The Frugal but Professional Practice (Part 11)

Hypnotist Celeste Hackett

by Celeste Hackett

Being Awed for a Living

Don’t ya just Love All the Fascinating Clients?

Working with a Worry Wart

When your Clients Problem is YOU

You Gotta Listen to Our Song

Something for Free Again :o)

It’s so interesting how much you can grow in such a small humble space. My little organic vegetable garden in the back yard has already given me beans, arugula (a type of green), lettuce, mustard greens, tomatoes, peppers and onions My garden is only about 20 feet by 25 feet wide and that includes the paths for walking. I guess it sort of reflects my hypnosis practice here in my humble home too, in that I just see such a wide array of issues and people from all walks of life, and I get to see them go through their change and growth which is as thrilling as watching my zucchini bloom.

Being Awed for a Living

Yeah, life goes on for the frugal hypnotist that sees the marvels of spirit moving through the people who come here broken. And it happens, right in the little spare bedroom in the little house, in the little neighborhood, in the little town I live in. Yeah, I’m constantly astounded. Yeah, so often awed, so blessed, so lucky! When I was a radio announcer, I thought I had the best job in the whole world because I laughed and cut up for a living. Now, that so pales to the being humbled, and awed and enthralled for a living as I get to see, and be a part of so many amazing life stories and their wonderful happy endings….or is it happy beginnings?

Since my last article some of the issues I’ve worked with are: stop smoking, weight loss, a tremor, ADD, anxiety (doctor referred), test fear, general anger, anger at a spouse, getting over a past love, stuttering, becoming better at court reporting, self-confidence, Help with ending a relationship, worry, depression (doctor referred) stress, starting dating again and more.

Don’t ya just Love All the Fascinating Clients?

My clients, themselves, have been just as interesting, too. Among them a hurricane Katrina survivor, a retired business owner who vacations in exotic locales, a little boy all mad and dragged in by his mom (turns out he really wanted help and did just fine), a refugee with a harrowing story of crossing the border and my husband says, laughingly, “Don’t forget to tell them about the fat guy with the bad attitude”…himself

That’s right I’ve been working with my husband. I don’t recommend working with family members or friends because, for one thing, many times they don’t seem to see you as an expert, and being viewed as the expert is very important when doing hypnosis. Christopher had seen so much incontrovertible and imperial proof (his words, he’s British) from that regard he was ready to give it a try. Include, also, as an added motivator, his pain and suffering just weren’t going away.

Working with a Worry Wart

Christopher’s was what we used to call in the old days, a worry wart. Now doctors and psychiatrists call it chronic anxiety and give you a pill. His worrying, brought on by internal unresolved childhood stresses, a stressful job, family squabbles and finding himself suddenly married for the first time at the age of 40, caused him to put on 50 pounds in less than four years. His migraines worsened as did a painful condition called costochondritis (inflammation of the lining of the chest wall), a compromised immune system, low self-esteem, anger and a feeling of hopelessness.

I tried to work with him when I first learned 5-PATH®, a method of hypnosis I use, but he was my very first 5-PATH® client and I stopped when I wasn’t sure what to do next. I didn’t want him to see me being unsure. I decided to pause the sessions and start them again at a later time. That decision was made 3 years ago. Since then, but before our latest sessions, as he went through daily life struggles I used a little EFT to help him – very little, he hated it, and just general positive seed-planting and love and he did improve in several ways. He stopped getting colds, he became less angry and more trusting of me, and his migraines happened way less often too.

I have to admit even when I thought I had mastered the 5-PATH® techniques enough to work with him the time never felt right and the sessions always got sabotaged somehow. I began to consider the possibility that they would never happen. He wasn’t all that interested and neither was I. Sometimes, though, it was so obvious he plainly needed them and he made up his mind he wouldn’t go to a “stranger” for this kind of help. In fact, I tried to talk him into going to an NLP expert, but he just couldn’t get interested.

Christopher’s problem showed up most visibly in his relationship with his 70 year old mother. She is a tiny, full of twinkle and charm, right out of the potato patch, (Kanturk, County Cork) Irish ball of fire. Actually his Father was pure Irish too (Clonmell, County Tipperary). He’s only English by birth and since he went to school there for awhile he picked up a mostly Cambridge accent.

Back to his mother…he was constantly worried about her and her health to the point that he thought he needed some sessions to get things in perspective. With much trepidation, I said okay. Working with people close to you using advanced techniques like that of 5-PATH® can be risky to your relationship, but it got to a point that my husband was so unhappy I just decided to do the work and decided I was ready for any consequences. Let the chips fall where they may. I couldn’t really see him suffer anymore. It hurt me too much too. We took a deep breath, jumped in and did it.

He had a week off for vacation and we did 4 sessions in one week. When it came to the point in the work where I was to help him to reduce internal anger by doing what we call Forgiveness of Others (FOO), I understood all too well, why doing 5-PATH® with those close to you can be hard on your relationship.

When your Clients Problem is YOU

I gave the usual patter, “and now you find yourself in a round room of a comfortable size, so round that even the ceiling is domed like an igloo might be inside. In the center of this room are two straight back chairs facing each other. I’d like you to choose a chair and sit right down. The chair you pick is the speaking chair because you’ll be speaking. Already, you are beginning to look across at that other chair, and wonder, “who goes in that other chair?” I’m going to count from 1 to 3 and someone very important is going in that chair.”

?ONE… that chair is the listening chair because whoever we put in it, they have to listen. They can’t get up, they can’t speak, they can’t do anything unless you or I give them permission to do so, and when they leave the round room they forget everything that has happened here……WO…It’s the one person in your life who has hurt you more than anyone else, the most pain, the most tears, the most frustrations, the earliest hurts…and THREE…now you can speak. Who goes in that chair?

Well, everything in the age regression pointed to his mother being the one he would pick, but you could have heard a pin drop when he said, “It’s you.”

Gulp.

Turns out it was the me of 10 years ago when I said I’d marry him and then instead moved away. Well, it wasn’t quite like that, exactly, to my memory, but it certainly was to the him of 13 years ago. So what could I do, but encourage him to beat up that mean ole, Celeste? And that wasn’t all. Seems I did a whole lot of other bad stuff back then too that I was mostly unaware of. And boy, oh, boy did he let make me aware of it.

We easily got the internal anger to reach the much-needed crescendo. I put a pillow on his lap and he beat the hell out of it as he told me off. Me? During the session, I found myself going back and forth between being the hypnotist and hallucinating this younger me as she got yelled at. What a weird feeling to see yourself of the past getting your comeuppance while yet being in the future! I shout, “Repeat after me, tell her, you are such a _____. He says, to the younger me, “you are such a BITCH!!!!”

Ouch.

He got a lot of anger out and I had more understanding of what I put him through back then. Luckily, I had already forgiven myself some time ago. If I hadn’t, probably I would have been very hurt and angry at him. This is why it is imperative to do work on your own issues before, during or after you do this sort of work. It’s not just this sort of unusual situation of working with a spouse that can cause you to wobble emotionally. Clients can bring things up in you too.

So, what happened after the sessions? Wow. What a change. He’s lost at least14 pounds (BTW he is using a detoxification product that many of the Dallas Cowboys are on. If you want more info contact me. It’s been great for his weight loss), he’s no where near as worried, he’s more at ease at work, generally doesn’t take things so personally, more focused, we’re getting along even better, the costochondritis has improved a great deal, he hasn’t had a migraine (but those were only about one or two times per year, so we’ll see) and his relationship with his mother is more calm and relaxed. He did end up putting her in the chair in that round room, too, by the way, which of course helped him tremendously.

You gotta Listen to Our Song

Evening is falling on my garden outside as I end this article. I’ve got to go out and begin harvesting some peppers, which I grew from seed. It’s amazing the bounty from the earth that comes from a little seed and the bounty that comes from people when planting seeds of love. Remember Christopher, that day when I was a girl all of anger and sadness and couldn’t love anyone? You said, “Listen to this song! It’s all about you!” Then you planted the ultimate suggestion as you turned up the volume on Van Morrison’s, In the Garden.

Something for Free Again :o)

Onion and Green Tomato Fettuccini

By: Celeste Hackett

(Don’t underestimate the flavor of a green tomato. They add a soft, lovely tart flavor to this sauce.)

1 large onion

1 large green tomato

1 med red tomato

2-4 large garlic cloves

Olive Oil

3-4large fresh mushrooms

Bullion

Cornstarch

Slice the onion into rings. Cut up the garlic into 3-4 pieces each. Slice the tomatoes into largish pieces, about 8 pieces per tomato. Slice the mushrooms 4-6 slices each.

Boil fettuccini and drain.

Heat oil in a large frying pan

Put all the veggies in the frying pan

Sauté for a minute or two until the onions become translucent.

Dissolve chicken (or veggie chicken) bullion in a cup of water. Pour that in.

Stir and let simmer for a minute or two. Take a little of that water and dissolve a teaspoon of cornstarch in it. Add a bit of that to the frying pan to thicken the sauce.

Let cook a bit more. If too thick add water. If too thin let cook until it thickens.

Ladel on top of the pasta or put the pasta into the mixture and sauté for a minute.

Transfer to a plate, dust with parmesan. Serves 4-6

Celeste Hackett, CH CPHI

Dallas, TX

Celeste Hackett became a hypnotist after a long and rewarding career as a major market Radio announcer. She sees about 13- 20 clients a week in Dallas, Texas, encountering a wide range of issues where mostly she uses 5-PATH® and other advanced methodologies.

Celeste Hackett has been featured on the Kidd Kraddick Radio Show, and in Dallas Child magazine. She supports new hypnotists in various ways such as my quarterly articles at www.banyanhypnosiscenter.com.

In addition, Celeste is currently working on starting a state-licensed hypnosis school, and co-hosts a weekly Web-TV Show with Calvin Banyan called “Cal Banyan’s Hypnosis Etc with Celeste Hackett.” You can access the show at www.calbanyan.com.


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