My Lost Opportunity
Have you ever been hypnotized?
I was always the one they led up to the stage from the audience.
I could be so easily hypnotized it was nuts.
Infatuated by it, I took some classes
Teaching me how to hypnotize others.
Dr. Hickman was teaching them.
She gave me a book.
Hypnotherapy by Dr. Irene Hickman.
I was not ready for this.
I thought it was a bunch of hooey.
I did not appreciate the book or her autograph.
Ten years later fate threw me into a hypnotherapy course.
I am now a licensed hypnotherapist. Wishing I had not
been so hasty.
I had thrown away the book.
Feel badly now, as Dr. Irene Hickman
Was one of three people instrumental in
Introducing hypnotherapy to the United States.
I was shocked when I took the course,
And learned that the woman who desperately
Wanted to intern me years earlier was one of
The pioneers.
She was a calm, quiet, older, eighty-year old who spoke softly….
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