Meet the Instructor; “Close your eyes and you will see everything.” Bernard Yam, Bernard had been interested with hypnotism since his early childhood. Armed with a sense of innocent curiosity and unlimited imagination, he began to explore the true capability of the human mind. What is the true potential of the human mind? What is in the unconscious? How does my experience of awareness relate to the world? These are the type of questions Bernard found himself pondering nights after nights as a child. After much research, thinking and planning, he worked up the courage to experiment hypnosis with a friend at the age of 12. That session was extremely successful; Bernard became completely infatuated with hypnotism and psychology, as he realizes hypnosis is the best tool to connect the conscious and the unconscious mind. His passion for the hypnotic art and science had enable him to carry thousands hypnosis cases throughout his teenage years. Geared with an extremely open mind, he had developed many unorthodox techniques and theories. Aside from the traditional clinical hypnotherapy applications, his ground breaking research in parapsychology, time-space fluctuations in deep unconscious, and non-cognitive intelligence had earned him the reputation of being a forward thinker in the hypnotism field. Bernard’s passion for hypnotism, however, came with a heavy price. Coming from a conservative and religious family, he found his liberal ideas in conflict with the traditional values. He fondly remember one night, where his mother go into his bedroom and throw all his hypnotism related books into the garbage. Although his La Salle and Jesuit education provided him a firm theology background, he found himself suffocating intellectually under the strict dictation of absolute truth from his teachers. This deep conflict of intellectual identity had drove Bernard repeatedly into depression. Much of his proudest ideas have fallen onto deaf ears or heavily ridiculed. He had no choice but to hide his passion for hypnotism, while living in fear that someday his secret will be exposed. His hypnosis projects were operated in the outmost covert matter, while he wandered through those years without ever finding acceptance for his true self in any friendship or relationship. Many nights he had considered giving up, but determination will eventually prove omnipotent. Before founding the Cara Institute of Advanced Hypnosis, Bernard served in the Canadian Armed Forces as an distinguished officer. Popular among his troops and his fellow officers, he is well respected for his ethics and professionalism. He learned valuable leadership and management skills from the military. He was also appointed to the vice president of sales in a Canadian direct sales firm during his undergraduate years at the University of Toronto, where he specialized in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy. In his dream on a cold winter night, Bernard was visited by a lady angel with long red hair and green eyes. She lead him to a cross road on a mountain, shown him a new world where his hypnosis theories helps millions of people living a better life. A new world where people live with their full unconscious potential actualized, transcending a world of peace, wisdom, and freedom. She encourages Bernard to move towards this vision, but he is still fearful. She gently kisses his forehead, and slowly walks away from him, leaving him with the decision of whether or not to follow his vision. Before she disappeared from the dream, she told Bernard her name is Cara. The next morning, Bernard did the registration work and founded the “Cara Institute of Advanced Hypnosis”. He later learnt “Cara” actually means “Clear”. Bernard is currently a Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Instructor at the Advanced Level, Master Practitioner for Nero Linguistic Programming, and a NLP trainer. He was appointed as an instructor for the National Guild of Hypnotist at the age of 23, the youngest person ever to ever be appointed as an instructor in the history of the National Guild of Hypnotist. He studied hypnotherapy under the guidance of Dr. Richard Harte, one of the most renowned hypnotist in the world. Bernard is known as a dynamic speaker and a very patient teacher. He seeks to inspire his students, and constantly motivating them to learn more. He possess a great passion for life, being a die hard optimist. He enjoys sharing his wealth of knowledge, ideas, and experiences with his students and his peers, and his energy simply lift the spirit of the room. His background in debating and public speaking allows him to communicate complicated ideas with crystal clarity. Bernard truly respects his students, and allow students to freely express their ideas. His greatest joy of teaching, however, is to see his students gaining a new level of self awareness. Bernard went on to become the youngest Fellow of the National Guild of Hypnotist in 2006. From 2006 until now, Bernard host the prime time television show, "Hypnotist Bernie's Exposition", on Channel 9. It is the longest running hypnosis tv show in history. It is estimated that this program has boardcasted more real hypnosis footages than the combine total of the American Psychological Association. Bernie, as his friends like to call him, enjoys a good cup of coffee at his spare time. He loves computer games, hanging out with his buddies, and all types of sports. Favorite authors includes Hesse, Jung, Nietzche, Hemmingway; and always up for the challenge of a chess game. He is currently single and recently relocated to Cambridge, MA. He is pursuing his education goals at Harvard University. |