The Reality of Mind Reading (Blog Post and Webinar)

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! *** LIVE WEBINAR – Wednesday 16th May at 12 Noon (UK Time) *** *** Listen to the REPLAY now!*** Back in 2002 I saw something on late night television that was to completely change the direction of my life: a guest on the Jonathan Ross Show ostensibly…

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Hypno Trick…The Incredible Shrinking Arm!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! Everyone has a moment that starts their hypnosis journey… mine was seeing Derren Brown on the Jonathan Ross show back in 2002 and thinking “whatever that guy is doing, I’m going to learn it” So I started on a path of performing mentalism and ultimately (alnongside Hypnotherapy…

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Science, Skepticism, Art and Skill

So, I’ve touched on this topic before in a previous video post, but recently I received an email from someone who is interested in learning change work but is, at the same time, held back by uncertainties… Here it is, along with my reply. ENQUIRY “Hi James We had a brief discussion, via email, some…

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Handshake ‘Induction’ – Bandler, Erickson and Elman Versions

The legendary ‘handshake interrupt’ induction… There seems to be much interest in this in the worlds of Hypnosis and NLP, but what many people don’t realise is that what is most often shown as Milton Erickson’s handshake interrupt, is actually NLP co-founder Richard Bandler’s version (Derren Brown often uses a variation on the Bandler version…

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Influences on Hypnosis Without Trance

I have recently received an email asking me about the influences on HWT… “Could you… would you, please, make available the names of the books, and or people, who have influence your thoughts on the topic. I have already read Influence, by R. Cialdini, and I’m in the process of reading Changing for Good (both…

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Derren Brown’s Assassin

Hi Y’all ***Video Below*** If you are in the UK you will have had the opportunity to watch the first of Derren Brown’s The Experiments series. This first episode was called The Assassin and took the form of an intricate experiment to find out whether a regular person could be ‘hypnotically programmed’ to become assassinate…

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