Become a Hypnotherapist, But Do It Right!

By Charles Wm. Skillas, PhD, CHt, CI

People are hailing the newly rediscovered, yet ancient, healing modality of Hypnotherapy as the wonder of Alternative Medicine. So - why are so many people, who seek its healing, often disappointed in their results? Is it because it really isn't the mighty technique people are hoping for? Or is it, maybe, because it's not always being done right.

Hypnotherapy's ability to heal stems from its ability to reach the subconscious mind, where according to medical authority about 85% of disease originates psychosomatically. Some authorities say that all disease is of the mind. Because of the great cost involved in modern medicine and lack of insurance by so many, there is a great clamor for less costly healing approaches. In addition, hypnosis enhances people’s lives by helping them to be more successful personally and professionally.

Hypnosis is a very old technique that permits the Critical Factor of the Conscious Mind to be by-passed. This produces a highly receptive subconscious state of mind into which beneficial suggestions can be offered. Hypnosis itself is no big deal. One can easily learn to hypnotize in a 3-day weekend course. What the hypnotist does with the client after he is in hypnosis is what makes the difference in whether the client is helped. It is here, that therapy is done and makes the hypnotist a Hypnotherapist.

Many hypnotists are trained to hypnotize, but are not trained to be Hypnotherapists. These hypnotists hypnotize a person and while in this receptive state, the hypnotist reads him a prescription to reprogram his subconscious mind. For instance, for smoking the hypnotist reads suggestions to stop smoking. The same technique is used for weight loss, addictions, etc. Usually, these are not very effective, achieving little more success than the placebo effect. This is why many such programs are so ineffective in the long haul.

Why is this so? For every difficulty a person is experiencing, there is a cause, which I call negative forcing functions in the subconscious self. THIS CAUSE IS ALWAYS FROM SOMETHING IN THIS LIFE, A PAST LIFE, UNRESOLVED INTERNAL CONFLICTS, BIOLOGICAL CARRYOVERS FROM ANCESTORS OR FROM ATTACHED ENERGIES. The cause must be uncovered and removed and only then, can the subconscious be reprogrammed so that the difficulty will not reestablish.

Techniques for uncovering the cause of the distress are many and the skilled Hypnotherapist has available an impressive array of uncovering methods with which to find the distress source(s). After finding the source, the Hypnotherapist must then choose from an equally impressive list of techniques to eradicate the distress source energy. The well-trained Hypnotherapist will choose the most appropriate and effective uncovering and energy removal techniques depending on the particular needs of the client. Once the distress source is found and the energy released, the Hypnotherapist can now reprogram the subconscious and permanent healing can happen.

The National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH), which is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious certification organization in the world, trains competent Hypnotherapists. NGH has chapters throughout the USA and is represented in 65 countries around the world. NGH certification requires a minimum of 100 hours of core curriculum instruction. This is very important because the States are moving towards registration or licensing governing the practice of Hypnotherapy and unapproved hypnotherapy training not meeting practice requirements will be useless in the future. The NGH and its affiliate The National Federation of Hypnotists (104 - OPEIU AFL-CIO) are in the forefront of this legislation.

In Atlanta, The Inner Space and Dr. Charles Skillas, PhD, offer classes leading to full NGH Certification and Advanced Hypnotherapy training. Dr. Charles Skillas, an NGH Certified Instructor teaches the course. The NGH Certified Hypnotherapy Training is based on 50 years of research and proven field-tested behavioral programs. The Certification Curriculum provides a complete classical hypnotherapy education enabling graduates to immediately become practicing Hypnotherapists working with both individuals and groups. .

On completion of the NGH Certification Curriculum, graduates will be eligible to take the Advanced Class which includes, Spirit Releasement Therapy (SRT), Past Life Regression therapy (PLT), Gestalt Therapy, Parts Therapy for resolution of unresolved internal conflicts, Remote Clearing, The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Cellular Regeneration and others which result in a Doctor of Divinity (DD) in Spiritual Healing Arts. These advanced courses enable the graduate hypnotherapist to handle all the negative forcing functions, which may beset a suffering person.

This course is designed for

§ Those who seek career advancement and who want to work with people in a private professional practice of their own (full or part time)

§ All mental health professionals including therapists, counselors, social workers and nurses desiring to enhance their skills and add Hypnosis as a short-term treatment modality

§ People who want to understand how the mind works to enhance their work and their own lives

To schedule an appointment for a remote session or office session, call 770-449-7976 or visit www.DrSkillas.com.

Dr. Skillas is a National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) Board Certified Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist practicing in Norcross, GA. and is a NGH Certified Hypnotherapy Instructor in Hypnotherapy. He has practiced energy healing and Hypnotherapy since 1981 and is a member of the Business and Metaphysical teaching faculty of St. Johns University. Dr. Skillas is Certified in: Advanced and Clinical Hypnotherapy, Hypnotherapy Instruction, Transformational Counseling, Cell Command Therapy, Spirit Releasement Therapy, Master Level Neurolinguistic Programming, Hypnotic Pain Control, Emergency Hypnosis and Past Life Regression Therapy. He is a member of The National Guild of Hypnotists, The National Board of Hypnotherapists and Hypnotic Anesthesiologists, The National Federation of Neurolinguistic Psychology and The National Federation of Hypnotists. Dr. Skillas is also a Licensed Professional Engineer, is listed in Who’s Who, and is President of the GA Chapter of the National Guild of Hypnotists.

Comprehensive Hypnotherapy Training, Part 1

By Charles Wm. Skillas, PhD, DD, BCH, CI

People study hypnotherapy for many reasons. Some want to become practitioners to help people and make a living; others want to learn about how the mind works to help them in their professions and others simply want to enhance their own health and capabilities. I got into hypnotherapy to save my own life after unsuccessfully trying for years to get help from traditional western medicine, psychiatry and psychology. Hypnotherapy saved me and I turned from my established profession in technology to learn and help others with this wonderful, awesome healing modality.

Many schools and individuals teach and certify hypnotherapists. All the teaching is good because it opens up awareness to how the mind works and helps people to varying degrees. You can learn to be a hypnotist in a weekend as the techniques are relatively simple. Knowing what to do once you are in the subconscious makes a hypnotist, a hypnotherapist. Hypnosis is a tool that allows direct access to the subconscious wherein are the programs that determine your behavior, how you feel and how you respond to life. Change the programs and you change the person's life … and this is what hypnotherapist try to do. So, why is it that not all hypnotherapy is successful, particularly for the long term?

The answer is that standard hypnotherapy only helps if the problems are relatively simple bad habits and most problems people have are more than just those. Habits are programs imbedded by repetition and most are rather harmless. Significant bad programs installed and imbedded by negative forcing functions cause serious life problems. These distort the body's energy field cutting the flow of Chi (Life Force Energy); install negative programs on the subconscious hard drive and then continuously support those programs. Forcing functions are actually negative energy generators created by damaging things that happened to you in this life, past lives, severe unresolved internal conflicts, detrimental genetics from your ancestors or the attachment of foreign energies. Hypnotherapy only heals permanently if the negative energy generators supporting the bad programs on your subconscious hard drive are found and released and new positive programs installed that are capable of overriding the old bad programs. Then you get permanent change. To accomplish this requires much more training than is usually provided.

The National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) will only certify hypnotherapists taught by NGH instructors (CI's). This is because the NGH course teaches hypnotherapists the fundamentals of reprogramming and the needed basics to understand and move onto advanced courses where the techniques of finding and releasing all the negative forcing functions are taught. The NGH Hypnotherapy Certification Course opens the door to the complete healing process. The Inner Space and Dr. Skillas now offer the complete NGH Certification Course and a Doctorate of Divinity (DD) in Spiritual Healing for those who have completed certification and the advanced courses that resolve all negative forcing functions. If you want to really learn how to use hypnotherapy for yourself and others, this training is vital.

To schedule an appointment for a remote session or office session, call 770-449-7976 or visit www.DrSkillas.com.

Disclaimer: This article is intended for general informational purposes and does not provide medical, psychological, or other professional advice.

Demonology 101

Demons want to destroy you. That's their job!

Demons are the second most prevalent entity I encounter in my practice. Earthbound spirits are the most prevalent. You can tell when you are dealing with a demon because they want to cause pain, misery destruction and death. They tell you so. God created demons just like everybody else, but demons went a different path (free will). Demons can come onto a person when the persons psychic defense system (Guardian Chi) is low. Demons are attracted by a persons light (innate energy) or by the negative energy the person is putting out.

If a person comes into this world with a great light to accomplish much good, this makes them a target of the demons that want to extinguish that light. If a person is very sad, angry, fearful or full of hate, that energy is a beacon to Demonics and they want to join that person as a kindred spirit. Once the demon is attached, it exacerbates the negative feeling, and then uses that strong negative feeling to produce more negativity in the world.

Carla, 37 came to see me because she had been in 6 major automobile accidents in 4 months. In each accident, she very nearly lost her life. Because of these experiences, she was afraid to drive and her job required that she travel by car. Since the accidents started, she experienced panic every time she got into the car. She was in a real quandary and quite frightened. She asked me for help, not knowing anybody else she could go to.

Under deep trance hypnosis, I spoke to a demon within her who told me that he was going to kill her and had tried to do so in the accidents. The demon said it wanted to extinguish her light as it was very strong and it had the assignment to get rid of her. It said it would continue until it accomplished its end. I finally got the demon to leave Carla and she has not had another accident since then. That was over two years ago. Since the Releasement, Carla says she is very comfortable driving and has no problem doing so.

Typically, Demons are afraid of the light and will not go near it, but many have told me that they eat a persons light as food to get the lights power without having the light directly on them. They do not like the light on them, believing it will destroy them. Releasing a demon involves getting them to see their own light within themselves, which transforms them from beings of darkness into beings of light. Then they can go to the light and, once there, they never return.

To schedule an appointment for a remote session or office session, call 770-449-7976 or visit www.DrSkillas.com.

Disclaimer: This article is intended for general informational purposes and does not provide medical, psychological, or other professional advice.