Recently someone asked me about the concept of hypnotic seals. While I would normally give exact the exact wording of the question, for this one (and the various other questions), I can't for ethical reasoning. What is a hypnotic seal? The concept of a hypnotic seal is basically that there is some type of post-hypnotic … Continue reading Ask a Hypnotist : Hypnotic Seals
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A slight detour because of the hack from Monday. I saw it less than an hour after it was posted and I have been spending some time cleaning up and tracking down the hacker. It should come as no surprise that I was again able to track it to another hypnotist. The last time this … Continue reading Making Enemies in the Hypnosis community
I don’t think I have ever struggled so hard to begin a blog post as I have for this one. I am not sure if this is because it is a touchy subject or because I am just getting tired of the competition and the negativity that occurs in the field. I spend a lot … Continue reading Negativity or protecting clients?
When I was coming back from Atlanta this week, I received an interesting text message from someone who wanted to shadow me in my practice and allow me to let him get more hands-on experience. He claimed to have attended an accredited hypnotherapy training program and was a certified in Ericksonian hypnotherapy from a location … Continue reading Udemy Hypnosis
I was reading the abstract of an article in Clinical Psychological Science called "Reports of Recovered Memories of Abuse in Therapy in a Large Age-Representative US National Sample" that popped up on my google scholar alert a few days ago and something in that triggered me to write about false memories. In the study, they … Continue reading Regression and False Memories
Since I have been primarily posting about the benefits of hypnosis and vaguely mentioned some of the less than preferred things that other hypnotists were doing, including the creation of multiple personalities when under hypnosis, it is only ethical to discuss this. While the development of multiple personalities is officially known as dissociative identity disorder, … Continue reading Creating Multiple Personalities in Hypnosis