I found the whole idea fascinating and I wished that I had attended the sort of school progressive enough to teach computer programming, although I thought that it would take a much superior brain than mine, to make a computer do those amazing things.
At that time, I had a friend who was something of a whiz with computers, to the extent that he could decipher huge dumps of paper covered with nothing but ones and zeros, and he persuaded me that it wasn't too late to learn and that the whole process was really very logical and simple.
As a result of my friend's faith in my abilities, I signed up for an evening class in BASIC programming. BASIC is an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, which is a high level programming language. In other words, it uses English words to formulate its commands as well as strings and mathematical expressions, rather than binary machine code, as used in low-level languages.
With some trepidation, I set off to my first class. I expected to be surrounded by either very technical or very academic types, but it wasn't so. The class was a cross-section of about twenty people, men and women, young and not so young, mainly of the non-technical variety.
The lecturer made it all seem so simple. After all, the most important thing that BASIC requires is logic. IF, THEN, ELSE may sound complicated but it's just as it sounds: if a certain thing happens, then do one thing, but if not, do something else. For example:
IF A = B THEN A = 0 ELSE B = 0 ENDIF
Having discovered that BASIC wasn't rocket science, I never looked back. In fact, I became so engrossed in my end of course project that I nearly forgot to do normal things like eating and sleeping.
We have all seen hypnotists on television and stage hypnosis has become very popular but there are far more uses for hypnosis than making volunteers cluck like chickens. Hypnosis Certification is specialized training in helping hypnotists put clients into a deep enough trance to make powerful hypnotic changes. Hundreds of people all over the world have used hypnosis to lose weight, stop smoking, break bad habits and increase their motivation.
Sports figures have gone to hypnotists to increase their concentration and performance. Top celebrities have gone to certified hypnotists to increase their confidence and get better control over their lives. Oprah published an article in her O magazine on the benefits of hypnosis in helping people lose weight and keep it off. Samuel Jackson and Matt Damon stopped smoking with hypnosis.
Hypnosis training can help you help others in much the same way. When you get certified in hypnosis you learn the techniques to help put your clients into a deep trance quickly and easily, while giving them pre-determined suggestions. You work with your clients to find out exactly what changes that they want made, often helping them to clarify their true desire. You then create hypnotic suggestions to help them achieve these goals.
As a hypnosis practitioner you are responsible for building rapport with your clients. You are not forcing them to be hypnotized. Instead you are working with them to build trust so that they can feel safe enough with you to relax and make these changes. It is important when creating these suggestions that you phrase them in the now, so learning how to monitor your language is a big part of your hypnosis certification training. Another part is reading between the lines. Some one may come in saying that they want to quit smoking but have some sub conscious benefits to being a smoker. For example, many people smoke as a social tool. They feel more confident with a cigarette in their hands. So you would need to address both issues. You would need to create suggestions to help them quit and also feel confident in social situations.
Weight loss hypnosis is similar. There is often a subconscious reason why people gain and lose weight in cycles. They may get rid of the weight temporarily but the emotional reason behind their binges has not been dealt with, which causes subsequent weight gain. Part of your job as a hypnotist is to address this. We are not talking about doing therapy here. Your job as a hypnotist is not to find out everything that has happened to them since they were five. But if you can determine the trigger that causes them to eat, you can address it and even find an alternate, healthier behavior to replace the eating.
Hypnosis certification training is an excellent way to learn these different techniques and identify these hidden indicators so that you can help your clients achieve even more powerful and longer lasting changes in their lives.
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