- “Trance is a natural everyday experience.”
- “In hypnosis you are seeking to alter their body awareness, their body understandings, their body experiences, their body responses.”
- “Discover their patterns of happiness.”
- “He wanted to make a father out of me. I made a colleague out of him.”
- “Develop your own techniques. Be your own natural self. I tried to do it the way someone else did and it was a MESS.”
- “You can pretend anything and master it.”
- There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.”
- “You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.”
- “What is easiest to see is often overlooked.”
- “Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.”
- “Teach them to be comfortable in their bodies.”
- “You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior.”
- “Sometimes – in fact more times than is realized – therapy can be firmly established on a sound basis only by the utilization of silly, absurd, irrational and contradictory statements.”
- “A goal without a date is just a dream.”
- “Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.”
- “I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.”
- “Life’s difficulties are merely necessary roughage.”
- “The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?”
- “As for my dignity… the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don’t have to be dignified, professional.”
- “The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn’t got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It’s rather simple, rather childish… It is direct and free.”
- “When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else’s imperfect knowledge.”
- “We always translate the other person’s language into our own language.”
- “So, I warn all of you, don’t ever when you are listening… think you understand… because you’re listening with your ears and thinking with your vocabulary. The [other’s] vocabulary is something entirely different.”
- “Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!”
- “If I started teaching by precision I’d bore them.”
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth – Dolores Cannon
January 5, 2023
