While her session with celebrity hypnotherapist Susan Hepburn can fairly safely be considered a bust, Judy Rumbold writes an intriguing piece on her time on Hepburn’s vibrating couch.
Hepburn is the hypnotist who helped Lily Allen drop weight and who has become something of a phenomenon with her high profile successes (she claims a ninety-eight percent success rate).
Read the piece for more.
While I agree with some of Hepburn’s sentiments, I use a very different process when approaching things like positive thinking and the like. My session techniques are rather different as well . . . I’m one of the folks who advocate the use of hypnotic phenomena in sessions both as imaginative involvement intensifiers and as demonstrations to the client that yes indeed they have entered a kool interesting altered state.
Many folks don’t have any idea what hypnosis feels like and so at the end of a session they are unsure as to whether or not they have indeed been there. Notice that Rumbold in parts convinces herself nothing has happened because she was awake and alert the whole time . . . well, in hypnosis, you are never actually asleep and most folks do indeed remember everything that has happened and certainly can hear everything the hypnotist says (if you can’t hear me, how will you follow my directions?). Rumbold obviously fights the process from the beginning by focusing on extraneous thoughts more than the actual instructions (I’ve never used the triangle in the head induction patter so couldn’t speak to that by experience).
All in all, a delightful and interesting article well worth the read.
All the best,
Brian
(Instant and Rapid Hypnosis Techniques)
See http://www.BrianDavidPhillips.com for details!
Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [phillips@nccu.edu.tw]Certified Hypnotherapist
President, Society of Experiential Trance
Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.BrianDavidPhillips.com
