The Evolution of Hypnosis My interest in hypnosis has spanned 60 years. My first exposure to hypnosis was in my sociology class during my senior year in high school (1955) when our teacher hypnotized one of my class mates (see My First Encounter With Hypnosis). This sparked my interest in the hypnotic process but it…
DetailsWorry: A Misuse of Creative Thinking My good friend, and author of many self-help books, Steve Chandler, advocates that: “worry is a misuse of creative thinking.” I totally agree with Steve. Worry does not change anything—taking positive and constructive action does, but worrying about them doesn’t. If you are a worrier, probably, in most likelihood,…
DetailsKnowledge Does Not Determine your Behavior Once again (as set forth in a previous blog: your behavior is not determined by what you want but rather by how you choose to be)—so it is with knowledge. Knowledge does not determine behavior! If knowledge determined your behavior you would have already changed and I would be…
DetailsChange in Behavior Almost every person who comes to see me about making a change in behavior, when asked: “what behavior do you want to change with hypnosis?” they say I want to stop smoking; or I want to lose weight; or I want to get into and stick with an exercise routines: I want to…
DetailsMy First Encounter With Hypnosis For a decade or more, from the time of my cousin’s story of the hypnotist (see The Beginning), I tried to rationalize how one person (the hypnotist) could determine another person’s behavior just by talking to him. And I wondered if hypnosis would work on the hypnotist. I had so many unresolved…
DetailsA Chicken Plague! My first experience with actually applying “hypnosis” (at least that’s what my next door neighbor, Gary Asay, and I called it) was on his dad’s chickens! By laying a chicken on its back and slowly waving a hand in front of its eyes for fifteen seconds it becomes paralyzed. Once it is “hypnotized”…
DetailsThe Beginning of Hypnosis My interest in hypnosis all started as a young boy (maybe eight or nine) when I overheard a conversation in which a cousin was telling my relatives about a “stage-show hypnotist” that had come to his school and how the hypnotist made some of his classmates do strange and curious things.…
DetailsHave you ever wondered how long NOW is? Well it is not very long; it is so short that this one is gone! But somehow you can’t get out of now. You cannot do anything in the past; you can’t do anything in the future; 
everything you have ever experienced has happened in this microsecond of now. You need to plan for the future so when that now gets here you are poised to take action. On the other hand all of your experiences of the past do not exist in this moment of now—they exist only in your mind. Worrying about things in the past doesn’t change them nor does worrying about things in the future change them in this microsecond of now. Once my hypnotherapy clients grasp the concept of living in the now (now I don’t smoke; in this now my actions are consistent with one who is fit and healthy; in this now, while flying, I am safe ….) maintaining the behavioral change for which they sought hypnotherapy to create becomes much easier and soon becomes a habit. By taking care of this moment of now everything falls into place—so have a wonderful NOW!
Perceptionism Not Hypnotism If what I said in my earlier blog is true, “Your brain will automatically cause you to follow and carry-out any instructions it receives from your mind”, then the question is: How do you get your mind to tell your brain what to do? The messages your mind sends to your brain are…
DetailsThe Mind Brain Connection I am convinced that your brain will automatically cause you to follow and carryout any instructions it receives from your mind. When I talk about your brain I mean the organ housed in your head that controls everything about your physical, mental and emotional being. When I talk about your mind…
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