Our home just went up for sale! You are all welcome to take the virtual tour and see what the Banyan “Homestead” in Minnesota looks like!
AND, if you happened to know someone who would like to move to Coon Rapids, Minnesota (a suburb of Minneapolis/St. Paul) tell them about our virtual tour. It really is a beautiful home, in a beautiful location near the Mississippi river, on Coon Creek, with the creek and pond surrounding ¾ of the home.
Link for virtual tour, http://www.circlepix.com/tour.htm?id=383340&mls_tour=1 Click “VIRTUAL IMAGES”.
Link for details about our home, http://matrix.northstarmls.com/Matrix/Public/Email.aspx?ID=1803994499
Cats; Meeka, Moacha and Mooka, are not included! 
Well, the last client has been seen, and the last class has been conducted at the Banyan Hypnosis Center for Training & Services, Inc. located in Mounds View, MN! Greg had the honor of seeing the last client yesterday.
Now we are just packing up and taking care of a bunch of business details, like forwarding mail, changing addresses with all of the right people and businesses. Thanks goodness for wife, Maureen! She is so organized and she seems to be able to think of everything that we need to do to make this move. That’s why she is the General Manager and I’m just a lowly hypnotherapist! I couldn’t do it without her.
Good by old office. It has been a great 10 years!
We hope you will keep in touch as we move to our new office in Tustin, California, a suburb of Orange County. Our toll free number will remain, 800-965-3390.
I thought I would pass this along. It seems that the Singapore government publication, eCitizen.gov.sg likes my ideas about feelings and emotions, which I have published in my book The Secret Language of Feelings.
I am pleasantly surprised and honored to be named in the publication. This recognition is probably a result the training and promotion in hypnosis that I have conducted over the last few years in Singapore.
Thank you Singapore of the honor of being mentioned in your publication and for spreading the word!
For information about hypnosis training in Singapore visit www.Hypnosis.sg or www.Delta3Hypnosis.com.
I just got off the telephone with a hypnotherapist who wanted help with a client. So while I have a good example, I am posting another Banyanism.
The hypnotherapist who called, went into a long explanation about the problems which he was having. The particular problem that he was having was that he could only keep one of his clients “in somnambulism for about 5 minutes and then she would fall asleep.”
Well, like I always say, “When something isn’t working that should be working, this usually means that something that should have been done before then was not done, either properly or completely,” (another Banyanism). So after listening to him for a while, I began to suspect that he was not properly testing for somnambulism, among other things.
Among other problems I suspected that he was having (i.e., not building sufficient trust, not doing a sufficient pre-talk, and using tests which are not valid tests for somnambulism) I believed that he was placing too much attention on how relaxed his client was physically, and as a result wound up spending too much time giving suggestions for physical relaxation. He also thought that “eyelock” was a test for somnambulism. It is not. It is a valid overt test for Hypnoidal, the lightest level of hypnosis identified in the Arons Depth Scale.
I suggested that he start doing instant inductions (i.e., B8WI), using one of the two covert tests for somnambulism (that I cover in my hypnosis training courses), doing a quick convincer such as eyelock, and then get on with his sessions. If he takes my advice, he will now be working with somnambulistic clients who don’t fall asleep on him. That should make him very happy, and make his clients more successful!
So there is the next Banyanism. If you keep it in mind you will be better able to troubleshoot your sessions when you have difficulty. For example, if you are attempting to conduct a hypnotic age regression session and your client is unable to revivify the session (meaning hallucinate experiencing the earlier event) then you have not successfully hypnotized and deepened your client to the level of somnambulism, the level needed to suggest revivification. As a further example, if you are unable to induce somnambulism, this usually means that the pre-talk is not done, and so on.
We are very sad to report that Margaret ‘Maggie’ Damon, of Merrimack, died Saturday, April 22, 2006, at St. Josephs Hospital in Nashua, after a brief illness. Mrs. Damon was the beloved wife of Dr. Dwight Damon, the President of the National Guild of Hypnotists.
My wife and I have enjoyed getting to know Maggie while spending time with them at the National Guild of Hypnotists Convention, and Solid Gold Weekend events. We are very sad to hear of her passing, and invite you to visit the National Guild of Hypnotists website, www.NGH.net where a beautiful memorial page has been set up.
We hope you all will join us in sending prayers to the Damon family as they experience this very difficult time.
Maggie will be greatly missed. But heaven is a bit nicer for having her there now.
