Hi All

I am reducing my library and have several hypnosis books for sale. You
can find them on my website
http://www.trance-formation.biz/hypnosisbooks.htm.
  All resonable offers will be considered.

Regards

John C

Not exactly award-winning documentary reporting, but this little skit about
a bloke having his tooth taken out in hypnosis might be of interest...

_http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7436866.stm_
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Colin

You have nothing to worry about.

You can obtain the HPD qualification via portfolio nowadays, the HPD is
based upon the National Occupational Standards.

See HYPERLINK
"http://www.hypnotherapypractitioner.org"http://www.hypnotherapypractitioner
.org and look at route 2.

It’s only £50. Or £100 if you need a tutor.

The HPD is the gold standard, you can even join the NCH with it let alone
the GHR.

In fact the NCH actively encourage everyone to do it as it puts everyone on
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Hope this helps

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I've been reading hypnosis for about eight years now, starting with
Milton Erikson. I've been studying through schools since mid 2007. I
have a Curative Hypnotherapist certificate from the British School
of Yoga. I am certified by the Hypnosis Motivation Insitute of
America as a Hypnotist and have certifications in Smoking Cessation,
PLR and Stage Hypnosis. Prior to these studies I completed several
years of study in Counselling.

Ethics and duty of care are very high on my agenda.

I chose this field to help others improve their quality of life.
Income is naturally a consideration, but secondary.

I am in a dilema as I wish to begin practicing and would like to
offer clients the added benefits of my being regulated by bodies
such as the GHSC. The problem I am presented with is the practice
and training hours necessary to achieve this. To achieve such hours
it would seem the only way is to pay a large amount of money for a
course which is dragged out unnecessarily and does not necessarily
furnish you with sufficient tutelage to justify the exhorbitant cost.

I spent money I could ill afford on a 6 month course with BSY. I had
already covered the entire content of the course several times in
the books I had read previously. I then discovered HMI and found
their streaming tutorial videos, documentation and modality far more
worthy of my money, and yet the foundation course was entirely free!
The major advantage of studying with HMI for me was the discovery of
E&P suggestibility, something I hadn't yet read about, which IMO
opens the flood gates of hypnosis.

I've seen and heard many shun distance/online learning. It would
seem the various regulatory bodies do the same, but I fail to
understand why when the videos are of a class room situation which
you can watch as many times as you like during the 28 day period,
there is an endless amount of documentation, tutor support, forums,
and tests. I also found the quality and quantity of content very
impressive. Even if I had paid the average UK fee for the course I
would still think I had nabbed a bargain and cannot wait to begin
the advanced course for a mere £1000.


I've never yet attended a 1 on 1 course in this country due to 2
glaring factors. The ridiculous cost and the fact that they're all
in the south, which really ramps up the prohibitory factor of
finance. Yet 30 days with HMI and I've had a number of volunteers
give me all kinds of hell about why I'm not doing this 9-5! I have
had volunteer clients for stage hypnosis, defective eyesight, pain
management, PLR and Drug addiction, each and everyone of them happy
with their experience and success. So if the only way to learn
hypnosis is via extortionate 1 on 1 then how am I able to achieve
such success? I'd like to hear of other peoples experience. How they
got started, how they overcame the hurdles of not having a few
hundred hours 1 on 1 under their belt while remaining ethical,
whether to practice or not, whether to open a practice or not,
whether quality and quantity in a short space of time is better than
10 lessons over a year at a high cost etc.

Hi Folks
I am a recently qualified hypnotherapist looking to expand my
knowledge. Can anyone give me advice, suggestions or just some comments
on what model to use for weightloss? So far I've based my sessions
around the work of Judith Pearson.
Kind regards
Amanda

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2008/6/13  <HypnoSynthesisUK@...>:
> Don't panic!, the media urge. serves as a.....
> useful example of the prevalence of classical rhetoric in the modern media.

Er aren't they just trying to sell papers by making things seem more
dramatic and exciting or frightening than they really are?
I'm not sure that newspapers are that bothered about our collective
well being on small matters. Or big matters for a celebrities ego
either.
They do come good on big issues though.
It interests me why  people frantically devour news that adds to thier anxiety.

Keith.

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Don't panic!, the media urge.  Since ancient times, rhetoricians have  known
that there's a trick to planting an idea in an audience's mind by  pretending
to deny it (called "apophasis", or no-saying).  Obviously, this  is also a
well-known language pattern in modern hypnosis.  It's interesting  to see these
messages coming out periodically.  I'm not sure whether  they're deliberately
trying to stir up anxiety, or just being incompetent,  but it serves as a
useful example of the prevalence of classical rhetoric in the  modern media.

'Don't panic-buy' motorists urged

Drivers are being urged to buy only the fuel they need as more  than 600
tanker drivers begin a four-day strike.

_http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7452033.stm_
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I read an interview with a very intelligent British Artist - I think
it was the guy that had a pic of Myra done using childrens hand-prints
- which raised a wee storm.

He reckoned the standard photo of her seen in the press made her look
so spooky that she would never be allowed out on parole as the state
would know there would be no sympathy because everyone 'knew' what she
was like coz of the picture. Wothout that pic she would have been out
eventually.

Good example of how public perceptions are shaped. We are constantly
having suggestions made to us  in this way - by politicians and
advertising.
People have lost a degree of personal freedom and choice thru being
'hypnotised' by this steady stream of suggestion. Idiots the lot of
them!
These suggestions seem to work better when they stimulate our insecure
feelings - mainly sexual and fear of danger to ourselves or our kids.
Keith.

On the Guardian web site today...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jun/11/ukcrime

The Moors murderer Myra Hindley petitioned the home secretary so she
could be hypnotised in a bid to help police find where one of her
young victims was buried, it was revealed yesterday.

Previously unseen documents at the National Archives in Kew have been
made public, and show that Hindley and Ian Brady each made separate
requests to be allowed to help police search for the body of
12-year-old Keith Bennett.

The document, dated November 1987, shows Hindley petitioned the then
home secretary, Douglas Hurd, for permission to be hypnotised in the
hope that she would be able to recall more accurately the area of
moorland where Keith was buried. The request was supported by her
advisers, including methodist minister and former prison governor
Peter Timms and Chief Superintendent Peter Topping, who was in charge
of the police inquiry.

The letter said Topping had been particularly keen for Brady to pay a
second visit to the moors in a further attempt to find Bennett's body.
However the home secretary turned down the idea and when it was
eventually given the go-ahead in 1995 Hindley was too ill to cooperate.

Hindley and Brady, who is in the high-security Ashworth hospital in
Merseyside, were convicted of murdering three children in 1966 and
became known as the Moors murderers as they buried their victims
around Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester. They confessed to two
further murders, those of Bennett and 16-year-old Pauline Reade, in 1987.

The files show that Winifred Johnson, the mother of Keith Bennett,
contacted Hindley in a neatly handwritten letter in October 1986,
after a book was published strongly implying that Hindley and Brady
were involved in her son's death. She wrote: "My heart tells me you
know and I am on bended knees begging you to end this torture and
finally put my mind at rest." The letter described the nightmare since
she last saw her son alive in 1964. "Not knowing whether my son is
alive or dead, whether he ran away or was taken away, is literally a
living hell, something which you no doubt have experienced during your
many, many years locked in prison." Johnson said it had taken five
weeks to write the letter "because it is so important to me that it is
understood by you for what it is, a plea for help".

A memo from staff at Cookham Wood prison in Kent described Hindley's
reaction: "She became extremely upset and tearful whilst reading it
and it took a very long time for her to compose herself sufficiently
to talk (this is most unusual as Myra is normally very controlled)."

Hindley denied all knowledge of Bennett's death when she first read
the letter, according to the memo, which referred to her dilemma as
how to respond because of fears of newspapers publishing the reply or
being seen as callous if she didn't reply. Her exact words were: "I
wish I did know something ... I could at least then put the poor woman
out of her misery." The following year Hindley and Brady confessed to
killing Bennett and Reade. Bennett's mother wrote again praising
Hindley for having the courage to admit the truth, adding she could
not forgive and forget.

A letter from Ann West, the mother of victim Lesley Ann Downey, to an
unnamed official making a heartfelt plea for Hindley to be kept behind
bars is included in the files. The letter, dated September 1972,
protests about Hindley being allowed out for walks in the park. "You
must think I am very bitter and I am and there must be hundreds of
people that feel the way I do about this," she wrote.

Some of the documents have been edited and 27 files remain completely
closed. None of the archive relating to Hindley is currently available
online.

Hindley spent the last four years of her life at Highpoint prison in
Suffolk. She died in November 2002, aged 60.

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hi,
Im new to hypnosis and want to know if I am one of the people who can
experience a positive hallucination when in trance. Can sanyone suggest an
mp3 or cd audio hypnosis program that starts with an induction, followed by
deepening and then a guided positive hallucination? If not can someone
suggest a good audio induction, deepening and guided hallucination and Ill
put them all together? Thanks.


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Hi Hypnotists,

2008/6/2  <HypnoSynthesisUK@...>:
> People who do not talk about traumatic experiences can fare better than
> those who "let it all out", say researchers.
Can you 'control' for this?
How do you know the state of the people before the trauma?
How do you measure their state after?
Are there 2 types of crying - self-pity and release?
Are there 2 types of talking - circular blathering that gets you
nowhere and catharthic therapy.
Can the researchers tell the difference?

Catharthic therapies are slow and non-specific - to expect to lessen
the effects of 9/11 in x months is not their aim - you unwind in the
'order' you acquired. Someone highly traumatised by 9/11 could well be
so because they were well wound up first and the 9/11 trauma gets
tangled up with child-hood trauma in a subconcious that doesn't store
things by the clock.

> The University at Buffalo study compared the progress of 3,000 people who
> took different approaches over two years following the 9/11 attacks.
> It found people initially unwilling to talk were less likely to be adversely
> affected two years later.
Hmmmmm. The whole point of repression is to bury things. As our
'release' fails we bury more and more. The successful 'burying' gives
us time to develop coping strategies - which people who ineffectively
mull over stuff don't develop.
But that buried stuff is part of our emotional attitude processing. It
may or may not show up in the future enough to be noticed - but it is
always there having some general effect.
People who go thru big destressing seem to agree their emotional
outlook changes as this subconcious rubbish is cleared away. They have
fewer negative thoughts and will tend to view events as neutral rather
than negative. That should be measurable.

> But a UK psychologist said that other studies had suggested that for many
> people talking did help.
Implying 'science' is well out of it's depth here?

I am a fan of so-called quick therapy but worry that poor people like
me that could never afford them would believe this sort of stuff and
fail to find help elsewhere. I suffered pretty big traumas (I know
there is plenty bigger too) and using 'anecdotal' evidence found my
way to the cheap but time consuming 'therapy' of mind/body methods and
have met many people who claim to have made similar progress to me. A
sizable no. (maybe 20%) of people are capable of facing themselves and
getting help from these things.
Studies in these areas tend to be very naive - they are fringe science
and rather worthless. If a hypnotherapist told a poor patient that
crying in a yoga lesson would not help them and carried on taking
their meager funds that would be a bad bad thing.

There are doctors who back Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais, Yoga,
Meditation etc. Their writings are sane and their views are valid.
Mine are too actually - really!
Mind/body change is very very complex. it's called experiential
learning - you can't believe it until you have undergone a change and
can validate it with your own experience. Even then it pays to remain
sceptical as the Buddha said I think.
Science works well when the systems are simple enough. We aren't
simple so applying science is fraught...

Keith.

Never when working with the mind is there a one fits all solution.  As many
approaches as we can conjure up, that work, is the best way to help people.
What may be indicated by the article, is the "talking" about is also
reinforcing, by repetition, the event that is disturbing.  I have work with
a few PTSD clients that still have trauma from Vietnam.  One noticeable
thing about these particular clients was they were attending "meetings" at
the VA (Veterans Administration) and I feel those meetings only helped them
to maintain their PTSD.  Once free of those meetings and the medications
given, they were able to work through the past trauma.  Now I could not
ethically or legally tell them to stop the meetings or medication, but as
they experienced resolution of their traumas, the were able to, with their
doctors involvement get off the VA program.  By the way there was one I
could not help as it seemed there was too much attachment to past events
that gave the person benefits he was unwilling to let go of.


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Many therapists do appear to frequently give "one-size-fits-all" advice of t
his nature to their clients, especially with regard to the need for
expressing feelings, etc. This may be based more on prejudice or folk wisdom
than
genuine clinical knowledge or research.
Bottling it up 'can ease trauma'

People who do not talk about traumatic experiences can fare better than
those who "let it all out", say researchers.
The University at Buffalo study compared the progress of 3,000 people who
took different approaches over two years following the 9/11 attacks.
It found people initially unwilling to talk were less likely to be adversely

affected two years later.
But a UK psychologist said that other studies had suggested that for many
people talking did help.




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Many therapists do appear to frequently give  "one-size-fits-all" advice of t
his nature to their clients, especially with  regard to the need for
expressing feelings, etc.  This may be based more on  prejudice or folk wisdom
than
genuine clinical knowledge or research.
Bottling it up 'can ease trauma'

People who do not talk about traumatic experiences can fare  better than
those who "let it all out", say researchers.
The University at Buffalo study compared the progress of 3,000 people who
took different approaches over two years following the 9/11 attacks.
It found people initially unwilling to talk were less likely to be adversely
affected two years later.
But a UK psychologist said that other studies had suggested that for many
people talking did help.

_http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7427532.stm_
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7427532.stm)


Dr Seery, whose work was published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, said: "We should be telling people there is likely nothing wrong
if  they do not want to express their thoughts and feelings after experiencing
a  collective trauma.
"In fact, they can cope quite successfully and, according to our results, are
  likely to be better off than someone who does want to express his or her
feelings."
Professor Stephen Joseph, who specialises in trauma following disasters, said
  that it was important not to generalise about the "right" approach for all
patients.
He said that other studies had suggested that for many people, talking about
their experiences with the support of proper counselling, was the correct
road  to recovery.
He said: "Those people who wanted to express their feelings immediately after
  9/11 may have been those who were most deeply affected by it, so it is not
entirely unsurprising that they may still have symptoms two years later."


Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
College Principal & Executive  Director

Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered  Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the European Register of Psychotherapists  (ERP)
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health  (RSPH)


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The Register for Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy &  Psychotherapy(tm)

The Register for Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy is a
professional accrediting body which seeks to establish the highest possible
professional standards in the field of hypno-psychotherapy by promoting 
evidence-based
practice.  All of our members are required by their code of  practice to follow
an evidence-based approach.

* We envisage a future in which hypno-psychotherapy is widely recognised by
the general public, media, and other professions, as the original and most
fundamental modality of psychotherapy.
* We expect high quality research on hypnosis to continue to provide
validation for its essential concepts, strategies and techniques.
* We aim to encourage the development of a highly trained and
scientifically-oriented profession of hypno-psychotherapy which is better 
adapted to meet
the needs of clients.
* The public have a right to be able to expect that the therapy they receive
will be based on the best contemporary evidence, and skills training, and we
believe that goal is both realistic and achievable.
Membership of the Register is open to anyone with an interest in
evidence-based practice in hypnotherapy or psychotherapy.
Professional accreditation is available for therapists who meet the
Register's criteria.
Visit our new website:
_http://www.psychotherapy-hypnosis.org.uk/_
(http://www.psychotherapy-hypnosis.org.uk/)

_www.REBHP.org_ (http://www.REBHP.org)


Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
College Principal & Executive  Director

Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered  Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the European Register of Psychotherapists  (ERP)
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health  (RSPH)


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Formula 'secret of perfect voice'


The research was conducted by linguist Andrew Linn, of Sheffield University
and sound engineer Shannon Harris.



The  pair worked out their formula based on the combination of tone, speed,
frequency, words per minute and intonation.
They concluded the ideal voice should utter no more than 164 words per minute
  and pause for 0.48 seconds between sentences. Sentences themselves should
fall  rather than rise in intonation.
Vocal traits associated with positive characteristics, such as confidence and
  trust, scored highly with listeners.
Full Article
_http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7426923.stm_
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7426923.stm)

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
College Principal & Executive  Director

Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered  Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the European Register of Psychotherapists  (ERP)
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health  (RSPH)

The UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy  Ltd.

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JILL BOLTE TAYLOR was a neuroscientist working at Harvard's brain
research center when she experienced nirvana.

But she did it by having a stroke
<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/stroke/overview.html?in\
line=nyt-classifier> .

On Dec. 10, 1996, Dr. Taylor, then 37, woke up in her apartment near
Boston with a piercing pain behind her eye. A blood vessel in her brain
had popped. Within minutes, her left lobe — the source of ego,
analysis, judgment and context — began to fail her. Oddly, it felt
great.

The incessant chatter that normally filled her mind disappeared. Her
everyday worries — about a brother with schizophrenia
<http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/disease/schizophrenia-disorgani\
zed-type/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier>  and her high-powered job
— untethered themselves from her and slid away.

Her perceptions changed, too. She could see that the atoms and molecules
making up her body blended with the space around her; the whole world
and the creatures in it were all part of the same magnificent field of
shimmering energy.

"My perception of physical boundaries was no longer limited to where my
skin met air,"she has written in her memoir, "My Stroke of Insight,"
which was just published by Viking.

After experiencing intense pain, she said, her body disconnected from
her mind. "I felt like a genie liberated from its bottle," she wrote in
her book. "The energy of my spirit seemed to flow like a great whale
gliding through a sea of silent euphoria."

While her spirit soared, her body struggled to live. She had a clot the
size of a golfball in her head, and without the use of her left
hemisphere she lost basic analytical functions like her ability to
speak, to understand numbers or letters, and even, at first, to
recognize her mother. A friend took her to the hospital. Surgery and
eight years of recovery followed.

Her desire to teach others about nirvana, Dr. Taylor said, strongly
motivated her to squeeze her spirit back into her body and to get well.

This story is not typical of stroke victims.Left-brain injuries don't
necessarily lead to blissful enlightenment;people sometimes sink into a
helplessly moody state: their emotions run riot. Dr. Taylor was also
helped because her left hemisphere was not destroyed, and that probably
explains how she was able to recover fully.

Today,she says, she is a new person, one who "can step into the
consciousness of my right hemisphere" on command and be "one with all
that is."

To her it is not faith, but science. She brings a deep personal
understanding to something she long studied:that the two lobes of the
brain have very different personalities.Generally, the left brain gives
us context, ego, time,logic. The right brain gives us creativity and
empathy. For most English-speakers, the left brain, which processes
language, is dominant. Dr. Taylor's insight is that it doesn't have to
be so.

Her message, that people can choose to live a more peaceful, spiritual
life by sidestepping their left brain, has resonated widely.

In February,Dr. Taylor spoke at the Technology, Entertainment, Design
conference(known as TED), the annual forum for presenting innovative
scientific ideas. The result was electric. After her 18-minute address
was posted as a video on TED's Web site, she become a
mini-celebrity.More than two million viewers have watched her talk, and
about 20,000 more a day continue to do so.An interview with her was also
posted on Oprah Winfrey
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/oprah_winf\
rey/index.html?inline=nyt-per> 's Web site, and she was chosen as one of
Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world for 2008.

She also receives more than 100 e-mail messages a day from fans. Some
are brain scientists, who are fascinated that one of their own has had a
stroke and can now come back and translate the experience in terms they
can use. Some are stroke victims or their caregivers who want to share
their stories and thank her for her openness.

But many reaching out are spiritual seekers, particularly Buddhists and
meditation <http://www.dhamma.org/>  practitioners, who say her
experience confirms their belief that there is an attainable state of
joy.

"People are so taken with it,"said Sharon Salzberg, a founder of the
Insight Mediation Society in Barre, Mass. "I keep getting that video in
e-mail.I must have 100copies."

She is excited by Dr. Taylor's speech because it uses the language of
science to describe an occurrence that is normally ethereal. Dr. Taylor
shows the less mystically inclined, she said, that this experience of
deep contentment"is part of the capacity of the human mind."

Since the stroke, Dr. Taylor has moved to Bloomington, Ind., an hour
from where she was raised in Terre Haute and where her mother, Gladys
GillmanTaylor, who nursed her back to health,still lives.

Originally,Dr.Taylor became a brain scientist — she has a Ph.D. in
life sciences with a specialty in neuroanatomy — because she has a
mentally ill brother who suffers from delusions that he is in direct
contact with Jesus. And for her old research lab at Harvard, she
continues to speak on behalf of the mentally ill.

But otherwise, she has dialed back her once loaded work schedule. Her
house is on a leafy cul-de-sac minutes from Indiana University
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/i/ind\
iana_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org> , which she attended as an
undergraduate and where she now teaches at the medical school.

Her foyer is painted a vibrant purple. She greets a stranger at the door
with a warm hug. When she talks, her pale blue eyes make extended
contact.

Never married, she lives with her dog and two cats. She
unselfconsciously calls her mother, 82, her best friend.

She seems bemused but not at all put off by the hundreds who have
reached out to her on a spiritual level. Religious ecstatics who claim
to see angels have asked her to appear on their radio and television
programs.

She has declined these offers. Although her father is an Episcopal
minister and she was raised in his church, she cannot be counted among
the traditionally faithful. "Religion is a story that the left brain
tells the right brain," she said.

Still, Dr. Taylor says, "nirvana exists right now."

"There is no doubt that it is a beautiful state and that we can get
there," she said.

That belief has certainly sparked debate. On Web sites like
evolvingbeings.com <http://evolvingbeings.com/>  and in Eckhart Tolle
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/eckhart_to\
lle/index.html?inline=nyt-per>  discussion groups, people debate whether
she is truly enlightened or just physically damaged and confused.

Even her own scientific brethren have wondered.

"When I saw her on the TED video, at first I thought, Oh my god, is she
losing it," said Dr. Francine M. Benes, director of the Harvard Brain
Tissue Resource Center, where Dr. Taylor once worked.

Dr.Benes makes clear that she still thinks Dr. Taylor is an extra
ordinary and competent woman. "It is just that the mystical side was not
apparent when she was at Harvard," Dr. Benes said.

Dr.Taylor makes no excuses or apologies, or even explanations. She says
instead that she continues to battle her left brain for the better. She
gently offers tips on how it might be done.

"As the child of divorced parents and a mentally ill brother, I was
angry,"she said. Now when she feels anger rising, she trumps it with a
thought of a person or activity that brings her pleasure.  she says,just
the belief that the left brain can be tamed.

Her newfound connection to other living beings means that she is no
longer interested in  performing experiments on live rat brains, which
she did as a researcher.

She is committed to making time for passions —physical and visual
— that she believes exercise her right brain,including water-skiing,
guitar playing and stained-glass making. A picture of one of her
intricate stained-glass pieces — of a brain —graces the cover of
her book.

Karen Armstrong, a religious historian who has written several popular
books including one on the Buddha, says there are odd parallels between
his story and Dr. Taylor's.

"Like this lady, he was reluctant to return to this world," she said.
"He wanted to luxuriate in the sense of enlightenment."

But, she said, "the dynamic of the religious required that he go out
into the world and share his sense of compassion."

And in the end, compassion is why Dr. Taylor says she wrote her memoir.
She thinks there is much to be mined from her experience on how
brain-trauma patients might best recover and, in fact, she hopes to open
a center in Indiana to treat such patients based on those principles.

And then there is the question of world peace. No,Dr. Taylor doesn't
know how to attain that,but she does think the right hemisphere could
help. Or as she told the TED conference:

"I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner
peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project
into the world,and the more peaceful our planet will be."

It almost seems like science.

WATCH HER VIDEO - LINK GIVEN BELOW.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/229
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We periodically auction one place on our basic training for our
sponsored charity, The Princess Alice Hospice in Esher.

The course runs at Clapham Junction in London.

See the website below for details, or to place a bid,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190224515366

Click here

Yours Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
College Principal & Executive Director

Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the European Register of Psychotherapists (ERP)
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health (RSPH)

The UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Ltd.
www.UKhypnosis.com

Freephone (UK) 0800 195 9809
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I'm pleased to announce that the Register for Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy  &
Psychotherapy(tm) has just launched its new website.  Anyone can join  the
register, providing they accept the codes of ethics and practice, although
professional grades and accreditation are restricted to those with suitable
qualifications, superviison, etc.

The Register seeks to promote evidence-based practice in the field of
hypnotherapy and hypnotic psychotherapy and to disseminate information on the
empirical validation of hypnotic interventions.

See the website below for details...

_http://www.psychotherapy-hypnosis.org.uk/_
(http://www.psychotherapy-hypnosis.org.uk/)

_www.REBHP.com_ (http://www.REBHP.com)


Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
College Principal & Executive  Director

Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered  Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the European Register of Psychotherapists  (ERP)
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health  (RSPH)


The UK College of  Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Ltd.
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Smoking Cessation Masterclass for Hypnotherapists - Saturday 14th  June 2008

We still have a few places available on our next Smoking Cessation
Masterclass for Hypnotherapists, which takes place in London on Saturday 14th 
June.

This is a unique, intensive training course in evidence-based smoking
cessation hypnotherapy.
After attending the day, you will receive a  specialist certificate in
smoking cessation hypnotherapy.

Visit our website for a detailed overview of the course content -
_HypnoSynthesis®  Certificated Smoking Cessation Masterclass for
Hypnotherapists_
(http://www.ukhypnosis.com/Events/Smoke%20Freedom%20Workshop.htm)


Certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy - Sunday 6th -  Saturday 12th July 2008

We are also now taking bookings for the Certificate in Clinical  Hypnotherapy
starting on Sunday 6th July.
This seven-day intensive course is the first stage of  training to become a
registered hypnotherapist and is suitable for  complete newcomers.  It can also
be used as CPD for professionals qualified  in related fields, such as
counselling or psychotherapy, who wish to incorporate  hypnotherapy techniques
into
their existing practice.

Attention is paid to individual participants’ ability to induce, deepen,  and
apply hypnosis through practical group exercises and tutoring.

_The Certificate in Clinical  Hypnotherapy.  Training Course._
(http://www.ukhypnosis.com/Events/HPC.htm)

Successful completion of this course will entitle you to become a Student
Member of the Register for Evidence Based Hypnotherapy &  Psychotherapy.
_Register for Evidence-Based  Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy - REBHP_
(http://www.psychotherapy-hypnosis.org.uk/)


Yours Sincerely,

Mandy  Robertson
Student Support Coordinator

_Click  here_
(http://www.ukhypnosis.com/Events/Introduction%20to%20Hypnosis.htm)  to find out
more about our NEW "introduction to hypnosis"  workshop...


The UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy  Ltd.
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It's cool that a group like this exists. I have been using hypnosis
for past life regressions, and stage for over 25 years. The funny
thing I have been seeing lately (about the last 2 to 3 years) is that
hypnosis (stage and other forms) isn't talked about much. I even
created a blog talking about that very fact. you can check it out at
http://hypnosishow2.blogspot.com

Whats everyone take on that. Is Hypnosis becoming a dead art?

We periodically auction one place on our basic training for our sponsored
charity, The Princess Alice Hospice in Esher.

The course runs at Clapham Junction in London.

See the website below for details, or to place a bid,


_http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190224515366_
(http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190224515366)

_Click  here_
(http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=190224515366)

Yours  Sincerely,

Donald Robertson
College Principal & Executive  Director

Senior Clinician Hypnotherapist (NCH)
Registered  Psychotherapist (UKCP)
Member of the European Register of Psychotherapists  (ERP)
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health  (RSPH)


The UK College of  Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Ltd.
_www.UKhypnosis.com_ (http://www.ukhypnosis.com/)

Freephone (UK)  0800 195 9809
International +44(0)1403248266
UKCHH, Suite 127, 17 Piries  Place, Horsham, RH12 1BF

Hypno-CBT® is the registered trademark of The UK  College of Hypnosis &
Hypnotherapy Ltd.
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Can anyone help me out? I have recently qualified as a clinical
hypnotherapist and would like to take a master class in smoking
cessation. I am based in Edinburgh so anything in Scotland would be a
bonus.  Many thanks

(Please forward  this message to anyone you know who may be interested in
becoming an accredited  hypnotherapist...)


The UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy  Ltd.
The Register for Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy &  Psychotherapy
Just a reminder that our next Hypnotherapy Practitioner Certificate course
is currently enrolling and begins on Sunday 1st June.  This introductory
course lasts seven days and is taught by College Principal and accredited Senior
Clinician Hypnotherapist, Donald Robertson.

Students will learn the basic techniques, concepts, and  competencies
required for private practice as a clinical hypnotherapist  using modern
evidence-based hypnosis.  You will be offered free student  registration with
the National
Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH), and provided with  access to appropriate
professional insurance.  This is the first module of  a three-stage diploma
programme leading to the award of Hypnotherapy  Practitioner Diploma, externally
verified by NCFE, one of the  largest Government-recognised national vocational
awarding bodies in the  UK.

The diploma programme is externally accredited by the following independent
bodies in the UK:
The Register for Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy  (REBHP)
The National Council for Hypnotherapy (NCH)
The Hypnotherapy Society (HS)
The Hypnotherapy Association (HA)
The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC)

Full details are available on our website below.
_www.UKhypnosis.com_ (http://www.ukhypnosis.com/)

Venue
The UK College of Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy
3 Windward House
Square Rigger Row
Plantation Wharf
SW11 3TU

Closest train station: Clapham Junction.

Website
_www.UKhypnosis.com_ (http://www.ukhypnosis.com/)

Telephone
Call free on 0800 195 9809, 24 hours, seven days a week.

Email
_HypnoSynthesisUK@..._ (mailto:HypnoSynthesisUK@...)

Some Comments the Last Course

(All testimonials are retained on file and reproduced with  permission, in
accord with advertising industry regulations.)
"This course surpassed other practitioner training that I have received."
Ronald, Semi-retired, Buckinghamshire

"Really enjoyable course with an extremely diverse but very pleasant group.
Don knows his stuff!" Sue, Estate Agent, Beckenham

"Great course, really whets your appetite for this subject." Christopher,  MC
/ Youth Worker, Essex


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2008/5/14 Donald Robertson <HypnoSynthesisUK@...>:
> Of course, some therapists will run two businesses and avoid the VAT
> that way
Be very careful of that! I was VAT registered for a long time
(different days!) and they are very well run & thorough and well
computerised and hard to trick - I would never try. I knew some people
who ran 3 businesses & VAT deemed it was a ruse to avoid VAT & they
got hammered.

Keith.
Excellent discussion about the economics of the business by the way.
I'm staying a yogi!

Hi Mel & Mark,

> Genes are not merely selfish, it appears. Instead, people
> seem to have deep instincts for fairness, empathy and attachment.
Thats selfish - 'self preserving (without concious awareness) of the
gene pool not of the individual. Some people will sacrifice themselves
for the greater good. Dolpins and dogs have rescued humans by instinct
not for reward (if such stories are to be believed). I believe we are
the result of evolution of complex systems - there is no cosmic
universal conciousness or god. I feel important but in the whole of
the universe I am next to nothing.
I believe a behaviour or habit learned might be passed on to
descendants as an instinct - a process not requiring concious
awareness. I believe complexity is a survival of the gene pool
advantage. Conciousness allows adaptability and resourcefulness so it
evolved. Meditation leads me to think the 'quality' of conciousness in
many animals is better than most humans - animals can 'just be' better
than us unless we train for it. Some of us are better then the animals
at rational thought.

> Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states.
When people start calling them 'elevated spiritual'  I get suspicious.
I think these things can be regarded as rather mundane - even though
they are beneficial.
If you don't sleep you get into a terrible state. Start sleeping and
you come good.
We all suffer from excessive tensing up and failure to release that
tension and that puts us into a bad(ish) state. If you do your yoga,
AT or meditation/self hypnosis you come good. You can get into some
pretty natty states like bliss and 'all is one-ness' but these are
just transient feelings - your ego may tell you this is 'elevation' or
union with the divine - best not to believe it.

> Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown
> that transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured
>in the brain (people experience a decrease in activity in the parietal lobe,
which orients us
> in space).
Mel has a good view on this sort of thing I think. They can detect
some common different activity but what does that tell us about the
validity of the persons experience. Shared delusion is provably
common. So are supernatural feelings sensing of truth or
hallucinations?
It's conceivable an interaction between external and internal
electro-magnetic (or gravitational?) fields may one day be found
showing there is an external conciousness (maybe even some other form
of energy?) but I feel this will not happen (I feel this at the moment
at least!).

> The mind seems to have the ability to transcend itself and
> merge with a larger presence that feels more real.
That's the individuals experience and it's subjective. Some budhists
think these feelings are the same as mountaineers hallucinations - the
result of changing oxygen distribution in the brain. I am am inclined
to agree with this but really don't know as I can't go up high
mountains to test it. I don't think anyone can really know just as
no-one can dictate how I 'should' feel when listening to Beethoven -
the objective and subjective are interwoven when it comes to music and
'spirituality'.
Most people I have met who claim to be highly spiritual seem to me to
not be able to view many things rationally so I am distrustful of
their claims.

> This new wave of research will not seep into the public realm in the
> form of militant atheism. Instead it will lead to what you might call
> neural Buddhism.
When I hear phrases like that I think it's journalist speak. The
'journey within' can be analysed and explained in little bits by
science. It doesn't need science as mostly understood in the west.
It's 'black box science'. You experiment with different inputs and
analyse the effects on your experience and feelings.

> Who knows where this discussion can take us.
It sorts out the non-meditators from the meditators! Those who think
there is and 'end to science' (everything will one day be explained)
from those that 'know' there are limits to rational knowledge because
we are so complex that the nature of deepest experiences is a product
of our biology and wiring (and maybe our relationship with the
external conciousness?) that is so complex that  while in principle
everything might potentially be explained in pratice it is impossible.
As we work on feed-back loops that we can't understand we can generate
'free will' and excuses.

> I have been stating for many
> years the mind and brain are not fully understood by scientists.
I think meditators maybe effectively understand it better than anyone.
It's obvious to such that our entire body is involved in the
functioning of the 'mind'. I think any significant 'mental' change is
accompanied by physical changes and vice versa.  In mind body methods
bigger mental changes are achieved via input from the 'body' along
with the 'mental' (verbal) input.

> There are many missing pieces to the puzzle. How are thoughts generated? Are
> we all plugged into some gigantic collective consciousness?
Some feel one way some another. It's unknowable. Anyone with a firm
view on this - this is sign of your hang-ups - why do need to know the
unknowable?

> This is why I am very concerned when scientists come up with quick fix
> solutions to human behavioural problems.
Usually it's journalists misrepresenting something or scientists
getting publicity for fund raising or feeding their ego-mania. I laugh
when you read some scientific discovery that FM Alexander or the yogis
and buddhists obviously knew long before. Especially when the gene
that causes 'x' has been discovered so the cure is on the way.

>  I look to nature which gives an
> indication that the simple structures will stand the test of time.
I fell like we are extraordinarily complicated in our
physical/chemical/electrical construction. I hope we pass the time
test.

> My
> belief is the brain and mind have one purpose and that is to record and
> collect information. Its primary function is survival, and it will do
> anything to fulfil that primary function.
er. I think it has no purpose. it just is. The big bang resulted in
chemical reactions & processes that made hydrogen, water, rocks and
me.  I have conciousness awareness and believe trees and rocks don't -
but can't prove that's true.


> ... can go into a hypersensitive mode and look for problems that simply do not
> exist. It is not surprising that people generate phobias or create coping
> strategies for life, be it cigarettes, drink, drugs etc.
I'm not overly surprised that me and many other people have or had
problems like this. The processing overload that civilisation has
brought us causes massive psycho-physical mal-adjustment. I look back
and wonder how I functioned so well in such an appalling state. You
would probably regard this as a strange statement if you haven't
experienced the changes I have.

>  I have immense
> respect for the brain and mind where scientists will try to undermine it
> with chemical or other types of intervention.
The are trying to fix it by localised interventions because they have
no idea of more holistic effective interventions - and their ego/self
blinds them to the larger amount of largely anecdotal but some
scientific evidence that such interventions exist.
Ego blindness is the huge problem. Most humans can't get past it -
buddhists and yogis can't either.

> I hold that saying, by Harold Klawans, in the back of my mind constantly.
> "The absence of proof is not proof of absence."
Indeed. The dismissal of things as unscientific by people being
irrational without realising it is wide-spread. People 'need' to know
and understand and one part of mind closes awareness of other parts to
hide the the chaos of not knowing. All sorts of muddle then follows.

Yogi Keith off on one again!