Michael White presents: KnowMoreTrances!

Laughter is Genetic!

I, being a hypnotist extraordinaire, often get into discussions with people about genetics. I know little to nothing about genetics but I do make grand statements like, "Yes, I believe depression is genetic.  I also believe that laughter and smiling is genetic too!"

Then I start to imagine wars between genes...depression genes versus the laughter genes.  Each holding their own hill in a meadow.  One patch of genes grumbling, lying on cots and wearing goth clothes, the other patch giggling and dressed like Hari-Krishnas.  Which one will win out?

Aristotle said, "Only the human animal laughs."  That's in Wikipedia, but I did read that in high school too.

Here's some cool stuff I got from Wikipedia:

The study of laughter is called, Gelotology.  Is that, "Jell-o"?

It helps the heart, lowers blood sugar and relieves stress!  Read on for more great benefits.

Want to laugh more? 

2 New Improv Classes This Summer!

As most you know, besides being a hypnotherapist and an EFT practitioner, I am also an actor and improviser.  I'm a founding member of Blood Squad www.bloodsquadpresents.com and a former member of Unexpected Productions.

I am holding to fun and fast improv classes this summer one for beginners and one for more advanced students.  If you live in the Seattle area, come check them out!  Details below:

Improv for Non-Actors (and aspiring actors!)

Class Description

You've seen it on stage and TV and have always wondered, "How do they do it?"

Learn how to create scenes out of thin air using only your imagination! 

This class is for anyone who has wanted to step on stage to create characters who live funny and compelling lives! 

By playing short scenes and improv games, you will learn the fundamental skills that allow for awesome interaction with fellow students. 

You will also learn the joy of free-falling, spontaneous exchange, group creation and rapport building. 

This class will you give you a dynamic edge that you can carry with you into the "real" world, skill-sets that can enhance your work and your play. 

This class is only available to those ready to have a fantastic time!

Dates:  Saturday, July 5, 12, 19, 26  11:30am - 2:30pm.

Where:  Odd Duck Studio
             1214 10th Ave E
(On Capitol Hill in Seattle - Across from the IHOP on Madison.)

Cost:  $200.00 (Payments can be made by check or by credit card.  I take payments through PayPal).

Maximum # of students:  12      (minimum # 5)

Call Michael White at (206) 947-8390 for more information or email him at knowmoretrances@gmail.com.

SuperStar Summer Improv

It's going to be short and sweet because it's summertime!

Think of it as the concentrated like the venom of an Australian snake.  This class is designed for people who have some basic improv skills.

Week 1:  Move! Move! Move!

Are you the kind of improviser who finds your self standing around a lot and "reflecting"? 

While that can work (hardly ever) it is essential that an improviser move with purpose on stage and that you create a world that the audience can "see"! 

You will discover powerful tools that will help you keep the scene moving along, keep you safe during your fight scenes, and keep your audiences engaged and delighted! 

Week 2:  I think that I shall love to see an improviser pretending to be a tree!

This week will focus again on how to create images the audience can see without being the lead character in the scene. 

Be ready to play goats, cows, forklifts, gas clouds, climate change, and so on.

We will discover more practical skills for those wanting to advance in their improv careers.  Sometimes just chewing your cud is enough, knowing when is what makes the difference!

Week 3:  The Three E's (Energy, Excitement and Attack)

What you won't see:  2 improvisers sitting on blocks mumbling about corn futures (even in rhyming cuplets…oh wait this actually sounds kind of cool).

What you will see:  Improvisers ATTACKING the stage with performance ready energy and excitement!

Week 4:  Finding the "Improve" in Improv.

Okay so this week's title is disgusting.  This is a chance for you to integrate all that you have learned into a powerful skill set that you can take with you into auditions, on stage and into your corn futures Meetup group.

We will also be addressing and eliminating habits that are keeping you from being an improv SUPERSTAR!

DATES:  Thursdays July 10, 17, 21, 31 7pm -10pm

WHERE:  Odd Duck Studio, 1214 10^th Ave E. (Up on Capitol Hill folks – Across from the IHOP)

COST:  $200.00

Maximum # of students 10 (minimum # 5)

For more information call Michael White at (206) 947-8390 or email him at

knowmoretrances@gmail.com.

"Pay What You Think It's Worth" Personalized Hypnosis Experience!

Hello everyone!

I was thinking the other day that while I love my products at http://www.superhypnodownloads.com, and on the free podcast, there is a way to make each recording tailored to a person's individual needs!

So I thought, "Why not have people tell me what they want their recording to be?"  Brilliant!  Genius! Extraordinaire!

And then I thought, "I don't want to keep anyone from doing it so I'll offer it risk free!"

Don't you like to read my internal thought process?  So I'm starting the, "Pay What You Think It's Worth!" Hypnotic Experience.  This is going to be so rad!

What you do: Send me your personal hypnosis request at knowmoretrances@gmail.com.  Please give me at least 3 paragraphs describing your specific story, but don't feel you have to limit yourself!  The more specific you can be, the better.  I might email you for more details, I want to get to know you!  If you are doing something too shameful to mention or perhaps illegal, you can still get the benefit by calling it, "your thing" or "X" or whatever.  You'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

What I do:  I read your email and tailor a 25-30 minute recording just for you!  I'll need your address because I will have to send it to you on a cd (unless someone knows of a way to send a large mp3 file over the internet).  I'm finding that email just won't let a file this big go through.

How this works:  You listen (often is recommended, we are reprogramming the brain after years of running bad programs after all) until you get the results you want.  When you have the changes you are looking for, I get paid! You decide how much you think the whole experience is worth and pay me that amount!  I'll include my address so you can send me a check or you can email me that you want to pay with a credit card through PayPal.

This is awesome, it's risk free AND it gives you a chance to experience some real, practical and personal change! 

CONFIDENTIALITY:  This goes without saying but I'm going to write it.  Only I read your email and I only I will be making the recordings, if you request that I delete your email, I will as soon as the recording is finished.  Gone.  Kaput.

Send me your stories and let me know exactly what you want!  If I get a lot, I'll start a "first come first served list" and let you know roughly how long your recording will take.  I think I'm going to have a HUGE list!

Stay well everyone!

You Just Have to Quit!

Whatever it is.  There is no "being ready".  You just have to quit.  Simple.

But it might not be easy.  In fact, it will probably be hard!  How's that for a marketing technique?

You must understand that whatever you've been stuffing down with food, sex, porn, booze, cigarettes, rage or whatever is all your energy.

Stuff is going to come up and this is the beginning of your process of learning to bless and accept all of your energy.  All of it.

You are inherently pure now!  You are perfect now!  Let go of egoic thought and bless the root of all of your "problems" and "addictions" because they are inherently pure too!

Bless that which terrifies you!  Bless that which horrifies you!  Bless that which screams and kicks and begs and plays victim!  Keep your sense of humor when dealing with tantrum babies.

You are infinitely powerful, so powerful you think that all of this is coming from somewhere else.  Wrong!

Think about this and notice how much you want to either a. tell me to fuck off or b. think I'm full of shit!

Bless those thoughts and keep going!  Everything else other than being quit is an excuse, a fantasy. 

You're infinitely Amazing!  Remember this!

***UPDATE*** 3 new products! Release Your Rage and Depression Sucks! And...

UPDATE!  I just put up a third recording titled, "Put off Procrastinating Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever..."

Sorry I didn't get it up right away, I just couldn't get to it!  Hahahahahaha! Cough...ahem.  Anywho enjoy!

M

I've put up two new products, "Depression Sucks!" and "Release Your Rage With EFT!" on the innernets.  Go to www.superhypnodownloads.com to check them out!

There will be a lot more I promise.  I did a batch earlier but they sucked so I'm doing new ones!

Enjoy!  More articles coming soon.  And podcasts and...it's a good time, I need an 8th day of the week.

Stay well everyone!

Agoraphobia, Gambling Addictions and Fears of Flying

Watch this Paul McKenna video from the UK. He's on TLC right now helping people lighten up! Watch it. I really love this guy. It's so fun to see people live without fear!

Lying

When was the first time you learned that you could lie and get away with it?  How old were you?  What were the beliefs attached to lying in your household/developmental space?  Contemplate these memories.  Meditate on them and ask yourself if the beliefs are still useful.  Do you believe it is important to be able to lie?

The #43 is a Smelly Old Bus!

Riding on the bus really helps me get some ideas clear in my mind.  So does walking.

I was sitting on the bus this morning feeling anxious.  I was feeling that even though everything seems to be going well and right in my life, there is still something wrong.  I feel effed up.  Have you ever felt like this?  Have you ever had a feeling that at any moment everything is going to fall apart?

Breathing deeply helped, but still it felt like something was sticking.  So I stuck with it and this thought popped into my mind:

"We are never not inherently pure, perfect beings.  We only blind ourselves to this truth."

Or if you want to say it like this:  "I am always perfect!  I release all blinders to this truth!"

Remember, you are not your body, your actions, or other people's opinions.  You are not your criminal record or your drug addiction (despite what the "righteous" proclaim).  You are not your past, your present, or your bottom line.  You are not your butt or the mirror you loathe.  You are not your behaviors, your identities, your values or your beliefs!  You are not your goals that you'll never achieve or the ones you settled quickly.  You're not your father's son or mother's daughter.  You are none of these things.  Breathe, let go, and stop tricking yourself.  Remember this always:  You are unknowable and you are WONDERFUL!

Or as I like to say, "You're 99.99999% pure AWESOME potential and .00001% gristle!"

Be courageous, TAKE OFF THE BLINDERS and live!  LIVE! LIVE!!!!

One of my favorite words!

Is EXALT! 

Dictionary says:  to elevate in rank, honor, power, etc.

Well, that doesn't describe that feeling of being exalted does it?  What a powerful feeling.  I was thinking about it this morning!  Do you exalt yourself?  Ever? 

Do it.  A great way to do it is to never ever put yourself down for even the simplest things.  Create an exalted sense of you.  Hear it and feel it and see it.  Taste it and smell it.  Move your body around as evidence of this fact!  The next three minutes you spend on this will change your life forever! How much you can exalt yourself will indicate to you how much you can exalt others!

And people will notice.

For now, think about times when you've exalted yourself.  Lifted yourself up high and said, "YES!"  Do it now again and again.  Practice it! 

You are pure potential.  You know this by now right?  Find your pure intent in everything you do and separate it from your problematic behaviors.  Exalt yourself always!  Always.  Always! All ways.

Saying "Fuck You!"

For some reason I thought I might have written this before, but this requires repeating.

While tapping all of the meridian points on your body, say (outloud preferrably), "FUCK YOU!"

The tapping points are on Mona Lisa at www.eftseattle.com.  I love tapping the two inside eyebrow points and just saying over and over in my mind, "Fuck You!"

You know who you're talking to whle you do this!  Enjoy the hell  out of it!

This is powerful, trust me.

And for anyone out there that has a problem with saying this, ask yourself why.  I understand that this is an uncomfortable phrase for some people, so really take the opportunity to figure out what the problem is.  They are just words.  Words that express what?  RAGE!  And were you taught at some point that you didn't have a right be angry?  You weren't allowed to fully express what you feel for someone else's sake?  Well that's pretty fucked up isn't it?  Everyone else gets to be a fully expressive human but you right?  Do you think God will be angry with you?  I used to think that.  So I pretended I wasn't filled with anger and rage and ended up doing little "passive aggressive" behaviors.  It would have been much easier to believe I could get as angry as I want, release it and move on! Man it really pisses me off to think about how much time I wasted.  I just want to smash a....  Oh wait, I can tap for that!

Every human being gets angry.  And a lot of people are still angry about stuff from the past!  It's time to release it forever.