You never know who is interested…

While out walking my dog this afternoon, I had a great conversation with Jacob McFaul, a Vivint home security sales rep from Orlando who is working in Columbia, S.C. He’s a Texas native, which accounts for his friendliness. He and I hit it off, when I mentioned a background in sales.

I gave Jacob one of my cards, and he spotted Hypnotherapist right away, and that’s where our conversation headed. I thought about pitching my book (The Healing Power of Hypnotherapy), but he had work to do. He was very curious about hypnosis/hypnotherapy, and maybe we’ll get to have another conversation one of these days. (Hint, hint – – if you don’t have a copy of my book yet, now is a great time to order one.)

I don’t give out enough business cards, and I realized I should have given him two cards – one for him, and one for him to give the next person he meets who expresses an interest or curiosity in hypnotherapy. There are days when I think I like to buy cards more than I like to give them out. I have so many business cards … (here is where you say, “How many business cards do you have?”) that I could give out five a day and not run out for years.


Rx Hypnosis

There aren’t too many doctors who will prescribe hypnosis for their patients. This is one short-coming of the medical practitioners. Why?

Because they may not be able to find the cause of a patient’s problems with x-rays, lab work, MRIs, and all the other fancy, expensive equipment in their offices and hospitals

For examine, I met a man at a conference in Orange County, California. He was walking through the hotel’s lobby and overheard part of a conversation that several people and I were having. He told he’d had a pain in his upper abdomen “forever” and that doctors had told him that, after many exams and exploratory surgery, there was nothing left in that part of his body that could be causing the pain.

We went to his room for a regression hypnotherapy session. After hypnotizing him, I asked him to go back to the cause of the pain. He described being in a sword fight and being killed when the other man’s sword pierced his body – right where he had described the pain.

I guided him through that experience several times until he could describe what was happening without the emotion he had felt just a few minutes before. When he returned to a full state of consciousness, I watched him as he felt the front of his body.

Then he told me that he no longer felt any pain there and that he could not remember a time when he had not felt pain there.

Out of the many types of work I have done through my many years of working, non-directive, regression hypnotherapy is the most beneficial work for others that I have done and the most meaningful work to me that I have done.

It’s not “mainstream” yet, but it should be!


Stories, and More Stories

Was it really ten years ago that I published this book about some of the hypnotherapy sessions that I conducted and about some of my own experiences under hypnosis?

I have helped people learn how to conduct hypnotherapy sessions. The best teacher is yourself. When you have experienced your own past lives, felt them as “real”, experienced feelings and emotions at levels uncommon in “this” lifetime, and released connections to the past, then you have a good idea what your client is experiencing.

Sometimes a client would ask whether she could have a friend sit in on the session and observe. It was always okay with me, but I explained it might be pretty boring for the observer. All I asked was that the observer remain silent.

The book may be purchased on Amazon for the outrageous price of $1.99 (it’s free, if you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber). It’s an e-book (only), and it can be read on any device (computer, tablet, phone, etc.). Click here for information. By the way, it makes a great gift, too.

Drop your thoughts and questions in the Comments, or email me directly.


Cancer? Read This

Do you have, or do you know someone who has, cancer?

I recommend this book by Danny Carroll – Terminal Cancer is a Misdiagnosis.

So, go to www.danny-carroll.com for complete information about Danny’s book.

Or click to Amazon and read about the book and Danny there.

I have found that, in many instances since 1992, a person can make substantial progress in his own healing with non-directive, regression hypnotherapy, including past-life regression and spirit releasement.

I don’t do traditional weight-loss hypnosis or stop-smoking hypnosis. I’d much rather help a person learn “why” he weighs what he does (did he starve to death in three past lives, and so he eats everything in sight now?) or “why” he smokes (to prove he can breathe?). When a client experiences that “why” and releases what keeps him stuck there, then the excess weight will drop off and he’ll stop smoking.

Do you have questions? Ask away.


Busy doing other things

Time flies, when you are having fun.

I’ve been away from hypnotherapy for a while, busy chasing the Richland 2 School Board (Columbia, S.C.) and the Board of Directors of the Summit’s HOA (Richland County, S.C. (northeast Columbia)). Just ordered a new business card with Advocate / Blogger / Speaker on it, as well as Hypnotherapist.

For my activities in those pursuits, please check out

www.Richland2.info

www.BaronyPlace.blogspot.com

It seems that many of the skills from my past are all coming together as an advocate: sales, service, helping, carefully examining legal documents, finding problems and serious errors, accounting, financial statements, speaking out on behalf of others.

Need help with a problem? Get in touch. If I can’t help you, I’ll say so – straight up.


December – the perfect month for hypnotherapy

Why is December the perfect month for hypnotherapy?

Isn’t it the month for happiness? joy? love? gift-giving? (willingly, I mean)

Yet, for many it is just the opposite. It doesn’t need to be. When you understand “why” you are unhappy this month and release the emotions connected to the cause, what’s left? Happiness. Joy. Relief.

Even just plain, old, vanilla hypnosis can help. You can be more relaxed, sleep better, tolerate the noise of the holidays better, accept that others may over-do it.

What’s the difference between hypnosis and hypnotherapy.

Hypnosis? I do all the talking. You do all the listening. I give you suggestions. You accept them – or you don’t.

Hypnotherapy? After you are relaxed (hypnotized), we have a conversation. I’ll provide some of the questions. You’ll provide the answers. Trust me – the answers are quite likely NOT what you think they are. The answers will come from your subconscious. Imagine that! (No, don’t.)

I recall one client years ago. When we met, she asked if I thought I could hypnotize her, and I told her that I thought so, but it might be hard. Then I told her I was just going to count to “5” and she’d be in deep state of relaxation. Her friend was there to “protect” her from this man she had seen on TV. She closed her eyes, and I counted, “1-2-3-4-5”, and she was immediately in a past life! Her very first words, unprompted, indicated that she was having an experience that she obviously had never had in this lifetime!

I was trained by, and worked with, the late Irene Hickman, D.O. (1915-2002). When I met Irene in 1988 and bought her book, she inscribed it with “Adventure awaits all who explore the mind.” Her words are just as true today as they were then.


Sessions Continue during health crisis

Thanks to communication devices like computers, tablets and smartphones and to programs like Skype, Zoom and WhatsApp, it is possible to enjoy the benefits of hypnotherapy during the current COVID-19 crisis.

Although the preferred method is to conduct sessions in person, using an electronic connection is an excellent tool when face-to-face is not possible. Sessions can still be recorded and a e-file sent to the client. Watching the client via video means that important cues (facial gestures, eyelid movement, etc.) are not missed.

It’s easy to conduct a session across town, between states, and even internationally.

Are you experiencing a problem  you’d like to resolve?

I read yesterday about an actress who is claustrophobic. There is a perfect opportunity for a valuable regression hypnotherapy session. Maybe I should put the Six Degrees of Separation theory to work?

Recently I did a pre-surgery hypnosis session via Skype with a client who was approaching extensive back surgery. I wish there had been enough time to schedule 2-3 additional sessions, but it was a last-minute call.

Got questions? Get in touch. My contact information is at the top right of the page.


Remote session in the U.K.

Late in October I received an email from the U.K. with an inquiry about the possibility of a session. Through an exchange of emails a remote spirit releasement session resulted, and it was conducted on November 4. One of the great things about electronics is that I was able to email a recording of the session to the client in the U.K. that same evening.

The session here included two of us; a person who was the hypnotized subject and me. I had not given my hypno-partner any details about the information that had been emailed to me, other than the session would include a bungalow in the U.K. and possibly the person who was requesting the session. In other words, we started with her (my hypno-partner) being a clean slate.

In the bungalow we discovered four spirits. The first was in the kitchen and was fascinated with the modern-day stove. The four spirits were released, and then we “connected” with the late resident of the bungalow and helped to release her to the Light. At first, she wanted to “stay” so that she could continue to visit around, as she described it, but her delight was obvious (through the hypno-partner), when her brother’s spirit and that of a neighbor came to welcome her and escort her “home”.

Then we checked out the person who had requested the session. We identified spirits there and released them. The first spirit had a body that had been killed and abandoned, and she was bent on getting another body so that she could extract vengeance on those who had killed her. After releasing the feelings and anger, then she realized that she was long past the time when any of her killers was still alive, and she was willing to leave. Others were identified and also left.

Unbeknownst to my hypno-partner, the requestor had told me that a psychic had once told her that the spirit of a murdered person was hitchhiking with her.

It is fascinating that this work can be done remotely. In 2016 I was contacted by a woman in Iran (or was it Iraq?). The initial inquiry was to ask if I would be willing to fly over to do some work. I explained that we could attempt to do it remotely, and that’s what we did.

I continue to use the Hickman Method, just as I learned it in 1992-93. Many practitioners feel the need to “improve” on what they learned, but Dr. Irene Hickman’s methods work just fine. All we need is more “young people” learning them, so that they don’t die out when we “old timers” are no longer available. Irene began using non-directive regression hypnotherapy in her osteopathic medical practice in 1950 and learned spirit releasement techniques from Bill Baldwin many years later.


October is Ghost Month?

There always seems to be increased interest in ghost stories in the month of October. I guess Halloween does that to people.

But “ghosts” (spirits) are here all the time. Maybe Halloween should come once a month, so we would pay more attention.

Earthbound spirits are those who are hanging around after they wore out their bodies. Or perhaps life got cut short by an accident or a fall or a disease. Or by someone else’s action.

If a spirit doesn’t leave the earth plane when the body dies, it seems to be “stuck” here and is unable to leave on its own. Maybe some can leave on their own. If they do, I won’t run into them.

But if they are stuck here, they just might show up during a regression hypnotherapy session. My training with the late Irene Hickman, D.O. (1915-2002) included how to spot them, engage them, converse with them and release them to the Light – where they should have gone when the body died.

There are many reasons why a spirit doesn’t leave.

If you have questions, drop me a line. Just email me at gus@gusphilpott.com


He died in 1940

On the past Thursday and Sunday I conducted sessions in Columbia, S.C. and came in contact with spirits of inmates of the old South Carolina Prison. The prison was located in downtown Columbia and, after being torn down, has been replaced with CanalSide Lofts Apartments.

The Thursday session was in one of the apartments and started as a spirit releasement session, because my client felt strongly that a demon had attached itself to her. We dealt with that and she told me that there were “many other spirits” present. One of them said he’d been there a long time, waiting to tell his story, and he wasn’t going to leave until he told it.

On Sunday afternoon I met again with this client, and we began with a session that involved three past lives. After a short break we resumed and the prisoner (from Thursday) came forward. He told us his name (Jerome), Prisoner Number, accused and actual crimes, and when he died (1940). He said many bodies are buried on the property, a part of which is still under construction. Before we finished, he was pushed out of the way by a white prisoner, who told us his story.

I’ll save the two stories for a later telling. The short version is that each left the earth plane and took a bunch of other prisoners’ spirits with them.

My client told me, before the session on Thursday, of car trouble – so bad that she was trading in the car. The dealer had run diagnostics on the engine; the Check Engine light was on, other dashboard warning lights were on, and the engine output was determined to 50% with a chance that the engine would blow. She called me as she drove home after the session. The car was running perfectly!

We all know – there are no coincidences.