7 Lies About Hypnosis & The Facts

As a professional in the field of helping human beings create change, I’m often asked questions about hypnosis. By training and experience as a professional Clinical Hypnotherapist, I’ve learned that when someone asks a question, or makes what appears to be a statement of truth about hypnosis, it’s best to ask them “how did you learn that and from whom”.

Quite often most people that are “against” it know what they know from TV and Hollywood fantasy, or heard about it from “someone that knows.” Those of us that are “for it” understand what it is because we’ve been witness to the often miraculous changes that have occurred for the people that choose use it.

SO JUST WHAT IS HYPNOSIS?

Have you ever “become really absorbed” while watching TV? Or driven to work on “auto pilot?” Then you know what hypnosis is like. Hypnosis is a very normal and natural state of consciousness, one we all experience from time to time in which the mind remains clear, alert and focused. In this state of focused concentration, it’s possible to learn new, desirable habits, and more importantly, unlearn old, undesirable habits. Another way to think about it is that it’s “the ability given to you by your higher power to convince yourself of anything”

Here are some of the lies and misinformation often repeated about hypnosis.

LIE #1 – ONLY WEAK MINDED PEOPLE CAN BE HYPNOTIZED

Actually, anyone with an open mind, reasonable intelligence, that is able to concentrate and that wants to can be hypnotized.

LIE #2 – HYPNOSIS IS DANGEROUS

There has never been a documented case of harm coming to anyone from the therapeutic use of hypnotism.

LIE #3 – PEOPLE GET STUCK IN HYPNOSIS

A person may choose to stay in hypnosis after an experienced hypnotist asks them to come out of it. The reason being, it is such a relaxed feeling of enjoyment, they prefer to stay hypnotized awhile longer. The person then may go  to sleep, and awakes as usual. In self-hypnosis you have complete control, and set your own time limit. There has never been a documented case of someone unable to come out of hypnosis.

LIE #4 – HYPNOSIS WEAKENS THE WILL

No. Self-hypnosis strengthens it. Hypnosis works with the will, not against it.

LIE #5 – A PERSON CAN BE HYPNOTIZED AGAINST THEIR WILL

No one is hypnotized against his or her will. The hypnotist merely assists the subject, who hypnotizes them-self.

LIE #6 – HYPNOSIS IS MIND CONTROL

This is actually true, just not in the way the liars want you to believe. What they want you to believe is that another person, ie the hypnotist, can take over your mind and “make” you do their bidding. The truth is YOU control your mind and your free will allows you to take action or not take action as a result of any suggestion given you either by yourself or someone else.

LIE #7 – HYPNOSIS IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH RELIGION

If  this is a concern for you, understand this: whatever your religious background, if the “Enemy” wanted to keep you away from your religious path or destiny, what better way than to cause fear and doubt, especially regarding things that  assist you to more fully realize your potential. Question the motives of anyone suggesting anything different.

WHAT IS SELF-HYPNOSIS?

Techniques exist by which one can attain a state of self-hypnosis and gain complete relaxation under the most stressful conditions. In this state the subconscious mind is open to therapeutic suggestions.

WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE TO BE HYPNOTIZED?

Hypnosis is a very pleasant feeling of complete physical and mental relaxation. It is similar to that moment between knowing you are awake and going into the sleep state.

Some misconceptions about hypnosis are that it’s a frightening or eerie state, or that it feels very weird, but it’s actually very normal and very pleasant. Some people ask if they’ve really been hypnotized, just because it feels like such a normal state and they were expecting something very strange. The zombie-type states you see depicted in movies and on TV are pure fantasies.

WHAT IS THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND?

The conscious mind, the mind you are conscious of, is your “ME”. It is the critical part of your mind. The subconscious mind is the one that directs your conduct through the habits and emotional desires acquired from the influences of your environment, before you were old enough to reject harmful ideas and concepts.

WHAT IS AUTO SUGGESTION?

Through proper use of autosuggestion you reprogram the subconscious mind to make decisions favorable to your welfare. The new suggestions help in overcoming unwanted habits, a lack of concentration and any other unhealthy attitudes that doom you to failure.

WHAT CAN SELF-HYPNOSIS DO FOR ME?

Anything you want it to! Instant learning and photographic memory systems are based on self-hypnosis. Champions in various sports use it to improve their game concentration. You can now learn to overcome undesirable habits, such as smoking, over-eating or drinking with self-hypnosis. You regain self-confidence. You now know that success is within easy reach, and erasing harmful emotions leads to a happier and healthier life.

HOW DOES SELF-HYPNOSIS DIFFER FROM HYPNOTISM BY A HYPNOTIST?

In self-hypnosis YOU choose your own time limits, realizing that you have a choice and can now choose your area for self-improvement. Using a hypnotist at the beginning of your awareness training is of great benefit. It speeds up the retraining process.

Doug Ottersberg is dedicated to helping people like you worldwide to IDENTIFY what you want from life along with any limiting beliefs you may have blocking your ability to achieve your goals, to MODIFY those limiting beliefs for your benefit, and to AMPLIFY your natural talents to assist you to take action and SATISFY your needs, want and desires and live a life of freedom instead of maintenance: enjoying more money, vibrant health and satisfying relationships. You can find out more information at www.Switch4Success.com

Several years ago when we moved into our new home, I purchased a water filter for our sink and for the refrigerator.  I had chosen a 5 year filter for the refrigerator, and though it’s only been about four years, since the line broke when I was moving it,  it was a good time to put in a new filter while fixing the line.

As I removed the old filter I noticed how much heavier it was than the new one, and not because it was full of water. My uncle happened to be at the house and since he’s a plumbing, heating, air conditioning expert I asked him about it. He told me it’s not unusual for those filters to get that heavy as they remove the “stuff” in your water that you can do without.  YUCK!

Eye opening to say the least.  What’s in your water?? If you’re not filtering you might want to look into it.

To your health,

DougO

I’ll be doing an all day seminar in the Baltimore / DC area – you owe it to yourself to check it out

Greetings!!!

I just spent 7 days with 50 of the most incredible people on the planet, among them noted Economist Harry Dent.   I’ll be sharing an interview I did with him in a few days.

Based on Harry’s research and other signals we are seeing, if we have an additional financial crisis and the odds are that we will, you may want to consider putting your money in a small regional banks that have good ratings.

There is a move to send the big banks a message by moving money from the large, problem prone banks to smaller ones.

Here’s a link that you  can use to find a bank near where you live and have your business.

http://moveyourmoney.info/

Imagine…a long 2 days of seminar, it’s late, you’re tired.

You have an hour drive ahead of you…

Ana and I got in to the airport at 11:00 pm last night coming back from an awesome weekend in Cali with the amazing Mr. Joel Bauer, and we found a surprise waiting for us, though we didn’t like it much…how would you have reacted?

Have an awesome day!!

Doug

As we start yet another week on this spinning ball of dirt,
I wanted to share with you something I read today that I
believe you will like:

Eight Requirements for Contented Living

1. Health enough to make work a pleasure.

2. Wealth enough to support your needs.

3. Strength enough to battle with difficulties and overcome them.

4. Grace enough to confess your sins and put them behind you.

5. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished.

6. Faith enough to make real things of God.

7. Hope enough to remove all anxious fear about the future.

8. Charity enough to see some good in everyone.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just this past Saturday I was saying something similar to
several young men here in Santa Fe on a different but
related subject.  You’ll note that the last three requirements
Goethe lists for contented living are faith, hope and charity.

I reminded these young men that “The greatest of these is charity,
for our faith may be lost in sight, hope ends in fruition, but charity
extends beyond the grave, through the boundless realms of eternity.”

And now, I remind you.

Enjoy your week!

Doug Ottersberg

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since I was privileged to work with him. He’s doing some big
things in the real estate world. In the spirit of today’s theme,
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The ‘Real Deal’2 day Orlando Commercial Real Estate Bootcamp
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Hi Doug,

Thank you for your wise words and encouraging suggestions. I listened to your recording quite a bit since our sessions ended.

I listened to it this morning before I went to take the state exam. I visualized myself and felt joy in my heart in receiving the license.

“I have applied what you covered with me in our coaching sessions, and have passed the State Licensing Exam for Health & Life Insurance in Florida!”

Your personalized hypnotic suggestions were just what I needed to break through myself imposed barriers.

Your friend,

Christine Keyworth

Wow! I LOVE getting emails like that!!!! If you think you can benefit from some personalized coaching to help YOU get where you want to go, feel free to contact my office at 888-321-3684 to see about reserving your personal session.

Note: My schedule is pretty tight so please understand you may have to wait until a slot opens up. Thanks in advance for your understanding and paitence.

- Doug

Today I read through my friend George Allen’s newsletter “The Allen Letter” – it’s for those in the manufactured home industry – and he printed something I’d like to share with you.

from One Man’s Vision, “The Life of Automobile Pioneer RALPH R. TEETOR”, by Marjorie Teetor Meyer, quoting “Horse Sense: The war on private enterprise (the American way of business) shaping up in Washington…is purely socialistic in origin and has nothing to do with our war (WWII) effort, and is aptly described in the Land o’ Lakes News, a dairy trade publication:

1. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift

2. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong

3. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men

4. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich

5. You cannot lift the wage -earner by pulling the wage payer down

6. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income

7. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred

8. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

9. You cannot build character and courage by taking away initiative and independence

10. You cannot help men by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves

Since this is circa early 1940s, hard on the heals of The New Deal, one might rightly observe, U.S. history appears to be repeating itself big time -again!

The other day I got this letter from a man that is responsible for helping so many people achieve success in their life he’s probably lost count.

With his permission I’m sharing his letter with you and I pray that if it’s you that needs to see this not only will you see it, I pray that you will also change your habits and lifestyle as needed.

If you need any assistance learning how to implement some of his suggestions, by all means call my office right away.

Doug

From The Desk Of:

Ron LeGrand

9799 Old St. Augustine Road, Jacksonville, FL 32257

August 11, 2009

TWC Members

All,

I’m writing to you shortly after returning home from a quadruple bypass surgery on July 31^st.  I’m okay.  Please save the flowers and for God’s sake, no candy.

I didn’t intend on having open heart surgery.  It never crossed my mind as I opted in for a heart catheter.

I had no idea 24 hours later I’d be in recovery with my chest cracked open and metal staples where I used to have chest hair and it would be 5 days later before I’d breathe fresh air again.

Sometimes life has some nasty surprises in store for us and things change with the blink of an eye.  Maybe for the better, maybe for the worst, but change is inevitable.

So what are the lessons here?

There are several that I’ll note and I’m sure some I didn’t.

1. Could you be down for 30 – 60 days and survive financially?  Perhaps even longer.  If not, what can fix it?  The answer is cash and/or cash flow that doesn’t involve you much.  You know, the kind we’ve been discussing ever since we met.  What are you doing that has a chance of succeeding?
2. To whom do you listen?  Are you a heart attack waiting to happen and know it but refuse to address it head on?  You may not get a second chance.  To be honest, if I weren’t pushy and unwilling to listen to advice that doesn’t sit right with me, I would have listened to my old cardiologist who suggested I have another stress test after I complained of chest pains.You see, I had one last year and passed, so I knew that wouldn’t help and may even kill me with the exertion.  Walking across the airport was becoming an obstacle.I insisted on a more conclusive test and agreed to a heart catheritization, which is a camera in your arteries and if necessary stints to prop open the plaqued areas.Listening to advice I knew was wrong for me could have easily killed me even when it came from someone as qualified as a cardiologist.
3. Can you accept major change when it comes (and it will) and deal with it?  It will take a strong person to navigate through life’s mine fields.  Some things you control and some you don’t.

Some would say my heart problems were not my fault.  I’d say that’s bullshit.  It’s all my fault and I know exactly what caused it and knew it well before it happened and chose to basically ignore it.  Who else is there to blame but me?

The crap you eat will kill you.  We all know this, but choose to continue because to someone who lives to eat, not eats to live, it’s a major change to eat right consistently.  It’s hard, very hard.  Good food is one of those things you look forward to and build your day around.

Well, my doctor made it crystal clear on my way out the door.  He said you have two choices…and only two.

One – Do what I ask you to do from today forward and probably live.

Two – Do it your way and most certainly die.

Then he followed that up with “I appreciate your business and would like to keep you around awhile, but rest assured I have no short supply of self indulgent, overweight people with heart problems to operate on.  Business is booming.”

Now I must confess that left me very little room to negotiate.  In fact, I didn’t even know how to respond, so I simply said “Yes Sir!”

By the way, you’ll never know what truly bad tasting food is until you’ve been hospitalized.  It’ll certainly make you appreciate all non-hospital food.  One of my nurses told me it was their number one complaint, yet there is no intent to fix it.  I truly ate nothing rather than the foul smelling stuff they called food.

The next time someone you like gets hospitalized, here are a couple tips:

1. 1. They do not want to talk with anyone during recovery.  Visiting them may be like using a baseball bat on them.  It may be unpleasant and downright punishing to them.  Think of their suffering, not your guilt.  Stay away!  Trust me they won’t miss you.
2. Don’t send flowers.  They can really stink up a room to the point of nausea.  Besides, the room is small, no place to put them.  Here’s a tip…send fruit instead.  A nice fruit basket has no odor and may be just what the patient needs to combat hospital food.  I lived on it for two days.  It’s all I wanted and became a welcome guest, not an unwanted pest and there was nothing to lug home when you leave.
3. Don’t call the patient and expect a return call.  You might say they don’t have to answer, but then you’d be forgetting most people’s cell phone controls their lives and they will answer and even if they don’t, it’s something else for them to worry about.

Send a card, stay away and don’t be a pest.  That’s my advice, which I probably would have challenged prior to being a patient.  Do with it as you will.

The good news is I’ll have 30 days to catch up on my reading and writing which started before I left the hospital.

If you want to know anything about sharks, I’m now an expert after spending two full days watching Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.  I’m also pretty good on the reign of Egyptian Pharaohs dating back to 3000 B.C.  All valuable information I’m sure I’ll use someday.

I do intend to be at the September 1^st – 2^nd meeting.  Maybe we can compare scars.

Peace,

Ron LeGrand

******************************

Again

If you need any assistance learning how to implement some of his suggestions, by all means call my office right away.

Doug

After spending numerous HOURS recording and attempting to convert and edit a simple video to put on a web page, I finally succumbed to the siren song of the 15″ MacBook Pro.  (2.66 ghz dual core, 4gb ram  and 250gb 7200 rpm hd) I went online and since I’m one that likes to get a “bargain” I decided to order a refurbished unit, entered my details and chose express shipping. This was Saturday.

Monday, the order arrives by noon. After the initial set-up, I took awhile to familiarize myself with the Mac, which I must say, though straight forward enough still took this PC vet a while to get used to.

This morning already, I’ve transferred ITunes to the Mac, (important stuff first!) and have almost completed my first videoproject !

1. I hooked up my Canon HD Camcorder (HF11) to the Mac and opened IMovie – voila!!! There are all the video clips – I imported them lickety split. No converting! Yea!!!!

2. Editing out what I didn’t want was a breeze!!! Very intuitive and took very little time at all.

3. I saved the file to a Quicktime .mov format using a set of specs that a friend suggested I standardize on (H264, Codecs, keyframes, framerates, etc) It’s mostly Greek to me ; ) Here is what he suggested:

Here is the spec i use when converting from anything to and from. I’ve even found if i used some other spec before using this as a final conversion it will make the final look better.

Size: 1280×720 is the current flavor of choice

Codec:H.264… MOV QuickTime

Size:High definition (1280×720)

Bitrate: 5000 kbits/sec for.

Frame rate: 29.97

Keyframes: Every 30 frames.

Deinterlace: On

Sound sample rate: 44.100 kHz, bit rate of 128 kbps

4. It took about an hour to export 6 minutes of video to that format

5. Once that file is done I will copy to my PC and see how the file plays with Techsmith Camtasia. I like their editor as it has some great functions like pan and zoom, and the ability to export to flash for quick and easy upload to websites. I’ve got their version 5 and 6 and see they are working on a Mac version. Awesome!

Since I was on a roll, I went ahead and ordered Final Cut Studio, so I’ll report my experience with that as well. My friend assures me that next I’ll be ordering toast.

Hmm, that reminds me. I’m hungry!