Using Clean Language with a Hypnotic Hand-Stick!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! Here’s a little something different… In this video, Hypnotist and Clean Language Facilitator Scott Stroud talks about a impromptu hypnosis session where he combined a classic HWT style hand stick with very powerful, personalised Clean Language based resourcing work. Great work! This is a super short video…

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Creating Hypnotic Feedback Loops with Clean Language!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! Here is a little on David Grove’s Clean Language as it relates to Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and NLP. In the video we focus particularly on the hypnotic effect of the ‘full syntax’ an how we can use that to create hypnotic feedback loops with clients. Clean Language for…

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‘Worrying’ and ‘caring’ are NOT the same thing!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! After the first video I put up on Beyond the Subtle Fears, there was a conversation that kicked off around ‘caring’, ‘not-caring’ and whether my teachings on non-attachment were advocating a ‘cold’ way of being. This is not the first time I have had this kind of…

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Milton Erickson’s Secret Ingredient

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! At the UK Hypnosis Convention this weekend, when one of the presenters brought up Milton H. Erickson, it came with the caveat: “I know Erickson gets a lot of bad press these days, but…” Some were surprised to hear this but I was not, as I have…

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How to Destroy Neediness!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! In this video I am talking about ‘groundedness’ and it’s advantages, neediness and it’s disadvantages and I’m talking about what it takes to transcend neediness (‘transcend’ isn’t as dramatic as ‘destroy’ so it didn’t get a place in the headline). P.S. If you want in on the…

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Beyond the Subtle Fears

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! Over the years I have mentored many hypnotists, hypnotherapists and coaches and have taught hypnosis to thousands of people. Across this time It has become increasingly clear that the single biggest thing holding people back from really tapping into their potential is not a lack of technical…

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Rapid Inductions Versus Ericksonian Inductions!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! This video is my reply to the following set of questions from an NLP Practitioner and Hypnotist schooled in what is often called and ‘Ericksonian’ approach to hypnosis and trance (really ‘post Ericksonian’ or ‘Neo-Ericksonian’ might be better labels as no-one quite does what Milton H Erickson…

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Intuitive Illusions (Hypnosis and Life)

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! <<Video Below>> I got this great question from one of the participants on the recent Freestyle Mindshifter’s Toolkit. “Hi James, An interesting question popped into my mind listening to the Freestyle Mindshifter’s Toolkit Q&A: On the one hand – people “leak” out their trances (moods, states of…

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How Hypnosis Works (and the Realms of Hypnosis)

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! Yesterday I ended up having a conversation with someone about hypnosis – specifically what is is and how it works My feeling following the call was that I wished I had recorded it to share with the HWT blog subscribers but, as wishing is weak, I decided…

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Tripp’s Principles of Changework

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! In preparation for the first session in The Freestyle Mindshifter’s Toolkit, I thought it might be a good idea to create some notes introducing the key principles that will be guiding us in learning this flexible appraoch to changework. In the first live session we will be…

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