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Don Warren has recently moved from Weatherford to Hubbard, a small place near Hillsboro. He is newly retired from working on engines in the oil patch. Now he’s devoting fulltime to what he has been doing the past 15 years or so on a part time basis: hypnotizing people. He is known as the Cowboy Hypnotist and has entertained audiences all over the country.
“I’ve hypnotized close to twenty thousand people and done over 500 shows,” says Don. He saw a hypnotist in Las Vegas years ago and decided right then and there that was what he wanted to do the rest of his life. He is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotists and has attended seminars on hypnosis all over the country and overseas. He loves to entertain and make people laugh. “I enjoy it,” he says. “And I hope that comes through to my crowd, that I’m having as much fun as they are.” He has performed before a variety of audiences, from graduating high school seniors to senior adults. In his shows he has a dozen or so chairs on stage and asks for volunteers to come up and be hypnotized. He has never had a shortage of volunteers. He uses music in his presentations to enhance their deepening hypnosis. If people don’t respond to hypnosis he taps them on the shoulder and tells them to return to their seat in the audience. He makes people do unusual things. He told one girl to look for her shoe and she had it in her hand while she looked for it. Don has used his ability to make people quit smoking. “I have a 99 percent success rate in helping people quit smoking. I can ask them a series of questions and see how they answer them to see if they want to quit smoking or not. They have to be ready to quit. I don’t want to have the reputation of not being able to help them quit smoking. I don’t want to hear that someone said they came to me and I couldn’t make them quit. Once I find out they really want to quit I can help them. “Some people ask me if they get their money back if I can’t make them quit. I say no. I tell them if I can’t get you into hypnosis I won’t take your money. But if I hypnotize you and I put that suggestion in your memory bank, that suggestion is there.” I asked Don what was the suggestion? “”Make them feel like there’s another person inside of them that’s a smoker and the non-smoker that lives in them is taking control. They’re kicking out that smoker. I have them repeat to me that they’re pushing that smoker out of their body. I’ve had people say, ‘it feels like somebody else was making me smoke those cigarettes.’ They’re saying that because that’s exactly the suggestion that I planted in their mind, that they were not in control, somebody else was and that person was stronger. But now I tell them they are so tired of that situation and now they’re stronger than that other person and they’re able to push that person aside and take control of their life. The smoker inside of them is gone and the non-smoker has come forward.”