Monday, 28 June 2010

Hypnosis and Weight Loss

Weight it's a BIG topic at the moment. See Jamie Oliver's award winning TED talk

Lots of hypnotists run programmes, have discs and serve that community including the likes of Paul McKenna, Glenn Harold. There is no doubt that Hypnosis does affect the mindset and can help with weightloss on an emotional level, but giving people something physical they can do and understanding diet, nutrition and exercise will definately help the hypnosis programme.

Increasingly I have been looking at nutrition and exercise and now know why intense exercise just for 20 minutes every few days is much better than long workouts at burning fat coupled with better nutrition and Hypnosis can work really well. As well as dehypnotising people against all the advertising and the misinformation. Jamie Oliver is right lack of education and exercise in schools and being pulled from pillar to post about what's good and what's bad. Everyone has different views, different tips and different ideas. A bit like hypnosis really.

The simplest, easiest and most fun thing I have find is this site. FatBurningFurnace.com

The information in here is genuinely priceless and works.

Losing weight can be helped with getting the right mindset, but as a hypnotist how good is it that you can also give nutritional and exercise advice that is easy to make habitual.

People are dying out there because of misinformation and because of the crap they are fed every day, not only ingested physically but mentally as well.

Hypnotise the mind to follow the best course and do some real good in the world.

Jane

Sunday, 6 June 2010

How Hypnotic Experience makes the difference

I am a hypnotist who is naturally talented. I know this because I found that I was getting results from hypnosis much quicker than others would. In fact, I often saw people struggle who had considerably more knowledge than I did.

I don’t necessarily consider myself lucky. However, I do believe that I am gifted in that I can easily follow through with any moment. I can hypnotize people and establish a connection almost without trying.

My mentor who helped me learn hypnosis was miles ahead of me and that meant that I didn’t necessarily need loads of experience to do hypnosis well. Additionally, other people who helped me learn hypnosis shared their experiences with me. I either attended their lectures or watched their stage work.

I consider that I borrowed the confidence that I gained from their experiences. I used this level of confidence as if it were my own. However, it was their personal experience I gained from as opposed to learning from someone second hand.

I have found that when people seek to learn hypnosis, they often take other people’s experiences and methods as though they were their own. Imagine a seagull regurgitating his or her food to feed a smaller birth. That can easily be compared to what I am describing. If the food is regurgitated into the parent, and then one sibling and then the next, by the time it gets to the the final bird it has very little nutritional value at all.

Marketers often call this phenomenon borrowed expertise. This means that they are taking what someone else has crafted and then claim it as their own. Whereas, the original person earned that experience through their own real world experience. Often what happens is that people do not know if something is a good thing or not. However, they are teaching as though what they are teaching had been proven through their own time and experiences.

The sad fact is that in today’s world, often the marketer has significantly more power than the guru. Often you can’t even tell the two apart! So what is the solution to this conundrum?

One thing that you can do is look for people who can prove their experience. You can see a person’s past success beyond just what they claim online. For example, you can see newspaper quotes. If they have written a book look for actual book signings or publications that have legitimate ISBN numbers.

There is no doubt that experience is a great teacher. I only began teaching once I had 30 years of experience under my belt. Make sure that your teacher has a great deal of experience too. Otherwise, you will be like the little bird eating regurgitated content that has no nutrition. This is soft food theory that has no real value. You’d be better buying a book by the guy who taught the guy who taught the guy who taught them.

Monday, 17 May 2010

How Hypnosis is Magic

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Everyday, there is a special moment where the subconscious is open to suggestion. This can be considered an altered state. I would not call it a trance. In fact, this moment is an altered state in the same way that a mood is one.

When you are seeking to learn hypnosis, you can create these moments. Or you can jut watch for the moments and then take advantage of them when they happen. These magic moments are the time when a suggestion can elicit the type of response that you want. However, if you are just starting to learn hypnosis, remember that the suggestions must be correctly formed.

Sometimes your mind is open to suggestion more than at others. Many people say that hypnosis is a natural state. Your mind enters a dreamlike state while you are being hypnotized. I believe this is definitely true.

Here are some examples of natural states of hypnosis- day dreaming, losing yourself in a book and driving a route that is very familiar to you. That is not to see that those types of moments are the right ones for hypnosis. The mind is not focused on the suggestion at those moments. In fact, it is simply focused elsewhere.

Just because something looks like hypnosis doesn’t mean that it is. For example, if you talk to someone and they have their eyes closed for several moments, that doesn’t mean they have been hypnotized.

With the Svengali System, I include my concept of hypnotic “Magic Moments”.

What are magic moments? This is when the mind takes over, and you are not distracted in any way. In fact, in the hypnotic magic moments, you focus and think more clearly. Your clarity of thought is so lucid that it is as though a “second veil” has been lifted. At this moment you are open to direct suggestion or indirect hypnosis. People seeking to learn hypnosis soon find out that this moment is rather powerful.

Another factor that can contribute to hypnosis is being scared or angry. In fact, any event that causes you to be emotional will lead to a magic moment. If you want to persuade someone to make you a sandwich, or whatever it is you want, try suggesting it in one of these emotive moments.

If you are seeking to learn hypnosis, remember to take advantage of magic moments. They will make your hypnosis work more smoothly!

Sunday, 2 May 2010

The Nature of “Scriptnosis”

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There is no doubt that hypnosis is an art. Of course, if hypnosis were a science, I am sure it would be taught in universities and medical schools worldwide. If hypnosis were a science the research on the subject over the years would have brought about a definitive truth as to how or why it works. You would be able to walk on the stage, do a script and hypnotize a whole audience.

Stage hypnotists have the same dream that they can “bang them all under” and wake them up a few hours later. Then the hypnotist would tell everyone that they had just viewed a wonderful show.

However, hypnosis is an art. Like any art, the results depend on the skill of the artist. In this case, the artist manipulates the medium to create a result. However, in order to create great works with your brushstrokes, you need a natural aptitude.

But anyone can paint. Even chimpanzees have been known to hold a brush and splatter some oil or acrylics on a canvas. Man as well as animal can grasp the basics. But does something mean that you are doing it well? Of course not.

You could say that hypnosis is different. In this case, the medium you are manipulating has got its own mind. It can determine its own path.

A true master of an art would prepare, plan and get the basics in place. This allows the medium to flow. The true artist can then follow their own preparation and also follow the ebb and flow of the feedback from their imagination. They can respond to their emotions as they create.

If you put most great paintings under x-ray it shows several different versions and ideas applied towards the final completed painting. In cold science, you will never find that people have the flexibility to create on the fly.

Because hypnosis is an art, it requires a huge amount of flexibility and creativity at least in my opinion. If you are using a script written by someone you don’t know, then you will end up with just a scriptnotist, not a hypnotist.

As I like to say, you will never see a painting completed by paint by numbers in the Louvre.