David Lynn's Page

Melissa,

Thanks for the kind invitation. I am enjoying meeting all of you on this site. I have always been interested in hypnosis and remember swinging a watch in front of my mother when I was about 5 or 6. She either went into trance or feel asleep but it scared me to death and I shook her and told her to wake up. I did not mess with hypnosis again until I went into the Navy in 1968 and I learned self hypnosis to be able to sleep in an open barracks with lots of noise all the time late into the night.

I was teaching at a high school in Lincoln, Illinois in 2004 and watched a stage hypnosis show that rekindled my desire to learn more. Always before I thought it was a particular skill like being a magician, but now with 7 years of formal education I started looking at it academically. It did not take me long to realize this was something I might be able to do and in 2005 I stumbled across HMI's free online certification course which I immediately enrolled in. After completing the course I just made up my mind I was going to be a hypnotist and started looking for volunteers. After hypnotizing a few students, I hit the clubs and bars and got my baptism by fire. I learned a lot since thing and when I watch some of my old videos that I made in the bars, I can't believe the inductions I used to use. But, it didn't take me long to move from progressive relaxation to rapid inductions, to instant inductions, all of which I learned by watching videos!!! I am a believer in distance education.

Beverly,

Yes, I took the course as distance learning. Beverly, did you take the course as distance learning? Have you had any additional training? Are you working in the field of hypnosis?

David