorway. She now finds herself out at sea. She s a man this time and again finds himself extremely thin and starving to death. The sun is bright and hot but there isn t much of a breeze. He s lying on the deck of a small boat looking up into the blue sky trying to hang on to life. I ask him if he is lost out at sea and he tells me that he was but has found land. He looks up over the boat and can see land but is too weak to paddle to shore. It s been a few months out at sea and the end is near. He dies and perceives himself floating above his body feeling much relief. The passing was easy at the end, he just kind of shut off. Floating above the boat he tells me that he did not achieve the things that he wanted to during this life, and had a mixture of sadness over this fact, but also had a huge sense of relief getting out from that body. PLR Personal Story - Fear of Public Speaking Let me tell you a few of my own personal experiences. Fear of public speaking is one of them. I had one session that I thought cleared the problem. I went from not being able to talk more than a few sentences in front of a group, to easily being able to speak in front of even large groups. I was without a doubt the worst public speaker that had ever lived. My throat would tense up and close on me, my heart would speed up to the point that I thought I would pass out. It was extremely bad.

81 I began doing public talks about hypnosis, so I thought it would be a good idea to get this resolved. A friend of mine conducted one session the night before I was to do a two hour workshop, it worked. I did so well that I actually went over my time limit by twenty minutes. The ISE was a memory that was hidden from my conscious mind. I was about six years old and our family was setting up a camp site in the deep woods in the upper peninsula of Michigan. In the darkness I heard noises in the woods, but they were very close by. I thought it was a bear that was coming to get me. (Actually up there it might have been) Several years after this initial session I began doing seminars and noticed I would get a twinge of fear for a minute or so, and then I was fine. Then in one seminar this twinge of fear lasted for like ten minutes. I also noticed that I would feel physically ill the night before conducting a seminar, almost like I was coming down with something, but I wasn t. I had a fellow hypnotist do a telephone session on me so we could get to the bottom of it, wow what a session. We did the usual build the feeling and regress, my mind took me to a few places that needed attention, we cleaned them up, and this would have been the usual end to the therapy. Instead of that he had me imagine the hallway of past lives. He had me look down this very long hallway and told me I might notice some kind of illumination on the doors that had everything to do with the feelings I was encountering when speaking in front of a group. At that moment I noticed three doorways that looked as though someone was shining a flashlight on them. One had three round lights on it and the other two only had one light on them, one being brighter than the other. Then in my mind the doors that had the lights moved side by side, so they were in sequential order. He told me to open the most significant door, and that I would find myself in some event that had everything to do with the feelings we were working on in this session. I stepped to the door with the three lights on it and opened it. Instantly I had stepped into a situation, a stressful situation. I perceived myself standing on a hillside outside, the townspeople were gathering below me. I represented the government and an angry mob of people were gathering to let me have it. I saw the anger in their faces and was worried that they might overtake me, hurt me, and maybe even kill me. I perceived this event taking place in the year This one guy below and to the right of me had some kind of farming tool, and it looked like he hated me. The hypnotist then had me back out of that door and enter the next door, the one with the brighter light on it. All of a sudden I m a woman standing in a large square room. It was kind of where two rooms come together and the rooms were half inside and half out. Most of the crowd was sitting on the right side of the room including my father, a rather fat man wearing a decretive turban. I was brought in front of this group of people, and was accused of stealing. I knew that I had stolen in the past, but I did not steal the precious thing that they were accusing me of. I didn t know what was stolen, I didn t hear any accusations, but I just somehow knew that I was being blamed for something I didn t do. I then backed out of this door and entered the third door. Here I found myself trying to hold myself up from the floor of my cave. The hypnotist had me look down at my feet, I was wearing some kind of animal skin wrappings around my feet and my clothes were similar to what Fred Flintstone wears. I was at the mouth of my cave and was shocked to look up and see all of the people of my tribe/clan moving closer to the entrance of my

82 cave. They were gathering as they do to bid farewell to those who were about to die. I was on my left side holding myself up with my left arm, on my hip with my legs on the floor bent at the knees behind me. I knew I was sick but not that sick! Why were they treating me as though I was dying? Some were chanting, some were speaking strange words and making clicking sounds. Three women came up from my right bearing gifts. I was sick and frail but I wasn t dying! Then the hypnotist asked, Did you die? I reluctantly replied with yes. The shock of those people showing up at my door, I wasn t going to die, I cannot believe they were doing this with me, coming to my door!? Ending a session like that was amazing. No wonder I was fearful when speaking in front of a group. Was it real? I don t know but the scenes were very clear and I could vividly feel all of the emotions. One thing I do know is how I felt in those events. It was no different than being regressed in my current life. Once I recognized these scenes, I wasn t controlled by them any longer, the negative emotional energy simply left me and I am now quite comfortable speaking in front of a group. Heart Arrhythmia Let me tell you about another problem I was having where my solution had everything to do with a past life. I was waking up every morning with my heart pounding in my chest. Almost every morning I would wake up and my heart would just be thumping. This condition didn t hurt, and my heart rhythm always returned to normal within fifteen minutes or so after I woke. It was just one of those annoying kind of physical problems. I asked my friend to do a session on me to see if we could find out what was going on. It s nice having hypnotists for friends. We set the day and conducted another telephone session. In my case history my father died in front of me of a heart attack when I had just turned twenty years old. I held his hand as my mother, a nurse, resuscitated him three times. I m thinking this is probably the ISE. I was wrong, as the conscious mind usually is. The hypnotist starts the session by doing parts therapy. One part wants to be free of the thumping heart and the other part is causing the heart problem. When I imagined the part that is causing the heart problem the hypnotist had me identify this part with a shape, a feeling, and a name. A very interesting thing that came to me here was the shape looked like a very heavy triangle made of solid metal, but the triangle was longer at the top, like it was stretched upwards and the sides of it were concave. After identifying the part causing the problem he builds the feeling behind the thumping heart, regresses on that feeling, and I find myself in a trench fighting in a war. Its night time, pitch black, and bombs are going off everywhere. In the blinding flashes of light I see my friends being blown up right in front of me. I stand up in the trench to fire my rifle and instantly feel myself blown backwards as I m drenched in a splash of warm fluid. I die before my body falls to the bottom of the trench. I now find myself floating above my body. My entire being is shaking violently from the impact. My chest has been blown open. The scene then fades out of my mind... This was the ISE, the initial event. As we work through the session, the event of my father does come up. It was part of the problem and we clear this away as well. Towards the end of the session when we return to the good and bad parts the most amazing thing takes place! The triangle takes an even more

83 distinguishable image in my mind, it s the Eiffel tower! I now realize that I died in France, in WWI. The heavy triangle is the Eiffel tower and it also represents the heavy feeling in my chest (dying in France). Since this session I have not had even one occurrence of a thumping in my chest, not one. China Man I actually have been regressed to one of my past lives where I perceived myself as being an old man of Asian descent. I remember walking down a village street, seeing little shack like buildings on one side of a dusty road. In this session I actually was taken to the day of my death. Once there I had the impression of being very weak and rickety. I could clearly see, and can still recall, the inside of my hut type of home. A grass ceiling that I was looking at as my demise approached. A suggestion was given that at the count of three it would be all over and that life would be complete. At the count of three I felt as though something grabbed me by the back of my neck, and I felt as if I were being lifted by my collar straight up and out of my body. I now felt very good. I wasn t jittery any longer and felt a great piece come over me. Girlfriend of a Viking In another session I was a woman living in the middle of what seemed like nowhere. The grass was very tall and I had a dwelling in a field. A man, a Viking, was taking care of me. The hypnotist asked if this was my husband but I said no, he just looks after me, takes care of me. I was alone most of the time but he would show up occasionally and bring me things. I knew if he didn t that I would probably perish. Then the hypnotist, a female, stated that she had a personal question for me. She asked me what I do during that time of month. I instantly knew the answer somehow. I told her that I do all of my other work during the month first, the work where I have to be mobile. When it s that time, I see myself sitting on a big rock outside covered with cloths. I am dormant and I sit and do my weaving and other such work. I can still vividly see the tall grass, the hut, the large rock, and the attributes of the Viking. Progression Another subject that isn t widely known about using hypnosis is something called progression, going into the future. I wanted to personally see if I could uncover any information with regard to this. I was placed in hypnosis and progressed a few years forward, and then ten years forward, and then five hundred years forward. What I saw seemed negative. It was an end to the world as we know it, but not one that you might expect. I saw that people around the world got tired of government. They became disgruntled with government spending, with war, and with the general makeup of society. At some point in the not so distant future people began to simply walk away from government. If you think about it, let s say every person in the state of Florida decided to not pay their taxes, what would the government do? What could they do? They can t lock up that many people. And if everyone in Florida did that, then there would be others that would follow. Taking away the government s money source is a good way to bring down government. I saw this happening, and without a governing body chaos soon followed. Man against man, the survival of the fittest. I saw that this needed to happen to

84 bring about a different way of life, one where we don t spend all of our time chasing money, greed, etc. Five hundred years into the future the world was much different. There are different energy sources. I saw that the veil between the spirit world and the physical world had lessoned quite a lot. Through the chaos and many decades of upheaval, a new system was established that made earth school much more unified and peaceful. Spirit Memories Life Between Lives Spirit memories are based in the concept that we live between physical lives. If this is true then it stands to reason that we should be able to remember these events. So who cracked the code? Who s the one who found a way to regress people into any past life, and then even into the spirit world? His name is Michael Newton. If this topic interests you then do yourself a favor and buy his books, Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls. I have read these two books many times. Michael Newton is, at the time of this writing, a hypnotist and PhD. In the late 40 s Michael was working with a client and his client started to cry. He asked her why she was crying and she started to tell him of her feelings of loneliness and isolation, this happened while doing a past life regression with her. As she was crying she said, I miss my friends in my group and that s why I get so lonely on Earth. He was confused and asked her where this group was located. She replied, Here in my permanent home, and I m looking at all of them right now! This intrigued him so much that he geared his practice from typical hypnosis work to embark on a voyage that would take this work to a whole new level, and it did just that. In my office I hypnotize and then deepen for around twenty minutes or so, and then get to work. Michael deepens for up to an hour, and that s after a long induction. He uses breathing exercises, counting, and imagery, to take the person into what he calls the Superconscious state. This is beyond the subconscious. He believes that this is yet another part of the mind that is directly linked to everything a person has ever been, or it may be the soul itself. The superconscious mind in spiritual literature is referred to as God, or the Universal Mind. It is the source of all power, all knowledge, all love, and all peace. It knows of no time, nor space. It has no limitations. The superconscious mind is omnipresent, one mind expressing through all, and each human mind is only an individualized center of consciousness of this one mind. The hypnosis process that Michael came up with is termed LBL short for Life Between Lives. It is the process of eliciting spiritual memories. After focusing all of his energies on this process he has come up with a two-session method to take a person into their spiritual memory of mind. In the first session he deepens the subject and regresses them to different events in their current life, to finally arrive in the womb. Here he asks questions of the fetus to get the first clues as to what level of soul development they are. Next he regresses the subject into the most current past life, goes through a handful of major events, and then to the day of their death. In the second session he repeats these steps once again but then continues on into the spirit world by using the death scene. He feels that going through a death scene is a much more natural way

85 to enter the spirit world, rather than backing them up from the womb and into the spirit world. I personally find this fascinating. Michael s clients go into great detail during these long three hour sessions. They can recall their spirit name (Mine is Allosh), the spirit names of their guides, and cluster group members (according to Michael cluster groups are our spiritual family) They recall specific group members and the rolls they have played in previous existences. According to these six thousand cases that he references, spirits are in varying stages of development. He calls these stages, Levels, and classifies people in levels one through six. Each stage of spirit is recognized by their color. Apparently, the beginner spirits are white in color, as they advance in knowledge and lessons learned their core eventually becomes a dark purple. He knows that there are stages beyond level six but has no resources to these upper levels because these spirits do not reincarnate on earth any longer. He also describes the spirit world as being very organized, with spirits having specific jobs that they do. For example a spirit may be in training to become a guide, or some have jobs trying to persuade lost souls, or ghosts, to return to the spirit world. He describes exactly how spirits come to this earth plane to communicate with loved ones. The book also talks about animals, birthing of new souls, and other mental and physical worlds where some of us incarnate. Michael conducted around six thousand LBL sessions before writing his first book in 1985, taking case studies from several of them. Remarkably these thousands of people tell of extremely similar terminology, none that stem from religious texts. They describe what it was like to die, who they first meet upon death, the meeting with their spirit guide or teacher, and then it s on to the Counsel of Elders for life review, and finally ending up in their cluster group or spiritual family. The souls in this group are entities that the person has known and reincarnated with many times through the ages. Now of course this goes well past the line of many religious belief systems. I guess the only way to make up your mind whether you believe this or not would be to find yourself an LBL certified hypnotist and experience it yourself. Dr. Newton uses this LBL technique not only to uncover spiritual information about his clients, but also uses it in a clinical way. He takes them into the spirit world and they can go to the Life Selection area. Apparently we choose our bodies, selecting the one we want from about four or five that are shown to us. We also choose the cast in our play, which will be the characters in our next life. This is kind of mapped out for us and by us, for the sole purpose of learning lessons and completing karma. If we are having problems with the people or situations in our life, or if our body is crippled and diseased, it can be of great comfort to know that we actually selected these attributes in order to learn from this dichotomy. It s possible that you may come to the understanding that you selected these issues and this problematic body, so you can learn from them or so others around you can learn. Interestingly the spirit guide of the person going through an LBL session sometimes blocks information for the purpose that they still need to learn lessons. If these answers are received too early in life it would ruin the test, so to speak. Because of this blocking, Michael won t even see people who are younger than thirty years old. I was working with a woman about a year ago who came to me with issues in her life. We regressed to cause on these and it did help her quite a bit. She recently came back for a few

86 follow up sessions, as things have changed for the better, but she felt that there is still something there, some kind of block overall in her life. She has had two divorces, the second husband being so verbally abusive that her children don t want anything to do with him. After a lot of deepening I built up the blocking feeling and we regressed on it. She began to speak to me very fluidly, at first I couldn t understand what she was talking about. She kept saying that she was right, she was right and that they didn t want her, they had kicked her out. She described being in a somewhat dark area but could see lights in the distance, almost as it would look if you were to look up at the night sky. She couldn t believe that she had been kicked out. Then she started saying that she was wrong. After much probing it turns out that her spirit group had banished her, sent her away from the group. She was supposed to go down to earth to be born but she didn t want to, and she was now stuck between the spirit world and earth. She knew what she was facing in this new life and was very apprehensive in starting it. I had her look down at herself and she vividly saw that she was a deep purple color, indigo. (upper level spirit here according to LBL) She had been very stubborn with her spiritual group, not bending an inch, knowing that she was right, but then she had a revelation. Her lesson was to be blocked by success in her life so she could learn how to eat humble pie. She needed to be knocked down a few rungs and learn humility. This was to be her life lesson. Psychic Powers It is also possible to become psychic or more psychic using hypnosis. Anyone can do this who likes the state of hypnosis. You can place the person in the state of, body parked, and mind heightened through suggestion. I m the subject in this next example. The hypnotist conducting the session had a rather unloving mother and there were ill effects in his life, and his sibling s lives because of her. She died of cancer years ago. His request was to place me in a spiritual state so we could see if we could talk to her, and we did just that. He places me in the superconscious state and then asks me if I am aware that my spirit guides are there. Almost immediately I become aware of their presence. Then he asks for his spirit guides to be there as well, and again I get a sense and visual that they are with me. Then we call on his mother s spirit to come forward. In my mind I see an outline of a woman. I don t see the face at first, but I see a pronounced hair style. It looks as though her hair is long but cut out just around the face in a square. As he begins his questioning I notice that her dress is exactly like Dorothy s from the Wizard of Oz, except she is a little fatter. I don t mention this. He wants to know why she couldn t tell him that she loved him. I then see in my mind s eye as though she is standing behind a wall, and in this wall is a vertical one inch gap that runs from the top of her head to her feet. This was the only window through which she could express love in her life. Her capacity to show love could only escape through this small opening. I convey this information and then all of a sudden I hear in my mind - I love you Buddy, I love you Buddy, I love you Buddy over and over again. I convey this to the hypnotist and he is moved emotionally and starts to cry a little, as his mother didn t tell him this when she was living. His name is Bud and I have never personally thought to address him with the name Buddy. This did

87 not come from me. His mother really wanted him to know that she did love him even though she couldn t express it in life. She was the only one that ever called him Buddy. Then I am shown her shoes. They are red sparkly shoes just like Dorothy wore in the Wizard of Oz. So I break down and say. Okay, she is showing me the dress and the sparkly shoes that Dorothy wore in The Wizard of Oz. Why is she showing me this? Again the tears come forward within Bud. Apparently the only time she showed happiness was when the Wizard of Oz came on TV. She would gather up the whole family to watch it. This was a rare occurrence in his childhood. It was one of the only family events that took place. This was a pretty significant validation that I was communicating with his deceased mother as it turned out. He then asked her what happened to her, why did she turn out like she did, why couldn t she show love? I then receive amazingly clear images, pictures coming to me of a little six year old girl, Bud s mom being physically grabbed up by a very thin man by the wrist. He was wearing a dirty suit and looked like a hobo. I could feel her pain. I then somehow knew that she was physically abused, sexually abused, and emotionally abused throughout her childhood. All of these images were very clear to me, and even clearer as I write these words. Then as we were ending our session I could make out her face, more pronounced were the lines on her face. Bud also validated her hair style at this point. As I was looking at her, instantly her image transformed into what it is now, a white translucent figure. She looked as though she was floating in midair, an outline of a person without details. This session was very healing for Bud. After the session, as we always do, we compared the experience with one another. It was his mom. The hair style, the connection with the Wizard of Oz, calling him Buddy, the message of, I love you Buddy. It all made sense. Spirit Attachments The topic of spiritual attachments was first introduced to me by reading posts of other hypnotherapists. They described sessions where they would conduct body scans and their client would have an awareness of an energy attached to them. I m glad I read these posts because the day came when I was confronted with this. I ve had around forty or so sessions where I have found and dispelled attachments thus far. Another way to say this is to use the word exorcism. When I conduct parts therapy I sometimes get some strange responses from the bad or negative part of them, the part that is causing the problem. Before even starting a session I sometimes get a hunch that the person may have one of these. This information is not my own, I believe it is given to me. During parts therapy, when I am talking to the part that is causing the problem, I will typically ask the following questions. What is your name or what shall I call you? Are you here to punish or protect client? How do you accomplish this? At what times do you come forward for this punishment? How old was client when you first showed up? The first clue that you have an attachment is when a weird name comes forward. I was working with a woman who was suffering from migraines - the name of her bad part was Ralf. Most women wouldn t pick the name Ralf unless Ralf was a relative or someone that they know.

88 The next clue, and most predominant, are the answers you begin to receive. Several times when I have asked the part why it s punishing my client they will say, Because it s fun. Sometimes a knowing smile comes across their face. I ve seen this time and time again. When this happens I know it s an attachment! I will then ask my client, Is this a part of you or an outside energy, attachment? There is no doubt in my client, they answer that it is an attachment. I will then ask my client if they are okay with this energy being attached to them or would they rather that it leave. I ve never had anyone say that they wanted it to stay, so I then begin to talk to the attachment directly. I pose a question, I ask, Wouldn t you have more fun doing something else with yourself? They always say no. Then I ask if they have ever lived a life on earth before, they usually say no but once in a while they will say that they have. I then ask if they have ever loved anyone or anything, again the answer is almost always, no. I have them look at themselves at this point, and say: Look to the core of you, look to the center of yourself. What do you notice? They will respond that they notice a speck of light. I then have them focus on that light. When they focus on that speck of light, and this only takes two minutes or so, the light envelopes them. They go from being nasty to being the friendliest person in the world. Sometimes they won t cooperate. So to clear this thing off I say the following, Everyone look up now and notice that this space is being envelope in Gods bright white healing light. Look up; every inch of this space is protected with this brilliant white light. Look up. I now call upon Saint Michael. Saint Michael please come down and clear this energy away from CLIENT. Client, please let me know when it has been taken away. Within a minute or so it is gone. That s it, real simple. Saint Michael is a freaking worrier! This has worked every time. My client now knows that it is gone. This isn t a drastic kind of thing where the walls are shaking or my client s head is spinning on their shoulders or anything. It is very fast and very easy to do. It is real, I have no doubt. Besides using parts therapy to find an attachment you can have your subject imagine their body from head to toe. You suggest to them that in a moment they will be doing a body scan, and if there are internal or external energies a lot of times people will see these areas on the body as gray or dark blotches. Recently I just finished working with a woman who had multiple problems. We did a body scan and she had three areas present themselves to her. One on her head, one at the base of the throat, and the third was on the bottoms of her feet. I then ask, Is the energy on your head a part of you or an external force or energy? She said it was a part of her. Is the energy at the bottoms of your feet a part of you or an external force or energy? Again she replied that it was a part of her. Is the energy at the base of your throat a part of you or an external force or energy? She tells me that it was external. I worked with the head part and the bottom of her feet parts first. I had her give them shapes, feelings, and names. The head part was a feeling of confusion, we cleared this with regression. The feet part was the feeling that she needed to run from her problems, we cleared this with traditional parts therapy. The external energy at the base of the throat was an attachment. Its name was Ed, it was there to choke her, and it was the cause of her panic attacks. Saint Michael easily got rid of Ed - she no longer has panic attacks. I did nothing therapy wise with this, we just cleared Ed off of her and the problem ceased.

89 Spiritual Attachment Expert I have met and worked with a man named Rev. L R Hodges. He has been a hypnotist for forty four years and is also a spiritual consultant. Mr. Hodges has dealt with and developed unique methodologies of dealing with spiritual issues. I have found and removed spiritual attachments many times, but Mr. Hodges has taken it to a whole new level. He is the expert. In this section we will discuss issues that have caused severe distress that ended up being the result of a spiritual attachment. The following section was submitted to me directly by Rev. Hodges. Some of the cases below involved only the hypnotist and the client in a one-on-one session. Such sessions will begin with the identification of One on One Session. In such sessions, the hypnotized client will channel through their own voice, the voice of the spirit entity. Many of these sessions, however, were conducted with a surrogate (remote session), who is a person described as a deep trance medium, who functions during the session in a deep trance and channels the various entities. This can, and is done at a distance from the client. There exist numerous types and varieties of entities in the spirit realm. I will provide various commentaries after the cases to explain a bit more information about the particular entities, where they come from, how they are detected, what effects they can have, and what methods are used to remove or otherwise neutralize their detrimental effects. First I will give a general rundown and description of the major categories of entities that are often encountered when performing the type work that is chronicled in this section. Entity Types Discarnate Human Spirit (Not malevolent - just lost) They can either attach to a physical person or can hover near them and usually attach to them temporarily at night while they are asleep. (Someone who is doing basic deep trance scanning can easily miss these if they do not know what they are looking for or how to do a peripheral scan.) These entities are a lot like a mosquito who sucks blood and may leave behind the West Nile Virus. They will suck energy and leave their emotional and psychological energy signature, giving the victim various urges or emotional experiences that they had during their physical lifetime. This includes psychological trauma of their death scenes, desire for alcohol or drugs, depression, sexual urges, urges for either homicide or suicide. It can go on and on Discarnate Human Spirit (Infested with dark forces - demons) This type is the same as above except this deceased person has within them outside negative influences, demons. This always exacerbates the situation and the spirit intentionally makes it worse for the victim. Discarnate Human Spirits (Including pact with the dark side)

90 This type is the same as above except that they had made a deal with the dark side during their physical life. They now effectively work for the dark side to do intentional harm to the victim. Actual Dark Force Entities (Demons) These, with or without human spirit accomplices, are really bad news. You can think of these as the fallen angels who became demons to serve Satan. Curses These energies are not entities in themselves, but they are projected into the energy body of a person with evil intention. These things can wreak havoc on the victim. We have seen this within certain people for many years before we discovered them and removed them. These curses can and do also make the victim's energy body more vulnerable to subsequent spirit infestations and attacks. I have numerous testimonies from those whom we have removed these curses from, whose lives has amazingly turned around for the better beginning immediately after the work was done. In some cases when the curses are cast by a more knowledgeable person, such as an experienced sorcerer or witch, they can be cast along with a demon to oversee them and enforce the curse. This is a really bad deal and takes a lot of work to neutralize. Once done, the person feels a tremendous weight has lifted. Soul Fractionation Past traumas from this life, and/or from previous lives can cause soul fractionation. In other words, parts of the soul can fracture, be cast off, and be in the possession of others. This can make the victim unusually weak and provide avenues for infestation of spirits of all types. These soul parts can be in the possession of other physical humans, often the perpetrator of a crime like rape, or in the possession of other spirits, some of which may have already crossed over into the light. They can also be in the possession of dark forces, through which the dark forces can continuously send thoughts and or other entities to torment the victim. If this is the case, you can clean someone up of spirits but they will continue to get re-infested until these connections are dealt with and sealed off. Carryovers In some cases, a physical person will have carryovers, from past lives. These may have been soul part fractures or deals made with demonic forces. These get to be extremely serious cases if someone desires to be healed of such. These cases can take upwards of 30 hours of our time, and some very specific commitments from the victim who we are working with. These cases do not come along often, but they do come along, and we have dealt with them.

91 The person, or victim as we might say, has to be willing to exercise their free will to want this work done or it will not be effective. Beethoven himself could not teach someone to play piano that did not want to learn. I hope that statement illustrates what I am trying to say. We always get permission from the higher self of the person before we work on them. They may not be consciously aware of this, but their higher self also needs to be in agreement and will almost always agree to receive the help. All of this above is a pretty good synopsis of what we have run into and dealt with in the past. It can be one or more of the above circumstances. They all take different approaches and techniques to correct. It's like fishing in saltwater; you just never know what you have until you reel it in. Case 1 - One-on-One Session Attached Dark Force Entity (Demon) This client, Deana, originally contacted me complaining of general anxiety, for which other efforts thus far had failed. She said she could not go out much or drive by herself because she would get severe panic attacks. She would have to pull over in a parking lot or somewhere to calm down and regain her composure. We went through a variety of procedures attempting to get at the basis of her problems. Several things came up in the first two sessions I had with her, amongst which was an abortion that she had when she was in high school. These situations are almost always a very severe emotional load on a female who has had this experience, and is often almost buried from conscious memory. However, a memory buried alive, never dies - this we know. Those circumstances were dealt with and the distress level was taken down to a point of being virtually neutralized. Improvements were made; Deana said that she felt a great deal of improvement. However, the distress over driving anywhere by herself, especially of any distance, was still a remaining issue. One session was completed on this problem and again it appeared that we made some progress, but I decided to ask one last question. I asked Deana if she ever felt anything inside her or around her that was disturbing, and did not feel like it was a part of her. Her answer proved to be both astounding and revealing. She said yes. I asked her where she felt it, and she placed her hand on her heart and said, right here. I then asked her what it felt like; she said it felt like pure evil. That feeling is similar to when one is running a trotline and it is pulling up and down very hard on the tree limb it is tied to. You know you have something on the line but at that point, you don t know exactly what it is. But having done this many times, I knew what I had to do. Deana was a very good hypnotic subject and I already had her conditioned so that I could put her in very deep trance very quickly, like in a matter of seconds. So I told her that I wanted her to go back into trance, I needed to check out this evil thing. She agreed and down she went. I told her to completely relax and let her conscious mind go to sleep and just allow her voice to be used for whatever I called on to respond to me. She nodded her head in agreement and we began. I called out to this evil thing and told it that I knew it was there and speak to me NOW!

92 In a rather low voice, certainly not sounding like Deana, a response came. Yea, what do you want? This was in a sarcastic sounding tone. I then asked if it had a name. It did not. I then asked if it had ever had a human body of its own. It said no. The arrogance and sarcasm along with the other answers all pointed in one direction. This appeared to be a dark force entity often called a demon. Now for the purposes of explanation at this point, I need to make some definitions and assumption of the framework within which I operate in these cases. First of all, whether it s actual reality or simply a metaphoric description of a morphed field formed by millions of combined thought forms through the ages; I deal with these demons as if they are, in fact, fallen angels. This seems to work quite well and the results normally obtained are excellent for the client. That having been said, I in no way want to understate the seriousness and the power and viciousness of these entities. They in every way live up to their reputation and they intend to cause harm as much as they can in every case. It can be anything from inducing negative feelings, all the way to attempting to induce suicide. And that latter can and has been effective in many cases. I then performed a ritual associated with binding the power of this one and continued to ask it questions. It said that its purpose was to destroy Deana in anyway it could. It was inducing a combination of fear and anger, often going back and forth between the two. Another ritual, partly of my own design, was then performed which resulted in this dark force becoming aware of a spark of light within it. This is often confusing to them, but there attention must stay on that spark. Everything created by Source Energy (God) has a spark of light within them. The ones who are deceived by the dark forces, are caused to believe that they are only darkness, and must cause evil and pain so that they will not likewise be punished. This is all deceit and a lie, but if they believe it, then it becomes their reality. When the knowledge of the light within them can be brought forth into their awareness, it begins to grow. They will fill with the light that they once had as an angel of light, before their fall. The conversion back to their original state can then be accomplished. They can then be sent to their appropriate place in the light, escorted by the archangels who have already been summoned as a part of this effort. Once this conversion is so made, the entire attitude and demeanor of the entity transforms almost instantly. They change from an arrogant, sarcastic evil sounding thing, cursing and hissing, into an extremely loving light being that is very willing to cooperate with anything it can do to help the person it had been trying to destroy. Having made this transformation, it admitted that the protection protocol that I had given her at the previous session had blocked much of its ability to harm her, which is why she had been doing somewhat better. I asked it how long it had been insider her and what was the circumstance when it entered. It said that she was at a hospital with her mother about 5 years ago. It had come out of a person who had just died in the hospital and spotted her. She was somewhat distraught about the situation that she was there for which weakened her aura, and she did not have any other intentional protection so I was able to approach and enter her quite easily. From that point on I could easily induce fear and confusion into her.

93 This now, angel of light, was instructed to remove all negative influence from Deana s energy body that it had any part in causing. It agreed, and this only took probably 20 to 30 seconds. This angel now assisted in the repair of any damage to Deana s energy body left from the place that the former dark force had occupied. This, or course, was to help seal her back up so she would not be vulnerable to a subsequent entry of some other spirit that might spot a weak place in her energy. I also had this angel scan Deana to see if there were any other foreign energies within her. These energies, residing in the spirit realm, can easily perform a scan of the spirit and determine for absolute sure if there is any remaining issues. Sometimes there is. This time there was not. All this was accomplished and this angel was released to the archangels to return to the light. Deana was then emerged back to full waking consciousness with a suggestion that she would remember everything that had transpired during this session. And so she emerged back to full waking consciousness and this is what she said. Ray, I remember exactly where I was in the hospital and the moment that this thing entered me, although I did not know what it was, or what happened. I clearly remember a feeling of profound sadness came over me and I was never the same after that. But I can tell now that it is clearly gone, and I feel a freedom that I have not known in such a long, long time. I don t know how to thank you. My response was simply that thanks were not necessary, this is what I do. I have had the occasion to see Dean for one more session on a totally different subject, and I have seen her incidentally about town several other times in the year since this event occurred. She continues to do very well, and to express her gratitude about getting her life back. And that is a huge reward for all involved in such matters. Commentary: A Dark force entity is also commonly referred to as a demon. For the purposes of this document and for the purposes of the techniques I use to deal with these energies, I consider them as having characteristics very similar to the morphic field related by the biblical references of angels that had fallen from grace and turned against God. Now whether this was by choice, or because they were deceived into it, makes no functional difference. Their motivations and actions are consistent throughout thousands of experiences. Their intention is to do harm to incarnate humans on the planet earth. This harm can come in a variety of ways. It can manifest as a basic disturbance and interference of the person, all the way to trying to arrange their premature death, including torment - up to and including stimulation to commit evil acts against other humans. They can even torment toward the ultimate goal of stimulating one to commit suicide. This can be very serious stuff. These beings can also be layered or attached within other entities such as discarnate human earthbound spirits, in which case they universally will exacerbate any already bad or negative situation. If these beings are present, they must be dealt with first, before any resolutions of human spirits can be resolved. Case 2 - Remote Work Attached Discarnate Earthbound Human Spirit + Curse The original complaint was from a relative who related the symptoms that this lady had been showing over the past several years. I believed, by the complaining party, that this lady was at

94 the very least being influenced by something other than her own thoughts. Here is the report and the recommendations, in therapy note format: - Contact made with energy signature of Veronica in Michigan. - Chakra review: Crown-open, 3rd eye closed, Throat 1/2 open, Heart, solar plexus, sacral and root open. - Scan of aura shows break under feet in the instep area - also two breaks on shoulders, one on each side. - There is an entity attached to her that has attached through the instep breaks and is attempting to hide. Medium: "One moment while my guide and I pin down this entity. Ok, we got it." Operator: (that's me) Ok we know that you are there, come forward and speak with me now. The following is the information obtained and the actions taken. The entity stated that his name was Gabriel Baker. He was 31 years old when his body died in He had drowned somewhere in Florida, in the water as a result of a flood. He was very intoxicated at the time of his physical death. He was an alcoholic and admitted exacerbating those desires within Veronica. He said he had attached to Veronica when she was in Florida. The guide said that it was about 2 years ago, but there have been several other entities in and out of her over the years. Gabriel agreed to undo the influences that he had instilled in Vicki and he was left for a few moments to do that. When he was done, I asked the medium's guide if he agreed that it was done and he said yes. With the assistance of Gabriel's father, William Baker, Gabriel was escorted into the light. And the medium's spirit guide confirmed this. Follow up information from the guide said that Gabriel was aware that there were intentions to send him away for some time. That is why when we showed up he tried to hide from us. Also the guide revealed that this was the entity that Veronica had seen at least twice in the house. A question was also asked about the incident where Veronica was very intoxicated in Florida and reacted very violently with her mother. Her mother was of the opinion that was not her daughter. She was right. Veronica was so weakened by the alcohol that the entity within her at the time took over and expressed a great deal of anger. With that situation resolved, the scanning continued, concentrating on the other breaks in the aura. The one on the back of the left shoulder had a symbol in the middle of it that looked like an asterisk * - about as big around as a nickel. Further investigation and inquiry into this area and this symbol revealed it to be a curse. It had been there for 7 years. It had been placed there by a woman who had a very close relationship to Veronica s ex-husband. She did not act alone however, she had employed a person involved in the "dark arts" to actually perform the ritual and cast this curse. The cursed intention was to debilitate, confuse, and otherwise destroy. This is not the woman to whom the ex is currently married and is not a blood relative of Veronica.

95 We employed our various techniques to remove the curse from Veronica and send it back to the originators. So it was done and confirmed. We went over her energy body once more and repaired, or caused to be repaired and otherwise confirmed repairs to the entire break we had discovered. Additional information: Questions were asked of the guide to probe the circumstance of one of the ladies that comes to see Veronica that has a son that may be dealing in the dark type arts. The responds was. Yes, there is something going on there and there is something going on with this lady and it is absolutely not good for Veronica to be exposed to this energy. The medium said she saw three faces on both the son and the mother, like a different face on three sides of their heads. She had not seen this before but detected that is was not a good energy. We left it at that since that would be going down another rabbit trail that would be off of the scope of this investigation. Veronica, as the result of several factors had become so drained and depleted of energy that the breaks in the aura around the feet developed, this provided an opportunity for these various entities to enter her energy field and become significant negative influences on her. What made the situation worse for her, and this is very common, she did not know that the entities were there and were causing these influences. She thought it was just "her." The divorce continued to exacerbate this situation and she has been through a great deal which has cumulatively knocked her self-esteem way down. She has been patched up energy wise but it is very important if she wants to remain resistant to these influences that she take on, and keep refreshed appropriate spiritual protection. This is the end of the session notes. This woman had been through seven years of misery involving a divorce and significant alcoholism and had almost lost her job twice over such things. The following is a response from Veronica that she sent me a few days after we completed the session. Just wanted to say thank you for the work you have done on my energy. My youngest daughter Molly has reconnected with me after a long silence between us. Laura, my oldest daughter and I have been able to heal our relationship. During the battle with alcohol, Laura was very faithful to me. At the time I always felt like it was not me, and that I felt this heaviness. Also I used to feel like I was cursed. At this time I feel relieved and content, almost like a serene peacefulness. I always wondered what was wrong, and felt I was crazy. Thanks again for your work. You will never know just how much it means to have my light back shining. Veronica Commentary: A curse is an intentional negative energy projected at a person with the purpose of causing harm in some form or another. This is often performed by someone referred to as a black arts or dark witch who has obtained some level of training in how to invoke such negative energy, and project it to affect a certain party. This is not science fiction, nor does the recipient, as it is often stated; have to know about this curse for it to be effective. A curse will often affect someone by opening them up to other infestation of negative spirits which compounds the effects. These effects can be devastating. Over the years, I have developed methods of identifying these curses, tracing down where they came from, and removing them from the subject and returning them to their creators. When done, the creator winds up being the

96 recipient of something at least three times the intensity as that which was originally launched. And as a result, no karmic debt is acquired by the one from which the curse was removed. Case # 3 Remote & One on One Discarnate Earthbound Spirit Influence This case was referred to me from a health care worker, a chiropractor, who had treated this individual. He is a young male of approximately 10 years of age, we will call Travis. The chiropractor was also aware of the total amount of medical efforts that had been performed on his behalf. This young boy had been experiencing extended lower abdominal pain to the extent that he was missing so much school that he was at risk of being held back a grade. Nothing seemed to work. His mother contacted me as a result of this referral and I discussed the approach I felt appropriate to take. During this consultation, which took place at their home, the young man made comments that he had seen an apparition of a ghost like figure in the home. Based on the information at hand I recommended first a remote session, to scan him and the area for anything either unusual, or anything that could account for the illnesses. Notes on the remote session: - Contact made with the energy of this young man. Present are me and one of my deep trance mediums. - Chakras open. - Digestive areas - severe stress knot is detectable in his abdominal area. - Breaks in aura noted on inside of feet, approx. instep area, very dark breaks. - Access at point of breaks is from discarnate spirit that visits periodically, mostly at night, been going on 4 years. - EFT training is recommended on digestive system issues. - Sister s boyfriend, Randy, has very low energy. The spirits are following him to the house. Addressing the Entity that is feeding off of Travis: Entity is identified and called out, it responds to the medium. The entity s voice is channeled through the medium s voice and he speaks to me. Troy Reed, age 17 (always the age at physical death), year of death was Cause of death was food poisoning. Physical location of body at death was near the Brazos River. The entity was removed and has withdrawn his influence on Tyler. The influence was both sadness and loss of energy. It also involved, as they always do, the baggage of emotional and physical trauma associated with their physical death. It is almost unimaginable what horror and pain is associated with death by food poisoning. Entity s Grandmother is, Betsy Harold, she was summoned at Troy s request. She guided Troy into the light after he agreed to remove all of his influence from the energy body of Travis. He also admitted that he had been drawing energy off of Travis which further weakened his state

97 of health. Recommendations for Travis from the spirit guide of the deep trance medium are that Travis needs a crystal in his room near where he sleeps. Also Travis s sugar is out of balance, it is too high. This accounts for the weak spot in his aura that the entities are accessing. Travis has three guides. The lead guide is female and she wishes very much to have closer contact with him. Travis needs to drink bottled water for at least the next 30 days and minimize his sugar intake. His sister has one guide and is very vulnerable to infestation of spirits but there are no present attachments. The house needs to be saged periodically with pure white sage. The final report scan of Travis is that the redness in his stomach area has faded, it s almost gone. The entity Troy Reed admitted to the influence resulting in the gastrointestinal difficulties of Travis in the last 4 years or so. Travis s mother agreed to have a direct one-on-one treatment with Travis in that he was overwhelmed with excitement, to be able to meet and communicate with his spirit guide. We had spoken with her during the remote session and she had been very favorable to this effort. And so with Mom s agreement a session was booked and performed, Travis s mom was present. This session occurred only a couple of days after the remote session, but Travis was already experiencing gastrointestinal relief. The session was conducted and Travis was able to connect with his spirit guide. The same one we had contacted in the remote session two days earlier. Emilia was the name she offered. Not only was Travis able to connect with her but very quickly he was able to withdraw his conscious mind completely and allow her to speak to me though is voice. This was an absolutely tremendous result. All was well and Travis s intestinal distress passed rapidly and he returned to school and that entire issue became only a distant memory very quickly. And so it has remained this way at the time of this writing, that has been over two years ago. Several days later it was confirmed that when his sister s boyfriend came to visit, some spirits were following him, but they could not come in the house because of the filters that we had installed. Travis s guide went out to them and guided them to the portal in front of the house and they all transcended into the light. Also Travis was able to detect all of this, he developed the capability of scanning someone no matter where they were physically, scanning them for entities. So he acquired the capabilities of the deep trance mediums that I had trained and has been doing very well ever since. I still have some contact with him and his family occasionally. Commentary: There are several things to reveal about discarnate earthbound spirits. First is that they did not choose to go into the light after their spirit came out of their body upon physical death. There is a multitude of reasons for this, but none the less, that light that is usually available to them does not remain but for a certain amount of time. It takes a certain amount of energy for that portal to remain open. From my experience, that period of time can be anywhere from several days to several weeks. If they do not choose to go into the light during that time, they become trapped on the earth plane and become what is often referred to as ghosts.

98 Now once a spirit has come out of a body that has died, the spirit is not more intelligent than when it was in the body. It only regains the vast knowledge and information about its past lives and how all the other things work if it goes into the light; hence the term ignorant earthbound spirits which is often the term used. At this point, the spirit has no physical body, so it cannot eat food and generate energy. Therefore, it has to find an energy source. There are various sources out there, and I do not claim to know them all. However, I know that a very common one is the energy body of an incarnate living human being. They will draw energy off of any incarnate being that they can attach to. This makes the person have a feeling of low energy, but that is not usually the worst effect of this parasitic type relationship. Much like a mosquito that attaches, and sucks out blood, then leaves behind a virus or disease - the earthbound spirit sucks out energy but leaves behind within the energy body of the victim their own emotional signature from their condition at the time of death. If they were depressed they will leave feelings of depression. If they were an alcoholic, they will leave the desire to consume alcohol, so that they can experience it once again through their host s body. This will often, as in the above example, leave behind the feeling and traumas associated with their physical death scene. And all of this occurs even if they do not have specific harmful intention. Add demonic influence and the issue goes to a whole other level. This has been a brief explanation of the particular type of hypnosis work that I specialize in. Although these things are very real, evidenced by the results obtained from the treatment, Western culture, medical, psychological, and religious, have in most cases not addressed these issues at all or has attempted to address them based solely on very limited information from very ancient books. When in hypnosis, when pushing away the conscious mind, we are able to reveal many other underlying details. Ultra Height Another metaphysical/clinical approach within hypnosis is a technique called Ultra Height. This basically parks the body in deep hypnosis, or in the coma state, and raises the mind higher and higher into the spirit world through a series of counting and suggestions. In this state the person in hypnosis asks the questions and receives the answers. The answers come to them from inside, from spirit guides, or from the universe. I have used this on several occasions and it does seem to give the person great insight into problems they may be dealing with. This is a newer approach and many other hypnotists are using this method in replacement of or in conjunction with regression therapy. When using this method it is possible to speak with the deceased, with spirit guides, and it is also used to scan the body to detect physical problems that may be hidden from us. I have had different reactions when using ultra height. When I conducted this on my mother she was filled with a feeling of overwhelming love. She didn t see anything or communicate with anyone but was profoundly moved with a wonderful loving feeling. She described it as God s love. I had one woman tell me that she was asking questions about herself and a beautiful large bird was telling her the answers. Some people communicate with loved ones that have passed away, or what they perceive to be their spirit guides. I ve noticed that if you ask questions while in this state that pertain to hidden universal questions the answers will typically

99 be vague at best. The spirit guides will tell you point blank that you re not supposed to know. You can gain insight but the mysteries of the universe will not be disclosed to you. On a few occasions I have had some pretty remarkable events happen in my sessions using this. I do have to say that the more of this work I do, the more I lean toward that spiritual side. While in sessions with my clients I often come up with the right words or phrases that I ve never used before. These words seem to be exactly what this person needed to hear, and I have no idea where they came from. From time to time I also will see faces in my mind while in session, faces of people I don t know. I ll ask my client, Who is the thin guy, black hair, pitted is face, thin mustache? And the client will tell me that I just described a close friend of theirs who has passed away. I see faces like these about half the time when I go into self-hypnosis as well, so there has to be some kind of connection here. Maybe the subconscious mind is really our spirit, or connected to it in some way? I have mentioned that I will have my client imagine a chair in front of them. We then place a person in that chair that has hurt them. If someone is in grief over a loved one who has died or if one of the Offenders has already passed away, I put them in the chair. I also do this with aborted babies as I have mentioned. In this chair therapy I very often tap the subject on the shoulder and speak as if I was the departed person or I speak as the aborted baby(s). The strange thing about this is that many times I get a feeling as if that person, or spirit, is there. I perceive an image in my mind as to how that person appeared physically. After the session I ll ask my client if their diseased mother, or whoever had big hazel eyes, a slender face, a certain build that I had pictured in my mind I haven t been wrong with a description yet. With the aborted babies I get the image that around or near the face of the baby are beams of light stretching out from them. I can see big smiles on their faces. And again, I ll ask the client what they imagined during this part of the session and many times it matches up with my own imagery. Another Planet I once had a woman that I was regressing and she followed her negative emotions back to the most bizarre places. She was in a physical world but it wasn t earth. It was like she was describing things out of some bizarre sci-fi episode. She was very upset because she was some kind of scientist and the global problems her world was facing were directly related to what she had done wrong in her experiments. I now think one or two possibilities could have been at work here. In the LBL book, Newton speaks of some of us incarnating to other mental and physical worlds besides earth, where we can learn. It s possible my client was describing one of these past incarnations in another world, or maybe she had a screw loose I don t know, but she sure seemed to be there! Don t Look in the Mirror! Another client of mine, an exotic dancer from a town near my own, came to me because of self-confidence issues. Her daughter was getting to the age where she knew what mommy was doing for a living but she didn t have the confidence to go after more normal means of making a living. So I m doing chair therapy, working through her past offenders and getting forgiveness. I finish with the chair therapy and have her imagine she is standing in front of a full-length

100 mirror. I tell her that the person she is looking at in this mirror is the person that needs her forgiveness most of all. She needs to be forgiven. Then it dawns on me... I messed up! She had told me she had an abortion and I totally forgot to put that fetus in the chair while doing chair therapy! This needs to be done - I cannot skip this! I m kicking myself about right now and it would be lame to fade this scene, then have her imagine that chair room again, and then come back to where she is now. I get this great idea. Since she is already imagining herself looking into this mirror for self-forgiveness, how about I change the function of the mirror? I now tell her that the mirror she is looking into is a magic mirror! This mirror in front of you now shows the spirit world. Now look deep, deep, deep, inside this mirror and you notice someone has come to you. It s the fetus of the aborted baby you had to let go - pretty good thinking on your toes here right? So I work through this with her as I would normally do with chair therapy and she allows the cry to come out and we are able to reframe the guilt with regard to the abortion. Just when we finish the abortion issue she seems to become physically distraught. She places one hand on her forehead with the palm facing out and begins to breathe very heavily. She is muttering something like, No, no, don t, don t! or something like that. I ve never seen this before so I begin to get a little nervous. I ask her if she is alright. She doesn t reply so I ask again, are you okay? Do you want to end the session? She says she does. I quickly emerge her with all the positive suggestions I can think of. I ask her if she is physically okay. She doesn t really answer but asks for some water. I scurry out the door of my office and down to the water cooler, then back as quickly as I can. She is visibly shaken. She seems okay, but with wide eyes she begins to tell me what has just happened. She tells me that after the baby faded away from the mirror, a woman appeared. This woman looked similar to herself and she felt a very strong connection with her. The woman in the mirror was dressed in Native American clothing. She described her as being very beautiful, and she felt a strong desire that she wanted to go with her. My client felt like she was floating out of her body towards this Indian woman. One part of her really wanted to go with the Indian woman, but the other part of her became frightened. She thought that if she did float away with this spirit she would die - hence the hand on forehead and the heavy breathing. Needless to say I have never had anyone look into a magic mirror that reflects the spirit world again Could it be a Demon? I was working with a man who had so many problems that it s amazing he was still living. Out of all the people I have worked with over the years his childhood is the worst that I have ever seen - and I ve seen some pretty bad ones. He has multiple issues, one of them having to do with mild schizophrenia. Since early high school he has been seeing and hearing things. Every time he closes his eyes, even when blinking, he either sees shimmering words or an evil face that sometimes talks to him. The words are always negative and self-defeating evil words. The face is a face of a demon. My client is on medication prescribed by a psychiatrist. We have already worked through a multitude of sexual abuse, verbal abuse, and other issues at this point and we finally arrive at the session where it s time to try and get rid of this demon and eliminate these shimmering evil

101 words. I ve never done this before so I m winging it! I have him imagine he s looking into a magic mirror, one that shows the spirit world I m kidding!! No not that. Instead I have him imagine that he is in a fairly large room sitting in a chair in front of a regular mirror. I then go on about how he has changed, he was a very negative person but now he has let so much of that go, deep down he isn t negative at all now. Then I tell him that like attracts like, birds of a feather flock together. I ask him if he s ever seen a motorcycle gang with a little old lady sitting on one of the bike knitting. I compound this idea that like attracts like, and since he no longer is a negative person, why would negative energy want to hang around him? (I do have to say that I m feeling pretty good about myself here for making up such good patter right on the spot one of those times that words come from nowhere) This demon, or whatever it is, has already become bored because he is no longer negative. It s time to dispel this thing once and for all. He agrees. So he is imagining himself sitting in front of this mirror, I then have him image a spotlight, which is a protective light, surrounding him. This light is like a protective shield, kind of like the shields they used around the starship Enterprise on that old TV show Star Trek. He tells me he feels safe and that his dog has arrived there with him. (the dog is a deceased loved pet and is something we worked through in a previous session) I then say something like, On the count of three this negative entity will be revealed to you - one, two, and three! I ask if he can see it, he looks distraught. He says he does. I compound the idea that he is safe in this protective light, and then I ask where this terrible being is in relation to him physically. He tells me that it s behind him to the right, standing there. I ask if it s male or female. He says male, but the face is just a black washed out shape. He describes this thing as the traditional evil demon. It s got a big head, horns, a man s torso, and from the waist down it s like the back end of a horse with hoofed feet. I ask if this creature senses that it s about to be banished. My client says that it does. So I reiterate the idea in his mind that they no longer belong together because good and evil don t want to cohabitate. They are no longer appropriate for each other and it s time to get rid of this thing. I then do a count from ten down to one and say, At the count of one this entity will be gone, never to return. It is time; it will no longer have any power over you. It vanishes forever at the count of one! Here we go I count all the way down to one and at the count of one, no kidding, the hair on my arms rise and I get the sense as though I have just felt the pressure shock of a bomb going off! The pressure from an unseen force going off in the room, and at that moment all the lights dimmed almost to off, and then came back up. I kid you not! I m like, what the %@*# was that! I ask my client - did you feel that? He answers with a resounding, yes. I then have him look into the mirror. Is it gone? He answers; yes it s gone - with a smile. From that day forward he never again has seen this thing, or has he seen the shimmering destructive words in his mind. Was this some kind of evil spirit? I don t know. I m just glad that we were able to clear his mind of this problem that has been disturbing him for twenty-five years. Remote Healing On a much lighter note there are hypnotists in the world that are conducting something called, remote healing. A hypnotist I met that extensively uses remote healing is Mark Pittroff.

102 What Mark does, is he works with an assistant who enjoys the state of hypnosis. This assistant isn t a psychic, and that is not required to conduct the remote healing channeling session. They started off by finding a person who needs help, and brought that person physically next to Mark s assistant. The assistant would be placed in ultra-height and gain insight into the person next to them, and the healing would take place through the spirit guides. While the healing was taking place Mark and his assistant were basically just sitting there waiting for a sign that the process had been completed. Mark got an idea, Why not employ this same process with people who were not physically present and work with many people all at once? They found that the results were consistent with what they had already been doing when the person was physically there with them. He later realized that one other step had to be performed in order to get around some blocks. He found out that he needed to ask the persons soul for permission, for permission for the healing to take place. Once that was accomplished the doors were literally blown off the hinges. Asking the soul and asking if that souls spirit guides would be allowed to perform the healing, were all that was needed. It s my understanding that spirit guides cannot interfere with anyone unless asked. They are basically chomping at the bit to help us but cannot step on a person s free will, unless asked to intervene. What the assistant sees during the session is how the emotional body is grounded. It may appear as fragmented, wavy, like a puddle, or be out of sync with the physical body. After the spirit guides clean this up they will then work on the physical body, shooting huge red rods of light down the person s root chakra system to ground them like a stake. There are many different approaches that have been witnessed by Mark s assistant through the years. Channeling Your Guide I have created a technique that I call SCM Gateway, or the subconscious mind gateway program that took me over three years to develop. This is a way to guide the thinking conscious mind away into sleep while setting up direct verbal communication with the subconscious mind. I use this for therapy and for spiritual sessions. I believe that the thinking conscious mind is the wall between the physical and nonphysical worlds. We on earth live in linear time, there is a past, now, and the future. Our conscious minds are like chatterboxes that never shut up. This part of our mind goes between the past and the future thoughts, it basically skips over now. The inhabitants of the spirit world live in now time. So by removing the conscious mind the wall drops and it is easy work conducting past life regressions, progressing into the future, and calling out your spirit guides. In fact once a person is in this state you simply request to talk to their spirit guide and they immediately show up. I ve had long conversations with many people s spirit guides, I ve even spoke with the sun God RA on a few occasions! We are all assigned spirit guides before birth. Most people have anywhere from one to seven guides. We have one team leader, one guide that stays with us our entire life while the

103 other guides come and go, depending on the type of support you may need at a particular time in your life. Guides can answer questions and heal the physical body, even miracle takes place. They do however abide by rules. Many times I ve asked them questions and they will give me information but then tell me they are not allowed to give me all the information. Some guides seem to be at a higher status than other guides. Guides mostly cannot directly intervene in your life except for certain situations. For instance, I was driving my car late at night on the highway when someone screamed in my ear, Slow Down! I immediately hit the brakes and then the car started to bump and shake. I pulled off the highway, got out of the car and discovered that all the lug nuts on the front passenger tire were missing except the one locking lug nut. If my guides didn t yell at me to slow down it would have been a terrible accident. When it comes to problems and working with guides I always ask if the problem has anything to do with karma (which is pay back), a spiritual attachment, a past life, or did the person pick the problem before coming in, their life chart. Many times it s one or two of these. I ve seen people who have signed up for terminal cancer more than a few times. I conducted with a woman who was paying off karma. She had killed herself in a past life. I ve seen where a person s problem was actually the influence of a spiritual attachment. Many times the problem is connected with a past life. The guides will always disconnect a past life and clear a spiritual attachment but when it comes to karma or a life chart, they may not make any changes. Physical problems usually will be cleared up, but not always. If there is karma involved, or the person s signed up for the problem to learn from it, or if it serves any other purpose, it won t be healed. When they do the healing I always ask how they do it. The usual answer is that they focus their attention on the problem area, and their light fixes it. They usually use white light, but sometimes other colored lights are required. They have also used vibrations, and warmth. They are able to repair anything. Terminally ill people can be saved, cancer patients, heart patients If someone is scheduled for surgery, knee replacement, open heart surgery, whatever, it will not have to be done once the guides do their work. The very first time I conducted one of these sessions was on my friend, a fellow hypnotist and neuropsychologist. Her right hip had been in severe pain for years, she was on medication for it. While talking to her guides I asked if they would correct the problem, they said no! I then asked why, what was the purpose for this bad hip? They said that they were trying to slow her down! She s always first in line, always running around and that she needs to slow down! The exclamation point on that sentence wasn t a mistake, that s how they were talking to me, in that tone of voice. After discussing this with them for a while, they agreed to make it much better, but not all better until she slowed down. When I emerged her, she got up and started stretching. I asked her what she was doing. She looked at me with shock on her face, my hip doesn t hurt. From this point forward her hip hasn t hurt and she is off the medications. She hasn t slowed down any though We both got certified in this at the same time, so it was her turn to do a session on me. I had been dealing with kidney stones, extremely painful! It was radiating pain in my groin and when the stone was passing it was horrible. I had passed four stones and was in need of some help.

104 As my guides were working on the affected area, I could see in my mind s eye what they were doing. They were shooting streams of light at the kidney stones, encircling them, and then shirking them. I didn t feel anything but the visions were very clear. From that point until this day I have not had any kidney stone problems whatsoever. The people in the class, who were already seasoned at this work, have been curing terminal cancer, healing hearts, diabetes, you name it. Lots of them have allowed people to avoid knee replacement surgery. The thing about that is, your body cannot replace cartilage. The body just doesn t do that But the guides can. I had a person come in with her daughter who had developed several physical disorders. The doctors couldn t figure it out, so they came to me. Using regular hypnotic techniques I discovered that her problems were not psychosomatic, meaning they were not caused by any underlying emotional problem. At the end of that session I called forward her spirit guide. This worked amazing well. Her guide told me that they would not correct the problems. She had signed up for these physical issues because she needed to learn compassion. There was also karma involved. Karma is payback. It s not that God is punishing you for what you did in a past life; it is YOU who decided to do the karmic payback so you can learn. Her mother was so blown away by our results that she booked a QHHT session with me. This is where it gets wild! So I guide mom through a past life, get the details the usual. Then I call forward her spirit guide. At this moment she starts speaking extremely fast, I mean fast! She is taking to me like an auctioneer. Now I always ask them if I can simply call them higher self, or spirit guide, or do you have a name? They never have a name. They always agree that I call them guide or higher self. With this woman they say, We are RA, we are not one we are many. And they repeat this several times in the session, in the auctioneer quick voice. They were talking so fast I could barely keep up. This explosion of deep wisdom and knowledge being spewed out of her mouth, it was incredible! I felt like I was talking directly to God. They read her like a book, and they read me like a book. Both of us were destined to meet. We both were placed here to change the consciousness of this world. On and on, and on So I speak with this woman a few days after the session, and I book another session with her. I call my friend, the neuropsychologist, and tell her that she must sit in on the next session! So the day arrives. My client, her name is Senta (spirit name Na-tear-e, which came forward in session 1), is right in front of me, my friend on the left side of her. In this session she is taken to a past life in Atlantis. She is a ruler there, a higher up, and they are about to execute her. We go through the death scene, which was a beheading, and I talk to her once she is on the other side of it. Saint Michael is there waiting for her as they have been close friends from almost the beginning of time. He is holding her in his arms right after her death. The guides told me that they ejected her spirit just before the beheading because they would not let her go through that. Senta s feelings were sadness, not that she died but that she knew that her death would not solve the problems they were having. I can tell you this. Senta is an upper level soul; I ve never met anyone like her. She is pure. The phrase turn the other cheek is something she had learned thousands of years ago. All of this came through in her session.

105 The first thing I asked RA was, why did you show her that life? They said they didn t show it for her benefit, they showed it for mine! I was there, in the room when they killed her. I didn t speak my truth, I let it happen. This is a pattern that I have been stuck in for a very long time. It is a pattern I am ready to let go of. They told me that I had lived many lives in Atlantis; they told me that I could have stopped the fall of that civilization, with others, but I did not speak my truth. Then they ask this, My we address the one to the left? This is the neuropsychologist. Then they start reading her like a book! They are telling her about her life, and the characters in her life. That she is now turning a corner, I was helping her do that, and the negative things that they were discussing with her were going to be cleared up. She was now ready to let them go. It was amazing! After the session she was blown away. She s like, So this stranger, someone I ve never met, comes into my office, sits down, and then tells me my entire life story, gives me insight into my problems, and says that I am now ready to let it go. How could this happen? During this session I had questions that Senta wanted me to ask. I also had questions for myself as I was told that I would be like the great psychic Edgar Casey. I wanted to ask them how I could be like Edgar. So while I was conducting the session, while Senta was channeling RA, I had questions that popped up in my mind. RA, without me ever asking the question out loud, answered my questions without me ever speaking them! RA was reading my mind! It did this at least five times! One way telepathy. Some of the messages from RA were as follows: Messages for me - I need to be more empowered, to speak my truth without fear. - I need to be more in touch with this incarnation; I can walk fearless with this body now. - My power comes not from the mind but from the heart center, this is where I falter. - I have not spoken my truth, for fear, in many lives; this limits my heart now, my awareness, my reach. - To think is to not think with the mind. - You are meant to work with humanity, to elevate the consciousness but do it thru you first. - Many lives lived in Atlantis. - I am a portal, a living portal, which is another connection to Senta. I always have access to dimensions. - I must work on faith, I have too much doubt. Messages about RA - RA is many not one. - They are of the Aceren (A-sear-e-en) group, from Sirius B.

106 - They embody the energy of the star we call the Sun, RA embodies its energy, channels it down to earth. - All of you need to work on opening your heart centers. - You are moving away from a reality that is seen as duality, we relate pain to happy, fear to love - RA is moving us towards unity consciousness, you are all one, humanity is one. - Humanity is a whole, when you work on you it changes all of us. - The level of consciousness is changing, from the source, love, it comes thru this channel awaking all of you. - Humanity was once at a higher level, many times, you ve digressed. - Senta s daughter and my friend are both Star Seeds. - RA looks over human and alien reptilian spirits. After this session I was speaking with my brother. He pointed out something that I did not know. RA was worshiped as the sun God in Egypt! Actually many civilizations, thousands of years ago worshiped this God. I also researched that Serious B is significant as well. The pyramids were built in such a way that once a year it lines up the sun and Serious B. On this day, in Egyptian times, a priest would walk out and get struck by these combined light rays and was given spiritual insight. Serious B is the brightest star in our night sky. I m not sure what the Aceren group is, or if I even spelled that correctly. A good question to ask RA is if we are going to get hit from solar flares, and if so, when? The top level remote viewers have seen that we will get devastated by solar flares, they just don t know when. Perhaps RA could clue us in a little? I ll need to track down Senta to find out

107 Chapter 8 Final Thoughts Hypnosis is the act of slowing your brainwaves down and placing your conscious mind to the side, or shutting it off completely. The one thing that blocks us in achieving our goals or becoming healthier is the conscious mind. You can think of it as though we all have split personalities. Our conscious and subconscious minds have their own separate agendas, they really do. For instance the conscious mind might say, Boy, I m getting fat, I need to lose some weight. Then the person starts to lose weight, and the subconscious kicks in and says, Oh no, she s losing weight, we have to get the weight back on! You see the weight has a purpose. Perhaps it s keeping the outside out, and the feelings in. Perhaps it s there to protect her from the bumps and bruises of the world. Perhaps she was sexually abused and the subconscious is keeping the weight on so that it will never happen again. When these two parts of our minds have their own ideas about something, we then rely on willpower to achieve the change. If both parts of the mind are on the same page, willpower isn t needed. I ve read a lot about psychics, out of body experiences, remote viewing, and of course have been through a variety of mental health trainings, including becoming certified in eye movement therapy. The one thing that I ve noticed with all of it is that you have to set the conscious mind to the side, and if you do, you ll be successful. It seems to me that the conscious mind is the block, it s the wall. It wants to hold on to the old belief systems, it wants to hold on to the old garbage. The subconscious, on the other hand, seems to be the part or the doorway that can get you there. It remembers everything; every event you ve ever lived through, past lives, and can connect into or is used to connect into the spiritual. When I place someone in sleep hypnosis, which I refer to as the Ultimate Zen State, you can easily remove huge problems pretty much instantly. You can easily call forward the person s spirit guides. I mean this is simple, simple, simple When there is no conscious mind, all answers and problems can be fixed very quickly. When it comes to achieving things, getting over problems or achieving goals, it seems like there are several things at work. When I began this work I looked upon myself as a clinician. I conducted sessions by the book. I became very good at discovering the root cause of people s problems and eradicating them. Now I believe that is just a part of what is going on. Before we come into the world we choose our cast of characters in our lives. We choose what we want to learn, what our main learning will be for the incarnation. Then we are born. The child does bring baggage from past lives into the current life. Sometimes this can be a big deal - other times not such a big deal. When the baby is in the womb several things happen. The baby downloads the mother s emotions. If mom didn t want the baby, or mom is weary (that was what I downloaded), or mom is sad, that emotion gets downloaded and becomes a running theme in that baby s life. Secondly the baby hears what is going on, even before birth. If the parents were considering an abortion, or they were talking about what a hardship the baby will

108 be, it is all recorded in the baby s subconscious mind. Later when the child learns the language, that belief is installed. This can lead to major problems. As I had stated above, a child doesn t develop the critical factor in the conscious mind until between the ages of five to six years old. What this means is that everything, good and bad, go directly into that child s subconscious mind and becomes a part of them, for their entire life. That s why they belief in Santa Clause and the tooth fairy, because there is no critical factor yet. If they have bad parents or are abused at these early ages it will really be detrimental to them. Religions also know about this. If you can give a young child a religious belief system, it will go right in without question and become a part of them. The military also understands this but they get into the inner mind in a different way. In boot camp they will tire out the cadets to the point of exhaustion, at that point the ideas go in much stronger. Then we are influenced by things unseen. In approximately 20% of the cases I work on, there is a spiritual attachment involved. This can influence the person anywhere from just contributing a little bit to the problem or I have seen it be the entire problem. Also many of us come into life with a predetermined problem that we would like to work through in order to learn something. Physical and mental problems are sometimes preordained. When I call out a person s guide, they will sometimes not fix the problem because it is part of the person s karmic payback or they signed up for it to learn from it. About 99% of the people I work with, no matter what they are coming in to work on, also have a belief that they aren t good enough. Low self-esteem is prevalent out there. I think public school systems have a lot to do with this. Bullies at school, a bad teacher, being graded, and comparisons to other students is a big cause of a people s lack of self-worth. I ve worked physicians, lawyers, millionaires, and poor people, regular people, and lower economic classes of people. It doesn t matter; most of us, in one way or another have this chip on our shoulder of not feeling good enough. So after people have tried talk therapy and medication, a lot of them then seek something else. They try and find an answer beyond the traditional cultural system, things like: meditation, prayer, hypnosis, yoga But these are all the same, if you understand. When you slow down and focus your mind, your brainwaves slow down and when this happens the conscious mind steps to the side more and more. It doesn t matter what you call it really, when you focus your mind on one thing, you are able to achieve magic. Imagine seeing yourself in the living room when you are lying down in bed. If you do this enough, pretty soon you ll have an out of body experience. Close your eyes and pray to God for ten minutes. Your brainwaves slow down and you receive direct insight into what you are asking for. Go into hypnosis and follow that negative feeling back where it began to gain insight and a positive shift. I believe that our society is changing. I think consciousness is a big part of that change. I was told by RA, the spirit guide of Senta, that as a society we have progressed and digressed many times. What they meant by that is that we used to have technologies and mental powers that we lost. I think we are going in that direction yet again. I was told that I was here to change the consciousness of the world. Well, that sounds like a pretty big deal. I think possibly the way I will do that is by simply getting this knowledge out to people.

109 You don t have to live of sickness or sadness. All of our problems boil down to belief systems. What you believe will either set you free or it will kill you. I hear stories where a musician or actor is going to the Betty Ford clinic to sober up, and you hear they are going back for the thirteenth time! Guess what? There is a belief in that person that hasn t changed, that s why they keep getting high. Why not simply remove the conscious mind and find out what they are trying to distract and comfort themselves from? When you do that there is nothing to comfort from and the behavior changes without using any willpower. Lately I ve been doing things differently. When I work with people, some of them are great at hypnosis and some are not so good. The ones that aren t so good can become good if they put a little effort into it. But I ve been conditioning people to go into the Ultimate Zen State, no conscious mind, and direct subconscious mind communication. I call refer to this as having a Mental Makeover, and that s exactly what it is. Once I get them into this state, which could only take one session or several, depending on the person. They are able to return to the state very quickly using a post hypnotic keyword phrase. So I get a person who wants to lose weight. When there is no conscious mind this becomes very easy. If I tell them that their stomach is only the size of a tennis ball and they become stuffed and satisfied with eating only five bites of food. Guess what? That s exactly what will happen. But once all of that is done, wouldn t they also want perfect sleep? What about endless energy? How about I install a switch that they control, so they can turn on, and off pain when they want to? How about getting all their questions answered by their spirit guides? What about a general feeling of happiness and contentment? Growing young? When the conscious mind is gone there are no limits. What about the following belief? That you grow older every single day, older people get sick and eventually die. What if you believed that you were twenty five years old again and that you wouldn t age or die? Really think about that one for a moment. What if you truly believed that everyone else got older, but you remained twenty five years old? What would happen? Richard Bandler, one of the creators of neuro linguistic programming (NLP), who is also a hypnotist, has already been doing this. He regresses people to early ages in their life and sets up post hypnotic suggestions like, Every time you blink it reminds your subconscious that you are twenty five years old. His clients end up looking decades younger. He also will take a client who wears glasses and have them try to read text on a card without their glasses. They can t do it. Then he puts them into hypnosis and regresses them to before they wore glasses. In the session he has them open their eyes and asks them to read the text once again. Guess what? They can. Then he repeats this over and over again. Everyone he has worked with has had to get new glasses because their eyesight as improved and some of them no longer needed to wear glasses anymore. What if you did this without and conscious mind, in the Ultimate Zen State? I think it would work a lot better. I directly asked a few of my client s subconscious mind if it still had a blue print of when they were twenty five years old. It said that it was still in there. Then I said that my client was running on the blueprint on fifty three, would it be possible to switch these blue prints and make have them run on the twenty five year old blue print again. It said YES.

110 So you take a person, get rid of the conscious mind, and then go through all the major negative emotions such as fear, guilt, anger, sorrow, grief, find the root cause of these and clear them away. Then you remove the effects of everyone that has ever hurt them. Regress to the root cause in like, one minute, and fix. Then it s direct suggestion time direct suggestion on steroids because there is no conscious mind objecting. So you put in the new programming of feeling happy and content, endless energy, perfect sleep, etc. Then let s change the belief system that you will grow old, weak, and die. Let s get rid of that one altogether. And let s install a much younger blueprint to run on from this point forward. The human body replicates itself every seven years, tendons and bone are the longest to be replaced in this process. So every seven years you actually have a new body. The cells are constantly replacing themselves but the blueprint changes. Instead of duplicating the same young cells our cells grow older and weaken. What if we could change that? I do think the world is changing. Instead of going to chemo therapy first, if you find out you have cancer, how about calling out your spirit guide to find out why you have cancer? Learn that lesson, ask for healing. I think I d start there first, not the chemo. Maybe instead of taking antidepressants for years, maybe I ll build that feeling, follow it back to its root, and clear it at its source. Get rid of it in an hour as opposed to years of a chemical that only masks the depression. The Too Muches I eat too much, drink too much, alcohol, drugs, shop-a-holics maybe I should find out what emotion I m trying to comfort myself from? Yea, that might be a good place to start. Maybe there is more to hypnosis than making someone cluck like a chicken? Hypnosis, that funny little word Who would have guessed? The End

111 About the Author Tim Bartley BCH Life Advancement Center - Trainings Offered - Basic Through Advanced Hypnosis Certification - SCM Gateway Therapy & Spiritual Programs Certification - Bartley Age Regression Tim s Achievements - BS Eastern Michigan U./Peru State (Magna Cum Laude) - CH Certified Hypnotist - BCH Board Certified Hypnotist - QHHT Certified Quantum Healing Hypnosis Therapy - ART Certified Accelerated Resolution Therapy (Eye Movement) - Author Tim Bartley is a board certified hypnotist and has been in full time practice since 2005, having conducted thousands of one-on-one hypnotherapy sessions. In 2012 he was part of the Women s Health Center at Herrick hospital in Tecumseh Michigan, working in conjunction with staff, physicians, and residents. He has conducted group therapy seminars and educational seminars. Tim has created a breakthrough age regression technique called Bartley Age Regression that finds the root cause of the person s problem every single time. He has also created two courses called the SCM Gateway Programs, one for therapy and the other for spiritual. Using this technique the conscious mind is led away into sleep while establishing direct verbal communication with the person s subconscious mind.