Hypnotic High and Hobby Hypnotists
a Hypnotic High
The thing is, the truth of the thing is, that hypnosis can indeed be used to experience the world entirely through the imagination without the interference of the logical factors in your brain telling you that you can’t be bouncing on a rubber moon or floating in a psychedelic sea of used five pound notes being served peeled grapes by nubile ladies wearing not a lot. Sorry got carried away there.
The most watched hypnosis video on YouTube is entitled “Amazing Hypnosis Makes You High”. And my Auto Self Suggestion audio that gets me the most happy ‘private’ mail is designed to heighten your sensual experience in a Tantric way.
Actually you stand a far better chance of getting a high by standing on your head and trying to gargle.
The technique used of watching a spiral spinning in a darkened room will make your visual cortex play tricks with your balance for a few seconds but you won’t experience an altered hallucinatory or enhanced reality. More than likely you’ll just feel a bit sick.
Obviously watching you tube is not going to do the job, no matter how brain numbing it may be, not even the most basic Psychonautics will get produced. However, with the personal experience of a hypnotist who understands and knows what they are doing, the situation is an entirely different paradigm.
Under the influence of hypnosis as it were, you can get almost the same result as even the more escapist substances and pastimes, with the added bonus of having the whole process reversed and made therapeutic at the end, again stressing that this should be done under the direction of a good hypnotist.
Hypnosis is something we all do and get done by all the time without knowing we are doing or being done. It’s basic process, the giving and accepting of suggestion, is also how we teach and learn.
Hypnosis isn’t just a Bandaid for the emotional scuffs and scrapes of life. It can also be a fantastic tool for getting to places in our head and experience of life that would normally be available only with the danger of assaulting the physical body.
If you want you can experience that holiday you could never afford, be in space before Branson and fly higher than any pill or powder could ever get you without frying your brains, emptying your wallet, or giving you a bad case of incarceration.
Mostly it’s legal to imagine whatever you want to and providing a hypnosis high is terminated proficiently it’s about as harmful as day dreaming. In fact the benefits could well be way above normal escapism as the whole thing can be experienced for a ‘reason’.
Of course just as Doctors frown upon the recreational use of medicines, clinical hypnotherapy will frown and head shockingly tut-tut at the idea of hypnosis being used for the sake of enjoyment, happily though they neither own nor have a legal backing to disallow people using the capacity of their own minds to experience and think whatever they want to.
Of course they will shout that people will become dependant and addicted to this mental intoxication. If they do they need to think things through because if you are a good enough hypnotee for me to get you high, then you are a good enough hypnotee for me to easily be able to stop you smoking, get you to lose weight, eradicate a phobia and especially to prevent you becoming addicted to your own imagination.
Although to be honest, you already are.
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Hobby Hypnotists
Hypnosis as an art is now more than ever being done by Hobby Hypnotists who outweigh the professionals 4/1.
It’s amazing I now get many more fascinated curiosity driven people on my one day learning experiences and hypnosis masterclases than I do professional therapists or career driven people.
Personally I think that’s fantastic. Everyone should know the basics of hypnosis in the same way as everyone should know the basics of CPR and first aid.
If teachers were taught to understand how and when they are using suggestion not only would they know how best to install the necessary knowledge but they would better be able to positively influence the kids in their charge.
The same of course goes for parents.
If people knew the right way to suggest and had a basic grounding in the right suggestions then even in the most traumatic situations their desire to ‘help’ could become an actuality.
One of my students once was out walking with his baby daughter when he witnessed a car smash into a lamppost. He couldn’t get the badly injured and bleeding woman out but he could and did reduce her anxiety and bleeding by the direct use of suggestion and hypnosis.
Another couple of friends who had trained with me were hiking around the Grand Canyon when with the help of hypnotising each other and ‘increasing’ the input of their senses had an experience they’ll never forget.
Now don’t get me wrong. Amateur psychotherapy is not what I’m condoning here. But the use and study and experience of hypnosis as a hobby is fine. No more damaging to the business than hobby magicians, of which I am one, are detrimental to the magic circle which would probably die without them.
Kareeokay hasn’t killed the record business and one thing is for sure, hobby hypnotists will not only drag hypnosis kicking and screaming out of the maple lined couch garage but they will make people like me who teach technique and the art, much better and more widely targeted teachers.
Long live the Hobby Hypnotist.
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The Hypnotist Radio Show No4 – Sunday 18th April 2010
This weeks guest is one of the most multi-talented Hobby Hypnotists. Darren Altman not only hypnotizes or hypnotises, he plays drums and he does our voice overs as well!
He has a home studio from where he sends out voice-overs all over the world. He has played characters in computer games and animations, delivered celebrity impressions jingle packages for radio stations, voiced adverts for TV and radio, on-hold answering messages and more!
His clients include X-Box, ITV, The Discovery Channel, Intel, cash4gold.com, Virgin Mobile, Amazon.com, Nintendo Wii, Cisco Systems, NHS, 888Poker.com, British Telecom, Gala/Coral, Learn Direct and Webex.
As a freelance drummer, he is asked to play in diverse musical situations from jazz trios and Big Bands, Pop, Funk and Latin groups. He has recorded the music to numerous films such as The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers and Ella Enchanted and and TV soundtracks such as Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. And he has drummed for The Rat Pack in The West End and European tour, appeared as the house drummer for The Ronnie Scotts Allstars and toured the world with numerous artists.
Among the people he’s recorded and worked with are George Martin, The Pop Idol Big Band, Will Young, Gareth Gates, Pee Wee Ellis (James Brown), Darren Hayes, Anne Hathaway, Clare Teal and Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
When he’s not busy he co-leads Centre-Line, a contemporary jazz quartet and can be seen gigging all over the UK with numerous groups and artists.
And when he’s not busy some more he hypnotically zapps unsuspecting people on the streets of London.
To check out his work go to http://darrenaltman.com
