tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434949928694456370.post2113442410786644608..comments2023-05-07T00:35:21.594-07:00Comments on The Transparent Hypnotist: Conversation SnippetsThe Transparent Hypnotisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02172984669014725628noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434949928694456370.post-65706471824000531882007-08-03T11:25:00.000-07:002007-08-03T11:25:00.000-07:00No pocket watch? Good Lord, man! LOL. I understan...No pocket watch? Good Lord, man! LOL. I understand, waiting for the right one to come along. <BR/><BR/>Perhaps that will be the Sunday question - what does your dream pocket watch look like?The Transparent Hypnotisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02172984669014725628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434949928694456370.post-73707555389120962722007-08-03T08:19:00.000-07:002007-08-03T08:19:00.000-07:00Yah, I would tend to agree to that. Use the tools ...Yah, I would tend to agree to that. Use the tools that get your "foot in the door," so to speak, and then run with it. The client, before ever meeting us, has already been perpetrating the "myth" of hypnosis with the "put me to sleep," or the "take over my mind" stuff, so why not extend that just a tad further to get them to experience <I>real hypnosis</I> and then show them what part(s) of the myth aren't true at all? I don't have issues with it, I can't see why anyone else would.<BR/><BR/>People still raise their children to believe in Santa Clause, the Easter Rabbit, etc. Has that suddenly become something we now frown upon and only desire to shove reality down our children's throats, ruining any possibility of their burgeoning imagination from really growing?<BR/><BR/>I certainly hope not. So if the client believes the myths, so be it: take it and run with it and then teach them the truth through experience itself. Erickson didn't think their was a better way to learn what real hypnosis is - who am I to argue with him? :)<BR/><BR/>Have fun, always...<BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434949928694456370.post-2351489361738853252007-08-03T07:38:00.000-07:002007-08-03T07:38:00.000-07:00So, do you carry around a pocket watch for such op...So, do you carry around a pocket watch for such opportunities? LOL. <BR/>you must be a fairly good showman for that. I think I would probably giggle for a little while. Perhaps it's just that I have never tried this.<BR/><BR/>A few years ago, I remember reading in the NGH Journal something about how the group was trying to elevate the status of hypnotism and no longer was using pocket watches or hand shake trances during the conference. I was actually a little disappointed. Being somewhat sentimental, I like the idea of the pocket watch. It is our history. That and candle flames.The Transparent Hypnotisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02172984669014725628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5434949928694456370.post-58712976714705152372007-08-02T19:39:00.000-07:002007-08-02T19:39:00.000-07:00While I'm lazy and I procrastinate entirely too mu...While I'm lazy and I procrastinate entirely too much, I do find it sometimes funny when people ask what my hobbies are and I mention a lifelong study of hypnosis (lifelong meaning over 30 years now). No, I'm not certified, never been to classes, or "professional" training, it's all self-taught, but the obvious reaction is "Oh, so what, are you gonna swing a watch and put me to sleep or something, or can you really do that?" to which my eternal response is "Of course I can."<BR/><BR/>Hey, if they want to believe in the myth, then I'll use the power of the myth to get them into trance long enough so they can experience it and find out just how wrong they typically are about what hypnosis is. I'd even go so far as to suggest they do something that I already know they'd refuse to do both consciously and unconsciously so they'd have ratification that what I teach them about them being in control - at either conscious or unconscious levels - and watch that look of surprise when they snap themselves right out of trance at the giving of the suggestion.<BR/><BR/>I'm all for teaching, that's a given. So as any good hypnotist knows, you use what the client comes in with to enhance or completely make the experience something they'll not only remember but hopefully take something very positive away from. If all they bring with them is a belief in the myths, then I'll use those very beliefs to alter them based on the client's own personal experience <I>in that session</I> to convince them otherwise and make the foundation for the belief change.<BR/><BR/>But the pocketwatch, yeah, that's the winner almost every time. :)<BR/><BR/>Have fun, always...<BR/>PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com