Imagine this – You walk into a Chamber of Commerce networking luncheon and quickly scan the room to see who is there and find a place to sit.  Some people attract you and others seem to deter you.  You make some conscious choices while others are more subtle and automatic, or unconscious.  What kinds of people attract you, and why?  What kind of energy do YOU radiate?  Are you attracting or repelling success?  If you were in a lineup with 10 other people in your field, what would attract people to you?  What would drive them away?
 
“In mastery, there is a sense of effortlessness and joyousness.  It stems from your ability and willingness to understand and work with the forces around you.”  Art Kleiner (The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook)
 
Success is a HABIT!  You gain personal mastery by being passionate about your vision, while maintaining a clear and realistic picture of the current situation.  You can make personal mastery a HABIT.  All habits are formed through “Intention”, “Commitment” and “Repetition”.
 
FIRST:
Decide on a Goal/Vision.  This is your INTENTION.
SECOND:
Get PASSIONATE (Your unconscious only gets as involved and excited as YOU are!)
THIRD:
Practice “Re-framing” every negative (problem) into a positive (opportunity).
 
FORTH:
Consistently REPEAT the thoughts and behaviors that match your goal until they are second nature (habitual).
 
When confronted with a challenging situation, pause and take a deep breath to release tension and re-focus.  Assess the situation while keeping your vision in mind.  In this moment, NOW, you have your power to make appropriate choices and recognize opportunities based on your goals for the future.  Do this consistently and in 4-6 weeks you’ll create the habit of success. 
 
You are the architect of your life and move in the direction of your most dominant thought.  So, what do you think about most of the day?  Are you focused on what you WANT – called positive expectation, or are you focused on possible outcomes that you DON’T WANT – called worrying?   If you focus on “positive goals”, “possibilities” and “opportunities”, that’s what you attract.  If you focus on “the tanking economy”, “not enough business/money”, “problems”, you literally create more of the same.  They both take the same amount of time and energy, and both recruit your powerful unconscious processes equally.  You choose by what you think.
 
If you’ve formed the habit of “Lack” or “Limiting” thinking, notice the results and know that your mind is working perfectly!  If you want different results, simply change the direction of your thoughts - your antennae.  Just change the station.
 
MIND RADAR
 
INCOMING NEGATIVITY -  AVOID IT or TURN IT OFF
If you can’t change it, learn from it and move on!
 
INCOMING POSITIVITY - LOOK FOR IT & EXPECT IT
Set your mental radar to search for positive opportunities, people & environments
 
If you aren’t passionate about your goals, get NEW GOALS.  If your job/career doesn’t excite you, find something DIFFERENT.  You will be GREAT at what you LOVE to do, I guarantee it!  And remember:
 
“Life is filled with UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES!”
© UPHI 2006

NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HANDS-ON HYPNOSIS TRAINING!
By:  Patricia V. Scott, Ph.D. – President, UP Hypnosis Institute
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In the age of interactive on-line video training, why do I still believe there is “No substitute for hands-on hypnosis training”?  My most credible evidence is what I hear from people in this field and those who come to my classes who have only had on-line training.  They instinctively know that there is something missing and they don’t seem to have the confidence level in working with their clients that people who attend “Live” trainings have.

I remember that it took me a long time to develop confidence working with clients in the beginning.  First, I had only hypnotized a few other students during my initial training.  Then, it took a while to build up my practice and I wasn’t seeing enough clients right away to build my confidence and keep my skills sharp.  I did sign up for every hypnosis & NLP class I could find, but I was still working primarily with other students.

The six-weekend Hypnosis Certification training that I have developed over my 25+ years in this field includes not only one-on-one practice sessions between students, but also private practice sessions with the public.  Shortly after I became a Certified Master Trainer, I decided to do an experiment with my hypnosis students.  On the third, fourth and fifth weekends of the training, I put out a call to my contact list asking for volunteers to work with the hypnosis students.  By the third weekend, the students had learned the basics and knew how to do the pre-talk, so I thought this would be a good way for them to practice.  The experiment payed off in ways I hadn’t anticipated.  Both the confidence level and competence level of each student went through the roof.  Even those in the training with prior counseling experience showed accelerated growth compared to past students.  And even though these were scripted practice sessions, the positive feedback from the practice clients was invaluable.

The other element about “live” training that I believe is irreplaceable is the personal interaction and comradery that happens during the course.  There is usually an interesting mix of professionals and people looking for self-development, which opens UP a wide array of conversational and educational Possibilities.  I know that some of my most valuable lessons in this field came about through personal interactions at trainings and conferences that were beyond the scope of the practical training.
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We are more and more living a world of “virtual reality”.  There are even some new mental disorders in the DSM based on people lacking personal contact with others, and we can help these people with hypnosis.  I think it’s fantastic that we now have a plethora of on-line resources to supplement our knowledge and education; however, I believe now, more than ever before, there is “NO SUBSTITUTE FOR HANDS-ON HYPNOSIS TRAINING”.

PLACEBO, QUACKERY, OR TRUE HEALING?  By:  Patricia V. Scott
 
I was inspired to write this after reading some posted comments on an article about how medical schools are embracing alternative and complimentary methods.  One comment from someone who said he “worked at Yale for two years” stated that U.S. medical schools have “sunk to administering quack treatment”, and his comments reflected the tunnel vision that I encounter from time to time in my practice when someone has adopted a limited belief system.  It takes very minimal investigation to discover the enormous benefits being experienced by people who are incorporating a more holistic approach to health and healing.  For over two decades health care professionals have been referring their patients to me as a way to incorporate mind-body techniques into their treatment protocol.  I help these people to get out of the medical, disease and symptom mind-set and into a positive, health and healing mind-set.  These people are regularly having dramatic, immediate and long-lasting positive results, and these results are duplicated by my students and colleagues all around the world.
 
So, is it simply a “placebo effect”?  Well, what would that mean?  It means the MIND has accepted a belief, or at least a possibility, and the BODY has acted on that thought.  If someone believes that every spring they are going to have allergy attacks and must take medicine to suppress the symptoms or else they will be miserable, then that is their experience.  I have worked with people who had that experience for many years and who changed the experience after one or two sessions.  Is that placebo or quackery?
 
Through all human history mankind has been attempting to figure out how to achieve and maintain perfect health.  I believe all of the answers are available and accessible from within each of us.  As long as I hold that belief, my clients seem to be able to discover all they need to get “unstuck”, to remove “energy blocks”, or whatever else you want to call it, and to achieve more peace and better health.  For those who need the scientific research to back this up, I have volumes that I use in my classes and it is easily found on the internet and in medical reference libraries on mind-body sciences, physics, psychology, cellular biology, and countless other areas of study.
 
Final thoughts:  If you begin your research from a frame of “what is possible”, and from a “results oriented” approach, you will most certainly find, as I have, that we are designed very efficiently to move toward health.  Sometimes we just have to get out of the way.
 

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A couple of weeks ago a man came to me for a consultation and after a few minutes started talking about politics and asked, "Would it be possible to get a politician, right in the middle of a speech, to just start barking like a dog?  Assuming he was joking, I explained to him the concept of covert hypnosis and how you can, for instance, engage a person's imagination into an interesting story, which puts a person into a light state of hypnosis, and covertly embed suggestions into the story that with a certain trigger, or in a certain situation, they will feel compelled to bark like a dog.
 
In order to illustrate this phenomenon, I told him a true story of an experience I had in the early 1990's.  I was having a long lunch with the late great hypnotist, Dr. Al Krasner, at the Radisson Hotel next to John Wayne Airport in Newport Beach, California, where they were hosting the annual convention of the American Board of Hypnotherapy.  There were several young men having lunch at a table nearby who weren't part of the convention, but they saw our nametags and began looking over and chuckling among themselves, obviously amused.  Finally, one of them turned to us (he must have drawn the straw), looked at Al and asked with a grin, "Can you make me bark like a dog?"
 
Without missing a beat, Dr. Krasner became very serious, put his fork down, looked right at the young man and asked, "Well, I don't know.  You know there are many types of dogs and they don't all have the same kind of bark.  What kind of dog do you want to bark like?"  He then proceeded to engage the young man in a detailed question and answer session about the type, size, color and age of the dog he wants to bark like.  After drawing him into all of the details, he then said, "You know, I've never seen or heard of a dog quite like that, what does he sound like?"  Yes, you guessed, it.  The young man barked like a dog!  Then Dr. Krasner turned around, picked up his fork, and began eating as if nothing had happened.
 
After telling this story to the man in my office, he seemed very intrigued.  He said, "You mean if you get someone involved with telling a story, you might be able to get them to bark like a dog as part of the story and they won't even realize how rediculous they look?"  Well, it's certainly possible.  But the person would have to really believe that it's integral to the story.  He thanked me and said he would call after he gets back from Reno.
 
The man left my office and I never thought anything else about it until yesterday when I saw a news story on a political channel and they showed a video of
Hillary Clinton giving a speech in Reno, Nevada, telling a story and barking like a dog!
 
OH MY, WHAT HAVE I DONE?