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Let’s see if this helps make any sense . . .
This is the psychiatrist Brad worked with…it’s OK she’s accredited.
In the 1980s, while working closely with a psychiatrist and some of his patients he stated that some of what I was saying to them bordered on hypnosis. I was somewhat defensive about it; and he said something that was startling at the time, that is, that we are all in hypnotic trances, somewhat continually and what I was doing could be construed as breaking one trance and replacing it with another.
He also said that I was one of the few people he trusted to use hypnosis because I had no agenda. I didn’t understand completely what he was saying at the time, particularly when he had explained that he no longer used hypnosis in therapy because it had proved dangerous for some patients with emotional/mental disturbances.
His reasoning about my use of hypnosis (if that’s what it was) was both technical and theological and which is far too involved to get into in this, hopefully, brief article. However, along the lines of self-hypnosis and post-hypnotic suggestion AND understanding that, according to studies at Vanderbilt and other institutions, all of us are continually (intermittently) in a state of hypnosis.
You can’t play if you can’t see them.
I often tell a story that was presented to me as a true experience by a clinical psychologist who became involved with the psychiatrist and me, during putting together a specific project:
A client of his had been hypnotized in a stage presentation, during which the demonstration included the suggestion that all the aces in a brand new deck of playing cards were removed. The hypnotist instructed her to break the seal and open five brand-new decks, one by one and, sure enough, she could see no aces!
He then had volunteers come up out of the audience and look through each deck and challenged them to try to persuade her that the aces were indeed in each deck. She, of course, argued intensely that there were no aces and this was part of the trick and the volunteers were part of his deception.
Later, in his office, the client insisted that she could still not see any aces in any deck of cards and it eventually caused a total mental breakdown he told me.
You can write your own story.
Is the story true? I only know that it was told to me with a seeming complete sincerity and this psychologist also affirmed that hypnosis can be dangerous for certain people.
I was just reflecting on an e-mail received a few days ago about the HIDDEN secret behind the box in the movie The Secret in the scene where one of the people sat crying after opening a box and finding a picture he had put away in it.
When his son asked him why he was sad, the father explained he was crying in happiness because the picture was very close in detail to the house they actually lived in.
That e-mail opened the door for me to see a phenomenal tool for those who believe that The Law of Attraction and The Secret have some validity, but can’t seem to make either work for them in positive ways.
I want Your will, even unto death.
The “transformational coach” sending the e-mail has a world-wide following, so I feel no compulsion to credit him with the idea, other than to insist that it didn’t originate with me. Instead of a box, he suggested that pictures or affirmations be sealed in an envelope and presto all sorts of good things come to pass. Hundreds of testimonials accompanied the video linked to his e-mail.
How I’m suggesting the tool be used is all in your mind AFTER making a “safety declaration” that my publisher and I both practice; my application of which is, “I want God’s will unto the death of every other desire and ambition.”
The reason I do this is because my declared purpose, while in this body I occupy and which body, I insist, is not “me” – is to carry out the will and purposes of I AM of which I AM a part or “particle” with the authorization to say, “Before there was a ‘Brad Cullen’ or anything else, I AM.”
Just try it, ask questions later.
Before you adjudge me as having lost my bearings I contend that is your true identity as well and this suggestion is just one way of discovering it! How I came to this is also too involved to include in this already longer-than-I’d-hoped-to-be article.
Back to how I AM already using this new tool. Every desire (after what could be called, “the blessing,” the above referenced “safety declaration”), goes into an imagined envelope which I also imagine that I seal. After doing this just two days ago and, for the first time, with something I had given up and rationalized that it would be too much work to carry out anyway – I received a telephone call last night with not only what I had sealed in the envelope, but the way to do it with almost NO effort!
I just asked what else needed to be added – and I AM laughing happily – there is a secret HIDDEN in my shared and suggested use of this tool which I hadn’t realized until just this moment – which adds additional power – I had totally released all thought of wanting it and had even logically rationalized that it would be too much work anyway!
After the phone call, which referenced an e-mail with more details, I realized, further, how much better this was coming to fruition than my original idea! It was as if I had sealed and mailed the envelope to the universe which had removed all the imagined work and effort – which has been replaced with the trust that I will be led step-by-step through the process. What now?
Visit www.youwithoutlimits.life, click on the contact tab, enter your name and best e-mail address and in the comments box type in: HANDBOOK and you will receive your own FREE PDF copy of the YWL handbook for facilitators of small groups (we are all facilitators and co-learners), the group you facilitate can even be all in your own mind helping you remove the limits created by preconceived ideas of hard work and effort (at least that’s how it just worked for me)!
– Brad Cullen