What's the best job in the world?

I think the most noble profession in the world is to be a Hypnotherapist or Hypnotist (depending where you live).  What we do is to assist people to unlock and unblock their minds, and provide them with the tools to create the kind of life that they'd like to have.  That's the basic description of what we do:  we affect change - rapidly and generally permanently - so that a person can get on with living the kind of life they have the potential and willingness to live.  The potential for helping people using hypnosis and  guided visualization is pretty much unlimited.

When a person comes to me, I need to set aside and suspend my own issues, and concentrate fully on what it is the client feels they would like to accomplish.  Focused listening to and watching the client describe their situation is very important.  Guiding them, at times to uncover what the core issue is, is also very important.  I then assess their ability to follow instructions and how they intersect with life.  Some people are very visual, and if they are not too analytical at the same time, they are the easiest to help.  Some people are very kinesthetic - they intersect life at the feeling level, so if I can get them to really bring up a feeling and follow it back to it's initial appearance in their life, it is then easy to access the subconscious mind to make the changes, by suggestion and by guiding the mind to better thoughts, to move the client into a more dynamic flow of life.  As each person is unique, there are many variables that need to be considered and worked in, around and through to affect change.

We are motivators.  We help clients to discover what their prime motivators are, toward what they want to accomplish, and then we work within the subconscious mind to remove or re-arrange certain thought patterns that have, in the past, prevented them from realizing their potentials.  Whether the motivation is for sports, or to break a bad habit, or to bring up the body's own ability to heal itself into greater focus, carefully crafting the way we work with words and "turn on the lights" in the mind, we move the client toward being their best, and thus to achieve their own unique spiritual greatness.

So, yes, I believe we have a very noble profession in Hypnotism.  We work with the one tool everyone has, and for which no one has ever been issued a manual, and where there is great responsibility to do no harm, because the tool is priceless - the mind.