Infinite Sea of Possibilities Hypnotic Key

People the world over are in a habit of throwing coins into a fountain and making a wish.  It's a very curious practice that is similar to deep state hypnosis.  Within a very deep state of relaxation where theta brainwave activity is detected.  Any suggestion at this level will take root and be translated into action.  The subconscious will do everything possible to manifest that suggestion at that level.

Even Indian mystics knew this process as we can see in Pantanjali's Asphorisms:

1. Dharana is the mind's (Chitta's) fixation on a particular point in space.
2. In that (Dharana) the continuous flow of similar mental modifications is called Dhyana or meditation.
3. When the object of meditation only shines forth in the mind, as though devoid of the thought of even the self (who is meditating), then that State is called Samadhi or concentration.
4. The three together on the same object is called Samyama.
5. By mastering that (Samyama), the light of knowledge (Prajna) dawns.
6. It (Samyama) is to be applied to the stages (of practice).
7. These three are more intimate practices than the previously mentioned ones.

If we strip away the flowery language it breaks down to:

1.  We introduce a single thought such as: Love.
2.  We allow that thought to sink into the silence of our deep hypnosis say for 30 seconds.
3.  That absorbed thought (much like a sponge absorbs water) will manifest into form or action.
4.  This is known as Samyama (which means: holding together, tying up, binding).
5.  The "light" of knowledge is the experience of absorbing a thought into that deep silence of theta level hypnosis and having it manifest into form or action.
6 & 7.  Most perform loosely defined goal meditation.  Whereas the process of deep theta level hypnosis working with the thought: Love, targets the subconscious to experience Love.  Anything that the subconscious experiences will bubble to the surface of the conscious mind.

Think of the possibilities of this Hypnotic Key.  It's much like Time-line Hypnosis on steroids.

The practice is very simple!  You can do it the first thing in the morning as you're waking from deep rest.  Or you can do it after using the 1st and 2nd Hypnotic Key contained in my free eBook listed below.

Introduce the following thoughts with what feels like 30 second pauses as you let the thought sink into the silence of your rest:

Love,
Radience,
Unity,
Health
Strength,
Abundance,
Wisdom,
Inner sensuality,
Compare the body to ether with the lightness of a cotton fiber,
Boundless Joy.

So, you've just awoke.  Let the thought: Love.  And now let it sink into the silence and rest you've just experience all night.  Repeat Love again and let it sink.
Now, move onto the next word:  Radience.  Let it sink.  Do each word twice with what feels like a 30 second interval between the words.

Do this practice of Fixation, Concentration and Absorption for 30 days.  You'll notice a profound and deep change in your life.  Your life will never be the same again!

If you'd like more hypnotic keys to practice.  Feel free to download my free eBook of Hypnotic Keys - Your life will never be the same again!

Once you know how to steer your ship, you'll probably run into fewer rocks!

Love and blessings,

Mike Addison MH.t AH.t

You're a Being doing something while you're here on earth. Not the other way around.

Sometimes people become confused in what they do and their being.  We've all seen those that, after a long career they retire and seem to quickly age overnight and waste away in regret.  Recounting their past glories to anyone who'll listen.
"Doing-ness" and "Being-ness" are two vastly different things! 

Recently a young women troubled by what she will do for a living once she graduates from college, asked me, what I thought she should focus upon?  I told her: Doing-ness and Being-ness are two parts of the answer. 
What you will "do" will depend on what you're passions are and what the muse of your creativity leads you to.  You're "Being-ness" is a completely different matter! 
You'll need to reach that silent part of you everyday to understand your "Being-ness!"  It's the very reason you came to this life!  You're a Being doing something while you're here on earth.  Not the other way around.

There are six challenges we'll face in life:

1.  The beliefs of our identity,
2.  Collecting the interpretations in regard to our beliefs,
3.  Causality of our beliefs,
4.  Sensory pains,
5.  Anticipated pains,
6.  Projected pain.

The first three challenges will help us deal with the last three.  Our being will be exposed in a crucible of reactions from others in the midst of their six challenges as well.  How well we deal in this crucible will determine the development of our emotional foundation and primal urge/attractors.  It will also determine the clarity of our introspection from our synchronous and asynchronous internal perspectives.

Just like the Irishman in Braveheart said: "Fine speech, now what?"

Like stated above, we need a practice of self-hypnosis to reach that silent part within us each and everyday.  To explore our being every moment if possible.  To become mindful of our mind full of doing-ness.  Why should we explore our being while alive?  Because it contains a complete set of instructions on how to deal with this life and it also contains all we'll ever need to deal with life's challenges!

Here's an easy method to get you started which will help you continually relax and remain in contact with the silence of your being during your busy day of doing-ness:

Become aware of the tip of your nose.  Now become aware of air coming in and going out.  Allow your breathing to become very gentle yet full.  And that's it!  Inhale gently and full.  Exhale gentle and full.  You'll be very surprised how it affects your day!  How you breathe will determine how you react to others.  And, how they react to you!

This is just a very small part of Anodynic Hypnosis.  If you'd like to experience having your socks blown off and really diving deep, check out my free eBook (no strings attached) at:   http://www.scribd.com/doc/37593778/The-Hypnotic-Keys-You-Will-Never-Be-the-Same-Again

 Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., AH.t


** If you'd like to have a private session with me, feel free to contact me.  Also, check out the hypnosis material at the bottom!

Return to Awareness...

Within the awareness each being possesses, is the life spark.

When life manifest, it first manifest as awareness, then energy, then finally form.

Whenever we need to do something, we return to a still silent state for a moment to access our inner awareness, and thereby access our life spark's empowering nature.

Without access to our awareness, we are only reacting in an impulsive manner.  When a group reacts in an impulsive manner, it's no more than a mob.  When mob's react in an impulsive manner, it causes national and international chaos.

The only way to mitigate chaos, is to provide simple methods to return to a state of stillness. To access our private awareness within.  And doing so, remember what makes us human by the experience of our life spark.

When humans experience their life spark, they immediately understand that spark is eternal.  It is The Source itself.  It creates, sustains, changes, transcends and is innocent simultaneously within us.

We spend most of our life looking for something outside ourselves to reflect the source within ourselves.  Until we make contact with our source within, we'll never find that experience outside ourselves.  Once we make contact with that source within ourselves, then everything outside ourselves becomes a clear reflection of that source experience within us.  As above, so below.

Habits seem almost impossible to break or even change just a little bit.  The habit of living moment by moment, day by day, year by year in worry, pain and fear becomes almost addictive in it's visceral experience.  Some even brag as though it's normal, about how angry they can become.  How enraged they can display.  Power, fame, sex, sleep, hunger, aggression, flight and wealth.  All these are primal motivations that urge us to react.  Instead of tempering our decisions by bringing those urges before our own source, we just react and pay the consequences for those actions.

We have so many resources within ourselves to draw upon to make this world better.  It only takes a few moments of your day to access those resources within yourself.

I've provided the first set of instructions in my free eBook - The Hypnotic Keys - You will never be the same again!  Which you can download from scribd at:   

http://www.scribd.com/doc/37593778/The-Hypnotic-Keys-You-Will-Never-Be-the-Same-Again 

It's my contribution to making this world a better place to live in.

See you in the Light,

Michael

A short Anodynic Hypnosis video...

Astounding...

Within each of us are all the keys we'll ever need to fulfill our destiny!  It's easy to think that you don't have a destiny, when you've forgotten where your keys are to turn the lock, and open your path.  These keys aren't something arcane.  They're simplicity itself.  Some of us go our entire life wondering why?  Why did we come here?  To have kids?  To be just a biological component to sustain a species?  No!

There's more!  So much more that you and I came here for!  But like anything in nature, you'll need energy to fulfill your destiny.  A huge amount of energy!  And that huge amount of energy that is just right for you to complete your Heroes journey, has always been available to you!

There have been a plethora of methods to "improve" your life but, without supercharging yourself, you won't get off the ground.  You'll be stuck in neutral.

That energy that pervades the entire multi-verse is within you.  Every system of your body is driven by that energy.  Every molecule, every cell, every atom is completely driven by that energy.  That energy is your Source of energy.  It is eternal, serene and complete.  It connects each and everyone one of us to each other as we are connect to every particle in the multi-verse.

Everyday I see people traveling the highways and trains lost in their fears, worries, anxieties and depression.  They play the same movie of the mind over and over again.  Building up such pain for themselves.  There are three types of pain that we experience.  The first is sensory pain.  You cut or bump yourself and your senses tell you something is wrong.  Some part of your body is experiencing pain.  The next form of pain is called: Manifested Effect.  A little kid bumps her head and then looks around to see what reaction she'll get.  If the adults run and console her, she'll put on a show of how bad it really is.  If no one is around to console her, she'll rub her head and keep on playing.

And the final form of pain is known as: Cognitive Projected Pain.  This form occurs from our Theater-of-the-Mind playing a What-if over and over again.  What-if this happens or what-if that happens and if that happens then what-if this other thing happens?  You know the inner dialog.  It's one of our favorite scripts!  We run it over and over again right before we go to sleep.  And then sleep doesn't occur!  We just lay there!  Rehearsing those what-if lines!  And you know what?  It doesn't change a darn thing doing that!  It just revs you up to fever pitch doesn't it?

I've had clients tell me, they would love just one day where they didn't have to worry about anything or be afraid or panic'd about anything.  So instead they eat themselves, smoke themselves, drug themselves and drink themselves to death literally!  Some resort to anger to fight back the fear and go from one fear reaction of anger to another.  Caught in a hell of their own making and sustaining.

We came here for so much more than just worrying about things!  To be constantly afraid or in a state of panic wears down anybody no matter how tough they think they are!

That's why I did something about it!  I took the first 5 Hypnotic Keys of 108 Keys and provided them to the public for free.  My Keys are a consolidation of 40 years of hypnosis practice of the most powerful and effective methods.  You don't have to believe anything just as you don't have to believe in cars to drive one.

All I ask is: if you like these methods that you pass them onto others that may benefit from them.

Here they are:  To download your copy click on the following: http://www.scribd.com/doc/
37593778/The-Hypnotic-Keys-You-Will-Never-Be-the-Same-Again

If you'd like to learn the rest of the 108 methods, contact me for the next workshop or seminar.

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

The Hypnotic Keys...

The Hypnotic Keys are complete.  I'll be glad to send you a free copy!  Contact me at AnodynicHypnosis@Gmail.com and I'll email you a copy right back!  No charge!  This is a stream line version of what I teach in workshops and seminars around the country.  The full versions of the first 5 Hypnotic Keys I only offer in workshops and seminars.  Still, the stream line version will be enough to hopefully blow your socks off as you practice and employ them.

I've been absorbing all I can find on Chroma-Key Green Screen DVD recording to provide DVD which will explain the rest of the Hypnotic Keys.  These won't be free however, they will be economical as well as fun!

For those of you that are interested, there's a Connecting to Source Workshop this Sunday the Sept 19th 2010 at Crystal Fox in Laurel Maryland from 1:00pm to 3:30pm.  I'll be teaching the expanded version of the initial keys contained in the book.

There's also a workshop on Oct 17th 2010 at Crystal Fox that I'll be teaching Hypno-Taromancy.  Those of you into offering readings should attend.  I have combined the fastest processes of hypnotic induction with Tarot reading to produce some really life changing reading methods.  You can apply the same reading methods to any other form of divination.  If anything, it will add some grist for the mill of your reading methods.  Even if you haven't ever read for someone else or yourself, you should try it out!

See you at the workshops,

:D

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

2nd Key - Deep Rest

Now that you're practicing the 1st Key.  You're practicing what is known in Hypnosis parlance as Up-Time Hypnosis or Wide Awake Hypnosis.  And some of you are fine with just doing that.  However, for those of you that would love to go deeper into healthier states of deep sleep.  This 2nd Key - Deep Rest will take you into a very deep state of sleep or what's known as: "Down-time hypnosis."  Further than you've probably slept before.
I teach my method of Deep Rest to professionals and non-professionals alike to allow them to get 15 to 20 minutes of very deep rest.  Some just continue and sleep the rest of the way through the night.
This 2nd Key should not be done while driving or operating anything dangerous.  And it should not be performed immediately after eating.  Wait at least 30 minutes for your body to digest.  Some of you out there fall asleep after eating anyway and take a nice siesta.
The 2nd Key can be practiced twice a day, once in the morning to squeeze out that last bit of juicy dream time.  And once in the evening before dinner.

The benefits of the 2nd Key - Deep Rest are obvious however, some of you may not realize that when you don't achieve deep states of rest, you build up a "Sleep Debt."  A Sleep Debt is just like any other debt.  It means that you owe yourself a certain amount of rest.  The greater the sleep debt, the greater the dis-ease you'll start to experience.  Your mind is a wonderful device that will demand sleep processing one way or another.  Without the proper amount of sleep, you'll begin to dream during the day.  We call this dreaming during the day neurosis.  If this continues long enough, you'll move into a psychotic state.  Or in other words, you'll move into your day dreaming and not pay rent!

2nd Key - Deep Rest method:

Find a place where you won't be disturbed by phones, email, Facebook, kids, dogs, cats... you get the picture.  If you are disturbed by someone, just inform them that you'll be with them in 15 minutes and excuse yourself.  Don't enter into any further conversation with them.  Your mind is very susceptible to suggestions in deep hypnotic rest.  We'll be using this fact to build upon in the next keys!

You can lay down if you wish to drift off into sleep for the night if you're doing the 2nd Key for sustained sleep.  Otherwise find a comfortable chair that'll allow your back to be straight.

Read the instructions for 2nd Key - Deep Rest method until you've understood it and can do it without looking at the instructions.

Close your eyes and notice that your body has a kind of vibration from the circulation of your blood and pulsing of your heart.  Inhale and exhale gently and slowly without effort.  Return to this Now time and be in the moment.
Imagine that there is a large golden ring above your head like a giant halo.  This Halo glows with a golden light that when used, relaxes whatever part of the body goes through it.
Slowly allow the halo to move down and your head to enter the inside of the ring.  As it slowly continues down past the ears, the nose, the chin, the throat and down toward the shoulders, a very relaxing warm honey like feeling is left behind now covering the head, neck and shoulders.  Let the golden ring continue down past the shoulders, down the chest, down the lower back and belly and down past the hips.  Now moving down past the thighs, the knees, the calf, the ankles and finally down the feet and stopping past the toes.  Mentally visualizing and stating the the number 10 several times and allow the ring to float up and return to it's place just above your head again.

Now for a deeper and healthier state of rest, continue to feel the vibration of your body in this Now time, as you again move the ring down the body as before, entering inside the ring.  Feeling even more rest as it passes down the body slowly.  And completing just beyond the toes as you mentally visualize and state the number 9 several times.  Allow the ring to return above the head more slowly than before.
Continue passing the ring down with you on the inside slower and slower and finally counting down and visualizing to 1 in ever deeper and healthier states of sleep.

Now that you're within a very deep healthy level of rest, start allowing the mental affirmations of:

   "Perfect and pure health..."
   "Perfect and pure wealth..."
   "Perfect and pure rest..."

to every so often, repeat in your thoughts, and let them go.

When 15 or 20 minutes have past and you want to return.  Simply reverse the process.  Allow the ring at the tips of the toes to slowly move up the body with you on the inside of the ring and let the ring be a brilliant glowing white color full of waking energy.  All the way up beyond the head while mentally counting and visualizing the number 1.  And then let the ring float down in front of the toes and move inside the ring again while allowing the bright white light to fill the body with peaceful and invigorating energy.  When the ring is above the head, visualize and mentally state the number 2 several times.  Continue this process until you visualize and state the number 10.

When you're ready, open your eyes just like you do in the morning after a fantastic nights sleep.

The 3rd Key will be along soon...

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

** If you enjoyed this method and would like to experience even more fantastic states and possibilities produced by Anodynic Hypnosis, feel free to contact me and arrange workshops and classes.

The 1st Key of In-Power-Mint...

Welcome back to those that have been following my postings.  I will be providing a series of how-to blogs with the purpose of bettering the planet with my small contribution.

Within each person, each and every moment of the day, we re-present ourselves to ourselves.  Some re-present themselves to themselves with thoughts of worry, doubt, despair and pain.  Some relive past glories and accomplishments over and over again.  And still, some long for wealth, glory, power or any of the other base primal urge desires.
However, "In-Power-Mint," as I've coined empowerment, is about using what we've already possess to take us back to our center.  Back to where all creativity for our life is stored.  And taping into that creativity again and moving from that source, to allowing your genius unconscious mind to guide you to what truly makes you content and happy!  What makes us happy and content is unique for each and every person.  In fact, we came here to this life to fulfill a special purpose!  When you were a child, you knew exactly what that purpose was in a very matter of fact way!  Ask any kid, and they'll tell you without blinking, what they're here for!

So, the big question is, how do we get back to that simple place?  And the simple answer is: we are creatures of light and breath!
We are very visual creatures even though we have four other senses.  Even those that have trouble seeing things in their Theater-of-the-Mind (TOTM), can get a feeling of light within.  And, we are also creatures of breath.  It's amazing that the very tools we need to use to return to our center and unlock our own treasures of what makes us content and happy, are part of our everyday lives!
By combining these two elements in different ways, completely changes what's being shown in the TOTM.
People talk about their totems, but this TOTM is something that is part of you.  You don't need to go anywhere except within to experience it.  And you are in total control of your TOTM and always will be!  And this is the very key to the solution of returning to your creative center, which is to take control of your TOTM and start showing thoughts that bring you back to a very creative place.
Because when you're back in your very creative space, you perform wonders!  Life becomes effortless because you are working from your center of power.
And this doesn't just affect you, it effects every person you meet.  You enter like a million watt lightbulb into a room.  Those people that are highly successful and happy, really don't have as much know how as knowledge of themselves.  They know, that they are destine to do something great as you've always felt you were to do as well!
But, we discount ourselves.  We show the "Just settle for what you can get!" movie in our TOTM over and over and over again.  We commit mental suicide of our dreams and aspirations.  The sad part is, we even glory in our self sabotaging behavior to elicit sympathy or empathy to whoever will listen as a substitute to success.

The 1st Key of In-Power-Mint:

Close your eyes after reading the how-to here and try this.  Find a time and place where you won't be disturbed.  As you sit there, bring your attention into this moment.  Bring your Was-ing, that person you were in the past into this moment.  Now bring your Will-be self from the future into this moment.  Now bring Worry-self, Always-self, Never-self and Gotta-self into this moment as well!  These are all bit players in your TOTM.  You're the director of the TOTM.  The owner of the TOTM.
Notice your breath, breathing in and breathing out.  As you breathe in, you draw in energy.  And as you breathe out, you release energy to the world.  If you combine thoughts from your favorite bit players into that in and out breath..., that's how the world sees and experiences you.
So, if your Worry-self has the stage and inner microphone, it puts worry thoughts into your breath stream of in and out.  If your Absolute-Rule-Maker-Gotta-self has the stage, you'll put your rules into the breath stream even if they don't make sense and eventually trap you in your own rules!
Imagine if you will, that you are drawing particles of dazzling light into your breath as you breathe in.  And you are are breathing out these dazzling light particles.  Just like the beginning of a snow storm where the flakes are slowly and gently falling, the dazzling light particles are gathering within you.  These particles contain such joy, such peace, such gentleness and kindness.  Just like in any snowfall, as you breathe, there soon is more and more and more dazzling particles gathering within you.  You begin to glow with the light of kindness and gentleness.  The dazzling light is filling you brighter and brighter and brighter!  Filling your entire body!  Each and every part of your body glows like a million suns from the dazzling light.  As you breathe out, this dazzling light pulses outward in all directions filling the room you're in.  Filling the house or building you're in.
Let this dazzling light glow in the purest of pure blinding brilliance of golden light.  Let it vibrate your body with a feeling of pure peace and completeness.  Let it vibrate you with the feeling of perfect and pure kindness and peaceful contentment.
Some of you might have intuitional flashes of other people faces while you're doing this practice.  Breathe in their dazzling light and then, breath out dazzling light right back to them.  As you do this, their dazzling light will increase into a brilliance of glorious golden light.

Open your eyes after a few deep breaths more of dazzling light and continue exchanging dazzling light with others as they come to mind.  It's your unconscious mind repairing and replacing negative connections to others as you continue breathing this way.  This is how we change the world.  One breath at a time.  One connection at a time.  One exchange of dazzling light at a time with each other.  Listen to your creative intuition now.  It will begin to guide you to where you're suppose to be to fulfill your purpose and achieve your success!

More keys will be given soon!

:D

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

Breathing for the relief of all sentient beings

There is a method of meditation/hypnosis that combines breathing, auto-suggestion, expectational hypnosis into a very smooth method of self-evolution.  It is known by the Tibetans as: Tonglen (Pron. Tong-Len).  Tonglen according to Wikipedia:  

"Tonglen (Tibetan: གཏོང་ལེན་; Wylie: gtong len) is Tibetan for 'giving and taking' (or, sending and taking), and it refers to a meditation practice found in Tibetan Buddhism.

In the practice, one visualizes taking onto oneself the suffering of others on the in-breath, and on the out-breath giving happiness and success all sentient beings.^[1] As such it is a training in altruism. The function of the practice is to:

• reduce selfish attachment
• increase a sense of renunciation
• create positive karma by giving and helping
• develop loving-kindness and bodhicitta
• it refers to all of the Six Perfections of giving, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration and wisdom, which are the practices of a Bodhisattva.

This practice is summarized in seven points, which are attributed to the great Indian Buddhist teacher Atisha Dipankara Shrijnana, born in 982 CE. They were first written down by Kadampa master Langri Tangpa (1054–1123). The practice became more widely known when Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje (1101–1175) summarized the points in his Seven Points of Training the Mind. This list of mind training (lojong) proverbs or 'slogans' compiled by Chekawa is often referred to as the Atisha Slogans.

H.H. The Dalai Lama, who is said to practise Tonglen every day, has said of the technique: "Whether this meditation really helps others or not, it gives me peace of mind. Then I can be more effective, and the benefit is immense".^[2] His Holiness offers a translation of the Eight Verses in his book The Path To Tranquility: Daily Meditations."

According to http://www.naljorprisondharmaservice.org/pdf/Tonglen.htm it is practiced by:

"In Tonglen practice, through our compassion, we take on (embrace without resistance) the various sufferings of all beings: their fear, hurt, frustration, pain, anger, guilt, bitterness, loneliness, doubt, rage, and so forth. In return, we give them our loving-kindness, happiness, peace of mind, well-being, healing, and fulfillment.

1) Sit quietly, calm the mind, and center yourself. Reflect on the immense suffering that all beings everywhere experience. Allow their suffering to open your heart and awaken your compassion. You may also choose to invoke the presence of all the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and enlightened beings, so that through their inspiration and blessing, compassion may be born in your heart. In this way, you are resting in bodhicitta—the enlightened nature of the mind. Bodhicitta, is an inexhaustible source of purity, generosity, and compassion.

2) Imagine in front of you, as clearly as possible, someone you care for who is suffering. Although this may be more challenging, you may also imagine someone you feel indifferent toward, someone you consider to be an enemy, or those who have hurt you or others. Open yourself to this person's suffering. Allow yourself to feel connected with him or her, aware of their difficulties, pain, and distress. Then, as you feel your heart opening in compassion toward the person, imagine that all of his or her suffering comes out and gathers itself into a mass of hot, black, grimy smoke.

3) Now, visualize breathing in this mass of black smoke, seeing it dissolve into the very core of your self-grasping (ego) at your heart center. There in your heart, it completely destroys all traces of fear and selfishness (self-cherishing) and purifies all of your negative karma.

4) Imagine, now that your fear, self-centeredness and negative karma has been completely destroyed, your enlightened heart (bodhicitta) is fully revealed. As you breathe out, imagine you are sending out the radiance of loving-kindness, compassion, peace, happiness, and well-being to this person. See this brilliant radiance purifying all of their negative karma. Send out any feelings that encourage healing, relaxation, and openness.

5) Continue this "giving and receiving" with each breath for as long as you wish. At the end of your practice, generate a firm inner conviction that this person has been freed of suffering and negative karma and is filled with peace, happiness and well-being. You may also wish to dedicate the merit and virtue of your practice to the benefit of all sentient beings.

Another Excellent Form of Tonglen

Clearly imagine a situation where you have acted badly, one about which you feel shameful or guilty, and which may be difficult to even think about. Then, as you breathe in, opening your heart, accept total responsibility for your actions in that particular situation. Do not judge or try to justify your behavior. Simply acknowledge exactly what you have done wrong and wholeheartedly ask for forgiveness. Now, as you breathe out, send the compassionate radiance of reconciliation, forgiveness, harmony, healing, and understanding. Breathe in the pain and the blame, and breathe out the undoing of harm. Breathe in taking full responsibility, breathe out the compassionate radiance of healing, forgiveness, and reconciliation. This exercise is especially powerful. It may give you the courage to go see the person(s) whom you have wronged and the strength and willingness to talk to them directly and actually ask for forgiveness from the depths of your heart.

Tonglen is a Practice and a Way of Life

Traditionally, we begin by doing Tonglen for someone we care about. However, we can use this practice at any time, either for ourselves or others. Tonglen can be done for those who are ill, those who are dying or have just died, or for those that are in pain of any kind. Tonglen can be done either as a formal meditation practice or right on the spot at any time. For example, if we encounter someone in pain, right on the spot we can begin to breathe in their pain and send out some relief. At any time, when we encounter our own emotional discomfort or suffering, or that of others, we open our heart and fully embrace what we are encountering on our in-breath. Breathing out, we offer the heartfelt radiance of acceptance, loving-kindness, and compassion. This is a practice and a way of life.

Practicing Tonglen on one friend in pain helps us begin the process of gradually widening the circle of our compassion. From there, we can learn to take on the suffering and purify the karma of all beings; giving others our happiness, well-being, joy, and peace of mind. Tonglen practice can extend indefinitely, and gradually, over time, our compassion will expand. We will find that we have a greater ability to be loving and present for ourselves and for others in even the most difficult situations. This is the wonderful goal of Tonglen practice, the path of the compassionate Bodhisattva."

Pema Chodron said it beautifully:

"In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

In particular, to care about other people who are fearful, angry, jealous, overpowered by addictions of all kinds, arrogant, proud, miserly, selfish, mean —you name it— to have compassion and to care for these people, means not to run from the pain of finding these things in ourselves. In fact, one's whole attitude toward pain can change. Instead of fending it off and hiding from it, one could open one's heart and allow oneself to feel that pain, feel it as something that will soften and purify us and make us far more loving and kind."

Tonglen practice is not only for others but for ourselves and the environment as well:

"1. Environmental Tonglen

This consists of sitting and feeling the ''mood and atmosphere'' of our mind. Let's say that the mood we are feeling is unease, and the atmosphere seems dark. We would breathe in this unease and darkness, absorbing it into ourselves. Then, we would breathe out peace and joy, thereby clearing and cleaning the atmosphere and environment of our mind.

2. Self Esteem

The self-esteem exercise begins by imagining ourselves as two people. One is ''whole, compassionate, warm, and loving, like a true friend, really willing to be there for you, responsive and open to you, without ever judging you, whatever your faults or shortcomings.'' The second is the aspect of ourselves that has negative emotions and ideas, the ''victim.'' This is the part that says ''Nobody understands me,'' or feels wronged by people or society.

Again, breathe in, but in this process you are the first person, the whole, compassionate one, breathing in and absorbing all of the other's pain and negativity. And as you breathe out, let the compassionate self send ''healing love, warmth, trust, comfort, confidence, happiness, and joy'' to the other part." -  http://spiritofmaat.com/archive/sep2/rinpoche.htm

I breathe for the release of all beings who suffer or lack as well as those who haven't turned to their true nature of kindness and compassion.

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

Emotions as the Actor Hypnosis

I love this Hypnotic induction.  Take one of your pet fears or hopes and trance-form it into an actor being interviewed in the movie house of your mind.  Much like how actors are interviewed on TV these days.  And simply start asking question of the actor representing your emotion or event.  Each emotion we have comes from a pure intent.  How it's translated by the emotions and made physical can be what we want or it can be behavior we'd like to change.

Using this simple method will reveal an amazing amount of information.  I had a client that wanted to find out why they habitually told fables.  So we used this method and she revealed that each time she told a fable, it was to build up her image to others and have them accept her.  This all came out from the actor representing the act of lying.  

And it's just that simple.  Once you become adept at using this method, you can use it with others to work through problems as well as achieve goals by eliminating blockages.  The only advice I'd give you using this method is not to beat yourself or anyone else up with the information you harvest.  Each of us is trying to make our way in the world the best way we know how.

Have fun with this one!

Thanks for your time  

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

Hypnotheraputic Lie detector methods

There are two actions occurring every moment a person is alive.  They are: Conscious and Unconscious actions.  Rarely are they linked together.  The conscious and unconscious mechanisms of the mind have independent agendas.  The unconscious mechanism is concerned with coordinating the sympathetic, parasympathetic, autonomic and central nervous systems.  Keeping the heart beating, the diaphragm moving to cause respiration and all the fluids of the body in balance.  This a very complicated and demanding job for that part of our mental software!

The conscious mechanism has the ability via the conscious filter mechanism, to delete, distort and generalize information it processes.  In other words, it can fool itself and others!  This is a safety mechanism to deal with events and situations that the conscious mind has no other coping process to employ for that event.  Once that coping process is learned and made functional, the conscious mind has no need to distort, generalize or delete any information for that event.

The unconscious mind doesn't have such a luxury.  It can't for example, try to fool the heart by not firing another impulse to the vagus nerve which controls heart rate, gastrointestinal peristalsis, sweating, and quite a few muscle movements in the mouth, including speech (via the recurrent laryngeal nerve) and keeping the larynx open for breathing (via action of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle, the only abductor of the vocal folds). It also has some afferent fibers that innervate the inner (canal) portion of the outer ear, via the Auricular branch (also known as Alderman's nerve) and part of the meninges. This explains why a person may cough when tickled on their ear (such as when trying to remove ear wax with a cotton swab). 

An interesting idiomatic response occurs as the conscious mind tries to represent something untrue, it tells on the person!  Have you ever noticed someone saying something like: "I didn't have sex with that women..." at the same time shaking their head up and down as if to say Yes when they should be wagging their heads to confirm no they didn't have sex with that women?  Poker players call this action a "Tell."  Whereby you do the opposite body language from what the mouth is saying or a bodily tick that occurs as you do the opposite action.

In hypnotherapy, we use what is known as rapport to move with our clients and thereby try to emulate in ourselves, what our clients are feeling and/or thinking.  Hypnotherapist study rapport to a fine level to both read and induct their clients into deeper states of trance.
Using the idiomatic response, we can have a conversation with both the conscious mechanism and the unconscious mechanism of ones mental software.

Note, there's no such thing in the physical mind as a conscious or subconscious axion or neuron.  There are however, only the connections that those axion and neurons make in composing the software routines we all use everyday.  But, as Dr. Milton Erickson MD points out, there are mechanisms/programs that we use that seem to be individual and distinct components.

These conversations with the conscious and unconscious mind allow hypnotherapist and psychotherapist to determine where Cognitive dissonance is occurring.  Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously.  This "holding" resides in the conscious and unconscious mechanisms.

This process of having a conversation with both the conscious and unconscious mind has been demonstrated in the recent discovery of the Reverse Speech methods.  Reverse Speech, as used by David John Oates is explained as; during spoken language production, human speakers subconsciously produce hidden messages that give insight into their inner thoughts.  This new set of methods have been tried on patients in combination with sodium pentothal with remarkable results!  Patients lowered their inhibitions and were compelled to reveal both in forward speech (what we all normally hear in conversation) and reverse speech (i.e., playing the recording backward) hearing hidden message that the unconscious mind wanted to say.  This process has been used on criminal suspects during lie detector sessions with surprising results of the criminal confessing against themselves unaware.  I suspect that methods such as these will eventually be used in background investigations rather than having some poor investigator march all over the world trying to verify someones background.
With the advent of eMRI and the identification of firing patterns of the physical mind being mapped to speech and emotion, it won't be long before we have yet another way to reveal ones thoughts against ones will.

Thank you for your time,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices

Anodynic Hypnosis - Breath Pacing Rapport technique

There are many ways to hypnotize your clients. Everything from the wildly popular Fractional Relaxation; whereby you lead your client to consciously relax everything step by step from their toes all the way up to the tips of their hair.

Any hypnotist worth their salt also knows, that if you don't establish rapport with your client before the session, you'll have a very rough time relaxing anyone!

Rapport is one of the most important features or characteristics of unconscious human interaction. It is commonality of perspective: being "in sync" with, or being "on the same wavelength" as the person with whom you are talking.

There are a number of techniques that are supposed to be beneficial in building rapport such as: matching your body language (ie, posture, gesture, and so forth); maintaining eye contact; and matching breathing rhythm. Some of these techniques are explored in neuro-linguistic programming.

A classic if unusual example of rapport can be found in the book Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley, about the psychotherapeutic intervention techniques of Milton Erickson. Erickson developed the ability to enter the world view of his patients and, from that vantage point (having established rapport), he was able to make extremely effective interventions (to help his patients overcome life problems).

Breath Pacing Rapport technique is a very powerful method of combining synchronization of breathing with your client and delivering your suggestions on one or both sides of the breath cycle. And this technique is a favorite of mine! The rules for it's use are very simple.

1. MIrror the posture and respiration of your client. If they are breathing fast, you breathe at the same speed. If they are breathing slow, do the same. As you deliver your suggestions you can slow down or speed up the breathing when you've taken over the lead in pacing your client.

2. If you want to raise the energy and thereby energize your client, speak on the inhalation part of their breath cycle.

3. If you want to relax them, speak on the exhalation part of their cycle.

4. If you want to make a point, pick a point to stare at such as a point on their head or on the wall just behind them and speak on whatever part of the breath cycle you're working with (e.g., raising or relaxing energy).

Now some other points are:

1. If you want to anchor a statement when you're making a point. Just raise the pitch or lower the pitch of your voice. You can alternatively use a louder or softer tone as well to anchor the point. Or snap your fingers, clap your hands! Anything to mark the point!

2. Ask a rhetorical obvious questions: Don't you want to feel more peaceful and fulfilled right now? Of course you do!

3. Provide easy to remember rhymes to your point: Everyday in every way you'll always feel better and better won't you?

4. Dr. Milton Erickson stated that we love anything with "ing" and "ee": This is the most relaxing state you can achieve! You don't have to be push-ee about self-hypnosis.

Conversational Hypnosis uses all of these rules including:

1. Either/or rules,

2. Splitting alternatives,

3. Time and scale choices,

4. Double and Triple TDS.

I'll write more about these in the next article.

Have fun with Breath Pacing Rapport with your friends. Decide before hand what suggests you want to add into your point statements and let the breath deliver them effortlessly and easily.

Thank you for your time to share this,

Mike Addison MH.t., MA.t
AnodynicHypnosis@gmail.com - Contact me for session prices