*Upcoming Live, Online, Saturday Seminars:* *Feb. 12: Stop Smoking Hypnosis, discount code, Friend* *Feb. 26: Weight Loss Hypnosis, discount code, Health* *How do you think? Do you need to be Unhypnotized? by Vance Romane* Many people need to be *De*hypnotized more than hypnotized. We need to pay attention to the hypnotist inside us. We become what we think about the most, what we read about, watch, and talk about, especially including self-talk. Watch your mind, your mouth, your thoughts, and your words. How do you label or identify yourself? I am …, I believe … I have (such and such a problem) etc. Just changing a name, the way we dress, can change a life. What if your name was Hope? Jesus? Joy? Sage? Atlas? Samson? Hercules? How would that change how you feel about yourself? Do you walk around or go to sleep at night and say: “I can’t stop smoking”; “I can’t lose weight”; “I can’t stand that”; “It’s driving me crazy;” “I hid this so NO ONE can find it” (and now I cannot find it); “He gives me a headache” and you end up with a headache. How about the man who tattooed on his arm: “Born to Lose,” or “Born to Win”? Do you identify with a family member? “Well, my father, mother died of a weak heart, smoking, overweight, or? I guess I will too!” How about “I am sure I will not survive the surgery.” Some surgeons will not operate until that patient changes their mindset. Patients are hypnotized to see themselves recovering, healing rapidly, having a good appetite, anticipating normal functioning, and enjoying the benefits of the surgery. Do you expect the worst or the best in life? It often becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. *Zig Ziglar*: “Stinking thinking needs a check-up from the neck up.” *Joe Girard:* “If you hang around a garbage can long enough, you will start to stink.” What types of people do you spend a lot of time with? Do you spend much time on coffee get-together pity parties? Who you associate with will determine your future. Remember this from *Randy* *Bachman’s* *Takin’ Care of Business? *“…chances are you’ll go far-If you get in with the right bunch of fellows.” Johnny Carson’s advice for young entertainers was to go to the large cities like Los Angeles or New York. Relationships usually start with someone within proximity to you, business or personal. Smokers will often say to me after my seminar: “I have not smoked *yet*” as if the time to smoke is coming soon. Or “I have not gained weight *yet.*” Improved self-talk could be: “that habit is long past being past, best left in the dusty old past,” like worn out shoes that served their purpose for the time, shoes that no longer fit; old hairstyles; old styles of clothing; old relationships that no longer fit. When people reinforce and boost their hypnosis with recordings after a seminar, they lock in their new mental set deeper into their mind. That could be for smoking, weight control, nail biting, positive thinking, or anything else, so they are permanently in control, no matter what happens in their life. A person might say “I’m not dressing up FOR YOU.” Well, who will you dress up for then is one underlying meaning? A client who wants to be hypnotized may say: “I hope it works. We will see if it works. I’ll give it a whirl.” I would rather hear, “I will give this my best shot.” People often come to a hypnotist looking for magic. Sometimes, they are expecting to do nothing while the hypnotist waves his magic wand. Hypnosis does often work fast, like magic, with little or no work on the part of the client. However, their problem may come back because they learned nothing. I would rather say “Hypnosis is magical.” It works best when the client and hypnotist work together as a team, partners to enhance a lifestyle with a goal to increase health, happiness, and success. Sometimes slower success is more permanent success, simply because the client took time to collaborate with the hypnotist. The hypnotist is a mentor or guide. Or sometimes a client will come in and say: “Hypnosis does not work for me. I tried.” Well, where did you try, on a hypnotist entertainer’s stage who only spent 5 minutes with you? Stage hypnotists are entertainers and must move fast. They often work with extroverts, party people and people who have been hypnotized before. When I performed at the Pacific National Exhibition, hundreds would come on stage to be hypnotized, so I made it almost impossible for it to work. My method to hypnotize was about 30 seconds. I only wanted to keep about twenty people to make the show move fast to be more entertaining. Hypnosis may not work because of the hypnotist’s inexperience. Or did the client follow the instructions? If I tell someone to take a long, slow breath and they take a short, fast breath, then they are not following instructions. I also give people some tasks to follow the seminar or hypnosis session. Some do not follow through and those are the ones likely to have more difficulty. Or was hypnosis done at the wrong time because the client was under intolerable stress or not feeling well. Or did the client expect to black out, be unconscious and not hear the hypnotist (you would have to be deaf or dead). That is not what hypnosis is. You are super-aware, not unaware. If someone keeps thinking: “This is not working, I am not hypnotized,” then they are not listening to the hypnotist, but instead wallowing in a fear of failure. Sometimes people try too hard to be hypnotized. Trying too hard to fall asleep, to remember something on the tip of your tongue, or for a man to experience an erection does not work. Trying TOO hard creates stress that interferes with life, health, and success. We must pay attention and focus upon what we want. If we fail to plan, we are usually planning to fail. Concentration improves memory, and focus of concentration creates success, but we must focus with a purpose and persistence. People often fail because they give up too soon. Many miners have stopped inches from riches, striking gold. People willing to do a little more are often creating the difference between no success, mediocrity, and outstanding success. My sessions start with a goal and a plan. Plans that have worked for thousands of other people can work for you. If you need help to quit smoking, permanently, or to lose weight and maintain the weight loss, be sure to attend one of my online hypnosis sessions. If you need help in other areas, please visit my blog on my website for free help, or better yet, order a specific hypnosis recording so you can just lay back and let me do the work. Your specific hypnosis recording will help you to break a habit, establish a new habit, change your thinking, change your lifestyle, and help you to keep that change. Have a fantastic day! Vance Romane Copyright 2022 M.V.P. Ltd.-Romane. 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