Transference In Hypnotherapy and How To Deal With Transference In Clinical Hypnosis
I get asked a great deal about the subject of transference in hypnotherapy and so I thought I would write about it today and look at a hypnotherapist's viewpoint of it. Transference was born out of the psychoanalytic schools of therapy, initially through the work of...
Being More Direct In Hypnosis. Is It Ok To Be Authoritarian With Hypnosis?
This weekend just gone, as I do several times each year, I attended a hypnosis training. All the people I respect and admire in the field of hypnosis regularly attend a variety of different trainings, and I choose to do the same. I also like to do things which...
Have Some Free Hypnosis Stuff! Self-Hypnosis Audio Giveaway Today.
Shortly, I shall be heading off out into the relative cold to run for 20 miles as my training schedule starts getting into the serious stuff in preparation for my first marathon of the year at London in less than 3 months time. Then I am driving to Devon for a trainng...
Should Hypnotherapists Touch Their Clients? If Someone Is In Hypnosis, Can We Touch Them?
So there you are, focused on the sound of the hypnotherapists voice, feeling physically relaxed, feeling optimistic that you are making some powerful changes in your life, changes that have dogged you, you are absorbed in something that is exciting yet physically...
Deepening Hypnosis With The Mind’s Eye Closure
One of my favourite deepening hypnosis processes is one championed, developed and often referred to by Michael Yapko, and is called the Mind’s Eye Closure. I like it because it is fairly quick, really does the job of deepening well and helps in a variety of ways with...
Are Hypnotherapists Being Hypnotic Or Doing Hypnosis?
Throughout the years of being a hypnotherapist and being involved in the field of hypnosis, I have encountered a lot of practitioners who know how to perform a variety of hypnotic techniques incredibly well. Today though, I’d like to make a distinction between those...
Attention Hypnotherapists! Opportunity For Hypnotherapists Here Today
If you are a hypnotherapist, or any kind of therapist, then this is absolutely for you today... I’ll cut to the chase today... I am hoping to thrive this year. I am going to make sure that this year is even better than our record breaking year we had last year. And...
Is It Ok To Rip On People?
Yesterday, someone asked me if it is ok to ‘take the p@ss’ out of people, he believed that by doing so, it was ruining his friendships and making him feel insecure and unsophisticated with his sense of humour. So I thought today, I’d write about what I said to him and...
Is There A Better Term For Hypnosis? When Is It Desirable To Substitute The Word Hypnosis For Something Else?
I can remember being on a Paul McKenna training many years ago and he mentioned that on some of his recordings that were given away free, he referred to some of the sessions as ‘eyes closed process’ rather than hypnosis. It was thought that ‘hypnosis’ had legal issues...
Can Hypnosis Be Used Forensically? Is There Evidence For Forensic Hypnosis?
Throughout the years gone by, hypnosis has been used in criminal investigations to help validate eyewitness testimony. The testimony given by a suspect, witness or victim has in the past been considered valid when hypnosis has been used and you can read more about...
