There seems to be some misunderstanding about what a person can be made to do when under hypnosis. I have actually seen sites on the web that insist you can get anyone to do anything with it and I even saw a post on a forum once from a young man who insisted he got a girl to have sex with him by using it. I can assure you that it’s not possible to make this happen. No matter how deep the trance, the person will absolutely refuse to do anything that is against their ethical code or their morality or self interest.

Believe me, movies like the Manchurian Candidate or the Bourne series irritate me because people believe what they see and movies like these spread dis-information, making my job harder. In the Bourne series, at least they have Jason Bourne overcoming the programming he suffered from. You see, it really is not possible to make someone do something against their will. In the case of that young man, I think the girl in question must have been willing, though subconsciously. I have been a hypnotherapist for over 30 years and in my experience, what I have said is absolutely true. Besides, if you have to resort to hypnosis to get what you want, what kind of person does that make you?

If there is something you most want in your life and you haven’t been able to manifest it, hypnosis can be a huge benefit in helping you to open to receiving it. Sometimes though you need a little extra help. Try asking yourself the following questions, one at a time, closing your eyes in between to meditate on the answer.

1) If this were in my life now, what would it change?

2) What do I need to adjust within myself in order for this wish to manifest?

3) What is preventing me from achieving my wish now?

4) What do I need to do to create, manifest and embrace my wish?

5) Is there anything else I need to know?

It’s beneficial to sit with the answers for a day or two, allowing your inner wisdom to reach your awareness. It will help you understand and use the energy in the way right for you. This is another useful aspect of the Law of Attraction. Used in conjunction with daily self hypnosis, imagine the possibilities!

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily” …….Zig Ziglar

Change is something that happens in our lives naturally, whether we like it or not. Some of us don’t handle change as well as others. Others are happy to be making the changes in their lives but we only fear it.

Unfortunately, fear can be a paralyzing emotion and feeling. It can make us afraid to do anything and we simply stand still. What we fear most is the unknown. Most of the time, with any type of change we can’t predict the outcome and this is scary, so we fear it. One of the givens in life is change and we can choose to fear it or we can face it head on and turn our fears into positive thoughts for a positive outcome.

Realistically, change is not so much about handling something new and different as it is about making those new and different things a choice, owning them as your own. The best way to conquer these fears is by taking control, having a positive mindset and taking charge in a manner that says it is your choice to change. Get help with this with my hypnosis CD called “Succeed Joyously“, offered on my shopping cart.

You can help yourself make change your choice by also planning out everything. Keep a notebook or journal and outline what you plan on doing to handle a specific change in your life. Set long term and short term goals for yourself. Face your fears on a regular basis and you will soon wonder what made you so nervous. You will see that you are no longer facing the unknown. Another self hypnosis CD that will help is “Goal Manifestation“, also on my shopping cart. Make change your choice!

The Will to Learn CD can change your life by programming your mind to absorb whatever information you need to succeed. If you were to go through the Seven Keys to Self Actualization, the Diamond Key is a more in-depth form of hypnotic regression, which removes all blocks to your personal and/or business success by going back to each incident in your life in which your reactions caused you to accept and expect failure instead of striving for success. Through hypnotic regression, each such incident can be relived in a positive way. The negative evaluation of an authority figure (teacher, parent, etc) is transformed from a prohpesy of failure into a challenge to succeed.

Failure is stressful and draining. The salesman who loses a deal by radiating nervousness and using poor communication techniques uses up more energy than does the positive person whose enthusiasm for his product is so contagious that his customer can’t wait to buy it. Let go of failure images. Even if failure happens, use it as a learning experience.

Other Diamond Key sessions are aimed at the development of specific techniques for accomplishing each client’s individual goals. Time management, goal setting, goal manifestation and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) are among the skills covered. NLP is one of the most effective tools for communicating in both business and personal life. It enables you to speak to another person in the exact same language he is thinking in….audio, visual or kinesthetic. The other person will feel comfortable and at ease with you. Where hypnosis comes in is by allowing you to integrate this wealth of communication material directly into your subconscious mind so you can use it as smoothly and effectively as an NLP master.

You can augment this with my 6 CD set, Hypnosis for Success, or use this set on your own to help reprogram your mind from failure to success. The set includes a book, Success Self-Hypnosis, which contains detailed suggestions and techniques for creating a state of self-hypnosis you use to reach your highest success potential.

Become a real success in the career you have chosen. If you are in your own business, imagine making that business the kind of success you wanted it to be when you first started it, or the kind of success you have seen others make of similar businesses. If you have not yet chosen a career, imagine becoming a doctor or a lawyer, becoming famous, making a million dollars, or changing the world. The list is endless. Each of these goals can be accomplished directly or indirectly through The Will to Learn!

You can develop the will to learn about sales, communication or the fascinating business of serving others and make a really good living. Books have been written on each of these subjects and thousands more. Learning, of course, is not confined to books. Your will to learn extends to experiencing, sensing your environment, listening to teachers, or to anyone who can expand your horizons.

Develop a hunger for knowledge as strong as any hunger in your body! It is the key to getting everything else your heart desires. Whether you want a million dollars, the perfect marriage or vibrant health, you must learn how to get it and become determined to use that knowledge to make your dreams a reality.

Invest in your future. Try my CD The Will to Learn, available on my site.

I’ve written about losing weight in the past but I think it’s something that can be talked about any time, not just at the holidays.  Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all you had to do in order to release excess weight permanently was to eat less for a while and exercise more?  Unfortunately, you know it’s not that simple.  Trying the latest fad diets or strenuous exercise just doesn’t work for the long haul.  You gain back the weight (perhaps with an unfortunate bonus) and you may end up with constant muscle aches.  It’s depressing, isn’t it?

What does work?  Change.  Change your patterns of thinking and living, the basic way you think about yourself, your body and your life.  As you change your way of thinking and relating to yourself and others, you will find that you automatically change your entire life for the better.

Change is essential.  It is also extremely difficult for most of us!  If you have tried many different food plans without much success or you have trouble getting motivated to exercise, perhaps a little extra help can work wonders for you.  Jump start your weight loss by learning the techniques of self hypnosis.

With hypnosis, you learn an effortless and natural form of positive self control; the kind that teaches you how to manage your urge to eat, the right foods to eat and when to eat them.  You also learn easy and natural ways to care for your body, including how to get the exercise that is exactly right for you, how to become a more relaxed and attractive person and how to look your very best at all times.  Hypnosis is all about reprogramming your subconscious mind for weight reduction and permanent, effortless weight control.

You can get my ebook, “Weight Release Secrets”, for free.  Use it as a companion to either of the two weight reduction CD’s, available from my online store.  Follow the links to recordings by Terry Brussel-Gibbons.

Dr. Terry Brussel-Gibbons is a 4th generation matchmaker, as well as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. The matchmaking tradition has been carried on in Terry’s family since her great grandmother began it in Russia in the late 1800’s. She has been plying her trade as a matchmaker since apprenticing under her father at age 16 and has passed on the tradition to her daughter.

Who goes to a matchmaker? Selective, successful (and busy) singles who are seeking a quality life mate are most frequently the ones to hire a matchmaker. If you tend to pick nagging women who remind you of your mother or a boyfriend with substance abuse because your first boyfriend had that, a matchmaker can help offset those negative partnering patterns. You will be introduced to a selection of people who are appropriate for you rather than those who cause grief in your life. When you meet a person at a singles event, all you know about them initially is their name and appearance. You won’t know, probably for quite a while, if they are compatible with you or not. And you won’t know unless you ask the awkward question of whether or not they are truly interested in marriage.

Along with matchmaking, relationship coaching can help you to consciously decide how to choose the right life or romantic partner for you. Hypnosis can assist you in changing who you are attracted to through hypnotic age regression and re-writing your life script so it is as though you had always had more positive partnering patterns based on good, objective decisions along with your emotions. All of these are time savers and ways to avoid some painfully bad choices.

The matchmaker gathers a lot of personal data about a client. You could be well along in a relationship before you find some of this out and possibly some of your original requirements may not seem as important because you have fallen in love. Later, when some of the magic wears off and you’re trying to live together, some of the conditions you let pass may turn out to be essential for a lasting relationship.

Visit my web site at www.marriagemindedintroductions.com for more information or you can purchase my workbook, “Matchmaker’s Corner: Choosing, Finding and Attracting Your Life Mate” and also it’s accompanying CD “Attract Your Special Someone”, on my main site at www.acesuccess.com.

Procrastination is universal.  Most of us procrastinate occasionally and that’s alright as long as the job gets done and on time.  It’s a problem if the job gets done late,  poorly or not at all and when your failure to perform makes you unhappy and/or depressed.

There seem to be many ways to procrastinate, such as being reluctant to take risks or try something new, staying in the same old unsatisfactory job, living with your parents when you should be on your own, getting sick when faced with an unpleasant job, avoiding confrontations or decisions, blaming others or situations to avoid doing something, making big plans but never carrying them out, having such a busy social calendar that important work doesn’t get done.

Why do we do this?  Fear of failure or success are common causes, rebellion against authority or control, a strong dislike for the work we do or maybe we are just lazy or prefer to have fun instead of honoring our responsibilities.  There is a common element to these causes, all based on patterns in the subconscious mind.  The logical, conscious mind is not very good at helping us overcome procrastination, no matter how hard we try.

You can reprogram your inner mind through self-hypnosis and guided meditation.  You can usually identify the causes of your procrastination and you can almost always eliminate them through the powerful guided relaxation sessions that are available in my store.  Specifically, my CD called T2-End Procrastination.  If you are cursed with constant problems due to procrastination, no matter the reason, you owe it to yourself to try this CD.

To your success!

If this last Valentine’s Day found you without someone to share it with, maybe it’s time to change that.  The toughest social challenge can be meeting someone of the opposite sex and becoming acquainted with them.  Some people are just naturally at ease with this but others are not so lucky.  They find meeting others so difficult that they actually try to avoid situations that involve a meeting of this kind.

Fear of rejection can be virtually crippling for a lot of people.  It takes a lot of courage to approach someone with the hope of just starting a conversation, let alone being accepted for who they are.  Judgment is rampant in our society today and is a direct cause of the fear of rejection, failure, criticism or still another bad result.

Fear also comes from life experience, starting in childhood.  We learned about intimate relationships in two ways.  By the way adults treated us and by the way they treated each other.  Much of this learning happened before language was developed, so relationship patterns are pre-verbal, buried deep in the subconscious mind.  These deeply buried patterns became intractable and are now very difficult to change.

Your mind sets up barriers to change.  Your way of thinking and feeling, your map of yourself and the world, is the integral and essential essence of you.  Your mind inherently resists any change in its patterns, as it perceives change as an attack.  Change can happen as a result of an extreme experience (loss of a loved one or a serious illness or injury) or it can happen over time with conventional talk therapy.  Change can also happen with treatment by a certified clinical hypnotherapist (such as myself!) or with self hypnosis using a specific recording I created for this purpose.

I am a 4th generation Matchmaker and have created a workbook called B2-Matchmaker’s Corner which will help you figure out who is right for you and how to attract them to you.  Used in conjunction with my special CD called T12-Attract Your Special Someone, you can bring into your life the relationship you seek.

Everyone deserves love!

What does abundance mean to you?  Wealth, money, success, love, health, fame?  Maybe all of these?  Abundance can be yours.  It’s not limited to just a few lucky people that life appears to have smiled on.

How do you attract abundance into your life?  By finding out what you are doing to prevent yourself from experiencing the successful and joyful life that you so richly deserve.  Once you identify the negative thoughts and feelings that block your prosperity, you can then methodically eliminate these internal barriers.  What you receive in life is directly controlled by the limits you place on your emotions, behaviors, thoughts and actions.

Fortunately, you don’t have to accept these limitations.  The law of attraction says that the more you seek, the more you will attract.  Whatever you focus on will fill your life and you can achieve great abundance regardless of what is happening with the economy or your present income or any of the other circumstances in your life.

Wealth, money, success, love and health are all governed by your inner thoughts.  This is a form of life energy.  Once you understand how to participate in the flow of that energy, you can actively create your desired reality.  This is something that you learn with practice.

You have heard the saying “practice makes perfect”, right?  One way to learn how to attract what you want is through self hypnosis.  One of my most popular recordings is called T18-Abundance: Your Money And More Magnet.  Specific hypnotic suggestions on this CD will bring you material as well as Spiritual abundance of all types.  You can get it on my web site at www.acesuccess.com.

Bring more of the things that matter to you most using this recording.  Abundance is everywhere and can be yours.

Technically, flu season is supposed to be past us but those viruses have shown themselves to survive for quite some time.  You may have gotten flu in springtime and thought it was just a cold.  Allergies, on the other hand, plague us all year long as there are many different kinds.  I’d like to talk about how you can avoid illness and stay healthy.

It’s been known for a long time that happy people are healthier and more productive than unhappy people.  But we didn’t know how or why, as there was no way to measure this fact.  So, the apparent healthiness of happy people was just conjecture, based on a lot of unscientific observation.  All this has changed recently, and we now know that stress and unhappiness lead directly to increased probability of illness of all kinds, many of them serious.

You can significantly improve your health and strengthen your immune system by learning simple yet powerful techniques for lessening stress and tension.  With guided meditation and self-hypnosis you can largely eliminate these killer emotions and give yourself the positive thoughts and emotions that are critical to your long term health.

Several recent studies link stress with the onset of major depression and with a poorer prognosis in cardiovascular disease and cancer.  Studies also suggest that stress management strategies may help to improve survival.  Chronic stress appears to result in suppression of the immune response which can compromise ability to fight off infections.

What if you have done everything possible to de-stress yourself but you still get a cold or the flu?  Or your allergies are still flaring up?  Just making changes can be stressful also.  A little extra help may be just what you need.  You may think you don’t have time to manage a self-hypnosis session but, after all, if you are not feeling well or are lying in bed, you have plenty of time.  Who knows?  You may just find that you feel better sooner than you thought.

Try my CD called T17-Stop Colds & Allergies.  It’s available on my products page for a very reasonable price.  Get well now!