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HYPNOSIS FOR STUTTERING FROM THE PREZ LOST FOR WORDS How terrific that you’re reading this! By BARRY THAIN, PDC Your mind is a wonderful invisible Clinical Hypnotist, London UK vital force-field that allows you to enjoy www.Mindsci-clinic.com this medly of ideas and delight. This The doctor asked if I could cure a 17 year old boy who stammered. issue of the Hyp News brings helpful I didn’t know. No one had ever asked me to treat a stammer and, even ideas and tools to make your life better though there is lot of literature suggesting that stammers respond very and better. As you enter the mind of well to hypnotherapy, I was wary… each author, they become your personal I spoke to the boy’s mother, a nurse, who said that her son had friend who you invite to visit your invis- always stammered. And that he’d had two years of weekly speech thera- ible mist-tickle world of thought. py with no sign of improvement. He had been diagnosed ADHD and was given Ritalin. I Science reports that before you logi- explained I didn’t know if I could help but she still asked if she could bring him to me. We made cally grasp happenstances, an amazing mechanism within you deter- an appointment. mines your perception and course of action. How will you receive these Chris came with his mu and I set about taking his case history. I asked, “When I hypnotize ideas? What jokes in the funny page will tickle your fancy? (Everyone you, what do you want me to do for you?” likes their fancy tickled). Then, perhaps, it will be fun to consider what “I’d lerrrrrrrrr…” Increasing wrapped around the word Chris was trying to say, his head part of your marvelous brain notices and evaluates and conjures up your jerked down towards his lap. His shoulders folded round in front of his chest. His heels came off perception. The answer may be neuro-logical, hormonal or simply a time the floor and his knees drew up towards his chin. For two minutes and thirteen seconds–plus out for a good read. whatever time had elapsed before it dawned on me to time it– Chris was completely locked July is upon us and sunny days are ahead (even for those of you around a word he couldn’t say. down under). When his stammer let him go, it literally let him go, and he unwrapped himself and sat I look forward to seeing many of you in my travels to Las Vegas upright again. (Hypno-Thoughts), Chicago (Mid America), Canada (HypnoBiz I asked him to “Try to say the word without the stammer?” but no; once the stammer set in, Toronto), Australia (AHA, Brisbane) and next year in Bali, Indonesia he seemed to have no control. (May, 2020). Also, Mark your calender for March 6-8, 2020 for your Chris’ mom explained that dad left when Chris was two and he hadn’t seen him until he was “It’s All About YOU Re-Treat” (Rancho Palos Verdes, California.) It 15, and when they met in a restaurant, his dad was drunk, and threw insults about Chris’s moth- will be my 75th birthday weekend so join me in for this grand weekend er and, hit Chris across the back of his head with a wine bottle, snapping the bottle’s neck off. of joy, love and learning from each other. You can check it out at After that, Chris went off the rails; got in with a bad crowd, and did drugs and smoked. Chris www.ihfretreat.com. thought his dad was the cause of all his problems. I recently read a lot of chershed letters from the great Ormond It’s difficult to explain what happened next, not least because I‘m pretty sure I shouldn‘t have McGill who reminds me once again for the very first time that we are done it and absolutely certain I shouldn‘t admit it here. I said we’d have to wait and see about doing a “Very fine job of advancing the field of human wisdom and dealing with the dad stuff as we were here to solve the stammer and that was more than enough knowledge.” It certainly is my honor to be part of such a grand group of to be going on with. What’s wrong with that? Well, I thought I could deal with the dad stuff and fine people like YOU. really wanted to focus on that because I was certain I couldn’t help with the stammer. So, being Love Your Prez, brutally honest, I withheld the prospect of treating the dad stuff to make mum, want it more. Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD I told Chris “One day, not today but one day, you are going to have to get your dad out of (310) 541-4844 your system. When you do it will be like a scene in a cowboy and indian movie when the caval- [email protected] ry officer gets an arrow in his chest and he knows he has to pull it out but the arrow has a barb, www.hypnosisfederation.com so he knows it’s going to hurt. Yet the longer he leaves it in, the longer it will be before the wound can heal. So sooner or later, Chris you are going to have to pull the arrow out.” P.S. FREE FOR YOU: I finished the case history and invited Chris to lie on my couch. (I sat his mom just out of his 1. Join “Free Hypnosis-IHF’ on Facebook and our tips of the week peripheral vision.) A wrist-lift induction was followed by a 10-0 count-down that I extended to - 2. Monthly live on-line seminars each third Thursday of the month 5, and I then asked for an ideomotor response. The Yes finger was so strong I suspected Chris was (6pm PST ZOOM meeting # 205469239) lifting his finger consciously. I said, “Rest and relax, which is what I say to indicate that I’ve seen the response and the finger can go down. It stayed up. So, I applied a little pressure with my own P.P.S. BE THERE or BE SQUARE finger, and his didn’t budge. Interesting, I thought, if he’d been acting, surely, he’d have under- 1. August 31-Sept 3, 2019 stood I wanted his finger down. I had to press hard to get it down. I got a thumb from the same hand for No and, again, it refused to go down until forced. HYPNOSIS CERTIFICATION/ IHF INSTRUCTOR I asked, “Subconscious mind are you ready to give up the stammer?” (Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA) “Yes!” 2. November 9-12, 2019 “Okay YES… So you‘re prepared to give up the stammer completely, today, here on this HYPNOSIS CERTIFICATION/ IHF INSTRUCTOR couch?” “Yes.” (Rancho Palos Verdes, California USA) “All right then. I’ll come back to that in a few minutes and I think that Chris is carrying a lot of hurt around that isn’t doing him any good and that it’s time to get rid of that. Is that okay with IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU RE-TREAT MARCH 6-8 see pg 13 (Rancho Palos Verdes, California USA) 3. BALI JOURNEY OF AWAKENING

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Drive Casilina 30819 TED PRESOR CLAIMER/DISCLAIMER HYPNOTHERAPY To recognize this is to take a quantum leap The “Hyp News” is an open forum for your knowledge, ideas and beliefs. Each article reflects the opinions of the OF LOVE in consciousness (awareness). With this aware- author and the editor reserves the right to edit. The IHF BY ORMOND McGILL ness, you understand what you are in relation to and its authors expressly disclaim responsibility for any (Excerpted From McGill’s THE VOID and the creative power of your adverse effects arising from the use or application of this information. And the IHF and its authors claims full Hypnotherapy Encyclopedia mind. responsibility for all good effects arising from the use or aavilable at 310 541-4844) Allow these truths to go deep into your sub- application of this information. The Cosmic Connection conscious and become your very own. It is so INTERNATIONAL HYPNOSIS FEDERATION belongs to the heart. easy when you are open, to what you already Founded 1999 Cosmic love is like the know: love is the greatest creative force and the Editor Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas wind when it is not windy. essence of you. Such is the HYPNOTHERAPY You cannot make it happen. OF COSMIC LOVE. When YOU KNOW you Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD You have to know that cosmic love is already in know, come back from hypnosis and return to Jon Nicholas, CHt your heart and it is so. the here and now, and transform your life in Co-Founders Present this specialized suggestion formula wondrous ways.” following your somnambulistic induction. It is a IHF BOARD OF ADVISORS gift given directly to the subconscious of your SCRIPT FOR COSMIC LOVE # Two client that helps them to achieve the most from “Lie down or sit and just relax all over. Ormond McGill, PhD (in Spirit) their session. Become quiet inside of yourself and let your Charlene Ackerman, CHt (in Spirit) mind drift. Now think of a yawn. Actually Michael Almaraz, CHI SCRIPT FOR GLORIOUS LOVE # One yawn. Yawn. Yawn. Yawn. It makes you feel so good and you relax more and more, the more Beverley Bley, RN, CHI “Prepare yourself for an enhancing adven- that you yawn. ture. While entranced by hypnosis, you are Helene Feldman, DCH Now breathe deeply through your nose… about to enter the realm of love, and advance Jaime Feldman, DCH hold the breath and exhale slowly. That’s good. into THE VOID. Now do it two more times. (Pause) Carol Francis, PhD THE VOID is where all creation forms. It is How quiet and peaceful you feel. How Kenneth Guzzo, CHI the Great Mystery of Mysteries. THE VOID is serene. You drift down into the realm of sleep Rhona Jordan, CHI the energy center of all that IS. Out of this and dreams. The flow of relaxation covers your VOID comes Love. Love created you. LOVE IS Kathi Kenedi, CHI entire body and your mind also has become THE STRONGEST FORCE IN THE ENTIRE Phil La Puma, CHI relaxed. Deep into the realm of sleep you go. UNIVERSE. COSMIC LOVE IS UNIVERSAL Jillian LaVelle, CSMC Every breath you take sends you down deeper LOVE. Once in touch with it, all becomes and deeper into to realm of sleep…your con- Richard Neves, PhD peaceful and serene. scious mind moves aside and your subconscious Suzy Prudden, CHI It has been spoken through long corridors mind takes center stage. Judy Umansky, RN of the ages that ‘God is Love’. As you learn Cosmic love enter into you from out of the about Love, you equally learn about THE James Wanless, PhD void, of which you are a part. Allow these sug- VOID, which is the Crucible of Creation. Love, John Warhank, CHI gestions to enter now and become your reality. Creation, and THE VOID, are one. See yourself as pure and good and immersed in From THE VOID springs love of God, love the energy of love. Now see within your mind’s between parents and their children, love eyes a white glowing ball of light. See this ball of IHF Fellows between mates and friends. Love exists within light as being the center of your being, from the atomic structure of matter. Scientists call which you radiate out in all directions. It is the love between atoms, ‘charm’. Nancie M. Barwick, DCHt energy of the Void entering into you: the energy All matter is composed of particles so small Rachael Beutler, LCSW of Cosmic Love. they are beyond microscopic viewing and are Sylvia Bivens, CHt You can use this energy for anything you recognized by the patterns of their movement. Beverley S. Bley, LPN, CMHt please, by using your creative mind. You can Each atom has a nucleus at its center, around Vrisayda P. Boggess, BCH, PhDc use it to bring love of all kinds into your life. which swirls a miniature solar system of elec- Dan Cleary, CI You can use it to bring success and abundance trons. From these atoms seeming solid matter is John M. Costa, CHt into your life. You can radiate it out for the ben- formed. Yet, if an atom were blown up to the Don De Grazia, PhD efit of all. size of the head of a pin, the nearest electron Carlos Delmond, CHt Now let this God Power within you rest in swirling around its center would be forty inch- Paul G. Durbin, Chaplain, PhD, R.I.P. silence for some moments. Silence. Silence. es from its nucleus. Each atom is 95% VOID. So Ernie T. Farhat, SDC, CHt (Pause.) it is also in vast space. Even with its billions of Helene Feldman, DCH How wonderful and full of life you feel. stars, it is 95% VOID! It is the way of the Jaime Feldman, DCH Prepare to come back from hypnosis now. You Universe. Frank Garfield, CHt know now the meaning of cosmic love has What seems so solid about yourself is most- Donna Kannard, CHt become your reality. Your subconscious mind ly VOID. THE VOID has been called a variety Jody Kimmell, CHt will rouse you when it feels your heart over- of names: Buddha called it the emptiness that Al Krasner, PhD, CHt, R.I.P. flowing with cosmic love. When you have that is immeasurably full. Jesus presented it in a Sally Labrato-Faith feeling, your session is complete. You have very personal way by calling it ‘My Father in Jillian LaVelle, CSMC made the Cosmic Love Connection and you will Heaven.’ The lofty philosopher Plato called it Cindy Locher, CHt enjoy it with each hypnosis session you experi- ‘Lagos.’ Einstein called it ‘Space.’ The Taoists Albert J. Marotta, CHt ence.” Bonnie Maskery, CHt know it as ‘The Tao.’ By whatever name it is Greg Meyerhoff, CCHt known, THE VOID is ever flowing with the Paul Mostman, PhD energy of LOVE, the greatest creative force. Keiichi Murai, CHI Think of THE VOID within yourself as a Richard Neves, PhD perfect replica of the void in all dimensions and Padman Pillai, CHt, MS remember that the creator and the creation are Margaret Rogers Van Coops, DCH one. Laura Rubinstein, CHt As it is written, ‘The Hand of God Moved Anne Salisbury, PhD Across THE VOID, and Creation Started.’ Brenda Ann Seay, CHt From out of THE VOID came all that IS. You Walter A. Stock, CHI learn this truth well while you rest in the pleas- Maureen Stock, CHt, R.I.P. ant reverie of hypnosis. Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD ALL THAT IS was formed by infinite vari- A.L. Ward, CHt eties of energy or vibration. Behind your infi- Sally Witt, PhD nite vibration is a sentience that is called your MIND. Your MIND that lets your infinite ener- pg 2 gy create patterns that you want for yourself. ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL Hi Shelley HYPNOSIS FEDERATION What a fantastic seminar! What great people. And learning. I have taken away so Since 1999, the IHF has been dedicated to promoting acceptance of the diverse much from it, words can not express. I feel so grateful to have been part of it. inter-disciplinary use of hypnosis with its broad range of applications. We’re unique Jean among organizations because our members include professionals and those interest- ed in self-hypnosis and mind mastery. Members may belong to our specialty divi- Dear Shelley and Jon, sions that include integrative and stand-alone medical and dental hypnosis, mind- fulness, neuro-linguistics (NLP}, coaching, guided imagery, motivation, conflict I’ve been to a lot of Retreats, but this was the most fun and inspiring! I would love resolution, spiritual counseling, entertainment and research. We offer referrals, pro- to have Scott back again. He put me into a wonderful meditative state. I also got to fessional certification training, workshops, conferences and networking opportuni- see people I only see once a year, to connect with again. I learned and re-learned ties for practitioners and the public. We encourage interaction with other disciplines, some things. clinicians and researchers who are interested in including hypnosis in their work. As for the week after, wow! Peter and Naaz taught me things and I experienced things WHY EXPERIENCE HYPNOSIS? I didn’t know in this lifetime. And the rest of the week. I said I now know nothing and Your professional hypnotist evokes a natural mind state where you easily take you reminded me, and I know everything. I have been doing things differently in my on beneficial suggestions and ideas and do away with limiting or hurtful attitudes life and it’s a fun ride. Thanks. What more can I say? Christine and behaviors. LIZ FORTINI RIP (March 2019) With hypnosis and self-hypnosis, you’re motivated to achieve worthwhile Obituary for ELIZABETH NATALIE FORTINI results, make contact with your wisest self and tap your full potentials and talents. Elizabeth Natalie Fortini was born on September 1, 1960 in Montebello, California to Researchers prove again and again that hypnosis benefits people mentally, emo- Leo and Rose (Hyrn) Fortini. She entered into eternal rest on April 1, 2019 in tionally, energetically, physically and neurologically. (For a comprehensive fifty- Montebello, California at the age of 58.Elizabeth was greeted at Heaven’s Gate by her page document of scientific studies call 310-541-4844 or email your request to: [email protected]) HOW DO I SELECT A QUALIFIED HYPNOTIST? To select a qualified hypnosis practitioner take heed: A professional hypnotist, hypnotherapist, hypno-coach, hypno-counselor and wellness provider has training and experience in hypnosis to help you achieve your specific goals and interests. Just because someone is licensed or credentialed in another discipline (I.e. med- icine, therapy, dentistry, psychology, mindfulness, social work, or nursing) does not mean they have studied hypnosis or are capable of using it as an adjunct to their other work. Only a small percentage of licensed helpers take time to be certified in mother, Rose Fortini. hypnosis. Elizabeth was intelligent and hard working having worked as a paralegal in a law Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Hypno-Counseling and Hypnosis-Coaching are office for 37 years. Elizabeth is survived by her father, Leo Paul Fortini, her daughter, stand-alone certified professions. Professional Hypnotists generally have hundreds Natalie Rose Sanchez (Sergio), and her granddaughters, Trinity Sanchez and Xitlali of hours of training in hypnosis. Sanchez. Elizabeth also leaves behind her sisters, Rosemary To reduce confusion ask yourself, “Does this practitioner have the expertise in Fortini, Margaret Fortini, and Mona Fortini. hypnosis to help me reach my goals?” And “Is there a sense of rapport with them?” Members of the International Hypnosis Federation adhere to a fine code of GOOD NEWS! ethics (available for your review at www.hypnosisfederation.com) and regulations 1. DUNCAN TOOLEY and EVA MARGUERETTA are now Mr of their places of practice. If you have further questions regarding whom to consult and Mrs. Tooley for your well-being feel free to call IHF at 310 541-4844. MISSION STATEMENT 2. Our IHF Creative Hypnosis Classes and HYPNOTHERAPY The International Hypnosis Federation is dedicated to leadership that builds an SERVICES provided by Shelley Stockwell and other International excellent membership organization that supports humanistic attitudes, practices and Hypnosis Federation instructors were chosen for the “Best of practitioners. We offer an open forum for positive, growth-oriented knowledge, Rancho Palos Verdes Award” that acknowledges the best business- ideas, beliefs, and expertise. es in the community. The award acknowledges the best businesses We promote learning, joy, fun, upliftment, tranquility, truth-telling, love, and in California. enlightenment. Members agree to maintain high standards in their personal life, in SUZIE FAIRMAN IHF student of Marilyn Gordon met a shocking and tragic their vocations and avocations. They practice self-improvement with education, untimely death in her home in northern California, probably by an intruder. A communication, support, & promotion. Commemoration of light was held in her honor on Saturday, May 18, 2019 on Zoom. We learn, work and play together to bring positive verbal and non-verbal up- DAVID KENNEDY (1932 -2018 -Australia) liftment to our work, our lives, our society and the world. The eldest of four boys, he left school at age 13 because of ill health and then, eventu- IHF provides a quarterly journal “The Hyp News of the Day” and encourages ally, He put himself through college by working at various jobs. Over his career as a educational programs to further the use, understanding, and application of hypnosis hypnotherapy and minister, he was fascinated by “our ability to grow, heal and evolve as an important tool for happiness and wellbeing. We cooperate with other profes- through the power of trance work.” He was instrumental in keeping hypnotherapy in sional organizations who share mutual goals, ethics and interests and are a member Australia as an independent and separate profession. of COPHO the Cooperative Organization of Professional Hypnosis Organizations. Feel free to go to www.hypnosisfederation.com and www.IHFretreat.com Did you see SWEET BRAIN STUDY BIOLOGY OF LOVE Do you prefer sweet over sour and bitter? If so, it’s an BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, anything here you liked, evolutionary gift. As your ancestors scavenged for food, PhD or didn’t like? sweet berries were excellent while bitter berries were “not When I look you in the eye Let us know. We are open to ripe” and maybe even “…poison!” Now, your inherited brain continues to decipher sweet as My brain eclipses in a sigh. new ideas and we like to hear rewarding as neurons (in the ventral tegmental area) signal All aflutter pounds my heart from you. 310 541-4844 or your nucleus accumbens so you “take another bite… or not.” Oxytocin says, “let’s not part.” [email protected] Shelley Neuroscientists identify food as your “natural reward that Vasopressin begs, “please, please stay” activates your brain to send hormones to your body so you as biochemistry has its way. remember… “Yum, cake! Good!” P.S. Call me if you are still Processed foods add sugars, sweeteners, “excitotoxins” Then dopamine spurts “this chemical reaction. (like aspartame) and flavorful preservatives, pander to this Is simply haywire wild attraction… alive, and well... or not. inherited sweet taste and brain buzz that makes sweets for an estrogen/testosterone; fight/flight lust…” [email protected] many the drug of choice and abuse. Some say that sugar actu- So tell me hypothalamus who can I trust? ally hijacks or hacks your brain’s healthy reward responses. My brain crown answers in muffled tone; According to, Jordan Gaines Lewis, PhD, in her study at Pennsylvania State University (“Neuroscience Doctoral “I’m busy with hormones; leave me alone.” Candidate Report” February 2015) “Like drugs, sugar THE ABCDE OF HAPPINESS spikes dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens. Over a “A” is ATTENTION that you long term, sugar consumption actually changes your gene bring to expression and availability of dopamine receptors in both ODE TO MY FOOT “B” BE YOU! Bravely live your the midbrain and frontal cortex. Specifically, sugar increases BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, PhD the concentration of a type of excitatory receptor called D1, truth O little flat foot but decreases another receptor type called D2, which is “C” is CONNECTEDNESS to You do me well inhibitory. what is really happening now Regular sugar consumption inhibits dopamine trans- Standing solid “D” DOING and making things porter action, (a protein which pumps dopamine out of the I think you’re swell. happen synapse and back into the neuron after firing.) This means Bending and skipping that repeated access to sugar over time leads to prolonged “E” ENERGY you put into what Moving here and fro dopamine signaling, greater excitation of the brain’s reward you do Little toes happy and all-aglow pathways and a need for even more sugar to activate all of the “F” is for FUN so celebrate every midbrain dopamine receptors like before. And the brain Dearest flat foot moment! becomes tolerant to sugar – and more is needed to attain the Part of a pairI love what you stand for same ‘sugar high.’” As we go from here to there… pg 3 I don’t need a hair stylist, my pillow I got a compliment on my driving today gives me a new hairstyle every morning. said a blonde to her friend. There was a Don’t worry if plan A fails, there are 25 The Funniest Page note left on my windshield it said “park- more letters in the alphabet. You can’t have everything, where would What did the blonde say when she saw ing fine”. If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait you put it? the Cheerios box? “Omg, donut seeds!” I used to think I was indecisive, but now longer... Don’t you wish they made a clap on clap Two blondes fell down a hole. One said, I’m not too sure. A bank is a place that will lend you off device for some peoples mouths? ‘It’s dark in here isn’t it?’ The other Doing nothing is hard, you never know money, if you can prove that you don’t If your parents never had children, replied, ‘I don’t know; I can’t see.’ when you’re done. need it. chances are you won’t either. What can strike a blonde without her If two wrongs don’t make a right, try A balanced diet means a cupcake in each If people are talking behind your back, even knowing it? A thought. three. hand. then just fart. Why did the blonde stare at frozen orange I am not lazy, I am on energy saving Doing nothing is hard, you never know Today at the bank, an old lady asked me juice can for 2 hours? Because it said mode. when you’re done. to help check her balance. So I pushed ‘concentrate’. Life is short, smile while you still have If you’re not supposed to eat at night, her over. Why did the blonde scale the glass wall? teeth. why is there a light bulb in the refrigera- I bought some shoes from a drug dealer. I To see what was on the other side. A balanced diet means a cupcake in each tor? don’t know what he laced them with, but Why were there bullet holes in the mir- hand. Don’t drink while driving – you might I’ve been tripping all day. ror? A blonde tried killing herself. Maybe you should eat some makeup so spill the beer. I told my girlfriend she drew her eye- How did the blonde die while raking you can be pretty on the inside too. I think the worst time to have a heart brows too high. She seemed surprised. leaves? She fell out of the tree. I’m not shy, I’m holding back my awe- attack is during a game of charades. My dog used to chase people on a bike a How do you drown a blonde in a subma- someness so I don’t intimidate you. I refuse to answer that question on the lot. It got so bad, finally I had to take his rine? Knock on the door. Sorry for the mean, awful, accurate things grounds that I don’t know the answer. bike away. Why did the blonde tip-toe past the medi- I said. Alcohol doesn’t solve any problem, but I’m so good at sleeping. I can do it with cine cabinet? So she wouldn’t wake up I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree neither does milk. my eyes closed. the sleeping pills. with you. My wallet is like an onion. When I open My boss told me to have a good day.. so I A blonde decided to paint a room. When Your life can’t fall apart if you never had it, it makes me cry... went home. her husband got home, he asked, ‘Why it together! Doesn’t expecting the unexpected make Why is Peter Pan always flying? He nev- are you wearing an Alaskan and a winter If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, the unexpected expected? erlands. coat?’ She replied, ‘The can said for best try missing a couple of payments. I’m not clumsy, The floor just hates me, A woman walks into a library and asked results apply 2 coats.’ Always remember that you’re unique. the table and chairs are bullies and the if they had any books about paranoia. The How can you make a blonde go on the Just like everyone else. The answer walls get in my way. librarian says “They’re right behind you!” roof? Tell her that drinks are on the you’re looking for is inside of you, but Life is short, smile while you still have The other day, my wife asked me to pass house. it’s wrong One advantage of talking to teeth. her lipstick but I accidentally passed her a Three blondes walk into a building. yourself is that you know at least some- The only reason I’m fat is because a tiny glue stick. She still isn’t talking to me. You’d think one of them would’ve seen body’s listening. The elevator to success body couldn’t store all this personality. Why do blind people hate skydiving? It it. is out of order. You’ll have to use the I’m jealous of my parents, I’ll never have scares the hell out of their dogs. Why do blondes wear underwear? To stairs. a kid as cool as them. When you look really closely, all mirrors keep their ankles warm. An apple a day keeps anyone away if you I’m not lazy, I’m just very relaxed. look like eyeballs. How did the blonde try to kill the bird? throw it hard enough. Always remember you’re unique, just like My friend says to me: “What rhymes She threw it off a cliff. The more you weight the harder you everyone else. with orange” I said: “No it doesn’t” Why can’t blondes make ice cubes? They are to kidnap. Stay safe, eat cake. You’re born free, then you’re taxed to What do you call a guy with a rubber toe? always forget the recipe. Did you hear about the restaurant on the death. Roberto. Two blondes are facing each other across moon? Great food, no atmosphere. The best part of going to work is coming What did the pirate say when he turned a wide stream. What do you call a fake noodle? An back home at the end of the day. 80 years old? Aye matey. One yells to the other, ‘How do you get Impasta. A cookie a day keeps the sadness away. My wife told me I had to stop acting like to the other side?’ How many apples grow on a tree? All of An entire jar of cookies a day brings it a flamingo. So I had to put my foot The other blonde replies, ‘You are on the them. back. down. other side!’ Want to hear a joke about paper? A successful man is one who makes more I couldn’t figure out why the baseball How do you make a blonde laugh on Nevermind it’s tearable. money than his wife can spend. A suc- kept getting larger. Then it hit me. Saturday? Tell her a joke on Wednesday. I just watched a program about beavers. It cessful woman is one who can find such Why did the old man fall in the well? How do you make a blonde’s eyes light was the best dam program I’ve ever seen. a man. Because he couldn’t see that well. up? Shine a flashlight in her ears. Why did the coffee file a police report? It I asked God for a bike, but I know God I ate a clock yesterday, it was very time How do you confuse a blonde? Put her in got mugged. doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike consuming. a circle and tell her to go to the corner. How does a penguin build it’s house? and asked for forgiveness. Whatdya call a frenchman wearing san- Why did the blonde put water on her Igloos it together. Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag dals? Phillipe Phillope. computer? To wash the Windows. Dad, did you get a haircut? No I got them you down to his level and beat you with A blind man walks into a bar. And a What do you call a blonde with 2 brain all cut. experience. table. And a chair. cells? Pregnant. What do you call a Mexican who has lost If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, I know a lot of jokes about unemployed A blonde crashed a helicopter. A police his car? Carlos. try missing a couple of bank payments. people but none of them work. officer asked her what happened. She Dad, can you put my shoes on? No, I Money can’t buy happiness, but it sure What’s orange and sounds like a parrot? says, It got cold so I turned off the fan. don’t think they/ll fit me. makes misery easier to live with. A carrot. How do you keep a blonde busy for Why did the scarecrow win an award? If you do a job too well, you’ll get stuck Did you hear about the italian chef that hours? Write ‘Please turn over’ on both Because he was outstanding in his field. with it. died? He pasta way. sides of a piece of paper. Why don’t skeletons ever go trick or Quantity is what you count, quality is Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up? How can you tell when a brunette is actu- treating? Because they have no body to what you count on. Because it was two tired! ally a blonde who dyes her hair? When go with. 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Less-mind? Less- synergy when you share what you know with each other.” full mind? Or? And to complicate matters, mindfulness is Certainly I understand this as I’m a professional hypnotist an over-applied term nowadays, such as: ‘I will be mindful and a sound healer. My website, soundsforhealing.com has the of my affection with women’ or I utilize mindfulness in my subhead, “Healing Through Sound, Music, and Hypnosis.” For practice with patients. me, there’s an integral link between the two. So what exactly is mindfulness? I found the answer in Vibration, sound and music are powerful ways to induce and sustain trance and Shelley Nicholas PhD’s new book on Hypno-Mindfulness. expand consciousness. They also evoke healing for those in need. 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With your attention keenly with hypnosis and you will focused, you are more aware, attuned to your thoughts of others. add conscious self-awareness Notice how you might be in the zone with your mind: with a thought, movement, and hypnotic intention to activity, person, or place. your sound practices. “Frequency + Intention + SYMPTOMS OF MINDFULNESS: effective suggestions = Total engagement, focus, and awareness Healing.” Experiencing a fascinating reality Traditional hypnosis is Having periods of serenity, harmony, life satisfaction and a sense of timelessness powerful and so is and bang- Feeling a sense of closeness to self ing a drum, chanting, tuning Experiencing flexibility to better ideas and possibilities forks, voice over-toning and Wanting to frequently get down to get it done or singing bowls are also Directing kindness towards self equally enchanting. Together Frequently falling awake they are amazingly powerful. Frequent outbursts of more attention, compassion and nice behavior with others

CONSEQUENCES OF MINDFULNESS: Self-esteem increases, creating fun in your life Lovely, fuzzy sensations; such as how you feel walking on a beach; smelling the best scent in the world; touching the softest puppy; and sensing unconditional love from someone you love Frequent observations of better health; increased empathy; more restful sleep and being on a spectrum of feeling fabulous Increase of neurons in the brain – promoting better decision making; the ability to all BLUM AND NAAZ’s “VIBRATIONS SOUND HEALING” CLASS RETURNS to around learn; and retain knowledge better So Cal as a post-retreat class MARCH 10 & 11th, 2020 Call to register 310 541- Self-reports of a high altitude attitude or ‘feeling buzzed’ with life from a connec- 4844 or go to www.ihfretreat.com tiveness with your higher self Decrease episodes of gullibility due to increased awareness of phony gestures, words, etc. from manipulative people Treatment for the Mindfulness Condition Drink two glasses of water Continued practice and monitoring of mindfulness Read Hypno-Mindfulness Made Easy If the mindfulness condition persists, call Dr. Shelley in the morning

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You naturally enter hypnosis (or the hypnoidal state of mind) upon awakening, just before sleep and when Award winning speakers Spencer Humm and Shelley Stockwell- stimulated by symbols, words or energy. This everyday hypnosis is fueled by your imag- Nicholas have coached thousands of speakers including executive ination and emotion. As you intently fix or focus your attention on anything– a movie, a teams for Fortune five hundred companies. They book, a game or your computer– you identify with it and it registers in your mind, body have helped them to connect with their audience and emotion. A fantasy has created a reality inside of you. When you change your focus and get the results they need. Now it’s your turn to to something else, you alert and reorient your mind, body and emotion. In your session today, you will mindfully realize and imagine good and healthy ways to improve your life, be the powerhouse communicator who motives and accomplish your goals, and feel better and better physically, emotionally and mentally. gets standing ovations. Hypnosis works! So are you ready and willing to learn many things in this moment that Sign up today… Space is limited. 310 541-4844 will assist you to think, feel and be your best self now and in the future? Great! Let’s begin…” THE MAGIC LANGUAGE OF SUCCESS SELF TALK THOUGHTS By SPENCER HUMM, Communication Coach By DENISE FOURNIER, PhD Are you fluent in language that matter to others? Caring for yourself means catching critical self-talk and replacing it with a more affirm- In the world of big business, there are customers walking ing inner narrative… Your self-talk will make the difference between being open to around with fat contracts to give to YOU, the person or compa- self-care or neglecting your needs; so take stock of how you’re speaking to yourself, ny with the right solution. These customers have literally mil- and then take on the challenge of making it more caring… lions and billions of dollars ready to give to you so you can help Here are easy steps to do just that: them launch a satellite, perform a world-changing study, or pro- 1. NOTICE. Take an inventory of the tone of your self-talk and you will recognize the vide 21rst century wellness services to an entire country. way you treat yourself and stop unhelpful thoughts… They’re ready to go, they just need the right expert, engineer 2. TAKE CHARGE The next step is to take control of the ongoing conversation with and manager to get it done for them. yourself… Imagine talking to yourself as a loving parent would; be kind, encourag- I help individuals and companies win that kind of business. ing, gentle, and generous with the messages you send to yourself. So, how do you differentiate and have you and your team stand out from the compe- 3. BE REASONABLE Be reasonable with your expectations. Be accepting and extend tition: you call upon exceptional communication. When you do you are perceived as the self-forgiveness. Over time, you shift into a more nurturing internal conversation that one who deserves to have that contract. The one skill that can set you apart from all the will most certainly improve your mental and emotional health and general wellbe- rest is a mastery of customer focused language. ing… Most business owners and leaders begin a sales process by talking about themselves, yet it’s talking artfully about your customer’s needs that ultimately makes you stand Denise may be reached at (305) 814-4863 out as the single, bright, shiny penny in the jar to win the big opportunity to serve them. When I coach teams to present and sell their programs, products and services, we spend a few hours having an in-depth discussion about what drives and motivates their customer –their worries, goals, challenges and “what keeps them up at night.” Once we have a short list of those “customer hot buttons,” we’re ready to talk to the customer. My clients are brilliant at creating massive computer systems or building airplanes FLOAT and stuff like that, but when it comes to opening their mouths to talk to their customer, BY MICHAEL ALMARAZ, CHI they often can’t even find the words to start a sentence that doesn’t start with them Floating in a floatation tank is said to be very relaxing and talking about themselves. I hear them say “We at ACME corporation…” and “Our similar to hypnosis. So, when I was long over due for a get- expertise…”. I hear them say “We, our, we, our, we, our...” I’ve come to call this away, a friend and I arrived to “Float Labs” in Venice, “French Pirate Syndrome.” As in, “Oui, arrrrr, oui, arrrrr”. They tell me, “Spence, I California for a long anticipated float. understand that I should be talking about their needs, but how do I say that, exactly?” The owner, Crash, explained that the water is thick and WHAT TO SAY heavy because it’s fortified with purified salt that is similar to After coaching many teams into the vocabulary of customer focus, I compiled a list Epsom salt. He told us to protect our ears with ear plugs to keep of the best language patterns I’ve heard to get you off on the right conversational foot. the water out of the ears. We were instructed to wash thorough- I offered this list during our IHF pre-conference training on “Making Money” and ly with soap and shampoo (that smells like peppermint) then to Shelley asked me to share it here. put on our earplugs before we entered the tank. (You take a 2nd shower at the end of These phrases set you up to speak compassionately and insightfully about the things your experience to rinse away any salt residue). that matter to the people who are considering paying you big bucks to help them. For He told us to open and close the tank then we were left alone so we would have no those of you who are NLPers, we use these phrases to “pace” the customer’s values “outside distractions.” The float tank is a very confined space; so, if you have any pho- before we “lead” them to our solution. Here are the best language patterns: bias or fears about being in the dark or small humid places, this is not the right find for What’s key to you [customer or stakeholder] here is _____... your zen moment! The important thing here is _____... After my shower, I opened the tank and immediately felt the humidity in the air. I You’ve made it very clear that ____ [important thing] is key to your success. walked into the darkness of the tank and closed the door behind me. I could feel the Your goal here is _____... water just above my knees, about half way to my waist. I started to lay back and right The thing driving this topic is _____... away my body starts to float. [Topic] _____ is very important in terms of _____... After what seemed like 15 minutes I was in a full relaxing mood. I remember open- From what you’re telling me, the key to reaching ____... [talk about their goal] ing my eyes and trying to look around the tank, and thinking, “Why open my eyes, it’s I recognize how critical _____... [talk about a piece of their goal] dark in here. will always be dark”. At that point I remember feeling like I was falling The main driver with this is... asleep and losing awareness of my surroundings. I remember bumping into the sides a What’s most significant to your success with [challenge] is _____... few times and thinking, “Wow! This is a surreal feeling.” I can see the real issue here is _____... I then started to think about my legs and felt as if they started hanging off my body We recognize your customer is concerned about. _____ [their customer’s need] and hitting the bottom of the tank. I remember reaching down, feeling my calves, to ver- Considering ____ [the challenge] it’s very important that _____... ify that I had not sunk to the bottom. I had the same feeling with my buttocks at some I share your concern with _____... point. I also had a few moments where I could hear myself snoring, but being very aware I can appreciate the challenge of _____... of the floating feeling, much like hypnosis. I remember thinking, “Wow, this will be a I respect your need for _____... fantastic way to insert a suggestion about growing my business as well as my personal What’s driving your vision for this is... life.” Every time I tried to add my own suggestions into my self talk, I found my mind I understand that your main objective here is _____... fading into self evaluation of my physical and emotional feelings. Ultimately, the end-result for your project is _____... I floated for an hour and a half; yet it felt as if it was 30 minutes! I really enjoyed I recognize in all your communications, how prominent [topic] is _____... having this bodily experience! When I left the tank, I felt great and it took some time to You’ve identified _____... as extremely important to... get back to my “earth connected reality.” You’ve emphasized the importance of _____... The next time I do this (and I’m sure it will be soon), I’ll rent it for a four hour ses- I recognize all the effort you put into examining _____... sion. I would love if the tank had a way to pump an audio hypnosis session in, allowing That’s what the magical language of customer focus sounds like. When you take the me to create some therapy using NLP programming as well as hypnosis. It would be like time to really listen to what is important to someone and then demonstrate that you a re programming of the mind in a self-hypnosis condition in the delta state; around 1.5 really get what they are striving for and why they want it, something truly magical hap- to 4 cycles per second or “dreamless sleep.” We generally dream in 90 minute cycles and pens. You gain their trust and rapport. When they hear their own values coming out of when we do, delta brainwave frequencies increase to theta and typically, which is your mouth and a detailed understanding of their goals… and here’ the magical part… accompanied with rapid eye movement. they are instinctively ready to assume that you have a great solution for them! Now, Michael is the owner of “Create Your life by Design” and can be reached at you do need to have that real solution and tell them about it eventually, but through www.deeperstate.com/demo your listening, your understanding, your customer focus, you have paid the price of admission for them to really hear about the great ideas you have for helping them. By HYPNOSIS ELEVIATES PAIN FROM INTERVENTIONS listening and learning their world, you have not only best positioned yourself to win the Hypnosis offers a low-cost, non-pharmacologic intervention to soothe discomfort. chance to serve them, you’ve made yourself most deserving of their business. Learn When a person has pain after a cancer treatment, opioids bring significant adverse and speak their language, listen first, mirror back the things that matter to them. Then, events and side effects. Non-pharmacologic interventions like hypnosis are needed and and only then, unleash your genius for solving their problem. That’s the magic lan- helpful. guage of customer focus. Research presented at the Oncology Nursing Society 44th Annual Congress reports Spencer Humm may be reached at 703.626.8572/ [email protected] and “The mind-body intervention of hypnosis provides cancer survivors with helpful skills spencerhumm.com to manage discomfort.” Researchers recruited 40 cancer survivors at a National Cancer Institute cancer cen- ter who had chronic pain. [The most frequently reported causes were radiation (20%; MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR MARCH 5, 8), followed by multimodal (17.5%; 7), chemotherapy (12.5%; 5), surgery (12.5%; 5), hormonal (2.5%; 1) and “unknown.”] 2020 and JOIN SPENCER AND SHELLEY Ninety-five percent of participants completed the 4-week measures, and 75% kept FOR A FULL DAY up with hypnosis for 8 weeks. After 4 weeks, the hypnosis group saw a pain intensity decrease to an average of 6.0, (while the waitlist only dropped only to 6.7.). “POWERFUL PRESENTATIONS” Participants commented, “… Hypnosis relaxed me to focus on something other than the pain” and “Hypnosis was helpful for relaxation, calmness, and/or better sleep.” CLASS IN PALOS VERDES. Reference CALL 310 541-4844 to register or go to Eaton L, Beck S, Jensen, N (2019) “Hypnosis for Pain Relief With Cancer Survivors” www.ihfretreat.com Abstract 5477 resented at: Oncology Nursing Society 44thAnnual Congress; April 11- 14; Anaheim, CA. Do it soon, space is limited. pg 8 BREAKTHROUGH MOMENTS CHILD BIRTH HYPNOSIS While deeply relaxed I explain “There are ‘breakthrough periods’ that you can BY SIMON WILFORD CHIASSON, MD use to your advantage during labor and delivery When you are 6-7 cm. dilated, if you (RIP born, Inverness, Nova Scotia, January 17, 1920–June 17, 2006, Boardman, feel discouraged just know that within a half an hour or less you will be completely Ohio–Shared with Dr Shelley on Monday, April 25th, 2016 at age 96) dilated…A second ‘breakthrough period’ is just before you are completely dilated and “…In my obstetrics and gynocology practice, I have adopted a group hypnosis you will feel like pushing. But it may not be time, so to be more comfortable, take in a training model… A one and a half hour group session, twice a month, exposes a group big breath and then let it all out or pant like a puppy. The last ‘breakthrough’ is when the of 20-25 women to a greater variety of techniques so they achieve a greater depth in head comes through the cervix. Sometimes this occurs suddenly and and this is what the hypnosis. I teach relaxation primarily and may introduce glove anesthesia as a they were waiting for! You will soon be ready to deliver. You can use the contractions trance ratification during a group session where a person transfers cold and numbness by pushing down with each contraction; the more you push, the better it feels and with from the hand to the chin with suggestions to “keep the numbness in the chin for each contraction, you relax more and more, and make all the muscles in your bottom five minutes after re-alerting from trance. Now that you know how to do this you nice and numb, loose and relaxed.” can transfer the numbness anywhere you choose in your body.” I have noticed that the classes give: SUGGESTIONS FOR NAUSIA OR VOMITING (HYPEREMESIS) “You 1. A better chance to educate about the misconceptions that labor and delivery are now replace any unpleasant tastes with a minty one or the flavor of your favorite such an ordeal. toothpaste. As you relax more and more, all your muscles are twice as relaxed and the 2. An exchange of experiences and answer to questions helps the entire group. circulation improves inside and outside of your body–especially through your intestin- 3. The spirit of competition helps some to attain a greater depth of trance. al tract– relax and feel fine. As the circulation improves, all peristaltic waves, that 4. When a woman, who is stressed in groups, is able to achieve a hypnotic state, she move food along the intestine, are nice and smooth… beginning with the esophagus, has a better chance of achieving hypnotic relaxation in labor, which is another stressful the tube from the back of your throat to your stomach. Food goes down nice and easy, condition. and is broken up and digested easily and passed to the small bowel to be absorbed. All I explain to the group that methods like eye fixation, breathing and counting are the peristaltic waves are nice and smooth. Each time you brush your teeth, you rein- actually self-hypnosis that helps them to go into a hypnotic state for their own benefit. force the nice relaxed feeling and have this pleasant taste in your mouth.” [Attendees] are invited to come and observe at least one class to give them a basic understanding of how hypnosis can benefit them. SUGGESTIONS FOR EXCESS FLUID “As the muscles relax more and more, your circulation improves on the inside and outside of the body, bringing the fluid SUGGESTIONS back into circulation from the tissues, and helps the kidneys to work more effectively.” In the group approach, I suggest, “Close their eyes and count backwards from one hundred to zero.” Then we count from one hundred to eighty in increments of one and BLADDER CONTROL SUGGESTION “You continue to relax and your pelvic from eighty to zero in increments of five. I offer relevent suggestions after each count muscles are so relaxed and comfortable. Your circulation is and your body works per- of twenty (e.g., at 80, 60, 40, 20, and 0) such as; “The remainder of your pregnancy fectly well.That’s fine… at the count of three and you will be completely alert you will be so much better.” “Your labor will be shorter, easier and safer.” “You can easily retain the relaxation in your pelvis. You will be able to empty your bladder, and use your contractions to get more and more relaxed, and to make every muscle in each time you will do it more and more easily.” your bottom nice and numb, loose and relaxed.” [These muscles have to relax when the head is coming down and delivering.] SUGGESTIONS FOR HEADACHES “As the muscles relax, your circulation I do not use such dissociation to imaginal scenes during delivery because it seems improves inside and outside of your body, especially through the brain. Since circula- silly to me to take an imaginal trip 1,000 miles away on a beach, or be sitting in an tion is renewed and restored and normal, the vessels will relax too and you feel just imaginal chair observing the birth process, while delivering. I believe that a woman fine.” should know that she is having a baby and that it does not have to be painful. Nevertheless, dis-sociational procedures are valuable if you need it while repairing an ANOTHER CHIASSON’S INDUC- episiotomy. I ask, “Do you want to simply picture yourself doing something enjoyable TION or do you want me to use a local anesthetic?” “Put your arm straight in front of you. Then invite them to, “Picture and imagine yourself doing something you find Now, bend your elbow and bring the back of particularly enjoyable… as this becomes more and more vivid, you can go deeper your hand just abouve eye level. Make sure that and deeper.” your finger are together. Now watch your hand and your fingers will begin to spread and as POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS they do you hand will gradually float to your I offer these post hypnotic suggestion; “If I (or your husband, nurse or helper) put face. When you hand touches your face, your their hand on your shoulder, you can use this signal to go deeper and deeper.” eyelids will close and you will completely “When your contractions are ten minutes or less apart, you get ready to go to deliv- relax. Watch your hand as you fingers spread er. If you are going to a hospital and get in the car, you will feel as if you are sitting more and more. Your hand gets closer and clos- right here in this chair. And by merely putting your right hand on your left shoul- er to your face and as it does your eyelids get der, and closing your eyes, picturing a color, and taking a deep breath, as you grad- drowsy and and they want to close down. ually let that breath out, and that hand sinks all the way to your side, you will be That’s right… as your fingers spread more and deeply relaxed. Each contraction and each background sound will simply help you more and your eyelids become more and more stay more relaxed.” relaxed, when your hand touches your face, You easily use your self-hypnotic induction to make any prepping and examina- your eyes will close– if they are not already tion comfortable.” They are further told, “The remaining part of your pregnancy will closed– and you become deeply relaxed. That’s be so much better. Your labor will be shorter, easier and safer, and your stay in the right. Your fingers spreading and your eyes and hospital will be so much better.” They are also instructed to practice self-hypnosis. your whold body are relaxing more and more with each easy breath.”

IS TIME CREATING CONFLICT? ing everyone else’s schedule beckons the question, “Don’t you have enough to do?” By Career Happiness Coach, KIM MONAGHAN 2. BE RESPECTFUL AND RESPONSIBLE. Employees are more likely to be How to be career happy? Don’t let time create conflict. loyal, productive colleagues when treated like adults and not children. Flexible work I often coach individuals who are in conflict over time. No– schedules empower people to have autonomy and while they are still expected to be not what you might think—not enough time, pending deadlines or accountable for their work, overwhelming demands on their time. Rather, their conflict stems 3. CLARIFY YOUR ROUTINE. Problems arise if you’re consistently absent, and from clock watching. others can’t find you or don’t know your schedule. Therefore, stick to a routine so you In other words… “If I don’t see you, then you’re not work- thoughtfully manage your own time and allows others will see that you’re present and ing.” reachable when you are supposed to be. This statement, shared with me by a supervisor is yes, a little 4. SHARE YOUR SCHEDULE A blank schedule, with you nowhere to be found, dated. In today’s society, everyone is working around the clock can lead to trouble. To avoid this, use a shared calendar system to communicate your thanks to technology that puts us smack dab in a virtual society at whereabouts. Every hour of your work time needs to be accounted including remote all hours. There is also the growing trend and demand for virtual workspaces. Many work, at the office, in meetings, lunch, medical appointments, open door, virtual meet- Fortune 500 companies have adopted the practice of floating office spaces, work-from- ings, planning time, etc. home and flex schedules. While many roles still require employees to be onsite from eight to five, there are Kim is a career happiness Coach probably twice as many that don’t. This is where conflict can arise. Therefore it’s imper- and may be reached at ative that you make yourself available and accountable so others don’t question your [email protected] and efforts. www.KBMCoaching.com You’re, essentially, without a boss when you’re working from home, so you need to take the initiative to “manage up” and ensure that you and your superiors (and subordi- nates, for that matter) are on the same page as you are on a daily, maybe even hourly, basis. Don’t be afraid to check in on the happenings of the office as you would if you were physically there.” When you’re not physically in the office, it’s harder to gauge what, when and how you’re doing your job, so communicate with your boss and team members clearly and frequently to ensure things are getting taken care of in a timely and efficient manner. Whether generational expectations or simply work style differences around time and accountability, clock watching will create conflict. HOW TO AVOID TIME CONFLICT To avoid the clock watching conflict, keep these things in mind: 1. AVOID POLICING OTHERS If you are a ‘clock watcher,’ be warned; this ‘passive-aggressive’ behavior can tarnish your career reputation. Consistently monitor- pg 9 HYPNOSIS ESSSENTIAL 4 Sacramento CA, Ken HYPNOBIZ-CANADA Guzzo (800) 635-8150 Toronto FEDERATION SPCLTY CERT N.W. 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Indiana, Feldman (732) 446-5995 October 19-20 BASIC II HYP- VIBRATIONAL Randi Light (602) 888- August 19-22 NOSIS Edison, N.J, MEDICINE 3219 www.RandiLight.org Feldman (732) 446-5995 June 24/ July 12 & 13 LIGHT’s SMOKING CESSATION BLUM and HOSSEINI SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION October 25-27 WHAT’S HYPNO-MINDFULNESS? the flow or zone.” I say, “It’s getting high with your high- 2. Get in touch with your genuine self. BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, er self.” Whatever you call it, this natural state engages 3. Embrace great thoughts. PhD you in awesomeness. Passive or active, with eyes open or 4. Love yourself, others and life. shut, your focused inner and outer awareness on globals 5. To gain insight. (Excerpt from her latest book “HYPNO- or specifics, naturally lets you go in to find out. 6. Solve and/or re-solve a physical or emotional issue. MINDFULNESS) “…OF AWARE ATTENTION … 7. Put distracting babble and limits aside. To define Attention! Come to order! Take heed! Docile or mov- 8. Renew, restore and regenerate. mindfulness ing, drifting or preoccupied, you notice what you 9. Create and excel. and hypnosis notice… You regard, observe and scrutinize. You’re 10. Relax and dream. almost defiles called to attention when you hear your name amidst chat- 11. Get high with your Higher Self. it. Still, many ting people. Your name is the sweetest sound you ever (including me) hear. It taps you on your mental shoulder saying, “Hello, “…ON SOMETHING- ANYTHING.” give defining a listen up!” Absorbed in ANYTHING, you selectively mind one go. This chap- HOCUS FOCUS Like a flashlight, you illuminate what thing and not another. Even as your analytical self seeks ter is my you focus upon. You pick and choose what you notice or thought, a mindful and dedicated inner you keeps you a n n o t a t e d don’t notice; accept or reject. You forget or remember alive with your heart beating and your lungs inflating and explanation of your gifts. Inner focus records encounters with your emo- deflating. If you like, you can be mindful of the survival the phenome- tional/experiential self. Outer focus notes your environ- you. na called ment. Projected focus makes inner dreams real in your Your keen focus can distract from upset and discom- “hypno-mind- outer world. Your awareness is an ever-changing, never- fort or fixate upon it… Your choice. fulness” or ending stream of consciousness. You choose to stay in For “true believers,” mindfulness can be an excuse for “mindfulness” status-quo thinking or embrace a better way. extreme and limiting fixation… to the point of obses- for short. “…AND INTENTION … sion… It’s tough to be of the world when you are “Juliet Aware intention gets things done. You lose weight of the Spirits,” “Ferdinand the Bull” or a stubborn Here it is: when you heed what you eat. When you put on your best “believer” who chants, prays and meditates to the “HYPNO-MINDFULNESS IS YOUR NATURAL clothes, fix your hair, douse yourself with cologne and extreme. STATE OF AWARE ATTENTION AND INTENTION strut your stuff, your intention is to hypnotize or capture A balanced state of awareness– healthy mindfulness– ON SOMETHING–ANYTHING!” an aware attention of another. invites you to think and act in ways that are best for your Sufferers with a dreaded “Intention Deficit Disorder” evolution and growth. At best, mindfulness is a pro-active “… NATURAL STATE…” (that I call I.D.D.) are like a ship without a rudder or car focus when you imagine, introspect and take charge of Enthralled in work or play is nature’s way. meandering with no intended destination. Those with your thought, action and reaction. Mindfulness is essential when you learn anything. It hap- “Attention Deficit Denial” (The real A.D.D.) think, “if I So again, my definition of Hypno-Mindfulness: pens when you’re absorbed and entranced in reading, TV, don’t see the broken glass when I step on it, I won’t get “HYPNO-MINDFULNESS IS YOUR NATURAL a computer game or a good movie. Enraptured in thought cut.” STATE OF AWARE ATTENTION AND INTENTION or action, you fixate, trance-fixed by every nuance…the The best mindful practices set your intention and ON SOMETHING–ANYTHING!” story…your breath…your thought…your environment. attention on what you notice so you pinpoint and achieve Mindfulness happens when you’re in love. what you want and need. THE HYPNOSIS OF MINDFULNESS It happens when you’re “awake” to lucid dreams and Ahem… an announcement… “ Ladies and MINDFUL GIFTS AND GOALS daydreams. Gentlemen, once again, for the very first time, let’s Rewards vary with attention and intention. It happens during enlightenment experiences. rename the same– hypnosis– this time, we’ll put it in a Here are some: tuxedo to rebrand and sell it with higher Runners call it “runner’s high.” Others call it “being in 1. To be happy; have fun see pg 12 price tags and a fancy definition… THRIVE BE WELL STAY WELL HELP OTHERS THRIVE Includes preven hypnosis, NLP, and Mindfulness protocols so you FEEL TERRIFIC Get your copy today. Call 310-541-4844

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About my recent experience WHAT’S HYPNO-MINDFULNESS? from pg 10 By Jon Nicholas READY, SET, GO… ‘MINDFULNESS… the new science of health and happiness to improve digestion, ailments, and quality of life to keep you vital longer.’” Until just recently I thought that a quadruple It worked! bypass was an off ramp for the freeway. A Intellectuals, athletes, doctors, lawyers, rock stars, teachers, priests, corporations, and school few months ago my doctor noticed a heart systems pay handsomely for it. Medical centers offer it and insurance covers it! Airlines let you lis- murmur and started a long list of testing. It ten to soothing sounds from “mindful meditation apps” so you relax. Hotel rooms offer mindful was like a song from hair with all different sounds and word CD’s. Fire, police, prison guards, military and forestry trainings often include letters…EKG, ECG , ABCDs, ABPA, AVR “Mindful-Based Stress Reduction” in their curriculum. and the list seemed to be endless. In the end Mindfulness rides on age-old coat-tails (6000 years+) of evidence-based hypnosis that is enjoyed by more people who enjoy the ride and go forth and do nothing… and everything… they decided that I had a calcified Aortic If your property had a lush gold, diamond and oil reserve but you didn’t know it, could you get Valve and partly blocked aortic arteries. your well-deserved wealth? Nope, not until you knew it’s there. Hypno-mindfulness brings you your hidden riches untold. So, whatever you call it, engage your full focus and imagination and you will Well it wasn’t what I wanted to hear and yet I felt it was a blessing become more flexibile, successful, healthy, happy and in-touch with the real YOU and your full hid- that my condition was treatable with out being an Aztec sacrifice. den potentials. We scheduled surgery for June 5th. Showed up at the hospital at o dark hundred to be prepped for surgery. I was given a sleeping MINDFULNESS PSEUDONYMS “Hypnosis makes you a better listener & observer.” cocktail to wake up 8 hours later in a place called I See You ( I –Simon Chiasson, MD think it was named after the gowns the give out there) with a whole bunch of tubes sticking out of me. Sticking was a highly used idea “To promote hypnosis we offer a new label; Selective Attention-Selective Inattention (S.A.S.I.)…” during the next 6 days especially when it came to my body. I do –Canadian College of Family Physicians remember a lot of sleeping and a lot of concern about my bowel Hypnosis and Hypno-Mindfulness are sold as… acceptance and commitment therapy, action based movements. They tried to convince me that cardboard was good to mindfulness, aura centering, autogenic training, autonomic re-writing, attention training, behav- eat, shredded, sliced or in color. 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The right way to sleep is different for different people and may change over time. So ARE YOU HYPNOTIZABLE dull meeting? your optimal sleep regimen may change given what is going on in your life…your activi- QUIZ Have you been in the car and, lost in ties and your health. The more natural light you receive during the day, the more your body Can you follow simple instructions? thought, missed an exit? attunes to the regular day-night rhythms. Can you meditate or pray? Have you been in conversation when Also, avoid heavy sugary, fatty, rich food, caffeine, alcohol and soft drinks at least 4 Do you daydream? time passed very quickly? hours before your night’s sleep. Go to the bathroom one last time and turn out the lights and Does the thought of sucking on a juicy, Have you arisen from sleep, gone to the then look forward to a fine night and peaceful dreams. Avoid exercise-late-at-night. sour lemon make your mouth water? bathroom and then went right back to If you can’t fall asleep after 20 minutes, leave your bed and do something relaxing Have you been transfixated by a video sleep? somewhere else. Do the same if you wake up during the night and seem wide-awake. game or book? Do you yawn when you see someone Distract your thoughts to things other than the time. Read a book, sketch, or do anything Have you lost track of time when doing else yawn? you find calming and mindless. something enjoyable? If you see people looking up at a build- Give yourself seven to seven and a half hours to rest (infants teens and seniors some- Have you been too tired to get up from ing do you look up too? times require more time in slumber). the couch and go to bed? If someone shares an emotional experi- AFFIRM: “My bedtime routine is relaxing. I prepare for sleep by finding a com- Can you imagine yourself as a character ence, do you feel emotional too? fortable, temperate quiet place to stretch out, unwind and take it easy… the darker, in a favorite film? Have you cried or laughed while watch- the better. Turn off any electronics and, a general rule, It helps to go to sleep at the When you think of the sound a train ing a movie? same time each night and awaken at the same time each morning. When ready to whistle makes, do you hear it? Do you not hear what another says sleep, I settle into a comfortable position, close my eyes and relax my mind and body Do you tune out someone who speaks in because you’re thinking about what you more and more with each easy breath. Deep and rhythmical breath lulls me into a monotonous tone? will say? peaceful slumber. My bed is my haven for glorious sleep.” Does the thought of nails screeching on a blackboard make you shudder? Whether you think you’re hypnotiza- Chamine, I; Atchley, R; Oken, BS (2018) “Hypnosis Intervention Effects on Sleep When you hear a song, do you remem- ble or not, you enter altered states often. Outcomes: A Systematic Review” Oregon Health and Science University, J Clin Sleep ber what you were doing when you first A terrific hypnosis facilitator encour- Med. 2018 Feb 15;14(2):271-283. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.6952/ A review of 139 abstracts and heard it? ages you to understand and use this nat- 24 reviewed papers in a qualitative analysis 58.3% reported hypnosis benefit on sleep out- Has a smell caused you to buy a cinna- ural state of mind so it best serves you. comes. mon roll or popcorn? They assist you to embrace useful ideas, When someone says they feeling warm, tune into your inner awareness, heighten do you feel warm too? your senses and reach your goals. Do your thoughts go elsewhere during a pg 12 THE POWER OF HEALING WHO LABELED YOU? MARILYN GORDON, CHT By BILL NIXON The force field of healing – the universal energy, the great healing You carry around a self-image that you created for yourself or power – is a vibratory level, a beam, a state of being, in which you’re in was given by someone else; usually an authority figure–parents, touch with the transcendent and radiant power of the universe. Some peo- siblings, teachers and friends. Comments made may, at the time, ple experience it visually – and others perceive it as a feeling or a kines- seem harmless, yet may define you today in ways that don’t serve thetic experience. I might experience it as a ray that pours down into me you well. – especially through the top of my head, or one that radiates from me –as emanations of light from my entire body. Sometimes I experience this healing power more on Words such as stupid, fat, skinny, moron, druggie, if you accept them, can a mental level – a thought that a force in this universe is always directed toward healing. strongly influence your ability to learn and think. Other words such as, smart, bril- The beauty of this contact with the “Force” is that it can be the fuel for the healing of all liant, and terrific athlete, too may have a very strong influence. The good news is aspects of your life. Strange, but the dark forces need no invocation. They come as they will. that you can change those labels to what we want them to be. So if you have let other The healing powers need to be invited in. people define you in unflattering ways, now is the time to change it. I have seen hurt- When they enter, these powers can heal your childhood, your relationships, your emotions, ful labels change for good time and time again in an instant. When you have made your work, your body – your life. It’s a question of how to call them in. the decision (from the Latin word to “cut off from”) you recognize that you are Years ago, I was experiencing some emotional upheaval. It was triggered by a sudden loss that was not major, but that grew into a much larger experience. For several months, I felt someone other than a label. Then you accept a new label (identity) and a new life, worthless, insecure, grieved. I’d cry at nothing. Someone told me that I was going through an the one you want. opening of all my “centers” – but it certainly didn’t feel that way. One day, I experienced an HOW DID YOU OWN A LABEL? At the instant, and I mean instantly, when “I’ve had it” moment, and I made an internal decision to shift this state of mind that had been an authority figure called out a label, and “in your mind” you agreed with it, you limiting my life. labeled (and maybe libeled) yourself! Yes, it happens instantly and without your I’d been reading a book that I’d bought in the town of Mount Shasta – a small, beautiful knowledge. town at the foot of the majestic mountain. There was a tiny store in the town with a reading \Whose label have you accepted? room. It was called the “I AM Society,” and I bought a hardbound green book there called The I AM Chronicles. Its language was dynamic and euphoric – all about the great transcendent Think of it this way, if you say you’re an alcoholic, you are! It’s that simple. I magnetic beams of magnificent universal power that are available to us when we invoke them. remember years ago I kept telling myself I’m not a good speller and I believed that The key words were “I AM.” They caused the heavens to open and the beams to flow radi- fully. At the time several secretaries marveled at how I could write such beautiful let- antly from the ultimate Source of electromagnetic power. ters and technical papers, yet my spelling was atrocious. One day I was thinking As I read this small green volume, I realized that this power could heal most of the diffi- about my spelling, if I could read a book and find tons of misspelled words, how culties of life. I knew that my emotional upheaval could now come to an end. On the inner could I do that if I couldn’t spell properly? At that very instant I decided that I was level, I was given an invocation, which was “I AM the Power of Healing, and I AM healing myself now.” I made an agreement with myself to say it constantly and to counter anything a good speller, but, I was not taking the time when I wrote papers or letters to spell unlike it that came into my mind and consciousness. I realized that this was more than an affir- correctly. Over the next two months I wrote letters and give these to my secretaries mation. I was reaching to the Divine, to the healing beams of the universe each time I said it. to be typed. A month passed and my secretaries were betting among themselves how In this way, I was determined to be free of the debilitating state of consciousness I was cre- I improved my spelling? They thought maybe I was using a computer, dictionary or ating from within myself. I had paid a great deal of attention to my difficult thought process at the time one of those little pocket electronic spellcheckers. They came to my prior to this – looked at the dynamics from many angles, including past lives, childhood, and office because it intrigued them to the point that they just had to know. When they more. Yet the pattern persisted. asked me, I explained to them that I simply just took more time because I knew I When I began to say, “I AM the Power of Healing, and I AM healing myself now,” thoughts would bubble up from the subterranean ocean of thought forms, such as “You’re not was a good speller. They laughed and I proceeded to explain that I could read books good enough for____ (whatever was on my mind at the time.)” I remembered my agreement and see words that were misspelled, including some of their work! How could I do with myself to persevere, to not take “no” for an answer. Instead, I said, “No” to the anony- that if I couldn’t spell well? I explained that I changed my self-image to that of a mous voices that were attempting to bring me back into the quagmire. great speller, who hadn’t taken time to spell correctly. Whose label had I accepted As I continued to proclaim the truth – that “I AM the Power of Healing,” a strength entered for over 30 years? I imagine it went back to elementary school when I was in the me. I became centered and clear. I continued to say “No” to the “negatives.” Within two days, “bluebird” reading group. We were the ones who didn’t read well and couldn’t spell! I was transformed. I could close my eyes and experience beams of light entering the top of my A year and a half ago a doctor told me I was a diabetic. I immediately told the head and moving though my being. I could feel the beams of light radiating from my own heart. The tears and insecurity were gone. doctor, NO I wasn’t. I would not accept his label and want my brain to know it. I had to understand, of course, that healing is the work of a lifetime, and that it would be Three days ago I met with my general doctor and we went over my blood results for necessary for me to invoke these powers whenever the darkness might reappear. I knew I the last three months. He said (he was a new doctor for me) “why were you labeled always had the connection and that healing was always totally available. All I had to do was diabetic?” I laughed and said I guess it was a mistake. Now I’m not saying you can remember. Someone soon after that experience gave me a card with a picture of Obi Wan do that if you’re true diabetic, but if I had accepted the label and continued to eat the Kenobi from “Star Wars” wielding his light saber. This reminded me of his words to Darth wrong foods, stopped exercising, then guess what? I not only would I have accept- Vader: “You can slay me, but even then I will be more powerful than you.” The Light forces have great power, even if the darkness can sometimes seem daunting and can give the appear- ed the label, but I would’ve been a diabetic. ance of prevailing. The Light forces, in the end, have even greater power. It is time to be who you want to be and really are. Know, from the bottom of my For me, I pictured the Healing Power as beams of light emanating from the universe and heart; change is not only possible, it’s practical and easier than living with the pain surrounding me. Others have told me they experience is as a great ocean or as a triumphant and discomfort of accepting someone else’s judgment about you. Had I for one sec- mountain or a voice, and angel, or a great forest. This representation is very personal. Suffice ond, and that’s all it would’ve taken, one second, accepted the doctors label and it to say that it’s a magnificent Power that we can invoke upon by calling to the great “I AM.” agreed mentally that I was a diabetic, I would be one now. I may have been border- The “I AM” and “Om” are very similar. Both are actual embodiments of what they repre- line but not anymore. For the record, I’m not telling you that just thinking you don’t sent. Both “ I AM” and “OM” are words that contain seeds of the universal energy they rep- resent. They are “seed syllables” or “sounds” that contain the universe as a microcosm in their have a medical condition that you don’t. I’m saying that not all labels are accurate very being. So when I say either one of those seed syllables, I AM speaking the Name and when it comes to your ability to train your body/mind to be healthy. This is not sim- embodying the very experience of the great universal power. That’s why it is quite disadvan- ply positive thinking; this is thinking positively about who you really are. tageous to follow the “I AM” with a negative, such as “I am sick” or “I am bad” or I am a fail- My job is to help clients change who you think they are in this very moment. ure.” The “I AM” is so empowered, so imbued with manifesting energy, that to use it with a My biggest rewards have been coaching incredible people to make positive changes negative is to use it for unfavorable ends. for themselves. When I first started out with my current coach, we worked several “ I AM the Power of Healing, and I AM healing myself now” invokes the healing power times a week to make the changes I desired. Today several years later, I see him sev- – calls to it – and it also embodies it. It vibrates at the level of the great power of the universe. Here I AM both beckoning to and acknowledging the great existence of the healing power. We eral times a year. Yes, I still have a coach who didn’t just hand me a fish, he taught are able to bring the I AM power to bear upon all the issues of life. It can help us resolve our me to “fish to feed myself for a lifetime.” difficulties and challenges and can move us to higher and higher levels of consciousness. Bill Nixon is the author of “Addiction Hacks (See advertisement to order his Marilyn Gordon, BCH, CI, may be reached at www.hypnotherapycenter.com book) 1 (800) 398-0034 From pg 1 not a lot more yes. Indecisive. I thought I “Remember you said you were ready the pain ran away.” He wasn’t stammer- was still in with a chance.) to abandon the stammer?” ing. you?” “I know, I know. What will life be like “Yes.” He looked around the ceiling. “It‘s “Yes. ?Okay.” without all that dad stuff? How about we “Right. Well, in a moment I’m going gone. I can’t stammer…” (“stammer” was “So I‘m going to install a tap in his take it out now and instead of throwing it to clap my hands like this?CLAP? and the one word he had been completely inca- neck just here (I indicated a spot on his away, you give it to me? Then when you next time I clap my hands, drop the stam- pable of saying.) I want to be a hypnother- neck which would have been his carotid come back and see me next week and, if mer so Chris can express himself clearly apist when I’m older. Wow. I can say hyp- artery if his neck had been back to front) you want, I‘ll stick it back in?” and fluently, okay?” notherapist!” No stammer for the thirty ?and then I‘m going to drain all the hurt “No” “Yes.” minutes we chatted after that…. away as I count down from five to zero. “You just want to leave it in?” “Ready, then… 3-2-1 ?CLAP? Chris Chris came back the next week and Okay?” “No.” jerked forward on the couch, his back and brought his girlfriend and two other kids “Yes.” “You want to take it out now and head lifting several inches off the material from his college who come to gawk at the I pressed the blunt end of a small throw it away?” he had been resting against, before drop- guy who gave Chris his miracle. screwdriver against the point and counted “Yes.” ping back… Finally, he came back to I was lost for words. down. I told Chris “You have to get rid of “Cool. Go on then; take it out and room awareness…” this arrow.” (and I tapped his left pectoral throw it away.” “Where have I been?” He asked. Barry Thain is a professional and threw it away. His hand came up to his right pec, not “You‘ve been on a journey.” Hypnotherapist located in Britain. 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HOW THEY BECAME A sis is a common ability that anyone who can daydream attack in 1962. While recovering he wrote “Findings in HYPNOTIST can do. Hypnosis” which as later republished as “Explorations in BY SHELLEY In 1997, I gained a third mentor, Social Worker, Hypnosis” and still later as “Hypnotherapy.” His work Jordan Zarren who had assisted a magician/stage hypno- was sold on records as well. STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, PHD tist since he was fourteen. He went on to help people quit Gerald Kein writes about Dave Elman; “Dave (Excerpts from Stockwell’s Hypnosis Histery smoking in one session. helped the FBI in WWII when his wife, Pauline saw spies, Mastery and Mistery book available by calling 310 541- I work in a hospital to help people alleviate pain camped out across the hall from their office, flickering 4844) and have a private practice in Pennsylvania. You have to coded messages about Nazi submarines sinking US ships EADIE, JO-ANNE believe that you will help a person and clarify what they in New York Harbor. Dave and Pauline foiled evil plans Founder of the Canadian Society mean before you begin to help them. by getting the enemy agents to talk about hobbies on the When I was angry at my husband I called a psy- radio broadcast. Later the FBI stepped in and protected chologist. They helped me relax and understand my child- ELMAN, DAVE (originally named DAVE KOPEL- Elman’s three and half-acre estate with armed guards.” hood and challenges. A tapping technique called EFT MAN) DAVE ELMAN’S TIME LINE helped me a lot. I saw a video from a hypnotist and I was (May 6, 1900, Park River, North Dakota-December 5, 1915-1938 Vaudeville: Bit actor, musician, stand-up on it. Georgina Cannon was one of my influential and piv- 1967) comic, stage hypnotist. “World’s Youngest and Fastest otal hypnosis teachers. I studied EFT and NLP too. I also This son of “Jake” Kopelman and Pauline Reffe Elman Hypnotist” – billing caused name change. Jazz became active in the Canadian Society of Dowsers. Later, Dave wrote: “When I was six, my father hypnotized a Musician; Songwriter; Wide range of radio positions. I took training and volunteered with the Brantford Sexual young girl who lived a few blocks from us. She had a Jackie’s death (eldest son), Hobby Lobby, the birth of Assault Centre. This opened up a whole new avenue of pronounced stutter, but when my father hypnotized her, Howard Larry Elman” with the “H.L.” the inspiration knowledge for me. Today I love teaching hypnosis. I feel the stutter vanished. Then, when the trance was terminat- for naming his radio show “Hobby Lobby Elman.” so fulfilled when a student all of a sudden “gets it” during ed, her speech difficulty returned. My interest in hypno- 1938-1949 Radio Hobby Lobby, War Bond Auction, the course. In 2013, I started the Canadian Hypnosis sis was awakened… Old Curiosity Shop, Counter-spy Conference, Canada’s largest annual hypnosis confer- When I was eight, my father was forty-two and lay dying 1949-1967 Hypnosis The Dave Elman Course in ence. Hypnosis empowers people to physical, mental and of cancer. A great hypnotist came to our house, and went Medical Hypnosis emotional wellness. into my father’s sick room. Just before this, I had been sit- The book and the recordings ting near the door and had heard my father groaning. Colonel H. LARRY ELMANabout his dad Dave EALEY, KIETH, DHypPsych (London, Now, I went in and he played with me. It was the last time Elman: When my eldest brother, Jackie died, two years England) my father ever played with me, but, so far as I know, he before my birth, my parents went into a severe depres- As a trained electronics engineer I wanted some- was absolutely pain free for some time after the hypno- sion. To keep his mind occupied, my father was advised thing that connected me more to people. One day my tist’s visit. to develop an original radio show. Being solicitous of my wife and I stopped for tea, I picked up a leaflet with the Soon afterward, I attended a performance given by the mother, Dad asked, “What about my wife Pauline?” The words “Hypnosis Workshop: Help yourself to help oth- same hypnotist and he told the volunteers on the stage that 1930’s was rampant with male chauvinism! “Ah– she’s ers.” The leaflet stayed on my kitchen table for maybe I would shake their hand and they would go into a deep only a woman– just get her pregnant” his friend said. The two or three months and never got thrown away. One state of hypnosis. I shook their hand and it worked. result was a new show HOBBY LOBBY and me. I was day, I picked it up and called the number. A fellow My eye doctor then showed me how placing your hand told; “You are the ‘replacement child’ for Jackie.” My named Roger said “As it happens we have a course in close to the forehead and moving it down slowly while father always emphasized the importance of semantics– your area in two weeks time and it will only cost you saying, “keep watching the hand” caused my eyes to be and to think of what the other person HEARS and not forty quid (pounds). Why don’t you come along?” I sleepy so I could hypnotize instantaneously. I practiced on about what you think you said. Yet, you can imagine how turned up along with about thirty others and a part of me everyone and I performed my first hypnosis show in my being a ‘replacement baby’ influenced my perception. was skeptical and fearful; then I began to enjoy it. teens and always loved having an audience. I read every- Dad was a most respected man on radio. Yet, Having had such a good weekend I booked in for the thing I could on hypnosis… before Hobby Lobby he struggled financially His new advanced workshop. That was even better! I registered What struck me strongly was how dogmatic the instruc- show made him a national celebrity and millionaire. He for the diploma course to become a “Brief Solution tion was; ‘You must do this or that or it would not work.’ wanted to name me “Hobby Lobby Elman but I am happy Focused Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist.” This It was like confining mind in prison with the past speak- to say Mom gave him an ultimatum, “I will not name him NLP, Ericksonian, and energy focused course was ing to the present. ‘If you don’t obey the past you would Hobby Lobby but I’ll use the initials– H.L.E. and call him almost a year long and we had homework and met every fail in the present…only old ways succeed…’ I ran away Howard Larry Elman. I have gone by H. Larry Elman other weekend for lectures, personal development and to join vaudeville and worked as a musician, comedian, since age seven and it took me about six months to train practice. The place I was trained was called Uncommon bit player, and as “The world’s youngest and fastest hyp- Mom to call me “Larry.” Knowledge and it was certainly that! I achieved some- notist.” There were three important requirements for stage My father’s role in counter-espionage in World thing I didn’t think I could achieve. hypnosis: War II happened at 11pm when he and Mom spotted spies Over the next couple of months I heard from 1. Speed of induction; signaling from a nearby building. Because Dad was in the Roger’s colleague Mark saying that they had some calls 2. Reliability of the method of induction (i.e., first Boy Scout Troop in North Dakota, he was able to from the London area for people who wanted to see a 90% or more of all subjects); and provide details of the signals and alerted the FBI. hypnotherapist and would I be interested. I went to peo- 3. Sufficient depth for commands to reliably “take.” Among my father’s many accomplishments, one I ple’s homes and did sessions there. Working in homes is My name was shortened from David Kopelman to Dave treasure is the story of the man who was too weak for interesting with phones ringing and cats jumping into Elman to fit on the marquee. In the 1920’s I worked as a ANY of the many kinds of anesthesia drugs available in someone’s lap and doorbells ringing. It was great to songwriter employed by the legendary W.C. Handy in the 1950s. He required open heart surgery immediately. learn on the job with unbelievable interruptions. My New York. I also played the sax in jazz bands. We began His surgeon and his anesthesiologist conferred. One, or clients weren’t fazed at all but I was. writing and producing radio network programs.” perhaps both, were a student of Dad’s. They called to say I have been using hypnosis now for many years. When my eldest son, Jackie, died from pneumonia I was their only course would be to use hypnosis and could Dad I’m also a Reiki Practitioner. People ask me “How can advised to develop a new hobby to overcome severe come into the operating room as their “coach?” hypnosis benefit me?” I tell them “Experience it for mourning and keep my mind occupied. In 1937 the result My father accomplished a great deal in many yourself; it is very powerful.” was HOBBY LOBBY. In December 1938, it went nation- fields. His biggest legacy is probably in medical hypnosis, wide. The show was so popular that when I had to have a but that is not the only one. Not only did I love him and EIMER, PhD, BRUCE gall bladder operation, Eleanor Roosevelt (the first lady) Mom very much, I always realized that those two were (Born August 22, 1953 New York City) filled in as the guest MC! During World War II, I raised both “hard acts to follow.” In 1986, a friend introduced me to hypnosis. He money for the war effort through war bond sales. (anoth- He did, and this was the start of a large number of used hypnosis to help clients involved in worker’s comp er radio programs “War Bond Auction” (later renamed similar cases. disability cases to alleviate their pain. “Victory Auction”) become almost as popular a show as Part way through my first course, he urged me to I was disillusioned with the various brands of psy- Hobby Lobby. While continuing to write, produce, direct, do stage hypnosis for local high school events. He even chotherapy I learned while becoming a Clinical and MC these two shows, I assisted in counter-intelli- insisted I use his old vaudeville billing– THE WORLD’S Psychologist; developmental, cognitive-behavioral and gence work. YOUNGEST AND FASTEST HYPNOTIST. I think that psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The first two seemed aca- In 1948, after a doctor saw a hypnosis show he asked me I never lived up to Dad’s billing. demic, didn’t address emotion. and used a rigid script- to give hypnosis lessons to dentists. This blossomed my In Dad’s book, he wrote that hypnosis should not based cookbook approach. The third was too passive and new career teaching hypnosis to physicians and dentists. be used as a parlor game but should be primarily took to long. Dr Arnold Lazarus’s multimodal CBT In medical hypnosis, the physician, pressed for time, faces employed in medicine and related fields. So why did he approach, incorporated cognitive and behavioral tech- the same requirements as the stage hypnotist. The doctor encourage me to do stage hypnosis? His position on this niques. However, it left out the intuitive feeling mind; the also needs additional tools, but rapid, reliable induction subject was complex. He always insisted to his students unconscious. For me, hypnosis filled the gap between and reliability of the suggestions given are the doctor’s that they should never forget that his methods were devel- rigid and intuitive practical approaches. I studied hypno- first concerns… I have always been something of a free oped in vaudeville– never demean the research done by sis with Clorinda Margolis, PHD and liked it a lot but the spirit, and like to delve into the unknown. Hypnosis pro- some stage hypnotists. Yet, he also insisted that hypnosis training lacked a technical precision. vided a wonderful opportunity to explore the unknown.” belongs in medicine. His urging that I perform stage hyp- Then I met really good hypnotists who openly Son Col Larry Elman writes in his dad’s biography; “A nosis was primarily because he felt strongly that EVERY shared their techniques. I learned traditional methods, hypnotist appeared on Hobby Lobby messed up his own student in his course needed to practice rather than just NLP, and Ericksonian approaches. My early mentors were demonstration. My dad stepped in and saved the day. My attend lectures, for without experiencing the varied situa- Psychiatrist Dabney Ewin, MD (whose uncle was a stage mom said “you know more about hypnosis than that hyp- tions, how could you understand the reasoning behind the hypnotist) and David Cheek MD (who had the dubious notist.” After Hobby Lobby went off the air for good, Dad next lesson? So stage hypnosis was my “homework.” honor of being denounced by Milton Erickson.) David, had lunch with a physician friend who mentioned a prob- Dad’s initial classes were at the request of the who was born in Singapore, was interested in alternative lem with a patient. Dave showed him the hypnotic solu- medical community. But when his methods proved very and complementary healing methods. tion. Soon his friend sponsored a group of local physi- effective, one physician in Newark, New Jersey, com- When I developed back problems, and doctors cians to meet with him. That was the beginning of fifteen plasined that those who were paying for hypnosis training recommended bed rest, physical therapy and back sur- years of the Dave Elman Course in Medical hypnosis. weren’t coming as often to pay him for doctor visits. He gery. I used self-hypnosis and ideomotor questioning and Elman course included regression, help for phobias and complained to fellow doctors and state medical authori- began to heal. Then had a very successful and much need- allergies, preparation for surgery using hypnotic anesthe- ties saying “Dave Elman is practicing medicine without a ed back surgery. David taught me that pain comes without sia. He taught six or seven days per week until his heart license.” Dad was not doing that; in fact Dad’s effort so we need to relieve it effortlessly and that hypno- pg 15 stand on the ethics of hypnotherapy and the dividing line Larry and I have spoken at conferences and taught in 17 Cheryl later announced, “I want to learn this. Do you between physicians and hypnotists is an important pillar countries! Currently our Dave Elman Hypnosis Institute know of a school that teaches this?” Sean replied, “I own of the current codes of the hypnotherapy profession. has instructors in America, Belgium, Brazil, UK, Ireland, one” and thus began Cheryl’s training in hypnosis. However, in the hopes of entrapping the unwary, the Spain, Dubai, Australia, Hong Kong, China, Switzerland, In the spring of 2009, I was invited to speak about Newark doctor phoned constantly with fictitious scenar- Netherlands, South Carolina, Canada and soon in Dave Elman at the NGH Convention. In 2010, we estab- ios and threats. As a “latch-key kid” I got home from Malaysia and Germany. lish the ‘Dave Elman Hypnosis Institute (DEHI)’ and school several hours before my parents so I received I see private hypnosis clients and I teach classes rented an office space in Henderson, NC. I became a cer- dozens of such calls. Some had police sirens in the back- that include what I have learned; Marketing to discover tified instructor by Captain Ron Eslinger (USN Retired) ground and someone yelling “if you don’t send your the best help for you; Creativity to spin the right who is a leading authority on hypnotic pain control. father to where they say, someone will die.” “Dad doesn’t metaphors to make things better and better; Sales to sell Weirdly, some organization leaders attempt to dictate treat patients.” I said. “What sort of kid are you? Are you your unconscious on the healthier suggestions; and to hypnotists. That year, we were invited to speak at the trying to kill someone?” they responded. Additionally the Business to reprogram your computer mind with the right IHF conference in California, I received a phone call and same guy threatened physician that he would have their triggers and anchors for best results. was told, “You cannot speak elsewhere.’ ‘Really’ said license revoked if they pay for Dave Elman’s course.” Cheryl (who was on the phone with me) ‘We will decide Fortunately, an assassination attempt was averted when a LARRY ELMAN, CH, CI where and when we speak. There was only ONE Dave bullet struck the doorframe as Dad and Mom were trying “I’d seen several hypnosis stage shows and listened Elman and there is only ONE Larry Elman.’ Since then to unlock the door. I saw the bullet hole many times– intently to dinner table conversations about hypnosis. So, our travels have taken all around the globe and we proud- whenever I used that door. when I was 10-years-old I pestered my father, the famous ly keep my dads legacy alive. To get from our New Jersey home to Manhattan Dave Elman, “Dad, teach me medical hypnosis.” He took we had to cross the Jersey Meadowlands. In those days it me to his bookcase and handed me a large grey book on ERICKSON, MILTON (1902, Lowell, Wisconsin –died was a rather unpleasant swamp with pig farms on the few Mesmer saying, “Read this cover to cover and give me a March, 1980) (includes excerpts from “My Voice Will Go items of land which stuck above the bull rushes. There written book report about what is true, what is false and With You”) was one seven mile segment with no gas stations or other what has been learned since Mesmer’s day. Graduating from the University of Wisconsin stops and no shoulder to the road and the road was divid- When I finished the book, he handed me another book with a medical degree and an MA in psychology, he ed so one couldn’t make a U-Turn. As we entered this sec- on hypnosis. ’You’re lucky, Son. You only need to read worked at hospitals in New England and Michigan. In tion, Dad announced that he had to urinate. He began to and report on Chapters 2, 3, and 5.’ This continued for 1948, he became the Clinical Director at the University of fidget and Mom was remarking about the traffic jam we five books. Arizona. A year later, he started a private practice. He could see a few miles further on as one approached the ‘WHY all these books?’ I asked. worked as a consultant to the US Olympic Rifle Team and Lincoln Tunnel. From the back seat I asked, “But Dad, ‘Son, you’ll be the only student in the room who has for the US Government in World War Two. In 1973 –for- why don’t you try auto-suggestion like you taught us last not graduated from Medical School and I will not have mer student Jay Haley published the book Uncommon week?” The shock and surprise on Dad’s face has made you embarrass me.” Therapy that made Erickson famous. He offered seminars me listen to my students who often teach me the teacher. In 1950, I finally completed ‘The Dave Elman Course until he died in 1980. The self-hypnosis worked just fine for Dad’s problem. in Medical Hypnosis’ I was eleven years old. Part way Erickson suggested that everyone could be hyp- I will end with an incident from my parents’ wed- through Dad admonished me saying, “Larry, you’re not notized by mimicking their voice, breath and physical pat- ding. Dad was a Leftie, as were his children. Dad was not doing your homework! Last week it required that you do terns. only left-handed, he was also left-footed. In a Jewish XXX inductions using YYY methods and this week it AN ERICKSON HYPNOSIS SCRIPT wedding, the bride and groom drink wine from the same requires using ZZZ on those whom you have deepened to “As you breath like this you become more cup, which cup is then to be crushed under the groom’s Somnambulism.” relaxed. With your eyes opened or closed, list to your- foot. The Best Man took the cup, wrapped it in a napkin “But Dad, I’ve hypnotized all my friends and I’ve run self three things you hear…then three things you as tradition demanded, and placed it in the traditional out of subjects.” feel…and three things you see…three things you smell place– behind the groom’s right foot. The Rabbi told Dad “Then become a Stage Hypnotist.’ He said. ‘I will let and, now, three things you taste. Narrow it down to to smash the cup and Dad’s left foot came up and you use my old Vaudeville Billing– THE WORLD’S two things you hear… feel… see… smell… taste. Now slammed down, missing the cup. Dad realized what had YOUNGEST AND FASTEST HYPNOTIST.’ And so it to one thing… Tell yourself, as I count from 10 to 1, ‘I happened and went to try again, but with his right foot. was! I used the famous Dave Elman’s Rapid Induction will go into a deep and relaxed trance… “It’s up to you The Best Man simultaneously realized and moved the Technique, and claimed the “World’s Fastest” title. to how you go into trance… Take your time and go cup. Dad spent the first one to two minutes of married life (Today Elman’s Rapid Induction Technique is called the deeply in at way that is most helpful to you.” flat on his butt on a broken wine cup. The family kidded Dave Elman Induction.) At age eleven I was so socially His story: “I grew up in Lowell, Wisconsin in a him about it for 40 years. inept that a more correct title for my stage show would farming family, and intended to become a farmer like my have been ‘The World’s Worst Stage Hypnotist. Many father… I was both dyslexic and color blind. At age 17, I CHERYL J ELMAN, CH, CI years later, at a Chamber of Commerce Christmas Dinner, contracted polio, and was severely paralyzed. As I lay in “As a high school special needs instructor, I want- I saw a stage hypnotist who was so bad that I decided he bed … I overheard the three doctors tell my parents in the ed to switch into sales and was told, “You don’t have now deserved the title and I can now only claim to be other room ‘your boy will be dead in the morning.’ I felt experience in sales.” That surprised me because teachers ‘The World’s Second Worst Stage Hypnotist.” intense anger that anyone would tell a mother that I would always “sell” students on education. Eventually, I I actually attended Dad’s course three times before be dead by morning. My mother then came in with as obtained work in sales, marketing and business adminis- going off to college and I worked in our family’s ‘Dave serene a face as can be. I asked her to arrange the dresser, tration in Manhattan. I did that for 12 years. Elman’s hypnosis business.’ I even monitored the student push it up against the side of the bed at an angle. I married (and eventually divorced) an practice. That assignment was short lived; it seemed that She did not understand why, she thought I was Alcoholic/Drug addict. I learned a lot about addiction, from a physician’s point of view “We swallowed our pride delirious. My speech was difficult. But at that angle by habits and co-dependency and that has been an excellent to be taught by a non-doctor but, now, to be supervised by virtue of the mirror on the dresser I could see through the foundation for my now hypnosis career. The first time I a gawky 15-year-old that is a bit too much.’ I returned to doorway, through the west window of the other room. I was hypnotized was to stop smoking some 3 packs a day running the mailroom. was damned if I would die without seeing one more sun- and it worked! At M.I.T., I performed a few very BAD Stage set. If I had any skill in drawing, I could still sketch that My sister and I created a mobile arts and crafts Hypnosis shows and made myself available as the dormi- sunset… I saw that vast sunset covering the whole sky. I business called “Ceramics on Wheels” and taught groups tory’s “academic first aid kit.” (At the 50th Anniversary knew there was also a tree outside the window, but I ten to four hundred children, at a time. I met Larry in 2001 Reunion of MIT classmate publicly declared ‘I would not blocked it out… I did not do it consciously. All I saw was while shopping at Office Depot and he became my “com- have graduated MIT if it were not for Larry… he me the sunset, but I didn’t see the fence and a large boulder puter consultant.” We were married a year later. My com- through my final exams by using hypnosis on my Test that were there. I blocked out everything except the sun- puter repair costs certainly decreased! Anxiety?”) set. After I saw the sunset, I lost consciousness for three Larry’s interest in history and aviation, motivated In 1960, while on Air Force Active Duty, I trained days. When I finally awakened, I asked my father why us to teach “100 Years of Flight.” in Miami-Dade, Palm Launch Officers who “baby sit” US nuclear missiles. they had taken out that fence, tree, and boulder. I did not Beach and Broward Counties, in Florida where Larry pre- When I gave a public demonstration in hypnosis, an emis- realize I had blotted them out when I fixed my attention sented aspects of aviation and kids built their own wood- sary from the Base Commander’s Two-Star General so intensely on the sunset. en airplane models. Then came 7.5 hurricanes in 14 informed me that ‘any use of hypnosis while in uniform As I recovered I became aware of my lack of abil- months. (How does one get a half of a hurricane?) A year or while holding a Military Security Clearance would be ities. I wondered how I was going to earn a living… I no after Hurricane Wilma we moved to North Carolina and considered a Court-Martial Offense.’ I found no such reg- longer had the strength to be a farmer, but maybe I could Larry received a call from Sean Michael Andrews and, ulation– but rarely does a Second Lieutenant argue with a make it as a doctor. after verifying that he was Dave Elman’s son, he asked to Two-Star– so, that was the end of that. About two years I had polio, and I was totally paralyzed, and the come to interview him. After hours of chatting, Sean later, when I was transferred to a unit supporting the inflammation was so great that I had a sensory paralysis “stuck” my hand to the table and then to my head. Sean Space Program at the same base, my Division Chief too. I could move my eyes and my hearing was undis- became my hypnosis instructor. encouraged me at closed room lunches to discuss hypno- turbed. I was very lonesome lying in bed, unable to move In 2009, we attended our first hypnosis conference sis, UFOs, Edgar Cayce, and more. anything except my eyeballs. I was quarantined on the and were delighted to know how iconic Dave Elman’s After Dad’s death (1967) Mom answered inquiries farm with seven sisters, one brother, two parents, and a teachings had become. We created the Dave Elman about hypnosis and Hobby Lobby (Dad’s wildly promi- practical nurse. How could I entertain myself? I started Hypnosis Institute (DEHI) and sell his books and CDs. To nent radio show). When mom passed over in September watching people and my environment. I soon learned that this day, Sean apologizes for ruining Larry’s ‘retirement’ 1989, the task of answering letters fell upon me. my sisters could say ‘no’ when they meant ‘yes.’And they yet we thank him for bringing us a new life style that In 2008, Sean Michael Andrews, asked if he could could say ‘yes’ and mean ‘no’ at the same time. They helps people learn and create positive life changes. drive down from Maryland to interview me about the could offer another sister an apple and hold it back. I In 2011, Shelley Stockwell convinced us to attend Dave Elman methods. Our interview was quite lengthy began studying nonverbal language and body language. I the International Hypnosis Federation’s ‘It’s All About and Sean knew much about Dad. My wife Cheryl came in had a baby sister who begun to learn to creep. I would YOU’ conference and I was included as part of a hypno- and Sean said to her; ‘Your hand – It is stuck to that table. have to learn to stand up and walk. You can imagine the sis educators panel. Here, I met Joane Goulding of You cannot remove it. It is stuck as if it were welded….’ intensity with which I watched as my baby sister grew SleepTalk and were invited to speak in Australia and I chuckling inside; it was from my Dad’s old Vaudeville from creeping to learning how to stand up. became an accredited Goulding SleepTalk for Children routine. Finally, Sean released Cheryl’s hand and when I spent hours trying to locate my hand or my foot Trainer. she reached to wipe her forehead, he said, ‘Now your or my toes by a sense of feeling, and became, acutely As president of the Dave Elman Hypnosis Institute, hand is stuck to your head.’ aware of what movements were. Later, see pg 18 Imagine yourself a well-respected Certified Teacher/Trainer!

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P.S. Call or text Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD 310.541.4844 Or e-mail her at [email protected] page 17 From pg 16 How they became ETHER OR HYPNOSIS on the battlefield. BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, PhD WHAT IS ETHER? when I went into medicine, I learned the Imagine this. The year is 1840 and you’re a doctor who hates Ethers are any compound where an oxygen atom is bound on nature of muscles. I used that knowledge to to have a patient grin and bear it when you amputate a limb. either side with two carbons (called alkyl groups… R (alkyl develop an adequate use of the muscles polio You’ve heard that hypnosis successfully stops pain and NOW group) – O (oxygen) – R (alkyl group). Ethers are generally a had left me and to limp with the least possi- you hear that a chemical anesthesia is available. colorless, sweet-smelling liquid when at room temperature and ble strain; this took me ten years. I became Because you’re very sensitive and up-to-date, you decide to they have a low boiling point compared to water. Unfortunately, extremely aware of physical movements and try the chemical route. You dip a rag or sponge into a glass jar extremely flammable ether is stored in a brown bottle to avoid an this has been exceedingly useful. People use filled with the new chemical– ether (diethyl ether) and place it on interaction with sunlight. little telltale adjustive movements that are so your patient’s face. As you were instructed you say to them, HOW ABOUT CHLOROFORM? revealing if you notice them. Much of our “Breathe deeply and count backwards from ten.” Chloroform, a sweet smelling, colorless liquid that combined communication is in bodily movements, not Oh NO! As you set the glass jar of ether next to your steriliz- whiskey with chlorinated lime. It was first prepared in 1831. At in speech. I can recognize a good piano play- ing equipment vapors from the ether jar burst into flames. You the time, this concoction with was used as an inexpensive pesti- er not by the noises he makes, but by the way and your attendants try to revive the patient who is out in la-la cide. Yet the effects of chloroform seemed to quickly evoke nar- his fingers touch the keys. The sure, delicate land, so you pick them up and carry them out of the blazing cotic effects on a person’s central nervous system and it proved touch, forceful touch that is so accurate. building. less flammable. Unfortunately, it killed many people before Proper playing involves exquisite physical This scene was way too real. effective dosages were established. movement… My tone deafness forced me to CHEMICAL ANESTHESIA NAME DAY In 1853 Britain’s Queen Victoria used chloroform to birth her pay attention to inflections in the voice. I’m In 1846, physician Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the word eighth child (Prince Leopold.) less distracted by the content of what people “anesthesia” to describe making a person unconscious to avoid In the 1900s chloroform was linked to causing cancer in rats say. Many patterns of behavior are reflected pain; the word came from the Greek “anaisthesis,” meaning yet, is still an ingredient fount in some cough/cold medicines and in the way a person says something rather “insensibility” or “loss of sensation.” dental products. than in what they say. During the Mexican-American War (1846-1848), the Crimean So what would you do? Hypnosis, ether or chloroform? I began to recall body memories of War (1850) and the American Civil War (1861), ether and chlo- the muscular activity of my body. By con- roform were issued by the U.S. military to be used as anesthesia centrating on these memories, I slowly began to regain control of parts of my body YOU MATTER: to the point where I was eventually again able to talk and use his arms. Still unable to THE FOUR “A’s OF YOU-MANITY IT’S ELEMENTAL walk, I decided to train my body further, by BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS MY DEAR WATSON MEDITATION embarking- alone- on a thousand mile canoe 1. ATTENTION “I SEE YOU!” trip with only a few dollars. After this gruel- Don’t you love even fleeting eye contact! Attention vali- “Find a comfortable place to sit or recline. Take a nice full easy ing trip, I was able to walk with a cane… dates YOU… you sense it… value it and need it. Affection breath and ever so gently let it go. Again and this time let your Much later, in my fifties I developed 2. AFFECTION “YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION” eyelids float closed. Surrender to the flow of the universe as it polio again that left me even more severely A smile, a wink, a nod, a hug, a kiss, a squeeze, and a kind flows to you with your breath. Your shoulders relax as your mind paralyzed, but having been through the expe- word or gesture distills attention into closeness and warmth. relaxes and takes it easy. Notice any emotion that comes to you rience once before, I had a strategy for 3. APPRECIATION “I’M GREATFUL FOR YOU” and ask yourself ‘what makes this emotion happen to my mind, recovering some use of my muscles. After A more overt thank you is a gift that adds value to this body or emotion. Just notice and then let it go as energy moving the second recovery, I was obliged to use a moment, task, or mission. It is a more overt or public acknowl- through.’ Now call in the five elements to bring balance and wheelchair, and suffered chronic pain, which edgment of your contributions… a good deed, a job well done. flow. First call in the energy of the earth (prithvi)… Thank you I controlled with self-hypnosis.” It elevates self-worth! Feedback from others feeds you. It vali- mother earth; you ground me. Now call in water (jal); you teach dates connection and mak- me to be in the flow. Now call in fire (agni): you teach me to be ing a difference. warm and vital; Now call in the air (vayu); You connect me to 4. ACCEPTANCE all who share this earth walk and then ethers (akasha); You con- “WE’RE FRIENDS” nect me with the cosmos and strengthen, awaken and connect me When you are wel- to all that is bigger than I am yet you fill me with the great mys- comed and included you tery of the divine.” feel more worthy, relevant, or part of. Support and This being human is a guest house… respect from those you Every morning a new arrival; a joy, a depression, a meanness, respect can be a powerful some momentary awareness as an unexpected visitor… driving force. That is why Be grateful for whatever comes. we identify and celebrate Meet all at the door laughing and invite them in for each is a being part of a group, a guide unit, a club, a team, a Sent to clear you out for a new delight. nation, a party, a belief sys- — Jellaludin Rumi, tem!

SUBLIMINAL SALES on television and only allow after an induction to be broadcast but I have found no BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS. PhD proof of that as yet. At one time I am told that the FCC ruled that subliminal messages Subliminal messages are everywhere: billboards, icons, magazines, computer pop- could result in the loss of a broadcast license. The UK and Australia are said to have ups, radio and TV. similar restrictions. And if this is so sub-liminals are the norm in all promotion; sound, Slot machines show money and winning hands. color, and associations are calculated to elicit your emotion and your unconscious Your mind works by association. All that u perceive is taken into your mind as hyp- mind b-gets the message. notic suggestion. The message “Buy this, and look and feel as good as me” or “You’ll smile like me if you buy this.” “If you don’t buy this (insurance, security system, health care initiative) you “could find yourself homeless.” “TODAY’S SUBLIMINAL MESSAGE: ‘( )’” Watch a soap opera and you are there with those people living their life. They role BY DR SHELLEY model a life and you enter. You are in a hypnotic state concentrating and excluding out- Amorphous, intangible thought side stimuli. Is not always as it ought. It drives you in unthinking ways REAL LIFE HYPNO-TALES Influencing you night and day Ferrari’s Formula One cars sported a barcode design that was criticized for subliminal- to grab a dream or inner drive ly evoking the logo of sponsor Marlboro who had a ban on tobacco advertising. The to be asleep or feel alive design was removed. Penske Racing design on a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race car Subliminals bring shadows to living color was said to subliminally evoking the logo of sponsor Verizon, who was prohibited to to make you feel real to yourself or another. advertise under there.

GOVERNMENTAL MANIPULATIONS VICARY DICKERY “Certain individuals can at certain times and under certain circumstances be influ- “I saw a subliminal advertising researcher but only for a second.” enced to act abnormally without awareness of the influence.” James Vicary in 1957 claimed to have conducted an experiment where moviegoers –CIA “ Operational Potential of Subliminal Perception” document watching the film “Picnic” were repeatedly shown 0.03-second advertisements for In December, 2010, Dr Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas asked the U.S. Federal Coke and Popcorn. The results written in the book “The hidden persuaders claimed Communication Commission, “Are there any rules regarding the use of sub-liminals?” that foyer sales of the items increased by 58% and 18%. Vicary later said the experi- They responded, “There are no FCC rules that apply specifically to subliminal mes- ment never happened. sages… The FCC does not currently regulate advertisers… It does, however, have the Still, to commemorate its 50th anniversary, the “experiment” was replicated at the authority to regulate broadcasters and can propose fines or action against broadcaster if International Branding Conference (MARKA2007) as part of the Hypnosis, the use of subliminal messages by their advertisers is proven. Because subliminal mes- Subconscious Triggers and Branding presentation. 1,400 delegates watched the open- sages are intended to be deceptive, their use is inconsistent with a broadcaster’s obliga- ing credits of PICNIC into which subliminal messages had been placed at six-second tion to serve the public interest… the FCC requires broadcasters to identify any spon- intervals. Then, the delegates were asked to choose between two fictitious brands. sor of any broadcast program or advertisement.” “Delta” had been suggested using the messages and “Theta” had not. Eighty-one of the I wonder if this applies to politically controlled networks and their shenanigans, the audience chose “Delta” in preference to “Theta.” “product placement” on every sit com and the blatant hypnosis of commercials. Ostensibly, the FCC once tried to restrict full hypnotic inductions from start to finish pg 18 MINDFUL HYPNO-COACHING cultivate resilience with centering (or de-center- ANIMAL HYPNOSIS BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL- ing). Simply note your here and now and you will TONIC IMMOBILITY or “PLAYING DEAD” NICHOLAS, PhD reduce the stress of recounting the past or worrying BY SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, PhD (Includes excerpts from her book, “Hypno- about the future. Biologically, you tap into your Many of you know that I am “famous” for hypnotizing chickens. Mindfulness: Be Here Now!” available at parasympathetic nervous responses and release This had another name “tonic immobility.” Animal hypnosis was writ- www.hypnosisfederation.com) oxytocin, the hormone of love. ten about in 1646 Roman book “Experiments in the mind of a chick- Present awareness of feelings, thoughts, DO THIS! Think of something that stresses en from Merabile. (Merabile experimentum de imangatinione galli- actions and reactions bring excellent results that your body or mind … Got one? … Good. Now, nae.”) empower your beneficial “take-charge” attitude. close your eyes. Sit up straight. Take a slow deep This natural state of paralysis (whose function is still uncertain The more you pay attention to NOW, the more breath and relax your jaw. Notice the sensation of but might help with mating rituals and to keep from being detected) expanded, organized, and peaceful you are; you the easy breath as it enters and leaves. You might immobilizes rodents, birds, sharks lobsters, dogs, cats and maybe even master your mind as a ‘master mind.’” even smile. Why not it could make you happier. US during bliss or trauma! Death feigning birds often take advantage Research shows that mindfulness boosts Notice any thoughts or sensations that come to of escape opportunities; immobilized quail have a better chance of mood, soothes your body, helps you deal with chal- mind. Now, with another easy full breath, try to avoiding being the meal of a cat. lenges and may even let you live longer. The New think about stress… Gone…? IMMOBILIZE A SHARK York Academy of Sciences and several other stud- As you rise above conflict as you become From tickling trout to messing with sharks learning this may be ies suggest that mindful practices increases your proactive rather than reactive. helpful: lifespan by lengthening DNA telomeres on immune A shark remains in a state of paralysis for an average of fifteen response cells and soothes inflammation so you NOW, REST YOUR MIND. minutes after being turned upside down. Ten to fifteen feet long tiger stay healthier. With eyes open or closed, notice thoughts as sharks go quiet when you place your hands on the side of their snout Of your 2100 plus thoughts an hour, the ones an omniscient observer. This more objective bird’s- near their eyes. During tonic immobility, their dorsal fin(s) straighten, you embrace and act upon, profoundly effect your eye-view of perception is like seeing, hearing, and breathing and muscle contractions are more steady and relaxed. life, love, work and play. No wonder mindful class- smelling, tasting, feeling and intuiting a babbling Great white sharks aren’t as responsive. In California, in the first es are included at our Hypnosis Federation brook as it moves gently along. Your mind may recorded eye witness report, a female orca whale was seen holding a ReTreat, the Creativity Learning Institute, and in have a thought as you witness its ebb and flow. You shark upside down which kept the shark still for fifteen minutes caus- workplaces, wellness centers, public agencies, might think, “My brain is having a thought” as it ing it to suffocate to death! Fish have been reported using this schools, and as digital interventions. comes and goes with each easy breath. If some- approach with stingrays in New Zealand waters. Orcas reportedly turn NOW-focused awareness is in fact, hypnosis thing is heavy on the mind a couple of slow full themselves upside down before attacking, trap the stingrays in their in a tuxedo, currently marketed under awesome breaths lighten it up. No wonder “wonder-full” mouths, then quickly right themselves, in turn flipping the stingray titles like “mindful based-cognition,” “autogenic observing is shown in study after study to “curtail over, inducing the tonic immobility, rendering it as a nice meal. training,” “prayerfulness” and “meditation” and stress, anger, obsessive thinking, the blues.” IMMOBOLIZING CHICKENS: Draw a line on the ground and “digital device therapeutics.” Deputy commander of the U.S. Combined then hold a chickens head down so they stare at the line and they go BETTER UNDERSTAND YOURSELF. Joint Task Force, Maj. Gen Walter Platt, says, limp and lazy from 15 seconds to 30 minutes depending on the chick. You have programmed your mind to react as “Mindfulness gives [troops] what is needed…” to A book by H.B. Gibson, “Hypnosis: its nature and therapeutic uses” you do for your survival. And that’s a good thing or reintegrate into life at home… after a combat envi- says the record period for a chicken remaining in hypnosis is 3 hours you wouldn’t be reading this (Whoopee! You are ronment and post-traumatic stress. 47 minutes. Clapping hands or giving a gentle shove awakens the alive!). Yet, some reactions may be antiquated and DO THIS; HOCUS FOCUS. chicken. not in your best interest. Mindful attention to auto- Take a thought-full break and focus your atten- I’ve found bandy roosters the easiest to “hypnotize.” Another matic reactions bring you better outcomes at work tion on a wall or ceiling for one full minute. Give it technique is to hold the chicken face up with its back on the ground, and at play and most certainly makes a difference a go! ... and run a finger downward from the chicken’s wattles to just above the in how you feel toward yourself. Were you able to sit still? vent. Vets use this approach when the apply medication for foot As you get along with YOU now, you get What were you thinking as you focused on that mites. Another approach is to put the chick’s head under its wing then, along better with others and get the job done. place? gently rock it back and forth and set it carefully on the ground. Mindfulness makes even bumpy situations Now, this time as you look at the wall or ceil- TROUT TICKLING If you rub the underbelly of a trout with smoother. You don’t have to be Mahatma Gandhi ing focus on your breath… your fingers, the trout will enter a trance-like state. to know that “Happiness comes when your Is your mind more at ease this time? RABBIT IN A CRADLE thoughts, words and actions are in harmony.” So, Magicians will tell you that a ‘V’ or ‘U’-shaped restraining cradle tune in and get ready to bring out the very best you OCCUPATIONAL WELLNESS. works well with rabbits. here and now. When I teach mindful strategy to corporate WHO ARE YOU? employees and executives, they’re amazed at how “Who are you?” the caterpillar in Wonderland quickly benefits take effect. Work challenges and asks Alice. She answers; “I hardly know, Sir, just at interactions are more positive which translates into present… I know who I was when I got up this “harmony” and mindful organization of data and morning, but I think I must have changed several papers make for more productivity. ABOUT YOUR HYP NEWS EDITOR times since then… I can’t explain myself because I Research shows that a nourishing work-place am not myself, you see.” environment attracts & retains great employees and SHELLEY STOCKWELL-NICHOLAS, PhD Most define self by what they’ve been hypno- reduces stress and absenteeism. The Ontario tized to believe about themselves. The biggest hyp- Canada Minister of Labor presents this idea, “A Dr Shelley is President of the notist in your life is, of course, yourself. The next healthy workplace intentionally promotes [here and International Hypnosis biggest is your mother followed by your father, now] well-being which decreases accidents, com- Federation, and the author of caretakers, siblings, friends, teachers, the culture pensation claims, and boosts morale… and the bot- twenty-two popular books and and the media. Many spend tremendous energy tom line.” Simply taking a short mental time out or stubbornly defending such hypnotic judgments. bringing a lovely plant or flower to the workplace hundreds of articles and has been INTO-GREAT NOW! is uplifting. awarded three lifetime achieve- In fact, there are zillions of “you’s” doing, TEN MINDFUL-BASED ACTIVITIES ment awards! “you’s” thinking and “you’s” being. Mindfulness 1. Create an encouraging and nourishing support- integrates these aspects into a unified conscious ive environment. She trains and certifies profes- holistic ME! Peace becomes YOU when create a 2. Give only appropriate responses when needed. sional Hypnotists, Hypno- mind-set where all parts of YOU work as a team 3. Take mini-breaks and pet your pet Counselors, NLPers, Mindfulness Coaches, and Hypno- here and now. Stage directions for a play present 4. Breathe to relax, increase concentration, enhance everything in the present (I.e. “It’s noon. The old exercise, have more rewarding intimacy, sooth dis- Anesthesiologists and has served on the board of the house is full of toys. The boy enters from down- comfort and sleep more soundly. International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy stage left.”) Even as a hypnotist guides you to 5. Delete distracting apps and notifications from Association and The Canadian Board of Hypnosis and is a another time in your life (or into another “life your gismos and gadgets. former President of the los Angeles chapter of The NGH. time”) it’s the same… A past or future sense 6. Decide how you want to spend your time. becomes a vivid NOW perception. 7. Consciously bring your thoughts to the positive. Dr Shelley has been awarded six speaker of the year SOCIAL WELL-BEING. When you have a good experience, bask in it fully. awards at conferences and the President’s Speaker Award Think of a time when someone “cut you off’ in 8. Go for a stroll in nature and call in all your sens- traffic or while waiting in line. What was your knee es. from Toastmasters International. She is a frequent guest jerk response? What ever it was, what were the 9. Play and laugh on ABC, NBC, BBC, Oxygen Network, Freemantle consequences? Inevitably, one thing led to another 10. Listen to the voice of your inner wisdom and Media, Gaia, Group (or you mother) and your automatic reaction you will evoke genuine trust, honesty and fairness. W. Cable, Good brought about an outcome… When mindful, you Morning America, more easily redirect your reaction for a better Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, PhD is President result. So, next time you’re irritated, or someone of the International Hypnosis Federation, the USA Today, LA “cuts you off,” take a breath and choose a more author of 22 books and is sometimes called “the Times, The Wall peaceful response. Then notice and enjoy a more mother of mindful-hypnosis” and has appeared on Street Journal, nourishing outcome. Conscious awareness hundreds of talk shows including Good Morning London Weekly enhances how you relate and connect with others. Australia. She will be teaching at the AHA anniver- News, Redbook, sary conference in Brisbane in September. DE-STRESS. E n t r e p r e n e u r Ever noticed how some folks have stronger Magazine, Woman’s resilience? They transcend issues, trauma, conflict World and more. and challenge and seem to just move on. They do this by embracing an “I-deal” focus. You can pg 19 IHF 2020 Re-Treat Join Us for the 75th Happy Birthday Shelley…IHF Re-Treat Friday, Saturday and Sunday March 6,7 & 8th, 2020 At the Mary and Joseph Retreat Rancho Palos Verdes, CA Reserve your place now… Limited space Includes Dinner Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Breakfast and Lunch Saturday and Sunday. 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