 kind of got them through that back channel where they know exactly what they’re signing up for. They’re not paying for the session. They kind of are okay or more than okay being on YouTube, they know what the deal is. One of them I think was a former client, again, the deal is it’s a free session. You could either pay to work with me privately, which I’m happy to do, but for anyone who’s absolutely okay with it, if you want to kind of participate in my project to show what I do to the world, then if you volunteer, we we just ask for consent that we post the session on YouTube so that there is no conflict there.
The second question about skepticism or hostility. Well, the people who end up reaching out to me are a self selecting group and generally they kind of know that they’re gonna be paying out of pocket for this private service. So by the time someone’s in a mindset where they’re reaching out to potentially pay for a private service, there is no hostility, sometimes skepticism, that is there, but it’s kind of, it would be very unusual for someone to call us and they’re hostile, because there is no court mandated hypnotherapy, and if someone’s spouse is making them quit smoking and call us, then we kind of don’t really want to engage with the client until we have their full consent and consent matters. And in any healthcare profession, which, depending on your jurisdiction, hypnotherapy might or might not fall into informed consent is the standard for consent before you deliver any kind of treatment at all, where the client ought to fully understand what they’re getting themselves into.
They also ought to know what risks, if any, are involved before they’re able to consent to treatment. So hence the written treatment plans and all the transparency and so on and so on, but it also kind of, I think helps to shortcut any skepticism. My one liner for people who question whether hypnosis works is that for me, it’s unusual that a few hours of careful listening to careful speech makes no impact. It’s almost inevitable that a few hours of careful listening to careful, relevant speech is going to have a positive impact. Yeah, logical position. I mean it’s a very, should we say, beginner’s knowledge that I have about, I would say “hypnotism”, rather than “hypnotherapy” and I’m not sure how — if you make a differentiation between those two, but hypnotism for me as I understand it is; there are different, should we say, levels of suggestibility that different people have.
Have you ever had anyone who was very difficult to help? Yeah, there is some debate in the hypnotherapy world, both when it comes to hypnotism as distinguished from hypnotherapy as well as whether everyone can be hypnotized. So I’m kind of old school, I started practicing over 15 years ago. I used the term hypnotherapy and hypnotism rather interchangeably. Not everyone uses these two terms interchangeably, so yeah, I do straight up traditional formal hypnotism where I am talking to the client almost nonstop throughout the session. That’s what I specialize in, that’s what I’m good at, that’s what I find is the most effective when it comes to getting the client from Point A to Point B. There are practitioners who kind of meld psychotherapy with hypnotism, but in Ontario that’s kind of legally fraught with peril. So, yeah, when I say hypnotherapy I’m talking about straight up traditional hypnotism to me, it’s somewhat academic that the character of that debate, because for practical purposes, not everyone can expect to, let’s say, quit smoking after a few hours of careful listening.
No, the typical person in my experience can quit smoking after a few hours of careful listening. At least when the speech while they’re listening is helpful and relevant and is going to give them stepping stones to join the non-smokers in their life. So, we do our best to kind of assess clients up front. It’s part of practicing ethically, in my view. I don’t take the idea that everyone can easily be hypnotized, or everyone is a suitable candidate for hypnotherapy. I think that’s one of those lines that hypnotherapists kind of use as good PR, but which doesn’t really kind of stand up if you, for example have a money back guarantee. So yeah, the money back guarantee actually is a great filter for sorting out the good ideas from the bad ones without having that kind of accountability. Often you say things like everyone is suitable for hypnotherapy, but with a filter like a money back guarantee, then you stop saying things like that everyone’s a suitable candidate for hypnotherapy.
So we do our best to kind of separate um you know those for whom will recommend alternative next steps and that happens Maybe 10 or 15% of the time that we are onboarding a new client. It doesn’t mean they can’t be hypnotized, because plausibly over many, many hours of careful listening, they listen more carefully and then with good speech they can adopt the ideas being spoken, that is plausible, but that’s academic to me. Because when people want to know if they should engage, they’re asking about the rapid change, they’re not asking to be in here 10 Times over the next five minutes. Is there anything that I should have asked you about today? I feel like I’ve covered most of at least what what I wanted to talk about. We did talk about kind of giving your listeners a sample session of hypnotism that’s kind of geared toward what a business owner or what someone who’s in charge of marketing might want to adopt as a mindset.
So if that’s still amenable to you, if we do have the time for it, I’ll briefly outline it so the listener can give consent before proceeding. Would you like to share what your goals are before you get started with that? Sure, my goal here is that there’s that saying, which I think can be attributed to Gandhi, “to be the change you want to see in the world.” I have had bad experiences engaging with personal services or even mental health services for myself in the past. I wish I had been given informed consent or I wish I was given the information I would have needed to give informed consent. I wish I was given a timeline. I wish I was given a treatment plan. So I am kind of practicing in ways that I want to see more people do and because I’ve kind of gone first, I can say with some authority that this transparent approach, if you do have kind of the years of experience to be offering a transparent approach, that this is a good practice, this does get you a better clientele, this does overcome many of the roadblocks that prevent people from signing up as a client with you.
So, that’s a large part of the reason why I’m here. If people want to get in contact with me for private sessions, they can contact The Morpheus clinic for Hypnosis at www.morpheusclinic.com and if you want to hear me talk for hours and hours about the things I talk about, my YouTube channel or my TikTok channel are at “Morpheus Hypnosis”. The TikTok channel is newer than the YouTube channel, but both have videos that I’ve put out where you can hear my ideas about how to live a good life. Well, thank you for that and thank you for the answer.  Have you considered that you might actually be an amazing voice over artist also? I have considered it and I also have a few thousand dollars of microphones as a good voice over artist does, but I am busy enough with my hypnotherapy career, which also demands a good voice, that at this point I have no plans to do voiceover work, but I have thought about possibly volunteering to narrate some public domain works.
If the pandemic gets worse, if I kind of start running low on clients. A way to kind of occupy my time, it might be too kind of narrate some classic books. Yes, I have thought about that. Thank you. All right, Luke. Well, thank you for your contribution and your your time today. I think it’s been very interesting, and would you like to take it away? Absolutely, and thank you for having me. I’ll describe for your listeners first the outline of what I intend to communicate, and then I’ll do the session, which I will try to do as succinctly as possible. So it’s going to be first a process of relaxing and turning inwardly. I’m gonna communicate then the idea that there’s much power in having reality on your side, or one way to put it, is having integrity. So caring about truth, pursuing truth. That gives you the power of having reality on your side, where the confidence you’ll have is grounded in truth. Another point of view that I’m going to communicate is that in most human endeavors, a positive sum view of the endeavor is more helpful than a zero sum view of the endeavor.
So in marketing and business, we’re creators. We have visions about how things ought to be and then we do what we have to do to make our vision into reality, which means we’ve added to the world by showing up at work. So this kind of positive sum view of the world where we’re adding as opposed to just taking a slice of the market or taking money from our client’s. This positive Sum view is, it gets people up in the morning and it kind of,