Thanks for that Marty, I hear you… I have actually had many, many emails from people stating similar sentiments to those you are sharing here, so I think there are plenty of us out there… 🙂

My i-pod is jam packed with hypnosis recordings (some by your good self, Adam) and I’ve got loads of cds I use on a regular basis. I spend a lot of time in hypnosis. Well, in one form of hypnosis anyway. One kind of trance.

As a trainee therapist, I do think it odd that not a lot of people teach self hypnosis to their clients. We are healers but we are not the guardians of the healing knowledge. If a client can use something to help themselves then surely it is the responsibility of a therapist to show them how to do that on an independent basis?

We were taught The Betty Erickson Technique on our psychotherapy course. I used it in a bar one night when I was sat at a table on my own waiting for some friends. And I’m not kidding, a whole load of people kept coming over to me. They’d got the long way around to get to the bar and come up to my table for no reason.

One of the great things about the Richard Bandler seminar I went to was that he showed us some techniques we could use in our own lives.

There is something very odd about therapists who don’t spend time in hypnosis and don’t teach such techniques to their clients.

Thanks for that Richard, I like the chef analogy. Spot on.

cheers,

Richard