Internal Change

When I read about hypnosis or meditation or consciousness, I always like the personal stories the best.  Real changes, the big changes that happen for people.  Even though change is continual in our external world, it seems that most internal change is slow going process.  Whether it's fast (I love those stories the best, touched by the magic wand, the big Aha!) or slow, I love the stories of internal change.

I hesitate to write about the change that hypnosis can bring because it is so individual.  But even as I type that last sentence, I get a baby Aha!  The individual experience is what makes it endlessly interesting to me.  So of course I will write.

As I was saying, external change is evident and these days fast.  Our internal response unless we take the time to examine is usually the same.  We hold our breath.  We let our mind spin.  Our thought patterns are repetitively conjuring solutions based on the past.  We contract.  We fear we can't handle what life brings.

Hypnosis brings you to a very deep state of peace.  A place where you can see and feel that you are not these thought patterns.  A place of feeling expansive and powerful.  Powerful in your ability to know that you are love, you are peace, you are contentment.  You are in a place of peace where you just easily and gracefully step off the hamster wheel. 

People who are regular meditators know how to do this, leave the spin of the mind and just observe.  But most of us are not regular meditators.  In hypnosis, you see and feel another reality.  A reality of knowing you can go to this place of peace anytime.  Play with it, How many times a day can I just observe?  Observe instead of solve.

Two moments especially make me so happy to be a hypnotist. 

One is when people open their eyes after deeply relaxing and listening to my voice.  Their faces look completely different than when they came in.  It's not just the Wow, that was amazing look.  There's another whole look of transformation.  There's also a sense that they don't want to leave!

The other moment is when I'm giving talks and I get to use the dry erase board!