{"id":11145,"date":"2017-11-29T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/server1.webstudio.com.sg\/~staging\/ypsg\/?p=11145"},"modified":"2018-01-25T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T09:22:42","slug":"tried-getting-hypnotised-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server1.webstudio.com.sg\/~staging\/ypsg\/tried-getting-hypnotised-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"I Tried Getting Hypnotised For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was asked to interview a hypnotist, I\u2019ll be honest and say I had my doubts. To be fair, we\u2019re talking more \u201ctherapist\u201d than Las Vegas magician that\u2019ll have you clucking\u00a0like a chicken on stage<\/span>\u2014<\/span>but you catch my drift.<\/span><\/p>\n

There were only two things I was certain of:
\n1) that we\u2019d meet at his office
\n2) that I\u2019d be \u201chypnotised\u201d at the end of our interview<\/span><\/p>\n

Neither of which was much to go on.<\/span><\/p>\n

The day came and we met at his office, a co-working space opposite Bugis Junction. I\u2019d made the last-minute decision to call a girl-friend to join me for the interview<\/span>\u2014the more the better right?<\/span><\/p>\n

To be honest, I\u2019m not sure <\/span>what<\/span><\/i> I\u2019d expected McKing to be like – after all, I\u2019d never met a hypnotist, let alone seen one beyond the rectangular edges of my television. But he was warm, inviting and refreshingly upfront with his responses.<\/span><\/p>\n

How It Began<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

At 29, McKing has already had multiple brushes with death. Which however unfortunate, has led him to the art of hypnosis. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 20 years old, my lung burst in my sleep. I woke up with breathing difficulties, but I had to give a presentation in school.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAt the time I was studying Child Psychology and Early Education in Ngee Ann Poly, it was a Tuesday\u2014first year, first term, last week.\u201d He recalls this with the accuracy of someone who had his first near-death experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

He made it to class, although he hardly made it through his presentation before finding himself incapable of speaking or breathing. \u201cI could feel pain vibrating through my chest, every time I breathed it felt like someone was stabbing me in my back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After succumbing to the pain, he was admitted to the A&E. A doctor would soon come to show him an image of his nugget-sized lung that had collapsed the night before. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me I\u2019d die in the next few days or in the next few <\/span>minutes <\/span><\/i>when the air crushes my heart unless I undergo a procedure\u201d McKing lamented calmly. <\/span><\/p>\n

He then puts his story on hold to explain how hypnosis works.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have 2 minds; the conscious and unconscious mind\u201d he explains. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe conscious mind deals with what we\u2019re knowingly aware of, like the sound of my voice, while the unconscious mind acts on its own; controlling your heartbeat, and being aware of surroundings that you don\u2019t even see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our conscious minds act as gatekeepers<\/span>\u2014<\/span>we can choose to \u201copen\u201d and accept an idea or \u201cclose\u201d and reject it.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWhen you open the door, the idea goes into your unconscious mind and once it\u2019s there it acts like a sponge or a computer program, it just runs on its own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not able to \u2018hypnotise\u2019 people because I went for a course,\u201d he says frankly. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all hypnotists, to ourselves and the people around us. Your first hypnotists are your parents, teachers are your second.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A lot of times this is done subtly, but McKing\u2019s encounter in the A&E had been a case of accidental \u201cshock hypnosis\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Hypnotists generally use shock hypnosis as a form of entertainment; like when they snap their fingers and make an audience member fall asleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do is shock the mind, and in that moment your conscious mind\u2019s gates go down so suggestions can be slipped straight in\u201d he explains.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the doctor told me I was going to die, I went into shock and in that state, my mind was vulnerable and the suggestion I received was \u2018you will die\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though he survived the ordeal, McKing would soon discover that<\/span> his mind had linked his botched presentation to the idea of death – every time he gave a presentation, he\u2019d suffer a mental and physical breakdown<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe mind and body are more closely linked than people realise\u201d he goes on, \u201ceach time I gave a presentation, my physical body \u201cdied\u201d along with my mind.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019d turned frail, his fingernails had turned purple and soon enough he slipped into depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

How Hypnosis Heals<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Call it fate or plain luck, but in the years to come, McKing would meet someone that would steer him down a path of recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through this process of healing, his interest in holistic health grew and one serendipitous day, he found a Facebook advertisement for a Neuro Linguistic Programming course that claimed to promote holistic health.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter attending the course I realised that what I\u2019d been suffering from was Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and that there were techniques to fix it\u201d he recalls.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI decided to attend a second mastery course to kind of \u2018cure myself, and over the span of these courses, one of the trainers told me I\u2019d been changing, like coming out of my shell.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He shared his story with his trainer who offered to help him resolve his problems if he\u2019d agree to be part of a demonstration for the class. \u201cIt was a very emotional but very healing process,\u201d he remarked.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a walking hypnosis technique where you \u2018walk\u2019 physically and mentally back in time in your memories, and you mentally separate yourself the timeline\u2019s events to distance yourself from the emotions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He laughs as he recalls dramatics of it all, \u201cBut in my case, the connection was so strong. Can you imagine I walked the whole distance of an auditorium just crying and crying? So my trainer told me to put 3 doors between myself and these memories, and I\u2019d imagined these huge doors with eye sensors and all these security locks. After a while, I started to calm down and heal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose it only makes sense that this pushed him to where he is now. As an advocate of how much the mind can heal the body, he started his own practice to help others with their issues, however big or small.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike most hypnotists you\u2019d find in Singapore, McKing doesn\u2019t believe his clients should have to visit him a handful of times to resolve an issue. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTraditional hypnotists believe you have to go into a deep state of hypnosis for the suggestions work – which isn’t wrong per se. But once it gets to that state, the suggestions or \u201csolutions\u201d are coming from the <\/span>hypnotist<\/span><\/i>,\u201d he points out.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBut what if the problem is a circle and the hypnotist\u2019s solution is a square? There\u2019s always different solutions, though the problem may look the same.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“If you\u2019re lucky it gets resolved, but if you\u2019re not, even 6 consultations won\u2019t help you because it\u2019s just a trial and error process.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy style is more conversational style hypnosis, let me give you an example.\u201d He begins to explain as he adjusts himself in his seat. \u201cThis guy came in to resolve his procrastination and he told me he sees procrastination as a huge barrier<\/span>\u2014<\/span> like a brick wall.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo I asked him why does he think so? And he tells me the moment I asked him that question, the barrier turned into a sun that was growing bigger and bigger until it merged with his body.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

McKing tells us his client was seated completely still during this 15-minute interaction but claimed that he felt the energy of the sun coursing through his veins. 3 days later, his client had spent each day since their session catching up on work he\u2019d put off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Being Hypnotised<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

For the next hour or so he tells us about cases of distracted children, businessmen looking for greater success, depression, letting go and seeking long-lost companions. <\/span><\/p>\n

In a lot of these examples he\u2019d used a method called \u201cDynamic Mental Imagery\u201d (DMI) to explore the unconscious mind regarding a certain \u201cproblem\u201d<\/span>\u2014 a method I\u2019d be trying out in a few moments.<\/span><\/p>\n

As I sat in his office, walls made completely out of glass, I started to feel nervous, but definitely curious. After all, I\u2019d heard so many success stories in the past hour. <\/span><\/p>\n

McKing assured me that the demonstration was just to let me get a feel for it, but asks if I have anything I\u2019d want to resolve.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mull over it for a minute and succumb to the possibility of free therapy. I tell him I\u2019d like to be more independent, and he agrees to help me explore that possibility.<\/span><\/p>\n

It begins normally, I breathe deeply, try to relax and struggle to stop thinking about a million things at once. There\u2019s a long pause before McKing whispers in a low controlled tone \u201cNow imagine a safe place.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

And as if my mind were on auto-pilot, it did instantaneously.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He asks me what I see and I tell him, \u201cTrees, flowers and a pond. I think I\u2019m in a park but I\u2019m alone.\u201d I tell him I\u2019m wading in the pond, and he asks me if I see a door of some sort<\/span>\u2014the door to my unconscious mind of course. <\/span><\/p>\n

Well, I didn\u2019t. But as I spoke to him I felt myself sink deeper into the pond that was supposed to be as shallow as a baby pool.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I knew it I was in a carriage\u2014yes, I\u2019m talking horse-drawn with wooden wheels and everything. The only catch was that I had no idea where it was going, and no one was driving. <\/span><\/p>\n

McKing probed me about my surroundings and what the carriage looked like to try to gather some understanding of the situation, but I hadn\u2019t the faintest clue.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not gonna lie – at this point I was starting to get anxious; I had no idea where I was going or how to get out of it. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you ask the horses where they\u2019re going.\u201d McKing suggested calmly. Without hesitation, I thought, \u201chome\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was immediately transported to my childhood home, but unlike usual memories, everything was extremely vivid.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The placement, the colours, even the photographs hanging on the wall\u2014they were all there just as I remembered.<\/span><\/p>\n

I walked through the familiar apartment as if I were there right then.<\/span><\/p>\n

I see my mother standing beside the huge closet that used to stand behind our maroon leather sofa and before I knew it I was spectating memories I\u2019d forgotten I\u2019d had.<\/span><\/p>\n

McKing lets me take my time with this, and tells me that I don\u2019t have to tell him what I see if I don\u2019t want to, so I don\u2019t. <\/span><\/p>\n

Strangely enough, it was a pretty emotional experience for me, but when I was ready for it to end, he led me out of it as seamlessly as he\u2019d led me into it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was still trying to wrap my head around what had just happened so I urged my friend to give it a go. She laughed nervously but was intrigued enough to have a go at being a guinea pig\u2014all in the name of journalism.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

She agrees to let McKing try some arm levitation experiments on her while I sit by and watch, pen and paper ready. His \u201cDictionary Balloon\u201d test starts with her holding both her palms over her lap. <\/span><\/p>\n

He tells her to breathe deeply and focus on her hands as he suggests slowly that one holds a heavy dictionary while the other is tied to a balloon that is lifting it higher and higher.<\/span><\/p>\n

I sat patiently watching both her hands quiver as one drifted higher and the other slowly sank. <\/span><\/p>\n

We laugh nervously, unsure of what\u2019s happening, and they even make small talk while her hands continued to move further apart. He brings her out of it and I can\u2019t help but exclaim \u201cOh my god how was it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Somewhat bewildered, she says:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of surreal, my arms were moving but I felt like I wasn\u2019t controlling them but I could still hold a conversation?\u201d<\/strong> <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now she\u2019s really curious and has a go at his arm levitation test.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s similar to the one before but now with only one hand. It begins the same – with deep breaths, focus and some subtle suggestions from McKing. <\/span><\/p>\n

I watch intently once again, holding my breath as her hand floats higher and higher till it\u2019s almost at her chest. McKing asks her if she\u2019d like to bring her hand back down and she says yes. <\/span><\/p>\n

With a few more deep breaths and instructions, she places her hand back on her knee and starts laughing nervously again.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWas it different from the other?\u201d I asked after we\u2019d left. \u201cMy focus was more intense it was like I was in my own bubble,\u201d she replied, still in awe.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEverything around me faded out, even his voice sounded muffled. But after my hand touched my lap it was like the bubble popped and my mind felt clear and refreshed.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We make more small talk after this, feeling as comfortable as you can with someone you\u2019ve just trusted to hypnotise you. McKing walks us out of the office, we shake hands and say thank you and go on our usual way.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few days later, I receive a message from McKing. I wonder what it\u2019s about, almost forgetting that I\u2019d asked him to help me resolve something just a few days before. <\/span><\/p>\n

I admitted I felt different, but I wasn\u2019t sure if it was just something I\u2019d been forcibly telling myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

He assures me that it\u2019s normal to try to rationalize how the unconscious mind works, but if I\u2019m happy with the way I\u2019m feeling, I could just accept the change and move forward. <\/span><\/p>\n

I thank him and tell him I will, and so I have.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

To find out more about McKing, visit his website<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a> or Facebook page<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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