Hello, and welcome to the lecture on professional boundaries. So in working as a clinical hypnotherapist, it's absolutely necessary, mandatory and critical that you maintain strong professional boundaries. Because if you start having sloppy boundaries with your clients, it can take your beautiful and wonderful healing practice into an absolute train wreck. So here's the rule of thumb. If someone is your friend, your family member or a colleague before you have a session, and then you have a session with them, then afterwards they can remain your friend, your family member or your colleague because those relationships were established before the session occurred. Now if someone you don't know comes to see you as a client for a session, then they cannot be your friend or your family member or your colleague afterwards.

And why is that? is because when someone comes to see you to get help, there's a natural power imbalance that goes on with that. There's the helper, the therapist, and the healthy someone coming for help. And so you're going to learn things about this person, that their family and their spouse don't even know about them. And that does not transfer into the external social world. So it's very sloppy.

And it's immoral, in my opinion. So you want to keep those professional boundaries really strong, you know, try not to engage socially at all with your clients afterwards. So let me give you an example. This is how I've learned this lesson the hard way. So I was young and beginning my practices many years ago. And I moved to a new town and I was kind of playing around with hypnotherapy.

I wasn't really doing it. And so I was kind of trying to get into it. So I offer some free sessions. And this one guy came to me that was a referral and he had moved from far away. And I gave him a free session, and I kind of liked the guy and it was great. And so he was interested in so I said, well, let's, he wants to learn about so I said, Well, I'll train you how to Do it's like, we'll just exchange sessions.

So we traded sessions back and forth. And so what that did is that unknowingly opened kind of a subconscious conduit between the both of us. And then later afterwards, we would go out and do recreational activities together and stuff. And so we're kind of becoming friends. And all seemed well and good, you know. And then, you know, not too long after that, as our kind of friendship was developing.

He had a relative who died, and his relative had created a small empire of assault, small financial Empire based on some really dirty dealings. So it's real dirty money, you know, almost on the criminal side of things. And so he inherited this money. And what happened when he inherited this money is he also inherited that energy and so he was almost in a way almost possessed by this dark force. And so what happened between the two of us, he kind of had a personality change. And yet we had this conduit that was already opened between us on a subconscious level.

And this energy was coming through him. And it came through him and attached onto me. And it was like the first time I'd really been exposed to like, an energy invasion. And so what happened is that I felt this thing come under my sternum and hook on. And it felt like it was like a big fish hook. And it was just pulling on man is having some huge intestinal problems.

I couldn't figure out what it was. And over about a three day period, my skin was going gray, and I was literally losing a life force. And, you know, my, the woman I was married to at the time, she thought, you know, I was gonna die and it's like, so I did do something quick and we couldn't really figure out what it was. And so I went to an interview. healer in town who did this thing called quantum healing. And I sat in her chair and she put her hands on my forearm.

And within about 10 seconds this thing let go. And it was like just an immediate energy release because she was channeling some kind of white light or something. And this dark force, just let go. And then at that point, I knew, okay, you know, I picked something up from somebody, and it didn't take me too long to figure out where it came from. So that was a big mistake I made on my part, I open channels to a client that I should not have my professional boundaries were not strong. And it really opened me up for an attack that neither of us are aware of.

So you want to be really careful, keep those professional boundaries strong, and go on and lead a happy and healthy practice. So let's go on to the next lecture.