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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 610 EAN: 9780965521017 ISBN: 096552101X Label: Five Wisdoms Press Manufacturer: Five Wisdoms Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 364 Publication Date: 2005-12-31 Publisher: Five Wisdoms Press Studio: Five Wisdoms Press
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Inspiring Book, Profound Training Course Comment: Entered for Caroline Cousins, UK Hypnotherapist: "I have completed this book and the entire certification course(2007)in Finding True Magic. I have found it one of the most inspirational and enlightened learning processes, if not the most, in my life to date. As a hypnotherapist with a strong interest in the spiritual aspect of life and the combination of both, it was important that I find a course that could offer me in-depth learnings in spiritual philosophy coupled with sound common sense and practical application of psychotherapeutic practices. This I found with Jack Elias' profound intelligence in the subjects of both eastern and western philosophy and hypnosis. The book is fascinating, inspiring, inspirational and informative from the Preface onwards up until the very end. Quite simply, it makes you stop and really think about how you live your life, how you process your thoughts, how you do whatever you do in everyday life. Not only do you learn as a hypnotherapist new approaches, and new perspectives, you fully take part in the process of spiritual enlightenment and development as you progress with the book and the course. It is impossible not to. It explores the ego in great depth and Jack's style, from the excellent certification course which accompanies this book, is entertaining, gripping, jaw-dropping and highly knowledgeable. For the new hypnotherapist, there are some excellent scripts as guidelines which incorporate the transpersonal side of hypnosis, and for the experienced hypnotherapist, it is a chance to really enhance the transpersonal knowledge and improve your current practices by understanding more thoroughly the power of the egoic mind. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous and a real life changer!! 10 out of 5!! For anyone reading this -- go do the course. The book is brilliant but it is a fraction of what the rest of the course can really guide you to discover." Customer Rating: Summary: Good hypnosis primer Comment: There's a lot here and Elias certainly knows his stuff. If you haven't experienced the foundational hypnosis work of Dave Elman, you'll have a hard time finding a better advocate than Jack Elias. When it comes to the transpersonal part, Elias certainly throws his hodgepodge of Vedantic Spirituality, Tibetan Buddhist mental constructs, Psychosynthesis, Astrology, Archetypal psychology, past life regression and a little bit of NLP into the mix. The actual hypnosis work is technically excellent and well explained. I just don't find the philosophical underpinnings particularly well tied together. Having worked with hypnotherapy for 20 years I can say that Elias know his stuff. If you want your hypnosis with a new age slant, here it is. If you want Buddhist based practices look elsewhere. This is directive hypnosis not mindfulness meditation. Customer Rating: Summary: Seattle hypnosis instruction provider Comment: I have had some email contact with the author. He provides certification classes in Hypnotherapy in Seattle, which seem to usually require a 2 week period. The Transpersonal slant is quite interesting! Customer Rating: Summary: A Must-Have Book! Comment: Get this book. Read it several times. Take a class with Jack Elias. I'm a Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner. I consider this book one of the cornerstones of my library - it is a textbook you can refer to over and over again. In fact, it is so densely packed with information, if you're anything like me you will *need* to read it over and over again to get everything out of it. There are so many books out there, let me tell you why this book is different. Instead of being a "how-to" book about techniques, it is more of a "why" book about the human mind. Although this book contains techniques and scripts and explanations, underneath all that is a discourse about why people think they have "problems" in the first place. By reading this book you will discover that the "problem" your client thinks he or she has is simply a "trance state." You do not need to hypnotize anyone - they have already hypnotized themselves. I found many other books and trainings taught me to replace these "negative trances" with more "positive trances." This book, however, invites you to "wake up" from trances altogether and realize the profound effect you are having on your world by the way you observe it. Because of this, it is both a "beginner" and an "advanced" text. I learned lots of techniques in other hypnotherapy and NLP trainings - but I didn't know what to do when my techniques "didn't work" with one particular client or another. After reading this book and taking Jack's class, I no longer have to rely on techniques. I can simply deal with whatever emerges. This is the textbook for Jack's class, and although it is a great teaching tool by itself I do not think I would have gleaned as much from it by myself. I highly recommend Jack's live trainings, if you can take one you should. I don't know what else to say except I have taken 4 different hypnosis/NLP training classes and Jack's was one of the very best if not the best one. Not only did I learn techniques, I learned about the true nature of the mind! --Paul Skavland, CHT Customer Rating: Summary: Comprehensive. Insightful. Life-changing. Comment: I'm on my second read of Finding True Magic and am finding it remarkable. A must-have for clinicians or anyone who wishes to explore, accept and honor who we truly are. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Finding True Magic is the primary training text for the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP Certification Program offered by the Institute for Therapeutic Learning. Finding True Magic and the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP training are appropriate for laypeople seeking personal growth, as well as for therapists and other professionals intent on advancing their therapeutic skills. In fact, about 50 per cent of ITL students take the training primarily for personal development. This book explores the possibilities for recognizing and freeing ourselves from a destructive process of perceiving, thinking, and acting that can be viewed as a pernicious worldwide epidemic. Unlike other diseases, which we strive to isolate and cure, this insidious fever has a characteristic that makes us blind to its presence: we come to identify its symptoms as our very own true self. We lovingly speak of this disease as our ego, our sense of limited separate selfhood. Jack Elias calls it "egoic-minding," because it is a process, not a thing. Egoic-minding is a fragmented, biased way of perceiving and thinking. It can be viewed as a sort of destructive hypnotic trance that causes us to experience each other as strangers, as different, as threats. The delirium of this trance causes us to do violence to each other and to our world, without ever recognizing that it (our egoic thought process) is the true enemy. By synthesizing insights and techniques of Eastern and Western philosophy and psychology, Finding True Magic explores various ways to disperse the feverish trance of egoic-minding, heal the trauma it causes, and wake us up to the sacred magic of our true Self. This true inner Self is the wellspring of our capacity for cooperation, community-building, and the celebration of life. Everyone has the right to the make use of the essential insights and dynamics of healing communication, without resorting to the long-term expense of a professional intermediary. The model of such therapeutic relationships has changed in recent years, due to the financial burdens it places on our medical system. Financial considerations aside, however, therapy and therapists should change simply because there is a more effective approach to healing and personal growth. That approach, which is the subject of this book, relies on the inherent goodness of our shared Being, a resource that is surprisingly easy to contact in the space between egoic thoughts. Most of us do not experience that space in the normal course of our thinking, however. We may be surprised to hear such a thing, given our experience of the seemingly impenetrable stream of our thoughts. But this space is quite real. It is the space of Silence, Healing Power, and Insight. We have all experienced this silence on occasion, perhaps through prayer, or in a tender moment of love or awe. Most of us have not been taught, and have remained unaware that this silent Presence is always so close and available. Holistic mind/body therapeutic techniques, such as those presented here, derive transformative power when they help us to tap into this willing Presence, also called Grace.