From The Overflow Of The Heart

To explore a phrase in the last Gospel of Thomas saying Isabella sent out, I booted up Google and typed "the overflow of the heart" into the dialog box and clicked on Search. I found out its a phrase that's used in the KJV translation of the Bible, and so there were lots of comments from all sorts of Christians of whatever hue and variety about this phrase.

The way the phrase is used in the Thomas saying was a bit confusing to me, but after I started reading what the writers on all the web sites I went to from the Google Results Page I began to understand that the phrase is a clue to a behavior that can be applied to the me-and-ing (meaning) of either bad or good. In other word, it's from the tone of the words that comes from one's heart that you can tell whether the speaker means evil or good to you. It's a defense strategy.

That may not mean so much to people who people who don't "read" other people's behavior in order to operate a mojo. A mojo like hypnosis. When I do hypnosis with people it happens like we're just continuing a conversation we've been having all along. We discuss the fact that we're gonna do hypnosis together because usually I'm the one who knows what hypnosis is and will be making the suggestions that is designed to get the desired response.

The thing about being the hypnotist is that you can't know what's going on inside the psyche of the person in the subjective trance except from what you can see from the outside. That's what makes a good hypnotist. A person who can watch the subjects body and figure out from just those external clues what to suggest to the person in trance next.

That's why my style of hypnosis seems to work so well for me and the other person. We both know what we want to accomplish, and we can talk about how well or not what we're doing together is getting the results we've agreed upon. We talk. If I can interpret the effect what we're doing has on their heart by the way they speak, that's a whole dimension more of feedback I can use to counter their resistance to going to places inside themselves they've never been before.

It was the same process when i used to read palms. I had to be able to fathom the depth of the emotional content of the subject's heart to be able to reach for conclusions about what to say to them. To serve me in this end I have neither more or less tools I have to understand what's going on inside a hypnotized person.

There's lots of ways of taking the subject's temperature, so to speak. One of the most obvious ways is to pay attention to the subtleties of their breathing. The more I've paid attention to the subtleties of my own breathing, previously, the more reliable the information I gain from empathizing with their current physical condition. as indicated by their breathing patterns. I make myself sensitive to their breathing by imitating how they are breathing.

The thoughts their breathing associates with are created by my breathing the same way. That, and we talk. I listen to and visually observe their breath, and recreate it in my own breathing, and talk to them and listen to the tenure of their voice, and I generally can put something together that makes them feel indebted to me for doing that.

I've had people tell me they've never heard of someone having tenure with their voice. They tell me that tenure is only used in association with having a permanent job. Usually in an institution. I say the persona is a subjective institution and each persona can certainly be considered a job. If operating a persona as a means of identity and individuation is concerned, then it's not only a job with tenure, but a career for good or ill.