Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Another great 201 class graduated last weekend. One of the hallmarks of our training is that Marc and I expose the students to live demonstrations. These are real people facing real challenges. These challenges that pertain to the course subject matter. This weekend we were working with fear. One of the students complained of a fear of heights. Holly told the class a funny story about having to clutch on to a friend’s arm in order to walk out on the balcony of one of the high-rise apartments here in Las Vegas. We were all laughing but the fear was real.

Using a technique that I learned from Dr. John Kappas called, Circle Therapy, I hypnotized Holly and walked her through the process. It took less then 5 minutes. That night, Holly and some of the other students went down to the Las Vegas Strip. Holly, confidently leaning on a balcony rail, faced her fear and found it had vanished. Attached is the evidence from a photo taken by a camera phone.

Hypnotherapy 201 Update

Today is the last day of our hypnotherapy training. We are going to be covering how to deal with fears and phobias. Yesterday, we demonstrated ideomotor responses and pendulum hypnosis and their associated therapies. John Zulli demonstrated how to use ideomotor responses to help with a hives condition that one of the students had.

I had the oppertunity to work transformational hypnosis with one of the students in front of the entire class. She was a young, bright inividual who felt that others perceived her to be insignificant. During the pre-induction interview, I asked our client some questions to begin to uncover what her underlying issues were. Once we knew what she wanted to work on, I hypnotized her using a rapid induction. I began to intensify the emotion, and once that was completed, I used age regression to move back in time to help her uncover the initial sensitizing event. Once we arrived to the sensitizing event, I moved her into Gestalt dialoging. She began the process of finding a resolution, then I began to take her through the re-education process of her sub-conscious mind. After the awakening procedure, she opened her eyes and began to speak of her experience. It was such an intimate experience that the entire class shared together.

I believe that one of the most valuable parts of the hypnotherapy training at the International Institute of Hypnosis is the live demonstrations and excercises that we perform with the students. Not only do they become certified hypnotherapist, they change completely as human being for the better. It is impossible to be exposed to this information and not change. :-)

I hope to see you in one of our classes soon.

Marc

Nothing Less Than Amazing

Nothing Less Than Amazing

I have been teaching hypnosis and hypnotherapy since about 1990, so I speak from experience when I say that the students enrolled in our current 201 class are no less then amazing.

Like ducks to water, this class has rapidly grasped the intricacies of the hypnotic process and are readily putting them into play. Not only are they hypnotizing each other with ease, they are already adding their own creative spin on the inductions and techniques. They are a credit to this 5000 year old art.

And speaking of credit, while I would like to take the credit for their brisk development, the reality is that their gains come from the fact that their imaginations are on fire.

Learning the concepts of hypnosis is liberating. Experiencing trance is an exercise in self-mastery and power. This 201 class is accelerating their understanding and their experience by making this information their own and putting it to use straight away.

I am having a great time teaching them.

Best,

John Zulli

"Problems cannot be solved by the level of awareness that created them." Albert Einstein