Damon here with NLP gym and we just wrapped up the second day of training
with dr sid jacobson doing the workshop hypnosis in NLP how do you think today went?
I enjoyed it a lot
i had a good time - yeah I definitely did too
one of the things i want to ask you about which was we were at lunch here in
the hotel here in santa cruz and we told the waitress that we were doing it a
hypnosis workshop and the first words out of her mouth was that
sounds scary
and so I want to talk to you a little bit about the myths in hypnosis
because I remember thinking sort of those things to do before I knew what
hypnosis was and I forget sometimes that people do actually have that response to
hypnosis
sure oh that's something scary that's you don't want to do that and so let's
talk about some of the myths and let's debunk some of those nests for anyone
who is watching it doesn't have any training
well first of all you almost have to go back to how you define hypnosis in the
first place
let's see if you I've always told people if you line up 10 people do hypnosis and
asking for their definition
you'll get a hundred and forty seven different definitions because there's so
many different ways to talk about and hypnosis of course over the years has
got all kinds of reputations depending on which movies you've seen which
television shows you heard about which friend of an uncle of a cousin of a guy
across the street from now on the next town had somebody you know do hypnosis
and his head exploded i mean their urban myths and fears all over the place that
don't have anything to do with the reality
hypnosis has been around in various forms
you know you could say since caveman days because it's all about altering
people's consciousness for some purpose but really for about 300 years people
have been in clinical sessions are clinical settings of some sort various
parts of the world
sitting people down and talking to them away
that would alter their states and getting them to think differently
understand the world differently feel things differently
whatever and the rule hypnosis has always been that hypnosis is only
dangerous if the hypnotist thinks hypnosis is dangerous in which case
he'll undoubtedly communicate that in some way to the person he's working with
and and probably won't do a very good job actually because he won't be can
grow into about what he's doing and congruence is important witnesses
it's important to to know what you're doing to be well trained to know how to
do it and to be able to deliver good results for people but people have these
these ideas that hypnosis is some kind of magic or that it has to do with the
you as the subject giving up your will to me as they existed i'm going to
control you in some way and that's just not the reality it never has been
the movies haven't helped with that very much easier
there are also other myths people have about only certain people can be
hypnotized people who are very smart can't be your people who are very not
smart can't be and none of these things is really very true with with the way
that we understand
- works nowadays from studying people like Ericsson to before him to his
contemporaries to NLP with all the people who have developed and Hopi we
know a hell of a lot more about how
books these days and had a user and a lot of the techniques that are built
NLP were really built out of bits and pieces of classical automatic technique
combined in ways to make them safe and functional and useful to maintain
ecology so that people would create new problems by solving the old ones and to
make sure that people are actually getting the things that they need to get
so I like to think of hypnosis is a really powerful useful set of tools that
anybody can learn because all we're doing is using naturally existing
process that human beings go through in communication with each other and
involves processes people alter their states the process information
differently than they would if they were in other states
so one way of thinking of it is a lot of times we're just taking people out of
the trances there in the first place that aren't working for them and getting
them into better trances that they are and that was fritz perls the developer
of NLP of gestalt therapy
one of the precursors of NLP that was his view so that's one of the things
that we're doing some of the other things that we're doing our really
empowering people with hypnosis
well i first learned to get to the closest i was in class when I was in
college
many many many moons ago and our teacher took us all to a series of hypnotic
experiences in order to teach us how to do it ourselves
so personally i've been using self hypnosis instant 1974
and it's helped me greatly in a number of ways I didn't learn how to do
clinical hypnosis really until my help be training
1978 and I've been doing it ever since it's great fun
it's great fun to teach people get a lot out of it and it's really easy to see
immediate results and i think that's that's valuable for everyone
what I have to say through this entire day and all day yesterday and the
Previous hypnosis trainings that I've done I've never once that scared doing
hypnosis good pretty good because it's not really very scary once you get into
it it's really just a lot of fun you know
can you think of any other miss that people because when you tell people you
do hypnosis you must get people saying oh no i don't i don't want to I don't
like it no sorry I want to do that notice and they start spitting out all
these myths
well the main ones are that people will lose control
you know they won't have their own control or that they're giving up their
control of their abilities to somebody else those are probably the two main a
third one is that people will do things that are embarrassing or crazy or stupid
or dangerous just because there in trance
another one is that people will spill out every secret they've ever had in
their life
you know whether they want to or math up to start talking about all the
embarrassing things I've ever done and then all those things is really true
another side to it is that a lot of people think they're going to do it
badly
even as a subject it's still say oh I know you're going to do a really good
job that I always fail so I know I'll fail at this too and they think that
hypnosis is different than other things you know it
it's somehow going to be difficult for them or that that they're not going to
be capable of going into transit and getting what they want and you know step
is for other some of the more common fears people have heard about or worried
about her
I might go into trance and I won't ever be able to come out again this is never
happened in the history of mankind as far as we are the people develop some
sort of you know psychotic disorders or something you hear about this from time
to time people will say I was fine until i went to the hypnotist in line
you know my life is a massive whatever but it's it's not in gnosis that does
that
it's something else I mean you know people can be tricked they can be fooled
they can do something that takes somebody into an unrestored for state
you know even well-meaning people can make mistakes or or do something or
somebody doesn't get what they wanted to get what really using the kinds of
things we do today in NLP with ecology checks built-in with carefully design
procedures to take people from where they are to where they want to go with
testing to make sure that they're successful
these things are pretty where most of the time people get a really good result
really fast and we're really happy with it
I couldn't agree more
okay okay well that's about it for today and we have another full day of hypnosis
training and it will be the final day and hope we hope to have you back in
santa cruz again soon meet you
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