Hypno- Curious? Want to know more about NLP? Check out the "Cyber" Hypnosummit Hypnosummit March 27 & 28 Full Conference Starting at Only $150! Click here for full schedule: Click here 56 training sessions with 38 experts in Hypnosis, NLP and more - in the comfort of your home or office SILVER LEVEL ($150) - Full conference including all 56 sessions, video replays, live chat with instructors and exhibit hall. Silver Level participation breaks down to $2.68 per session GOLD LEVEL ($250) - Everything at the Silver Level, plus you get 3 extra week of 24/7 access to the video replay library and bonus registration goodies. Gold Level participation breaks down to 4.46 per session [BEST Value!] If you sign up - Please indicate that I (Michael Ellner) invited you so I can collect the cash reward for turning people on to this amazing educational value - THANK YOU Michael P.S. - FYI - I will be teaching 2 one hour programs on Sunday 3/28 at 3 and 4pm PST

Having a lecture added to the 92nd Street Y's 2010-2011 "Health & Wellness Series" is a deeply satisfying and pleasurable experience! I know because my "Pain Relief Workshop" has just been accepted and I will be speaking at the Y on Dec. 7, 2010 at 6:30PM.

This comes on the heels of PAINWeek's featuring one of my hypnosis seminars in their 2009 RECAP, having an article published in the IAIABC peer reviewed journal and the positive feedback on a recent radio interview (1/29/10). This all has me thinking that my message is seeping through and that pleases me!

***(A copy of the article on my presentation in PAINWeek's 2009 RECAP, my Journal Abstract and a link to my radio interview are below)***

Fall 2009 - International Association of Industrial Accident Boards & Commissions Ellner M, Aurbach R. IAIABC (International Association of Industrial Accident Boards & Commissions) Journal. 2009(fall);46(2):57-70.

Abstract Hypnosis is an excellent intervention tool for the treatment of injured and ill workers with respect to learned helplessness, disability behavior and many of the physical and emotional symptoms experienced by injured workers. Assistance with stress and coping with external stressors, chronic pain, insomnia, depression and fostering a positive mental attitude are all well documented applications of hypnosis. A self-hypnosis training regimen offered by properly trained and certified hypnosis professionals offers an opportunity for a brief and measurable intervention, resulting in a likelihood of positive impact on the injured or ill worker, with none of the risks traditionally associated with psychological intervention in workers' compensation cases.

Full article:

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I am also including a link to the recent radio interview I did on Hypnotic Pain Relief (1/29/10). If you'd like to hear it, let the player load and then to go directly to my interview, slide the time-marker to just beyond the midway point (my segment starts 1 hr 11min into the 2-hour show): http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/100129_150001caldwellc.MP3 Click here

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Greetings - we are all related!

Have you ever noticed that once you put something out there, there is no telling where it will end up?

Many, many, moons ago I experienced a spontaneous journey and met my Lakotah Spirit Guide. I thought I was there to assist "the" Peter Blum, an internationally reknown Sound Healer and Hypnosis Educator and friend. I enjoy helping Peter conduct his Sound Healing Workshops and Concerts and I am happy to help him carry his drums and bowls and care for his attendees before, during and after the rituals.

The drumming started and I was kinda monitoring the group, thinking about sex, monitoring the group, thinking about sex ....... my point is - I wasn't really paying attention to the drums. One second, I'm thinking that "Everyone seems to be at ease and engaged" and then, less than a second later, I realized that the sacred rhythms had carried me away! I was journeying and I liked it! I say "spontaneous" because one second I was here and then in a heartbeat I was somewhere else chatting with one of my Spirit Guides. As Blum's drumming guided us back to ordinary time and space I returned from this amazing experience with the spirit name "Dancing Crow".

I recently discovered the Republic of Lakotah knows my other name-- href="http://www.republicoflakotah.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=1269">Click here

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Dancing Crow AKA Michael Ellner

According to legend, Cherokee boys had to undergo a Rite of Passage into manhood. It's kind of like a Native American Bar Mitzvah.

The boy's father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once the young brave survives the night, he is a MAN.

The young Man is forbidden to tell the other boys about his life changing experience because each brave must come into manhood on his own. As you can imagine, the young brave is terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Some human might even do him harm. Every sound shakes his senses but he sits with his emotions, never removing the blindfold. This is the only way he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night of wild imaginings, the sun appears and the brave removes his blindfold. It is then that the brave discovers his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.

I mention this because We, like the young brave, are never alone. Even when it seems that way, Creator is always watching over us... Have a safe, happy and prosperous holiday season...

The spitting cobras to the left of me or the puff adders to the right of me or the pack of dogs behind me were of little concern. They were just part of my stay on Tom's magnificent South African "farm" outside of Johannesburg.

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I'm back in NYC. My working vacation in Cape Town and Johannesburg was the adventure of a lifetime and I am lucky to be alive!

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Teaching your patients to practice self-hypnosis for the relief of their pain is much easier and more effective than most therapists realize. In fact, I am confident that if you try guiding your patients through the pain-relief exercises found in my Blog, both you and your patients will be delighted with the results. Click here This may sound unfeasible, but it is true! According to a study by Harvard researchers, more Americans are consulting practitioners of non-conventional medical practices than conventional practitioners. Relaxation therapies like hypnosis, meditation and breathing techniques are among the most popular therapies used by people who are adding complementary approaches to their care. By including these modalities to your practice, you can help mainstream these evidence-based approaches and actually be more effective in helping your patients. FYI: I will be teaching a workshop on hypnotic pain relief in NYC in November-2009. Click here You will learn a wide range of conversational approaches that will make communicating with your patients more effective. You will also learn a series of mental exercises that will enable you to offer your patients all of the benefits of hypnosis and self-hypnosis without hypnotizing them in conventional ways. Before closing this Blog I want to share some good news! 1. PAINWeek has green-lighted Dan Cleary and I to expand the hypnotic programs for their 2010 Conference based upon what we have taught at this CME Medical conference and on the feedback they received from the 100s of front line health care providers who attended our 2009 programs... Yes! 2. The article I submitted to the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC) has passed peer review and will be published in their Winter 2009 Journal. 3. I am flying to South Africa on Monday (10/12) to teach health care professionals conversational and guided self-help techniques in Johannesburg and Cape Town.

I call your attention to HypnoSummit 2.0. It is a golden opportunity to get up to 50 hours of practical hypnosis training from some of the best hypnosis educators and practitioners in the world for about the cost of a motel room.

Okay, I know that that sounds unbelievable but it's really true. The Hypno Summit 2.0 is a Virtual Conference that you attend on your computer and that makes it possible to offer all of you this amazing educational opportunity for $125 through August 2009. I am confident that all of you will be able to watch, listen and learn new strategies and techniques that could be immediately used to enhance your practices. Click here

FYI - Scott Sandland and Melissa Roth who have created this cyber-learning event tell me that they expect several hundred hypnosis practitioners from all over the world to be online learning from some of the most highly respected names in the profession. I told them I'd be inviting you... Please consider taking advantage of this golden opportunity.

Disclosure: Every GHS presenter gets a $20 bonus for everyone who buys a ticket and indicates a presenter referred them to the summit - It's in our contracts - So please, if you take advantage of this outstanding opportunity, be kind and indicate that Michael Ellner/TT sent (referred) me... Thank you!

Welcome to my Interactive Blog-- Please interact accordingly:

1) In my opinion, there is nothing more dangerous to our lives, health and well being than when government health care officials decide to protect us from ourselves. The madness becomes apparent when we consider that chronic alcohol abuse is far more harmful in terms of liver disease and death than pain pills/acetaminophen! Check it out: Ban Is Advised on 2 Top Pills for Pain Relief - Link text

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What do you think?

2) According to NY Times science writer Natalie Angier "It don't mean a thing 'till you get off that swing" Agree? Disagree? It's just an opinion...

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What's your opinion?

3) What if I told you that just thinking about or counting money can affect how people perceive physical pain and reduce suffering?

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FYI -- This is the 3rd year in a row that the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association will be a Participating Organization in a major Medical Conference (PAINWEEK, Sept. 9-13). Over 1000 leading licensed Pain Specialists from all over the U.S. will receive an official Conference CD that will contain 4 seminars on Medical Hypnosis that include segments on the benefits and advantages of integrating certified hypnosis professionals into Pain Management settings as taught by my associate Dan Cleary and me.

Today's Blog is trolling for your opinions and feedback -- I conducted a complimentary one hour program on "Anger Management" for a group of "At Risk Teens" ranging in age from 15 to 18 who were attending an "all day" event that offered several choices at every time slot. I was delighted to help an my experiential lecture was presented as "Handle Anger More Effectively and Have More fun." My thinking was "managing anger" sounds like work and I planned on teaching them a set of simple and fun "Mind Games" (self-hypnosis techniques) that can increase their self-esteem, change their self images and improve their moods before teaching them how to off-load their toxic feelings and emotions. It was truly pleasurable and satisfying to watch the look on their young peaceful and relaxed faces as I told them that they would easily be able to reconnect to these wonderful feelings of calm, very cool and collected any time they wanted to do so -- by gently caressing their finger tips with their thumbs and thinking "I'm cool". It turns out that I enjoyed the largest attendance of the day out of all of the multiple choice offerings and the ladies enjoyed it as much as I did. Here's a snippet from an email from the person who arranged my presentation: "Dear Michael, Thank you for being a part of the NSA programs. By all accounts, your presentation was quite a hit. Seems your words really connected with many of the girls attending the lecture." I mention all of this because today's Blog is trolling for your opinions and feedback -- Would you be interested in and attend "Therapists Who Use Mindbody Techniques Are More Effective And Have More Fun lectures, seminars or workshops-- if they were available? Thank you.