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Summary: For the metaphysically inclined...
Review: I am about 1/3 if the way through the book and find it very slow going. The tone seemed pompous in the beginning, and then became mystical. I have found a few good tips (which is why I'm still reading it) but much of what it contains so far can be found elsewhere, often more simply and vividly presented. If it gets better later on I'll update this review, but I'll probably advise skipping thi first part.
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Summary: I'm not sure it's worth the effort
Review: I am about 1/3 if the way through the book and find it very slow going. The tone seemed pompous in the beginning, and then became mystical. I have found a few good tips (which is why I'm still reading it) but much of what it contains so far can be found elsewhere, often more simply and vividly presented. If it gets better later on I'll update this review, but I'll probably advise skipping thi first part.
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Summary: An Excellent Resource to Guide, Enlighten & Heal.
Review: I am honored to share my views of the power found within the pages of Finding True Magic. I have read this book from cover to cover, and continue to turn to it daily, drawing strength, wisdom, grace and guidance from the lessons contained within. Additionally, I enrolled and graduated from the Transpersonal Hypnotherapy/NLP Certification Program at the Institute of Therapeutic Learning, which is taught by the author, Jack Elias.I am now a Transpersonal Clinical Hypnotherapist, and extend the acquired knowledge, read and taught from Finding True Magic, to my clients. Finding True Magic truly depicts the gift one receives by reading and putting into practice the comprehensible techniques. The author masterfully guides the reader through a series of basic techniques. He then allows the reader to examine the nature and games of the ego, (which he refers to as "Egoic Minding"). Once equipped with this insight, the author guides the reader to an even deeper level of understanding which allows the reader, to explore and access the unending power within. I could go on but, I invite you to read this exemplary resource in which you can explore the priceless treasure of Finding True Magic within yourself. In my humble opinion, Finding True Magic is an essential resource to the awakening of our own spiritual, emotional and physical healing process. In addition to Finding True Magic within myself, I have successfully extended these learning's to my clients, friends and family. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a seeker of truth and integrity. The words channeled through this author are touched by the nectar of pure grace.
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Summary: A Remarkable Therapeutic Approach
Review: I have known the author for 30 years as a fellow meditator. I recently had the opportunity to work with him on 2 very important personal issues, and I can truly say his insight and skillfulness as a hypnotherapist is quite remarkable - in fact, astoundingly direct. He transmits the wisdom of the meditative tradition in an easily comprehensive way. Finding True Magic opens the door for the reader to these powerful approaches. I am looking forward to learning his methods for use with my own patients.
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Summary: New Vistas in Healing Techniques
Review: Jack Elias is a born teacher with a natural approach to class teaching. He is as much at home with Socratic dialogue and analysis as with a Zen paradoxical and intuitive approach. An intriguing and novel synthesis of Eastern and Western perspectives and techniques, this is a very practical approach to clinical hypnotherapy by an expert in the field. Jack is contributing to the further establishment of hypnotherapy as a total approach to healing rather than simple as a technique which may be applied in the context of psychotherapy.
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Summary: A Road Map For A Magical Journey Towards Wholeness
Review: More than an excellent explanation of hypnotherapy and NLP techniques, Finding True Magic is an invaluable manual for truly living an awake and ecstatic life, a guide to achieving moment by moment magic throughout one's life. Jack Elias' therapeutic approach goes far beyond the more superficial levels of popular hypnosis, by dealing with deeper core issues and emphasizing the healing of each person as a whole. His work is based on the sometimes startling realization that we already walk around in trance, hypnotized by our beliefs and our habitual ways of thinking. Reading this book initiates a mystical process that involves waking up from our limiting thoughts, experiencing the joy, peace, and purity that comprise our inherent magical state, and opening to new choices and new resources in order to honor and respect ourselves and others. The simple yet profound techniques and ideas found in this book lead to transformations that are indeed truly magical. Finding True Magic is a gift to all humanity.
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Summary: Elias Brings True Consciousness into Hypnotherapy and NLP
Review: No other author (that I have read or studied) in this field brings such passion and consciousness to the how to of hypnotherapy as Jack Elias. When I first started with this manual of technique I was pushed back a little by his "process" and then shortly realized that he was literally attempting to move me to an altered state while writing of his purposes and concepts. I could feel the compression of wisdom and mind wrenching and concept blowing sentences that brought whole realms of my own belief systems to the fore to be examined in an instant. Often, I would have to read and reread whole paragraphs and then put the book down and breathe deeply as minirealizations of the Truth of Elias's monologue seeped in. I found my self celebrating "eurekas" often. Elias teaches that "exploring attaining . . .wholeness and inner peace" is an integral part of his manual for practitioners because he believes that success with clients is directly related to the depth and experience of the therapist's own contemplation and conscious inner life. So the process of the practitioner becoming more "awake", if you will, is easily woven into the teaching and training process of this manual. Detailed scripts are integrated into the discussions of various areas. Elias breaks the training in the manual into phases. First is a basic introduction to hypnosis and the nature of the egoic mind. Second is an illumination of Regression/Past Life Therapy with discussion on accessing the Higher Self or True Self, coverage of the Vedic traditions of India and its view of Shakti and the power of illusion in an interplay of the psyche that Elias calls "egoic minding" and the awakening from egoic trance. He also includes a model of the psyche that correlates the Neuro Linguistic Programming model of the Psyche with the Five Skandhas of Buddhism. The manual continues with a great piece on subpersonalities and trance work and an effective (though brief) work on "Shame and the Addictive Personality". Elias gives a whole section to archetypes, which can minimally play a very helpful role for the hypnotherapist seeking to do a thorough assessment of the client and develop a very "whole" case plan. This section has extensive scripts and commentary on accessing archetypes and utilizing them for the hypnotherapeutic processes. Finally, the manual deals with shadow work, entity attachment and releasing, couples and group hypnosis, and developing a practice. Practitioners that want to get themselves out of their "box".
into deeper unfolding of themselves, and even more effective healing with their clients should make this manual a must.
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Summary: Transpersonal revealed
Review: Reading Jack Elias' book "Finding True Magic" is really finding true magic! I've been interested in hypnotherapy and consciousness many years, going back to Max Freedom Long's Huna research. "Finding True Magic" does a magnificent job of integrating multi-cultural concepts of consciousness in workable relationships. When I was studying transpersonal psychology in graduate school, I introduced this book to my professors and colleagues because I felt he explored and defined the field with greater clarity and breadth than most of the authors we were assigned to read. His approach is interdisciplinary without losing depth within the component parts. While the focus of the book is clearly on practical therapeutic skills, he never loses touch with the theoretical foundations to help anchor the therapist in their craft. I have many books in my library, but few to which I return regularly; this is one of those few.
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Summary: Masterful Presentation of Spirit and Technique
Review: The depth of Finding True Magic grows on one, and can be used constantly as a reference for the therapist - so clear, so vivid, and effective. I am on the path to get my Ph.D. certification for Transpersonal Hypnotherapy and am basing my thesis on your work. It is vast and immense/insightful and speaks to me now more than ever on how to really have mastery with clients.
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Summary: Unique book on Transpersonal Hypnotherapy
Review: This book is unique and there is no other hypnotherapy book that is quite like this one. I do recommend it as additional resource and believe that every hypnotherapist can benefit from reading it.
It is loaded with scripts and different techniques from NLP, Ericksonian hypnosis, working with archetypes and similar. It also does incorporate some eastern terminology and worldview which may be a rather foreign territory for western hypnotherapists who were not involved in Eastern studies and may go over their heads as they may not relate to it.
Nevertheless there are a lot of good scripts of transpersonal nature, where the client is guided to access his deeper wisdom and engage in learnings and transformations which are appropriate for the client. For this purpose scripts use quite a bit of indirect (Ericksonian) hypnotic language patterns.
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