Self-Hypnosis and Time Distortion
When I was at secondary school, I can remember being sat in my history class and being thoroughly uninspired and bored and watching the clock on the wall behind my teacher. Now, I swear to this day that as I yearned for the time to go past quicker, the second hands on...
Enhancing Mental Health with Facebook
I have had an active Facebook account for a while now and what with it recently becoming the number one busiest website, toppling google in the rankings, it does signify much of the modern way we socially interact, doesn't it? Each day when I log in, I have multiple...
The Pursuit of Happiness
The pursuit of happiness does present a connumdrum or two, doesn't it? Someone pointed out to me a marvellous quote yesterday: "Those only are happy ... [who] have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. " This by JS Mill who went on to...
An Incredibly Hypnosis Inducing Evening With Diversity
Well what a fabulous weekend... The sun shone brightly and I spent so much time in it that I have a red forehead, we had out first barbequeue of the year, Nottingham Forest confirmed a play-off place to play for a Premiership spot next season, AP McCoy won the Grand...
Can Positive Thinking Be Bad For you?
Positive thinking is something that is embedded into life these days in our Western World, that suggesting it has a downside gets met with a similar response to having a go at elderly people or saying something unkind about Princess Diana. So many of my peers and...
Adultery, Performance And What It All Says About Us
Last weeks brand new episode of South Park on the comedy central channel showed the sex addiction clinics of the US filled with famous male celebrities being taught how best to not get caught having frequent sex with a variety of women... Yet apologising publicly and...
Arguing With Ourselves
In general, if and when someone says something to you that brings into question some element of your character, the chances are you'd jump to your own defence and maybe even start to list a number of things that disputed what they said. You'd find some proof that you...
Glove Anaesthesia And Hypnosis
Last year, there was a superb television delight on entitled Hypno-Surgery and it showed a man receiving hypno-surgery. That is, he had a hernia operation without any anaesthesia other than by using hypnosis aided by Dr John Butler. This really excites me. I have been...
NLP’s Eye Accessing Cues Don’t Work? What To Do?
This week I sent on huge wads of training manuals, ebooks, resources and much more besides to my students that have reached the half way point in their NLP and Hypnotherapy training with me... Bear in mind that I teach an NLP society NLP practitioner course whereby...
Creating Expectations and Over-Delivering – Hypnotic Phenomena!
One of the first lessons I teach on my hypnotherapy training diploma is all about creating expectations... many of the more prolific hypnotherapy researchers demonstrate that hypnotherapy is far more effective with advanced levels of client expectation... I wrote...
