Keeping A Promise
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far, away - 1992 in San Diego- a fair maiden, whose heart was pure and idealistic, learned that her mother was soon to die. Her mother, a fun, outgoing, lovely woman of face and spirit, was very, very ill with the debilitating disease of emphysema. Shortly before her early death at the young age of 64, weighing a mere 92 pounds, the disease having ravaged her poor, frail body, this mother asked her daughter for a promise -- that her daughter would quit smoking. Her daughter not only made that promise to her mother and kept it (before she died), but she also promised her mother that she would find a way to help others to quit smoking.
Let’s go back even further now to another galaxy, even further away: Los Angeles, California, when our fair maiden was about nineteen years old (the year would probably be around 1852) and she took a self-hypnosis course from the famed stage hypnotist Pat Collins (The Hip Hypnotist). Now lest you judge stage hypnotists unfairly, please let me say that if the stage hypnotist is of a strong moral and ethical bent, the stage hypnotist will educate people on the fact that hypnosis can be used for many herapeutic interventions, and not just to make people cluck like chickens or bark like dogs. And most stage hypnotists will do just that. Pat Collins was one of them. Because of that self-hypnosis course, our fair maiden’s imagination for the possibilities of hypnosis was inexorably, irrevocably, and forever excited. And one of the things that excited our fair maiden the most was the possibility that one could help people quit smoking with hypnosis! How glorious, how magical, how grand and lofty a goal it seemed to her since she, herself, was a committed smoker, smoking two packs of Marlboro 100s per day.
Fast forward about thirteen years, back to our galaxy of San Diego, and our fair maiden remembered that long ago (and far away) class. And even though she had had all the best intentions of using the skills that she had learned in that class, she hadn’t in all those years, young people believing that they are invincible, as they will. But all was not lost! She decided to get honest with herself. After all, she was not getting any younger (by this time our fair maiden was thirty-two). She decided she must quit. She wiped the cobwebs from her mind, brushing up on those skills, and on April 27, 1992 at 10:30 am, our fair maiden, to honor her mother’s wish and to save her own life, quit smoking using those long ago learned skills of self-hypnosis. Did our fair maiden succeed? She most certainly did! And then after the sad, unnecessary death of her beautiful mother, she began her journey to help others to quit smoking.
Our fair maiden went to school to become a hypnotherapist and learned many things that surprised and delighted her and that she could not wait to tell her future clients and that she knew would make them feel very comfortable and happy about hypnosis and hypnotherapy, indeed. And if they listened very, very carefully, they would learn and remember -
And then, when our fair maiden graduated hypnotherapy school after two hundred hours of training, she did not stop there. Beginning her practice immediately, she has had over one thousand hours of training in Neurolinguistic Programming, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Be Set Free Fast, and Tapas Acupressure Techniques. Since becoming a ertitifed hypnotherapist, our fair maiden has had her own radio show, been on local television in San Diego, created and taught her own healing techniques on both the west and east coasts, written a manual “3-in-1 Positive Solutions in Energy Therapy,” co-authored a book of scripts and inductions, edited a book of hypnotherapy case histories, written and produced dozens of hypnotherapy and energy therapy cds, is the moderator and director of a worldwide hypnotherapist list on the internet with over 450 members, and continues, to this day, to increase her knowledge and proficiency every single day.
Our fair maiden (now an old, married woman) is very, very lucky indeed because she has found her true calling. She has learned that she can help so many people, and has, with so many different issues and changes that they wanted to make – not just smoking cessation. And although it could have been a story with a tragic ending, the death of one woman has meant the changes, healing, and hope of many others. And when our fair maiden comes to the end of her life, and she once again meets her mother, she will be able to tell her, with pride, and a gleam in her eye: “Mom, I kept my promise. Your wish has come true.” And her mom will take her into her strong, loving arms, and whisper in our fair maiden’s ear: “I already knew, honey, I already knew.”
The End – Or is it just the beginning?
Let’s go back even further now to another galaxy, even further away: Los Angeles, California, when our fair maiden was about nineteen years old (the year would probably be around 1852) and she took a self-hypnosis course from the famed stage hypnotist Pat Collins (The Hip Hypnotist). Now lest you judge stage hypnotists unfairly, please let me say that if the stage hypnotist is of a strong moral and ethical bent, the stage hypnotist will educate people on the fact that hypnosis can be used for many herapeutic interventions, and not just to make people cluck like chickens or bark like dogs. And most stage hypnotists will do just that. Pat Collins was one of them. Because of that self-hypnosis course, our fair maiden’s imagination for the possibilities of hypnosis was inexorably, irrevocably, and forever excited. And one of the things that excited our fair maiden the most was the possibility that one could help people quit smoking with hypnosis! How glorious, how magical, how grand and lofty a goal it seemed to her since she, herself, was a committed smoker, smoking two packs of Marlboro 100s per day.
Fast forward about thirteen years, back to our galaxy of San Diego, and our fair maiden remembered that long ago (and far away) class. And even though she had had all the best intentions of using the skills that she had learned in that class, she hadn’t in all those years, young people believing that they are invincible, as they will. But all was not lost! She decided to get honest with herself. After all, she was not getting any younger (by this time our fair maiden was thirty-two). She decided she must quit. She wiped the cobwebs from her mind, brushing up on those skills, and on April 27, 1992 at 10:30 am, our fair maiden, to honor her mother’s wish and to save her own life, quit smoking using those long ago learned skills of self-hypnosis. Did our fair maiden succeed? She most certainly did! And then after the sad, unnecessary death of her beautiful mother, she began her journey to help others to quit smoking.
Our fair maiden went to school to become a hypnotherapist and learned many things that surprised and delighted her and that she could not wait to tell her future clients and that she knew would make them feel very comfortable and happy about hypnosis and hypnotherapy, indeed. And if they listened very, very carefully, they would learn and remember -
- That hypnosis is a normal and natural state which we all go in and out of every day.
- That you would never be made to do anything you did not want to do, or anything outside of your moral code or value system.
- That posthypnotic amnesia does not occur spontaneously. So in most circumstances, you would remember everything that happened in trance.
- That you would always remain in complete control of yourselves, and in fact, would be the most in control of your minds than you have ever been.
- That you could not stay stuck in hypnosis, ever.
- That hypnosis is not asleep or unconscious
- That you would be hyper-aware while in the state of hypnosis, your other senses becoming much more acute (just as they are right now).
- That hypnosis is a very real phenomenon where the subconscious mind is much more open and suggestible as proven by CAT scan and numerous scientific validations.
- That you could learn to make changes easily, effortlessly, and permanently.
- That in most cases our fair maiden would only be seeing you for three to six sessions for most issues.
- That hypnosis feels wonderful.
- And last but not least, that any change your mind could conceive of (within the realm of physiological and psychological possibility), you could achieve, together.
And then, when our fair maiden graduated hypnotherapy school after two hundred hours of training, she did not stop there. Beginning her practice immediately, she has had over one thousand hours of training in Neurolinguistic Programming, Reiki, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Be Set Free Fast, and Tapas Acupressure Techniques. Since becoming a ertitifed hypnotherapist, our fair maiden has had her own radio show, been on local television in San Diego, created and taught her own healing techniques on both the west and east coasts, written a manual “3-in-1 Positive Solutions in Energy Therapy,” co-authored a book of scripts and inductions, edited a book of hypnotherapy case histories, written and produced dozens of hypnotherapy and energy therapy cds, is the moderator and director of a worldwide hypnotherapist list on the internet with over 450 members, and continues, to this day, to increase her knowledge and proficiency every single day.
Our fair maiden (now an old, married woman) is very, very lucky indeed because she has found her true calling. She has learned that she can help so many people, and has, with so many different issues and changes that they wanted to make – not just smoking cessation. And although it could have been a story with a tragic ending, the death of one woman has meant the changes, healing, and hope of many others. And when our fair maiden comes to the end of her life, and she once again meets her mother, she will be able to tell her, with pride, and a gleam in her eye: “Mom, I kept my promise. Your wish has come true.” And her mom will take her into her strong, loving arms, and whisper in our fair maiden’s ear: “I already knew, honey, I already knew.”
The End – Or is it just the beginning?
1 Comments:
This article was very encouraging to read. I am now very curious about hypnosis myself. I was searching out the possibility of hypnosis as an alternative to traditional weight loss and came across this site. Hypnosis might be interesting for me to learn as well.
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