Sunday, July 30, 2006

How did hypnotism get its name?

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A Great Tip for Building Your Hypnosis Practice

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Self Hypnosis Tip for July

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What do you need in order to succeed as a hypnotist

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Friday, July 28, 2006

Master the Law in Order to Hypnotize People Audio Post

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Master the Law in Order to Hypnotize People


What is another requirement you need to master in order to hypnotize people?

Another thing you need to master in order to hypnotize other people is the law of attraction.

This is a universal law that states, whatever you hold in your mind, you body moves toward. In other words your thoughts become things.

Thoughts are energy. Your thoughts about hypnotizing other people eventually become things…the act of hypnotizing and the results of hypnotizing other people.

But what many beginning hypnotists do not realize is that fact that your subjects and volunteers have thoughts. These thoughts may inhibit your subjects and volunteers from being hypnotized.

What you need to do is create an environment where your thoughts and your subject’s thoughts become unified so that your thoughts and your subject’s thoughts manifest in the action you suggested.

For example before you sit down to hypnotize someone you may ask him/her. Close you eyes for a moment and imagine that you are the weight that you want to weight.
Think about how your feel right now. Remember how you feel when you open your eyes.

Then ask the person to open his/her eyes and find out what they were experiencing. If your subjects say, they feel healthy, alive, or wonderful; you should expect positive results from your hypnosis treatment sessions. If they feel scared, bad, or if they feel nothing at all then you need to probe to find out what is holding them back from success.

Based on the universal law of attraction, your subjects who are in harmony their vision of how they will feel when they reach their goal weight will have success in achieving their goals. If they are not in harmony with their vision then the law of attraction will move them the other way, in putting on more weight than ever.

Summary:

Master the law of attraction for you and your subjects, and you will be very successful as a hypnotist.

Wayne F. Perkins
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Saturday, July 22, 2006

Get in Alignment with Your Goals: Audio Post

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Get in Alignment with Your Goals


The Fundamental Law of Attraction Part 2

Get in Alignment with Your Goals



Many of my clients ask me the following question, “How come when I pray for something I really want, I never get it?”

There are three possibilities for not getting what you want.

1. God does not love you. This means you had better move to a warmer climate so you can get used to a very hot eternity.

2. You are trying to dictate the exact path in achieving your goal.

3. You are not in alignment for what you are asking.


God does not love you and does not want you to have what it is you are asking.

I personally do not believe this one. It would be much easier and convenient for God to torture you on the other side than it would be to give you life with freedom of choice. So I do not buy into God must want me to have this or that, or God wants me to suffer. If you are a citizen of the United States, then the “God does not love me” argument holds no water. You have access to everything you want and need in the United States. It is only you that can hold you back from success.

You are trying to dictate the exact path in achieving your goal.

One of the immutable laws of the universe is that we try not to dictate that exact path in reaching our goal. The exact way to reach your goal will be shown to you but only after you are ready to “receive” your goal. Your path rarely starts at letter “a” and ends with letter “z.” There are usually many twists and turns leading you in the direction of success.

If you are trying to become a bestselling author, you could spend all of your money on the traditional ways of book promotions. You could spend time and money by attending foreign book rights shows, purchase advertising in book publishing magazines and call every bookstore in your country and conduct a book signing. However your chances of becoming a bestselling author by these means is next to impossible. You will run out of time, money, and energy as you find results from these measures horrific in the book publishing industry.

However, if you decide that you will become a best selling author and allow the universe to lay out a plan for you, the plan may involve writing hundreds of free articles for newspapers, magazines, and e-zines and conducting talk radio interviews by phone to every talk radio station in the world. These methods may cost little or no money but over a year’s time investment, will take you to the best sellers’ list.

Let the universe decide how you will achieve your goal and the specific steps necessary to reach it. You just need to decide what you want and get in alignment with receiving it.

You are not in alignment for what you are asking.

This is one of the major reasons people do not receive what they are asking. If you are jealous of people who have a great deal of money for example, you will prevent yourself from receiving the money because you are not in alignment for receiving the money.

If personal feelings around people having money are negative, then you are telling yourself and the universe that there is something bad about having a great deal of money. You will begin to cut off your supply. You will find dead end jobs or jobs that pay poorly. If you do receive money by cashing in a winning lottery ticket for example, you will find yourself bankrupt within five years like most of the lottery jackpot winners in the United States.

Your attitude dictates your supply of money.

The quickest and easiest way to attract money is to properly align with the supply of money.

How do you align yourself with the supply of money?


Here are three quick ways you can align with money.

1. Create a list of the things you do have. Begin by making a list of all of the things you have. Include not only tangible items like knives, forks, spoons, house, cars, etc, but also intangible ones, like high school diploma, college degree, training in fork lift operation, etc.

2. When you create your list, read over each item and feel sincere gratitude for acquiring each of these items. By feeling sincere gratitude we are quietly and effectively asking for more of the same.

3. Write down a list of the richest people you can imagine. Quietly hold each person in your thoughts and sincerely wish for him or her, more success, fame and money. Again by doing this you open the doors of the universe to supply you with the same.

There are many more ways to attract money or other goals to you the quickest and easiest way. I will continue to add to the list of ways in additional articles focusing on the greatest law in the universe and the basis of all hypnosis treatment…the fundamental law of attraction.

Summary:

When you are finding you are not attracting enough money, make sure you become in alignment with receiving more money. Three quick ways of attracting more money is to create a list of what you do have, feel sincere gratitude for what you do have, and by holding successful people in your quiet thoughts, asking the universe to supply even more good to these people. When you want more for others, you will automatically want and receive more for yourself.



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Thursday, July 20, 2006

How to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection Audio Post

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

How to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection

Overcoming Your Fear of Rejection

I like to improve the odds of successfully treating clients using hypnosis. One of the best ways of insuring your success as a hypnotist is to probe your client before hypnotizing him or her.

In probing your client you are looking to find the fears that will hold your client back from successfully completing your hypnosis treatment program.

One of the major fears you need to help your client overcome is the “fear of rejection.”

Fear of rejection comes into play especially in the areas of smoking cessation, controlling weight, or preparing for plastic surgery.

I met a guy we will call Charles, who was trying to give up smoking. He went to a one day stop smoking clinic presented by one of my hypnotist students. At the end of the day, Charles destroyed a pack of cigarettes and swore he would never touch those cigarettes again.

Charles went to his favorite night club, where smoking is allowed, and began talking about his hypnosis experience with a couple of his friends. As friend number one was expounding on hypnosis being the “work of the Devil,” friend number two was placing packs of cigarettes in front of Charles. Friend number two went to a convenience store during this discussion and quickly returned with a full carton of cigarettes. He laid the carton in front of Charles at the night club table.

Within a short time, Charles was smoking more than ever. His fear of losing his non-supportive friends was superior to his wish to give up smoking.

I asked Charles why he picked up the cigarettes and he simply said, “I felt rejected by my decision to quit smoking.” “The guys didn’t think it was okay.” “They kept putting me down for it and made fun of me.” “I just had to go back to get things back to normal.”

The fear of rejection, can wreak havoc on a hypnosis treatment program. As a hypnotist, make sure you ask your clients in their very first visits, “How will your friends feel about your success?” “When you are successful using this treatment, are you ready to change your life, forever?

If you receive answers during your first sessions that your clients are not ready to their lives forever, then recommend they come back when they are ready to change. The must be committed to change in order for your hypnosis treatment program to work.

Summary

Hypnosis can work miracles, however, only when your clients are ready to overcome their fear of rejection. I wish you success in helping all your clients overcome their fears of rejection.



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Monday, July 17, 2006

How to OvercomeYour Fear of Embarassment:Audio Post

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Saturday, July 15, 2006

How to Overcome the Fear of Embarassment

You want to be successful as a professional hypnotist or hypnotherapist. You have a client named Frank, who comes to you because he never seems to earn enough money.

Even though Frank is college educated, the only jobs he gets hired for are barely over minimum wage. Frank is 35 years old, and has never earned the “big money,” promised by earning a college degree.

This is a common scenario with male clients, over the age of thirty, moving all the way up to retirement age.

I probed Frank, asking why he thinks he never secured the “big career.” I asked him, “What is holding you back from the big money,” and I asked him, “Who is holding you back from earning the big money.”

I was surprised to find that he named three people. I will call them, Tom, Dick and Harry.”

Every morning Frank, Tom, Dick and Harry meet for breakfast at a coffee shop located on the way to work.

Tom, Dick and Harry all work for either retail stores or telephone call centers, earning just a little over minimum wage. Tom, Dick and Harry are Frank’s age and none have a college degree.

I asked Frank, “What would Tom, Dick and Harry say if at breakfast, you told them, “I just got a job that will pay more than double my current earnings.”

Frank thought about it a few minutes then exclaimed, “I would be too embarrassed to tell them.”

I asked Frank why he would be embarrassed, and he said, “I don’t know.”

This is a very common to find in the business world. You find friends who are like you. They have the same politics, many times the same religious beliefs, and the same attitudes. You feel comfortable with them. There is nothing wrong with hanging out with like minds except when it comes to earning money.

To paraphrase Mark Victor Hansen, the “Chicken Soup of the Soul, Co-Creator, “Tell me how much money each of eight of your closest friend’s earn and I can tell you how much you earn.”

Peer pressure to retain the status quo in an adult relationship is every much as powerful as the peer pressure associated with teenage drug use.

How can a hypnotist help?

Once you have ascertained that your client is affected by the fear of embarrassment, you need to confront that fear with a positive induction that focuses on visualization exercises focusing on the way Tom, Dick and Harry will perceive Frank in his new higher paying position.

Make the visualization vivid with all the sights, sounds, smells and feelings of the breakfast café.

You will find that in just a few sessions, Frank will overcome his fear of embarrassment and embark on a program to find better paying jobs.

Summary:

Always be on the lookout for the “Fear of Embarrassment.” This is a real fear that holds many of us back from success. Mastering techniques on overcoming the fear will help you as a hypnotist or hypnotherapist help many people that normally would go back to their old habits once your sessions are finished.

Wayne F. Perkins
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Friday, July 14, 2006

Advice On Booking Stage Hypnosis Shows for Schools and Corporations

Advice on Booking Stage Hypnosis for Schools and Corporations


Question from Tim J, Toledo, OH

"What is the best way to book stage hypnosis gigs?" "I work fulltime currently so I can't call during the day." "Do I send a brochure?"


Thank you for writing.

I have found the most productive way to book is to call and book, regardless of the market.

That being said and you with a limitation of a job, here is what you should expect with a mailing.

First of all, the only way to find out who to send your information to, is by calling. If you cannot call what I would do is send the information to the Principal of the school. You can find out names of principals from Greatschools.net or your state education Websites.

The principal will act as a clearing house to the organizations within the school that are crying for money. He or she are bombarded by club sponsors daily.

I would do split the gates and just focus on fundraising. All school assemblies are performed during the day, and the student council usually has a budget for speakers. Since you are working during the day all contacts and performances for assemblies will be during the day, thus not your market.

Fund raisers are almost always held at night when parents can attend. A few will be held on Saturdays during the day, but usually are never held during the week days.

A fund raiser should be able to bring in at least 300 people at a very small school and for a well publicized show, more that 1000 people. If the ticket price is only $6.00 a ticket that should bring your split around $3000.00

If you are going to have the school buy your program, let them pay you $3000.00 up front for your appearance rather than $800.00. $3000.00 is more logical.

I wouldn't offer a buyout for schools. They won't have the money upfront to pay you for fundraising. A 50/50 split with no upfront costs by the school sounds like the best approach for you. List no other option on your flyers.

In your offer letter or postcard, make sure you mention that the contact leave a night time number they can reach you.

A mailing of 1000 sounds like a lot but mailings usually only get about a 1% return. You can increase the return by mailing to the same individuals 7 or 8 times over the year. That is a huge expense and time consumer.

In any event a 1 percent return means you will be getting 10 people to call you back. If you book half of those that only means 5 gigs. 5 gigs at $800.00 is only $4000.00 to you. After the time, effort and cost of the mailing that is not a good business decision. At the most you could only mail the school 7 times during the year as most schools have two or three months off. They only have 180 working days.

If I had the limitation of working days and only 1000 addresses to mail to 7 times a year, I would opt to sending my information, (not mentioning fee) to corporations in the same geography.

5 gigs a month for major corporation quarterly meetings or conventions would net you anywhere from $12,500 ( for a minimum fee of $2500) to $50,000, for a fee of $10,000 which most midsize companies expect to pay for banquet entertainment

($2500.00 is considered a "beginning speaker" in the corporate world. Your worst performance as a hypnotist will outshine a beginning public speaker by leaps and bounds) A corporation will spend more than $2500.00 on the flower arrangement at the dinner. Try to get flowers to hypnotize people.

You will send out the same amount of flyers and reap tremendous rewards. At $50,000 a month, you may consider eliminating your day job, and then you will be able to book school assembly programs at $800-2500 per show if you still want to do them.

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I wish you success

Wayne F. Perkins

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Sunday, July 09, 2006

The Fundamental Law of Attraction

The Fundamental Law of Attraction

What is the one big secret behind the power of hypnosis?

The major secret behind hypnosis is the fundamental law of attraction.

The law of attraction was first officially coined by the philosopher around the turn of the twentieth century named Dr. William James.

William stated that whatever you hold in your mind, your body moves toward.

Thoughts are energy. The more you are thinking about something, the more energy you are sending out in the universe to get the object or condition.

When you think of the ancient ruins in caves located around the world you usually see paintings on the cave walls of animals.

Are the people who live in caves painting the animals to pass the time, to hold in reverence as a religious object, or are they painting the animal because they are hungry and know the animal will fill their appetites?

I do not know the answer to that question, but I do know from over thirty years as a hypnotist, that people move in the same direction as their predominant thoughts.

After a while, maybe before the painting is finished, a deer or antelope arrives by the cave and the cave dwellers are soon eating the food they have visualized on the cave walls. The cave dwellers mission is accomplished as a result of the visualization.

This is an example of a positive suggestion or idea that manifests the object of admiration and concentration.

Do negative suggestions work the same way as positive suggestions?

Negative suggestion works the same way as positive ones. The law of attraction states that whatever we hold in our minds our body moves in that direction.


Have you ever been on a diet? Most diets fail after a while because you are always thinking of the foods that you have given up in order to comply with the diet.

If you are thinking of a greasy hamburger and the doctor has just told you that hamburgers will kill you, chances are you will be back to the greasy hamburger within a day of two of being put on restriction.

Why? This is because you keep thinking about the greasy hamburger. You think more about that food than ever before, and sooner or later your body moves like a robot in search of the next greasy hamburger.


People who are addicted to smoking, gambling, television, cell phone use, computers, video games, alcohol or drugs find themselves in the same conundrum.

The harder they try to quit, the harder it becomes. The reason why is they are always thinking about what they are giving up rather than what they are receiving.

When you study self-hypnosis or go to a hypnotist for hypnotherapy, you will find that one of the first things you do is conquer what is in your mind. You need to rewire your thinking into moving your body toward what you want and away from what you do not want.

Most of us focus on what we do not want.

Do you know anyone who always tells you about his/her aches and pains. Do they seem to have every disease created either by genetics or by television and the television sponsors?

These people have very strong minds. Their minds are always working on creating misery for themselves.

Can you imagine what their lives would be like if they could shift their thinking toward abundance?

I wonder.

Summary:

Hold in your mind what you want out of life. Think about the things you have now and give thanks for what you have. Develop and attitude of gratitude and remember to dream you reality every day.

Use your powerful subconscious mind to move in the direction of what you want rather than what you do not want. Go to a hypnotist or learn self-hypnosis to develop the true magic of your mind. Allow the universe to open up and give you what you want and what you truly deserve.

Paint the cave walls of your mind with all the abundance you want and need. Become what you think about most in your life.

Wayne F. Perkins
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Saturday, July 08, 2006

Audio: Expect to Achieve Your Goal

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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Step 10: Expect to Achieve Your Goal


Step 10: Expectation: Expect to Achieve Your Goal


One of the problems about goal setting is that most of the time, we really do not expect to achieve our goal.

We look back on our lives and remember all of the times we tried to achieve our goal before only to give up out dream along the way.

We find ourselves setting goals in January, only to relinquish our goal in February.

Goal setting and goal achievement is part of the membership benefits of the Human Race.

Our powerful minds are always striving toward something whether we want that something or not.

From my experience, I find that if we are not moving toward wealth then we are moving toward poverty.

If we are not moving toward love we are moving toward hate.

If we are not moving toward our desired goal, then we are moving away from it.

How many times have you found friends or relatives that once giving up on a diet, they gain more weight than ever before?

As a hypnotist for thirty years, I can tell you that many people struggling to achieve a goal give up and then gravitate toward gaining the opposite affect.

Expectation needs to be worked on every day. You need to “expect” to achieve your goal.

You need to find ways of expressing your life once your goal is achieved.


How do I learn to “expect” my goal?

One way to increase “expectation” of your goal is to participate in a daily ritual of visualizing yourself already in possession of your goal. You fake it until you make it.

For example, if your goal is to earn a specific amount of money, let us say, $100,000 in total income for one year, imagine yourself going to the stores that you would go to if you already have the $100,000.

If one of your goals, when you reach $100,000 is to purchase a new house, take time each week to go on a house hunting trip in the area where you would buy this new house.

If one of your goals is to create a better relationship with your family, pretend that you already have it and visualize yourself in possession of that relationship. Get comfortable with living your dream early and your expectations will become reality sooner than you think.

One of the best times to do this kind of productive meditation is while you are checking your email at home or at work. Your brain is firing on all cylinders while you are reading and responding by email. This is the perfect time to let your mind wander a bit and perform your productive day dreaming of “expecting” your anticipated goal.

Think about “expecting” your goal daily and you will find yourself enjoying the process of achieving your final goal destination.

Wayne F. Perkins


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Monday, July 03, 2006

Step 9: Start a Success Support Group



Step 9: Start a Success Support Group


One of the best ways to achieve your goals is to find a new network of people who are bent on achieving success, and hitching a ride on their network.

Unfortunately this will not be people who are close to you right now.

If the people around you were the best support group you could find, you wouldn’t need to read articles and books on how to achieve your goals. You would already be at your destination.

Have you ever been in a situation where you are sitting on a public bench or in a restaurant and strike up a conversation with a complete stranger?

Did you ever have an experience with a complete stranger where you could talk about your life or your dreams and the stranger encouraged you in a way that really made you feel good after the encounter?

This happens a great deal with people. Since your potential success in achieving your goals is not going to affect the stranger in any way, the stranger can be honest and give you great advice, listen to your dreams and support you in a way that you do not feel supported with your friends.

This is why when you create a success support group, you want to start with people who do not know you or who barely know you. They have nothing to lose by you being successful so they can support you in ways that are powerful in your goal achievement program.

Where do I find these people?

You can start a success support Blog on the Internet. You can start a group at your local church, community center, or even place a personal advertisement in a newspaper. With the miracle of the Internet and telephone, your Success Support Group members can be located anywhere in the world.

Start today and begin your Success Support Group. This will be a great step forward in achieving your goals.


Wayne F. Perkins
Master Hypnotist Trainer


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Saturday, July 01, 2006

Dedication to John, Annie and Todd Olsen


Dedication to John, Annie and Todd Olsen



Today marks the 31st anniversary of the death of John P. Olsen.

John was just 29 years old and died of cancer. He was an inspiration to me and just about everyone he met.

There is never a day that goes by when I forget how lucky I have been by having John as such a great friend.

He and his Mom, Annie, were always on my back to finish college. Annie helped out be giving me free extra food at the restaurant she worked at, and John helped out by constantly acting as the big brother I never had.

John’s little son Todd, who is now resting with John and his Grandma Annie, was the cutest little boy I ever saw in my life.

My life is blessed by just knowing these wonderful people.

John and Annie, your efforts did not go in vain as I did finish college.

Love,

Wayne F. Perkins