May 2011
May 2011
NGHWA E-news May, 2011
In this E-News:
–Featured Speaker: “Making Sense of the Wilderness Within” Bruce Taylor
–In our “Learn Hypnosis” Series, this evening we offer the Professional Pre-Talk.
–Featured Article: “A New Point of View” Connie Brannan
MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS:
–Call for Speakers
–Call for Articles
–New member benefit: CDs available for check-out. 22nd Annual NGH Convention presentations.
–2011 Membership Renewals- the time is NOW
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
–Connie and Michael Brannan, Bandler Licensed Trainers of NLP ™ offer life and career enhancing NLP and hypnosis certification trainings. Ongoing.
–Jack Elias, author of Finding True Magic, offers Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP certification trainings. Ongoing.
GREETINGS:
We invite you to our May meeting, to be held on Lucky 13, Friday, May 13th, 2011, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm. http://www.nghwa.org for details.
Please join us Friday for our next NGHWA chapter meeting. This month’s meeting features “Making Sense of the Wilderness Within” by Bruce Taylor.
After being a hypnotherapist for some thirty-odd years, I discovered, working with many clients and on the inpatient locked psychiatric floor at Harborview, that there were two parts to this hypnosis business–one: technique but also and, maybe, in the end, more important–information about human development and the impact of stress to make the experience of uncovering potentially raw psychic material–understandable.
Nothing blocks psycho-thereaupic or hypnotherapeutic work more than–fear. Fear comes in many disguises: fear of change, fear of one’s power, fear of fear itself, fear that one is one’s feelings, fear that the past will be repeated in the present (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) endless are the manifestations of–fear.
To deal with this, the clinician needs an orientation–by which, at least on an intellectual level, make the client feel safe, that the fear is understandable, resistance–just might make sense. Given this assumption, before I could help the clients learn relaxation skills at Harborview I had to give a lecture on just why their symptoms might make sense.
This involved referencing the best theorists regarding personality development: Bradshaw, Thomas Holmes and The Holmes’ Stress Scale, Carl O. Simonton, M.D. (illness as metaphor) recent information on the impact of early childhood abuse and brain/emotional development, PTSD, and, perhaps above all, the guy who really did get it right after all–Carl Jung and his Theory of Introjection. With this information, one can help any client make sense of their symptoms. Once done, and the client no longer is stressed or fearful of what they are experiencing, the doors to deep hypnotic relaxation and exploration–are thrown wide open.
“Nothing has a stronger influencer psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
Carl Jung
“It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearned.”
Erasmus, 1514
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 AND ARTICLES:
What’s your expertise? Do you have something NLP related or hypnosis related to share? Would you like to present to our group or have your general-interest article published in our newsletter? We’d love to hear more. Contact Michael Brannan at president@nghwa.org.
Are you ready for a new point of view?
by Connie Brannan, CHt., Neuro-Linguistic Hypnotherapist & Licensed Trainer of NLP ™.
A problem is simply a frame of mind, a way of looking at things. If it’s not a problem to YOU, it’s not a problem. Think about flying on an airplane. After all the hustle/bustle of travel arrangements, packing, airports, and etc. when I get on a plane, I settle into the seat and go: “ahhhhhhhhh.” Now it’s time to relax. No worries. All I have to do is sit here and enjoy myself. Perhaps for someone else sitting down a few rows, it’s churning turmoil inside, it’s white-knuckle time. It’s visions of disaster. It doesn’t have to be. You can change your mind. And experience life differently. Yes, about flying, and pretty much about ANYTHING! That’s what hypnosis can do! It’s called “reframing.”
Here are a few recent examples of reframing from my life, for further illustration. I got caught up in a shopping frenzy the other day. My husband and I were at the mall, and I found a shirt I loved. The color in particular was appealing to me. Hypnotists have an “inside joke” about the color purple being hypnotic, because one of the most famous and successful hypnotists in the world, Milton Erickson, was fond of wearing bright purple jumpsuits. Color analysis books describe purple as the dreamer color.
I found a purple shirt. Not just any old purple, this was a rich, deep royal purple, a magically hypnotic jewel-tone purple. I was excited to find it, and on sale! As I was checking out at the department store, the clerk commented on my selection of a “grape” shirt. Grape? Yikes. I almost put it back. I don’t want a grape shirt, as that sounds utterly unappealing. Purple, yes. Grape, forget about it! One word flipped my state of mind about the shirt, and not in a good way. She reframed my shirt (negatively) and almost lost the sale. If you’re in a sales context, how much better to reframe in a way that sells, creates desire and attraction for your product, not creates aversion.
Here’s another example of reframing. This is a sign.
Perhaps you’re familiar with it. It indicates a pedestrian crosswalk. It’s a stylized guy crossing the street. You can see that.
Here is a sign I saw in a parking garage the other day.
They’ve shifted the sign slightly, and the meaning massively. What I imagine it intends to be conveying is “pedestrian crossing,” but what I see is something far different. I see a pedestrian falling, flying through the air, obviously after being struck by a moving vehicle. Yikes, again! A different angle on the picture, and the whole meaning changes. That’s reframing.
Here’s a classic example of reframing. Imagine a roaring fire in a fireplace. That elicits positive feelings, right? Cozy, nice, warm. Now, expand the picture’s parameter, and you see the house is on fire as well. Oh, no, run for your lives! Negative feelings. Now expand the picture further and you see it’s all a movie set and they’re only filming a controlled reproduction of a house fire. Positive feelings, again. A shift of frame changes everything.
What makes this “reframing” process cool of course is changing things that are problems in your life to non-problems. Like the fear of flying. What if your experience of planes and flight became a frame of relaxation, like lounging on a tropical beach or sitting in your easy chair at home? Hypnosis does that.
Big secret: How we feel and how we respond to things and the thoughts/frames we create around them: it’s all moveable furniture. Within our control. Why not rearrange your mental furniture in a way that creates more beauty and ease and success in your life?
Connie Brannan, CHt. & Licensed Trainer of NLP ™, offers private changework session in her business Mindworks Hypnosis, http://www.mindworkshypnosis.net and NLP certification trainings in her state licensed vocational school, Mindworks NLP, http://www.seattlenlptraining.com.
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.
MEET YOUR NGHWA OFFICERS for 2011
President: C. Michael Brannan
Vice President: Wendy Vogt
Treasurer: Connie Brannan
Secretary: Cheryl Chamberlain
Event Co-Ordinator: Alan Anderson
Join us as we prepare for an exciting new year in the NGHWA. Fresh blood! And some old. 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.
MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS:
From Connie Brannan and Michael Brannan:
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™. http://www.seattlenlptraining.com 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™
The Brannans, Licensed Trainers of NLP ™
FROM JACK ELIAS:
Jack Elias offers his unique skill building and enlightening trainings 4 times in 2011: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Winter, Spring, & Fall are in a 6 weekend format.
The Summer Intensive is 17 consecutive days. Full details at http://FindingTrueMagic.com.
Paul Skavland, CHT, Master NLPP, says, “I came to Jack’s training with over 500 hours of hypnosis certification training and a Practitioner-level certification in NLP. Taking Jack’s course is like the opportunity to learn Kung Fu from Bruce Lee. Take a training with Jack Elias. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are or what you think you know.”
And former NW NGH Chapter Pres., Putnam McDaniel says, “”Of the five nationally recognized hypnotherapy training programs I have been certified in, my time with Jack Elias has been the most valuable. His gift to you is so much more than just hypnotherapy, NLP, or psychoanalysis. You are exposed to just about everything in hypnotherapy that is known to work with great heart, spirit, and humor.”
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