I’ve just spent a week in British Columbia. No, not in Vancouver; not at the Olympics. I was performing hypnosis shows for three high schools in southeastern BC, each adjacent to a ski area. So, I got to do some skiing too. Beautiful country up there, and really nice people. The skiing was just OK. They’ve been getting as much snow as the Northeast, which is to say none. If you want snow these days, you have to go to Washington DC or points south. You know, places where nobody knows what to do with the stuff. Global warming? Who knows.

Anyway, the big topic of conversation was the healing and motivating power of hypnosis. Sure, I can provide first-class motivational speeches, but the general sentiment from everyone with whom I spoke was that the show itself was just as healing as a trip to the doctor and just as motivating as an hour with a motivational speaker.

What I heard was that laughter and astonishment, when delivered at the intensity level of my show, just makes people feel good. Really good. Better than anything else they remember. Headaches go away, heartache dissolves, and a sense of possibility arises. And without a word about any of those things. It makes me wonder, why bother saying anything? Maybe all we need to do is access the infinite power of the mind through laughter and astonishment, and everything else works itself out. I don’t know. What do you think?

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