David Key -Wake up! [Summary] @Hypnosis Masters Summit

Milton Erickson used to task all of his students, all of his patients or his clients. They would come down and knock on his door and he would answer the door, yes, how can I help you? And they were like, I've got a problem, I've got a phobia. And he would say, that's right, go and climb Squaw Peak and bring back the purple flower from the top of that mountain. And then I'll work.

Really?

If you, if you look at what he did, it was a genius because he saw that when clients were all in, when they were committed, they wanted to change something, they were prepared to climb a mountain.

Yeah.

Before they even had the opportunity to work with him. So he was like 95% of the work was done at that point. Now, at this point in time, you're doing perfectly okay, everything's fine. You've just got something lodging in your throat and your normal reaction will be to cough it out. It's built into the system. But unfortunately your mother or father or someone that's an adult that you look up to is on the phone having a chat with their friends and then they look at you and see your choking on this button and you cough it up and it falls on the floor and you look at it and you smile. Meanwhile, you look at your mother and she's freaking out, thinking you're going to die. And you look at the button, you look at your mother and you've instantly made a connection. She's freaking out at that thing that's on the floor. That must be dangerous. Yeah, that's just a theory. A one time learning, lost in the imagination for a period of time until such time one day something happens and you see a button and you have a reaction, you freak out and you have no reason or no understanding as to the reason why. Yeah, someone with a phobia. Now I'd rather have a conversation with them. Help wake them up from the nightmare. Amazing. Help wake them up from the nightmare and get them to see it's just thought. Even a phobia is just intense thought. And we. So as, as change makers, I think we really underestimate the power of thought. The power of thought to change your biochemistry, to create stress. The power of thought to be there one moment and then evaporated like a puddle in a heat wave, gone the next. And your whole experience of life can change just by learning that thought is the fundamental principle behind the human experience. It's so profound and so simple. Like all those people we've just talked about are Its fear of bananas and thunder and spiders and intense reaction to this stimulus and unable to control your thinking. When we can't control it by trying to control the weather, we can't control it. But if we understand how the weather works, we put an umbrella up when it's raining. If we understand how the mind works, instead of trying to. Trying to intervene on a pervasive problem like a phobia, just understand, hey, when you see a spider externally in your outside world, your inner world corresponds by bringing back memories with intense feelings attached. If you could learn to not be bothered about the feeling, then it doesn't matter what presenting problem ever comes up in your life. You'll just not react to it. You'll just. You'll learn to dial it out in your own way. Like all those people that Richard Bandler interviewed that have overcome phobias on their own. Human beings have the capacity to have insight, to heal up all on their own. Which is a bit of a paradox for hypnotists, right, Eugene? Because, you know, if all hypnosis, which we know is self hypnosis, they shouldn't be a hypnotist because it's not. We're not required in that respect because everybody is changing all on their own. And we're just, I think, really getting too much credit. We're just nudging clients, aren't we? Really? That's it. We just learned a secret. Some of my students will say, well, how do you put a phobia in? I say, well, have you not seen Jaws, the movie? More people were scared of sharks. People would walk around puddles just in case. Oh my God, there might be something in there, in that puzzle. Steven Spielberg installed via his genius, you know, that opening scene of Jaws, you know, and there's the girl swimming. Do you know that scene? Yeah, yeah. There were people throwing up, okay. At the first showing of Jaws in 1970, whenever it was at the premiere, the couple of people passed out in the audience. And the opening scene, and one woman, she was so ill that she couldn't stay and watch the rest of the movie.

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