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- From: friday@netcom.com (Carol Anne Ogdin)
- Subject: Learning Hypnosis
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.165322.9707@netcom.com>
- Summary: How to learn hypnosis
- Keywords: Hypnosis Learning Experience
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:53:22 GMT
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- I have recently received a flood of requests for personal advice
- and information about learning hypnosis; I've responded to each,
- but there is a pattern in my responses that I can share with all.
-
- 1. I do not believe that you can learn effective (and ethical)
- hypnosis from books. There are skills (like pacing your words
- to the subjects breathing, using tonality to mark out certain
- words to form other messages that what is apparent to the casual
- listener, like how to match the client's experience) than you can
- read about all day and never learn a thing. If you want to "play"
- with hypnosis, go to the library and read what they have; you'll
- learn enough to do elementary things and find out whether hypnosis
- is a subject you really want to learn.
-
- 2. While I "do" hypnosis, my primary training is in Neuro-Linguistic
- Programming (NLP). NLP is an application of hypnosis, and a way
- of understanding behavior and communication, of which hypnosis is
- one part. While hypnosis might seem mysterious, NLP makes it quite
- obvious and open (with sufficient practice). I recommend you in-
- vestigate it as a field of study.
-
- 3. To find someone to teach you hypnosis, I recommend two sources:
- a. Look under "Hypnosis" in the Yellow Pages; call them and see
- if they're willing to help you learn, or if they can refer you
- to someone who will.
- b. There are numerous "New Age" periodicals, underground news-
- papers, etc. where people with esoteric skills often announce
- themselves; call those people and ask where you can learn.
-
- 4. I am not willing to outline specific strategies for hypnosis for
- ethical reasons: I have a responsibility to the unknown "subjects"
- that might be exposed to those strategies, and I have no way to judge
- the ethics of the people who might read this newsgroup and apply them
- in harmful ways.
-
- 5. I am located in Silicon Valley (San Jose, CA), and I am a Trainer
- (as well as Certified Practitioner and Certified Master Practitioner)
- in NLP. If you are in my area, e-mail me privately and we can work
- out a way to help you learn, if that is your goal.
-
- --
- --Friday "There is in true beauty, as in
- Carol Anne Ogdin, Principal Designer courage, something which narrow
- Deep Woods Technology souls cannot dare to admire."
- friday@netcom.com --William Congreve
-