What is NLP?
NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. Created by Dr Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970's. NLP studies the way that we filter and represent our experience through our neurology, it studies our language and non verbal means of communication through which we communicate with self and others. It studies and provides tools to change our programming, the habitual ways that we think, communicate and behave.
The tools and techniques of NLP give a rich and powerful toolkit which when used, gives you the ability to:
* Run your brain rather than your brain running you!
* Recognize, challenge and change limiting beliefs.
* Learn HOW to think and to be able to direct your thinking in the right direction to get positive and powerful outcomes in life.
* Be flexible in thinking and behaviour - to be confident that if what you are doing isn't working - you can do something else!
* Access great states such as confidence, motivation, happiness so that you can feel good whilst you achieve great results!
* Manage challenging situations positively and to retain a sense of being in control as you handle yourself, situations and people positively and successfully.
* Put past difficulties firmly where they belong, to have freedom from the past and to plan for a positive and joyful future.
* Communicate well with self and others in personal and business life.
* Understand the perspectives, behaviour and experience of other people and get better results from relationships both at work and in personal life.
Would now be a good time for you to learn about using the tools and techniques of NLP so that you can make that change? It could be the difference that makes the difference in your personal or professional life!
What is Time Line Therapy™?
In 1985, Tad James, M.S., Ph.D. applied a therapeutic process to this concept of an internal memory storage system. The result was a collection of techniques which produces long-lasting transformation very quickly-faster than what is currently called Brief Therapy. These powerful Time Line Therapy™ techniques are becoming the method of choice to make fast, effective, long-term changes in behaviour.
The Time Line Therapy™ process allows you to work at the unconscious level and release the effects of past negative experiences and change "inappropriate" programming in minutes rather than days, months or years. It is a revolutionary new approach which has become so popular because of its ability to create quick, long lasting results.
Time Line Therapy™ is a collection of techniques that allow you to gain emotional control over your life. Inappropriate emotional reactions, such as bursts of anger, periods of apathy, depression, sadness, anxiety, and chronic fear, are responsible for preventing people from achieving the quality of life they desire. Limiting decisions, such as "I'm not good enough," "I'll never be rich," or "I don't deserve a great marriage," create false limitations and hamper your ability to create reachable and attainable goals and outcomes. Time Line Therapy¨ techniques enable you to eliminate many types of issues in your past, thus allowing you to move forward toward your goals and desires.
What is Hypnotherapy?
Healing by trance state (or an altered state of awareness) is among the oldest phenomena known to man and is found, in one form or another, in virtually every culture throughout the world. “Hypnosis is a state of mind, enhanced by (although not exclusively) mental and physical relaxation, in which our subconscious is able to communicate with our conscious mind.”
The aim of Hypnotherapy is to assist people in finding meaningful alternatives to their present unsatisfactory ways of thinking, feeling or behaving. Therapy also tends to help clients become more accepting both of themselves and others and can be most useful in promoting personal development and unlocking inner potential.
Given that hypnotherapy can be utilised to access a person’s inner potential and that probably no one is performing to their actual potential, then this answer is literally true. However, it is not just potential which Hypnotherapy is well placed to address but also one’s inner resources to effect beneficial change. In this regard, it is the innate healing capacity of our own body that may be stimulated by Hypnotherapy.
Consequently, the list of problems which may be amenable to Hypnotherapy is far too long and varied to catalogue but certainly includes: stress, anxiety, panic, phobias, unwanted habits and addictions (e.g. smoking, overeating, alcoholism), disrupted sleep patterns, lack of confidence and low self-esteem, fear of examinations and public speaking, allergies and skin disorders, migraine and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Additionally, it has proved of value within surgery, where normal anaesthetics have not been practical, in the wider sphere of pain management and in the areas of both sporting and artistic performance enhancement. As an adjunct to other counselling techniques, it can also assist in helping to resolve relationship difficulties and be useful within anger management strategies.
Who can be hypnotised?
The answer to this question is undoubtedly “virtually everyone”. This claim must, however, be qualified by the observation that some are more readily hypnotisable than others and that it will also depend upon one’s willingness to be hypnotised at the time. This willingness will itself depend upon a number of factors, not least of which will be the strength of the person’s particular need and their trust and confidence in the therapist concerned.
Some Common Concerns
People are sometimes concerned that they will “lose control” in hypnosis. However regardless of how deeply people may go in hypnosis and however passive they may appear to be, they actually remain in full control of the situation and cannot be made to do anything against their usual ethical or moral judgement or religious belief.
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