The Transparent Hypnotist

Wow. Last night was my 101th post on this blog. How quickly time flies. Wish you were all here to celebrate, oh, but wait, you are. Mimosas for all (I wish, but it is a work day after all).

If you read my post from last night, you will then be aware that yesterday was not a stellar day for me. But now that morning has come yet again, the light illuminates much. I believe that life does imitate art. As I was cleaning out my files, I found some old negatives from past advertising I had done. What a wonderful thing. Out of every negative a positive can be made. Hence life. Hence this blog.

As humans, I think we are fairly loath to talk about failures - so I will not. Rather I will talk about a tough session and the positive aspects about it. It has been a while since I have worked with a resistant client, so I fear the theme for the next few days will be tainted with this subject. In fact, this one had to be the most resistive person I have ever worked with in my career. For the first time in a long while, I came home exhausted from it. I know, poor me.

But rather than wallowing in misery, even as it was happening, I realized the session was not a failure. The client still made many connections that hopefully will prove helpful. The rationalization and censor processes were still full on, but it did ebb enough to let some moments of discovery happen.

For those of you who believe in the Laws of Attraction and the more New Agey stuff out there, I am a believer, too (for those of you who are not, feel free to skip this paragraph, though I think it may be the apex of this post). Here is what I really believe. I believe that those who come to me for help, have been sent to me for a reason. Yes, I know, they want me to hypnotize them, but it more than that. They are there because there is something I can offer them, help them learn, and there is probably something I am suppose to learn from them. Yesterday is probably more of the latter. I learned why it is good to have many options available in one’s personal tool box (why one must learn how to work with analytical, permissive, authoritative, resistant options). It is also good to learn how to combine them. I learned that my intuition is worth listening, too. It was dead on. And I learned sometimes it is good to just let things be. You cannot force someone to be somewhere that they are not. At some point it really is all up to them. And that is okay.

Recently, I decided to explore sister modalities to the hypno realm, and tried a hypno-massage. If you ever have the opportunity I recommend trying it. It can be a wonderful and beautiful experience.

Basically, the idea is to use massage as a relaxation tool in order to bring one to an alpha level (oh why or why can’t it all be alphabetical - I so crave a natural order - with alpha being the waking or normal consciousness and beta being a the relaxation level? Perhaps I should have learned the Greek alphabet). My particular experience used a more guided imagery approach to help relieve some physical pains of which I have been suffering. The lady I saw is also an energy worker and intuitive healer. New age perhaps, but I’m so willing to take those routes before committing to a problem and the medication associated with it.

At one point my body began to tremble uncontrollably, which was interesting. After she helped me return to normal consciousness, she discussed her findings, which included perhaps having another physical and tweaking a few habits, along with some meditative suggestions.

All in all, I was extremely happy, felt a weight lifted and realized that some of my thoughts were reframed. Very nice.