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Your Average Hypnotherapist The average hypnotherapist may spend most of her time helping people who want to break habits like biting their nails, smoking, or overeating. But Vickie McDonald is not your average hypnotherapist. She describes herself as a “metaphysical hypnotherapist,” and her clients present her with problems of a more unusual nature. Vickie McDonald's clients are more likely to be, well, haunted. . . When you meet Vickie, you just don't expect her to talk about spirits and such. She's a native Southerner, and her eyes dance with mischief as she tells one fascinating story after another. “My family belong to the Church of God, and they think what I do is just..” She grins. What Vickie McDonald does is hypnotherapy. She's a Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy, Master Hypnotist, Medical Hypnotherapist, and teaches basic and advanced hypnotherapy. She's also a minister of the Universal Life Church and a Karuna Ki Reiki Master instructor. However, due to her spirituality and her psychic abilities, she found herself drawn to this work of freeing people who feel they are not alone in their own skins. In her upcoming workshop on Spirit Releasement, Vickie McDonald will be teaching other hypnotherapists (the course pre-requisite is a certification in basic hypnotherapy) a curriculum that includes such fascinating topics as: What Happens When We Die; What Attachments Are; Removing Attachments (both up close and personally, or remotely!); Past Life Attachments; Talking to the Dead; Reclaiming Your Space or Cleansing Your Space; Healing After Removal; and even how to deal with Energy Vampires, Demonic Spirits, and Alien Spirits. Vickie has had experiences that I've never had, and some that I'm not so sure I'd ever want to have. Frankly, I was a bit stunned to hear some of her stories. However, I'm fascinated, and I'm trying to keep an open mind. “How do you know when a client has a spirit attachment?” I asked her. She told me about a client she was working with on smoking cessation. “And he said, 'Vickie, everything's black around me; I can't move.' I asked to speak to the positive side of him and then the negative side. And with the negative side, I then asked, 'Have you ever died before?' And he informed me, yes, he had. I said, 'Hmm, then, you're somewhere you're not supposed to be! Have you ever been to the Light?' 'No,' he said.” Vickie went on to ask the 'negative side', this spirit, if he knew he was inhabiting someone else's body and causing him great pain (the man had suffered back pain for years, with no medical explanation). The spirit said “'yes,' and I told him, 'Well, you can't stay here any more.” After further conversation, Vicki was able to guide this spirit to leave the host body and move on to the Light. After this first experience, Vickie worked with an AIDS patient on a daily basis for three years, and they became very close. She found that he, also, suffered spirit attachments on occasions, and she learned a great deal from working with him with metaphysical hypnotherapy and Reiki (“Because you have to use what works,” she stressed.) “But you have to realize, not everyone has attachments. You [the client] tell me if you have attachments; I don't tell you. I ask if that part of you has died, and if it has, it's not supposed to be there, and either you've had a near death experience or it could be a walk-in, or it could be a spirit that's just confused and doesn't know it's dead, and we have a lot of the alien attachments.” Now, this is the point at which I had to squirm in my chair. Alien attachments? And yet, every year, large numbers of people go to therapists, convinced that they are alien abductees. These people are suffering, and whether it's a mental problem, or if it really is abduction, if metaphysical hypnotherapy can offer them relief, there has to be something worthwhile going on here. I found myself thinking about shamanism, and how shamans use very symbolic language to describe their work with clients; something that, perhaps, couldn't be described in any other way. This is spiritual work, after all. Vickie described how she had helped an abduction victim who had attempted suicide the week prior to her appointment. This lady had been referred by her psychiatrist, who had told the woman that she had been molested as a child. With hypnotic regression, Vickie determined that the woman had begun to be abducted, not molested, at an early age. The woman described lights circling the walls of her bedroom that would entrance her, enabling her abductors to do their work. Vickie planted a counter-suggestion that this would no longer work; that these lights would no longer put her in trance, but would instead wake her up even further. The woman has had no further abduction experiences and her life has returned to normal. If you are certified in basic hypnotherapy, and you¹d like to know more about this work, be sure to check out the Spirit Releasement workshop (see ad). You will find it fascinating! Kathryn
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