National Guild of Hypnotists

NGHWA E-news November, 2010
In this E-News:

November Meeting Events
Speaker:  Howard Batie, “SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS”
Article:  Jack Elias, “Happiness Arises from View and Intention”
Officer Elections for the NGHWA
NOVEMBER MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:

–Call for Speakers
–Call for Articles
–New member benefit: CDs available for check-out.  22nd Annual NGH Convention presentations.
–2011 Membership Renewals
–NGHWA Officer Elections
–World Hypnotism Day Events, January 2011
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

–Connie and Michael Brannan offer life and career enhancing NLP and hypnosis certification trainings. Ongoing.
–Kathie Brodie will help you record a professional quality CD.
GREETINGS:

We invite you to our November meeting, to be held on Friday, November 12th, 2010, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm.

http://www.nghwa.org

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

SPIRITUAL JOURNEYS
Howard Batie

Spiritual Journeys is a recently-developed certification program involving self-hypnosis for greatly accelerated spiritual development and exploration that is taught in two types of workshops: one for other hypnotherapists, and one tailored for the general public.

The program teaches you, a previously certified hypnotherapist, how to conduct each type of workshop. The workshop for hypnotherapists provides detailed instructions and copious handouts on taking your students step by step through a process involving up to seven separate one-on-one hypnosis sessions for each student.

The first session teaches you, or your student, powerful self-hypnosis and self-emerging techniques and includes a reinforcing practice CD that you can practice for a week. The second session teaches you how to begin from deep self-hypnosis and then to allow your consciousness to rise up into the awareness of your Higher Self, a place in your mind I call your Spiritual Area, and then to return to full conscious awareness. A second CD is provided to practice this for another week.

The third session begins by asking you to bring your awareness into your Spiritual Area, where you are guided to meet, and then establish a conscious two-way conversation with, your Higher Self and with your Spirit Guide. This foundational ability is the “launching pad” for your to begin exploring your Spiritual Area and visiting several additional optional “places,” each of which teaches you a new spiritual ability: (1) the Temple of Healing where you learn how to facilitate a true spiritual healing on all levels for yourself or others, (2) the Hall of Records where you learn how to read your own past lives (you don’t need anyone else to tell you what you’ve already done!), (3) the Library where you learn how to access the universal Akashic Records for useful information on ANY topic, and (4) the Hall of Transformation where you learn how to use the Violet Flame of Transformation to release negativity in yourself and to bring it to others for their use as well.

A wonderful meditation CD is also included in this latest Journey. This step-by-step program is hugely transforming, both for yourself and for each of your students. It begins by teaching you, the hypnotherapist, how to attain each of these abilities yourself, and also teaches you how to instruct others (both other hypnotherapists and the general public) to attain these abilities as well through separate, individual one-on-one sessions in your office.

Come learn these powerful techniques and add another dimension to your work as a professional hypnotherapist!

In addition to being a Certified and Registered Hypnotherapist, Mr. Batie is also a Reiki Master-Teacher and Instructor, a Healing Touch Therapist, a Certified Clinical Ro-Hun Therapist, and a Certified Reconnective Healing Therapist.

He is author of “Awakening The Healer Within,” (ISBN 1-56718-055-8), published by Llewellyn Publications in 2000, and also of “Healing Body, Mind & Spirit,” (ISBN 0-7387-0398-2), also published by Llewellyn Publications in 2003. “Healing Body, Mind & Spirit” was chosen as “The Best Alternative Health Book Published In The USA in 2003.”

Mr. Batie was honored as the 1998 Distinguished Alumnus for Centralia College in Centralia, WA, and is also an instructor of energy healing techniques at Centralia College, and was Past President of the Centralia Rotary Club in 2005-2006.
FEATURED ARTICLE:

Jack Elias:  “Happiness Arises from View and Intention”

One of the most notable blocks to happiness we all share is lack of self-appreciation. In fact, that is putting it mildly. We commonly carry around an attitude of self-distain.
We have been trained to find ourselves deficient by passing the events of our lives through harsh interpretive filters.

Have you ever found yourself able to thoroughly explain the reason why you have a problem in terms of your personal history but not be able to be free of the problem? It can be disheartening to discover that freedom cannot be found in the reasoned explanation of our personal history.

I wonder if this form of thinking was so prevalent before Freud and the subsequent development of psychology and therapy. Apparently we have missed something if successful explanation doesn’t yield freedom and happiness. Negative explanations seem quite effective in creating bad feelings and low self-regard, however.

Two elements determine the way you evaluate your life’s events and the contents of your life’s operating manual. First is your view of life — your most influential belief about the nature of life and your place in it, and, second is your intention for your life — your deepest abiding intention that affects every choice you make.

I have studied and practiced Buddhism all my adult life. Buddhism is very practical. It emphasizes that before we begin a journey, we need to understand where we are and what our intention is. It is important to recognize that all beings want to have happiness and avoid suffering, and that all beings are subject to birth and death, regardless of differences in their personal history.

Contemplating and appreciating this simple fact can reduce our sense of fear and alienation as we see that we are essentially the same and are in the same boat. Having these simple insights as our background awareness can prevent us from getting too absorbed in melodrama in our daily life as if our daily life was happening in isolation from the rest of humanity, and as if it was eternal.

Instead, with an unwavering background awareness of our shared humanity, our struggles and disappointments remind us that our struggles are not uniquely ours, but that we are experiencing the shared struggles of embodiment with all beings. This awareness reduces anxiety because we don’t so easily take disappointments personally. We see them as part of the human experience, not as our own unique flaw.

Are there habitual ways in which you have considered yourself uniquely flawed? What happens if you reinterpret these “flaws” as just part of the human experience shared by everyone, and KNOWN by everyone — that is, not unique and not hidden or requiring hiding?

These “flaws” don’t diminish your value, or your right to exist, or your right to full self-appreciation. These “flaws” don’t diminish the friendliness of the universe towards you (can you adopt a view that the universe is friendly?), or your rightful access to abundance either.

I invite you to take an inventory of the things that (you believe) are holding you back. Evaluate to what degree these things seem “big” in your life because you have in your background awareness the belief that you are uniquely flawed and must hide your flaws. Release that belief, or any belief that isolates you from the awareness that you are participating in a shared human experience that is fragile and temporary.

Experience how having a background awareness of our shared human experience, with all its fragility and temporariness fully taken to heart, changes your state, your level of self-appreciation, and possibly your priorities. Good luck!

Copyright 2010, Jack Elias, AllRights Reserved.
Go to Http://FindingTrueMagic.com to subscribe to Jack’s free monthly newsletter and to learn about his Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP trainings and Lucid Heart Therapy & Life Coaching.
Also, read and subscribe to his blog at http://blog.FindingTrueMagic.com

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT AND LOCATION:

Please join us Friday, November 12th, 2010, for our next NGHWA chapter meeting. This month’s meeting features an exciting presentation by Howard Batie. Our doors open at 6:30 pm for our “happy half hour” for socializing and networking with some of the Seattle area’s top hypnotists! The meeting proper begins promptly at 7:00 pm. This meeting, we’re offering a fabulous and fun door prize.  Enter to win.

Meetings are held at:

South Snohomish County P.U.D. Office
21018 Highway 99
Edmonds, WA 98026

Maps: http://www.nghwa.org
Visitors are always welcome. An evening’s visitor’s pass is available at the door for just $10. Bring your friends!
CALL FOR SPEAKERS:

What’s your expertise? Do you have something NLP related or hypnosis related to share? Would you like to present to our group? We’d love to hear more. Contact Michael Brannan at president@nghwa.org or Cheryl Chamberlain, our Events-Coordinator.
CALL FOR ARTICLES:

Get published NOW! Please submit your hypnosis and NLP themed articles for inclusion in our next e-newsletters of Hypnotic Health. The articles should be geared for our general readership. We look forward to featuring your article soon. Articles may be submitted to Michael Brannan at president@nghwa.org.
CALL FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS:

As a paid member of NGHWA, you can have your announcements included here, in this e-news. Simply submit your announcement( s) to Michael Brannan, NGHWA President, at president@nghwa.org.
NEW MEMBER BENEFIT:

Our group has purchased the complete set of CD’s from the 22nd Annual NGH Convention and Educational Conference from last summer in Massachusetts. They’re now available for check-out to our paid members. How cool is that? The insights and knowledge presented at this fabulous event lives on–in CD form! Get in on this action. A deposit is required.

OFFICER ELECTIONS:

Join us as we prepare for an exciting new year in the NGHWA.  Fresh blood!  And some old.  You decide.  Help us move our group into the new year as we expand the frontiers of hypnosis, learning, networking, educating, collaborating, and mostly just enjoying our world.

WORLD HYPNOTISM DAY, 2011:

We’ll discuss our group’s exciting plans to bring the magic of hypnosis to the Seattle area public for this annual event happening this January.  It’s an opportunity for you to learn, and share.  We’re seeking speakers/presenters for this event.  Come to our meeting and learn more!

MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:

From Connie Brannan and Michael Brannan:
This summer: Discover Seattle NLP Trainings with Mindworks NLP. Pump up your success! Join experienced Licensed Trainers of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™, Connie and Michael Brannan, for our certification training programs. Earn your “stripes” as Licensed Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ and Licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™. Our certification trainings are recognized and endorsed by Richard Bandler, the co-originator of these amazing technologies, and by his Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™.

This is the time to learn these transformation technologies to build your wealth and influence and success. These are fantastic skills for professional hypnotherapists to enhance their practice as well as for the lay person looking to craft an abundant life.

For more information, please visit
http://www.seattlenlptraining.com or contact connie@seattlenlptraining.com. Phone: (425) 564-8608. Mindworks NLP is fully registered and licensed through the State of Washington as a vocational school.

The Brannans, Licensed Trainers of NLP ™

From Kathie Brodie:

Kathie Brodie will help you record a professional quality CD so you can be earning money selling your CDs while you sleep! She makes it easy and fun! Practice your script at home and you might be able to be in and out with a master CD in hand in only an hour. She guides and coaches and edits to make sure your recording is exactly what you want. $75 per hour. Call her for an appointment. 206.546.8266 www.HypnosisByTheBaggageHandler. com
We of the NGHWA support our sister organizations in the area. Here are some hypnosis doings about the town!

Check out the National Guild Of Hypnotists South Sound Washington meeting. Visit for details: www.ngh-sswa.org

See you soon at the PUD or at one of our member events!

Warm Regards,

Michael Brannan
President, NGHWA