Newsletter - Archive  Jan 9, 2010

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Rotary of Templeton Newsletter

                                                             January 9, 2009         

Club Calendar   Programs   Jan 12 "Membership"   Jan 14 Board Meeting   Jan 19 "Cal-Trans Update"    District Calendar    January District Newsletter

Harvey Hunt presented our program at our last meeting. Mr. Hunt is a certified Clinical Hypnotist, and has been practicing “hypnotherapy” and other areas of hypnosis including “Stage Hypnosis” (a type of entertainment), for over 40 years.

Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. It is used by licensed physicians, psychologists, and others, to treat depression, anxiety, eating disorders, sleep disorders, compulsive gaming, posttraumatic stress, and other mind-body issues.

The words 'hypnosis' and 'hypnotism' both derive from the term "neuro-hypnotism" (nervous sleep) coined by the Scottish surgeon James Braid around 1841. Braid based his practice on that developed by Franz Mesmer and his followers ("Mesmerism" or "animal magnetism"), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked.

Braid described hypnotism as “a state of physical relaxation accompanied and induced by mental concentration.”

Harvey Hunt has narrowed his method of induction from the “long” relaxing method to what he calls “Rapid Induction” that takes only a few minutes.  He demonstrated this with a “willing” volunteer, Nancy, quite and interesting program. To learn more about Harvey Hunt and Hypnosis, please visit his website at http://harveyhunt.com/welcome.html.

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Rotarians will soon gain a new resource – someone who will be well-versed in the many programs of Rotary International and knowledgeable about Rotary club and district best practices. That new resource will be a Rotary coordinator (RC). Read more...

  

Historic Moments -- Rotary's first disaster relief effort!

(Flood damage in Columbus, Ohio, 1913. Photo courtesy of Steve Holt/Mitretek Systems)

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