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ISHI Course Generates InspirationBy Jenny Knowles
The International Spiritual Hypnotherapy Institute recently completed another round of its Hypnotherapy Certification course. The success and growth of the graduates beamed upon their faces on the day of graduation. This course is a life changing experience. During this most recent round, I was privileged to be invited to audit the course. I was reminded of the changes that had happened in my own space the first time I had been in the course, as they came up in my life again. My experience was one of a phenomenal increase in inspiration and creativity. I had forgotten what a joy life can be when you are inspired, especially when you are inspired in an area where you are helping others, and win-win situations abound.
Throughout the course students are encouraged by the instructors, Angela Silva and Debi Livingston, to allow their creativity to flow. Their talent to foster invalidated or latent abilities of the students is one of the major benefits of the course. Angela and Debi, through use of a curriculum based upon "learning by doing", repeatedly generate experiences of students achieving that which they previously believed they could not do. The following is the result of my own inspiration from taking the course. It is loosely based upon the idea of "Teaching Tales" made famous by noted hypnotherapist Milton Erickson. He healed people through the use of ordinary stories and their effects upon the subconscious mind. Who's Driving? Have you ever seen those neat remote control cars that kids play with? Well, when I was a child, my brother always had the neatest electric remote control toys, and he never let me play with them. I could only sit and watch. One day, when I was a little older, a group of my friends went to a very big, fun arcade for a special occasion. It was someone's birthday. And the big attraction of this arcade was a miniature size race track for remote control cars. I was fascinated.
I could hardly wait until we had all been given our cars and our remote controls so I could start driving myself. No more would I have to sit around watching my brother or the older kids have all the fun. It was now my turn. The track even had its own start light. Everyone watched the countdown: Red... orange... yellow... green!!! And they were off! It was sorta obvious from the beginning that there were kids who had come to the arcade many times and had lots of practice. And others went slower. Before the race began I presumed that from all the time I had spent watching my brother and his friends that I would be one of the very best drivers. I watched a new, shiny green car speed around the turns. I was into it. After a few minutes, I noticed the car not always following my directions exactly. Sometimes the car would take a turn sooner than I directed it to. I began to test it. I directed my car to slow down. It didn't. I tried zigzagging the steering, and the car didn't respond. At about this time, my closest friend, one with much more experience at the track than I, had come over to see how I was doing. He had already noticed that the car I had been assigned, a blue car, had been derailed for quite some time, sputtering in circles when it hadn't been crashing into the wall. Very gently he allowed me to see the truth.
I was humbled in my mistake. I was even more humbled when I began to consciously drive the car I had been assigned, and was not very good with the controls. I was ready to give up. It seemed too hard, too complicated. But my friend stood by quietly, patiently, saying nothing when I wanted to quit. After a few minutes of letting the sting of the truth pass, I could not resist trying again, because I knew what fun I could have. My friend, having weathered many, many more experiences than I, was nearby, ready with direction and encouragement when he saw I was ready to learn. The first thing to learn was to begin slowly. This was not easy, as I was convinced I was Speed Racer until just a few moments ago. But the repetitive crashes I experienced showed there was no other way. I was now ready to listen to the direction of my friend. At first I seemed very conscious of my efforts, slowing almost to a stop to maneuver every turn. And then, ...finally! I successfully completed one full round of the track without a single crash. It had seemed like it had taken hours to accomplish, but in reality it was only a few moments. I was elated. I turned to my friend, but he had stepped away. I celebrated myself, realizing that my friend knew I could easily achieve this task all along. I set myself upon my driving once again. Another loop, and then another and another were completed without any crashes. What fun it was! I even began to explore my own driving style. Simply learning as I went along.
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