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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Exploring Trance Functionality

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! When people find themselves being had by a ‘toxic trance’ it can be difficult to see it as anything but bad, but the truth is that every trance we run was created around a ‘positive intention’. Every trance began as our best response to a situation given…

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The Mindshifter’s Map

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! Organisation is useful in assisting with clarity of thinking. With The Freestyle Mindshifter’s Toolkit the main emphasis is on the tools themselves, but what is equally important is that we understand what we are doing with the tools and why. In this sense The Mindshifter’s Map is…

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The Trance and Transcendence Model in Changework!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! The Trance and Transcendence model is the primary conceptualisation that underpins both my approach to changework and coaching as well as my own personal self-development work. In this video I am talking about how this simple but powerful model applies in changework and how it relates to…

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Evolving Consciousness in Coaching & Changework!

If you like this, please ‘like’ and share! As some may know, my approach to developmental coaching and self development is based around what I have come to call the Trance and Transcendence model (some NLPers may take exception to my use of that term here but, of course, I’m not a strict NLPer). Part…

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