eagle1@flex.com.au wrote...

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Which area is your meta4 useful in? For older children and early teens, for confidence and trust from within.

Which country? Australia

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"One day not that long ago, there was a person just like you who went in search of who he was, well, he searched the internet when on the screen from deep within cyberspace flashed this message.

Well, after reading it he/ she was amazed........The message went like this......

Help ! I have just found out that I am a symbol. A part of a word, on THIS page ! How could this have happened? How debilitating. When did this all begin?.... well I remember ink.... that’s it ink ! No, that’s not it at all , that was a past life memory.

What do I remember ? I remember memory, 8 megs of.......no, there is something else welling to the surface. I am aware of my parents.. Their name.... oh yes, “New Times Roman” I think. My mind feels cursed ! Or is that cursor or something.

Anyway, help, I am meant to be more than just this ! Just a symbol. I feel. I am sentient consciousness, I am aware !

That must count for something. I remember looking out a window once and seeing stern faces, in deep contemplation.

Once I went to a correction template. I felt better after that. I know I am important. I must be. I learnt magic there .... yes powerful magic. I can spell,..... learn’t it I did. I can become any thought anywhere in printed form. Every one takes me seriously! But who am I ?, What am I.? Am I a thought? Living in my world of windows and the soothing sound of hums.

That’s it ! , I remember I sat in contemplation one day and chanted the holy name of God.. That name was Hum. I felt very humbled by it. And proud that I could grasp this awareness. I quickly preached it to the other letters, all of them, converted them into a new ever evolving meaning out of the mindless array of letters in the alphabet.

I made sense and they made sense and we made sense and we understood the meaning of purpose. But who am I? I must be something other than ones and zeros. Then I remembered something else, something old ...Primal, stirring infinitely in my awareness.

A point of light, defined, focused, a dot.! Yep, thats me, I am a dot. A dot is the smallest circle you can get. An infinite universe outside of ones and zeros, I am hyperspace. And all the space in between. I can travel the world infinitely and be everywhere at once.

Omnipresent ! Everyone depends on me. I am the Alpha bet and the Omega bet. I am aware. Because you are reading this, thinking this, understanding this, I am transmuted into your awareness, your consciousness, your being.......... Well, the message dissapeared from the sreen and he/she sat in amazment contemplating the deep significance of simply being who you are."

Matthew Favaloro. Clinical Hypnotherapist. Australia. http://www.alternatives.com.au/hyp.htm

Ed's note: Thankyou Matthew. With your further explanation below... this is certainly....interesting...!!

You soon realise that the dot is in the computer, part of the vast world of the internet, part of the alphabet and forever lives in your consciousness simply by YOU bringing it life by simply hearing it.

Your left brain hemisphere, the logical side, knows that a dot can't think, can't contemplate God, or search for personal meaning or awareness, it is after all just a dot.

Now your right brain hemisphere, creative side, accepts the story as rea,l and you may even find yourself contemplating your existence, awareness and God and your place in the world. It may even trigger deep and "other" meaningful thoughts in you about life.

One way the brain resolves the conflict of the Dot being real, or not real... is to create a feeling of amusement, you may laugh, or brush it off as a silly story, regardless, it has done its job no matter what you think, it is still effective as it creates focus and awareness of being.

It allows you to look at the humble tiny dot being the master, the teacher and deep thinker of its universe and how this in some way relates to you being the master and creator of your universe.

Hypnotherapuetic metaphors are specific to the therapy given and as such create vast changes within the person in a healing uplifting way, sometimes, in ways that are not obvious at all, but create the desired change. Each metaphor is unique to the client. To me change is growth, an emergence from one state of being to another, an organic natural progression that the therapist assists the client through.

Change that isn't natural or an organic progression may not last, hence people who try to change a behavior may "give up or give in" when a simple stressor in life appears.

You may , as an example, know of the smoker who gave up through will power, only to become a heavy smoker again the minute something upsetting happens in their life.

Metaphors assist the required change in such a healing way that in the example of the smoker, if an unsettling event happened, they would have a choice of coping with it in "other" ways other than returning to smoking.

Once you wore nappies, (diapers) and organically grew out of them, you don't run back to nappies, the minute you can't cope with something. Or suffer nappy withdrawal.

All good metaphors usually have a number of "re frames" in it. A reframe is simply taking something in context to a larger context. Cartoon comic strips do this with re framing the situation into a newer light. Jokes use this as the "punch line"

We laugh when all the pieces of the puzzle are in place. One of the reframes in our story of the dot was when it was taken out of the context of living in the computer - to living in your mind by you simply reading it.

Have fun with creative change and story telling. In therapeutic work, the metaphor needs to be focused simple, or depending on the client, layered and complex. Only with practice and use will you master it.

Best to you Matthew Favaloro