S1: Conceptual Framework Discussion

Q1. Why do you want to learn hypnosis? What is it about hypnosis you find so appealing?
A1. I want to be able to control my own experience and influence the experience of others to bring about positive changes in people.

I believe that as a dual heritage Caribbean/white descent there is much resistance to hat i have to say. Milton says the more resistance the more indirect the approach should be. It stands to reason that I will have to be very indirect to put my ideas out there and get them appraised and accepted. I have made an assessment of our current political standing with regard to race and I feel this is an appropriate course of action. if I am to be successful my presentation is to be effective. This is a key step for me.

This ability to suggest indirectly is also an example of intelligence, hidden from most.

The ability to make people feel good, be better, live well and see the ability to change. I like the idea of being responsible for everyone's experience because I believe the maps belonging to some people are incomplete, I want to add something to the lives of such people.

To be black and to have an opinion about everything is not really accepted yet in this time. To affect the opinion an not be seen to do so is to allow the person to publicly ignore and privately accept a useful action without a feeling of 'embarrassment' of acceptance of me by accepting my idea.

Q2. What things have you heard are possible with hypnosis? What is your reaction to these claims?
A2. To model excellence in a human being. To speak to a person in the modality with is most effective to them at that moment. To create feelings of well being. To suggest indirectly, to educate people affecting without being detected.

To do you must be. To be you must do.

Smart is as smart does.

Reaction?

This is intelligence in communication. I feel with these skills there will be multiple ways to make people happy in accepting change for good. With this comes the opportunity to help people a new levels. I believe i have a lot to offer the world.

I believe in hypnosis. i feel comfortable that I have the intelligence to complete the course and learn how to effect change for good. I am concerned about how I will break this down, it seems a great challenge.

To say I can model excellence, means i can plan to be excellent at anything. What one man can do another can do. It says I am in control of my own experience, my own destiny. It means i can truly be close to people and feel close without having to touch physically, i can stroke and encourage from distance. It means i can give and love in new ways.

Q3. What exposure have you had to hypnosis? What were the circumstances and what were the outcomes?
A3. I believe i have been hypnotized once by an undergraduate in my PR course in 2002. I will call her V. V talked about an experience of attraction between her and a stranger. I visualised the whole thing, felt the feelings, its was strange. I had begun reading about the principle of hypnosis back then. I felt she was streets ahead of me in intelligence display. I felt she asked me as a friend to a restaurant for something to eat, I had a drink, then she told the story. I felt a little lured, but then content was agreeable so i went along. I felt the state i had been elevated to and the crystal clarity of the experience and vision i had seen was remarkable. I promptly went home and had serious second thoughts about staying with my then girlfriend. I felt how could i not be with someone who could have such a direct effect on me. it was not that i wanted V, it was that the experience was like nothing before between myself and another person. from that point on, my experience with V had set a new standard for human interaction. I had in effect been spoiled and it had cost nothing. I pondered over the power on such communication and wondered how she had done it. I figured the story was a fabrication broken into a sensory (visual) experience for me to direct in a suggestive state induce by the alcohol and carbs at the restaurant. She would have practised the lines, induced the state and fed the lines to me. i figured, i enjoyed it, it was harmless, i went home changed though. It was that that was not positive, I wonder whether the pattern was brought about to build an appreciation of V from me?

Q4. Should the use of hypnosis be restricted in some way? Why or why not? If you think it should, how would you recommend it be done?
A4. I think it should be restructed not in how often or which situations it is to bve used but by the ethic wihich would dictate when and to ends it should be used. The problem i had with most NLP is that it was not client centered, it was all about how you could get what you want from beople regardless. Milton's ethics guide how to do Hypnosis. I want to do it but i dont want to hurt anyone or leave them feeling cheated, i want sustainable full and rich relatonships.

Q5. What things, if any are you apprehensive about in learning hypnosis? What is the basis for your apprehension?

A5. I am a good willed person. I have never hit anyone, i have never intended to hurt anyone. I joke and jest with friends but, it is just that, jest. I fear that given the opportunity to affect people, I would use the technology one day in anger. However, a leopard does n ot change its spots and I feel, i'm not likely to change my behaviour. I feel perhaps that i deserve to have the right to protect my self, this could form my defence.