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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.



















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.
Cara Institute of Advanced Hypnosis                           "It's happening here"
Bernard Yam. B.C.H., C.I., F.NGH, NLP.MT
Bernard lecturing on hypnosis at
Harvard University.
Bernard, faculty member of the NGH,
lecturing at the Annual National Guild of
Hypnotist convention '04. It is the largest
and most prestigous hypnotism
convention in the world
Producer and Host of the longest
running hypnotherapy TV show;
"Hypnotist Bernie's Exposition" on
Channel 9.