When I began as a hypnotist, I didn't know what the hell I was doing. Basically, I'd been trained, but didn't feel confident. The way I understood it, the client came in, sat down, and I read them hypnosis scripts. There was a little more to it than that, but not too much. There would almost always be positive results in the short term, but long term results were shaky at best. And the most frustrating part was that I couldn't tell what I was doing that was helping and what was doing nothing. I couldn't accept it.

As time went on, I began to change my approach. Reworking it, and tweaking with each session I did. Eventually, I began to see things in a new way. I could identify the thing that was holding these people back and help them remove it so that they began moving forward again in their lives. Beginning to experience new things. Now, people come back and say "I notice my breath and I breathe deep so naturally that the feeling makes me calm." They would come up to me and say "I'm sleeping so much better since I learned how to place my attention on different parts of my body, like my left earlobe" or "I can relax now so easily, I just let my body go and I feel so much better, so much more peaceful."

So, what was the difference between my effectiveness? Hypnotic Programming. This post is getting a little long so I'm gonna wrap it up. But before I do, I'll tell you that Hypnotic Programming is the system of personal change that I came up with to help myself and others. This approach is influenced by the following in order of when I was exposed to them: Sales (Persuasion), Tony Robbins, Jeet Kune Do, Taoism, Carlos Castaneda, Yoga, Tai-Chi, Guitar, Hypnosis, NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), Reiki. I'll explain more about how this approach works in future posts.