A couple of weeks back, the TV programme This Morning on ITV had a phobia week. This involved a selection of people with varied phobias getting treatment behind the scenes by a Hypnotherapist with some excellent results.
I love helping people to get freedom from phobias- I find it so rewarding when they suddenly realise that the problem is gone.
I recently helped someone to get rid of a fear of heights that he had since childhood. It took just a couple of hours to do and by the end of it, he had visited the London Eye without even thinking about it!
Appart from the satisfaction I get from helping people with phobias, I find the whole subject fascinating. The unconscious mind will put a phobia in place to protect us from something which it percieves as a threat. Most of the time it is mistaken but is doing the best it can for us given what it knows. Of course, once the phobia is in place, no amount of conscious comment on how silly the phobia is will shift it. I’ve lost count of the number of times a person has said to me “I know it’s silly, but I can’t help being scared of spiders”. Another popular one is “I know it is irrational…..”.
By using some NLP and Hypnotherapy, it can be so easy to lose that phobia. I just wish more people knew that. Then I’d be much busier in my practice and everyone would be so much happier!
I’m getting closer to completing my online E-Course, “Inspire Your Life”.
The “Inspire Your Life” E-Course teaches you how to use self hypnosis to get the results you want in your life. Not only does it tell you how to formulate goals and apply them to your unconscious mind, it also tells you how to record your own Hypnosis recordings so that you can easily and effortlessly get those suggestions implanted in your unconscious.
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Today is an exciting day for me! I have finally completed the first few parts of my new online course called “Inspire Your Life”.
The idea behind “Inspire Your Life” is to teach the principles of self-hypnosis, affirmation and goal setting and bring them all together in one course which when followed will result in the student having a set of tools to help them realise their dreams.
As well as including a selection of excercises, it also includes practical information on how to make your own recordings so that you can make your own customised CDs to help you to Inspire Your Life!
As a special taster, I am delivering the first few chapters free of charge to anyone who subscribes to my newsletter. All you need to do is click on the Subscribe button at the top of this page or fill out the form below:
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I look forward to sharing this e-course with you and I hope you find it as useful and interesting as I have putting it all together!
When I did my NLP practitioner training, one of the areas of my life that I wanted to change was my approach to exercise. Many a time in the past I had decided to start doing some exercise whether it be going to the gym, swimming , or running, I’d always started off with good intentions and then the inclination to carry on simply faded away (sometimes in the planning stage- even before I had actually done anything!)
The idea of “getting fit” returned on New Year’s Eve when, after a Christmas of much eating, drinking and being merry, I put on a shirt I had received as a Christmas present. The shirt felt a little tight, but as the evening went on, I realised it was slightly more than a little tight!
I decided that this shirt was too nice to be wasted and at that point I also realised that if I was going to wear this shirt again, I was going to need a goal to aim for. I also realised where I had been going wrong all this time.
In NLP, we look at goals in terms of moving towards an outcome or moving away from a situation. If you were to think of it in terms of something such as wanting to quit smoking, most people start out by saying to themselves “I want to stop smoking” which is a moving away from their current circumstance. By rephrasing the statement as goal to move towards such as “I want to be healthier” or “I want to smell good, climb the stairs easily and feel full of energy”, a much more compelling goal can be planned and executed.
With this in mind I knew that I had to create a compelling goal to move towards. The shirt was a good start, but I knew that had a get out clause- I could just leave the shirt in the wardrobe and carry on as before. So I decided that my goal would need to have some emotion associated with it- something to make me feel good. It also needed to be SMART. By this, I mean it needed to be
Specific- It needed to be very clear exactly what the goal was
Measurable- I needed to know when I had achieved the goal and where I was on the way to that goal.
Attainable- I needed a goal that I knew I could achieve.
Relevant- The goal needed significance to my life and my greater good.
Time based- I needed to know when this goal would be achieved so that I could work towards it.
I started with the relevant part because I knew that if the goal wasn’t exciting and full of emotion, there was no way I’d attain it. At the moment, the most emotional experience in my life is my son Louis’ development. He was diagnosed as Autistic in November 2007 and since that time we have had so much fantastic support from friends, family and the local health authorities. The learning curve has been steep to say the least, but without these people and also the National Autistic Society, we wouldn’t have known half of what we now know or been able to cope as well as we have with the challenges. Because of this, I decided to raise some money for the NAS. So then I needed to decide how I was going to raise this money and do so in such a way that it would improve me too. That is when I decided that a sponsored run would be the answer- I could raise money and physically improve myself. Now I needed to be more specific and set an attainable target so I started searching online for running events local to me. I found a local 10km “fun” run that was at the end of May, which was a good few months off so I then had a specific event and a time to work to. I looked at last year’s finishing times and saw that there was a wide range of abilities- the slowest time was around an hour and a half, which I worked out to be around walking distance which I was sure I could manage even without training so I now had an attainable goal.
So I now have my SMART goal and I’m enjoying working towards the 25th May when I will run that 10km run.
The SMART method is a great way to get goals clear in your mind. I use it a lot with clients and my own goals. You might like to try it too and if you like, leave a comment on here to let me know how it goes!
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Welcome to my new site. I thought my first post on this blog based site should explain the purpose of the site itself as such things are not always clear.
For a while now, I have been a Hypnotherapist and more recently an NLP Practitioner. I have also been running a business selling audio equipment to therapists as a package known as the DREAM (Dialogue Recording and Enhanced Audio Material) system. Since I originally produced these packages, things have moved on and even though the system still delivers on the quality front, there are so many other possible ways to skin that proverbial cat!
The idea of this site is to provide information on the resources available to NLP’ers and Hypnotisers not only in the field of audio recording and production, but also in other areas such as marketing, promotion, in fact anything to help make us more successful therapists (note I say us as I hope to learn a lot too!)
I am planning to post a regular blog as well as provide podcasts and articles (let me know if you have any you wish to submit).
I look forward to sharing lots of knowledge with you!
A couple of weeks back, the TV programme This Morning on ITV had a phobia week. This involved a selection of people with varied phobias getting treatment behind the scenes by a Hypnotherapist with some excellent results.
