The Ghoulish Babbling Of The Undead

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Hypnosis has been a topic of interest to me ever since I can remember. It was just one more subject I read about when reading was about the only real friend I had as a young boy. My family moved around a lot.

Granted, my curiosity about hypnosis in general eventually revealed that what interested me wasn't always called hypnosis per se. Storyline references to hypnosis was part and parcel of all the other stuff I learned via my obsession for reading everything available in the villages we lived in order to keep from seeing the truth of our desperate situation. I read a lot of adventure books about knights from the round table going on quests to find the Grail. Very cool. I liked reading about native american shamans and medicine men and their apprentices going on long-suffering spirit quests in the remote outback away from their tribes by their lonesome to find their spirit animal. I believed that stuff too, man, I was all up into it.

I loved reading stories about brave-hearted men conquering nature. I don't admit it to many people, but I read the biographies of many of the science heros along with the arctic explorers too. I thought taking on the whole world to prove your manhood was really something at a young age. When I started taking formal classes in hypnosis in my early twenties it was easy for me to come up with something to say to the people I put into trance to prove to them that they were indeed hypnotized was to talk to them about vision quests right there in their own imagination.

The state of hypnosis can seem intransigent at times, and redundant and repetitious in form. The more firmly a suggestion is implanted in the subject's imagination by repeating the instructions in a variety of different ways, the more likely the desired results from the trance will transpire.

Sometime the limitations of hypnosis depends on the talents and patience of the hypnotist, and sometime the limitations are imposed by the hypnotic subject's lack of imagination or by a distractive set and settings beyond anybody's control.

A lot of the hypnosis I've done with people has been to change the way they think about stuff that end up as a neurosis like being afraid to cross bridges or other superstitions that make them feel silly. They know they're being silly, but sometimes even the thought of ignoring their superstitions makes them sore afraid.

People record their daily experiences in memory via their favorite of the five senses. The most common of the five senses people store their memories in is the sense of feel. Kinesthetics. They will tell you that by stating, "I know how you feel." If they're more attuned to storing their memories through the sense of sight they'll say, "I see what you mean."

It's commonplace for any one person to have a favorite modality for storing the events of their lives like the sense of hearing. The biblical stories have Jesus warning people that they need to have the ears to hear him. The other four modes are also recording everything all the time also, but the favorite sensory mode is the most common tool people use to recall the incidents of their past with.

The trick to using hypnosis to help people get over their neuroses and superstitions is to train them to use one of the other senses that was also alive and kicking in the same moment of the same event. The other sensory modes besides the favorite one are still alive in the moment, and they can be brought into conscious play with pointed effort. It's like they've been simmering on the back burner waiting for their time to shine.

To change a hypnosis subject's personal history to something a little tamer all I have to do is to have the subject to re-member a specific incident using one of the other sensory modes instead of their favorite mode for re-mem-ber-ing that event. It requires effort from them to bring about, and it's at this juncture that a mentor or a sitter can remind them from the outside to bring the new sensory mode you wanna conjure the specific incident by instead of doing it the same way expecting different results.

If you normally recall an incident using familiar visual images, then switching over to aural images or to what you smelled during the incident instead of what you saw. You might have to practice making it happen until it becomes the new habit. Pretty much the same way one practices a musical instrument until they become competent.

If you can institute that change from one to another in sensory modalities you become a different person to the world around you, because you now have a different history to draw from without actually changing anything about what really happened. 

What I've described is what can happen if a person's favorite way of remembering special events in their lives is swapped to one of the other senses to remember the event by. The ideal progression would be to enhance all the senses and the part they played in registering the former incident.

At some time in the past I seem possessed by the notion that I could learn what I needed to know to become the best that I can be without anybody trying to get me to do what needs to be done their way. For some reason I convinced myself that religious instruction should be free, and that was just stupid.

I paid to go to college or at least somebody did. It really wasn't much back in the day to attend the State supported colleges. I didn't even think of it as paying for knowledge. Apparently I got what whoever paid, paid for. Not much. The first hypnosis school I attended was the first school I almost paid for myself. I spent more of my own money going to hypnosis and NLP seminars than the various sponsors spent on my elongated college career.

I sure have been a sorry, selfish soul. I got no couth. I got no never mind. I acted like the world owed me a living, and so far, while I can't say it's done me proud, it's at least kept me alive and my senses about me. The one thing I might change about having lived the way I've lived is to have been kinder. In a lot of cases I honestly thought I was kind, but nobody saw it that way in real time but for me.
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