I’ve no idea if it rains more here now than it used to do in the past. But when it rains, it really rains! As I said before, our apartment is on the ground floor, but below us we have our garage, and a laundry and some storage space – and so from the road outside there is a drive which goes down to our garage and another couple of garages…

Lina finished, I suppose it was, after we moved house – for the second time in a couple of years! Before then we had been living before in Switzerland, in the end for about seven or eight years, and although we had been very happy there, and had made lots of wonderful friends, it was not to be. Switzerland is a beautiful place in many ways, but it is not part of Europe, and so it can be complicated at times…

On the evening, we arranged to meet up and from there go on together to a Mexican restaurant in downtown Lugano. When I got to the prearranged rendezvous she was not alone, but with a friend. A female friend. The mad lawyer.

I was in fact quite glad we weren’t alone. I had no wish for anything to possibly be construed as a romantic encounter!

She had said several times over the course of months that she wanted to invite me to dinner sometime, and I in reply would say, ‘Yes, yes.’ And smile, and go on with what we were doing hoping she would forget…

I think probably Lina had come to the conclusion that she was in reality wasting her time trying to learn English. She may well have had many talents, but alas English was not one of them…

As you know, I am a musician, and at that time I had been subscribing to an English music magazine Future Music for several years, which I had sent by post. Nothing strange. It’s a monthly publication and in just about every issue there would be competitions…

I was, and to a large degree, still am cynical about many things. I don’t think that I’m easily taken in, not normally anyway, and when I met and got to know Lina, my witch as I thought of her, I was, and perhaps still am, generally cynical and disbelieving by and large…

I’ve really no idea how much Lina affected RS and his way of working and living or indeed thinking, but evidently not all that shines is gold, as they say…

When we were supposed to be having our weekly lessons invariably the phone would go intermittently, I would become invisible (to her at least) and she would chat away without any apparent inhibition…

But something which surprised me was, a little, that when I spoke to people about this kind of thing (Lina and her wacky ideas) many were sympathetic to this kind of thinking or approach. In fact on one occasion when I was going into her place, I met a friend’s wife coming out. Strange. Yes, very strange…

It never rains it only pours! Rob’s Hypnosis VIP | Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon | iTunes | instagram |   by Costanza  When I first started chatting with Lina, and started to understand what she did for a living, I imagined her clients to be sfigati – an Italian term used to …

I once had a friend who was unlucky. Not like most people are unlucky. But really unlucky! Everything in M’s life was unlucky, and she always seemed to have problems and arguments with people. Not with me, as I say she was a friend, and we got on very well.

For me everything that Lina did was completely new, and… well incredibly wacky. I remember her telling me about a therapy she gave which was called re-birthing.

I would pop along to her studio once a week, and we would have lessons. My English lessons are I suppose pretty normal, I try not to be too boring and try to be entertaining, as much as possible, but inevitably it is necessary to have your student understand certain little concepts, and sometimes things need to be remembered somewhere in the old grey matter somewhere along the line…

Paul McKenna may well have got me into doing hypnosis and EFT and different things, but I first came into the weird and wacky world of alternative therapy a couple of years earlier…

I’ve lived in Italy for a long time now, and so for quite a lot of things, what’s on TV for example in the UK, I’ve pretty much lost touch…

I wasn’t brought up to go to church, or to believe in God or anything, and so if anyone were to ask me now if I believed in God or anything else, I’d probably have to say no.

And so back to Andy… Rob’s Hypnosis VIP | Youtube | Facebook | Twitter | Amazon | iTunes | And so back to Andy. As I was saying I had been popping along to his place regularly over the weeks, normally of a morning, and I was enjoying it all immensely. Chatting about all sorts …

I mentioned previously the problem of translation [ did you know that the first Christian holy book was written in Hebrew? And from there it was translated into Latin?

Because of working calendars and what with one thing or another, the classes in a group of adults didn’t materialise, and I ended up going to Andy’s flat for what would best be described as informal chats.