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I'm (slowly, too slowly) working on just that myself, Marianne. I need to get my ASL skills back up to speed, but once that's done, it's just a matter of using an eyes-open trance and using sign language to communicate. Or, if you don't know sign la…
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James, your story reminds me of something a coworker who was also a SCAdian said he did during combat. His persona was a Spanish something or other and he'd recite obscure Spanish poetry all during the fight. Not quite a pattern interrupt like the o…
November 13
As far as the pupil size goes, I know that when you are looking at something you dislike, your pupils contract. And when you're looking at something you like, they dilate. And it responds to thoughts and imagination as well ... so perhaps you can ho…
November 13
This is a subject potentially important to me and my wife. We got pregnant earlier this year but had a miscarriage early on. And of course, subsequent attempts haven't taken. I'd agree with everyone who mentions stress and relaxing. My wife is stre…
November 13
You're not a dummy, Doreen. Most people don't know what you've learned from this. I fell prey to the same mistake myself; I used to own the domain firegold.net and had a site hosted there. The hosting company one day disappeared off the face of the…
November 13
I agree with everyone here, essentially. Speed Trance and Instant Inductions are cut from the same cloth, in my opinion; however, Speed Trance is perhaps better branding. ;) It makes me think, well, of John's products and style, whereas "instant" ma…
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Hometown:
Rochester Hills, MI
Hypnosis Experience:
Currently Studying, Part Time Practice
What are you looking for on this site?
Networking, discussion, learning, marketing
About Me:
I am a budding hypnotherapist (certified and member of the IACT and still learning as well), getting my practice up and going. I've long been interested in how the mind works in general, and hypnosis in particular. I chose Linguistics to get a BA in because it was one point all or most of my other interests had in common. I'm also a writer of poetry and fantasy and used to be a moderator on Forward Motion, probably the biggest community writing site on the Net.

I'm also a really fun guy. Honest.
Hobbies:
Hypnosis (no, really?), martial arts, computers, reading, writing, rock collecting, hiking (more like nature walks, but still), NLP, psychology, linguistics
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http://firegoldhypnosis.com
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Joshua Johnston

Letting go the past

I was listening to the radio today and heard something that sparked an idea in me. There was a speaker talking about how to be "calm, cool and collected," and she mentioned the fact that we tend to wallow in the past. We revel in how miserable we are because we hurt our friends' feelings or we didn't stick to our diet or ...

In other words, we don't move on.

We stay stuck in the past, forever reliving and re-experiencing what is most likely no longer an issue for anyone else. And then we wonde… Continue

Posted on October 27, 2009 at 11:33am — 3 Comments

Joshua Johnston

Deaf and hard of hearing hypnosis

I've been working on an idea for hypnosis for the Deaf and hard of hearing and need willing victi--er, subjects for live or webcam sessions. If any of you know anyone that might need hypnosis or just want to experience hypnosis, send 'em my way!

I would greatly appreciate it.

Joshua

Posted on September 17, 2009 at 8:22am — 3 Comments

Joshua Johnston

Phone/Skype client today

So I have a phone client today, requesting help with weight loss issues. We had our first phone session last week, doing just general/intro work, and it went well, albeit a bit oddly for me. His microphone wasn't working, so I had no feedback during the trance part of the session; not until he came out of trance and used the chat area of Skype again did I have any sense of how it went.

Bit odd for me, but it worked out well enough.

Today begins the "real" work, and to prepare, I went to resear… Continue

Posted on September 3, 2009 at 8:51am — 6 Comments

Joshua Johnston

What a day

So yesterday my wife checks her email and finds 18 transactions from PayPal for $150 each. After the initial dread and shock wears off, she disputes them all with PayPal (which had already frozen her account) and I open a ticket at the company all the money went to.

She plays some games by Zynga on Facebook and all the transactions were for "5M chips at $150" to Zynga.

With all that done and with it looking like we caught it in time for it to not hit the actual bank, we go about our day. Then… Continue

Posted on August 24, 2009 at 5:52am — 4 Comments

Joshua Johnston

Quack like a duck?

A couple days ago, I was presented with a brilliant example of why having a good pretalk always handy is essential. There's a radio show in our area, a christian talk show, and the host did a segment on hypnosis. "Should Christians do it?"

His main issue was "loss of control" and a couple hypnotists called in to discuss it with him. Neither of them, I felt, did a terribly good job of handling his objection.

He even, at one point, asked "Could you make me, I don't know, quack like a duck?"

I w… Continue

Posted on August 21, 2009 at 10:22am — 3 Comments

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At 5:26pm on August 25, 2009, Sheila M. Street, CH CI T.NLP said…
Hi Joshua:

Thanks for the friend invite, and the nifty advice on my blog, too. Sorry to hear about your woes with the money rip-off - one reason I've avoided getting tangled up in Facebook so far. Hope your week straightens itself out soon.

Sheila
At 12:32pm on August 25, 2009, Chris Witherspoon said…
Welcome to Script Bank. I hope you find it helpful.

Chris
At 6:05pm on April 23, 2009, Brian David Phillips said…
Yes, the SET is accepting GHS for CEUs . . . many of the SET instructors were presenters as well.
At 1:51pm on October 14, 2008, ShantiShanti said…

please reference personal message - thanks for your reply!
Shanti
At 11:51am on October 14, 2008, ShantiShanti said…
Hi Joshua -

I'm in Northern Oakland county and currently studying. I wonder what IACT is??? How is your practice growing/going here??? Luck, love and light to you!

Shanti
At 5:31pm on October 9, 2008, Robert Kirk said…
There is another group that meets up once a month here, has a pretty good turn out too. Email me and I will give you the details. rckirk@openmindshypnotherapy.com
At 11:09am on October 9, 2008, Robert Kirk said…
Hey Joshua,
Have you opened up shop here in MI yet? I was just wondering how it was going for you.

-Robert
At 2:01pm on September 23, 2008, Christopher Bolger said…
Hello Joshua! I remember you from Igor's CH website in the forums! It's great seeing you again, can't wait to discuss points of covert hypnosis with you in the future.

-Chris
At 9:15pm on August 7, 2008, Amanda Irvine said…
Thank you, You know when i posted the question I did it not really careing if people told me to stop! Get training first. But you made some great points. Those who did it first didn't have fancy letters or perhaps half the information available now. I feel that I do have a strong foundation in hypnosis as it is one of my biggest fasinations in life. Unfortuntly the support of fellow hypnotits in my area is lets just say on the lacking side, being there really isn't any. However I have found this site increadable useful and a lot of the people very generous with their words of incouragement and for this I am very thankful..
Thanks again for your response
Amanda
At 12:02pm on July 2, 2008, Doreen Cohanim C.Ht said…
That is a good start :)
Good luck, Doreen
 
 

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