Hypnosis:
By allowing the body and mind to relax to a deepened state, this frees and opens the mind to locate the answers with the help of positive suggestions being imprinted in such a dynamic way that success can be immediate. In clinical hypnotherapy, unlike stage hypnosis, you need not be concerned about being made to do something that you will regret at a later date. During a session, I, nor any other hypnotist, can make you do anything that you do not want to do. You are, at all times in complete and total control. Some may think that they are too intelligent for hypnosis to work on them, this is not the case at all. Other's may think that they are not intelligent enough, also, this is not the case. If you have an imagination and can follow simple instruction you can and will be hypnotized. You are not "knocked out", "put under", or "put to sleep". What you are, is guided into a deep level of relaxation where your mind opens and expands to all the possibilities imaginable.
What is Hypnosis?
  Definitions of Hypnosis:
Hypnosis is perhaps the oldest and most natural mode of healing in our human history and yet (because of stage hypnosis which is done purely for entertainment) is quite misunderstood by the majority of the population who then miss out on it's incredible benefits. Hypnosis is considered a potent and safe adjunct to Medicine, an effective procedure in Psychotherapy, Dentistry, relaxation, stress management and behavioral changes.

Hypnosis is a natural state of mind that occurs spontaneously in nearly every person. If you consider hypnotic states or hypnosis as altered states of consciousness similar to those that you experience upon awakening, prior to falling asleep, when functioning on automatic like driving down a highway, or when engrossed in activities such as watching an interesting movie or reading a good book.

Hypnosis is not something one person "does" to another. It is an inborn talent. Its use, deliberate or unwitting, varies from person to person. Your development of this skill can be enhanced with the guidance of an experienced hypnotist. Then the talent can subsequently be even more useful and enjoyable when employed by you on your own.

There are many definitions of hypnosis, almost as many as there are practitioners of hypnosis. One of the most frequently used definitions
of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes is the following: Hypnosis is an artificially induced state, usually (but not always) resembling sleep, but physiologically distinct from it, which is characterized by heightened suggestibility, as a result of which certain sensory, motor and memory abnormalities may be induced more readily than in the normal state, (Warren's Dictionary of Psychology)
Generally, many professionals borrow Dr. Milton Erickson's definition and describe hypnosis as "A state of intensified attention and receptiveness, and an increased responsiveness to an idea or to a set of ideas.

The following are additional definitions of hypnosis:
Hypnosis is an altered state of selective awareness and heightened suggestibility produced through a combination of relaxation, focused attention and effective suggestions. (Richard Aanrich)

I believe hypnosis to be a process which produces relaxation, distraction of the conscious mind, heightened suggestibility and increased awareness, allowing access to the subconscious mind through the imagination. It also produces the ability to experience thoughts and images as real. (Krasner)

Actually, the hypnotic state, like the conscious state and the sleeping state, is extremely complex and involves so many physiological, psychological, and interpersonal factors that no one theory has yet been able to account for all the intricate operations that take place within its range. This does not at all hinder our practical employment of this interesting method. In medicine, we utilize many remedies and procedures because they work, even though we may not know exactly why and how they work. Every year, research adds more data to our fund a/knowledge, providing an empirical foundation for your pragmatic superstructure. (Lewis. R. Wolberg)

Hypnosis has also been defined as a form of conditioning. A person learns, through direct experience or the media, how to be "hypnotized". Another way to see hypnosis as something learned, is to assert that a person becomes conditioned to a word stimulus such as "Relax." Once having allowed himself to relax, the client is thereafter conditioned to repeat the experience of relaxing upon hearing the stimulus-word.

Hypnosis is not a sleep. Whatever sleep is, hypnosis is not, in fact for most people it is a heightened awareness which allows the individual more personal control than they would otherwise have. Hypnosis is a response to a signal from the hypnotherapist or to an inner signal, which activates a capacity for a shift of awareness in the person, which permits a more directed concentration toward a desired goal.

Actually all hypnosis is self-hypnosis because it is the client who uses his or her abilities, including concentration and imagination, to produce what we recognize as "hypnotic" effects.

Among practitioners the most common view of hypnosis is that it is an altered state of consciousness; your awareness differs somehow to your everyday sense of reality. This is often referred to as being in a trance. However, for many, perhaps most, people being in hypnosis does not seem much different to how they feel at other times.
                                                  NLP

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is about the study of subjective reality. This is how we create our internal representations of reality which is what is real for us. NLP is about methods and techniques that provide more positive outcomes or enhanced outcomes than were previously there. Everybody already knows how to do some things well, and those are the resources that can be used or applied to other areas for making a positive change.

                                                           What is NLP?
                                                                                                  (Neuro Linguistic Programming)

NLP started out in the early seventies primarily as the study of excellence in Human Behavior. The initial question was about how to understand the difference between somebody who is competent about something and someone who is able to excel at something. This study of Subjective Reality and the Modeling of Excellence opened up a new doorway into human possibilities. Two men are at the forefront of the initial studies which has since blossomed into multiplied thousands of skilled students and practitioners all across the world. The first two were John Grinder a Linguistics Professor and Richard Bandler, a Mathematician, musician and Computer Scientist.

That first question on excellence were the studies of people who were know to operate in very excellent ways such as Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir, and Fritz Perls all of which were recognized for their pivotal knowledge and excellence in the field of therapy. Those studies opened the doorway to discovering their Internal Representations engendered a model to understand how we as humans perceive the world, how we organize our thinking, feeling, skills and behaviors.

These initial studies have in many ways changed the way new possibilities for how we can more effectively understand people in every area. Areas including: Therapy, Business, Sports, Learning, Relationships and Life.

The Neuro acknowledges the fact that we process information about the world neurologically, using the brain and the nervous system, through our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.

Linguistic refers to the verbal language that we use to communicate with each other both intrinsically and extrinsically with our internal thoughts and our external "body language".

Programming relates to the "programs" or patterns of behavior we all demonstrate: it's the internal yet unconscious strategy that we use as we organize our thoughts and our behaviors in producing our outcomes.

NLP is about how we work as a whole new paradigm of thinking. It is about helping people make effective and empowering change and to enhance peak states of performance. It is a set of guiding principles, attitudes, knowledge, skills, techniques and a sort of magic in how greatly it enhances our human possibilities.

NLP offers you some of the most powerful communication skills available. Much of our success in life depends on our ability to communicate effectively to others and within our selves.

NLP provides a beacon light that can enable you to uncover, change and transform old behaviors and present interferences into new and resourceful beliefs and successful behaviors. It can move you to make positive and far reaching changes that will affect your life in positive ways and can usually do it in a quicker and more elegant manner than most anything else has been able to do.

NLP is built around the idea that all thought, belief and behavior is inseparable from our neurology (Neuro). The way we recognize it and stabilize it is with language (Linguistics) and the internal strategies we use, the sequence of mind/body events is the (Programming). Learning and knowing how this works for you and others gives you a set of immensely price and powerful tools for more effective and precise outcomes.

The human brain and the body are inseparable and operate very much like a mega-computer. Using information that is programmed into it through life experiences and the adapted behaviors created in each moment, it will operate or react with the same adapted responses until the original programming is replaced.

It is widely known that the majority of all our dominate programming has already happened in the formative years of 0 to 6 years old. Although we don't want to believe that we are basically operating on automatic and that we are so directed and controlled by earlier programming, denying it doesn't make it not so. Unfortunately we didn't come with an owners manual at birth, so we don't actually know how we operate and we for the most part operate out of a "consensus trance" like reality and without taking determined and courageous steps to understand that go on basically thinking and acting in the same old programmed behaviors throughout our lives and believe that is just the way I am.

It is good to know that with NLP change for most people can happen easily, painlessly and fast.

We are often told that our brain is the most amazing computer on the planet, but nobody ever gave us an instruction manual on how to use it. The good news is that Neuro Linguistic Programming was created as a set of tools (software for the mind/body) to update our data and to be able to move toward a truly conscious life with far more excellence and satisfaction that would happen otherwise. NLP offers the tools to make excellence and more satisfying behaviors more easily attainable. It can now happen because if you have some areas where you are achieving excellence or having satisfying behaviors, or if someone else is achieving excellence or satisfying behaviors anywhere, then it can be modeled, detailed, replicated, and enjoyed by you.
NLP affords the opportunity to gain flexibility, creativity and greater freedom of action than most of us know how Training and Development Journal
NLP could be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the sixties.- Science Digest
Some of the places where NLP is used:
  • Psychotherapy and Counseling
  • Training, Education, Public Presentations of all kinds
  • Health Counseling, Medicine, Alternative Modalities
  • Business, Management, Sales, Coaching
  • Relationships and Relationship Building
  • Sports and Recreational Interests
  • Peak Performance and Excellence
  • Parenting and Youth Building
  • Writing, Communicating in any media
  • Creative Pursuits and Energized Lives
One of the most important application where NLP is valuable is in education and learning. NLP's practical applications include understanding how we team and developing strategies for both students and teachers. Through NLP, teachers and parents gain concrete methods for helping children do well in school. Classroom teachers are incorporating key pieces of the NLP approach into their teaching methods and classroom management.

Medical professionals report that what they learn in NLP training is immediately applicable and valuable in their work. In addition, leading-edge research in NLP today is focusing on ways of building and maintaining personal health, engaging the body's ability to heal, and defining the relationship between health and beliefs. Language affects how we think and respond.

The very process of converting experience into language requires that we delete, distort, and generalize how we perceive the world. These are the filters that we use that make each one of us unique. NLP also provides questions and patterns to make communication more effective. Research on communications has shown that words are only 7% of communication. If we accept that as true, then would understanding what the other 97% of communication is be important to you?

NLP teaches us to understand how language affects us through implicit and embedded assumptions. Since advertisers, the media, and politicians use language to convey their messages, teaming about language through NLP can also add awareness and gives us the knowledge we need to be effective communicator's.

Here are some areas in your life that NLP is beneficial:

  • Improve your skills and performance in areas from sales to sports.
  • Remove lifelong fears and phobias.
  • Identify and release negative emotions caused by traumas.
  • Increase rapport and facilitate communication in your relationships, business and personal.
  • Change unwanted habits and behaviors giving yourself more ecological options.
  • Learn techniques to identify your specific goals, design them appropriately and then program your mind to achieve them.
  • Resolving conflicts and negotiating for desired results.
  • Learning, studying, spelling and memory
NLP offers many people a doorway to something far deeper. Once you know more about how you, as a human being operate, then you can use NLP to answer some of the truly meaningful questions. NLP will also help you to more fully understand your mission in life and some of the answers to how you can have even more happiness and fulfillment.


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