A Bucket List? Use Hypnosis to Create a Butterfly List!

What the caterpillar calls

the end of the world,

the Master calls

the butterfly."

- Richard Bach

One of my favorite movies of all time was “The Bucket List” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

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And it got me to thinking:

• Did I have a Bucket List?

• Would I even want to have a Bucket List?

• Why did I seem to have some resistance to the idea of a Bucket List?

• Would it be beneficial to have a Bucket List?

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Being a Hypnotist and especially because of the work in some of the areas I work in, I’m probably more analytical when it comes to words and ideas than most people – even most Hypnotists!

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And after looking at the idea, I realized the resistance I was feeling was the concept of a Bucket List as things I wanted to do before I die!

At first I couldn’t understand why I had such resistance, and then I realized it was because it has a negative connotation to it – dying! --

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(in case you're wondering -- Christopher Columbus Smith was my Great, Great GrandFather!)

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I’m all about LIVING LIFE and enjoying every day as much as possible – so the idea of thinking about things to do before I die, just didn’t make any sense.

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So I decided to rename it – my “Butterfly List”.

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Memories from the Tomatoes in my Grandfather's Garden.

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth,

and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”

Thomas Jefferson

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One of the things I tell my clients and students is that all Hypnosis is Self Hypnosis. And Hypnosis is simply being receptive to a suggestion. The suggestion could be from an outside source, or a memory, or a combination of both.
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And you just never know when a suggestion will enter your mind and take you into a state of Self Hypnosis.

For example, yesterday I bought some cherry tomatoes. I was hoping they would taste as good as the ones I used to eat in my Grandfather's garden.
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When I got home and put away the rest of the groceries, there were the tomatoes, just waiting for me on the counter.
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I opened the carton and took one out, washed it thoroughly, got a little bit of salt on the end of it, and bit into it. And then it happened! I was back in my Grandfather's garden, four or five years old, walking through the rows of peas, beans, onions, corn, and okra plants and the plum and peach trees, and of course the tomato plants. I could feel the sunshine, smell the freshness of the air - it was a lot fresher then - and feel the dirt underneath my bare feet.

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