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How Did You “Discover” Hypnosis?
Personally, I began in a management course that included NLP. I traced NLP to Ericksonian hypnosis and then branched off into Dave Elman style hypnosis. How were you bitten by the hypnosis bug?
Sean
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Permalink Reply by Christian Madsen on -
For me I have had a mild interest in anything about the human mind since my early teens, from psychology to the more esoteric stuff (which I considered hypnosis to be at that point). I was even hypnotized in a stage show in 10th grade, and found it interesting, but still didn't go any further. And it remained that way until a couple of years ago, when I saw some hypnosis training videos, and something clicked and all the building blocks came together in my mind and I realized that I too could do this and since then I have spent more and more time learning and doing hypnosis.
It is interesting though that I started pursuing a career in programming computers and now as a hypnotist I'm also programming minds. And it seems that the two fields are not that far apart, as quite a few other hypnotists that I have been in contact with also had a background in computer programming. I think it makes sense in the way that algorithms are created is in many way similar to writing hypnotic scripts, whether you do it formally or on the fly...
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Permalink Reply by Donna Carter on -
Some random guy in my psych class....noticed I was looking like crap (his words, not mine!) one evening when I slipped into my desk, seriously late. He asked what my problem was, I told him I had a near death experience on the side of the road (panic attack), one of many I have had over a lifetime; I somehow forced myself not to be crippled by it that night and crawled my way into class in-spite of my issue. I'll never forget his face (although I forgot his name)...he said, "Have you ever tried Hypnosis?"
What a sweet, sweet man.
And then my mentor, also a sweet, sweet man.... sparked my interest by having Hypnosis work...the first time.
And then my hypnothought friends... sweet sweet....
This profession and the people who surround me are like candy. Occasionally...I have to scale back...but ultimately...I want more.
D.
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on -
I was hooked when as a young teen I experimented with changing perception through suggestion with my school mates using a hand clasp with extended index fingers. I would tell them as I made a turning motion above their clasped hands that they might begin to feel their index fingers coming together as if they were pulled together like magnets. They would feel this "force" and feel it increasing as I turned the imaginary screw above their fingers. It was an incredible demonstration of the power of suggestion to me and a very visible and impressive trick to the subject and all the onlookers. The power of suggestion came in when they reported feeling the "force" increase. It wasn't in the fingers coming together because the way the hands were clasped and the index fingers extended guaranteed that the fingers through position and fatigue would always come together-the cool part for me was that they perceived exactly what I suggested in the way I suggested it-even though they generally tried to resist I could use the idea of a force to increase their feeling of some magnetic power. They always felt it. That was totally the coolest thing ;) Their perception, fluidity of belief, and suggestion.
Discovered self hypnosis recordings and used them in my early teens and through to the present day.
Though I didn't know the name of the phenomena at the time I did experiment with ideometer response using pendulums and coat hanger dowsing rods. I understood the principle from books later on.Think I first started playing with pendulums from a library book on pyramid power. Discarded the supernatural stuff and kept the science.
I wrote real snail mail letters to the ASCH and to another organization now defunct asking about the training to become a hypnotist. Received back a kind response but one that said unequivocally that the path was to become a doctor or psychologist. That coupled with never seeing female hypnotists portrayed in popular media-only males-felt I wouldn't be taken seriously. I maintained a lifelong interest but only as a hobby and amateur interest. I started taking classes towards eventually becoming a psychologist so that I could work with hypnosis. I eventually came upon Hypnothoughts.com and noticed people doing good and valuable work in hypnosis who didn't have degrees or licenses. I had planned on studying hypnosis after earning a master's degree but this changed everything. I'm still pursuing the education to become a licensed psychologists but realized I didn't have to wait to seriously study hypnosis. So I am 3 months into an 8 month counseling hypnotherapy training program and couldn't be happier :)
gentle day,
Lisa
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Permalink Reply by Kelly Netterville on -
When I was in High School, my mother was working towards a nursing degree. I was (and am) a voracious reader and started reading her medical textbooks. The sections on hypnosis fascinated me and I obtained other books and started practicing self-hypnosis.
I dropped it for years but kept my fascination. A few years back, I got another book on self-hypnosis, then I purchased an online course and then moved on to an on-site NGH training in my area.
Kelly
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Permalink Reply by Antonio on -
Well lets see...I was a wee little guy. If I can remember correctly I was around 6 years old. I can still remember to this day. I was at my great grandmas house, looking at Elmans Hypnotherapy on the Bookshelf. I got bit by the Hypnobug when I was very young. Hell, I got somnambulism with all of my stuffed animals :D
Antonio
P.S. Seriously though...I tried to hypnotize my stuffed animals :D
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Permalink Reply by Diane Vibert on -
My history is simple ... I was searching on the Internet about alternatives medecines and found about self-hypnosis (in French we call it auto-hypnose) and hypnotherapy. I fell in love. Actually I'm just doing shows, but during summer 2012 I'll go at Montreal to become a certified hypnotherapist!!! :D
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Permalink Reply by John Bates Childress on -
I discovered hypnosis VERY early in life. My mother was a patient of Dr. William Masters, who at that time was a full-time OB/GYN. He was researching alternatives to pharmaceutical pain killers during child birth and in 1958 when my mother was pregnant with me he taught her what is now called 'hypo-birthing'. I didn't use it myself (other than as a relaxation technique) until 1994, when I sought to break a 20 year smoking habit by visiting a certified hypnotherapist. I walked out of her office a non-smoker. Five years later I got certified myself.
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Permalink Reply by John Cleesattel on -
Mine is a bit more sordid tale. I had always had a fascination about hypnosis, and when I finally got to the point to where I was reading books from the library on it (and still not understanding what was actually happening during hypnosis), I was conveniently in Las Vegas on vacation so I took my wife to see a hypnosis show. "R" rated at that.
It was a hilarious show...but it was when the hypnotist (Terry Stokes) set up a chain reaction...limited the first person to only say the word "pepper", the person next to them had an allergy so bad that if they even heard the word pepper they would instantly sneeze, the third person was this girl who also had a weird allergy, when ever she heard someone sneeze she would immediately have a major orgasm. Then back to the first person.. and what was your name? "Pepper".
It fell just like dominoes...and when I saw that you could create orgasms at will...that sunk the hook. If you could do that...what else was possible...and how did all that really work? So when I got back.. I searched for a nearby school, and the rest is history.
John
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Permalink Reply by Kacey on -
I've been interested in it from a young age as a child but didn't start pursuing it until I was I think a senior in high school. I had begun watching hypnosis videos online and then started testing things for a hypnotist friend of mine. After that, I started learning for my own. I started wanting to be able to be on both sides of the equation.
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Permalink Reply by James Haines on -
An acquaintance pulled out hypnosis as a party trick when I was in college, doing some interesting things with the whole group and regressing one friend through several ages. Very impressive!
I didn't realize hypnosis could be used for therapy until decades later when my partner slipped into clinical depression and I started reading up on the subject.
And it only dawned on me after more reading and a few internet courses that I'd been using self-hypnosis for meditation, dental visits and a body piercing for years without knowing exactly what it was. Of course by that time it was too late to change careers. So hypnosis is only a hobby for me, not a profession.
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Permalink Reply by Jill Semonin PhD- CHt on -
In about 1990, I started studying Metaphysics and one of the courses with-in the program was all about hypnosis and self hypnosis, I was also pregnant with my third child and owned a Beauty Salon. I found hypnosis to be fascinating at that point, However; I was all business and doing well in the Beauty field till.... I became allergic to the chemicals in the salon. UGH.... after years of school, investing in a Salon... I wanted to stay in the Beauty field, so I then chose Permanent Cosmetics (no chemicals that harmed me) and while I did that I still kept up with constant learning and college, I then developed Essential Tremors and knew I would not again be able to continue doing my current career (yet another forced change). Still being heavily into Metaphysics I returned once again to more colleges. I wanted to dive deeper into the hypnosis field and get fully trained. I then made the transition, while still being in college for psychotherapy. I wanted to be able to more effectively use the combination of Science with Metaphysics. I have so many diplomas and degrees in Multiple things, I do quite a lot. I love everything I do and hypnosis has helped me, as well as many others. It's a very rewarding feeling when clients are successful. I would have to conclude that Hypnosis called me, as my other in progress careers could not be physically continued. I was also not unhappy about my decision to stop psychotherapy college, due to loving what I am already now doing. I pretty much burned myself out on four different colleges, but I still continue to learn.... Thank you for reading~
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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin on -
My mother used hypnosis to control the pain of childbirth, and I grew up with that story, so I always knew there was something there.
Later in life, I became very interested in the power of visualization and the human mind. I studied it in several contexts, but hypnosis seemed more systematic to me than many of the other approaches. While engaged in a free-form meditation, I asked whether I should study hypnosis, and I was given a vision verifying that I should.
James
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