Why become a Hypnotist?

1. The professional hypnotist offers the usual business of helping clients to quit smoking, lose weight and manage stress, among many other benefits. A nice middle class income can be made by developing this service business like any other. For therapists, knowledge of hypnotism greatly enhances understanding and practice of psychotherapy, offering a theoretical model of distress and procedures for healing. Even if the student never practices hypnotism, the training is transformative and a gift of personal growth.

2. But the training is much more than preparation for service. It’s much more than technical skill. Learning hypnosis changes your view of the world. The study of hypnosis, for open minded students, is much more than being a technician. You start to appreciate how hypnosis is everywhere that there is an influence. Religion, advertising, politics, education are among many technologies that change peoples’ minds.

3. Self hypnosis. Like the deeper forms of meditation, self-hypnosis enables the identifying, evaluating, choice of, and dismissal of thoughts. Thoughts are not who we are. There’s another part of the mind, cultivated as the observer, who can observe thoughts and decide which thoughts are worthy of following. We can often choose what sensations we pay attention to, and which ones we ignore, as in pain management and pleasure enhancement.

4. Emotional states and attitudes can be seen as trances. We experience the trance of abundance v. the trance of lacking. We experience trances of joy, passion, shame and regret. Trances can be induced, changed and eliminated. When advertisers or other emotional manipulators exploit these trances, so many are suckers for the vacant glitter and zing. Gambling vacillates between the trances of lack and abundance, mostly enriching others.

5. The hypnotist can view our existence as the theatre of life. Movies and stories, if appealing, become an alternate reality to be experienced, often leaving the viewer changed from before. Movies, stories and theatre are all trances. If you accept the influence, the viewer goes on the ride of the story as though it were experienced for real at this moment.

6. Who becomes a hypnotist? Anyone of average intelligence and an open, curious mind into the mysteries of life. The training can be taken for personal growth regardless of hypnotizing others.

7. A professor of mine said many years ago, ‘’education is the process of disillusionment’’. We often educate our subjects by properly disillusioning them of the ideas that keep them unwell.

8. The spiritual process. Trance is the entranceway into religious, metaphysical states. The mind’s usual critical judgment will soften to allow deeper consideration of experience and imagination. Can’t prove it and can’t disprove it, but the experience of spiritual states can be transformative.

9. Sickness is augmented or even created by sick and disempowering thoughts, regrets and judgments. Healing arises from the trance of acceptance, forgiveness, release. Your view of human nature will change.

10. Course outline for topics covered; how to induce trance, habit control such as weight, smoking. Stress management. Pain management. Self-hypnosis, evil, fears, age regression, past life experiences, spirit involvement, and fear of embracing death. Hypnosis training is for growth, pleasure and well-being.

11. New forms of assertiveness, directing theatre, leading and pacing the process, timing of experience and emotional reciprocity between hypnotist and subject are all skills to be started.

So becoming a hypnotist changes the way that you look at life and at people. The training is 100 hours of personal growth that isn’t going to stop when the training is done.

Hypnotists, among other types of therapists, have developed exercises to create the emotional space to contain the process of finally playing out (grieving) the previously disowned, troublesome emotions and experiences, and processing them to completion, resolution and forgiveness.