| When I became a clinical hypnotherapist I saw | | | | alone in my quiet office. In the beginning my tears were |
| hundreds of clients for problems such as weight loss, | | | | spent in sorrow, but gradually I began to change and |
| smoking, phobias, and other personal problems. | | | | the tears eventually became tears of joy as I realized |
| Sometimes a weight loss client would come in for | | | | how wonderful each one of them was. |
| therapy and the sessions would be quite simple and | | | | They often spoke of their lives and efforts as failures, |
| orderly. We'd talk about eating habits and that is what | | | | but as an outside observer with inside information |
| we would treat for. | | | | supplied by them, I could see their perfection. As we |
| But just as often, a client would come in and during the | | | | dealt with the struggle between their rational conscious |
| session begin to tell his or her most intimate thoughts | | | | mind and emotional subconscious, we sometimes got |
| and feelings. Fears, sadness, and inner struggles would | | | | a glimpse of their own higher self, what I call "Loved |
| often be revealed to me. I began to understand the | | | | Ones." I believe it was the same higher self that |
| truth in the saying that many men (and women) lead | | | | Abraham Lincoln called, "The angels of our better |
| lives of quiet desperation. I also began to see that | | | | nature." |
| each one of them in his or her own way was doing | | | | The next time you see an obese person, a smoker, |
| the best he or she could to deal with the inner | | | | alcoholic, or anyone dealing with a personal behavioral |
| struggles and fear and pain. | | | | issue, please look beyond and see the divine spark we |
| As they poured their hearts out to me, their tears | | | | each have within us. We may not be angels, but we |
| often flowed. Though I didn't weep in front of them, I | | | | can be angelic just by acknowledging the Higher Self in |
| sometimes wept after they were gone and I was | | | | each of our fellow humans. |