Hypnosis – The Loops that Run Your Life!

Nice video and interesting. Do you have more informations/links on the hypnosis beyond trance?

Thanks
Edwin

a video on breaking a procrastination loop, perhaps?

Hi James ~
I’ve been thinking along these lines since the early 90’s. Stephen Wolinsky in his book “Trances People Live” has written in depth about this orientation of ‘de-hypnosis’ and that nearly all presenting problems that are brought to a psychotherapist are various hypnotic phenomena that he categorizes as different types of ‘trance’ ~ age regression, amnesia, positive or negative hallucination, identity trances, etc. Here’s a statement from the Amazon blurb ~ “At last, the missing piece of the dysfunctional puzzle. It is not enough to understand or even relive our childhood traumas. Dr. Wolinsky shows us how we continue to recreate those traumas in our adult lives and how to stop creating them. Every uncomfortable emotional state, and many psychosomatic symptoms, are also states of trance. Trance is the “glue” that holds the problem in the present moment. Learning to identify the kind of trance state beneath a problem or symptom gives us the tool that finally dissolves the glue.” Obviously this is not the same as what you are saying James but it is a significant step in the right direction.

Your dethroning of trance and your work of making explicit the hypnotic loops model has had a very powerful and clarifying effect on my interactions with clients. I remain grateful and exceptionally pleased by having come into contact with you and the excellent, necessary, and revolutionary insights you have brought to the world.

Hi James,

It seems to me that involving the term hypnosis in any of these valuable insights is counter productive. The word hypnosis immediately adds an unwanted spin with associations of mind control and hocus pocus which detracts from the underlying common-sense practicality of people’s understanding of these useful techniques. A new title to replace hypnosis seems to be a good starting point to bring the science up to date.

Steve

James -what a shrewd and pertinent stance.Years ago I used Transactional Analysis as a change work tool and one of the core precepts was that people unknowingly create and follow “life scripts” as though they are doomed to act out repetitive patterns of interaction and behaviour.This is a fresh and exciting de- hypnotising aspect -I hope it broadens.Thank you so much.

hi james im health co~ordinator owner of a bootcamp co in korea. im looking and studying on mindset training…to take our members on a mind body path..rather than just physical training interventions. im getting a lot of media attention with it. was wondering if you have existing materials on sports mindset? I appreciate your work and yes u really should take the above video contents to tbe next level. people are opening up much more towards knowing their minds…many thanks….ian

Hi James, great video! I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. Creating out of fear or creating out of a sense of possiblilty and desire. Thanks, once again, for helping me add more clarity to what’s been going on inside my own brain. -Travis

Hi James,

Words are not enough to appreciate your effort to people who love hypnosis and the change workshops. I like the openness of you to share everything you know to those who thrive for such knowledge and want to do something. well the loop is so simple and so powerful if we practice to do the same in our daily life we can achieve anything. Belief: if we can understand what others believe about a certain thing we can take them to the next level which is Imagination: to imagine what we want them to do or think of and once we test their imagination have reached our path or not if they have we can lead them for the physiology which may be something in their body or even some achievement. then automatically they will experience what you were conveying to them. well we already do this without knowing many times when we strongly believe what we think is true. and by understanding your principles makes things easy. very true hwt can be used much beyond the sticky hand, sticky card and such effect. if we can understand the loops especially we can lead a great successful life. whether it is to have a happy family or a successful business. Once again Thank you James

This gave me so much to think about. I think that the fear of how we are perceived in the roles we are expected to have or wish to have, leads us to create loops of thoughts and feelings that give us a self-image that we ARE in a certain way or that we ARE that role/person. This limits us to break patterns and behaviour because we think it is who we ARE. The same thing goes whit how we think about others, how they behave and who they ARE.

Yes, more about this !!! please 🙂

What a superb presentation, James. It is our ‘belief patterns” or “loops” that either free us or keep us “stuck”, as you say. Excellent point. There are ‘invisible’ or ‘unconscious’ patterns that have been fed to us by parents, authority figures, culture that are not “us”, are simply someone else’s stuff and keep us trapped. So, identifying what these patterns/loops are is imperative for living a vibrant, congruent life. Yes, speak to this again, James!

Good post, James – reminds me of Wollinsky’s ‘Trances People Live.’ Curious to hear how you go about giving people the choice to get out of those loops on a consistent basis.

And there was I thinking I was going to write about a new paradigm on hypnosis, and you beat me to it. Brilliant,

My own line was on belief loops, but this is essentially what you have done.

and can you plz talk about post hypnotic suggestion in context of self hypnosis…

yes pls
show us more James

thanx

do you still have a practice your self to help individuals or just training?

i am not sure if i have enough time or aptitude to work on me by my self