It all started one winter holiday when I was in High School, and totally bored to death, I seriously had ‘nothing to do’. At the time I was very interested in boosting my confidence, becoming a better public speaker for speeches and in general talking to people, especially strangers, which at the time I was not able to do.
So, I did what most people do, I began Googling. I typed in phrases like: “Improve Confidence”. “Boost Self Esteem”, Etc.
The results brought me to a variety of sites selling things to me (obviously), though the few that did not, mentioned NLP, which I later found out stood for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which allegedly was a great tool to become more confident, and even claims of becoming more persuasive.
Persuasion, I liked the sound of that. So I re-Googled phrases like: “Be More Persuasive”, “Learn Persuasion”, “NLP and Persuasion”.
Finally I came to a site claiming that NLP was created and derived from Techniques of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy, Conversational Hypnosis and Covert Hypnosis. Oh, Hypnosis? I thought that was a myth, a party trick, this can not be real right?
So I did more research and eventually landed onto a website called NLP Connections where I soon joined and posted my introduction called “Teenage Programmer“, which tells you that I am really into programming and IT. In this thread I got a lot of cool tips and help on starting out, one of which was Jay Budzynski who pointed me in the Direction of another Teenage Hypnotist, The now well known Nathan Thomas from Keys To The Mind, and got myself into my first debate on Instant Versus Progressive Inductions.
Continued Searching for information to quench my insatiable hunger for learning hypnosis lead me to the Site of PokerWithOutCards (from his youtube videos) which sent me straight to his TrancedOut.com Website (which does not seem to be live at the moment) he also had a forum which promised to always be able to answer “any” question, for me that was a pot of gold, so posting questions was all I did. I published my first Video to be critiqued and got an almost instant response for Josh Houghton, a good friend and creator of the WhatsOnMyBrain.com Hypnosis site, who gave me superb advice, he also pointed me to another community to get answers from, HypnoThoughts.com which I also immediately started posting to.
Nathan Thomas became my “study partner” as we had good rapport being around the same age learning hypnosis in a world of ‘adults’ and Josh Houghton was my advice guru as he was one of the few people willing to help a teenager at the time.
At Hypnothoughts.com I began posting my issues to the Vast pool of hypnotists that resided there, one of the very helpful posts was my first post: “New Hypnotist [HELP]” in which I met the likes of my Good Friend John Cerbone and Richard Nongard, and in the same post Richard was so helpful as to send me my first home study hypnosis certification course of his free of charge for my enthusiasm to learn.
On my path I met many obstacles, from losing my voice to attending to uneducated school principles wanting to ‘ban hypnosis’ from school to the regular difficult subjects, I however just used these obstacles as ways to learn new things, I lost my voice and learned non-verbal inductions instead, the school tried to ban hypnosis I reacted by learning covert and conversational, hypnosis without trance hypnosis.
So, what is the purpose or moral of this story?
I, like you, are a normal human being, average life, yet I managed to become a pretty great hypnotist. What allowed me to do this was my enthusiasm, the quality of never giving up, endeavoring constantly, and mostly not accepting failure.
If you are not a hypnotist you can easily become one, if you are already one, you can be better. Everything is Possible, So do what you love. I know, because I do.
Eternal Smiles,
Leo Gopal
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