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3 Reasons to tell someone “I was hypnotized”
Today, go and tell someone about your experience with hypnosis. Just say “I was hypnotized and…” Then tell them what happened, good or bad. “But why would I do that?” you might ask… Well, here’s 3 reasons why. 1. It’s an opportunity to reflect Hypnosis leads us to a greater understanding of ourselves. It allows us to think in uncommon ways; to ask ourselves questions we hadn’t thought to ask. In discussing it with someone, you might even reflect on your experiences with hypnosis, and how it has helped you. It...
GOWorking on Yourself Doesn’t Work
We’ve all heard that great story about the three blind men and the elephant. One touches the leg and thinks it’s a tree. One touchs it’s tale and thinks it’s a rope, another touches the trunk and thinks it’s a snake. Well, when it comes to your own long-standing problems, You’re the blind man. You’ve been living with the problem for such a long time that you’ve essentially trained yourself to think about that problem the same way over and over and over again. That’s why working on yourself doesn’t work. ...
GOAssumptions
“What is the meaning of fate?” “Assumptions.” “In what way?” “You assume things are going to go well, and they don’t – that you call bad luck. You assume things are going to go badly, and they don’t – that you call good luck. You assume that certain things are going to happen or not happen – and you so lack intuition that you don’t know what is going to happen. You assume that the future is unknown. When you are caught out- you call that fate.” (Thanks t
GOFix Me
A man comes into the office. He brings his wife. They’re highly uncomfortable, from the get go. He wants me to hypnotize him to quit smoking. I ask him questions, but he doesn’t want to answer them. He just wants me to hypnotize him and make it go away. I ask him if he really wants to quit. He says yes, but everything else he says says no. I explain what hypnosis is, that it’s not mind control, and that can’t make him do anything that he doesn’t want to do. I explain that our real goal is to help him uncover the unconscious reasons...
GOA Very Quick Test
Most of us are so perpetually stressed out that we don’t even know it. We can’t even recall what it feels like to be calm, peaceful and expansive. So let’s try a very quick test: Relax your shoulders. Just let them go. Now relax them again. Just a bit more. There’s always more to let go of. Then take another big breath, and relax them one more time. Do you feel better? More relaxed? If the answer is no, you’re under too much stress. There’s no reason to live like that. If you can’t remember how...
GOClowns
There’s a lot of adults running around that are afraid of clowns. But when you think about it, why would an otherwise rational adult be afraid of a person in giant shoes and face paint? Chances are they had a bad experience when they were young. They were scared by a clown, before they could fully form a rational decision about it. So that feeling of fear, and that image of the clown got bound up together, and carried into adulthood. If it’s that way about clowns, what other silly stuff do we learn early in life that we keep...
GOStrangers
Remember when you were a kid, and you made up a game that imagined there were things in front of you that didn’t really exist? Maybe you were sword fighting with an invisible dragon. Or having tea with a queen. Or thinking that there was a monster in the closet. Or imagining that your dog could talk. You were free to imagine things that weren’t right in front of you. But somewhere along the line that went away. For most of us, we spend all our time thinking in categories. We forget our dreams. I wish we could get them back.
GOStop Crying!!!
People are always crying in my office. They often apologize for it, as though crying was something bad. I just want to take a moment to disagree with this position. If you feel like crying, shouldn’t you just go ahead and do it? That’s what you did when you were a kid right? You just cried until you didn’t feel like crying any more, and then you felt better.You expressed your emotional states, at least until someone taught you not to. Somewhere along the way, you started thinking that expressing any negative emotion, or any too positive...
GONot Knowing
I’ve been thinking a lot about not knowing things. Because when I know something, I’m stuck with what I know. I can’t know anything else, you know? When I know, I stop being curious about what else I could know. So I’m fostering not-knowing. Wondering what I would know if I let myself not know all the things that I’ve been knowing for years. And noticing, that already, once I’m allowed to not know how things will go, that I’m suddenly allowed to respond to people differently. Because I don’t...
GOWandering Around
I’ve forgotten how to wander around. When I was young, I would have whole months unstructured, in foreign lands, with nothing to do but walk about. There’s something really important about not knowing where you’re going when you walk out the door. It creates opportunities, and allows us to learn. But I’ve forgotten how. So I’m redoubling my efforts to get lost. End up in places that I didn’t expect. When was the last time you went out the door just to have a good wander?
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