I have been a general practitioner since 1987, and I have been feeling frustrated many times to see my patients coming for pills, but not willing to engage in their own wellbeing.
My experience tells me that there is often at least a large part of mental disturbance with chronic diseases, and even sometimes, the mental disturbance is the origin of the disease. And we doctors have not been trained to deal with it.
Hence, my desire to learn hypnosis, at least to guide my patients with indirect hypnosis like metaphors, to make them accept the idea that they can (in fact, that they should) take care of their own health and wellbeing.
The teachings by Paul McKenna and his assistants is great: not only he shows the techniques, but he and his assistants make sure we integrate them with sessions of training between us students.
I had 2 "wow" moments with this training:
1) During the training session as the operator (the hypnotist), I felt that my speech was irregular, not flowing, but stopping between words (trying to find my words, even more as English is not my mother tongue), and between sentences.
At the end of a Questions & Answers, before our training session, Paul told us students one presupposition after the other, saying how much we would be surprised of how quickly we would integrate what we were learning, how it would become natural, how it would become ours. Then, a few minutes later, when I was the operator, I was amazed how my speech would flow naturally, how words came fluently, effortlessly, how I would wrap up the person I was speaking to with words of relaxation, almost like when a mother wraps up her baby in a sweet blanket.
2) My second "wow!" moment was a session when we were to induce a deep trance phenomenon.
In that instance, I had to induce forgetting number 4 to the person for 5 minutes. Then, I asked him to count on his fingers, he did omit number 4. He said that he felt that there was something weird in his counting, but he just could not pinpoint what it was. That was amazing.
My experience tells me that there is often at least a large part of mental disturbance with chronic diseases, and even sometimes, the mental disturbance is the origin of the disease. And we doctors have not been trained to deal with it.
Hence, my desire to learn hypnosis, at least to guide my patients with indirect hypnosis like metaphors, to make them accept the idea that they can (in fact, that they should) take care of their own health and wellbeing.
The teachings by Paul McKenna and his assistants is great: not only he shows the techniques, but he and his assistants make sure we integrate them with sessions of training between us students.
I had 2 "wow" moments with this training:
1) During the training session as the operator (the hypnotist), I felt that my speech was irregular, not flowing, but stopping between words (trying to find my words, even more as English is not my mother tongue), and between sentences.
At the end of a Questions & Answers, before our training session, Paul told us students one presupposition after the other, saying how much we would be surprised of how quickly we would integrate what we were learning, how it would become natural, how it would become ours. Then, a few minutes later, when I was the operator, I was amazed how my speech would flow naturally, how words came fluently, effortlessly, how I would wrap up the person I was speaking to with words of relaxation, almost like when a mother wraps up her baby in a sweet blanket.
2) My second "wow!" moment was a session when we were to induce a deep trance phenomenon.
In that instance, I had to induce forgetting number 4 to the person for 5 minutes. Then, I asked him to count on his fingers, he did omit number 4. He said that he felt that there was something weird in his counting, but he just could not pinpoint what it was. That was amazing.
This training has been fulfilling, and I feel more equipped to guide my patients to consider how important it is for them to take their own responsibility in the search of their wellbeing.