Why did you become a hypnotherapist?

Why did you become a hypnotherapist?

I became a hypnotherapist due to my interest in how the mind works. I've always been interested in meditation and in ritual and religion and all of these things which influence how we think and how we feel. When I was a little boy, my father gave me a book by a hypnotist called Ralph Slater; he was a very famous stage hypnotist at the time and I was absolutely fascinated by how this man was able to help people reduce pain and do seemingly incredible things. In fact as a youngster, I remember reading from the back of this book, his instructions of how to hypnotize people and practicing on my friends. So that's really, it started at a very young age, but it was only much later on that I ended up developing and learning hypnotherapy seriously.