Why is talking to yourself so important?

I was in the post office one day when the rain outside was doing a great impersonation of Niagara Falls.

It wasn’t just raining it was a deluge, which basically means that the wind and sun had scooped up a good wedge of the North Atlantic and the North Sea and had managed to drag the billion gallons a few hundred miles south to Devon and then decided to throw the bloody lot down at once. Mostly on the people who needed to buy a stamp.

Now I’m in the que when this little and presumably old lady came tottering in. I guessed she was either old or her she’d had her face out in the water too long.

We are not talking the wrinkles you get on your finger tips in the bath here. This was more like the satellite Google Map of the high Alps.

Any way in she tottered holding on to one of those formula one walking frames. You know the ones with the breaks to slow them down when they are cornering?

Anyway, she short of shook herself a bit like a dog and managed to wet everything inside the shop that the roof had otherwise been keeping dry, and then she spoke the classic mantra of the terminably weather obsessed.

“Isn’t the weather miserable?” she asked of no one in particular and everyone in general.

“No”, I replied, “The weather is the weather, you’re the one that’s miserable.”

Now I know what you are thinking. You’re thinking I was being sarcastic and that she didn’t actually mean that the weather was fed up and was taking prozac.

You are thinking that the words she spoke were, well, just words, and that even though I had exhibited a high degree of metrological knowledge and sartorial observation, I was just gobbling off to an old lady for no reason other than because I could.

Well yes, it was partiality that but it was mostly because when we talk to ourselves and to others about ourselves if we start to listen then we get two things. One, we get the picture of what we project to the outside world and two, and way more important, we get what we think of ourselves inside. What we really think.

Everyday you talk to yourself and about yourself.

You affirm your beliefs, explain your behaviour, predict your future. You persuade, cajole, order and suggest stuff constantly and consistently.

To Yourself and that’s what makes you – You.

And you are very good at being you.

For this reason alone you can be very good at being the you, YOU really want to be.

And all you need to do is to use the techniques of self seductive suggestion that you are using right now to keep you where you are.

Imagine working with the worlds greatest hypnotist and suggestionist all the time with no trance or need for swinging watches or staring eyeballs.

Well you can, because that’s you that is.

SELFSEDUCTION steps
Think have a thought – doesn’t need to be ‘positive’ but it should be producetive.

Imagine – pretend make up, create, whenever you get a great thunk, back that up with detail and desire.

Listen – to yourself, what are you telling the world about you and what are you telling yourself to be?

Repair – When you say something bad about yourself repair it, reverse it. Put it right because no one else will or can.

Don’t wait! – Repair it as it happens, even in the middle of a conversation.

Say it out loud – don’t internalise it. You talk to yourself out loud when you are alone because self suggestion is strongest done that way.

Use GOOD words – Good words like will, have, now, can, always, definitely, yes.

Use EMOTIVE words – like awesome, fantastic, cool, sexy, amazing.

Get emotional – feel the words, it’s great seeing pictures but your mind will respond best to feelings so will your brain as it produces dopamine and endorphins.

Habitual ritual – do it all the time. You talk to yourself all the time anyway but make self suggestion really useful by repeating it in a ‘special’ set out to do this thing way. Then it works a bit like saying preyers did when you were a kid. And the same thing is listening – You are.

Using Rapid Repetition – a little trick I developed on my one day training – the more you say the more it works.

One thing at a time – change one thing then move on. Don’t spread the attention, that would be like having a 1 on 1 with the population of Wolverhampton all at once.

The 30 day rule – most habits take around 30 days to acquire and bed in according to Nasa, although this isn’t rocket science it seems to work best that way.

Give yourself believable suggestions – don’t tell yourself you can fly, walk on water, run through brick walls or live beneath the sea without breathing gear. Your mind might just believe you and that could cause shit loads of problems.

Make it Seductive – Seduction:-
Something that tempts or attracts, beguiles or persuades.
The process of deliberately enticing a person into an act.

Self Seduction:-
Enticing and cajoling oneself into pleasant and rewarding behaviours and beliefs.

Suggestion:-
The process of inducing a thought, sensation, or action in a receptive person without giving rise to reflection in the recipient.

Autosuggestion:-
Suggestion arising from oneself, as the repetition of verbal messages as a means of changing behaviour.

I’m thinking of running a teleseminar on Self Seduction if enough people would be prepared to pay a ridiculously small fee for virtual seats and get an up close and personal Q & A.

To get me to make this a definite go just comment below and say yes.

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A Record discount.

I had a great e-mail this week from a student who on the way back home from the advanced hypnosis training in Bristol applied just one small part of my Svengali System with the taxi driver who she didn’t really understand.

Even through the breakdown in understanding due to English not being a primary language, the result she got was a very happy taxi driver and a discount!

Now that shocked me. I knew this stuff was good but everyone knows taxi drivers almost hold you to ransom for a tip. To get a discount must be a record.

I just love it when the plan comes together.

If you haven’t got it yet the book based on the online Svengali System training, “How to make friends with yourself and Influence people” is on Amazon.

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a Hypnotic High

The thing is, the truth of the thing is, that hypnosis can indeed be used to experience the world entirely through the imagination without the interference of the logical factors in your brain telling you that you can’t be bouncing on a rubber moon or floating in a psychedelic sea of used five pound notes being served peeled grapes by nubile ladies wearing not a lot. Sorry got carried away there.

The most watched hypnosis video on YouTube is entitled “Amazing Hypnosis Makes You High”. And my Auto Self Suggestion audio that gets me the most happy ‘private’ mail is designed to heighten your sensual experience in a Tantric way.

Actually you stand a far better chance of getting a high by standing on your head and trying to gargle.

The technique used of watching a spiral spinning in a darkened room will make your visual cortex play tricks with your balance for a few seconds but you won’t experience an altered hallucinatory or enhanced reality. More than likely you’ll just feel a bit sick.

Obviously watching you tube is not going to do the job, no matter how brain numbing it may be, not even the most basic Psychonautics will get produced. However, with the personal experience of a hypnotist who understands and knows what they are doing, the situation is an entirely different paradigm.

Under the influence of hypnosis as it were, you can get almost the same result as even the more escapist substances and pastimes, with the added bonus of having the whole process reversed and made therapeutic at the end, again stressing that this should be done under the direction of a good hypnotist.

Hypnosis is something we all do and get done by all the time without knowing we are doing or being done. It’s basic process, the giving and accepting of suggestion, is also how we teach and learn.

Hypnosis isn’t just a Bandaid for the emotional scuffs and scrapes of life. It can also be a fantastic tool for getting to places in our head and experience of life that would normally be available only with the danger of assaulting the physical body.

If you want you can experience that holiday you could never afford, be in space before Branson and fly higher than any pill or powder could ever get you without frying your brains, emptying your wallet, or giving you a bad case of incarceration.

Mostly it’s legal to imagine whatever you want to and providing a hypnosis high is terminated proficiently it’s about as harmful as day dreaming. In fact the benefits could well be way above normal escapism as the whole thing can be experienced for a ‘reason’.

Of course just as Doctors frown upon the recreational use of medicines, clinical hypnotherapy will frown and head shockingly tut-tut at the idea of hypnosis being used for the sake of enjoyment, happily though they neither own nor have a legal backing to disallow people using the capacity of their own minds to experience and think whatever they want to.

Of course they will shout that people will become dependant and addicted to this mental intoxication. If they do they need to think things through because if you are a good enough hypnotee for me to get you high, then you are a good enough hypnotee for me to easily be able to stop you smoking, get you to lose weight, eradicate a phobia and especially to prevent you becoming addicted to your own imagination.

Although to be honest, you already are.

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Hobby Hypnotists

Hypnosis as an art is now more than ever being done by Hobby Hypnotists who outweigh the professionals 4/1.

It’s amazing I now get many more fascinated curiosity driven people on my one day learning experiences and hypnosis masterclases than I do professional therapists or career driven people.

Personally I think that’s fantastic. Everyone should know the basics of hypnosis in the same way as everyone should know the basics of CPR and first aid.

If teachers were taught to understand how and when they are using suggestion not only would they know how best to install the necessary knowledge but they would better be able to positively influence the kids in their charge.

The same of course goes for parents.

If people knew the right way to suggest and had a basic grounding in the right suggestions then even in the most traumatic situations their desire to ‘help’ could become an actuality.

One of my students once was out walking with his baby daughter when he witnessed a car smash into a lamppost. He couldn’t get the badly injured and bleeding woman out but he could and did reduce her anxiety and bleeding by the direct use of suggestion and hypnosis.

Another couple of friends who had trained with me were hiking around the Grand Canyon when with the help of hypnotising each other and ‘increasing’ the input of their senses had an experience they’ll never forget.

Now don’t get me wrong. Amateur psychotherapy is not what I’m condoning here. But the use and study and experience of hypnosis as a hobby is fine. No more damaging to the business than hobby magicians, of which I am one, are detrimental to the magic circle which would probably die without them.
Kareeokay hasn’t killed the record business and one thing is for sure, hobby hypnotists will not only drag hypnosis kicking and screaming out of the maple lined couch garage but they will make people like me who teach technique and the art, much better and more widely targeted teachers.

Long live the Hobby Hypnotist.

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The Hypnotist Radio Show No4 – Sunday 18th April 2010

This weeks guest is one of the most multi-talented Hobby Hypnotists. Darren Altman not only hypnotizes or hypnotises, he plays drums and he does our voice overs as well!

He has a home studio from where he sends out voice-overs all over the world. He has played characters in computer games and animations, delivered celebrity impressions jingle packages for radio stations, voiced adverts for TV and radio, on-hold answering messages and more!

His clients include X-Box, ITV, The Discovery Channel, Intel, cash4gold.com, Virgin Mobile, Amazon.com, Nintendo Wii, Cisco Systems, NHS, 888Poker.com, British Telecom, Gala/Coral, Learn Direct and Webex.

As a freelance drummer, he is asked to play in diverse musical situations from jazz trios and Big Bands, Pop, Funk and Latin groups. He has recorded the music to numerous films such as The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers and Ella Enchanted and  and TV soundtracks such as Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. And he has drummed for The Rat Pack in The West End and European tour, appeared as the house drummer for The Ronnie Scotts Allstars and toured the world with numerous artists.

Among the people he’s recorded and worked with are George Martin, The Pop Idol Big Band, Will Young, Gareth Gates, Pee Wee Ellis (James Brown), Darren Hayes, Anne Hathaway, Clare Teal and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.  

When he’s not busy he co-leads Centre-Line, a contemporary jazz quartet and can be seen gigging all over the UK with numerous groups and artists.

And when he’s not busy some more he hypnotically zapps unsuspecting people on the streets of London.

To check out his work go to http://darrenaltman.com

In hypnotherapy, especially the more establishment clinical style of training, they teach you how to get around peoples resistance almost before anything else. Marketing people do the same thing showing how to address peoples reluctance or issues before you’ve even got to them.

I can see why these things are there, for hundreds of years, or in the case of modern lay psychotherapy and internet marketing for the last ten or fifteen years, the object has been to get the mark – sorry client – and then if necessary batter them into submission.

What must be happening to even give this problem sorting approach the smallest glimpse of your time is that you are pla

I was asked a question on my Ask-Jon Teleseminar last night about my Hypnotic Symbolism™ method. So I thought I’d show you rather than go through a long winded explanation.

This video was shot at a 1 day Original Hypnosis Introduction. I’d spoken to Kate for about 2 minutes that morning but not about working with her. She had never been hypnotised before and there was no ‘set up’ apart from a polite hello and her telling me what she wanted to do.

During the post hypnosis I compounded that she would feel ‘normal’ and suggested that it had been a very successful session.

It appears that in the middle I ‘woke’ her up which of course is wrong. She’s hypnotised the whole time until I ‘officially’ terminate the process. We tested her right away.

This technique has been used for loads of behaviour change and has been called the Silver Bullet approach. Using this, especially combined with SUD scale (Wolpe, 1969), I don’t have to even know what their presenting situation is, and they don’t have to know either.

This is the simplest of all the approaches I have developed.

Enjoy.

Rock star Peter Buck used automatism as a defence in court. In court he has been found not guilty of assault on airline cabin crew and to be suffering from “non-insane automatism”, basically his mind is not in control of his body – although clearly something was.

In the UK the law considers hypnosis to be a form of induced “sleep” [1952 Hypnotism Act]. If that’s true then if someone commits a crime under hypnosis does that mean that they are also in a state of non-insane automatism?

The Svengali in me is wondering if it would then be possible to persuade someone to do something and both of us could claim neither was in control?

One thing is for sure. If his actions had been decided to be caused by alcohol or drugs or medicine [legal drugs such as anti-depressants which have been known to cause violent mood swings ] neither the Brewery, dealer or Doctor would be held responsible.

I look forward to your comments on this one.

There are without doubt 2 mental process’s at work, one is called the conscious and the other the subconscious. I think the easiest way to think of them, and to get a handle on what they do and how they interact is to think of them like this.

Mind, the part of your mental process that is emotional, creative, playful, childlike, irrational, capricious, illogical.

Brain, the part of your mental process that is unemotional, objective, serious, adult, rational, analytical, logical.

Now it doesn’t matter whether we consider the Mind as a Separate entity or some kind of attached energy or Soul or whether we see it as product of the Physical brain. Whichever you prefer as both suffice.

The Brain however we know for sure is a physical biological computer. It handles the nervous system and our judgements and calculates all the stuff we need to pick up a spoon right through to working out why E=Mc2

The Mind does and makes us do, everything else.

All the evidence points towards there being two separate process’s that sometimes work in harmony but more often work independantly or worse, in conflict with each other.

The fact is that science is only able to speculate as to what your subconscious may or may not be. Logic seems to suggest that if the mind is a product of the brain then it’s an absolute sign of inbuilt design fault as emotions are largely unneeded and retaining a playful and spiritual immaturity is counter productive to maintaining a social status.

On the other hand it could just be that the Brain is simply a tool of the driving Mind. Which appears to be the case as regardless of logic and objective reason we are way more likely to do what the Mind wants. Emilé Coué said “If there is conflict between the Intellect and the Imagination the Imagination will always win.”

The other notable thing of course is that even when the brain is at rest and not much is being thought the Mind continues to create, desire, feel, play. Doesn’t matter if that’s in sleep, trance or coma.

So my take is that the Mind is the driver and the Brain is the pedal, steering wheel and control system of the body – vehicle.

Jonathan Chase

The new promo testimonials video for learn-hypnosis.com which shows how weird and how much fun your training will be!

In the “Svengali System” I go into much more detail as far as technique is concerned but the bottom line is really simple.

Hide it right out front and just do it.

Don’t expect full blown trance, it’s too much trouble and you don’t need it. Go for a moment of distraction and or fascination which happens best when your targets are talking about emotive things.

Now some people claim if it isn’t trance you are not doing hypnosis it’s NLP. The fact is that the workable stuff in NLP is hypnosis, that’s where NLP came from in the first place. NLP models hypnosis not the other way around. “Trance” is a by product of hypnosis not the thing itself and real hypnotists have been using suggestion forever without trance.

In my experience that sort of hypnosis happens all the time. No, not when you are day dreaming or distracted, it’s when your subconscious takes over all together and it can be directed and steered there to the point that you just don’t consciously know it.

Creating what I call Momentous Moments, that’s moments when we pick up our beliefs which lead to our behaviours which lead to our perceptions…. creating those moments is very easy with a bit of practice. You can create this simply by repetitive tapping at a level almost inaudible, or by using questions with a repetitive theme – that’s how advertising works. And then at the right moment pop in the suggestion – which is the true art of hypnosis anyway.

Is it that simple? Yes.

Is it hypnosis? If that’s your intent then yes.

Will it be covert? If they are not a hypnotist they won’t notice.

Will it sell more Coke? Of course it already does!

Is it ethical? Well everyone manipulates and controls, influences and persuades anyway so I guess that’s down to the intent behind your using these skills.