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I had the wonderful experience and privilege of working with and under the supervision of Dr. Morris Brientstein, and along with a group of about 12 therapists in the California area for about 2 years.

Our meetings were a few hours an afternoon/evening, several times a week. Our first allotted time was for continued education, the remainder was for clients at no charge, and if there was any time left, we worked on our own issues or practiced new techniques.

The medical doctors (Md.'s) of the general area would send us patients that had ailments that there was no medical foundation for and we would work with them at no charge to help them solve there challenges.

A few interesting sample cases:

1. One, a 12 or 13 year old girl, each year, the same month, for the same amount a time, three years in a row, here wrist would go limp for a few weeks. A local physician (General MD) sent her to us to see what we could do for her. The doctor could find no medical reason or explanation for her ailment, and so she was sent by him to us.

We worked with this young lady for about a half an hour to am hour. During that hour, we found the psychological cause, and remedied it by helping her subconscious find a more reasonable solution that was satisfactory to her, to get back the use of her wrist.

In simplistic laymen terms, her parents forced her each year to play an instrument in concert (same time each year), which she strongly didn't want to. And so, she couldn't find a conscious way to get out of it, so her unconscious decided if the wrist doesn't work, she can't play the instrument, which means she didn't have to.

With the skilled use of hypnosis and NLP skills (neuro linguistic programing) among other techniques used, we were able to guide her subconscious to alternative ways (strategies) of handling her issue with her parents more effectively, and by doing so, ultimately freed her wrist to work normally with no further incident.

2. Another gentlemen was sent to us. He had a unique challenge. He would break his angle every year about the same time, three or so years in a row, and would end up collecting compensation (always happened on the job where he worked) as a direct result.

This was a difficult case, and took several sessions to find the psychological cause, and shift it so he wouldn't have to do this again.

In this mans case, even as odd as it sounds, he wanted to spend more time with his son. He consciously couldn't find a way to do that because he worked long hours in construction and couldn't afford any time off to see him the way he wanted to. And so, what his unconscious mind decided, was if he broke his angle, he could be home to spend time with his son knowing that compensation would take care of his medical expenses as well as living expenses for a short time. Like a short vacation.

As I said, this case took several sessions, and we used a number of techniques blended together to help guide this gentleman to finding another way consciously to solve his challenge without hurting himself in the process the way he had been (breaking his ankle).

3. Another patient was sent to us that had a lot of different allergies. One of a particular tooth paste, new carpet smell, house hold cleaning agents including normal soaps, fresh pain of any kind, and she could not go down the house hold isle in super market that had soaps and cleaning materials without getting deathly sick over it. This was just a few of the many she had.

We worked with her for an hour or two, and help guide her through several different scenario's to separate and disconnect those responses permanently. After this, we actually took her to a super market and had her walk down the very isle she couldn't go down for years, and she was just fine during & afterwards.

4. This was a real interesting case. A man came to us for smoking. We thought nothing of helping him do that. We worked with him for a good hour or so to accomplish this effectively. We dissolved his anchors to smoking, worked through the secondary gains, ran him through some imaging scenario's, and kinestically anchored pain to smoking in his nervous system as well as the pleasure of being what we called at the time, a "clean air breather".

Well, the gentleman seemed to be happy about it when we had finished, and so went out the door as we were getting ready to leave ourselves for the night. Unknown to us, he attempted to smoke a cigarette outside and found he couldn't. He came back inside and was angry about it at our surprise.

We asked him, why did you come to us to stop smoking if you didn't want to? His answer was his girl friend wanted him to, and so to please her, he had come to us, but also admitted he didn't think we really could do it either.

His biggest complaint at first was that he felt as if he never smoked before when in fact he knew he had, and that that wasn't possible. We found this very interesting, and was a topic for discussion to learn from over the weeks that followed.

5. Another interesting case was a phobia. My specialty. This one particular person I helped had a phobia of drive through car washes. I met with her, spent 15 minutes with her guiding her through some imagery and a few other techniques I use, and we drove down to the car wash to test it (I usually test all my work). We drove up, just an expression of concern on her face. We started to go through, she started to look puzzled. As we went through, I said are you a bit confused as to why your so calm instead of freaking out? And she said yes, this isn't possible, and I said well if it isn't possible, how do you explain be so calm and comfortable about this right now? And she said, but this isn't possible. I repeated to her what I had said to her before we started, I said what you think is driving the bus is not your conscious mind, what is driving the bus is your other than conscious mind, and that as the part of you we worked with.

An interesting note here, in my experience, disbelief is a common response even though they have the result they want and came for. What people need to understand, is that the unaware part of us is what's driving the bus (subconscious than conscious mind), and not the aware part of us (conscious mind). It is change in the unaware part of us that causes conscious aware level of confusion, and acts as if it were a learned behavior (normal reaction, even though 30 seconds ago it wasn't), whereas attempting to make change from the conscious level (aware part us), requires you to consciously adapt the new behavior to your current experience by being consumed a lot of the time in remembering to apply it.

NOTE: Whatever worked we did with any one, we always tested it to make sure the client received the change they needed or desired.

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