There is no experience without ideas. Without an awareness of this fundamental hypnosis, one might only play the game of self-improvement. One would be doing hypnosis, therapy, or whatever, within the realm of the goals defined by fixating thinking mind. In the person acting as therapist, this comes across as a certain mechanicalness and formality in relating to the client, the skills, and the techniques of therapy. There is a lack of heart, a lack of a warm living quality to what is being communicated.
Clients generally come to therapists to modify their experience more pleasantly.
As graduates of this course, I hope you will understand that the happiness sought lies beyond the mind, beyond any idea of self getting happier. Hopefully you will learn to recognize THAT as apparent FACT not merely as idea. It is my contention that those who believe in the mind and apparently have achieved a great deal of happiness seemingly by following the dictates of the mind, still are experiencing the happiness beyond the mind as it is identified by and usurped by the mind as its own accomplishment. This tendency, like taking credit for a sunny day, does make it hard to identify happiness, and the source of happiness, for what it is. We do not create happiness through modifications of our lives.