Wanting It Too Badly (Hypnosis, NLP, Influence)

*** If you like this video, please ‘like’ and share 🙂 *** Have you ever wanted something so badly that you got all bent out of shape and desperate about getting it… and anxious and fearful about failing to? An old mentor of mine (Steve Chandler) used to say ‘needy is creepy’… it was his…

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Mesmerism Revisited… The Energy of Hypnosis!

*If you like this video, please do ‘like’ and share.* Look back to the origins of hypnosis and you will find Franz Anton Mesmer’s ‘Animal Magnetism’ (AKA ‘Mesmerism’) – an art that was all about the channeling and manipulation of mysterious ‘energies’. Mesmer was so successful in his work that a scientific committee was put…

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The Aesthetics of Hypnosis

People often think of aesthetics as being something separate from functionality, and in the case of household appliances or motor vehicles this may well be the case, but with hypnosis (including hypnotherapy and, I would say, NLP) the two come together with the former contributing to the latter. The video explains all! NOTE: Special Offer…

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Hypnosis VERSUS Trance

As I am typing this, the Hypnosis Without Trance blog has been up and running for nearly 6 years. And if you have read the short ebook Hypnosis Beyond the Trance Myth, you’ll know something of the origins of the Hypnosis Without Trance concept. When I first showed up with this concept, there was a…

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Scripts Do NOT Hypnotise!

So just recently I got another question about ‘hypnosis scripts’. This is one of these things that just keeps coming up again and again so I’ve made this video to really set out my position on this with clarity. And if you want to grab one of the last places on the Hypnosis Skills Bootcamp,…

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Smoking Cessation Mindshifts – Scripts Vs. Principles

>> If you appreciate this video please do ‘FB like’, Tweet, and make use of the comments section for questions, reflections and observations 🙂 Thanks! If you are a Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist or NLPer, it is pretty useful to have the ‘chops’ to perform effective smoking cessation work. What a lot of people have is tools…

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Hypnotic Coma and the Metaphors of Hypnosis

Hypnosis – according to HWT theory – is all about the artful and strategic use of language and communication to influence people’s perception of reality. This is worth bearing in mind – what you communicate and where you communicate from conceptually makes a difference! Over the years I have been studying and practising hypnosis, I…

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Hypnotic Pendulum as a Psychoeducational Tool

This is a short clip taken from Hypnotherapy Heresy – Making Hypnotherapy Easy. Here I am demonstrating how to use a pendulum to elicit simple hypnotic phenomena, and then utilising that as a vehicle for teaching the client about discovering choice where they previously couldn’t recognise it. In the full programme I teach more extensively…

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Hypnosis & NLP – New Possibilities Simulator

This is a clip taken from the raw footage forthcoming Hypnotherapy Heresy – Making Hypnotherapy Easy programme (now available one-third discount this week only). What I am demonstrating is what I call the New Possibilities Generator – a method for ‘hypnotically’ running a new way of being through someones neurology, giving them a new reference…

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Hypnosis and NLP – The Shell and the Nut!

“Those Bandler and Grinder boys really cracked the nut on my work… the trouble is they took the shell and left the nut.” – Milton H Erickson M.D (allegedly! 🙂 ) Rumour has it that the above words were spoken by legendary hypnotist and hypnotherapist Milton H Erickson in the late 70’s, when reflecting on…

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