{"id":149,"date":"2009-11-01T16:33:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-06-09T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T22:20:05","slug":"why-halloween-is-for-hypnotists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindworkshypnosis.net\/hypnotizer\/2009\/11\/01\/why-halloween-is-for-hypnotists\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Halloween is for Hypnotists"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Connie
Connie Brannan, CHt., Master Hypnotist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday was Halloween.\u00a0 I was sitting in a Starbucks (they’re everywhere here, and a day without coffee is like a day without clouds) and Michael and I were drinking some coffee.\u00a0 A little boy and girl were there with Mom and ran past me squealing in delight when they saw me.\u00a0 Because I was wearing a colorful\u00a0Halloween sweater with spiders and cats on it and and some “antennae” with orange fur and bats on my head.\u00a0 The boy and girl came up to me and informed me that they were, respectively, a princess and SUPERMAN!!!\u00a0 He told me that with passion and intense conviction, and although he wasn’t wearing his costume at the moment, I could see it.\u00a0 Yes, he was superman.<\/p>\n

Knowing that you’re superman is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Imagination is a freedom.\u00a0 To an adult, a chair may be just a chair–something to sit on.\u00a0 To a child, a chair may be so much more, a car, a pony, a fort to climb on, a spaceship.\u00a0 I remember as a kid walking on living room\u00a0furniture (I don’t think my Mom was in on this game)–the game was NOT to touch the floor as the floor was a moat or a lava pit or sure death of some kind.\u00a0 Furniture was land, and safety.<\/p>\n

I was also at the costume store the other day, and saw imagination in full play.\u00a0 Adult imagination.\u00a0 Adults looking at, trying on, playing with Halloween costumes, and props–faces alive with “let’s pretend.”\u00a0 Yes, I AM a pirate!\u00a0 \u00a0There was a magic in that store, and a life and energy that you don’t find in everyday life.\u00a0 Simply:\u00a0 it’s imagination.\u00a0 One of the “rules of the mind” I teach in my Bellevue College course is that “imagination is more powerful than knowledge.”\u00a0 Yes, it is!<\/p>\n

I love imagination.\u00a0 It’s the stock in trade of what I do.\u00a0 Helping people change, in ways they want to.\u00a0 But, before they can do that, they have to have the imagination to see life could be different.\u00a0 They\u00a0must be able to\u00a0imagine themselves cigarette-free, thinner, more successful, etc.\u00a0 That’s part of what I help them do–because I can see it for\u00a0them.\u00a0 Clearly!\u00a0 A person can come into my office with 50 pounds to lose, and I can fully imagine them thinner and healthier and living life with full passion.\u00a0\u00a0It’s who they really are.\u00a0 I can “see” their face thinner.\u00a0 Their body slimmer.\u00a0 I can see twitching turn to calm.\u00a0 I can see happiness.\u00a0 \u00a0Hypnosis helps me communicate what I know is true for them.\u00a0 When people are feeling “stuck” in their lives,\u00a0partly it’s because they’ve stomped down this innate childlike ability to see\u00a0the world as full of possibility and potential.\u00a0 I help people reconnect with that ability, and\u00a0change\u00a0is streamlined.<\/p>\n

Warm Regards,
\nConnie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was Halloween.\u00a0 I was sitting in a Starbucks (they’re everywhere here, and a day without coffee is like a day without clouds) and Michael and I were drinking some coffee.\u00a0 A little boy and girl were there with Mom and ran past me squealing in delight when they saw me.\u00a0 Because I was wearing […] <\/p>\n

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