There are hypnotherapists who are certain that hypnosis can transport you back to a past life, that by using hypnosis to regress the subject back through time to the time of their birth and before, that the subject can be aided in recalling events from lives before this one. I have to hold my hand [...]
Very often in NLP or hypnotherapy, approaches focus on “parts”… “parts” integration, getting one “part” of ourselves to communicate with another. It’s a metaphor I employ myself, but it is one I think we have to be very careful of and not allow it to develop potentially toxic overtones. The danger with a “parts” model [...]
OK, I promised you a few ideas around the concept of building trance states as a form of “glamour” in the early sense of the word, a charm used to influence the perceptions of those around you :-)
We are going to look at three stages of creating such a state. The first is trance induction. [...]
When I was new to NLP, it almost embarrasses me to recall my sweet, naive enthusiasm and my assumption that other people would “get it”. I’m sure you know the sort of thing, and I apologise right here, right now to anyone who had to suffer my probably insufferable insistence that all problems would disappear [...]
Because we do not “see” time, we have to find a way of making sense of it. We tend to understand time spatially, in terms of distance and location. This is clear in the way we use language to talk about time. We talk of the “distant” past, the “far” future. We “look forward” to [...]
A short tale on communication, simplicity and personal power
In a time further and deeper than your most beautiful dreams, there lived a man who searched for grace. His searches took him to many weird and wonderful places, and lead him into many strange experiences. When asked what exactly he was looking for, he could not [...]
Some thoughts on how Robert Dilts’ Logical Levels Model can be applied in hypnotherapy and NLP changework.
One of the least agreed upon, and often hotly debated, aspects of NLP is the concept of Logical Levels. Supposedly derived from the work of Gregory Bateson, and refined into the structure of an NLP model by Robert Dilts, [...]
A metaphor on the manifestation of abundance.
In a time closer than your richest dreams, in a space not a blink away, is a story of Joy. Joy lived in a world where everything seemed just out of reach, and would often say, “Why is it that Joy never has any of the pleasure of things [...]
The Maker of Maps is a key element of the Emergence CD. As metaphor, it is designed to open the mind to the ways in which we make sense of the world.
Way back, back further even than before the time of your future dreams, there was a Map Maker who was regarded as the finest [...]
A short metaphor about learning and learning to learn
I once heard a story about a man who found a book that had been hidden by a messenger. From where this messenger came, and from whom, I do not know, although I have my thoughts. But she left this book for the man to find, and [...]
