Having HMI as our school....

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Permalink Reply by David Fontenot on July 12, 2008 at 2:49am

I began studying martial arts about the same time as hypnosis. The Marine Corps moved me around the Pacific, and I was lucky enough to study with some old school masters in Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines. When I began to study the Chinese styles, I made a comment to my sifu (teacher) as to which style was better. His reply really struck a chord in me and I think that it also applies to hypnosis. The gist of his comment was that no matter where we started, the road to mastery ended up in the same place, and that all true masters will have acquired the same skills.
One of my pet peeves is people who latch on to a school, a guru, or a modality and stop there, believing that they have learned the end all, and all others are invalid. I applaud you for trying new ideas, and techniques, and envy your additional psychological training.
You also might want to check out Gerry Kein's stuff at Omni Hypnosis. He has a folksy, more down to earth approach than Mr. Banyan, who can be a bit much at times. I'm not a formal student of his, but I have enjoyed and learned from his videos/

Permalink Reply by Brian Sanders, Maryland Hypnosis on January 2, 2009 at 11:15pm

I have to hand it to HMI -I think, through their free intro course, a lot of people have been introduced to hypnosis who otherwise wouldn't have had the opportunity to do so. I took it, got even more hungry for hypnosis, and went and took the NGH course. I did view the videos for some of their advanced classes and agree with you that they are behind the times, but what they do works for them. I've always wondered were handwriting analysis fits in to hypnosis, though.

Brian

Permalink Reply by Jill Semonin PhD- CHt on January 3, 2009 at 7:45am

Hello Brian and David,

Thank you David for the compliments. I agree very much. Learning from many is my goal, however I will still say that my favorite is Kappas. LOL I still plan on learning many other methods.

Yeah I agree Brian, the free course is exactly why I moved on to the advanced. I did not feel pressured to do anything, but I wanted to know all I could know. Still do....

I think the handwriting fits in, because it's a subconscious act. It's a direct line of communication into the subconscious. If you want to achieve more, writing about it in the magic hour (right before bedtime) is a shortcut straight to the subconscious. Which is what the Mental Bank program is all about. Handwriting is an autonomic action. It reveals so much about a person, without them knowing it. Gives you a bigger window to look through about a person. The course does explain why it fits in so well. I loved the course, while I admit, it was a little dry (unlike the others). It was still very informative and taught a lot.

I also agree that it could be a little updated. Hard to do though, when the main guy that did it all, has since passed away. He was a brilliant man. His work continues through his son and school.

Blessings~

Permalink Reply by Antonio on January 5, 2009 at 6:55pm

I would also look into getting trained in ericksonian hypnosis. Personally I don't like hmi's aggressive marketing tactics. Also a live training is WAY better.

Permalink Reply by Thurston Norris on January 6, 2009 at 5:05am

I took the HMI Foundations Course about 2 years ago now. I had already taken a Basic Hypnosis Course prior to that and was taught Elman and other direct inductions. I liked the HMI course because it was from a different approach but I think I prefer a modified Elman induction and right now I am just doing direct suggestion. I am learning NLP and indirect methods now and more advanced techniques such as Age Regression and Forgiveness Therapy. However, I do incorporate some of my HMI training and think about 'physical-emotional' aspects of the client. I love networking with other hypnotists so I can learn from their experience.

Permalink Reply by Jill Semonin PhD- CHt on January 23, 2009 at 1:04pm

I can only say that the foundations course is a great teaser, and worth every free minute, but just isn't anywhere close to enough. That is where the advanced course takes over and just fills in the gaps very well. They explain Ericksonian pretty well too.

I agree that live is always great, but when that isn't an option, like in my area..... I really felt like I was in class while watching it on DVD. I had a huge TV and to be honest, if I didn't understand something, I would write it down and ask my tutor, or I would hit rewind and watch it again. So, I have no complaints. I am no longer a beginner and have a couple years of experience now under my belt, but... i still learn new things all the time. I feel it's always great to have many different choices available...

It's great to learn from each other too. Thanks for everyone's input.

Permalink Reply by Lori Thomas C.Ht. on January 23, 2009 at 1:34pm

I have found that it is good to use different approaches and find what works best for you on a personal level. I enjoyed learning through the Kappassian techniques but have since learned others ways and what has developed is my own method that I am comfortable with that works with the way I approach my clients.

Take what you learn and through the experience with clients you will come up with the best techniques that work for you. Personally, I have not used the arm raising in a very long time and most of the time I never even touch my clients in a session.

Motivation to You all!

Permalink Reply by Oliver Wuensch on October 14, 2009 at 6:58am

Not hard to adapt to other things--
Actually I was forced to put a whole new induction together because the room I use for the room I got offerd does neither have a recliner nor a table.
But if you understand the concept of hypnosis, that does not pose any problem anyway.

I have had other training too, so I just created my own mix.

What is really priceless considering the HMI method is the framework that has been done by HMI on how to structure a session to make it effective, hypnosiswise and businesswise.

What I came up with is a freestyle mixture, after pretalk I start having the client on a chair, doing breathing exercise from Yoga, then moving (depending on type of client) either into a rapid induction (I do not use armpull because I find it too invasive, but I love the rotating hands) or an Elman or a verbal confusion and then deepen further following HMI deepenings, then rapid fractionation, then break hypnosis , move client to the massagecouch (or whatever the english word is) that is available in the room and do deep relaxation with a mix of progressive relaxation and visualization of the clients favourite relaxation place (asked and took notes before in pre-talk).

Works beautifully and has a lot of opportunities to change the direction if the client is not responding to a certain type of approach.
Sometimes I use the armraise as a deepener. I think it is a very effective technique depthwise.

Permalink Reply by Jill Semonin PhD- CHt on October 14, 2009 at 7:19am

Very well put!

I couldn't agree more. I do find my HMI training to be priceless!

Blessings~

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