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I’ve actually been listening to one of my favorite mentors, Alan Watts, and came across a wonderful talk about something Carl Jung had come across. Watts hooked up with Jung in 1958 and was greatly impressed.

The one concept that Jung and Watts spoke about was the concept of Good and Evil as it relates to the Self. The current event at the time was the trial of Adolf Eichmann and Jung, at one point, had been accused of Nazi sympathies because of the concept of Good and Evil that he had come to understand.

Jung had come to realize there was no definitive concept of it. He believed we were all a composite of both Good and Evil and that actually, if we were not to come to an awareness of that, we would seek to punish others that we saw the evil in ourselves in.

I’ve been thinking a lot about that and I think Alan Watts and Carl Jung might have been on to something. They were looking at some of the great atrocities of our world and realizing that the people responsible were convinced of the Good they were doing. The greatest Evils were done by people who were convinced of the Good of what they were doing.

Jung discovered, and Alan Watts agreed, that only if we can acknowledge the co-existence of Good and Evil within all of us can we come to an accurate realization of ourselves.

Bad people do good things and Good people do bad things and we are all just a mish-mash of both. The great tragedies occur when we conclude we are either totally Evil or totally Good.

Self Knowledge that we are all a combination of both, always, is true enlightenment.

I was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a distinguished psychiatrist from New York, long associated with Columbia University. While gone, Dr. Spiegel has left those of us involved with hypnosis and hypnotherapy a valuable gift that will live on indefinitely. That gift is the HIP, or Hypnotic Induction Profile as defined in his famous book, Trance and Treatment, written with his son, Dr. David Spiegel.

The revolutionary part of the HIP was the relationship between the natural ability of a person to roll their eyes up and hypnotizability. This was the physiological part of the HIP and when coupled with suggestibility tests, produced a score that could be used by the hypnotist or hypnotherapist to better suit their methods to that particular subject.

Suggestibility tests have long been part of hypnotic appraisal and conditioning, but identifying the significance of the eye-roll in the ability to achieve trance was truly revolutionary.  If you haven’t already, do read Trance and Treatment as it is a must read for anyone who is a practitioner or student of hypnosis.

Thank you Dr. Spiegel.

Joseph Nunan CH,CI is an internationally known, fully Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Hypnosis Instructor and member of the Teaching Faculty of The National Guild of Hypnotists, the oldest, largest and most respected hypnotism accrediting organization in the world. Chester County Hypnosis operates according to the National Guild of Hypnotists’ Code of Ethics and Professionalism, and we consistently provide our clients the very best services, to help them easily accomplish and even surpass all of their desired goals. Our primary purpose is to enable our clients to quickly and easily achieve positive personal change and to take control of their lives.

I recently re-read Aldous Huxley’s Heaven and Hell after many years and had really forgot the references he had made to hypnosis. This work is often coupled with Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and usually is most remembered as Huxley’s investigation of mystic and altered states of consciousness brought about with mescaline and peyote. However, he mentions that some of the results he had achieved were only known to have been accomplished with hypnosis or by certain deep meditation practitioners. What were those results ? The visions and hallucinations brought on by the psychedelic drug ? No, the “results” were actually the access to parts of our mind that are normally not available to us. Huxley calls them the Antipodes of the Mind and explains that only when the useful areas of the mind are rendered disabled do we have access to these.

While unnecessary for everyday life, Huxley goes on to explain these regions as the seat of the spiritual experience and the source of all of man’s religions. It is an area beyond thought.

The role of the drugs in the access is one of disabling the conscious, which he mentions was also accomplished by fasting or self-punishment by religious visionaries, altering the chemistry of the brain. So how can something like this be accomplished with hypnosis and what would be exactly happening ? An interesting question for us to evaluate and explore.

Hypnosis is a state of mind where we can bypass our critical thinking, enabling us to become very suggestible to acceptable ideas. That is the true power of hypnosis in that it works on a subconscious level with us, where our habits reside. That’s all well and good, but you may ask where the spiritual awakenings and all come in and for that we must go deeper.

As hypnotists, we strive to guide our clients to a level of hypnosis know as somnambulism. This is the state of maximum suggestibility and where our desired effects are most easily accomplished. That is the most commonly known level of the hypnotic mind state. There is, however, a deeper level; the plenary trance or hypnotic coma.

This level is lesser known because of it being of limited really usefulness, mostly for anesthesia purposes. It is a level of trance with a profound comfort, but is also known for being such a state of comfort and well being that often the subject is reluctant to emerge from it. While in this state, we usually are not amenable to suggestion, perhaps because of the profound depth, but this fact renders the state of small value in clinical work. It is also questionable whether everyone can achieve this state of mind. Certainly a small percentage have easy access, but that may certainly grow with conditioning. However, I don’t believe that this state is what Huxley was speaking about.

There is a state beyond the plenary trance known by various names as Ultra Depth®Ultra Height®, etc. Relatively little is known about the state, compared to the lighter states of hypnosis and Walter Sichort of New Jersey was the source of much of the experimentation with it. I have found it nothing short of remarkable in some of the phenomena produced. It is disassociative by it’s nature and subjects I have worked with to access this state report profound experiences. Most of these accounts are certainly in the realm of spiritual experiences, however none of the individuals I have worked with were told to expect anything of that sort.

These experiences are often visual and contain symbols and characters sometimes known and sometimes unknown to the subject, often people who have passed. These characters often pass information which is many times not recalled in the conscious state. It is extremely different from past life regressions, not only in the depth of state, but the viewpoint of the subject. This state has been associated with healing also and there is work that has been done in that area and results obtained.

But is this the state that Huxley spoke about when he mentions the antipodes ? Perhaps it is. Accessing a region of the mind that is ordinarily inaccessible and biologically unnecessary for life, yet is there. He speaks of disabling the conscious ego in a physical manner, yet possibly this deep state of hypnosis is also achieving the same result in a purely mental path. Very interesting thought and concepts and perhaps two routes to the same destination.

Do we have somewhere in our minds like this, the antipodes that Aldous Huxley spoke of ?

Joseph Nunan CH,CI is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnosis Instructor and has been trained in Ultra Height® Hypnosis by Gerald Kein. He owns and operates Chester County Hypnosis and The Hypnosis Academy in West Chester, PA. His work is available on MP3 Hypnosis Downloads and he is featured on The Best Hypnosis Guide on the Web. He is a convention instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotists.

Can Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis really help me in a recession ? Sure it can, and I’ll give you 5 easy ways that it will.

1. To keep a positive attitude and be optimistic.

It’s natural to get down when times are tough, however, the tought times are the times when we most need to be positive and optimistic. If we are in a situation where our employer is cutting back, the positive and optimistic people are a commodity that a company wants to keep. Morale is a problem when layoffs occur and an employee with a good attitude is needed to keep a company going. A positive attitude, under all circumstances, can separate you from the crowd in the view of management and place you in a position of being noticed for advancement in the future. Optimism and a positive attitude are contagious and can often be overlooked by all of us as assets that we bring to our job. Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis are valuable tools to keep us in a good mental attitude to be resilient and benefit from those tough times.

2. To overcome fears and uncertainty.

Recessions are definitely scary times. At my age, I’ve lived through them before, but our recent times have been quite good for a long while and many people have never lived through these events. They do end, but that doesn’t help the fears that we have during them. Distressed economic situations cause many personal, family and social problems. People lose jobs, houses, cars and sometimes even worse. Now, that doesn’t mean that will happen to you and it doesn’t do you any good to lie awake at night worrying. In tough times we all need clear thinking, not worrying. Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis can help us to overcome our fears, think clearly and make wise decisions.

3. To be at your best in situations that you need to.

Recessions present all types of situations that we wouldn’t expect and it helps to be at our personal best when they arise. If something would happen that would really change our situation, such as a layoff or a family member laid off, we might need to make some tough decisions and take some new actions. If we would need to look for another job, we will need determination and motivation. If we get a job interview, we need to present our best to a prospective employer. All of these types of situations require being at your best and Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis can help you to be at your best when you need to be.

4. To relieve your daily stress.

Tough times are tense times, make no mistake about it. Stress can make us depressed, make us get sick, weakens us and takes away our drive and attitude. During a tough time we really need strength and stamina and to be free from draining stress. Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis are the best ways to deal with our daily stress so that we can rest and relax when we need to.

5. To keep your motivation and determination high.

Just as optimism and positive attitude are contagious, so are pessimism and negative attitude and you may find yourself surrounded by it. If we don’t have methods like Self Hypnosis to use, it’s very easy to buy-in to all of the above mentioned dilemmas. However, Hypnosis provides us with a proven method to keep us on the right track and going in the right direction, regardless of what the rest of the world is doing.

Hopefully those give you a few ideas of some of the great benefits that Hypnosis and Self Hypnosis can bring you in a recession. Always remember that recessions are times of great opportunity. While we are always told of the many people who were ruined in the Great Depression of 1929, there were also many who were able to take advantage of situations that arose to become greatly prosperous. I would imagine that those people possessed some of the same things we just talked about.

Joseph Nunan CH is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Hypnosis Instructor and sees clients by appointment at his Chester County Hypnosis in West Chester, PA USA.  He offers Professional, Personal and Business Hypnosis Training at The Hypnosis Academy and audio hypnosis sessions are available for download at MP3 Hypnosis Downloads. He is also featured on Best Hypnosis Guide and frequently appears in the media. He can be reached at info@chestercountyhypnosis.com.

Chester County Hypnosis is happy to announce the first arrivals of the Autogenic Exercises Part One at MP3 Hypnosis Downloads for immediate purchase and download. This is an extension of our teaching and comes in versions for either Left Handers or Right Handers, a bigi difference from other regimens. This is the correct way to do the exercises and allows you to get all the full benefits. The first part of the exercises, covered by this set, is useful at any time and is the training regimen during the first month.

Our Part Two of the Exercises will be released soon, along with the remaining exercises. These exercises are backed by Chester County Hypnosis background brainwave entrainment technology, giving you a wonderful setting for your exercises that comfortable reverberate at 7.83Hz, the frequency of the earth.

Listen to a sample on MP3 Hypnosis Downloads.

One of the great oversights that I see today in hypnosis and hypnotherapy is the lack of emphasis on utilizing almost every aspect of your client’s behavior and experience to improve their experience. Adaptability is the key here and you will begin to learn what hypnosis is all really about.

Hypnosis at an effective level is a deep communication between the hypnotist and the client. Much more than any normal communication, this “rapport” operates on multiple levels. There are verbal and non-verbal directions, signals and feedback and a multitude of subconscious suggestions. It is often very difficult to explain to the new hypnotist the nature of this communication, since it is done seeminly automatically and intuitively. It takes place on a subconscious level, not only by the client, but the hypnotherapist as well.

Scripts are not magic for the hypnotist. They probably accomplish much more for the confidence of the hypnotist than any effect the words actually have on a client. What I once considered a severe disadvantage, my eyesight is not good, has really become a true advantage as a hypnotherapist for me. I’ve learned the importance of how I say things, as opposed to what I say. I’ve learned to observe my clients thoroughly and use anything they are giving me to help them to achieve their goals. All trance improves trance is what has been said, and it’s certainly true.

So look at you clients, really look and see and hear and feel what they are telling you.

Joseph Nunan CH

Joseph Nunan CH is a Internationally Certified Hypnotherapist and sees clients by appointment from Chester County Hypnosis in West Chester, PA USA. His sessions are also available for download at MP3 Hypnosis Downloads. He is also featured on Best Hypnosis Guide and offers Professional, Personal and Business Hypnosis Training at The Hypnosis Academy.

Most of my clients are familiar with the term “subconscious” and generally believe that it’s a spooky place deep inside your mind that holds all your deepest, darkest fears and inhibitions. This is a place where there is constant turmoil, repressed urges, dreams, taboos and fantasies.

Pierre Janet, the famous French Psychiatrist is credited with the term, which has now become almost extinct in usage in modern psychology. Janet was also one of the early teachers of Hypnosis in Psychiatry and trained at the Saltpierre under Jean Marc Charcot and was a colleague of Freud’s; some credit him as the Father of Modern psychotherapy, instead of Freud.

The Saltpierre school of thought worked under the premise that hypnosis is but a form of hysteria, which is somewhat understandable since hysteria seemed to be very much a part of everyday life back then.

Today, we hypnotists, not being the theorists that psychologists are, consider the subconscious as any of our human processes that exist below the level of our ordinary awareness. Some of us further separate that into the “subconscious” and “unconscious” which reflects on the workings of our body and nervous system. A good everyday understanding of it would probably be to say, “All of the stuff we do, that we don’t actually do”. That would include our beating heart, to a lesser extent our breathing and the mental concepts that guide our operation in daily life.

Say for example you see a fireplace with a nice warm fire going on. It makes you feel warm and safe. However, you won’t go over and put your hand right into it, the thought would never occur to you, why, you would, of course, burn your hand. When we are small children, we might do exactly that, usually only once or twice, before we learn that while fire is warm and comforting, more is not necessarily better there.

As we become older, we often forget the incident but remember the lesson. We don’t stick our hand in open fires, we don’t even think of doing it. We don’t have to think about it, it just is an operational guideline anymore to us. Same thing with, hopefully, running out in the street before looking both ways and playing with dry cleaning bags around our heads. They’ve become generalizations to us that we operate on below a conscious level, we don’t have to sit and think and reason to come up with those guidelines, they just “are”.

And that is what our subconscious does for us, it runs our daily life, much as an assistant would handle all the mundane details of an important executive. Now, the primary task of this assistant is to keep us safe. That is the main goal, protection and safety.

I read recently how De Boeff (European psychologist of the early 20th century) believed that man had developed this “assistant” through evolution to satisfy the need for it, where most animals today exist solely on the conscious level. When you look at a squirrel, everything about his existence is right on the surface, beating heart, search for food, everything. He lives in the moment, to his peril.

When we, as hypnotists deal with the subconscious we don’t deal with the dark, hidden labyrinth of mental dungeons that we imagine. We deal with something that resembles a 10 year old child. Literal in interpretation, unable to reason or deduce, but always there to protect us and make us safe.  We must be careful to be be simple and succinct in our words, be precise and completely understandable without coloring our words with colloquialism, innuendo or hidden meanings.

We don’t really get involved in the “why” as much as psychologists do, we don’t have to and don’t really want to. We deal with the subconscious in the place it lives, under the surface and below awareness. We deal with the misdirected generalizations we have acquired over our lives and try to bring them to a conscious level and create new generalizations we desire.

For example, if you were dangled out an upstairs window as a child by a bully, you’d most likely have a fear of heights. You might also be afraid of air travel. That has absolutely nothing to do with being dangled out of a window by a bully, but the 10-year old sees no difference. Height=Fear, regardless of the method, if we go up, we won’t be safe. Through Hypnosis, we can bring reason and clarity to our subconscious and allow ourselves to now generalize that the window and the airplane are two different experiences and have more differences than similarities. We can now believe that air travel is much safer than being dangled out of a window, in fact, it’s quite different and much safer.

Now this person can fly fearlessly and travel the world and have a greatly enhanced life-experience, thanks to hypnosis and the subconscious. And, it was not a matter of dealing with somewhere spooky, it was all done by explaining to the 10-year old assistant, their protector, that it was acceptable.

Our OnLine Hypnosis Store is now open for viewing and we’re polishing off the final testing of our payment and shipping functions. Hopefully, it will be a good experience for our existing clients and new clients also. You will be able to access any of the Hypnosis Sessions from MP3 Hypnosis Downloads since we operate Chester County Hypnosis and The Hypnosis Academy also.

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Chester County Hypnosis has just released the new Super Sleep CD, a potent weapon to fight mental restlessness at night. Super Sleep contains Isochronic and Binaural Beats to facilitate Brainwave Entrainment, the tendency for our brain to produce brainwaves similar in frequency to what we hear. Super Sleep uses the Theta and Delta frequencies to lull our brain to sleep, producing a deep, restful slumber.

Super Sleep is also available in MP3 download from MP3 Hypnosis Downloads.com and they also have a preview sample available, so you can try before you buy.

Super Sleep is part of our new Sleeping System where we take over 2 years of testing and research and transform it into a wonderful nights sleep for you.

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