Hey everyone,

Deb Yaffee, my good freind in MA. is presenting a truly spiritual workshop in October.

You can get the details by clicking on her profile.   I am going and wondering if anybody else from NY is going too maybe we can pool our rides.

 Just a thought. 

 Roch

Yesterday might have been a very important day for me. Sometimes things fall into your lap and you have to go for it. There are no coincidences in this life I am sure of it.

In my practice I try hard to keep track of my former clients. Its not that hard right now since in the three years I have been working I only have maybe a hundred all together so to go down my address book once or twice a week and shoot an e mails or two every so often is not a big deal. Doing this keeps me connected and keeps me in their minds for referrals. At least that's the thought.

So the other day, I was doing that and sent a note to a former client.  As it turns out for the next couple of weeks she has to work in a building that is just a couple of doors down from my day job in Manhattan. We decide to get together for a friendly lunch. She is an executive for a very large Private Vocational School. I am sure if I said the name you might know it.   They have 9 campuses nation wide. Her Job has something to do with graduate job placements.   She and her staff at each campus must meet certain state mandated requirements to keep their credentials. It is because of this that she had to be at the campus near my job. Apparently they are not currently meeting those requirement she only has so much time to "get their numbers up". Before they have a problem with the state.

We had a lovely lunch and then she took me back to her office to chat for a while longer. While I was there she introduced me to a few of her associates and co workers as her friend "the hypnotist".  Then one of those lovely people happened to say, "Gee wouldn't it be great if he could hypnotize all of us to get our numbers up?"   All of a sudden my mind started working overtime. Could I do that? I could, couldn't I?  Well, I left my friend/clients office and went back to my job but I could not stop thinking. Motivational Corporate Speaking is something that I always wanted to do. If you put me in front of a crowd; I am in my element.

This morning I sent an e-mail to my friend and asked her to tell me exactly what she needed to do to get those numbers up. I explained to her that I could speak to her staff and help to motivate them.  I told her that if it was successful here, I could do it at all nine campuses and it's a win win situation.   She gets those numbers up looks great to her superiors and I start a new phase of my career.  She has a budget for this sort of thing too I imagine.
It's all good. Except for the fact that I have no idea what I am going to tell them yet!  But you know, sometimes you just have to go for it and iron out the details later.

Any body got any ideas?

Roch

Well this weekend was spent in Reiki Classes. I did both level 1 and Level 2.
I always felt that I had a natural inclination towards energy transferring ability. But now I have an understanding of what I was doing and where that energy was coming from.
Also now I can work with that energy and direct it. Obviously two days does not make me an expert energy worker, but with practice I know that I will become one.

I had to pleasure of being taught this by Morrin Bass who was my original Hypnosis instructor. She has a wonderful way of making things clear. It was also nice that I got to work with three other students and got to make some new friends.

Today's class was significant for me because we did work on the remote healing aspects of Reiki, Maggy, the beautiful (inside and out) young woman that I was partnered with today was particularly sensitive. There was one experience that mind blowing.
We were asked to "beam" the Reiki energy to each other. When she did that to me I had the strong physical feeling that was as if she had a small spotlight that was in a fixed position. I first felt this energy on the side of my face it was like a 3" diameter there. I was so strong that I decided to play with it a little bit. And I started moving my position relative to that energy point. So when I turned into it that feeling was on my full face then it seemed to be at the back of my head when I turned away.
When this exercise was done, I had the best feeling of wellness and energy I had to get up and hug her.
Then it was my turn, she is an actress and a singer so I concentrated my first intentions on her throat chakra, and then moved it down to her navel chakra. My thought was as an actress the throat area was very important to her and the navel chakra was to have her feel more security. When we were finished I was smiling ear to ear as she told me that she felt exactly what I had sent to her. I was simply blown away.
I think the thing that I like best about Reiki is that it does not require your own energy you just channel the universal energy and in the process of healing others you heal yourself. Just So Cool!

Roch.

In my practice (I am part time) I set it up so that the first time I meet with a client it is not a Hypnosis Session it is a Fee Screening and Consultation.  I was wondering how others do this or if not.  Obviously most initial contacts are over the phone and I use an answering service that is very good,  They follow a script that I have given them and book my initial appointments.  I do not allow them to discuss prices on the phone.  If a potential client insists on that, only then does the service call me and I take the call or if I am not available they go to voicemail and I call the client back. 

When I meet the client for the first time, I make sure that they are exposed to Testimonials from other clients.  Usually, I have a DVD ot them playing in the waiting room while they are doing paperwork intake form and afterthat I have them read testimonials in my book.  This is all before I have really begun to talk to them.  I bring them into my office and review the intake with them,  I do the pre-talk and discuss the issue that brought them to me.  Then I  do some suggestability testing.  If I decied that this is someone I want to work with only then do I discuss finances.  If they are agreeable, I take full payment or a subatantial deposit and book the actual hypnosis sessions. 

Here is the question,  The problem arises sometimes when the client does not show up for the Free Screening.  If I am offering the screening free of charge, do you think I could fairly and ethically take a credit card info to hold the appointment? 

I have had way too much time on my hands lately.

Business, Thank god is finally starting to lift its head off the floor and I had some good sessions this week that made me feel like I was doing something right.

I have been talking via e-mail with lots of hypnotist both here and on other sites. And I have been trying to get a feel for where I fit in on the whole WHD thing. I have begun the process of contacting the local political people to try and get a Proclamation passed. So that's something. But I still have not finalized in my mind what I want to do myself in the form of a media event.

Now some of us are specialists and some like me, are more or less GP's. I only mention this because this is supposed to be where I say what I am going to do to promote WHD in my own neck of the woods. If I was a specialist, I could say that I would do something related to my specialty. I mean how cool would it be to have a hypnobirth shown on TV? Well at least the presentable parts anyway right? But as a GP I guess I need to do something kind of GPish. I figure that I am kind of a show off anyway so I wan to do something splashy.

I had an idea (that I discussed with a few of you) about doing a public instant induction and giving suggestions for well being, but now I am leaning towards doing something more dramatic. Instead of doing just one volunteer, how about hypnotizing a row of 20 or 30 volunteers instantly and then doing some kind of guided imagery for relaxation and stress reduction for them? I think that would be a pretty cool media event don't you? I was thinking to do it at a shopping mall in the food court. They always have the chairs there and there are people already there too so you don't need to hawk for a crowd. When you get permission from the mall, they would advertise it for you for free right on those electronic signs that they have there and I am sure you'd get plenty of media coverage.

So that's my open letter to my own brain. I am done riffing. I have run it up the flagpole and now let's see who salutes?

Roch

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