This page includes resources on hypnosis and counseling, as well as music and some other materials. Some materials are included on the references for this site or are referenced in professional workshops taught by Dr. Mau. Materials are included because they include helpful information, however inclusion does not not necessarily constitute an endorsement of the entire perspective or approach in a given item. Music and devices are listed as typical examples.
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a skill, and is difficult to learn from a book. For training in hypnosis, please consider the Professional Hypnosis Certification Course. The real skill in hypnosis has to do with learning patterns of suggestive language, which facilitate deep, emotional change.
Dr. Mau's on book, Emotion: the Power of Change - a Science-based Approach to Ericksonian Hypnosis provides an excellent research-based understanding of hypnosis for therapists, advanced hypnotists, and beginners. For more information, click here.
Igor Ledochowski's Deep Trance Training Manual is a great introduction to hypnosis! If you find a Volume 2, please let me know! There's also a Kindle edition.
Havens and Walter's Hypnotherapy Scripts is a great introduction to Ericksonian approaches to hypnosis. There is also an earlier edition.
The chapter on Patterns of Indirect Suggestion alone is worth the cost of Carol Sommer's Conversational Hypnosis book. There are also excellent script examples of inferred suggestion processes.
Hammond's Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors is a giant compendium of metaphors on almost any subject.
More Hypnosis Materials
Dr. Mau is a clinical hypnotist, however materials on stage and entertainment hypnosis are included in this section.
General Interest
McDonald's Don't Waste Your Talent, on pinpointing your career talents, is written from the perspective of the abilty research which informs the Highlands Ability Battery.
Music
Counseling
Devices
Light and Sound Machines
Biofeedback
White Noise Machines
For sleep and sound masking
CD Players
Pillow Speakers & Noise Reduction Headphones
Noise reduction headphones are helpful for avoiding jet lag on long trips
Recorders
Athletic Heart Monitors for Exercise
Consult with your physician before beginning an exercise program
Unusual
Bed Sanitizing Wands - Eliminates bedbugs (this may be particularly useful for international travel)
Lucid dreaming sleep mask - I teach lucid dreaming via hypnosis. I have not used this product, but it is fascinating. If you get one, please let me know what you think.
Rhus Tox - Remedy for poison ivy (I've found this to be very effective)