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What are the books that have shaped you and made you the person you are today? Which books have influenced you the most in your profession? Please share this information here with your friends and colleagues on Hypnothoughts!
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Everyone is welcome to stop by my nice, new blog, where I will be selecting items from my collection of hypnosis-related material and blogging about it, including and prmarily the large number of fiction and non-fiction books in the collection. The…
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And if your significant other responds well to hypnosis, you can make him or her the happiest person in the world. But don't get hung up on technique. You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars and go running from conference to conference in order…
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Jeremiah, You have to have a highly responsive and willing partner, of course (taking the entire situation into account) And nowadays, some women might not mind "hamming it up"at a bar. (I've heard a lot of stories about the bars in a nearby "Piney…
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Hi Mohammed, Hypnothoughts is a great invention, as is the Internet itself. Why wait for years for something to appear in print that people have to purchase in a bookstore or read in a library when anyone with a computer can have access to a Web si…
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And where would we all be without the pretty darn goodest hypnotist on the planet? Don
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Don.... As is always the case ,,, reading any nuggets you post is a great learning experience. This is a great resource for me. THank you for being YOU. Hugh Cole The Pretty Goodest Hypnotist on the Planet
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Hi Don, Thank you for the information and website. You are very right to say that we can combine other therapies to get some great results. I do use different counselling skills in my initial consultation and while I am working with my clients. I h…
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What are the books that have shaped you and made you the person you are today? Which books have influenced you the most in your profession? Please share this information here with your friends and colleagues on Hypnothoughts!
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A must read book for people who take the subject seriously I think. I hope it gives you satisfaction having contributed to such a wonderful book.
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Don, thank you for this resource! They say you get what you pay for -- and my currency is TIME. I will invest a lot of it. :)
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Where do you live?
Manahawkin, NJ, U.S.A.
Hypnosis Experience:
Part Time Practice
What are you looking for on this site?
Networking, and exchanging information about new uses for hyperempiria, multimodal suggestion, and mystical trance.
Areas of Specialty:
I originated the "Best Me" technique of multimodal suggestion, and was the first to identify the process of hyperempiria, or the suggestion-based enhancement of experience, as a catalyst for growth and change
About Me:
I have taught at the University of Portland, the University of West Georgia, and was Chairman of the Psychology Department at DeSales University.
I originated the "Best Me" technique of multimodal suggestion, and was the first to identify the process of hyperempiria as a catalyst for growth and change. I have presented papers on hyperempiria and the Best Me Technique at the American Psychological Association, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and at a joint convention of the British Societies of Medical, Experimental, Dental, and Clinical Hypnosis at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. I have written five books, and published in scholarly journals. I am the senior author of the chapter on hypnotic induction procedures in the second edition of the Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis, published by the American Psychological Association. I also initiated the petition to establish A.P.A.’s Division of Humanistic Psychology. I am a licensed psychologist in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and am currently employed in corrections by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and a partner at the New Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy on Long Beach Island, NJ.
Hobbies:
Writing, research, and working with clients for the alleviation of physical and emotional pain and the fulfillment of their human potential.
Website:
http://www.hyperempiria.com

Experience as an Art Form: Hypnosis, Hyperempiria, and the Best Me Technique

The "Best Me Technique" is a form of hyperempiria, or suggestion-enhanced experience, which involves your whole person in the content of a suggested event. Every letter in "Best Me" corresponds with an element of suggestion, and these elements can be applied in a variety of ways: to enter hypnosis, to pre-experience the accomplishment of a goal, and to conclude a hypnosis session. It's the versatility and the thoroughness of these elements that makes the "Best Me Technique" distinct from meditation and visualization exercises. Instead of merely picturing something in the mind’s eye, the Best Me Technique enables us to paint upon the canvas of human experience almost any masterpiece we may desire. Among other applications, you can use "Best Me" suggestions to pre-experience the rewards of future goals now, at full strength in the present when they are most needed for motivation, reducing or eliminating the need for will power.

The Best Me Technique can also enrich the quality of your present relationships. When you're ninety, you probably won't remember your best day at the office. But most people, if they are fortunate enough, will recall a few special moments spent with a loved one which warm the heart forever. Now, imagine what your lives will be like -- and what sorts of memories you will have to look back upon -- when you and a loved one are able to create experiences like this almost any time you wish.

Just as a painter works with brush upon canvas and a sculptor works with chisel upon stone, couples are able to utilize multimodal suggestion to create a total union of body, heart, mind and soul -- to enhance the setting for lovemaking, evoke the proper mood, maximize responsiveness and desire, and increase the length, depth, and frequency of climax, blending together all the elements of physical intimacy to create whatever masterpiece of fulfillment a loving couple may desire. When the lovers' ability to mutually satisfy each other has been interfered with by age or disability, or when their desires are not equally matches for other reasons, hyperempiric suggestion can provide a full measure of gratification for both partners by restoring the needed balance. And for those whose closeness would appear to be incapable of further improvement, the greatest surprises of all may be in store; for it is those who have the greatest abilities who also possess the greatest potential.

The Best Me Technique also makes it is possible to experience many of the finest achievements of history, art, literature, and popular culture, as if they were actually happening right now. We can not only guide our trance partners through the experience of being Harry Potter jousting on his broom, or Indiana Jones in pursuit of hidden treasure, or Juliet on her balcony, or anything else he or she would care to live out, we can also specify how it will feel, how it will be remembered, and how much they will enjoy (and want to repeat) these adventures, for the facilitation of personal growth, the ennoblement of the human spirit, and the enrichment of human existence.

More information on applications of the Best Me Technique is available at my blogs:
www.hyperempiria.com

www.bestmetechnique.blogspot.com

Don's Blog

Don

Experiential Theater for the Enhancement of Self-Esteem

You don’t have to actually watch a movie in order to feel like you are part of the action instead of part of the audience. And, since experience is the best teacher, feeling like you are part of the action in a carefully-chosen motion picture episode is a great way to re-calibrate your emotions,.


If you have a particular movie or a scene from a movie which you especially like, this may have special meaning which can help you with a particular problem in your life. For example, a clien… Continue

Posted on June 26, 2010 at 7:32pm —

Don

Did You Ever Watch a Movie with a Hypnotized Lover?

Brian David Phillips (2009) has pointed out that when a suggested image in a mirror achieves sexual climax a hypnotized participant can do so as well. But as far as I am aware, no comprehensive, suggestion-based application has been developed in the area of experiential trance which will enable a consenting, loving couple to breach the distinction between spectator and participant and feel as if they are part of the action instead of part of the audience.



The following multimodal (“BE… Continue

Posted on June 19, 2010 at 5:00am — 12 Comments

Don

Hyperempiria for Children (or for the Child in All of Us)

Very young children -- especially those with "cool" parents who encourage this form of imaginative play -- have no trouble in turning themselves into a monster or a fire engine whenever they want to' as Kelly Woods has pointed out. But as adults, we need to first experience an induction which provides us with a set of supporting beliefs that we are in hypnosis or hyperempiria (which usually takes the form of experiencing a trance) before we can let our inner child out to play in such an unres

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Posted on June 12, 2010 at 6:09am —

Don

The Best Me Technique for Constructing Hypnotic Suggestions

Excerpted from Gibbons, D. E. (2003, July). The Best Me Technique for Constructing Hypnotic Suggestions. Paper presented at the British Societies of Medical, Dental, Clinical, and Experimental Hypnosis, Royal Society of Medicine, London.



One of the difficulties which we face as human beings is that our motivational centers have not kept pace with the development of our intellect. As we set out in pursuit of the short-term or long-term

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Posted on June 11, 2010 at 11:00am — 6 Comments

Don

Giving Hypnosis Away: YouTube, WikiHow, and Other Platforms

I recently read that one third of all Internet traffic is directed towards YouTube, which now has several how-to-do-it tutorials on hypnosis. Similarly, www.wikihow.com, which anyone can edit, has several pages devoted to hypnosis which can be found in their search engine, including, "How to Hypnotize Someone," which has over half a million hits according to the tally at the bottom of the page, with several hundred more ea… Continue

Posted on May 2, 2010 at 12:30am — 10 Comments

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At 4:46am on July 14, 2010, Ron Franks said…
For me, mind is always more important than events as it is mind which creates and experiences events. So, the important thing for me is using mind, in this present moment, to experience what (events and/or anything else) I desire rather than what I don't desire.
At 2:43am on July 13, 2010, Ron Franks said…
Thanks Don, for...

commenting on my wall. Your words reinforce my conviction of the importance and value of the work we do as certainly, if one desires, one can experience conditions which far exceed those which currently exists.
At 5:20pm on July 12, 2010, Ron Franks said…
Thanks Don, not...

only for your many contributions in this community and to Hypnosis in general, but also for being the beautiful person you are in all of your communications and for all your work towards informing others of the potential of using mind to create and shape their experience of Life.

Apprecitiavely,

Ron
At 3:05am on March 26, 2010, Yong Peng said…
Hi Don,
Thank you for your advice.Brain is rather very popular here and everywhere.
I will learn a lot from your excellent articles too.

Yong Peng
At 11:17am on February 26, 2010, Susan French said…
Hi Don,

Me too. Feel better.

Susan
At 4:15am on February 26, 2010, Chris Witherspoon said…
Thank you for posting your script on Script Bank.


chris
At 5:46am on February 22, 2010, Susan French said…
Hi Don,
I just went to your blog and understand hyperemperia much more now. It actually is as I thought but I wasn't getting the distinction between how it would work in place of traditional hypnosis. I'm starting to get it more clearly now but I would still like to talk to you.

Thanks

Susan

ps: Hope your rib heals soon as well.
At 5:48am on February 19, 2010, Karena said…
Hope your rib heals very soon.

Karena.
At 3:53pm on December 30, 2009, Kelley Woods said…
Thank you for the friendship, Don. I have often enjoyed your hyperempiria blog and consider you a fountain of information and insight! Regards, Kelley
At 10:48am on March 23, 2009, Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c), CCHt, said…
That's okay! Believe it or not I get called Laura a fair amount, Lisa also? Must be the "L".
Linda :)
 
 
 

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