Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 5, Issue -3, 1 September 2020 | Page 22

To the skeptical but willing client, I sometimes give the therapeutic directive
to pick up a friendly anthology of poetry, like Poetry 180 [10] and tell me
about their experience. The response from my logic-ruled clients is subtle
but deep. It is usually for these clients that poetry is the most necessary. On
this necessity, I can not add to what William Carlos Williams has already
written so beautifully: “My heart rouses thinking to bring you news of
something that concerns you and concerns many men. Look at what
passes for the new. You will not find it there but in despised poems. It
is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every
day for lack of what is found there.” [11]
I invite hypnotherapists and healers everywhere to explore how poetry can
enhance your practice.
Felice Austin, MFA, CHt
As a certified hypnotherapist, Felice Austin brings her
experience as a writer, teacher, poet, interviewer,
storyteller and shamanic practitioner. Felice is also a
certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation teacher and
the creator of Shamanic Hypnotic Imagery Facilitation
Technique (SHIFT). She is passionate about assisting
clients expand their vision and achieve their personal
goals in such areas as: creativity, self confidence,
relationship enhancement, communication strategies,
anxiety reduction, trauma healing, life mastery, and
much more.