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November 2008

HYPNOSIS - HYPNOTHERAPY
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The season of recognizing and expressing gratitude for our blessings is here, and we want to wish all our friends and family a very Peaceful Thanksgiving. To get us in the mood for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years enjoy this link to a very updated version of Amazing Grace. Click "Amazing Grace" to download and enjoy.

Now that Amazing Grace has us feeling good, let’s discuss the difference in the way some people approach explaining the benefits of their business in order to get clients to show up. I went on Dolly Parton’s website to get information for a parent who was interested in Dolly’s free book of the month club provided for children under five years old. She does this for all toddlers up to five and does not base it on income. It is a great way to get a child loving books and build a library.

She created this library because she is grateful for her success, and she never had books as a child.

Dolly connects with people through several techniques:

• She is very friendly;
• acts as if she is so happy to have the opportunity to assist;
• acts as if she would be someone knowledgeable ;
• and she gives us reasons to listen to her.
• She has achieved a high level of success from humble beginnings and it is easy to see why people connect to her.

View her opening to her website. Click here "Dolly".

For those of us who interact with others, it is important to remember the concept of appearing human and approachable without being stuffy, overbearing, or boring. Also, it is important to remember to show that the opportunity to be in therapeutic relationship is filled with gratitude and high expectation for the encounter to be positive, therapeutic, professional, and enjoyable.

Also, this is a gentle reminder to those we have taught and to those out there who receive referrals for their business to remember to thank those who take the time to give you a referral.

Recently, a client from Houston contacted us about wanting a therapist in a specific part of town. I spent about an hour looking up websites and email addresses for former students now in practice, who we taught or our franchisee taught, to send to the client requesting information. I even made a mistake on an email address and had to re-look and correct this with another email. Point: it took effort and time.

Out of four people contacted to tell them of this potential client and to ask them to email the potential client, how many do you think took the time to send a one word response to me? The one word response could have been: Thanks and that would have sufficed with enough gratitude energy for manifesting.

Only one person thanked me for an effort that could pay off in many ways:

• success for the client,
• that client referring many others,
• and my remembering the “ gratitude person” the next time someone asks for a referral from me for a specific part of town.

It was an effort that is not part of my “obligation”, and I do value my time like anyone else. All those who take the time to make a referral have to make an effort in order to do this process. So if you get one, you need to keep the “seed” flowing and growing by practicing gratitude.

Guess who will get the referrals for that part of town from me from now on? Reason: the person practices from a point of gratitude and will be successful in human interactions.

With this experience, I thought of many of my own referrals from others which turned out to be a bounty of interconnected multiple referrals amounting to thousands of dollars and lots of therapeutic results for clients.

Therefore, start focusing on gratitude in life in order to be a better person, a successful person, and a bountifully supplied person.

Wallace Wattles Secret

A good place to start would be to google the name , Wallace Wattles. There will not be an easy link to Wallace Wattles put into this update. Those who take the time and make the investment of time to read about him, go to his website, and start practicing some of what he believed will start a powerful process. An Avatar in India, Sai Baba, makes people work for information so that he can cull-out the non-committed. This process will require some computer search, but with Google and Yahoo, it will be minor effort to read about Wallace Wattles.

Wallace Wattles’ book is the information written in the 1800’s from which the current material called The Secret got it’s foundation. Gratitude, the concept of the universe providing a bountiful supply for all, and letting go of any philosophy about bitter competition in business. He believed the concept of a McDonalds on one corner with a Burger King right across the street was not competition, but served to increase awareness of this type food. In other words, it increased business for all as long as bitterness, back-biting, etc. were left out of the mix.

Avoid Disparagement in any way

Recently, I read another hypnotist’s rantings about “the only way to be trained”. She was putting down other’s techniques and ways of practicing, etc. This was to build herself up, but it showed her lack of understanding of Universal Divine Law. Of course, the people she was putting down were her immediate competition in her area. Not only did she attack other hypnotists, but also large groups which have a good reputation and lots of funds to protect their already established good reputations in the weight loss industry. When I read her rant, I thanked God I was not anywhere near her. She is actually hurting the entire weight loss industry in her locale under the guise of alerting the public to be sure to use her services only.

This negative propagandist comes from a philosophy of “ stomp out the competition” and is not practicing the belief in the bounty of God’s Divine Plan. I found it quite sad and very telling. This woman will be very surprised and will do more rants when the large groups , with very deep pockets, take her on for her libelous words and bitter attitude. In actuality, it will be the Universe normalizing the situation and taking a negative person out.

Practice gratitude during this season and there is a high probability it will flow into your everyday life. I read the following saying, and now read it daily:

“It’s not easy being grateful all the time. But it is when you feel the least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you. Make an effort to be thankful.”

When talking about gratitude, we are very grateful to two people who wrote to us recently regarding our in-home sessions of hypnosis on CD.
Click 1st thanks email,   2nd thanks email to read these emails sent to us.
The first one was a satisfied customer of a CD made especially for a person several years ago. The person sending the email asked about this topic later, and we had made this special CD topic withoutoffering it for sale on our website.

The first person who requested that CD said he had been stationed at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, years ago. He had remembered the lilt of Southern women’s voices and requested that I make the CD. Since we built our CD sales around the good reputation of Dr. Martin’s voice which has been rated as up there with the former Peter Jennings, we never put that CD on the website for sale. Also, there are over-the-counter products now which give a quick cure to this problem: "hair loss".

However, that email came in right at a time I needed to hear some good, kind words. It brought to memory two women who had also bought the CD from us and had re-grown thick hair before the over-the-counter products came on the market. It also came in to remind me of how much getting a thankful stroke helps in life. Take a moment now for yourself to remember an act of gratitude where someone really showed their appreciation to you and how it made you feel. The successful behavior technique called Behavior Modification is built around the concept of stroking good behavior .

The second email was from a woman inquiring and the email gives explanations about the CD’s. You can see from the combined emails that she did order after the education.

Art aids Hypnosis
"Mandala Drawings"

Also, I mentioned in an earlier update that a person felt the creative part of our website is beneficial and made a contribution to encourage this part of the website. It takes lots of time to get the artwork graphics on-line and the interpretation completed and time is business money. We have four mandalas that were contributed some time ago which will be interpreted this month.

Next month, we have many other art pieces we will interpret and get on the art section of the website also. The value of the mandalas is that the people drawing them started a healing process just from the creation. They never have to know the interpretation other than the left brain wanting to know.

The other value of this is that those viewing mandalas also get the healing energy. Dr. Carl Jung used mandalas , symbols, archetypes, and color in his healing work. He holds the record for being one of the best therapeutic interventionists who lived. This record still holds long after his death.

I want to personally thank the artists and to tell them: Synchronicity happened to make you wait for left-brained interpretation: the death of a good friend, grief from that, a sick Dad, and on-and-on. However, I know the reason was Higher than those events:

Now is the TIME for the interpretation and the interpretations will impact someone or some. ( Maybe not the artist.) It maybe someone who views the mandala who will benefit. Click here to view this month’s mandalas.

More about Hypnosis for Addiction Recovery

Now that you are back and have experienced healing energy from the mandalas, we will share a lesson recently learned by us. Hypnosis is valuable for stop smoking, weight loss, enhancing self esteem, for learning enhancement through superlearning, for improved sleep, letting go of grief, and many other wonderful topics.

It can also assist addictions that are so severe cellular changes in the body and brain chemistry have taken place. However, working with those severe addictions requires phenomenal energy from the intervening hypnotist.

A Metaphor for Cellular Change Addiction

This work is similar to walking a field with land mines installed.

Reason:
the cellular changes which have taken place for those involved with these addictions also have brought manipulative behavior, a sense of entitlement, and a desire to bring others down to their level so that they can continue with the addiction.

The attitude becomes:
“jump through the hoop and do it my way. If you succeed, then and only then, will I stay away from this crisis mentality which I love. The adrenaline high I get from watching co-dependents try to fix me is another addiction I enjoy. I do not respect, like, or want to emulate those who live mainstream lives.”

We have made a decision that those who have become involved with alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, gambling, etc. need to explore a treatment center of their choice with a good twelve step program backing up that treatment center.

Our students are probably saying: “Well then why do we have to learn about:

1. addictive roles,
2. traps in treatment,
3. codependency,
4. transference,
5. counter-transference, etc?

Reason for learning all of this?
You will encounter these roles when helping people with stop smoking or weight loss and other habits or anxieties. And, you need to recognize when you are being sucked into a system which can be non-therapeutic to the client and can destroy you if you don’t enter it with proper knowledge and high professionalism.

For us: we have come to a mutual decision that as helping professionals we need to guard our life force and working with addictions beyond smoking cessation and weight loss take too much life force from the hypnotist. This is the reason that counselors in addiction treatment centers have a very high level of burnout. They have to deal with all the “street smart manipulations” that are in the everyday behavior of those who are snared in these addictions. Addictions that annihilate the addict and those around them.

We will not be working with cellular changing addictions on a one-to-one basis any longer. We have a good addiction CD program which can be purchased on-line that will supplement an in-house treatment program, out-patient treatment program, and twelve step programs . We suggest you choose your treatment program, get into a twelve step program, and perhaps supplement the process by these positive suggestion CD’s which can be used at home.

Click here to enjoy a virtual Thankgiving Pumpkin Pie.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving and continue to experience a Wonder-filled Life watching the signs that guide you,

Cheryl Martin

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