Self-Hypnosis and Personal Alchemy! | Meditation for Success and Individuation transcript

[Music] hi Lee this is James Tripp welcome to this video for hypnosis without trance it is a video on self hypnosis and personal alchemy now I'm making this video because I am running a workshop on this very topic self hypnosis personal alchemy in London in the UK on the 19th and 20th of August this year and I want to say something about the approach what it's about the approach and why I've paired these two things together self hypnosis in person I alchemy now it is not the first time if you've been a student of hypnosis without trance for a long time you may remember a few years ago I did an online training on self hypnosis and I did this with Judy Reiss she was on board to help interview out of me my personal approach to self transformation inside out self transformation and the reason for that is because it's something that I have been involved with for a very long time since I was 19 years old really at the point where I made certain choices about transforming my self and my patterns of engagement with the world I wouldn't have put it that way at the time but that's the way I would put it now and across the years I've looked at self transformation from a variety of different perspectives and that's what ultimately led me into hypnosis NLP related things so when I did the online training a few years ago I was coming from a place of being quite adept at doing self change work in a transformation but having no explicit structures it was a kind of inner craft that I'd learned slowly across many years and the first attempt of teaching this online it was you know I made an arrangement with Judy she was going to interview this out of me and she did and we did a reasonably good job but what we're lacking for me was a lack of explicit structures being in place that could make it easy for people to start practically and pragmatically engaging in self formative processes self gnosis processes personal alchemy if you like so I want to thank a lot of things about self gnosis and personal alchemy and why these two things are paired together I'll begin with personal alchemy personally I'll commune for me it's a metaphor alchemy is about you know if you look at it historically was about the quest to find a way of turning base metal into gold and if you look at it as a metaphor for inner transformation it's about taking out base cells and transforming that into our best selves it's a metaphor that Carl Jung use to his individuation process but I think generally if you're looking at evolving and adapting yourself to become more of who you would like to be in the world in order to create the kind of life the kind of results that you would like to create I think inner alchemy internal alchemy personal alchemy is a lovely frame I also like it because for me it's it's got a certain magic to it but it also implies to me this is an organic process an organic process and we are organic creatures we are not computers to be reprogrammed and this is a crucial element in the approach that I'm going to be teaching on this weekend now let's flip this to the other side and talk a bit about self-hypnosis this is interesting because this morning I was being interviewed for a podcast and the person who was interviewing me was asking about hypnosis and I was giving my take on hypnosis the hypnosis is you know if you watch this you'll know hypnosis is not so much about a special state that you put people into or anything like this gnosis is much more about how we are continually shaping our reality through our conceptual and cognitive faculties it's through how we are making the world up to be how we are making each moment up to be how we are making each experience up to be and as a hypnotist working with other people doing transformative hypnosis what I'm helping them to do is utilize their innate faculties to transform the way they have been making their experience up to be so literally they get to live through different experiences they have the power inside of them to do that because it is their mind brain body that is doing it that is rendering the world up in the way they have been experiencing it so their mind brain body can change the way it is rendering the world up so this is my approach to hypnosis it's less about special States more about helping people utilize their innate faculties for shaping their reality to shape their reality in a very very different way now the principles that are at play in working with somebody else so the same principles that underpin self hypnosis there's a little bit more of a trick to facilitating helmet itself at gnosis than there is with other people because one of the things about hypnosis is you want to be able to the person being hypnotized wants to be able to go fully into the experience and one myself hypnotizing we can never quite go fully into experiences at least you know not if we want to be outside facilitating the process as well we kind of have to be out and we have to be in so there's a few extra tricks to figure out the self hypnosis now looking at this idea about shaping reality reshaping our reality through self Knossos there are two sides to this because we have our current reality organized the way that it is we don't necessarily know what that organization is because we are seeing the world through it it's creating our everyday trances but if we want to use our for one for better term reality shaping factors to create different experiences in the world one of the things we have to be able to do is this may sound a bit harsh but destroy the structures that we already have in place this is d hypnotize ourselves from our old renderings of reality before we can re hypnotize ourselves into new renderings of reality and this is a key part of the personal alchemy process it's a key part of my approach to self-hypnosis so on the 19th 20th of August in London in Regent's Park what I'm going to be teaching is I'm going to be teaching the process of personal alchemy via D hypnosis and Rehab gnosis so there'll be two sides to this they'll be recognizing the underpinnings of your own trances and learning how to shake those loose shape those foundations out how to knock down those old towers of those old paradigms that have held your reality in place it is how to shake them loose and how to then use your mind in a creative way to place new matrixes of reality so to speak for one of a better term in place it's two sides to it D hypnosis rehab gnosis both are equally important if you think about it if you wanted to install a new kitchen you need to rip out the old kitchen first you can't install a new one on top it doesn't work out so well it's the same with self transformation you want to you want to bring about the crumbling of the old before you can build the new so we're looking at both sides of these and the other thing that I want to say about this about this particular approach to self-hypnosis is again I mentioned earlier the point about personal alchemy I like that because it implies to me an organic process one of the things rather than a kind of reprogramming one of the things that I think really helps people to get a lot of benefit from self-hypnosis is to start engaging with a self-hypnosis practice a self-hypnosis practice making it something that you do regularly making it an iterative process because if you're going to start participating in your own beingness in the world with consciousness you're going to become self authoring you're going to be recreating yourself it's an evolutionary process because wherever you're at is going to limit your vistas and your vision as to what you create next so every time you make a shift it's going to change the possibilities of what you can see for that next shift so it's an evolutionary process this process of inner transformation personal alchemy and this is a reason why you want to make self that notice eight practice this is one of the reasons why you want to make it a practice because you cannot see the ultimate destination from where you are at you're not in a place where you can see it yet that's one of the reasons and and also it's because you're just not going to be able to get it right first time you're going to want to be able to make incremental adjustments rather than trying to make a complete change and get it absolutely right first time it's impossible to do we cannot you know you can't get there from here is the old saying so you've got to kind of bootstrap yourself incremental e that's one of the reasons why it's self hypnosis as a practice is an important way of looking at it the second reason why is because it's a skill as well self at Knossos is a skill it's not just a technique that you apply that does something to you it is an internal skill set that you develop and refine and get better and better and better at so by having a self-hypnosis practice a deep hypnosis rehab gnosis practice by engaging with the stuff as a practice what you're actually doing is building a powerful internal skill set which ultimately actually takes you beyond having to do formal self-hypnosis and this was one of the barriers when I wanted to teach self hypnosis before is I didn't engage in formal practices I had an internal skill set and what we're going to be learning on this weekend is a set of formal practices which will help you create an inner skill set which will ultimately enable you to transcend those formal practices and move you to the place where you can become more adept at making the changes you want to make within yourself within your life as and when you want to make them on the fly so that's the ultimate destination this is why this alchemical process this personal alchemy is about practice developing a practice that enables you to involve not only who you are being and how you are being but the skill set for ongoing inner self transformation okay so if this makes sense to you this is resonating with you and you think oh I'll tell you what I want to add on to this as I'm saying this before I close the video I just want to add something about who this is for because this workshop and this material really serves on two levels number one you might be watching this and you might just be interested in in becoming more self authoring transform your self to be able to live the kind of life you would like to live be the way that you would like to be in the world and that's absolutely fine it's a great level to engage with this on but I'm also aware that a lot of people who are subscribers to hypnosis without trance who are on the mailing list to our students of immersive trance I'm aware there's a lot of professional transformative hypnotist or hypnotherapist s-- if you prefer that term and what I would say is this workshop is going to give you an inside-out perspective on change you may not otherwise have some some may do some of you who are doing this who work with other people you may have your own self transformative practices but if you don't this is going to give you a really powerful insight into what it is that drives change and also going to give you a whole bunch of techniques and tools if you like that not only can you apply with yourself but you can actually apply with your clients in a change work capacity as well so I want to I want to just put that out there because this really does operate on two levels there'll be a lot of valuable material in this if you work with other people to help them make change not only will you have those tools there to help them make change but you'll understand them from the inside out you'll have a very deep grounding in them yourself because there'll be something that you have experienced yourself you have experienced the impact of which is a very very powerful thing okay so yeah that's that's probably already neat to say in this video again when it were you're watching this there's going to be a comment section be on YouTube it might be on the information page for the workshop on the blog there's going to be a comment section if you have any questions about this please do ask the questions and I'll get answers to you and if you would like to book on the 19th 20th of August it's going to be Regents Park London either Regents College or the new buse Hotel they're very close together I'm not sure the venue yet and yeah you'll be able to either find a link near this video or if this is on the actual information page you'll be able to find a button where you can book now so if you're booked I will see you in the summer if not I look forward to continuing this conversation about hypnosis via the blog via the videos and everything beyond if you like this video please do like please do subscribe to chaos sway james tripp chaos wave on youtube take care you [Music]