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Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a scientifically verified and effective technique that can promote accelerated human change. With Hypnosis we can create desired changes in behavior and encourage mental and physical well-being.

History of the concept of hypnosis
The creation of a distinct concept of hypnosis owes its existence mostly to a charismatic 18th century healer named Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815).

Mesmer had a deep interest in Paracelsan astrological principles, and the supposed direct influence of heavenly bodies on human health, by means of what were believed by Mesmer and others to be measurable physical forces (as opposed to the subtle forces of later occult doctrines interpreting Mesmerism).

Mesmer first applied magnets to patient's bodies in elaborate theatrical rituals that often resulted in expected spasmodic muscular contractions and collapse, and often the cure of various kinds of illness. Mesmer favored the rationalist views of his time, taking on terms like gravitation and magnetism to originally describe his theories of his healing work, and how the subtle fluids within the body could be influenced by him.
Mesmerism caught on widely, attracting followers to many spiritualist, religious, and scientific variations of mesmerism, as well as to 'mesmerism' as a dramatic form of entertainment for its own sake ('stage hypnosis').

It was highly influential in a number of popular movements, some of which are still very popular today.

The clearest transition between Mesmer's animal magnetism and modern therapeutic hypnosis was represented by Manchester surgeon James Braid, who coined the term hypnosis (from previous use by French researchers) in 1843. The term refers to Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, because most forms of mesmerism at that time involved the production of an apparently sleep-like condition.

Braid, as many scientists and physicians before and after him, recognized in hypnosis certain legitimate psychological phenomena of interest, but requiring much more systematic investigation to understand. Mesmer had come to believe that it was not physical forces via magnets but he himself that was producing the cures he produced. Others not long after Mesmer soon began to suspect that the human imagination played a much larger role in the process than did any physical forces or capacities of the mesmerist. This was important, because mesmerism went through a number of periods of great disrepute due to associations with occultism and various kinds of blatant charlatanism.

A split arose between those interested in hypnosis as a subject of scientific investigation and as an adjunct to medical treatment, and those who considered it a tool for personal or spiritual fulfilment, or for esoteric investigations of religious or 'magical' nature. Faith healing, mind cure, and Christian Science were all heavily influenced by hypnosis, and derived much of their impetus in the late 19th century from the reputation of Mesmer and later mesmerists. Various followers of the highly influential Theosophical Society and of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn magical fraternity found great affinity for the magnetic theories of mesmerism, which they often interpreted in a semi-metaphorical way rather than as literal electromagnetism.

In the early scientific study, Braid at first thought that hypnotic induction would yield a unique condition of the nervous system that was linked somehow to certain cures by suggestion. He later rejected this, and other physiological explanations of hypnosis, and emphasized "mental" factors almost exclusively. The theory of neural inhibition has never been completely rejected as applicable, however, though often considered insufficient by itself. Ivan Pavlov later greatly expanded on the neural inhibition theory in his concept of the physiology of sleep (as a progressive cortical inhibition, which turns out to be fairly accurate - in general if not in detail).

This neurological explanation of hypnosis was strongly rejected by Charcot, who believed that the best hypnotic subjects were 'hysterics,' and that hypnosis was therefore a manifestation of what was then considered the mental illness of hysteria. His belief turned out to be wrong, and his view of hysteria as a distinct mental illness as well, and his psychopathological view was rejected by the end of the 19th century. Two legacies of the neurological pathological theories of Charcot and the so-called "Paris school" of hypnosis that have endured are cortical inhibition theory and the later development of dissociation theory, though neither one serves as a complete theory of hypnosis on its own.
In the early 20th century, the foundation for most hypnotic theory was laid by the members of the so-called "Nancy school" of hypnosis (such as Liebault and Bernheim) who elaborated a theory of hypnotic suggestion based on ideomotor action.

This theory had eventually replaced not only the early neuro-pathological view, but also Braid's early psychological theory, "monoideism," the theory that un-conflicted ideas automatically lead to actions. Ideomotor action theory says that ideas suggested by the hypnotist lead automatically to actions, which are then experienced by the subject as unwilled. Ideomotor action is another example of a useful but incomplete model of hypnotic responding.

The Nancy school was perhaps most notable in their de-emphasis of hypnotic ritual and their strong emphasis on suggestion as a mundane though useful psychological process.

Sigmund Freud had originally studied under Charcot and had a deep interest in hypnosis for much of his life. In 1889, he shifted from Charcot's view to that of the Nancy school's emphasis on suggestion rather than hysteria, believing that patients often remembered repressed memories in a beneficial process under hypnosis. Freud was reportedly a very poor hypnotist, being limited to a simple authoritarian style of induction, and in 1896, he rejected hypnotic induction ritual as unnecessary and too likely to foster unwanted amorous advances by patients ('transference,' and the theory of hypnosis as an eroticized dependent relationship). Freud replaced the hypnotic procedure with simply placing his hand on the subject's forehead to help establish what he believed was the proper social relationship of doctor in dominance over patient.

What qualified acceptance of hypnosis in medicine that we have today is largely due to the efforts of pioneers in the experimental study of hypnosis, starting in the 1920's and 30's. Foremost early researchers were Clark Hull and his then student, Milton Erickson. Hull's 1933 discussion of scientific research into hypnosis (Hypnosis and Suggestibility) is still considered a classic.

Erickson later came to disagree with Hull on the important issue of fundamental approach, stressing the complex subjective inner processes operating in hypnosis, rather than the measurable correlates and standardized procedures promoted by Hull. Hull went on to make important contributions in learning theory, while Erickson went on to become the name most closely associated with clinical hypnosis today.
Milton Erickson died in 1980, but left a legacy of often zealous followers, a number of important contributions to the field, and several offshoot schools of applied psychology based on his core principles of indirect strategic therapy and suggestion, and based on hypothetical unconscious processes and indirect forms of human communication. Examples include Jay Haley's strategic model of therapy, the MRI Interactional model, the Erickson-Rossi hypnotic theories, Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and a number of later frameworks such as that of Lankton (1983) and Gilligan (1987). The 'Ericksonian' models deliberately blur the traditional distinction between hypnosis and other forms of therapy, and share this basic idea with the 'sceptical' view of hypnosis, which we will consider in the next section.

In addition to Erickson and Hull, modern scientific research into hypnosis is often associated with a period of intense experimental research in the late 1950's and early 1960's by notables such as J.P Sutcliffe, T.X. Barber, M.T.Orne, E.R. Hilgard, R.E. Shor, and T.R. Sarbin. The work of these researchers had been particularly influential on the current scientific view of hypnosis, especially as viewed in medicine.

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NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming

About The Change Your Beliefs, Change Your Life Course

• How to connect your goals and objectives to your beliefs in such a way that you take the strides you want and need to improve your life
• How stress affects your life, and how you can develop a healthy response to stressful situations
• How to overcome unhealthy belief systems that work against you
• How your beliefs can improve your memory and immune system
• How your beliefs can give you better control over your emotions
• How to get out of ruts and overcome the fear of change

Recent scientific research has proven that your physical health and emotional well-being are inextricably linked to your beliefs. Your beliefs not only shape your perception of the truth; they also have an impact on every aspect of your life — from how your cells function, to how you function in relationships. The surest way to transform your body, your mind, and your life is by identifying and changing the beliefs that aren’t helping you live the healthy, happy, enriched life you want to live.

This course shows you how to recognize the impact your beliefs have on your life. The important thing is to know where any given belief comes from and understand how and why you internalized it — especially if it’s a belief you want to change. You also need to recognize those beliefs you’ve been suppressing or ignoring — beliefs that have become habits or beliefs that are preventing you from getting the most out of your life.

Through this course, you’ll learn to determine what you need, and whether your beliefs should be cherished or discarded. You’ll learn practical skills that have the potential to transform your life for the better — but only if you are willing to let them. That’s because your beliefs are yours. Other people can’t make you believe something; they simply provide the information you use to create the belief. That’s why you — and only you — can change a belief that might be keeping you from achieving the quality of life you are seeking. This program, will be your guide.

You don’t have to wait. Begin the process right now by identifying an area of your life you would like to change, and then using this program to change it!

Behavior Modeling is the core technology that makes Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) possible. In the late 1970's, John Grinder and Richard Bandler, the co-founders of NLP, started wondering what might be possible if they could model "expertise." Expertise, after all, is exceptional ability.

A potent belief system in their exploration of the possibilities was that if anyone could produce a result, then the component parts of that ability can be taught and installed in others. Another belief system or 'presupposition' in NLP is that, 'anyone can achieve any outcome as long as they can break the task down into small enough pieces or chunks, and sequence it properly.

'Behavior Modeling is a primary way that humans learn. Children "model" or copy the behaviors of the people in their world. School children, for example, emulate their heroes. As adults people tend to identify with people at their own economic level or the one just above them. In business, you may look for mentors or coaches to guide your career path. You model behaviors from people whom you perceive as possessing the qualities and abilities you want to emulate.

John Grinder and Richard Bandler "modeled" what they had learned from cognitive psychology, Gestalt Therapy, systems theory, cybernetics, computer science and other fields, to develop the foundational pieces of what became Neuro Linguistic Programming. With a set of skills and elicitation questions, they were able then to model excellence among some of the most successful people of the time. They modeled Viginia Satir the family therapist and her "systems" approach to family behavior. They modeled Gregory Bateson who contributed important foundational pieces of NLP from his Anthropological background. They modeled Fritz Perlz, the Father of Gestalt Therapy, and they modeled Milton H. Erickson, M.D., the foremost Hypnotherapist of our time and the primary contributor to the practice of Brief Therapy. Their student, Robert Dilts, modeled Albert Einstein, Nicola Tesla, Sherlock Holmes, Jesus of Nazareth, and others.

When an expert is asked how they do what they do well, the typical response is "I don't know, I just do it." At some level an expert does know how they do what they do, but these skills and abilities tend to be held at an unconscious level. We do what we do automatically (unconsciously) once a level of proficiency is acquired with regard to a specific ability. With Behavior Modeling technology, a Modeler has access to protocols for asking the right questions in an order that is useful in eliciting the critical elements of an expertise.

Now, the wonderful thing about Behavior Modeling is that it is amazingly empowering to the person being modeled. What is your favorite topic of conversation? For most people, it is themselves. And, when an expert or 'exemplar' of an ability is modeled, she learns more about how she does what she does well. When she can understand at a conscious level how she does what she does well, she does it more consistently. Doesn't it follow, that If you do what you do well more often, you will naturally be more successful? So, even the expert being modeled can improve on her own ability, and universally, people who have been modeled report being incredibly enriched from the experience. People love to be modeled......[more about the course]

HOW DO YOU CHANGE UNWANTED BEHAVIORS?

During this course you will find out what outcomes you want to achieve. You will model your present behaviour. You will get the tools to change the behaviour. You will learn what it is that is holding you back from becoming the person that you truly want to be.You will be able to make easy changes and reach your dreams and goals. Your changes will be permanent and ongoing.

Author Anthony Robbins reports being depressed and gaining 30 pounds in two months while living in a 600 sq. foot bachelor apartment in Venice Beach, California. When Tony realized that he had achieved an outcome that had specific behavioral components, he simply changed the components of his strategy for gaining weight and being depressed and started doing the things necessary to get a result he actually wanted in his life. For Tony, realizing the significance of what he had accomplished, caused him to wonder what else he could change in his life. Tony studied with Richard Bandler and John Grinder to learn the specific skills of their technology for personal change that led to his becoming the #1 motivational speaker in the world.

1. Firstly identify the pattern or behavior that you wish to change
2. Establish communication with the part of your unconscious mind that generates the behaviour.
3. Go inside ask the following question to yourself, remaining alertly passive to detect and report Modeling

MODELING EXTRAORDINARY BEHAVIOR

Note any changes in body sensations, visual images, or sounds that occur as a response to your questions. The question is, ” will the part of me that generates behaviour x be willing to communicate with me in consciousness?”

Now ask that part x, we’ll call it part x to intensify that signal when it wants to communicate yes, and to diminish it when it wants to communicate no.. so that you can distinguish between the two responses.

Separate intention from behavior. Thank the part for it’s willingness to cooperate with you. Now ask if it would be willing to let you know what it’s been trying to do for you by generating behavior x. As you ask that question, once again be alert to detect a yes or no response. Take not of what benefits this behavior has provided for you in the past and then thank that part of your for maintaining these important benefits to you.

Creating alternative behaviors to satisfy intention. Now go inside and contact the most creative part of you and ask it to generate three alternative behaviors that are just as good if not better than x for satisfying the intention of the part we’ve been communicating with. Have your creative part signal you with a yes signal when it has generated the three new behaviors…Now ask the creative part if it would be willing to reval to you what the three new behaviors are.

Have part x accept the new choices and the responsibility for generating them when needed. Now ask part x if the three new behaviors are at least as effective as behavior x. Now ask part x if it’s willing to accept responsibility for generating the new behaviors in apporpriate situations when it’s intention needs to be fulfilled.

Make an ecological check. Now go inside and ask if there are any parts that object to the negotiations that have just taken place or if all parts agree to support you. Then step into the future and imagine a situation that would have triggered the old behavior, and experience using another one of your new choices.

If you get a signal that other parts object to these new choices, you must start from the beginning, identify which part is objecting, what benefits it’s been giving you in the past, and have it work with part x to generate new choices that would maintain the beneifts it’s always given you and also provide you a new set of choices. It may sound abit weird to talk about speaking to parts of yourself, but this is a basic hypnotic pattern that has been found quite useful by people like Dr's Erikson, Bandler, and Grinder. is with areas of my life that i am having issues with in the future!

This is a very powerful transformation exercise! Highly recommended. I’m going to start using Hypnosis NLP is a term that refers to hypnosis used for neuro-linguistic programming to condition the subconscious mind. NLP hypnosis can result in success when trying to stop a bad habit or make a lifestyle change. Emotional issues such as phobias, conflicts, anxiety, grief, stress, guilt and shame can be resolved and a new freedom enjoyed. NLP can provide motivation to make your career a success. There are many ways that NLP can make positive changes in your life.
The "N" in stands for "neuro" and refers to the way the mind, brain and nervous system operates. The "L" means "linguistic" and is about communication: the way we communicate with the world outside ourselves and the way we communicate with ourselves both consciously and unconsciously. The "P" for "programming" represents a method or system of arranging and using our knowledge, skills and self-talk. NLP hypnosis, therefore, is the art of using the mind, brain and nervous system to control the way our minds communicate with ourselves and others.

By using techniques that include spirit and mind, hypnosis can change the patterns of thoughts that inhibit us from successful careers, travel, trying new experiences and many other life enriching opportunities. Thought patterns of the mind can cause actions that result in spiritual uplifting or, just as easily, spiritual bankruptcy. By learning to use the patterns that result in happiness, success, freedom and mind/body unity, we have the ability to choose just how free we want to live in our day to day lives.

Books about hypnosis, NLP focused, can teach you the concepts used in this hypnotherapeutic technique. CDs, videos and even MP3 files can be obtained that are affordable and simple to use. Of course, NLP practitioners are also available; to help address more complex issues, where a therapist can provide additional support. For issues you want to address on your own then experience spirit and mind hypnotic techniques such as NLP. Also consider learning from practicing therapists who have created their own nlp books and tapes. These products provide the ability to enjoy the benefits without leaving your home.

EXCELERATED LEARNING©
By Bill Thomason

Did you ever wonder how memory works? How is it that we forget things? And what if you could "quantum leap" your ability to learn more, faster, better, and in a way that you could easily recall any information tomorrow, next month, or next year; for as long as you choose to remember it?

Studies of memory have shown that the conscious mind can hold only an average of seven, plus or minus two, bits of information, (boi) or "attentional units," at any one moment. Excelerated Learning (c), focuses on how we learn, how we remember, and how to dynamically expand you (7 + or - 2) attentional units. (Goerge Miller, 1952) Consider the premise that we will have to make radical change to excell into the next decades.

The Acceleration of Human History

If you think of human history like a clock, the time since the industrial revolution would be only a tiny sliver of the last minute as your clock ticks toward the present moment. And if you think of how much time it has taken for mankind to evolve through prehistory; the stone age, iron, age, and so forth; you might notice that, by comparison, a lot has happened in a very short period of time.

Does it seem to you that life is going faster and faster; that there is more and more to do, and so little time? Perhaps you can imagine how quickly your children and their children will have to adapt in a world where technology is already advancing at geometric speeds?

Can we retrain our workforces to keep up with escalating global demands and inter-woven and inter-dependent relationships that now characterize high performance in business worldwide? What about pollution or catastrophes like hurricanes and earthquakes? Why are our brightest students dropping out? The fact is: in your own lifetime you will see more change than humankind has seen in the previous thousand years.

Evolution or Mutation

Evolutionary Theory suggests that "random mutation" is how change occurs, but new science has documented certain simple organisms seem to be evolving by "selective mutation." In other words, given a particular environment, these organisms choose their own mutation, "selectively." Now, if we humans could expand the amount of knowledge that we are capable of assimilating; if we could learn more, faster, better... if genius is not a "gift" available to only a select few, but a teachable skill... if you could reproduce the patterns that cause genius to be a genius, what would then be possible, now? Who would you choose to become? How would you choose to mutate now? So, "Is history "Is it an accident that new technologies are becoming available that promise to quantum leap our individual abilities? I don't know. Make your own decision. But make an intelligent decision. Get some training. If not with The NLP Skills Training Institute, find someone else who can train you in Neuro Linguistic Programming and other profound change technologies.
Do some studying. Ask about the Excelerated Learning(c) newsletter. The newsletter is here to serve the purpose of becoming a map by which you can plot the course of your own pursuit into excellence, whatever it is that you say you really want in life physical pain is equivalent or at least similar to emotional pain. More than just a metaphor, I teach the following process as a tool for clients to practice at home to teach them to release old unwanted pain and negative emotion. In my Core Decisional Repatterning(c) work, and in sometimes with other NLP patterns, I find people who have so much stored pain and emotion that it is difficult to get them to focus on the work at hand. In setting up the process, I may take a client through a parts negotiation (like in a 6-step reframe) if I detect any resistance to the process.

The idea is that in our western culture, people tend to stuff emotion instead of expressing it fully. As a metaphor, the emotional body generalizes to the physical When I have done public Stop Smoking, NOW! seminars, I get really curious about the behavior of smoking. I want to know, "How do you do that?" Some people laugh nervously at this question, but I say, "No, really, I am really curious. If wanted to do this behavior the way you do, what would I do it? What would I do first, and then second?", an so on, until I have elicited a specific strategy for how the person achieves the specific outcome of being a smoker. I am interested in modeling the unwanted behavior so I will know exactly where to intervene and interrupt the ritual of smoking. I also want to do some belief change work to make sure my client adopt the identity of being a non-smoker, tobacco free.

If you are working with an overweight person, and you find out specifically 'how' they produced the result of being overweight, and simply change the behaviors that produce the result, that person can readjust the strategy that led to the present outcome to a strategy that produces a different result, like achieving natural body shape and weight. (NLP views any outcome as an achievement, even if it is not the outcome desired.) Part of the 'how' may include thinking in new and different ways and moving your body in new and different ways.

In a healthy system, you take in food. Your body separates the waste and you utilize the energy. The is called homeostasis. Anything not used up in this process becomes toxic and may lead to physical dis-ease. The same would be true of the emotional body. Experience happens and there is a bio-chemical response along with whatever Internal Representation we make. In the healthy system, we release or discharge any negative emotion from that experince; 'emotional homeostasis.' If there is unresolved emotional residue, you might call that 'emotional constipation.' In a healthy situation, the emotion if fully discharged or transformed to a higher vibration.

The process below is designed to be ONE way (hopefully of many) that a person can learn to release negative emotion. Finding one way, and practicing a few times, can cause the process to generalize to lots of other ways of releasing emotion that might have been stored over a lifetime. Tad James and others refer to SEE, Significant Emotional Experience as way to explain the 'Gestalt' of an emotional chain going back in time to an earliest time an individual remembers an emotionally charged experience. The problem is we often respond to present events as if they were connected to all the other negatively charged events going back in time. The response, then, is often out of proportion to the issue in present time.

Here's the process:

Release Pain and Stuffed Emotion

Find a comfortable place to sit as in a recliner or chair. Turn the lights down low and relax, focusing on your breathing, at least 3 long slow deep breaths and then begin to notice where there is pain in your body. (It has been suggested that there is pain/discomfort somewhere in the body at any time.) As you do notice pain in your toes (slowly pace through each part of the body), feet, balls of your feet, top of your feet, ankles, calves, etc, allow that pain to begin to move up your legs, through your calves and lower leg, into your knees. Allow the sensation of pain to come up into and through your lower legs. If the pain in your body had a color, what color would that be?

Continue to let the pain move up and through your body. All the pain, everywhere in your body moving upward through your hips, abdomen, organ, lower back, middle back, and notice your breathing as the pain continues to move up through your upper back, and your neck. Notice that as you shift your breathing, swallow, and any movement, involuntary movements in your jaw. Notice now that you can control the pain/the emotion. The pain is your emotion and it is moving up into your head. Notice any change in color as your allow the pain from your entire body to center in your head. Notice the color as it comes into your head and then allow that pain, that emotion, that color, to become a sound. Let that sound grow and grow until it wants to get out. Make the sound that is the pain, emotion, color in your head. Make that sound. If it is a scream, scream. If it is crying, let the tears come. If the sound it a kind of breath or a hiss, or a clicking, make the sound. Whatever the sound, make it. Make the sound more and do it again. Do it again, louder and more intense. Keep making the sound. Make the sound more, louder. Keep making the sound until you can not make it anymore. When you think you are done, make yourself do it more, let it come, more and more, until you cannot do it any more.

Now, breath and notice what is in the place of that sound, that pain and emotion. 'Imagine that 'joy' is what the universe is made of and you have created a vacuum that pulls the joy, the relief into you. Allow yourself to feel the difference. Let yourself feel the joy that has taken the place of the pain and negative emotion that were there before knowing that as you have verbalized your pain and negative emotion, you have released it forever. Let it go and feel the joy.

Do this process daily or more that once per day, until... If you think you have released it all in one sitting, do it again, until.

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Quotes

“One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself
sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false.
It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind."

Robert Collier

Ancient Astrological image

Founders of Hynotherapy