Finding True Magic: Transpersonal Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy/NLP [Paperback]

 

 

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What is True Magic? Sogyal Rinpoche says the Tibetan mystic, Terton Sogyal, was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle happens, he said, if someone can liberate just one negative emotion. Most of us would be happy to liberate just one negative emotion for ourselves, and, if we are in one of the many helping professions, for others. Jack Elias' book, Finding True Magic, makes that kind of miracle accessible for professionals and for those seeking personal growth. True Magic, in Elias' perspective, can be found in the basic goodness of each individual. Grounded in uncompromising and unsentimental faith in innate basic goodness, he assembles a wealth of practical techniques that make the magic of healing profoundly inspiring and understandable. He makes simple observations and then explains how they transform and empower the therapeutic process and personal growth. Finding True Magic is a resource for therapists, a guide for individuals, and the manual for a comprehensive hypnotherapy training course. Elias writes in the genre of Daniel Goleman, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Mark Epstein: brilliant, passionate thinkers with a genius for interpreting and applying Eastern thought for the benefit of Westerners in the helping professions and those seeking to bring illumination to the dilemmas of their personal lives. He draws upon the experience of continuous study during his entire adult life with some of the major teachers of Eastern philosophy who have come to the West. These teachings have been deepened and integrated by his own meditation practice and in 10 years as a counselor, hypnotherapist and teacher. A radical key to Elias' therapy is his "de-hypnosis" approach. He assumes that therapy's goal should be to wake us up from unnecessary limiting trances, not simply to make ourselves more comfortable. For example, he states "Hypnotic processes are redundant...because we are always already in trance," and, "We think we live in the world, but we live in our minds." It seems so simple once you hear it, but recognizing that people are already in trance, that their problem is their trance, and that your job is to help them wake up from the trance, radically alters and empowers therapy. Elias takes this notion one quantum step further by declaring that the greatest limiting delusion, the most powerful trance distortion we experience, is the sense of being a separate fearful self. This false self trance, this "egoic minding process" as he calls it, is the cause of all suffering. Challenging this sacred territory of "who we think we are" is the quickest, most powerful way to dissolve problems and suffering, in Elias' approach. The goal of therapy is not simply to achieve relief of symptoms, but to dismantle this trance of fearful,isolated selfhood. Finding True Magic is an exposition of insights and techniques designed to de-hypnotize us from the tricks, delusions and resulting confusion of this inherently violent and fearful egoic process, freeing up the spontaneous energies and intelligence of healthy change, enjoyment and successful living. Some of the most immediately useful elements are 18 original scripts that can be used by students and therapists in traditional trance work or by individuals as a basis for healing meditation or journaling. Script topics range from self hypnosis for deep, healing relaxation to regression and past life therapy, resolving inner conflicts, pain relief, exploring the human relationship to archetypal energies, and more. Each script reflects the use of relaxation, healing imagery, and application of newly discovered inner resources that lead to ecologically sound, lasting solutions. The solutions and newly recognized resources which emerge spontaneously from the unconscious can be claimed as evidence of the individual's own inner strength and healing power. Solutions - and the ability to generate creative healing solutions - become permanent resources for future growth. Text, instructions, examples and scripts incorporate and teach the arts of hypnotic communication: trance induction techniques, deep relaxation, pacing and leading, neuro-linguistic processes, vivid use of metaphor, imagery and more. The whole approach relies on the natural way the mind perceives, interprets, stores, processes and retrieves sensory information to quickly resolve problems such as phobias, trauma relief, motivation and performance enhancement. The goal of all these techniques is to accomplish brief therapy that is based in natural mind/body healing capacities that are powerful, deep and transformative. Finding True Magic is a resource that makes this liberating kind of work possible for therapists of a variety of persuasions. It provides unforgettable insights about the role of the helper and illuminates the path of personal growth. Gifted writers somehow infuse their work with their own voices. Elias' voice is clear, touching and compelling in these pages, enlivening the text with passion for the material and revealing the depth of his own rigorous honesty and contemplation of the ideas he presents. Direct, articulate and poetic, his writing invites the reader - whether experienced therapist or lay person - to embark upon a journey toward awakening. Finding True Magic evokes fresh new understandings and insights with each re-reading.

Finding True Magic is a unique and thorough text. However, it is much more than a book of techniques. Jack Elias integrates hypnosis and NLP with spiritual perspectives and principles from Eastern thought, and forms an approach which transcends both, and can take you to the core of your identity: you can find your True Self , and the magic that this brings.
This book can be used for personal development, and also by therapists and healers in their work with individuals and groups.
Anyone who works systematically through the book, will find that any concerns over the ethics and morality of hypnosis or NLP, vanish. As NLP Practitioners, we especially value Jack's transpersonal insights into making the healing process a deep and far reaching one. His processes can not only lead to healing, but also growth; verdant and lush growth, far beyond our own limiting beliefs about ourselves. His work is challenging without a doubt. Allow yourself to wonder just how
many of your beliefs about yourself and the world are truly limiting your potential and you will be sure to get the most from this magical book.
We will use this book and Jack Elias' 'Finding True Magic' course to enrich our NLP practice with the high level of transpersonal hypnotherapy skills we are sure he will offer.

No other author (that I have read or studied) in this field brings such passion and consciousness to the how to of hypnotherapy as Jack Elias. When I first started with this manual of technique I was pushed back a little by his "process" and then shortly realized that he was literally attempting to move me to an altered state while writing of his purposes and concepts. I could feel the compression of wisdom and mind wrenching and concept blowing sentences that brought whole realms of my own belief systems to the fore to be examined in an instant. Often, I would have to read and reread whole paragraphs and then put the book down and breathe deeply as minirealizations of the Truth of Elias's monologue seeped in. I found my self celebrating "eurekas" often.

Elias teaches that "exploring attaining . . .wholeness and inner peace" is an integral part of his manual for practitioners because he believes that success with clients is directly related to the depth and experience of the therapist's own contemplation and conscious inner life.

So the process of the practitioner becoming more "awake", if you will, is easily woven into the teaching and training process of this manual. Detailed scripts are integrated into the discussions of various areas. Elias breaks the training in the manual into phases. First is a basic introduction to hypnosis and the nature of the egoic mind. Second is an illumination of Regression/Past Life Therapy with discussion on accessing the Higher Self or True Self, coverage of the Vedic traditions of India and its view of Shakti and the power of illusion in an interplay of the psyche that Elias calls "egoic minding" and the awakening from egoic trance. He also includes a model of the psyche that correlates the Neuro Linguistic Programming model of the Psyche with the Five Skandhas of Buddhism.

The manual continues with a great piece on subpersonalities and trance work and an effective (though brief) work on "Shame and the Addictive Personality".

Elias gives a whole section to archetypes, which can minimally play a very helpful role for the hypnotherapist seeking to do a thorough assessment of the client and develop a very "whole" case plan. This section has extensive scripts and commentary on accessing archetypes and utilizing them for the hypnotherapeutic processes.

Finally, the manual deals with shadow work, entity attachment and releasing, couples and group hypnosis, and developing a practice.

Practitioners that want to get themselves out of their "box".
into deeper unfolding of themselves, and even more effective healing with their clients should make this manual a must.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Unique book on Transpersonal Hypnotherapy
This book is unique and there is no other hypnotherapy book that is quite like this one. I do recommend it as additional resource and believe that every hypnotherapist can benefit... Read more

Published 5 months ago by Laura De Giorgio

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great New Edition Now Available
The new Finding True Magic: Transpersonal Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy/NLP, ISBN 096552101X, also listed on Amazon, is a revised updated version of this original Finding True Magic:... Read more

Published on Jun 25 2006 by Jack Elias

5.0 out of 5 stars Finding True Magic: Wisdom to Heal and Live By
Finding True Magic is an exceptional resource for therapists, a guide for individuals, and the textbook for a comprehensive hypnotherapy training course. Read more

Published on Feb 20 2006 by Leona Moran

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Revision of the Unique Original Finding True Magic
Finding True Magic: Transpersonal Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy/NLP is a revised updated version of the highly regarded Finding True Magic: Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP which is... Read more

Published on Feb 7 2006 by Jack Elias

5.0 out of 5 stars It really is MAGIC!
FINDING TRUE MAGIC, by Jack Elias, is just that: MAGIC! Jack has put together a wonderful book that I suggest for any Hypnotist who is interested in greater success for themselves... Read more

Published on Feb 7 2006 by Dan Cleary

5.0 out of 5 stars A Wonderful Resource
Finding True Magic is a wonderful contribution to the field of hypnotherapy. Jack Elias has synthesized his study of Eastern philosophical traditions and his training in Western... Read more

Published on Feb 28 2004 by Eric Leskowitz

5.0 out of 5 stars For the metaphysically inclined...
A beautiful, healing book for those interested in incorporating eastern teachings with western hypnosis methodology. Mr. Elias has a unique concept behind his teachings... Read more

Published on July 25 2003

2.0 out of 5 stars I'm not sure it's worth the effort
I am about 1/3 if the way through the book and find it very slow going. The tone seemed pompous in the beginning, and then became mystical. Read more

Published on Sep 17 2002 by Liza Levy

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful Presentation of Spirit and Technique
The depth of Finding True Magic grows on one, and can be used constantly as a reference for the therapist - so clear, so vivid, and effective. I am on the path to get my Ph. Read more

Published on Dec 2 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars New Vistas in Healing Techniques
Jack Elias is a born teacher with a natural approach to class teaching. He is as much at home with Socratic dialogue and analysis as with a Zen paradoxical and intuitive approach... Read more

Published on Jan 31 2000

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