Cal Banyan here with another episode of Cal Banyan’s Hypnosis, Etc., with Celeste Hackett, an informative, interesting and at times fun show about Hypnosis, where we’ll talk about all kinds of stuff hypnosis related. Uh, by the way, I want you to visit www.calbanyan.com especially if you’re viewing this anywhere except on www.calbanyan.com for example, we’re listed in iTunes that way you’ll be able to get to the notes associated with this program and any links that we put down, down there, below this image. Alright Celeste, what’s going on with you and what’ve you got for me today?

Celeste: Well, hello everyone, yes, I’m also here, and I’m the fun part by the way, ha, ha, just kidding, Cal. Umm, umm, Hypnosis verses Psychology as a career path, uh, hypnotists possibly to be, wrote in wondering, you know, what would make her more….which way should she go, she wants to know what you can do with Hypnosis as opposed what you can do with Psychology. She’s trying to figure out what kind of career path she wants.

And then, should you direct your client to more events during a Regression if they only come up with one or two things. And we’re also going to talk about how to help clients to attract healthy, meaningful relationships when dating. And then, Cal has something really special for you, uh, how to make yourself look dumb or smart, as a Hypnotist, actually I think he’s calling it dumb Hypnotist tricks.

Cal: You think we’re going to get through all that in 20 minutes?

Celeste: Okay, then just the first one, Hypnosis verses Psychology as a career path and you know I’m ambitious, Cal.

Cal: You are, well, that’s good everybody should be ambitious. Alright, let’s see here, so, give me the question the way it was brought up to you.

Celeste: Well, it goes like this, “I am considering becoming a Hypnotist- Hypnotherapist, can you tell me, is it possible to say what types of issues or problems that are best helped with Hypnosis as opposed to counseling or therapy? For example, I would imagine Hypnosis is pretty good for stopping bad habits, like smoking, finger nail biting, being disorganized, but maybe not too good for things that have a deep psychological root like negative self image, personality disorders, depression, etc.

Cal: Beautiful, where did you get that question from?

Celeste: Uh, I don’t know. You know, I’m all over the place, coming up with questions, and I don’t remember where I got that one from.

Cal: Okay, prioritize the Ask Cal group on our www.OurHypnoSpace.com , okay? Because we’ve been telling people to go there, so we want to make sure that if, you know, if they post a question there, that we’ll get to them, alright?

Celeste: Okay, I usually do check it, uh, I didn’t check it right before this show. But, uh, there wasn’t anything new that I saw the last time I checked, which I think was Friday? Oh, I’m sorry a couple of days ago.

Cal: Okay, well good. So, I know, I’m hearing a lot of stuff in this question I could probably really talk about it for a couple of hours, but, one of the things I heard is what is umm, what is Hypnosis good for compared to talk therapy and I’m also hearing what is the right career path for me, have I got that right, Celeste?

Celeste: That’s correct.

Cal: Okay, so let’s say you’re considering, gee, should I become a, uh, you know, a Hypnotist, a Hypnotherapist or should I become a Psychologist? Well, gosh, you know, you, there’s no you don’t have to be one or the other; you could be both if you wanted to. Uh, in fact, uh, if you have a strong calling to be a Psychologist, then by all means go for it. I’m very much in favor of education, if you want a Bachelor’s degree, a Master’s degree, a Ph.D., I know you can, for sure go ahead and do that.

One of the nice things though is, uh, you can start doing Hypnotherapy or helping people with Hypnosis a lot sooner than it takes to get one of those degrees. Now I come from a background in Psychology and umm, basically left that profession in favor of Hypnosis, because it’s a lot more satisfying for me and umm, you know, exciting for me.

But, and you know probably depends on your particular school of thought, but if you studied Clinical Hypnosis and wanted to get a license in, uh, not Clinical Hypnosis, excuse me. If you wanted to get a degree, a Ph.D., in Clinical Psychology, that’s really, umm, a degree in working with people who need to be in the Clinical environment and what does that mean? People who are mentally ill, and I found that very dissatisfying after a while.

Because mainly as a psychologist, that’s working with people who are mentally ill, you’re mainly doing diagnostic work and assessment work and reports and trying to manage their behaviors, in particular the behavior of doing, of taking medications, and gosh, it’s not all that satisfying. And if you are working with normal everyday people with normal everyday problems, uh, you’re not going to be able to diagnose them, I mean if it’s a normal everyday problem.