Looking for a hypnosis home study course

[emilyp]

I would like to learn hypnosis and was looking for a course I could take at home. As a mother of two little children ( 1and a half and five months) going to classes is simply not an option at this time. Can anyone suggest a good program I could do at home?


Thanks,
Emily

[Connie]

Sent you a private message.

[eccles1214]

In addition to a qualified home study course, there are some excellent books and CD's out there. I used two such books to learn self-hypnosis (see my posting under "Was I hypnotized?" for the names of those books or PM me.) Another books is the excellent Self-Hypnosis for the Life You Want by Charles E. Henderson. It is only sold through his website, removed url to commercial site, if you want it PM the poster. You don't have to spend a lot of money to learn hypnotic skills; I bought all my books used, and with a tape recorder or digital voice recorder/mp3 player and a computer (to type scripts for reading), I have been learning a lot by making my own scripts. You do not say if you want to learn hypnosis for professional or personal reasons. Professional training requires more than the "personal hypnosis" resources given here, and the experts on this site can lead you to the proper resources.

[Don]

Hi, Emily.

There are lots of great home study courses in hypnosis. You can find inexpensive ones on eBay. There are also hundreds of great books on hypnosis. They all have one thing in common: they will teach you about hypnosis. I would suggest it's great to study them before, during and after taking in-person trainings.

It's those in-person trainings where you actually learn how to do hypnosis. Learning how-to is important just as is learning about.

However, I have a book at for psychologists which teaches you everything about group therapy. If I needed group therapy I would certainly want someone who knew everything about it as is revealed in this book.

But would I want to go to group therapy where the psychologist had never worked with anyone and never had any in-person training? I wouldn't.

Would you?

[Simple Guy]

Hi Don,

Is the book on your shelf, "Group Psychotherapist's Handbook
Contemporary Theory and Technique"? I've this and another larger
treatise (by Yalom?), though I also don't practice group (or individual) psychotherapy.

[Don]

Holy crap! I thot I was the only person with that book.

Yep, it's the one that I have.

[Simple Guy]

Hi Don,

What can I say, my friend? I'd not be surprised if you and I purchased the
Handbook from the same vendor. Mine was from a remainder seller. If
yours was also, let me know via p.m. and I'll let you know who I bought my copy from. :)

[Poodle]

Quite often there are weekend "taster" courses on hypnosis that give you enough experience to wade through the remainder of the material on your own plus you get to experience trance and induce it in others. If you can send the children to Grandma's or Aunt Whomever you may learn more than you ever thought you could. You will not be an expert by any means but you will have a good workable knowledge. The remainder takes a lifetime to learn well as each person is totally different from any previous ones and has his/her own reasons for doing or not doing something.

Is this doable in your world?

Stay well,
Pood

[Don]

Nope. I got mine at a used book store.

[Simple Guy]

Hi Don,

Some of my most loved books are from used book stores. Time
constraints, unfortunately, have limited both my visits to those
stores (there is a gem of a store, nearby) and reading time.

Of second-hand books, several years ago, I was at an outdoor
flea market and one of the vendors had, among other things,
a small pile of books (5 or 6, probably). She saw me coming
and I saw her watching me as I approached the table and
picked up the books. After I bought every one of them, she
asked me what it is that I do. I told her. She is also in a
helping field. -- I knew that she was sensitive/intuitive upon
my approach to her table, anyway. She related how her
brother, who has passed on, would be very pleased to know
that his books have found a "home" where they'd be appreciated.
One, in particular, on some more esoteric healing modalities
(not so esoteric, now, though, in the U.S.), feels
right in my hands and was put to good use. I think her brother
would be pleased. (I'll p.m. the title to you. You are probably
familiar with the author and/or book.)

[skip]

So what's with all this "I'll pm you the title ...", crap?

Inquiring minds want to know ...two!

skip

[Simple Guy]

Hi Skip,

The first p.m. mention was to avoid inadvertent promotion of a
commercial bookseller here, but I may reconsider this after sending
you a p.m. with the seller's name. :)

The second p.m. mention was out of reluctance to start up another
general discussion that would likely go in a predictable, not very productive
direction (in open forum). But, as you asked and as it doesn't seem to
be a breach of p.m. etiquette for me to reveal what it is that I said that
I'd send (in open forum), the title of the book is, "The Science of
Psychic Healing," by Yogi Ramacharaka. (Were it any part of the
contents of anyone's p.m. to me, it would be confidential, unless
given permission by the sender or very extenuating circumstances.)

[Terry]

Many many years ago, I read a book on Ice skating. The book was written by a champion skater, and well writtten in that I had no problem understanding it. After several readings, and full of confidence, I went to the local ice rink, and guess what? I fell down as soon as I hit the ice!
Now I could have decided that the book I read was faulty since I expected to be able to figure skate after absorbing all that had been written, but as it happens I was not so foolish, and recognised that practise is required along with the reading.
When it comes to skating, nobody gets hurt much if one tries before one is ready, but a home course on hypnosis, if used without skills that come from experience and practise can lead to harm, and I would not wish to encourage anyone to take that route even if they only wish to practise on themselves....