GENESIS

My interest in hypnosis began at the age of ten after reading an uncle’s book on the subject.  I still remember the shiny black book jacket with green and white print.  While words like “catalepsy” and “somnambulism” didn’t hold any meaning, I quickly skimmed through to the induction stage – how to induce a trance.

Anxious to get my “career” started, I rounded up girlfriends who willingly obliged to be subjects, but alas, never got beyond the close  your eyes, you are getting sleepy stage.  This simply produced giggles, likely for the best, as there was no concept of what I was going to do if and when they did “go under.”

Then I borrowed another book from my uncle, this one on the works of Edgar Cayce and soon became fascinated with past life regression.

It would be nearly 20 years later before I signed up for classes with Dr. Steve Steiner, founder of the Canadian Institute of Hypnosis.  My mind danced with ideas of discovering past lives,  but surprisingly Dr. Steiner did not touch on the subject.  Instead, his focus was on the here and now.  I still remember his three magic words “FROM NOW ON,” which proved to be extremely beneficial.

After spending the summer studying with Dr. Steiner, my career as a hypnotist was still on hold in that only psychologists and medical doctors were allowed to practice hypnosis.  It would be decades before the legislation changed, and finally in 2010 I took the plunge and studied to become a certified consulting hypnotist with Dr. Georgina Canon and became a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists.