When you first started hypno...... [EVERYONE please answer]

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Permalink Reply by Leo Gopal - www.LeoGopal.com on July 19, 2008 at 8:41am

This certainly makes me feel better, though it was my FIRST three that gave me all the problem, i found that it was one was resisting, the other was a skeptic and the other was my fault i guess... any advice lol?

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Permalink Reply by Susan French on July 21, 2008 at 10:24am

Great story, Don.

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Permalink Reply by Taylor Sherman on July 19, 2008 at 9:56am

Invent or create a new way for you to practice hypnosis regularly: stage gigs, "clinical" hypnosis, a cert organization, a website, a forum, doing seminars, giving free talks, doing street walkups, hypnotizing your boyfriend/girlfriend or wife/husband, and all of their friends, and all of your friends, and people at parties, and people at bars, and people outside of the bars...

Create an image around yourself. Invent new inductions, and new variations on phenomenon.

Taylor
http://www.trancedout.com/

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Permalink Reply by Katt Lowe on July 19, 2008 at 11:33am

All of these are excellent. I already knew this when I was starting out... but I love to pass it on to the students...

1) When you are conducting the Hypnotic part of your session...be the conductor. Allow the words to flow from you like beautiful music. Don't run or push them down the stairs....or run them around in the journey. Be graceful...be in rhythm...be in time. You are creating a song.

Like your heartbeat...if it is beating out of time...it doesn't feel so good. A song sounds horrible if the drummer or musician is off time.

Of course I am a musician...so it works for me.

2) Don’t just rely just on your Mentor and their technique. Listen to as many as possible. Listen to how they conduct a session. There are several good Hypnotherapists out there to listen to.... I never stop listening and learning. Sometimes it is just one phrase that makes you say.... NICE!

3) Whatever I ask my clients to visualize. … I visualize for them too. Putting that energy together to help them manifest quicker is very powerful.

4) If you really think you can't help them or it wont work....don't do it! Send them to a Hypnotherapist that does believe they can help them. Never do it just to get the money. I believe we can feel eachothers Energy...people know when you are not being real. Intuitively, Energetically, Subconsciously… they can pick up on your frequencies and beliefs.

5) Believe in yourself and they will believe in you too.

I am always fascinated with how Hypnosis & Energy Healing works. I think it still blows my mind as much as it does my clients. Believe in the magic of it.

Have Fun ;-)

Katt Lowe
http://www.connectwithin.com/

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Permalink Reply by Susan French on July 20, 2008 at 8:58am

The same way you get to Carnegie Hall...practice, practice, practice. Besides that, knowing that no matter what, I had something of value to give and I knew how to do hypnosis, however rudimentarily, which was more than the client knew.

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Permalink Reply by Tianna Roser on July 20, 2008 at 2:02pm

In addition to all the wonderful advice already shared I would add:

-Listen to lots of hypnosis tapes, videos, podcasts, etc. Consciously and subconsciously you will pick up a flow and languaging pattern that works for you.

-Record yourself. Make a hypnosis tape or two and see how well it works for you. You will pick up on what works and what doesn't easier as the hypnotee.

-If possible, record a session with a hypnotee and then go back over it afterward to see where you can improve. Or better yet, watch it with a mentor or colleague and get helpful tips.

Have fun!

Tianna

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Permalink Reply by Mark Craig on July 21, 2008 at 2:14pm

You are your best teacher.

All good continuing professional / personal development (CPD) includes looking at what you do, what went well?, what would you change next time? how could you improve? what would you keep the same?

So record your sessions, either on video (preferably), or as a minimum record your audio. Digital voice recorders are fantastic tools for improving your skills.

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Permalink Reply by Donald Pelles on July 22, 2008 at 3:12pm

I would have actively gotten into hypnosis much earlier, though I have been interested most of my life. I don't know why I did not; perhaps because I felt others would think it weird, even that I would think it weird. As it is, I am nearly 65 and have been seriously into hypnosis as a subject for only about a year-and-a-half, and as a hypnotist for a little over a year.

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Permalink Reply by Marshall Gorilla on July 22, 2008 at 5:38pm

Believe it or not, experience in hypnosis started at age 10 as a way of gaining peer respect and acclaim as an asthmatic kid. I studied from two "outlaw" 35 cent books I bought mailorder from Johnson Smith & Co. The only serious advice I'd give myself back then would be, "Don't be afraid of platinum blonde ladies!" and "Never quit reading." Advice I'd give to an older me would be to attempt to follow that "know thyself" maxim, which is oh so difficult.

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Permalink Reply by bruce on July 22, 2008 at 11:07pm

Clearly you're an avid student of hypnosis, so I'm not going to give you any technical advice. What I will say is that I would try to avoid doing anything in a therapeutic vein for awhile. I say this because a lot of the people you'll be hypnotizing won't trust you to "mess with their heads" because you're young and inexperienced (this will change!). Instead, approach it as an experiment that you're engaging in together, and maybe do some arm catalepsy. Start small, be entertaining, play on curiosity, and most of all, make it feel safe. The magic is going to be in your pre-talk; you have to sell the process.

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Permalink Reply by Leo Gopal - www.LeoGopal.com on November 4, 2008 at 2:45am

I was just looking back at this thread and I think WOW, a lot has changed since i wrote this, and it is truly amazing, one of the more spectacular things is that no matter how experienced we may be, learning never stops, and all the advice in this single thread would be perfect to use even now, and by the experienced and the in-experienced a like!!!

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Permalink Reply by Tellman on November 5, 2008 at 8:30am

The best advice I would give is to study direct marketing. Once I started studying direct marketing I had 12-14 clients a day in my clinics and I did it in such a way that it literally didn't cost me a dime. I had six offices and only had to pay rent for one of them...

When all was said and done, I was able to go from 1 client a day to 12+ a day and that was all the real practice that I needed in order to become a great hypnotist and get fantastic results with my cleints.

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