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By WanderingHypnotist, September 10, 2009 6:52 am

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Phobias can be debilitating. Desensitization is a classic phobia technique – hypnosis and NLP work better in my personal experience – and are usually quite permanent. I specialized in phobias for a number of years getting between 3 and 5 phobics a week on average. If any of you are suffering from a phobia that is impacting your quality of life or well-being … GO GET IT SORTED!

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By WanderingHypnotist, September 7, 2009 3:48 am

This wonderful little book is subtitled … “The Teaching Tales of Milton H Erickson“.

In your journey of learning how to hypnotise you will at some point come across the name Milton Erickson. You could spend a life-time studying him and still only be scratching the surface of the art of influencing change in a person. Erickson is considered to be THE MASTER of modern hypnosis – he was a medical doctor who lived in the 20th Century and pioneered what some people now call conversational hypnosis and the use of hypnotic metaphor.

I first came across this book about five years ago … and I’m still dipping into it every now and then. I probably started at the wrong end of the spectrum, only reading this book after having first delved deep into the hundreds of case history materials and books that Milton generated over his lifetime.

The ‘tales’ in the book are examples that Erickson presented to medical audiences and represent different cases and how he worked with them. The tales are delivered in the same style in which he delivers his interventions. In other words the tales are hypnotic metaphors in their own right. And you don’t have to worry about this at all if you are just starting out to learn how to hypnotize. Just read the book for what it’s worth – at the minimum you will get some insight into the range of issues that hypnosis can be applied to.

You won’t find a ‘how to hypnotise’ analysis inside this book. It doesn’t teach hypnotic techniques in the way you might expect or teach you how to do what Erickson did. But as an introduction to the art of metaphor and conversational hypnosis, this is a gem. Once you’re someway down your learning journey of hypnosis, come back to this book and re-read it … and you’ll discover things in there you didn’t see the first time through.

Have a nice trip

The Wandering Hypnotist

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By WanderingHypnotist, September 6, 2009 8:16 am

I am going to share one of the secrets of hypnosis with you. Now, I could of course let you go out there and learn all sorts of great hypnotic techniques and buy lots of online products, even attend some real live training … and you would learn to hypnotise rather well … and only when you’ve ‘earned’ your medals (and bought lots of products of course) let you into the inner circle of hypnosis.

And then again, revealing this now may or may not have any impact whatsoever – at least not right away. But as you gain your hypnosis skills this one simple insight will transform your ability to work with a much wider group of people. There are layers to this secret. What you take away from it now will be different than what it means in 10 years time.

Are you ready?

The most powerful way to hypnotize someone is to go there first!

Richard Bandler repeats this point over and over (Richard is this amazing genius of human communication who co-invented NLP). I didn’t really understand it at first. However, now I do – and I am still staggered at the implications of this secret. But like any knowledge, I could give you the secret to the universe and it would be meaningless unless you claim it as your own – you need to go out and experience this information as directly experienced knowledge.

So what does it mean … you really need to go and test it to understand the implications … at its most basic level it means that if you can learn to ‘go into the right hypnotic state’ yourself, then it is much more likely that the person you are working with will ‘follow’ you.

When you stop and think about this it makes sense. When someone walks into the room who is really happy … everyone’s mood is lifted. If someone comes into the room all ‘doom & gloom’ … it impacts everyone. Same goes for excitement, laughter, anger … in fact any strong emotional state … that state ‘jumps’ from person to person. Hmmmmmm … does this work for other states … hypnotic states, meditative states, curious states?

I’ll leave you to ponder this hypnosis secret – and I’ll really encourage you to really go out and learn how to hypnotize yourself first … and then ‘play’ with the state in yourself and observe its impact on others.

Have a good trip …

The Wandering Hypnotist

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By WanderingHypnotist, September 4, 2009 1:23 am

Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be providing some guided visualization hypnosis scripts that you can use for self-hypnosis. I’ve been doing my ‘wandering’ around Europe for the last week or so (South of France, Greece, Albania) getting some late summer inspiration before the busy season finally sets in!

If you have any specific questions about how to hypnotise and what to learn to hypnotise at your own pace then you can always drop a line in the contact section.

All the best.

Wandering Hypnotist.

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By WanderingHypnotist, August 30, 2009 9:10 am

OK, just came across this wonderful demonstration of silent hypnosis. Whoever thought that hypnosis was about what you said … think again!

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