Developmental Training

Aloha, I got involved with Hypnosis in 1958 when I went to LA and took a course from a Hypnotist named Melvin Powers. In my rap sessions with Bruce in my apartment we used to discuss ways to accelerate training. I explained I thought hypnosis was a key element for imprinting neuro-muscular reaction with a minimum of training. I used it in my personal training both in Martial arts and personal development. Bruce said that he thought that hypnosis was just a modern application that was thousands of years old and was practiced regularly by the monks. He deduced that meditation and hypnosis just took different pathways to arrive at the same destination. Both focused on internalizing thought as well as mental/physical potentials. Hypnosis had a stigma for putting a person into a state where he would lose personal control over his judgments, but self hypnosis allowed him to tap into his inner conscious while still maintaining control. Meditation, although similar, was limited because it was like being on a lake without oars, you just floated around. I convinced him if you took away the label of “hypnosis” and just applied the basic techniques, you then had access to the oars to take yourself anywhere you wanted to go. I taught him, what I later called “Directive Meditation” Which eliminated any reference to hypnosis, but allowed him to achieve proper subconscious depth to be very responsive to suggestions he develop from his own research. I showed him how to give personal suggestions or how to use a tape recorder for more involved suggestions.

That is what my CD’s are about. Whether he used it, I do not know. I suspect he did since he was always looking for ways to accomplish his goals quicker. I believe, even stronger today, that self hypnosis is the best way to achieve accelerated result in any area of personal concern. It is like conventional training is taking the staircase while hypnosis or proper “Directive Meditation” is taking the elevator.

- Sijo