tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49874981692033319752024-02-21T08:10:33.040-08:00San Antonio Hypnosis CenterBetween the Conscious and the Unconscious is a Bridge of Opportunity to Meet One's Goals: Welcome to the San Antonio Hypnosis Center.Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-6804116201678116962019-04-16T10:31:00.000-07:002019-04-17T00:02:28.702-07:00Trump's Humor at Mt. Vernon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="cb5ii-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">I have bashed Trump, not with names, but with things I thought were true. I do think he is sociopathic. He meets the criteria; look it up. However, like people, he has traits that are interesting, if not enjoyable. Sociopaths are great manipulators of people, bright, impulsive, excel in corporate worlds where dollars often speak louder than ethics, and love recognition and will even indulge in altruistic behaviors (but only when someone sees him do so). The other day he and his family members toured Mt. Vernon, Washington's home. I have been there (although I would have preferred to have visited Jefferson's Monticello, where his intriguing inventions, or improvements on them, could be seen; particulary the polygraph (not the lie detector), which when writing made a copy of what was written. He didn't actually invent it, but made suggestions to its inventors about its design. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1bdid-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Back to Trump: He was reported to have said, when touring Washingtons home at Mount Vernon, "You know, if Washington was smart, he would have put his name on more things; you've got to do that for people to remember who you are." To me, there are two elements of humor that I recognize: irony, that element found in Archie Bunker's malapproprisms and dumb remarks in which he unawares pokes fun at himself but which his audience is fully aware; and the other element being self-deprecatory or -demeaning in nature in that he knows he's no Washington, a man whose legacy has lived in people's minds generations, centures, after his time, without having put his name on anything, and Trump himself, whose name is plastered on buildings to napkins around the world, and he fully realizes his adeptness at branding will not qualify to live long a long life in the minds of future generations. </span></div>
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Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-74353866908163842062017-09-12T09:40:00.001-07:002017-09-12T09:40:20.852-07:00HYPNOSIS ALLOWS YOU TO CEMENT YOUR FOCUS ON DESIRED CHANGE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Whenever someone wants to accomplish something and struggles to do so, there is perhaps an emotional barrier between that resolve and the decision to accomplish a worthwhile goal they have chosen. The decision typically has been made by an individual to bring about the execution of that task; however, the continuity of behavioral follow-through may wane. Concentration, the cornerstone of hypnosis, is best achieved when one is relaxed. The concentrated effort to resolve an issue that one has is tantamount to hypnosis. The decision to change that issue for the better is magnified in the hypnosis session and the sustained focus to harness a new set of decision- and behavior-patterns throughout the day is enhanced. Thus, one is empowered in the hypnotic process with regard to the goal of changing one's life, which is nothing more than the composite of thoughts and behaviors one experiences.<br />
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Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-3808794292160588092017-07-06T19:29:00.002-07:002017-07-06T22:10:26.780-07:00Focus, Belief, Desire, Suggestibility<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you have all of the qualities in the title of this article, you've got the greatest chance of having a favorable outcome in hypnosis. Focus even that can be sustained for a relatively short period of time. It's much easier to focus on something we desire, something we believe is within the realm of possibilities, and are amenable, of course of what we would desire someone to suggest. The capacity of the brain to envision and act upon that vision is innate. We tap into those qualities above that are all innate and universal to being human. The hypnotist helps the client to do just that. The resources are already there. The hypnotist hold the flashlight while the client explores the caverns of unexplored vistas that exist within ourselves.</div>
Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-3588414494972753382015-12-26T22:54:00.005-08:002015-12-26T22:54:40.086-08:00Hypnosis in the Treatment of Stress and Test Anxiety<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Stress is a formidable enemy of so many people taking tests. Hypnosis
is a good tool to walk a person through the test-taking situation. The
key is to calm the emotions, to help the client stay in the present, and
to visualize a calming image to anchor with a calm emotion to cool the
intellectual engine to more efficiently produce the thought processes
involved in the identification of the right choice of answers. The
calmer a person's physical state, and the subsequent quieting of the
mind, the swifter the thought processes occur at an alarming rate of
speed thus unleashing from the conscious and unconscious regions of the
brain the internal problem-solving, mental resources requisite to
satisfactory test-taking performance. If a participant in the hypnosis
session has enough desire to accomplish a desired goal, they will follow
the hypnotist's simple instructions and be able to induce a calm state
of mind necessary to guide the client through a pathway of guided
imagery of themselves accomplishing that very desired goal. It's not a
difficult process to learn. It really doesn't take practice. It just
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Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-12438656130556063112015-08-09T11:58:00.000-07:002015-08-09T12:11:33.013-07:00Mending a Pig's Elbow and the Outcomes and Howcomes of Hypnosis Success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A very reasonable question people ask prior to a counseling session is, "How many sessions will it take [to accomplish my goal of ..., stopping smoking, having confidence restored, improving my golf game, decreasing my test anxiety]?" My response can vary from individual to individual because, after all, we are all unique; moreover, our circumstances are all going to be different. But I would also go so far as to say that because of those individual differences, any semblance of a prediction of outcome would be both unprofessional and unethical. The San Antonio Hypnosis Center does not subscribe to puffing up its value of its end product--ie., to effect positive change of a person's desired goal on an absolute basis--any more than any other professional, whether in the health, real estate, or legal industry, makes blanket promises over the phone about the value of its services to an individual or entity without making an appointment to gather information to assess a situation and make a professional and ethical comment.<br />
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It is only natural to ask, "Can you help me?", to which our response is, "If we do not feel we can provide our services with a reasonable expectation of a positive outcome (doing no harm at worst and effecting positive change at best in varying degrees) then we will tell you that and will not charge you for the time it takes to conduct that assessment. (And, I'd like to say, because of the importance of suggesibility as the number one correlated variable associated with successful outcomes, 'If you feel we can [...help you], we can".)</div>
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"Remember," I tell the inquirer, "we're dealing with the brain here, and while we know the brain can respond to hypnosis to effect desired changes in a person (both mentally and physically) we don't know how it does it, because built into the nature of the brain is its inability to understand itself, even though it is the very organ from which our understanding of anything else is processed and understood. So from that paradoxical situation arises a wait-and-see attitude, after a proper assessment of some variables that we can identify and control such as the prospective hypnosis client's suggestibility, desire, circumstances, past attempts that have been met with success, to name a few, and go from there."<br />
One wouldn't call a doctor's office and ask to talk to the doctor and tell them, "I've got a fever, and I want it to go away! Can you help me!" Of course that's an absurd idea, but the analogy is useful. An assessment is in order. </div>
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"But how many times have you helped someone with _____________, or _______________, or ______________?" That's when we explain that, although we concentrate on many types of situations--smoking cessation, weight loss, confidence building, test-taking anxiety, etc.--that doesn't necessarily mean we don't have to have had that specific practice experience. I would not have had to have worked with a fighter pilot in any way before helping him restore confidence in his split-second decision-making while operating a fighter jet, or, in a similar vein, than the veterinarian being able to insert screws in the elbow of a pig if he or she never before had done that specific procedure on a pig.<br />
Hope this clears up a little the picture of the howcomes of the outcomes. More to come.<br />
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Dr. Rob McNeilly interviews Dr. Jeff Zieg about Dr. Milton Erickson's style of communication that intends to <b><i>evoke a state</i></b> rather than <b><i>provide infor</i></b><b><i>mational content</i></b>. Dr. Erickson's statements might be recurssive as in symphonic production in which recurring measures containing slightly varying musical elements intentionally serve to alter the state of the listener. <a href="https://youtu.be/SsGJD0j5bl4" target="_blank"><br /> </a><br />
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The mind's potential for change is virtually unlimited. The brain consists of about eighty-six (86) billion neurons, and the self-directed alterations of these neuronal combinations opens up unto vast potential of desired outcomes. Altered patterns of self-directed thoughts during a hypnotic trance affect every other part of the body through the nervous system, the neuronal extension of the brain, manifesting as the outward expression of behavioral activity in the fulfillment of the conceived goal. When the brain is in an ultra-relaxed state, which is the optimal stress-load conducive to learning and creativity, and in this state its subject visualizes the accomplishment of that goal, it [the brain] has created the working model, or the architecture, from which to construct the actualization of that goal-oriented product. During the fixed concentration on a particular goal in an induced hypnotic state, these neuronal electro-biochemical transactions of thought thus become re-arranged, transformed, and fixed into steady patterns encoded in the unconscious but autonomic processes of which we are unaware yet experiencing in the conscious choices and actions we make. Is it any wonder that a person can achieve anything s/he wants? An organism that can conceive, contemplate, and balance the equations of principles on which the systems of the universe operate, yet is powerless in understanding itself. This enigmatic and most powerful processor by which both external and internal realities are understood is at the same time paradoxically unable to understand its own operations, which essentially attests to the complexity of its nature. Our task at hand in hypnosis is to understand that the mind is powerful and capable of challenges that we put it to task, not how and why it does it, just as we do not need to know why a seed germinates to enjoy the benefits of the shade, comfort, and beauty that its growth will bring.</div>
Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-3899961923539938422013-12-13T03:19:00.003-08:002013-12-13T03:32:17.649-08:00Hypnosis Allows one to Cement One's Resolve to Change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Whenever someone wants to accomplish something and struggles to do so, there is perhaps an emotional barrier between that resolve and the decision to accomplish a worthwhile goal they have chosen. The decision typically has been made by an individual to bring about the execution of that task; however, the continuity of behavioral follow-through may wane. Concentration, the cornerstone of hypnosis, is best achieved when one is relaxed. The concentrated effort to resolve an issue that one has is tantamount to hypnosis. The decision to change that issue for the better is magnified in the hypnosis session and the sustained focus to harness a new set of decision- and behavior-patterns throughout the day is enhanced. Thus, one is empowered in the hypnotic process with regard to the goal of changing one's life, which is nothing more than the composite of thoughts and behaviors one experiences.</div>
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Whether through the use of medical hypnosis in the amelioration of acute
or chronic pain, or for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal
activity in sports, social behaviors (extinguishing blushing, managing
social phobias, conquering fear of speaking in front of groups), health
concerns (smoking or chewing tobacco; drinking alcohol excessively), or
confidence and competence improvement (test-taking; task-performance
enhancement) hypnosis can be a powerful tool in helping one to pull it
all together. Depending on the client, I use variations of the above
components–relaxation, rhythmic breathing, and guided imagery–to induce
the hypnotic trance in which suggested scripts are virtually written
and structured by the client. Many people from many walks of life have
come to the San Antonio Hypnosis Center (SAHC) to accomplish many of the
above goals. Fear of driving over these new ‘fly-away’ overpasses
(‘ribbons in the sky’) brought two people to the SAHC in the same week.
The fear was too much for them, causing them both to pull their car over
and change drivers: “Fortunately my friend was riding with me! I don’t
know what I would have done!” Crisis situations often bring people to
our office. Sometimes it’s not one thing, but the one thing on top of
all the others that results in making a decision to change an aspect of
one’s lifestyle, whether it was a doctor telling them they really should
lose weight for their health, or seeing the deleterious effects that
smoking had on a close friend or loved one. <a href="http://www.sahypnosis.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sahypnosis.net</a></div>
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Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-47587294602360256962012-02-17T18:23:00.000-08:002012-02-17T18:23:11.063-08:00Psychiatric diagnoses: Why no one is satisfied<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120215142959.htm#.Tz8LBBy_8vF.blogger">Psychiatric diagnoses: Why no one is satisfied</a>Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-46022087405055392402012-01-23T22:44:00.000-08:002012-01-23T22:44:38.360-08:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Change and hypnosis go hand in hand. Through relaxation, with the help of a hypnotist-facilitator or autogenically (self-directed) induced, you can focus on a specific issue or situation in an altered way that rearranges the order of internal percepts and thereby reshapes your internal reality. When someone asks, "How many sessions does it take me to stop smoking?" I tell them there are some key factors that one needs to consider when considering such a question: individual differences that include level of motivation, level of suggestibility, and other resources that they might take advantage of--medications, Nicotine Anonymous, family support, etc. . </div>Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-81909814819679083192011-06-22T00:58:00.000-07:002011-06-22T01:03:15.168-07:00Pain and Hypnosis (in the dental chair)Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-32810849241120018302011-06-06T07:43:00.001-07:002011-06-06T07:44:29.169-07:00Hypnosis as a Focusing ToolHypnosis is an effective means to focus on a task, or set of tasks, through relaxation and facilitated guided imagery. This is what we help people do at the San Antonio Hypnosis Center. Initially, I used to help people with concrete tasks such as smoking, weight loss, or test-taking, among others; however, I have found that a mindset can be altered through hypnotic suggestions--as long as the subject wants the change to occur. There may be resistances to those changes, as we all have some sort of mental or attitudinal resistance(s) to change, but that's what the therapist can help with.Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-36823893054418572972011-05-06T21:40:00.000-07:002011-05-07T23:29:13.067-07:00The Dallas Hypnosis Convention--AfterthoughtsThe Dallas Hypnosis Convention was a three-day-information-center of presentations provided by a diverse range of practitioners of hypnosis. I am booked for next year's Hypnosis Convention and would encourage anyone who is in the beginning, middle, and advanced stages of hypnotic practice to put this convention on your yearly calendar as it provides techniques, attitudes, and insights you won't get in many other places. Scott Sandland presented a variety of techniques used in pain management for patients in varieties of settings ranging from dental clinics to alcohol and other drug rehabilitation treatment centers. William Mitchell was informative and breaks up his presentation with humorous comments. I missed John Cerbone who probably talked about speed-trance but I'm not sure; I spent a couple days last year in a presentation on speed-trance with him and Richard Nongard. By the way, Richard Nongard's talk about the future of hypnosis was inspiring and exciting. I spoke about the integration of rhythmic breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, and guided imagery in the use of hypnosis. I missed the third day there, which was unfortunate, but had obligations in San Antonio waiting for me.Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-1455893211260574852011-02-07T01:25:00.000-08:002011-02-07T01:27:23.565-08:00Hypnosis (Part 1) Rhythmic BreathingIn the hypnotic process that I facilitate with a client who wants to change a specific behavior, or target a specific goal they want to accomplish, I turn to three components of hypnosis to help them change: 1) rhythymic breathing; 2) progress muscle group relaxation; 3) guided imagery. Rhythmic breathing allows a person to focus on themselves in an inward directed manner, and it is associated with a phenomenally high level of mental concentration. I’m going to discuss in this part some of the ways that I use rhythmic breathing as an integral part of my hypnotic sessions. When the client is relaxed, sitting in an upright position, legs uncrossed, hands to the side, and any variation they want to make of that, I invite them to breathe in and out a couple of times, just to set the pace, and count in and out. I let them know that when I count, they are not to be concerned about following me exactly. I can actually see their chest moving in and out, and it’s my job to pace my counting with their pattern of breathing. I ask them to breathe in through their nostrils if they like, and to breathe out through their mouth. I don’t know why that works preferably to the reverse, but the collective wisdom with which I’m familiar says so, so I run with it. The client seems to be okay with it. As they breath into the third and fourth breath, I ask them to “breath in…one…two…three…and hold…one…two…three…and release…noticing the calming effect the release has on your body. You can almost feel your heart slow down instantly as you release the air.” They are of course continuing to breath without my cue, but I say, “now breathe in again…one…two…and hold…one…two…and release.” Soon I will be incorporating cognitive imagery with the breathing, breathing in positive images that the client wants to instil, and out the images that the client wants to be rid of. An example would be, beginning with natural elements of “fresh, cool air like that blowing off from of a mountain top capped with fresh snow.” As the subject gets comfortable breathing in and breathing out in synch with the counting suggestions, I begin suggesting qualities of their personalities that they would like to achieve, suggesting words such as “breathing in confidence, calm, and serenity, breathing out anxiety, (eg.), lack of resolve, and temptation to fall back into <em>(habit they wanted to change</em>–smoking, eg.), breathing in resolve, fixed focus, calm, peace, and serenity). breathing out any associations related <em>(habit or undesireable trait)</em>. At this point the pmr will be woven into the suggestions of the rhythmic breathing, alternating with the breathing in, etc. At the time the pmr will be interwoven with the breathing. As I talked only about the rhythmic breathing in this part of the discussion on hypnosis, it is important to know that the pmr was taking place simultaneously with the rhythmic breathing. As these three processes take place, over time they will occurr with varying frequency.Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-89927110239773271422011-01-08T04:02:00.000-08:002011-01-08T04:06:21.252-08:00Achieving Goals With Hypnosis (Jan 8, 2011)Whether through the use of medical hypnosis in the amelioration of acute or chronic pain, or for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal activity in sports, social behaviors (extinguishing blushing, managing social phobias, conquering fear of speaking in front of groups), health concerns (smoking or chewing tobacco; drinking alcohol excessively), or confidence and competence improvement (test-taking; task-performance enhancement) hypnosis can be a powerful tool in helping one to pull it all together. Depending on the client, I use variations of the above components--relaxation, rhythmic breathing, and guided imagery--to induce the hypnotic trance in which suggested scripts are virtually structured by the client. Many people from many walks of life have come to the San Antonio Hypnosis Center (SAHC) to accomplish many of the above goals. Fear of driving over these new 'fly-away' overpasses ('ribbons in the sky') brought two people to the SAHC in the same week. The fear was too much for them, causing them both to pull their car over and change drivers: "Fortunately my friend was riding with me! I don't know what I would have done!" Crisis situations often bring people to our office. Sometimes it's not one thing, but the one thing on top of all the others that results in making a decision to change an aspect of one's lifestyle, whether it was a doctor telling them they really should lose weight for their health, or seeing the deleterious effects that smoking had on a close friend or loved one. www.sahypnosis.net 210-590-9292 or 210-710-8768.Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987498169203331975.post-48241280428396971572009-12-26T10:44:00.000-08:002011-01-06T09:14:14.928-08:00Achieving Goals with HypnosisThe brain is an amazing thing...perhaps the most enigmatic and mysterious thing in the universe. An inherent characteristic of the brain is the inability to understand itself. Whether through the use of medical hypnosis in the amelioration of acute or chronic pain, or for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal activity in sports, social behaviors (extinguishing blushing, managing social phobias, conquering fear of speaking in front of groups), health concerns (smoking or chewing tobacco; drinking alcohol excessively), or confidence and competence improvement (test-taking; task-performance enhancement) hypnosis can be a powerful tool in helping one to pull it all together. Depending on the client, I use variations of the above components--relaxation, rhythmic breathing, and guided imagery--to induce the hypnotic trance in which suggested scripts are virtually structured by the client. Many people from many walks of life have come to the San Antonio Hypnosis Center (SAHC) to accomplish many of the above goals. Fear of driving over these new 'fly-away' overpasses ('ribbons in the sky') brought two people to the SAHC in the same week. The fear was too much for them, causing them both to pull their car over and change drivers: "Fortunately my friend was riding with me! I don't know what I would have done!" Crisis situations often bring people to our office. Sometimes it's not one thing, but the one thing on top of all the others that results in making a decision to change an aspect of one's lifestyle, whether it was a doctor telling them they really should lose weight for their health, or seeing the deleterious effects that smoking had on a close friend or loved one. www.sahypnosis.net 210-590-9292 or 210-710-8768.Gordon Leithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05113776267561311476noreply@blogger.com0