Paul S. Palmer's Bio

Here is everything you ever wanted to know and probably more than you ever wanted to know about the creator of the Palmer Smoking Clinic and the Sports Motivation Clinic.

Paul S. Palmer, Ph.B., M.A., has been engaged in hypnosis as a researcher, consultant, lecturer and Professional Hypnotherapist for over 30 years. He holds a degree in Philosophy, attending Chicago State University and Roosevelt University in Chicago and has taught both College and High school.

Cookies?

Mr. Palmer hypnotized his first client (working for homemade cookies) in the summer of 1965. What first began as a curiosity gradually unfolded into a life long vocation. The university setting provided the chance to explore hypnosis — not from the classroom as hypnosis is not taught as an academic subject — but as an opportunity to work with instructors and students who shared the same curiosity about the mysterious subject of hypnosis.

Thus began a decade long odyssey exploring numerous areas of hypnosis. Mr. Palmer participated in research projects at Chicago State University, Saint Xavier University, University Of Chicago, and the Chicago City Colleges. It was the research lab that provided thousands of hours of experience and the expertise that later would serve as the foundation for developing his unique hypnosis programs. As both research designer and often the principle hypnotist, Mr. Palmer became an expert in many areas of hypnosis such as age regression, sports performance, and smoking cessation to name a few.

He pioneered the use of music to enhance the hypnosis experience.

Mr. Palmer has long believed that many factors contribute to a successful hypnosis experience and that all of your senses are involved in becoming hypnotized. Music touches parts of the brain that language can't and everyone responds to music thus making music a natural companion to the relaxation process. Knowing that music can also play a role in relaxing even the hard to relax, his background music programs are meant to sooth the savage beast in most of us.

Mr. Speaker!

Mr. Palmer has spoken on hypnosis on numerous TV and radio talk shows as well as a frequent lecturer before numerous organizations. He has taught hypnosis techniques to many through seminars and weekend workshops often to doctors, dentists, and mental health professionals. He was a lecturer and board member of the Midwest Hypnosis Convention, with membership in the Southwest Hypnosis Society, the Association to Advance Ethical Hypnosis, the American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists, and the Association of Self Hypnosis.

He has lectured extensively on his behavioral approach to smoking cessation, conducting hundreds of seminars and workshops for many organizations and companies and was a consultant and facilitator for the American Lung Association "I Quit Clinics" for more than ten years.

The Famous Mr. Palmer. (Not quit 15 minutes yet!)

With his special expertise in age-regression he published several articles on the subject, most notably "Regressing the Blind to Their Former Lives" which later led to the highlight of his professional career, an article in the National Enquirer. He hypnotized the alleged reincarnation of Harry Houdini (the world famous magician) and a man abducted by space aliens in what turned out to be a 1956 Buick, both on behalf of the National Enquirer. He served briefly as a consultant to the National Enquirer on hypnotic regression in the area of UFO abductees (very briefly). He served as a field investigator for two UFO research organizations and lectured on the use and credibility of hypnotic age-regression at the First International UFO Congress. His five year study of hypnotic age regression into prior lives conducted at Chicago State University received international recognition in the movie, "Beyond and Back."

About the Sports Motivation Clinic.

Mr. Palmer opened the Sports Motivation Clinic in 1980 while still teaching. His approach to using hypnosis for sports performance was a different twist on an old application. After reviewing all the sports psychology info he could lay his hands on, he discovered that hypnosis was not only ahead if it's time as a tool to train the athlete for competition, it was a perfect fit with modern sports psychology.

What sports psychology was discovering every year was the benefit of training the brain for the moment of truth and Mr. Palmer had the key to doing that. Neurological science (the ability to map brain activity) showed us what we believed for a century was true. The brain of a top athlete functions differently under pressure from the brain of a choker. Helping chokers has been the bread and butter of hypnosis from the very beginning. All modern science has only reconfirmed why hypnosis is such powerful tool in helping the athlete learn how to get their mind in the game. Mr. Palmer not only works with individual athletes and teams, he also teaches coaches how to use mental conditioning techniques.

More info having little or nothing to do with hypnosis.

Mr. Palmer was born and raised in Chicago Il., in a two story teepee on the far south side of the city (a White Sox Fan). He is an American Indian on his fathers side and thus his ancestors probably had something to do with promoting the tobacco smoking idea to the unsuspecting Europeans. While not exactly apologetic about it, he sees the Palmer Smoking Clinic (his other job) as just a continuation of a centuries old family business.

Mr. Palmer's understanding and use of music in his programs comes from many years as a musician. He has been involved in community theater and various singing ensembles since high school. He has been a member and officer in the Barbershop Harmony Society for 20 years, winning a third place international medal. He is also a professional bagpiper with almost 30 years of wear'in the kilt. See: bagpipes4hire.com

The Early Years

Mr. Palmer became an Eagle Scout at the age of thirteen with three palms. He was a member of the gymnastic team and football team in high school. He wrote a sports column (Athlete Of The Week) for his college newspaper and was a member the CSU golf team. He was president of the Philosophy Club his senior year. He was also a member of the Golden Puppets Skydiving Club, drove a Triumph Motorcycle and still fishes for Muskie.
His mother was particularly proud when he received a gold star for his tempera on rag paper, post-modernist, representational rendering of "Goldie Locks and the Three Bears", from Mrs. Kirshner's morning Kindergarten Class.

Sports Motivation Clinic

14810 S. Keystone Ave.
(1 block West of Pulaski Ave.)

Midlothian IL. 60445

708-233-1111