Comments on: Lifting Mood By Combining NLP’s Classic Circle of Excellence With Self-Hypnosis

By: Adam Eason

Adam Eason — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:28:49 +0000

In reply to Matt.

Matt, I love your addition to the process – embellish away! I have it simple here for ease of self-hypnosis, but with clients in a professional practice, I absolutely hear you. Love it.

Best wishes to you mate, A.

By: Adam Eason

Adam Eason — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:28:42 +0000

In reply to Matt.

Matt, I love your addition to the process – embellish away! I have it simple here for ease of self-hypnosis, but with clients in a professional practice, I absolutely hear you. Love it.

Best wishes top you mate, A.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:29:23 +0000

I had never considered using this technique until recently but have since decided that i love it. A good way that i like to embellish this further is to combine it with the metaphor of knocking down a wall. So… with a client for example, first of all discover their resource states and then go through the above steps. But at the end when they step forward out of the circle of light, have them imagine that they are on the path of their life and the obstacle that prevents them moving forward (their problem) is directly in front of them in the form of a wall. Embellish the scene. Then when they want to knock down the wall, just have them fire their anchor and watch on as small holes appear in the wall as light bursts through, before it slowly starts to disintegrate. I have used this with the thumb and finger press anchor as the client then could have the sensation of pulling a ‘physical’ trigger to destroy their wall. I thought this would be a useful way of metaphorically showing the client that it is they do have the resources to overcome their problem. A nice first session 🙂