A TRIBUTE TO CARL CARPENTER (2002)

SOME HAZARDS IN HYPNOSIS:

HYPNO-KINESIOLOGY

HYPNOSIS: THE MOST HOLISTIC HEALING AID KNOWN TO MAN

I knew Carl for several years and learned a lot from him; most import was muscle testing for ideomotor response. He was a kind man who shared his knowledge with others and was a very good speaker, lecturer, presenter and therapist. He died in 2002. If anyone would like to write a tribute to Carl Carpenter, please send it to me. If you know would also like to know his birth date and death date. Send to pgdurbin@hotmail.com I am including two articles from the International Medical and Dental Association "Subconsciously Speaking" with IMDHA permission. Carl is "Gone but not Forgotten."

SOME HAZARDS IN HYPNOSIS: CARL CARPENTER: SUBCONSCIOUSLY SPEAKING: JUL/AUG 1997: VOL 12 NO 4 (died 2002): Carl Carpenter, R.C.Ht. had a client who couldn't decide whether she wanted to lose weight or stop smoking. She finally opted to stop smoking so he performed the stop smoking program for her. She went home, started a diet, and lost weight. Carl didn't think much of it at the time, her mind had made a voluntary decision, but other experiences of Carl 's kept bringing the memory back. What happens when we instruct a hypnotized client on the hazards of smoking and they keep smoking? Do they retain and react to the suggestions that suit them? Does this cause any problems itself? When we use hypnosis are we altering an already altered state?

One of the questions that we ask in the Hypno-Kinesiology program is, "Think of living." We find that people who have a hard time quitting the smoking habit will always respond negatively to this test. For some reason "living" isn't positive to their inner mind. This doesn't mean that this is a suicidal thought, just that at some time in their life they thought that they would be better off dead. These same people get overly anxious, irritable and/or put on weight when they try to stop smoking. The opposite of that is "Think of dying." This could be deceptive. If this tests affirmative, we usually ask, "Think of dying within five years." If this is positive it could indicate a stronger emotional problem.

This indicates that some misunderstanding in the inner mind has created a self destruct program. The strength of the original energy that created this program, usually trauma in the teen years, will determine how extreme the anxiety, irritation, and/or the weight gained. We further believe that more energy the hypnotist puts into forcing this person to change the habit, the more energy the inner mind will use to maintain it. A recent article in the Reader's Digest relates the story of a man who was recovering from a cancer operation, he states this idea better that we ever could. He stated that, "Smoking was committing suicide on the installment plan."

Back in the 1940s Dr. Wilhelm Reich stated that 90% of his cancer patients smoked, but he stated, just as assuredly, smoking did not create the cancer. It is our belief that it is the subconscious desire, to rid the body of undesirable parts, or not to live that causes disease. Unfortunately we are given many ways of accomplishing it, once learned it is easy to create.

We find that women who have vaginal infections, infertility, sexual dysfunctions and/or have had hysterectomies, always test negative when we ask, "Think of your reproductive (sexual) organs." There is some misunderstanding in the inner mind that wants to rid the body of that "dirty" area. Dr. Volne Matheson wrote about a client who couldn't understand or accept her sexuality so she created a cancer in that part of her body that was dirtying her. Two weeks after Carl heard the Matheson tapes he was asked to do a workshop in a northern New Hampshire town. The woman who organized this workshop had cancer of the vagina; she had been operated on twice, but the tests were positive again. The cancer was back. Carl was not made aware of this problem until months later. We never assume to heal so we never approach any specific illness with healing that illness in mind. We test for negative energies, erase them and hope that we have helped. A month later Carl received a letter from her stating, because she believed in him the cancer was gone. It had nothing to do with belief. He erased the self destructive misunderstanding in her mind, she healed herself.

We believe these misunderstandings are how disease is created, with the consent or demand of the inner program. A therapist recently stated, "For every disease, there is a positive emotional goal." We believe that this is true.

This material was researched and developed by Carl Carpenter R.CHt. Copyright obtained in 1982 an updated in 1995. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the author. [Carl Carpenter R.C.Ht.

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HYPNO-KINESIOLOGY: CARL CARPENTER: SUBCONSCIOUSLY SPEAKING: JAN FEB 2001: VOL 16 NO 1: This procedure is a working part of The First Step to building better lives. This short procedure is offered to all therapists, counselors, teachers and anyone else who wants a quick, efficient method of easing stress immediately on the spot without analysis or the trance state.

The following procedure may be used when a person exhibits anxiety, fear, and/or trauma. It could be the result of personal trauma; an accident, argument, disagreement at work or it could be recurring dreams and nightmares. This may be brought out while in trance. Especially when investigating past life experiences. Nothing needs to be said, simply perform the procedure as discretely as possible.

Try this: First ask a friend or relative if they can think of anything that upsets them. An argument, an accident, death, divorce, etc. Ask them to think of it in their mind. You don't need to know what it is. While they're thinking place your hand on their arm, shoulder or leg and start impressing and releasing your fingers one by one, back and forth. Practice it first. Put your hand on your forearm, impress the thumb, push gently downward, then lift the thumb and impress the first finger. Release it and impress the second finger. Release it and impress the third finger. Release it and impress the little finger. Release it and impress the third finger and continue until they tell you they don't hold the thought anymore. This gets rid of the energy of trauma that perpetuates stress and tension. It doesn't remove the memory but it will be more difficult to think of. You can use this for the release of emotional block to taking a test or the trauma of rape. Try it if this interests you may want to try the whole program.

For example: A woman came to me because of pain in her chest. Her doctor had suggested she try Hypnosis because he was sure it was in her head. When she came to me she said the pain was in her heart. (Her words.) I used muscle testing and found a negative block 8 years previous to her visit. She started to cry. When she started to tell me the story, I reached over and started running my hands up and down her arm. She showed no objection and continued with her story. Her 14 year old daughter had been accidentally shot and killed by her boyfriend 8 years previously. She couldn't look at a young teenage girl without breaking down. I asked her how she felt about the young man and she said she had forgiven him. When the story was over the tears were gone, the pain in her chest was gone, and she can now look at other teenage girls and smile. By running the hands back and forth up and down the arm I had anchored in and released the energy created by the trauma. It is that energy that keeps the fire of hate and anger alive.

"CHILD ABUSE STARTS AT CONCEPCION" Trauma interferes with the normal growth of a child. Children are born every day who are angry, hyper-active, hypoactive, and/or scared. How do they get that way? Adopted and foster children often display these traits. I believe that this program explains the reason for this and also gives a solution.

A negative atmosphere at conception and before birth creates emotional weakness that puts a major strain on the immune system and perpetuates stress. Compounded by trauma in early childhood, this creates major emotional blocks. When we find and release that energy, automatic positive changes take place. The effect of these traumas is considered "accidental hypnosis" and we are reacting to it as if hypnotized. The program, , de-hypnotizes those affected. Then, and only then, can they grow and find inner peace, good health, and personal success.

I believe that if young children were given the benefit of this program they would have strong emotional and immune systems, this would reduce the chance of disease, and teen/adult violence, from drug abuse, to sexual abuses, to suicide.

The First Step program is designed to enable you to go directly to the source of a problem, erase its effect, and make positive changes without violating the privacy of the recipient of your concern. I think you'll find it fascinating.

HYPNOSIS: THE MOST HOLISTIC HEALING AID KNOWN TO MAN: CARL CARPENTER: SUBCONSCIOUSLY SPEAKING: JAN/FEB,1998 VOL 13 NO 1 The Muscle Testing and Set and Release procedures described in the book, Hypna-Kinesialagy, The First Step, are amazing and efficient ways of releasing blocks and changing thought patterns. These changes happen from within, but if you have overt behavior patterns built around deficiencies you've felt all your life, you will need Hypnosis, or Self Hypnosis, to change your conscious thinking. Say you've felt insecure all your life, with muscle testing and the Set and Release procedures you can neutralize the negative emotional trauma which created that feeling. Over the years you had patterned your life style around those feelings of insecurities, slowly, inwardly, you can begin to feel stronger and more confident. You might have a job that you dislike, but it is secure. You can't bring yourself to change jobs because consciously you have accepted your position in life. You're not happy but still it's a big step to take. With Self Hypnosis you can give your conscious self the needed strength to do what is best for you. You may decide that the job wasn't really that bad and develop a more healthy attitude toward it. You may begin to think of advancement within the company, something you didn't allow yourself to hope for before. Or maybe you will start thinking seriously about another field of work. Never demand a change; give your affirmation with a goal in mind and let things happen as they will. Water seeks its own level it is said, raise your level and gravitate naturally to your goal. Those things that you desire are available to you, make yourself worthy of them.

My biggest concern with the first few attempts at Self Hypnosis is that you might fall asleep and get discouraged, especially if you're in bed. Affirmation should be brief and to the point. but repetitive. Affirmation should lead to a goal rather than demand you make a complete change immediately. If you start by telling yourself that you won't fall into a normal sleep you \\ill probably be fine. At first you will want to speak aloud. I have developed an affirmation that covers about every need you will have. It allows your mind to make the decisions that are best for you, using your experiences and abilities.

Hypnosis: The voluntary acceptance of suggestion. Dr. Milton Erickson was the leading medical hypnotist for over thirty years. His methods and philosophies of hypnosis have been studied and taught for many years. One of his beliefs was that implied suggestion has the strongest hypnotic effect. One of the reasons people have such a hard time quitting the smoking habit is because of the implied suggestion. Try ta quit smaking. When you say "try" in the proper tone of voice it strongly suggests that it is impossible to do.

Dr. Volne Matheson was the originator of the sleep learning tapes. He too was a medical hypnotist. He, like Dr. Erickson, made many statements about hypnosis. Dr. Matheson stated that the strongest hypnotic effect was when a parent slapped a child across the face and said something to the effect, You'll never be any goad. The hypnosis was created by the trauma, the suggestion being obvious. He also stated that he had a client who couldn't understand or accept her sexuality so she created a cancer in that part of her body that was dirtying her.

A few years ago I saW a "factoid" on Channel 8 TV, Portland, ME. I didn' t notice the source; I wish I had because as hypnotists we should understand what it really means. The factoid, Since the Aids scare, breast cancer and cervical cancer have gone up twenty percent. That’s what we should expect if we accept the suggestibility factor. If records were analyzed I believe that this figure. twenty percent. would come up quite often.

This also implies that those twenty percent who accepted the disease could be cured by changing their belief system to healing. This confuses researchers because they are looking for scientific evidence and can't find it without the use of the emotions. Of course that is what has been happening all along. The miracle cures were so suggestive that those affected cured themselves, leaving the impression that the cure was the Laetrile. Visualization, hypnosis, meditation visit from the Guru or whatever. The fac remains if twenty percent could give themselves a disease then twenty percent could also heal themselves.

If the above is true then who are the most prolific hypnotists of our time? The medical researchers who come up with the information which influences us? The medical journalists who write about it? The A.M.A. who perpetuate and license it? The Pharmaceutical agents who adwrtise it? The TV personality who makes the quick statement of fact and goes on with the news? Or those who accept it? If humanity could only think for themselves.

Are those twenty percent doomed to be diseased because our society demands that we be made aware of every little risk that may be headed our way? Could it be that if we were not so wrought with trauma at early ages we would not be so susceptible to suggestion? As a parent think about this. Was the conception of an unruly, violent, hyperactive, hypo-active, and/or sickly, asthmatic, confused, child pleasant? Or was there stress present at conception. Did the parent experience trauma during the gestation period? Was the parent's early childhood troubled? Children are affected by the emotions felt by the mother from the point of the conception through the birth and into early childhood.

If anyone stood in front of a group of people and sincerely told them to put their hands together, to squeeze them tightly together: that their hands were sticking together. Then told them that you where going to count to five. At the count of five their hands would be stuck so tightly together that they could not open them; they could try to separate their hands but they wouldn't be able twenty percent wouldn't be able to separate their hands. Twenty percent! Anyone can perform this demonstration if h/she only rehearses the words so h/she can say them with conviction. You don't have to be a hypnotist. Perhaps everyone is a hypnotist at times.

If your friend says. You look great, ... you feel better.

If your boss says. You look great, ... you feel better.

If the mailman says. You look great, ... you feel better.

You accept the suggestion and it has an effect. The suggestion doesn't have to be given by a hypnotist.

The first person that I ever hypnotized was a friend. I was at a party and the others began discussing my new hypnosis hobby. The guests asked for a demonstration but but I hadn't done anything with hypnotism yet and so I tried to get out of it. Unsuccessful in my reasoning, I got the book on hypnosis I happened to have in my car. A female guest wanted to lose weight and asked me to hypnotize her for her weight. I was concerned about being able to hypnotize her. She wanted therapy as well. I held a dime in front of her eyes at the suggested distance and read the procedure from the book which included the eye closure test. It went well. I assumed that she was in trance so I suggested that she go to a doctor, get a diet from him, and that she would have no trouble following the diet. This all came to pass and she lost 25 pounds. I had hypnotized her before I became a hypnotist. Realize that this happened back when there were no schools of hypnosis anywhere near NH.

Another incident that I feel is important happened shortly after that. I was a police officer in my home town with a year of experience and was training a new officer on the beat. He asked about my hobbies so I mentioned hypnosis. For the next hour I heard all I could take on the phoniness hypnosis. We visited an all night garage which employed two night workers. We sat around having a coffee and, again using the dime, I put the fellow officer into hypnosis. I gave him three suggest to accomplish when he came out of hypnosis. The first, that he wouldn't be able to lift the coke that he had just bought. The second, that upon awakening from hypnosis he would go to a certain page in the book was in front of him and read the first paragraph. The third, that when I snapped my fingers he would blow his whistle three times. I brought him out of hypnosis and he sat for a moment. He grabbed for his coke but couldn't lift it until I told him it was all right. This bothered him because he was a weight lifter and was proud of his strength. He lifted the book then fumbled through it but acted confused. He set the book down and we left the building. After walking a few steps he mentioned he was getting a headache. I realized immediately d1at I had done wrong. When I gave the suggestions I repeated them each mice. When I gave the suggestion about the book I had forgotten the page number I gave first and when repeating the suggestion I gave a different number. This minor infraction of the rules of hypnosis may have giwn him a good headache. It gave me a valuable lesson.

There is a Hypnotherapist in Indiana who presented his program in Chicago a few years ago. He showed videos of himself in an operating room in Honduras. He had gone there as a hypnotist to show that hypnosis could be used in major operations. In Honduras they don't have the money for pharmaceutical drugs; operations are performed as is. His story is especially interesting because after he had prepared himself and his video crew, he realized that the intended patients could not understand English. How could he hypnotize them? After thinking it over he told the Honduran doctor to tell the patients that when the hypnotist touched their forensic nerve (the nerve on both sides of the wrist), squeezed gently and counted to three they would go into trance. Everything would be fine. He helped with twelve major operations that day using the method of implied suggestion.

The computer program we call the subconscious mind is written by emotional thoughts and/or traumatic experiences of the mother. It starts at the time of the conception, includes the gestation period, birth, and early childhood (up to four or five years of age). Stress, anxiety, fear, anger, passivity, hate, guilt, shame, or any emotion that is felt strongly enough to create an energy, becomes part of the program. The effect on the computer program depends on how extreme the emotional impact was on the mother.

If the mother felt anger, the child wiJJ have anger in h/her program; anger is now a natural part of character. The child, feeling uncomfortable without anger, will then create situations which allow hlher to feel justified. self righteous anger. This is harmful but not as harmful as two emotions that might conflict with each other such as anger and fear or hate and guilt; a dichotomy in the subconscious mind. This is what can be found with autistic children.

This type of dichotomy becomes obvious when testing someone for hi her inner mind's weight preference. If the findings indicate a positive reaction to being both heavy and being thin, this person will be emotionally torn between the two. Hypertension, high blood pressure, weight fluctuations, manic depression, a constant emotional battle within the self, a lack of personal identity, draining of energy, and/or total confusion can result.

If trauma can affect the growth patterns through thought transference, couldn't it also affect the sexual preference of the child? When testing the sex of the child within I often find a female child within a male or a male child within a female. This doesn't imply homosexuality although most homosexuals test this way. It shows that there may be a misunderstanding about their sexuality no matter how subtle it may be. It is another dichotomy which causes another inner battle. I usually leave it be until I've released all ofthe other negatives I've found, then I retest. Then I release it with the hypno- kinesiology program. If the client's retest is normal, there's no need to pursue it further. But if the results are the same with the retest then we know we have missed something important and will want to address it.