Seven faces she wore at different times.
She knew not when each face’s expression
might appear (some rarely; some oftentimes,
giving to others a different impression.)
Horrific abuse caused her mind to split
when she was young. Her main self took back seat
when stressed, but she was not aware of it.
Always she was feeling so incomplete.
Her main personality would just go black.
She’d find herself somewhere not knowing why
or how she got there, or what brought her back
to the face of hers which time had passed by.
Help she sought. After months of digging deep
through hypnotherapy and through much talk,
a better hold on herself she could keep,
for secrets she was able to unlock.
Those secrets that had fractured her poor mind
she has now confronted; seven faces
to one another are no longer blind,
and beautiful hope she now embraces.
Categories:
hypnotherapy, mental health,
Form: Quatrain
blue granny glasses
bubbly lava lamp
yellow happy face
Mamas and The Papas
Karen Carpenter
Embroidered blue jeans
Flowered shirt for men
Janice Joplin
decorated Volkswagen bus
Hip hugger bell bottoms
Shag carpeting
Hypnotherapy
1960's
Categories:
hypnotherapy, age,
Form: Free verse
hypnotherapy
the power of suggestion
subliminal clips
mystery of human mind
such propaganda
turn off your TV people
your heart needs your attention
Categories:
hypnotherapy, spiritual,
Form: Choka
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….
Categories:
hypnotherapy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric