Many people ask me how I became a Hypnotist, As a child
I grew up wanting to become a policeman. When I enrolled in college, my
goal was to become an FBI agent. When I graduated in 1975, I had
fulfilled all of the educational requirements necessary to enroll in the
FBI Academy. There was only one problem. I found out there was a height
requirement of 5 foot 9 inches. I wasn't quite that tall and there were
no exceptions!
Then I persued a career in sales. After nine years I found myself living
in Florida, married with three children, and living the good life. I had
worked my way up to become a V.P. of a major corporation. With the
responsibility came a lot of travel. One day in 1985 I held an airline
ticket on a small commuter plane. When I arrived at the airport that day
and I decided to catch a later flight instead of possibly getting sick
on a small plane. After takeoff, the commuter fight crashed with no
survivors.
When I arrived home that evening I told my wife the situation
and suggested she go back to school to fulfill her nursing certification
in the event something happen to me. Instead she put a one million
dollar life insurance policy on me. Approximately 30 days later I held a
ticket on another commuter that went down with no survivors. Again I
urged my wife to go back to school. She then put a two million dollar
policy on me and looked into a nursing program.
She found they were
offering a hypnosis course for nurses, and she enrolled. I became a
little concerned, because I thought hypnosis was fake and doubted she
would be able to support our three children if something truly happened
to me. It didn't take me very long to realize just how real hypnosis
truly was.
I continued my career until one day my body began to shut down due to
stress. I was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer and very high blood
pressure. None of the "Wonder Drug" medications had any effect on me. I
was given six months to live. My doctor thought I should try hypnosis to
try to bring my stress level down and my health might turn around. I knew my wife was very good, but I felt uncomfortable with
any additional programming she might have done (i.e. washing dishes,
scrubbing toilets, etc),
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so my wife sent me to Gil Boyne, the leading
authority on hypnosis and the director of the Hypnosis Training
Institute of Los Angeles. After our brief meeting my health began to
improve, so I enrolled in the institute to help others.
Upon my
graduation in 1988, Linda and I founded Alpha Dynamics. Linda continued
to work with children and I began to work with executive specializing in
stress control. I retired from my job in 1992, at the age of 39. My
hypnosis practice grew to include self help seminars for weight
reduction and stop smoking. I began doing live demonstrations at every
seminar.
These live demonstrations were basically the same as the stage hypnosis
I had seen in Reno and Las Vegas. The main difference between my
demonstrations and the entertainment show was that I tried to educate my
audience on the power of their own subconscious minds. but doing it in a
humorous fashion. This allowed my show to be funny without purposely
embarrassing my subjects.
My unique combination of entertainment and education has proven to be
very successful. I perform over 300 shows per year. I now have two of my
daughters doing it as well. I travel all over the country performing at
colleges, high schools, night clubs and County and State fairs. My show
is always high quality, family oriented show that will be long
remembered by all.
I still do seminars and workshops and have
authored over 24 self help programs that have helped hundreds of people
change their lives.
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