It was the early 90s. I was in graduate school preparing for my big performance recital. I was always good at dealing with stage fright...but I had wondered, was there something else I could do that would help fuel my nervous energy towards a more positive performance? So I did some research, and found an online thread speaking about hypnosis. Not knowing anything about it, I dug deeper and eventually learned that my college actually had a resource in the counseling department - a hypnotist who studied through the Air Force. I had free sessions for a week. After a while of working with her and seeing results, I approached her with a request: could we write a hypnotic script for my master recital performance? She was happy to oblige and we got to work. Together we wrote a detailed script - what I was wearing, how one piece was going to flow to the next piece, the audience reactions, that I was playing better than I ever had...we wrote in the script everything I wanted to see, hear, feel, and experience. We recorded the script onto a cassette tape so I could listen to it on my Walkman and I listened to it every day for months in preparation for my big recital. By the time my recital came, I was excited, but there was no stress! I had felt as if I had already been there and done that. Everything I recorded came to pass...every part of my vision that I recited to myself every day for the past few months. I was calm, I played the best that I had in my life to that point, the audience reaction was great - I was sold! So I decided that I wanted to get trained as a hypnotist and help other people.