As many of you know, I have been involved in hypnotherapy work since 1992, when I studied and worked with Dr. Irene Hickman of Kirksville, Mo.
I am looking for a partner to work with me in a certain type of hypnosis session. I get frequent requests for a type of hypnotherapy that requires a second person. This second person would serve as a hypnotized person and together we would do the work requested by a person who does not live here and who would not be present during the session. Recently, I received requests from a man in Georgia (USA) and from a man in Poland.
This is not pro bono work. Clients pay to have this work done by competent practitioners. I've been involved in this work for 18 years and am, frankly, good at it. I have trained others and have co-conducted workshops at professional conferences.
If you are interested in learning more about it, please email me at gus@gusphilpott.com
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Does hypnosis by phone work?
Is there any reason that hypnosis by telephone shouldn't work?
I've done a number of telephone hypnosis sessions. While I much prefer to do them in person, they surely can be done successfully by telephone.
Two cases come to mind. The first, done on a Sunday night prior to the woman client's planned cancer surgery on Monday, was started in the afternoon. Everything was going smoothly, until I realized that something had caused the woman to leave the trance state. It turned out there was a thunder and lightning storm in her area. I quickly suggested we finish the session in the evening, and we did.
In 1993 I had met Dr. Raymond Moody (author, Life After Life) and Dannion Brinkley (author, Saved by the Light) and had heard their stories about the near-death experience. Brinkley had been on the telephone in his bedroom when he was struck by lightning and died. His is a fascinating story.
A second case involved a woman who was suffering insomnia. We had already worked together, and I did a phone session with her one evening, and I learned the next day that she had slept the night straight through.
With the availability of Skype, telephone sessions are even better, because I can pick up important visual clues to the hypnotized person's experience. For more information, contact me.
I've done a number of telephone hypnosis sessions. While I much prefer to do them in person, they surely can be done successfully by telephone.
Two cases come to mind. The first, done on a Sunday night prior to the woman client's planned cancer surgery on Monday, was started in the afternoon. Everything was going smoothly, until I realized that something had caused the woman to leave the trance state. It turned out there was a thunder and lightning storm in her area. I quickly suggested we finish the session in the evening, and we did.
In 1993 I had met Dr. Raymond Moody (author, Life After Life) and Dannion Brinkley (author, Saved by the Light) and had heard their stories about the near-death experience. Brinkley had been on the telephone in his bedroom when he was struck by lightning and died. His is a fascinating story.
A second case involved a woman who was suffering insomnia. We had already worked together, and I did a phone session with her one evening, and I learned the next day that she had slept the night straight through.
With the availability of Skype, telephone sessions are even better, because I can pick up important visual clues to the hypnotized person's experience. For more information, contact me.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Does hypnosis work? Do demons leave?
I'm often asked if hypnosis works and how many sessions a person might need.
I recall a day back in April 1993, when a woman in New Jersey told me of several problems she wanted to work on. When she asked how many sessions I thought it might take, I answered, "Is this supposed to take more than one?"
And we did one session.
One of the difficult things about building my type of hypnotherapy practice is that clients most often do come to see me only one time. And it's not because they run away afterwards. It's because hypnotherapy is incredibly effective or, rather, the mind is incredibly effective in resolving problems when it has the right tool(s).
Two of her problems we solved without hypnosis. She told me that she was having problems with her ex-husband. What was the problem? He wouldn't give her a divorce. "So he's not your ex-husband, is he? He's your husband!"
She had had four lawyers, and they couldn't get him served. Since he was a transmission repair shop owner, I told her he was the easiest guy in the world to serve with divorce papers. I told her to buy a junk car for $25 and pay $100 to have it towed to the guy's shop. When Louie rolled out from under it and said it would be $1,000 to fix the transmission, all the process server had to do was drop the summons on his chest and leave. Bingo! Served!
Next problem?
After four lawyers and $40,000, she wasn't divorced. I told her to hire a new lawyer, sue to get the $40K back, give the new guy $20K and tell him to get her divorce finished. Take the other $20K and go around the world. Tell the new guy, if she wasn't divorced when she got back, she was going to sue him and get that $20K back.
Next problem?
Now, her hypnotherapy session did last over two hours. She had a whole bunch of demons. Dr. Hickman and I couldn't get most of them to leave together, so we had to pick them off, one by one.
Some were threatening, but they left. They all left. In one session.
I recall a day back in April 1993, when a woman in New Jersey told me of several problems she wanted to work on. When she asked how many sessions I thought it might take, I answered, "Is this supposed to take more than one?"
And we did one session.
One of the difficult things about building my type of hypnotherapy practice is that clients most often do come to see me only one time. And it's not because they run away afterwards. It's because hypnotherapy is incredibly effective or, rather, the mind is incredibly effective in resolving problems when it has the right tool(s).
Two of her problems we solved without hypnosis. She told me that she was having problems with her ex-husband. What was the problem? He wouldn't give her a divorce. "So he's not your ex-husband, is he? He's your husband!"
She had had four lawyers, and they couldn't get him served. Since he was a transmission repair shop owner, I told her he was the easiest guy in the world to serve with divorce papers. I told her to buy a junk car for $25 and pay $100 to have it towed to the guy's shop. When Louie rolled out from under it and said it would be $1,000 to fix the transmission, all the process server had to do was drop the summons on his chest and leave. Bingo! Served!
Next problem?
After four lawyers and $40,000, she wasn't divorced. I told her to hire a new lawyer, sue to get the $40K back, give the new guy $20K and tell him to get her divorce finished. Take the other $20K and go around the world. Tell the new guy, if she wasn't divorced when she got back, she was going to sue him and get that $20K back.
Next problem?
Now, her hypnotherapy session did last over two hours. She had a whole bunch of demons. Dr. Hickman and I couldn't get most of them to leave together, so we had to pick them off, one by one.
Some were threatening, but they left. They all left. In one session.
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
M. Scott Peck, M.D. - exorcist?
A fellow traveler in Australia recently recommended a book called Glimpses of the Devil, by M. Scott Peck, M.D. Many will be familiar with Dr. Peck's book, The Road Less Traveled.
I have only just begun reading this book, and I find his method greatly differs from my training with Irene Hickman, D.O.(1915-2002). She trained with William J. (Bill) Baldwin, D.D.S., Ph.D. when she was 78, and I met Irene in 1988, when she was 73.
On the inside of the front dustcover is the claim that Peck's book "... reveals the amazing true story of his work as an exorcist - kept secret for more than twenty-five years." Perhaps he was afraid it would affect his psychiatric practice or his popularity as an author. The book was his last book, and it was published in the year of his death - 2005.
Although he mentions hypnosis briefly while describing his therapy and exorcism with a patient to whom he gave the name "Jersey", his methods seem to me to follow his psychiatric training and religious models.
My training, with Irene Hickman on Bill Baldwin's model, is likely to produce positive results considerably faster. It also does not require a larger "team" approach, lengthy preparation or long duration of effort.
I'll always remember being introduced to a C.P.A. in the Indianapolis area in about 1997. He asked what I did, and I asked him what he thought I did. He thought about it for a moment and then said, "You're an exorcist." I was so astonished that I didn't even ask him what has caused him to make that guess!
I have only just begun reading this book, and I find his method greatly differs from my training with Irene Hickman, D.O.(1915-2002). She trained with William J. (Bill) Baldwin, D.D.S., Ph.D. when she was 78, and I met Irene in 1988, when she was 73.
On the inside of the front dustcover is the claim that Peck's book "... reveals the amazing true story of his work as an exorcist - kept secret for more than twenty-five years." Perhaps he was afraid it would affect his psychiatric practice or his popularity as an author. The book was his last book, and it was published in the year of his death - 2005.
Although he mentions hypnosis briefly while describing his therapy and exorcism with a patient to whom he gave the name "Jersey", his methods seem to me to follow his psychiatric training and religious models.
My training, with Irene Hickman on Bill Baldwin's model, is likely to produce positive results considerably faster. It also does not require a larger "team" approach, lengthy preparation or long duration of effort.
I'll always remember being introduced to a C.P.A. in the Indianapolis area in about 1997. He asked what I did, and I asked him what he thought I did. He thought about it for a moment and then said, "You're an exorcist." I was so astonished that I didn't even ask him what has caused him to make that guess!
Friday, February 11, 2011
Pre-surgery hypnosis
Several years ago I began doing pre-surgery hypnosis. I received an email message from a woman who was out of state and was approaching the date of surgery for breast cancer. She was understandably anxious about the surgery, and her state of anxiety was increasing as the date neared.On the day before her surgery we did a hypnosis session on the telephone. At one point I could tell that she had emerged from the hypnotic state, and I asked what was going on. She explained that there was a lightning storm in her area, and I quickly suggested that we continue the session later. *
Two weeks later she called to tell me about the day of her surgery. She had arrived early for her 7:30AM surgery, and it was postponed until 4:30PM. She explained that, instead of being a "basket case" all day, she had been relaxed and had actually joked all day with the nurses. When it was time for the surgery, she was ready and all proceeded smoothly.
She asked how I had known to give her one particular suggestion, and I could only respond that "somehow" I had just known. A hunch? A "nudge"? Intuition? Luck?
If you are facing surgery, contact me and let's talk about how hypnosis might be of real help to you.
Email: gus@gusphilpott.com
Phones: 815.338.2666 and 847.971.7083
* Why did I suggest we not continue the telephone session during the lightning storm? In 1993 I met Dannion Brinkley and heard him tell his story about being on the telephone in the bedroom of his home, when lightning struck his house and him. He was knocked out of his shoes, and the nails in his shoes were welded to the nails in the bedroom floor. Dannion was pronounced dead at the hospital, but he "came back", having experienced what is called a Near-Death Experience. He tells his story in his book, Saved by the Light, and on a videotape titled Life After Life, which was produced by Dr. Raymond Moody, a research psychiatrist.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Why hypnotherapy?
Frequently I am asked whether hypnosis or hypnotherapy works. Well, does it?
I sometimes will test whether a person is listening (or has a sense of humor) and answer, "Nahhh, it doesn't work. I just talk to people until they go to sleep and, when they wake up, they hand me money and leave."
I studied and worked with the late Irene Hickman, D.O. Dr. Hickman was asked often if talk therapy worked. She always answered that it did. She'd say, "Talk therapy will fix any problem, a-n-y problem, as long as the client and the therapist live long enough and the money doesn't run out."
Through the use of hypnotherapy, a client can often get a sense very quickly of the root of the problem. And deal with it, under hypnosis, and very often in one session. And then, if he or she is seeing a counselor or social worker or therapist, then they might make some real progress in subsequent 50-minute, "hour" sessions. I've had clients tell me that they often start getting to the core of a problem after about 45 minutes; then the "hour" is up, they are still in tears, and it's "Well, see you next week."
Tears are good; crying is cleaning. When is the last time you had a good cry? And then turned off the tears and felt better?
This is one of the powers of hypnotherapy.
I sometimes will test whether a person is listening (or has a sense of humor) and answer, "Nahhh, it doesn't work. I just talk to people until they go to sleep and, when they wake up, they hand me money and leave."
I studied and worked with the late Irene Hickman, D.O. Dr. Hickman was asked often if talk therapy worked. She always answered that it did. She'd say, "Talk therapy will fix any problem, a-n-y problem, as long as the client and the therapist live long enough and the money doesn't run out."
Through the use of hypnotherapy, a client can often get a sense very quickly of the root of the problem. And deal with it, under hypnosis, and very often in one session. And then, if he or she is seeing a counselor or social worker or therapist, then they might make some real progress in subsequent 50-minute, "hour" sessions. I've had clients tell me that they often start getting to the core of a problem after about 45 minutes; then the "hour" is up, they are still in tears, and it's "Well, see you next week."
Tears are good; crying is cleaning. When is the last time you had a good cry? And then turned off the tears and felt better?
This is one of the powers of hypnotherapy.
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
World Hypnotism Day - Jan. 4
Today, January 4th, is World Hypnotism Day. Yippee....
You can celebrate by getting hypnotized today. Watch the white line on the interstate at 100MPH; there is a State Trooper just waiting to "hypnotize" you.
Or watch TV.
Or check out www.worldhypnotismday.com/
You can celebrate by getting hypnotized today. Watch the white line on the interstate at 100MPH; there is a State Trooper just waiting to "hypnotize" you.
Or watch TV.
Or check out www.worldhypnotismday.com/
PTSD and Hypnotherapy
This morning's article in the Northwest Herald on PTSD and returning veterans and my recent visit to South Carolina have reinforced my belief that regression hypnotherapy can be very powerful in helping these veterans recover a sense of balance in their lives and a place of belonging, now that they are back home.
My study and work with a retired osteopathic physician in 1992-93 trained me to conduct regression hypnotherapy sessions with the toughest of cases.
It's important for readers to know that I am not a psychologist or a doctor or a counselor or a social worker or a therapist or any of those other things. I don't have a long alphabet of initials hanging off the end of my name. What I am, is a regression hypnotherapist.
The late Dr. Irene Hickman (1915-2002), my trainer and mentor, said this about "talk" therapy. "Talk therapy will cure any problem, every problem, as long as the client and the therapist live long enough and the money doesn't run out." Do you know people who have been in "talk therapy" for years and who don't seem to have made much progress in their recovery?
How does regression hypnotherapy work?
In the state of hypnosis (relaxation), many clients will go back to the root cause of the problem they are experiencing, such as sleeplessness, anxiety, anger, reactions to sudden or loud noises, memories of traumatic experiences encountered previously, including during wartime. The key is re-experiencing the emotions of the event(s), and releasing those emotions. And going back through the key elements of the experience 3-4-5 times (within 20-30 minutes), letting go of remaining emotions.
The "thread" or connection is broken by letting go of the emotions while hypnotized. Then, once awakened (well, not "awakened", since they weren't asleep, but you know what I mean), most clients will react or behave differently, more peacefully, without the former emotional attachment to the traumatic event.
Regression hypnotherapy doesn't involve multiple sessions over extended periods of time. Very often, one session is sufficient for significant improvement. If a client wants to return for another session, fine.
For information, contact me at gus@gusphilpott.com or at 815.338.2666 or via Skype (gus.philpott).
To read today's Northwest Herald article, go to www.nwherald.com/2011/01/03/invisible-scars/aitvom8/
For information about a South Carolina organization serving returning veterans with PTSD who are suicidal, contact www.hiddenwounds.org/
My study and work with a retired osteopathic physician in 1992-93 trained me to conduct regression hypnotherapy sessions with the toughest of cases.
It's important for readers to know that I am not a psychologist or a doctor or a counselor or a social worker or a therapist or any of those other things. I don't have a long alphabet of initials hanging off the end of my name. What I am, is a regression hypnotherapist.
The late Dr. Irene Hickman (1915-2002), my trainer and mentor, said this about "talk" therapy. "Talk therapy will cure any problem, every problem, as long as the client and the therapist live long enough and the money doesn't run out." Do you know people who have been in "talk therapy" for years and who don't seem to have made much progress in their recovery?
How does regression hypnotherapy work?
In the state of hypnosis (relaxation), many clients will go back to the root cause of the problem they are experiencing, such as sleeplessness, anxiety, anger, reactions to sudden or loud noises, memories of traumatic experiences encountered previously, including during wartime. The key is re-experiencing the emotions of the event(s), and releasing those emotions. And going back through the key elements of the experience 3-4-5 times (within 20-30 minutes), letting go of remaining emotions.
The "thread" or connection is broken by letting go of the emotions while hypnotized. Then, once awakened (well, not "awakened", since they weren't asleep, but you know what I mean), most clients will react or behave differently, more peacefully, without the former emotional attachment to the traumatic event.
Regression hypnotherapy doesn't involve multiple sessions over extended periods of time. Very often, one session is sufficient for significant improvement. If a client wants to return for another session, fine.
For information, contact me at gus@gusphilpott.com or at 815.338.2666 or via Skype (gus.philpott).
To read today's Northwest Herald article, go to www.nwherald.com/2011/01/03/invisible-scars/aitvom8/
For information about a South Carolina organization serving returning veterans with PTSD who are suicidal, contact www.hiddenwounds.org/
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Hypnosis vs. Hypnotherapy
I am frequently asked what the difference is between hypnosis and hypnotherapy. Over the years I've come up with this explanation. See how you like it.
Hypnosis is a state of relaxation. You can be guided into it in several ways. My way is to talk to you and suggest that you allow all the nerves and muscles in your body to relax. There is nothing to "do"; just do your best to allow yourself to accept the suggestions.
In a deep state of relaxation your senses are often heightened. You'll hear my voice; you'll hear the phone ring, the dog bark, voices of family members in the home, etc., and those sounds just won't matter.
I always tell a client that she can accept the suggestions I give, or not. This puts the client in control. And I tell the client that, should there be any reason or cause of alarm or danger, she will be wide away, mind sharp, body strong, able to take care of herself and give assistance to anyone or anything in need.
With hypnosis, the hypnotist does all the talking, and the client does all the listening.
Hypnotherapy? This is different. Hypnosis is used to help a client into the state of relaxation. Then the client and I have a conversation - while the client is hypnotized.
Sessions often involve regression; i.e., going back to the cause of whatever is of interest to the client or causing any type of problem. I don't tell the client where to go. My training with the late Dr. Irene Hickman allows me to "keep up with" the client, wherever he or she goes.
Sometimes clients experience something that never happened to them; i.e., never happened to the physical body that they have (in this lifetime). Briefly, if they have a fear of water and, under hypnosis, regress to a lifetime that ended when they drowned, if they release all the emotion connected with that drowning, they may no longer experience a fear of water in this lifetime.
For more information, or to arrange a hypnotherapy session, please contact me at gus@gusphilpott.com
© 2010 GUS PHILPOTT. All rights reserved.
Hypnosis is a state of relaxation. You can be guided into it in several ways. My way is to talk to you and suggest that you allow all the nerves and muscles in your body to relax. There is nothing to "do"; just do your best to allow yourself to accept the suggestions.
In a deep state of relaxation your senses are often heightened. You'll hear my voice; you'll hear the phone ring, the dog bark, voices of family members in the home, etc., and those sounds just won't matter.
I always tell a client that she can accept the suggestions I give, or not. This puts the client in control. And I tell the client that, should there be any reason or cause of alarm or danger, she will be wide away, mind sharp, body strong, able to take care of herself and give assistance to anyone or anything in need.
With hypnosis, the hypnotist does all the talking, and the client does all the listening.
Hypnotherapy? This is different. Hypnosis is used to help a client into the state of relaxation. Then the client and I have a conversation - while the client is hypnotized.
Sessions often involve regression; i.e., going back to the cause of whatever is of interest to the client or causing any type of problem. I don't tell the client where to go. My training with the late Dr. Irene Hickman allows me to "keep up with" the client, wherever he or she goes.
Sometimes clients experience something that never happened to them; i.e., never happened to the physical body that they have (in this lifetime). Briefly, if they have a fear of water and, under hypnosis, regress to a lifetime that ended when they drowned, if they release all the emotion connected with that drowning, they may no longer experience a fear of water in this lifetime.
For more information, or to arrange a hypnotherapy session, please contact me at gus@gusphilpott.com
© 2010 GUS PHILPOTT. All rights reserved.
Friday, November 05, 2010
What's next?
OK, the race for Sheriff of McHenry County is over. That's a chapter in a closed book now, except for the idea from a friend to write a book about the experience.
As I sit here and look at one of my several business cards, I'm drawn back to the one for my hypnotherapy practice. "Hypnotherapy, hypnoisis, EFT". This sort of got pushed aside during the past year, and now it's time to get back to work.
Another strong interest is advocating for students in Special Education. Some schools really step up to the mark and accept their responsibility for implementing IEPs for these students. And then there are the other schools... and plenty of them ... that just shuffle these kids on toward certificates or diplomas and send them out into the world, poorly prepared.
Check out my blogs at www.woodstockadvocate.com/ and www.specialkids-specialparents.info
As I sit here and look at one of my several business cards, I'm drawn back to the one for my hypnotherapy practice. "Hypnotherapy, hypnoisis, EFT". This sort of got pushed aside during the past year, and now it's time to get back to work.
Another strong interest is advocating for students in Special Education. Some schools really step up to the mark and accept their responsibility for implementing IEPs for these students. And then there are the other schools... and plenty of them ... that just shuffle these kids on toward certificates or diplomas and send them out into the world, poorly prepared.
Check out my blogs at www.woodstockadvocate.com/ and www.specialkids-specialparents.info
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Information about race for Sheriff
The best places for information about my race for Sheriff of McHenry County (Ill.) are http://www.gus4sheriff.info/ and http://www.woodstockadvocate.com/
Please visit those sites for more current information, along with a PayPal button for donations.
Like to contact me? Email me at gus@gusphilpott.com
Want to call me? Call 815.338.2666, which is both home and fax. If you hear the fax tone, please call back in the evening.
And, remember... vote for GP on Nov. 2. That's Gus Philpott (and Green Party).
Please visit those sites for more current information, along with a PayPal button for donations.
Like to contact me? Email me at gus@gusphilpott.com
Want to call me? Call 815.338.2666, which is both home and fax. If you hear the fax tone, please call back in the evening.
And, remember... vote for GP on Nov. 2. That's Gus Philpott (and Green Party).
Friday, March 05, 2010
Race for McHenry County Sheriff
More information about my race for McHenry County (Ill.) Sheriff in the November 2010 general election can be found at www.gus4sheriff.info
More information on my overall philosophy, interests and opinions can be viewed at www.woodstockadvocate.com
I chose the Green Party because I could avoid being eliminated in the February 2, 2010, primary election. Illinois election laws are such that, if you do not win your primary within your party, you are off the ballot. Period. You cannot later (in the same election) run as a Write-in or switch parties. In order to win the Sheriff's office in the November 2010 election, you have to be on the ballot!
My campaign will seek the support of the People of McHenry County. If a businessowner (owner!) wants to contribute to my campaign fund, then s/he'll have to write the check out of his personal account. In keeping with the Green Party key values, no corporate contribution will be accepted.
Please visit www.gus4sheriff.info
More information on my overall philosophy, interests and opinions can be viewed at www.woodstockadvocate.com
I chose the Green Party because I could avoid being eliminated in the February 2, 2010, primary election. Illinois election laws are such that, if you do not win your primary within your party, you are off the ballot. Period. You cannot later (in the same election) run as a Write-in or switch parties. In order to win the Sheriff's office in the November 2010 election, you have to be on the ballot!
My campaign will seek the support of the People of McHenry County. If a businessowner (owner!) wants to contribute to my campaign fund, then s/he'll have to write the check out of his personal account. In keeping with the Green Party key values, no corporate contribution will be accepted.
Please visit www.gus4sheriff.info
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Special Education interests
My interest in Special Education began in 1996, when I moved to Woodstock, Ill.
This blog will be expanded shortly about my interests as a parent-advocate in Woodstock District 200 schools on behalf of my stepson and for other students.
In the meantime, see www.specialkids-specialparents.info/
This blog will be expanded shortly about my interests as a parent-advocate in Woodstock District 200 schools on behalf of my stepson and for other students.
In the meantime, see www.specialkids-specialparents.info/
Law Enforcement Interest
I guess I've always been interested in cop stuff. I'll mark it from an early age when I used to sit on the front lawn of my parents' home in University City, Missouri, and watch a local cop grab drivers going the wrong way down our one-way street.
When I was 16, I did a "dumb-kid" trick and got a speeding ticket for 42 in a 30-zone. That was my first and only speeding ticket. The cop was polite to me, although he could have yanked me out of the car and demanded to know "where the fire was."
I was a cop in a small Iowa college town, when I was a college senior. That was my first police job.
Ten years later I was a reserve deputy sheriff in Colorado for 7-8 years. Although I was a volunteer and had a full-time sales job, I worked 20-25 hours a week. Very quickly I earned solo patrol car privileges, and for the last three years I rode my privately-owned, police-equipped Harley-Davidson on traffic patrol.
I'll admit to a peculiar philosophy as a cop. I was always a citizen first, a cop second. I believed, and still believe, that a cop ought to be first to obey the laws, not last. I've been around too many cops who thought were for everyone else and not for them.
For the past two election cycles in McHenry County, Ill., I have said, "Man! I ought to run for Sheriff." As the election cycle approached in 2009 and I found myself saying the same thing, I declared, "Man! I am 70 years old. If I am going to run for Sheriff, I'd better do it." And so I am a candidate for Sheriff of McHenry County in the November 2010 General Election.
For initial information about my campaign for sheriff, please click on www.gus4sheriff.info
When I was 16, I did a "dumb-kid" trick and got a speeding ticket for 42 in a 30-zone. That was my first and only speeding ticket. The cop was polite to me, although he could have yanked me out of the car and demanded to know "where the fire was."
I was a cop in a small Iowa college town, when I was a college senior. That was my first police job.
Ten years later I was a reserve deputy sheriff in Colorado for 7-8 years. Although I was a volunteer and had a full-time sales job, I worked 20-25 hours a week. Very quickly I earned solo patrol car privileges, and for the last three years I rode my privately-owned, police-equipped Harley-Davidson on traffic patrol.
I'll admit to a peculiar philosophy as a cop. I was always a citizen first, a cop second. I believed, and still believe, that a cop ought to be first to obey the laws, not last. I've been around too many cops who thought were for everyone else and not for them.
For the past two election cycles in McHenry County, Ill., I have said, "Man! I ought to run for Sheriff." As the election cycle approached in 2009 and I found myself saying the same thing, I declared, "Man! I am 70 years old. If I am going to run for Sheriff, I'd better do it." And so I am a candidate for Sheriff of McHenry County in the November 2010 General Election.
For initial information about my campaign for sheriff, please click on www.gus4sheriff.info
Hypnotherapy and Hypnosis
My interest in hypnotherapy and hypnosis began in July 1988, when I met a retired osteopathic physician, Irene Hickman, D.O. I was living in Fort Collins, Colo. and met her at a conference being held in the town's conference center on a week-end in July.
I bought Irene's book, Mind Probe - Hypnosis, and she invited me to her Kirksville, Mo. home "if I ever got interested in hypnotherapy."
In February 1991 I went to a small psychic fair at a hotel on a Sunday afternoon. A friend introduced me to Robin Giles, a palmreader, and he told me that I would be involved in hypnotherapy by the time I was 55. I was 52 at the time, and I thought, "Yeah, sure... What's hypnotherapy?" I made some notes when I got home and stuck them in a file folder.
In the fall of 1991 I met Dr. Al Krasner, founder and director of the American School of Hypnotherapy. Dr. Krasner arranged for me to take his week-end course in Albuquerque. One of the things I learned was that there certainly was a lot more for me to learn!
In August 1992 I was traveling east from Colorado toward my daughter's home in Columbia, S.C., and I took a little side trip to Annandale, Minn., to Dyersville, Iowa (home of the movie, A Field of Dreams) and to Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where I had attended and been graduated from Cornell College. Along the way I looked up Kirksville, Mo. on a map, saw that it wasn't too far out of the way, and I called Dr. Hickman.
She invited me to come and hang out for a week-end and learn about regression hypnotherapy. I had her book with me in the car and got busy and read it before I got to her house. I had planned to stay for a week-end, and I ended up staying for seven months! Not only did I learn about hypnotherapy, I had the rare opportunity to work with her (and be the lucky recipient of numerous past-life regressions by her). The best way to learn is to experience it yourself!
Irene told me that she wanted to get back on the speaking trail. She said that, if I set up speaking and training engagements, got her scheduled at conferences and hypnosis conventions, managed her office and travel, sold her books, did the bookkeeping, answered her phone and answered mail, then she would teach me everything I would need to know about regression hypnotherapy and spirit releasement therapy.
My work in Kirksville was complete at the end of April 1993 and I headed on east. For six months I traveled almost like an itinerant preacher, trading hypnotherapy sessions for room and board, along with some gas money to get to the next town.
Then I settled for about three years in Richmond, Va. and, in 1996, I moved to Woodstock, Ill.
Of all the jobs and work I have done over the years, hypnotherapy is the work that has been the most beneficial to clients and also the most personally rewarding to me. And that's a wonderful combination.
I bought Irene's book, Mind Probe - Hypnosis, and she invited me to her Kirksville, Mo. home "if I ever got interested in hypnotherapy."
In February 1991 I went to a small psychic fair at a hotel on a Sunday afternoon. A friend introduced me to Robin Giles, a palmreader, and he told me that I would be involved in hypnotherapy by the time I was 55. I was 52 at the time, and I thought, "Yeah, sure... What's hypnotherapy?" I made some notes when I got home and stuck them in a file folder.
In the fall of 1991 I met Dr. Al Krasner, founder and director of the American School of Hypnotherapy. Dr. Krasner arranged for me to take his week-end course in Albuquerque. One of the things I learned was that there certainly was a lot more for me to learn!
In August 1992 I was traveling east from Colorado toward my daughter's home in Columbia, S.C., and I took a little side trip to Annandale, Minn., to Dyersville, Iowa (home of the movie, A Field of Dreams) and to Mt. Vernon, Iowa, where I had attended and been graduated from Cornell College. Along the way I looked up Kirksville, Mo. on a map, saw that it wasn't too far out of the way, and I called Dr. Hickman.
She invited me to come and hang out for a week-end and learn about regression hypnotherapy. I had her book with me in the car and got busy and read it before I got to her house. I had planned to stay for a week-end, and I ended up staying for seven months! Not only did I learn about hypnotherapy, I had the rare opportunity to work with her (and be the lucky recipient of numerous past-life regressions by her). The best way to learn is to experience it yourself!
Irene told me that she wanted to get back on the speaking trail. She said that, if I set up speaking and training engagements, got her scheduled at conferences and hypnosis conventions, managed her office and travel, sold her books, did the bookkeeping, answered her phone and answered mail, then she would teach me everything I would need to know about regression hypnotherapy and spirit releasement therapy.
My work in Kirksville was complete at the end of April 1993 and I headed on east. For six months I traveled almost like an itinerant preacher, trading hypnotherapy sessions for room and board, along with some gas money to get to the next town.
Then I settled for about three years in Richmond, Va. and, in 1996, I moved to Woodstock, Ill.
Of all the jobs and work I have done over the years, hypnotherapy is the work that has been the most beneficial to clients and also the most personally rewarding to me. And that's a wonderful combination.
A little website history
I first set up a website back in about 2000, when I was working at the Sears, Roebuck headquarters in Hoffman Estates, Ill. I had met a rep for a large company that registered domain names and at that time set up my own domain name and small, three-page website.
Earlier in 2009 I shut down that website and continued to concentrate on the blogs I had been writing. One of them, www.woodstockadvocate.com/, now has over 2,300 articles (since April 2007).
In addition to that lengthy blog, I also started www.specialkids-specialparents.info/, which is dedicated to special education advocacy and information. I expect to develop it more fully in the coming years.
Also, I set up www.woodstockcrimelog.info/, hoping that I'd be able to get crime reports from the Woodstock Police Department and post them on a current basis for residents of Woodstock to keep abreast of what is going on in town. I was foiled by the Police Department and the City Attorney.
The latest new blog/website is www.gus4sheriff.info This is the initial website created for my race for Sheriff of McHenry County in the General Election on November 2, 2010.
Earlier in 2009 I shut down that website and continued to concentrate on the blogs I had been writing. One of them, www.woodstockadvocate.com/, now has over 2,300 articles (since April 2007).
In addition to that lengthy blog, I also started www.specialkids-specialparents.info/, which is dedicated to special education advocacy and information. I expect to develop it more fully in the coming years.
Also, I set up www.woodstockcrimelog.info/, hoping that I'd be able to get crime reports from the Woodstock Police Department and post them on a current basis for residents of Woodstock to keep abreast of what is going on in town. I was foiled by the Police Department and the City Attorney.
The latest new blog/website is www.gus4sheriff.info This is the initial website created for my race for Sheriff of McHenry County in the General Election on November 2, 2010.
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