BEWARE: Certified Hypnotist

I am now officially a "Certified Hypnotist." Really - I have a certificate that says so and everything.

To date, I have now attended 3 formal NLP/Hypnosis related training seminars:

1) NLP Practitioner Training (Society of NLP)
2) Conversational Persuasion and Influence (California Hypnotherapy)
3) Introduction to Hypnosis: The New Curriculum (Society of Applied Hypnosis)

I've accumulated some more cool experiences and stories. The hypnosis training I recently attended was with Mark Cunningham, a big dog in the hypnosis community. Very cool guy. I like his teaching style, I like his views, I like his attitude. If you are interested in formal hypnosis training, I highly recommend training with Mark. There are also a few other names that come to mind that I hear are very good to train with, but since I have no personal experience training with them, yet, I will not list them.

Funny, I have invested and continue to invest a lot of my time, money, and energy into learning hypnosis and NLP and I don't even have any plans on making a career out of it. A lot of the people I train with are making their living by using hypnosis to help and entertain others every day. How cool is that? To do hypnosis every day (fun), helping people improve their lives (wow) and even entertaining people with stage hypnosis (very fun). Man, now that I actually think about it, I might have to change careers.

Note to self: Post more stories and field reports. Change careers.

Check out all of my new titles (it's like alphabet soup):

CH, Licensed NLP Practitioner, CCNP, BS, SOB

Key:
CH - Certified Hypnotist
Licensed NLP Practitioner - Licensed Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner
CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional
BS - Bachelor of Science (or Bull Shit)
SOB (I probably don't need to spell this one out, right?)