Next Meeting
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
7:00 p.m. SHARP
Topic: Pump Up Your
Practice… NOW!!
Presenter: Sandi Graves, CH
Location:
HomeTown Buffet
(On the
Please no
dining during the meeting.
Click here for driving directions
We’ll
save you a seat!!
Presenter
Sandi Graves, CH
Presentation:
Pump Up Your Practice… NOW!
Give yourself a FREE New Year’s Gift!
TIME and ENERGY really are FREE… when you know how to make them work for
you.
Learn how to enhance your client base without draining your pocketbook
or your energy. No matter how long you have been at it…
It might be time for you to add some pizzaz and energy to your business
or personal life.
Sandi Graves, CH, created a profitable and successful hypnotism practice in just a
couple of months and she is excited to share some of her techniques and tricks
with you.
From Sandi:
Has
your business slowed down… or are you not making the kind of money that you
want? I’m going to show you how you can
do both, and for FREE or very little money, get your business running in the
black.
Many
hypnotists have said the recession has slowed down their business. If that’s true, then you now have more time
and energy to spend on fine tuning the business side of your practice. Even if you’ve been in the business for a
long time, you just might pick up on one fresh new idea and ultimately pick up
the pace in your business and bring in more money in 2010.
You
can expand your practice by following just one or two of the ideas I will
present at the ASPH January 5, 2010 meeting.
Sandi’s presentation will
include the following Tips & Techniques:
·
Opening
a second office (how I did it for FREE)
·
Using synergy to increase your client base.
·
Understanding
“presence” for creating riveting marketing ideas.
·
Providing
simple, inexpensive business packet ideas.
·
Delivering
office information.
·
Getting
customers thru the door.
·
Increasing
self-motivation.
BONUS!!!
One lucky person will receive a FREE PRIZE!
Tuesday Meetings: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Free for
Members)*
Certificates &C. E. U. Credit Hours Awarded for
Attendance**
(2 credits per meeting attended)
UPCOMING TOPICS
& PRESENTERS
February
2010 – To Be Announced
March 2010
– To Be Announced
December 1, 2009
Minutes from the December 1,
2009 Meeting/Holiday Party
Since this was the ASPH
Holiday Party meeting, members and their guests gathered at the Home Town
Buffet restaurant an hour earlier than usual, at 6 PM.
After dinner, President
Robert J. O’Connor wished everyone a very happy holiday season and announced the
new slate of officers for 2010:
President Robert
O’Connor
Vice-President Sandi
Graves
Secretary Tim Paulson
Treasurer Sylvia Shelton
Statutory Agent* Carol Adler
*Permanent position
Robert expressed the regrets of both Tim Paulson and Sylvia Shelton that they
were unable to attend the party because of business and family obligations,
respectively.
On behalf of ASPH, Robert
expressed his deepest gratitude to
The meeting proceeded with
the annual holiday gift-giving “Purple Elephant” exchange with ASPH member and
past president, Alan Handelsman serving as master of ceremonies. As always, it
was a hilarious and highly enjoyable celebration.
Before the conclusion of the
meeting, Robert announced that the January 5, 2010 meeting presenter will be
Sandi Graves, CHt, who will “move us into the New Year with new energy and lots
of ideas for revving up our practices.”
The meeting/ party ended at
8:30 PM.
ASPH 2010 OFFICERS
President: Robert O’Connor
-- rjocstar@juno.com
Vice-President: Sandi
Graves – sandi@arizonafamilyhypnosis.com
Secretary: Tim Paulson – asph@live.com
Treasurer: Sylvia
Shelton - sushelton@hotmail.com
Statutory Agent and
Parliamentarian: Carol Adler – info@caroladler.com
The ASPH Website
www.hypnosisaz.com/ is the domain
for
Attention All Practicing Hypnotherapists:
If
you wish to have your contact information listed on the ASPH website followed
by a brief paragraph, 300 words maximum, kindly send this written information (MS
Word Document) to Tim Paulson, ASPH Secretary, by email at asph@live.com as soon as possible.
Thank
you!
" Notes from the Statutory Agent:
Carol Adler: "
We look forward to seeing you at our monthly
meetings. If you have any questions about ASPH, please don’t hesitate to
contact us at asph@live.com.
Also, if you need copies of the ASPH By-Laws,
Constitution and Code of Ethics or would
like information on the Hypnosis Arizona State Regulations, kindly contact us by email and we will send
them as MS Word attachments.
A reminder … The cut-off date to add
event information to the monthly newsletter is the 14th of the month
following the last meeting, or at the mid-point of the month before the next
meeting. Please submit your event information on or before that date via email
to asph@live.com.
Visitors and guests are welcome to attend two meetings free of
charge, after which they are invited to join ASPH. They also have the option of
paying a $5.00 fee for each month attended thereafter. Spouses and partners of
members are considered part of the ASPH and have free meeting privileges.
C.E.U Credits for National
Guild of Hypnotists are submitted for Members only.
If you wish to become a member, please contact:
Treasurer – Sylvia Shelton – sushelton@hotmail.com
Please see our website at www.hypnosisaz.com/ or contact Statutory Agent,
William Pearlman
Julie Jones
Dewayne Shelton
Jannette Edwards
If you would like to have your birthday date added
to the ASPH list, please send us that information (your name and birthday month
and day) Asph@live.com, so we can celebrate with you!! J
Member Newsletter
Announcements should be approximately 1/4 page and ready to cut and paste
into the newsletter. All newsletter announcements must be directly connected to enhancing
hypnosis techniques and therapies or serve as a support to the business and
profession of hypnosis and hypnotherapy.
~oo00oo~
Would
like to make an announcement and cordially invite you all to come listen to
Dick Sutphen CHt...
as
a guest on my radio show, coming up on January 11th.
Will
be streamed live at www.ztalkradio.com The show is called Our Worlds.
We will be on the air from 3-5 Pacific
Time.
We will be taking calls and chatting with Dick about his
practice and his books.
Call in number will be 602-910-4492.
Look forward to having you come and visit with us!
Elizabeth Dye CHt
~oo00oo~
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Non
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Many professional, working stage performers of today
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Monthly
Networking Meeting
If you would like to discuss
building your practice, or any other hypnosis related topics over dinner,
please
plan on arriving at the Home Town Buffet about 6:00pm. Join us in the NW corner
of the dining room for a
relaxed, casual, and stimulating dinner conversation of subjects important to
us all.
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NETWORKING
The following members are
available to easily network among ASH members. If you would like to have your contract
information included in this list of ASPH members, please email (asph@live.com ) with your name, phone number and email address.
Sherry Bertram bertshr@yahoo.com 602-920-3281
Rebekah Costello hypno-sister@hotmail.com 602 316-8561
Sandi Graves sandi@arizonafamilyhypnosis.com
480-628-5436
Phil Hamilton phil@trancepathways.com 602-330-6886
Alan Handelsman alanhand@aol.com 602-478-8346
Robert
(Bob) LaBine labine28@cox.net 480-948-8673
Robert
J. O’Connor rjocstar@juno.com
602-593-4006
Susan Poznanski smf85308@q.com
602-843-8835
Martha
Reed martha@insightsforlife-coach.com 623 249-5888
Tina Sacchi Tina@TinaSacchi.com 623-261-6167
Cheryle
Timbrook Azrltr218@aol.com 480-201-7723
Some Links
to Professional Association Websites
The
International Hypnosis Research Institute
International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy
Association
International
Association of Counselors & Therapists
International Hypnosis Federation
International Association for Regression Research
& Therapies Inc.
American Hypnosis
Association - AHA
Transpersonal Hypnotherapy Institute
Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis (AAEH)
Social & Professional Networking on the Internet:
Create your own free hypnosis
“lenses” at Squidoo! www.squidoo.com
Read any good articles about hypnosis in
a magazine or on the web lately?
Think it’s one that others in our organization would find interesting?
Email a copy or link to the article to
our secretary at asph@live.com to be
included in our next newsletter.
Here’s a great article from Ode Magazine provided by Carol Adler:
Replacing Pain Killers With Hypnosis
By Ursula Sautter, Ode
Magazine
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/replacing-pain-killers-with-hypnosis.html
Alexis Makris, a 19-year-old
hairdresser’s apprentice from
Of course, Makris is jogging
down that sandy strand only in his mind. His body is stretched out on a
reclining chair in the
Increasingly, dentists,
physicians and surgeons are using hypnosis to replace, or at least reduce, the
use of painkillers as well as general and local anesthetics. Hypnosis may not
be the method of choice for major operations, but for a growing number of
procedures ranging from kidney stone fragmentation to minor surgery to
childbirth it has proved an effective alternative to conventional sedatives and
analgesics. Hypnosis is real, says psychiatrist David Spiegel, a professor in
the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University
School of Medicine. It’s no less palpable an analgesic than medication.
Many people are allergic to
painkillers and anesthetics, so hypnosis is a crucial option for them. But
hypnosis can also help prevent or reduce unwanted side effects. Makris, for
example, doesn’t have a numb or swollen cheek. It’s the injection of
anesthetics itself that disturbs the circulation and causes the tissue to swell,
explains Schmierer, president of the German Society for Dental Hypnosis. People
plagued by fear of needles or fear of going to the dentist also benefit from
hypnotherapy, he adds.
Studies have confirmed these
and other effects. Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, an anesthetist at
Hypnosis from the Greek word
hypnos, meaning sleep was used as medical treatment as far back as the ancient
Greeks. In mid-19th-century
Contrary to popular belief,
people under hypnosis can’t be made to do things they wouldn’t normally do.
They are simply in a state of highly focused attention, with a constriction in
peripheral awareness and heightened responsiveness to social cues, Stanford
School of Medicine’s Spiegel explains. It is most similar to the everyday state
of becoming so absorbed in a good movie or a novel that one enters the imagined
world and suspends awareness of the usual one. While this condition lasts, a
patient may feel distanced from his surroundings but can still actively cancel
the trance at all times if conditions make that seem necessary, Schmierer says.
So how do you put someone in
such a state of mind? In Makris’ case, he lays down on the reclining chair and
Schmierer starts with gentle conversation about how he feels slightly nervous
and how he slept the previous night quite well, thank you. Then Schmierer
raises his finger and asks Makris to focus on it while he breathes slowly. Once
his finger touches Makris’ forehead, Schmierer says, you will be in hypnosis.
Then the dentist and his
wife, Gudrun, a psychologist who sits next to Makris during the procedure,
weave a gentle web of suggestions. Raise your left hand, they say in slow, low
voices. It will become cool and numb, just like your jaw. Imagine your right
arm is a lightning rod and send all negative sensations out through its
fingertips. Your mouth now feels like it’s filled with ice cubes. You’re moving
farther and farther away from all this, out of this room, out of this moment,
to a wonderful place where you do what you want to do.
Makris’ eyes close, his
breathing slows and his muscles relax. When he opens his mouth, the 10-minute
extraction procedure begins. All the while, Schmierer and his wife continue to
talk, commenting on the sounds that come and go and sensations like the prick
of the dental implement that simply feels like a toothpick. When Makris appears
distressed by the pressure of the forceps used to pull out his tooth they urge
him to go into a deeper trance. And he does because, he says, I wanted to get
away from it all. After the tooth is out, Schmierer finishes with several
useful suggestions to improve the healing process, and the awakening phase
begins.
New imaging techniques have
recently started to reveal what occurs under hypnosis, and why pain that would
otherwise lead to severe discomfort becomes bearable. Using functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) scans, Sebastian Schulz-Stubner and his team at
Not everybody can profit from
medical hypnosis, however. As a general rule, Schmierer cautions, hypnosis
shouldn’t be used with people suffering from severe depression or psychiatric
disorders, since they may be less able to differentiate between reality and
hypnotic suggestion. Hypnosis isn’t recommended for people under the influence
of alcohol either, or in cases where there hasn’t been a proper medical
diagnosis. And then there’s the roughly 5 to 10 percent of the population that
can only be hypnotized with great difficulty, Schmierer says, because of a lack
of imagination and an inability to concentrate or plain suspicion of the
procedure.
Although the number of
dentists, physicians and psychotherapists who employ hypnosis is growing, it
will take quite some time before the technique goes mainstream, according to
Eric Vermetten, president of the Netherlands-based International Society of
Hypnosis. What we need is for it to become a part of the medical curriculum, he
argues, and for such bodies as the World Health Organization to recognize its
use for certain indications. Until that happens, the circle of patients who,
like Makris, can profit from hypnosis will remain comparatively small. It’s
sad, says Vermetten. Hypnosis can do so much good with so little.