Deep Down

As I see it, there are three kinds of hypnotists, each using hypnosis for different purposes.

Hypnotheray uses hypnosis as a therapeutic tool for stress management, cigarette cessation, weight and habit control, building self esteem, and other manifestations of a positive personality and a healthy lifestyle. That is the kind of hypnosis I do. I gave suggestions to clients to encourage them to respond in certain specific ways. In this type of work, the hypnotist gives what is needed, whether a formula of exercises, suggestions, key words, visualizations or metaphors, to get clients to respond in ways they need and want – to produce a desired therapeutic result.

One other group of professional hypnotists believes that the best way to enrich lives is to enrich minds. They work to bring out information and feelings already in the mind or subconscious of people. This information can be from a present life, a past life, or both. This is also how I use hypnosis now. I induce a trance and guide my clients to reexperience past lives or to open themselves to the eternal. The object is to gain access to the subconscious by using hypnotic techniques for the purpose of allowing what is stored in the mind to come forth. I am not a magician; I put nothing in, but simply draw out what is already there.

And there are these stage entertainers. They use hypnosis almost entirely for entertainment. People love them, but want to stay away from them. When I tell people I do hypnosis, a lot of minds would be wired to the stage scenes, and they would be afraid that I’d make them bark like a dog or cluck like a chichen. I won’t, and don’t want to. However, you are not the people up on the stage and how can you tell those people do not enjoy every bit of it including barking like a dog.

There is a wide range in the capacity of different individuals to produce certain behaviour. Keep in mind that a stage hypnosist works only with those that the phenomena of interest can be produced to a high degree easily by selecting from the audience, by means of vaious tests. The hypnothearpist, who works with a wider range of individuals, tends to use more time and a variety of methods in order to offset the limitations that may arise in a particular individual.

I like stage hypnosis, it enables some people to do what they so want to do but not dare to in normal circumstances. Stage hypnotists work with a person’s mind to show one can do more things, or different ones, than one normally could. Isn’t that great?