PROFESSIONAL TRAINING - HOW ALCHEMY DIFFERS
People often ask "what is ALCHEMY and how does it differ from other kinds of therapy? I think it might be useful to show where Alchemy stands on the spectrum of counseling professions. So here goes. ..
COUNSELING refers to receiving the expert counsel of a qualified professional in whatever area you need help. Lawyers, real estate agents, vocational and educational counselors. They have expertise we need. While listening skills are critical to custom fit the clients needs, it is the specific expertise of the counselor that we are seeking in forming an action plan. An Alchemist has extensive training in many practical areas of counseling about hypnosis related issues like weight loss, anxiety control, pain management, etc.
PSYCHOTHERAPY is different. In this Great Work, the therapist is focusing on getting to know the client at very deep levels. The psychotherapist is exploring the clients childhood experiences as well as their dreams, their relationship and career problems, and helping them see their situation and develop pride and confidence in their authentic self. Jungian Psychotherapy is only one of many approaches the therapist can take to this exploration. In most cases psychotherapy is lengthy, costly, and is usually not aimed at solving the clients "problems" like addictions or anxiety so much as promoting healthy self development through a long relationship with the therapist whose many years of training in psychological principles gives them the wisdom and compassion needed here. Here the relationship is a huge part of the healing, so a good fit between them is critical to the success of psychotherapy.
I should remind the reader however that many psychotherapists like psychiatrists have become mouthpieces for pharmaceutical interventions.
HYPNOTHERAPY is among many short term interventions that is designed to help clients to quickly achieve their behavioral objectives by accessing and clearing the source of a particular pattern in the subconscious mind, and using potent hypnotic tools to anchor new feelings and behaviors to the clients challenges. Theoretically at least, there is no need for an elaborate understanding of psychological principles and theories, only a set of practical tools that can be applied to a given client situation. Hypnosis therapies can be refreshingly practical and just don't require 10 years of training and advanced degrees.
As my friend and founder of the National Guild of Hypnotists Dwight Damon says: "hypnotists are ordinary people helping ordinary people solve ordinary problems." All Alchemists have extensive training in hypnosis technology. Including NLP, Ericksonian, and many other tools.
ALCHEMY is a unique career path that has some elements of all of the above. Our legal profession is consulting HYPNOTIST. But as Alchemists we come from a very different place than most hypnotists.
We are Scientists of the Inner World who know that the spiritual world of the client and their inner guides are the real place of healing power. Alchemists are well trained in the principles of psychology. We know for example that the human mind is meant to be programmed for calm, self love, and success by our parents at an early age through love and affection. Not by cognitive self talk. Or a kind therapist. Parents.
So as Alchemists we help the client discover the negative programming handed down by childhood abuse , trauma, and neglect from their original parents. Then we help our clients free themselves from these core memories and the negative beliefs associated with them. And we teach clients to bond every day to new inner parents. And we teach them to receive the loving words, loving smiles, and loving touches of their divine inner parents every time they face life's challenges. That's the way humans are meant to learn. Right? (And these images are straight out of the ancient Alchemical writings).
We Alchemists are trained also to see far beyond the clients challenging problems of the moment. We are able through extensive training to help them discover the Higher Self within that is calling them ... Through these very challenges and behaviors ... To a destiny that is bigger than my puny wisdom as a counselor could ever understand. And we train our clients to work in that magic realm every day with these guides.
Do we, like other hypnotists, focus on short term solutions for the clients practical problems? Absolutely! But we also see these bad habits and limiting emotions as opportunities to lead our clients on a JOURNEY OF INITIATION into their inner temple where we discover that the problem is calling them to a destiny, a true authentic self. We help them solve their problem by reaching up to embrace that destiny.
An Alchemist is clearly aligned with all of the above professions. But mostly they are an initiator into the clients inner world and their spiritual destiny. Our work produces such powerful transformation that we refer to ourselves as "initiators" rather than therapists. Ask any of our successful clients and you will understand.
But an Alchemist is not a PRIEST. We do not expect to apply a set of cookie cutter doctrinal formulas based upon our religious dogma. Most of my clients can agree that Alchemy doesn't work in the context of religious dogmatism. It is a set of SCIENTIFIC techniques (I'm a former math and physics prodigy and atheist) that involves 400 pages of workbooks and many months to learn. So no this isn't some starry eyed woo woo science. It's REAL.
COUNSELING refers to receiving the expert counsel of a qualified professional in whatever area you need help. Lawyers, real estate agents, vocational and educational counselors. They have expertise we need. While listening skills are critical to custom fit the clients needs, it is the specific expertise of the counselor that we are seeking in forming an action plan. An Alchemist has extensive training in many practical areas of counseling about hypnosis related issues like weight loss, anxiety control, pain management, etc.
PSYCHOTHERAPY is different. In this Great Work, the therapist is focusing on getting to know the client at very deep levels. The psychotherapist is exploring the clients childhood experiences as well as their dreams, their relationship and career problems, and helping them see their situation and develop pride and confidence in their authentic self. Jungian Psychotherapy is only one of many approaches the therapist can take to this exploration. In most cases psychotherapy is lengthy, costly, and is usually not aimed at solving the clients "problems" like addictions or anxiety so much as promoting healthy self development through a long relationship with the therapist whose many years of training in psychological principles gives them the wisdom and compassion needed here. Here the relationship is a huge part of the healing, so a good fit between them is critical to the success of psychotherapy.
I should remind the reader however that many psychotherapists like psychiatrists have become mouthpieces for pharmaceutical interventions.
HYPNOTHERAPY is among many short term interventions that is designed to help clients to quickly achieve their behavioral objectives by accessing and clearing the source of a particular pattern in the subconscious mind, and using potent hypnotic tools to anchor new feelings and behaviors to the clients challenges. Theoretically at least, there is no need for an elaborate understanding of psychological principles and theories, only a set of practical tools that can be applied to a given client situation. Hypnosis therapies can be refreshingly practical and just don't require 10 years of training and advanced degrees.
As my friend and founder of the National Guild of Hypnotists Dwight Damon says: "hypnotists are ordinary people helping ordinary people solve ordinary problems." All Alchemists have extensive training in hypnosis technology. Including NLP, Ericksonian, and many other tools.
ALCHEMY is a unique career path that has some elements of all of the above. Our legal profession is consulting HYPNOTIST. But as Alchemists we come from a very different place than most hypnotists.
We are Scientists of the Inner World who know that the spiritual world of the client and their inner guides are the real place of healing power. Alchemists are well trained in the principles of psychology. We know for example that the human mind is meant to be programmed for calm, self love, and success by our parents at an early age through love and affection. Not by cognitive self talk. Or a kind therapist. Parents.
So as Alchemists we help the client discover the negative programming handed down by childhood abuse , trauma, and neglect from their original parents. Then we help our clients free themselves from these core memories and the negative beliefs associated with them. And we teach clients to bond every day to new inner parents. And we teach them to receive the loving words, loving smiles, and loving touches of their divine inner parents every time they face life's challenges. That's the way humans are meant to learn. Right? (And these images are straight out of the ancient Alchemical writings).
We Alchemists are trained also to see far beyond the clients challenging problems of the moment. We are able through extensive training to help them discover the Higher Self within that is calling them ... Through these very challenges and behaviors ... To a destiny that is bigger than my puny wisdom as a counselor could ever understand. And we train our clients to work in that magic realm every day with these guides.
Do we, like other hypnotists, focus on short term solutions for the clients practical problems? Absolutely! But we also see these bad habits and limiting emotions as opportunities to lead our clients on a JOURNEY OF INITIATION into their inner temple where we discover that the problem is calling them to a destiny, a true authentic self. We help them solve their problem by reaching up to embrace that destiny.
An Alchemist is clearly aligned with all of the above professions. But mostly they are an initiator into the clients inner world and their spiritual destiny. Our work produces such powerful transformation that we refer to ourselves as "initiators" rather than therapists. Ask any of our successful clients and you will understand.
But an Alchemist is not a PRIEST. We do not expect to apply a set of cookie cutter doctrinal formulas based upon our religious dogma. Most of my clients can agree that Alchemy doesn't work in the context of religious dogmatism. It is a set of SCIENTIFIC techniques (I'm a former math and physics prodigy and atheist) that involves 400 pages of workbooks and many months to learn. So no this isn't some starry eyed woo woo science. It's REAL.