Monday morning hypnosis
I had an interesting experience this morning. I got hypnotised by a professional hypnotherapist. The guy is a friend of mine, the tall, blonde, beautiful Christopher O'Dell. He is doing this group hypnosis series for students to help with study skills and test anxiety and stuff and was looking for some people to practice it on and help him develop some of the script that will be present for all of the sessions. He did it for Kari and I this morning. I really enjoyed it because it was pretty personalized to my specific needs as a student. he sat down with us beforehand and asked us what struggles we had as students, and what we wanted to work on. For me it was mostly focus and motivation, especially for my independant studies, and integrating it into my life, because I am at a point in my education where I don't need to be doing anything I don't want to do. I am writing my own concentration, I have already completed all of the requirements to graduate except for overall credit load. The rest of my education should be spent learning things I want to learn about and developing the skills I want to develop for the greatest good of myself and my community.
The hypnosis began with us being guided through, relaxing as much as we possibly could, and then relaxing even more. It was tough to get fully relaxed at first, and I'm not sure I became fully relaxed until about half way through the session. I still have memory of most of the experience because I still had access to my waking consciousness. I drifted in and out of that every once and awhile, and on occasion my ego and free association would take over, but for the most part I had success staying focused and visualizing what I was supposed to be visualizing and bringing the feelings of satisfaction into the visualizations and bringing that all into the present moment. It was pretty amazing, actually. It really started to get good for me when he started talking about working independantly (which was one of the specific things I brought up) Somehow the image that came up for me was me doing yoga on a beach during sunset. i think I was thinking of my Yoga as medicine ISP that I want to do, but I realized that I could bring so much enthusiasm and joy into all my studies, and I didn't have to do anything I didn't love. In fact I shouldn't be doing any ISP I don't love, especially if I am totally self directed. I should be doing things that excite me. My academic work should come out of a place of being inspired. From places of inspiration, the writing willm just flow out of me.
I'm not sure if this was what I was "supposed" to get out of thr hypnotism. I think I realized that I shouldn't really be doing a lot of the things that I am doing. That I don't love them and I don't want to continue. I don't want to leave school or anything (although this was floating around my head a lot at the beginning of the quarter when all the identity crisis stuff was going on) this place is a great resource and I can find a whole hell of a lot of things I love here, and beyond here. I'll have to wait and see if the hypnotism had an effect on me. That hasn't become apparent yet. I'll also probably go to the 4 sessions that he does in a group setting, so I'll get to revisit this over and over again. I'd recommend it to any students here in bellingham reading this. it is going to be the this Wednesday, next wednesday and the first 2 wednesdays of November at Everybody's yoga. I can't remember the time, either 7 or 7:30, I'll probably update this entry once I know for sure and post the correct time. You all should go, whoever actually reads this... you know... if you want to.
Today seems like high school reunion day. I've seen so many people from high school that I never really run into. So far:
Chris Dever, Cory James, Spencer Schrote, Rainer Golden and Porsche Landon. I'm sure I'm bound to run into tons more.
The hypnosis began with us being guided through, relaxing as much as we possibly could, and then relaxing even more. It was tough to get fully relaxed at first, and I'm not sure I became fully relaxed until about half way through the session. I still have memory of most of the experience because I still had access to my waking consciousness. I drifted in and out of that every once and awhile, and on occasion my ego and free association would take over, but for the most part I had success staying focused and visualizing what I was supposed to be visualizing and bringing the feelings of satisfaction into the visualizations and bringing that all into the present moment. It was pretty amazing, actually. It really started to get good for me when he started talking about working independantly (which was one of the specific things I brought up) Somehow the image that came up for me was me doing yoga on a beach during sunset. i think I was thinking of my Yoga as medicine ISP that I want to do, but I realized that I could bring so much enthusiasm and joy into all my studies, and I didn't have to do anything I didn't love. In fact I shouldn't be doing any ISP I don't love, especially if I am totally self directed. I should be doing things that excite me. My academic work should come out of a place of being inspired. From places of inspiration, the writing willm just flow out of me.
I'm not sure if this was what I was "supposed" to get out of thr hypnotism. I think I realized that I shouldn't really be doing a lot of the things that I am doing. That I don't love them and I don't want to continue. I don't want to leave school or anything (although this was floating around my head a lot at the beginning of the quarter when all the identity crisis stuff was going on) this place is a great resource and I can find a whole hell of a lot of things I love here, and beyond here. I'll have to wait and see if the hypnotism had an effect on me. That hasn't become apparent yet. I'll also probably go to the 4 sessions that he does in a group setting, so I'll get to revisit this over and over again. I'd recommend it to any students here in bellingham reading this. it is going to be the this Wednesday, next wednesday and the first 2 wednesdays of November at Everybody's yoga. I can't remember the time, either 7 or 7:30, I'll probably update this entry once I know for sure and post the correct time. You all should go, whoever actually reads this... you know... if you want to.
Today seems like high school reunion day. I've seen so many people from high school that I never really run into. So far:
Chris Dever, Cory James, Spencer Schrote, Rainer Golden and Porsche Landon. I'm sure I'm bound to run into tons more.