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I have recently received a flood of requests for personal advice
and information about learning hypnosis; I've responded to each,
but there is a pattern in my responses that I can share with all.

1.  I do not believe that you can learn effective (and ethical)
  hypnosis from books.  There are skills (like pacing your words
  to the subjects breathing, using tonality to mark out certain
  words to form other messages that what is apparent to the casual
  listener, like how to match the client's experience) than you can
  read about all day and never learn a thing.  If you want to "play"
  with hypnosis, go to the library and read what they have; you'll
  learn enough to do elementary things and find out whether hypnosis
  is a subject you really want to learn.

2.  While I "do" hypnosis, my primary training is in Neuro-Linguistic
  Programming (NLP).  NLP is an application of hypnosis, and a way
  of understanding behavior and communication, of which hypnosis is
  one part.  While hypnosis might seem mysterious, NLP makes it quite
  obvious and open (with sufficient practice).  I recommend you in-
  vestigate it as a field of study.

3.  To find someone to teach you hypnosis, I recommend two sources:
  a.  Look under "Hypnosis" in the Yellow Pages; call them and see
      if they're willing to help you learn, or if they can refer you
      to someone who will.
  b.  There are numerous "New Age" periodicals, underground news-
      papers, etc. where people with esoteric skills often announce
      themselves; call those people and ask where you can learn.

4.  I am not willing to outline specific strategies for hypnosis for
  ethical reasons:  I have a responsibility to the unknown "subjects"
  that might be exposed to those strategies, and I have no way to judge
  the ethics of the people who might read this newsgroup and apply them
  in harmful ways.

5.  I am located in Silicon Valley (San Jose, CA), and I am a Trainer
  (as well as Certified Practitioner and Certified Master Practitioner)
  in NLP.  If you are in my area, e-mail me privately and we can work
  out a way to help you learn, if that is your goal.

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