In our New York NLP Practice I work with a number of clients to help them overcome performance anxiety. Stage fright shows up in many ways that can negatively affect performance, but by using Neurolinguistic Programming techniques it can be conquered. I worked with a client this past week who shared her concerned about hitting the high notes while performing (and has given permission for me to post this here). Chrissy is a coloutura soprano, and easily reaches those high D's and E's in voice lessons and while practicing at home and yet was nervous about "going for them" in auditions or in performance. "Part of me wants to show everyone that I can sing these notes and part of me is frightened and wants me to hold back in case I don't make it or crack on the note," she explained to me. In the NLP world when one hears the words "part of me this and part of me that..." it frequently leads to an exercise called The Visual Squash. I asked Chrissy to sit comfortable in her chair and to place her hands in front of her, palms up. I then asked her to indicate to me in which hand was the ... [more...]

Hypnosis Positive Changes In the 17th century a German physician believed that the planetary motions caused some changes in the human body. According to him the life energy was flowing through a human body from thousands of channels inside the body. He proposed that when the flow is obstructed the person suffered from disease. So he used iron rods in his treatments because he thought this life energy was in the form of a magnetic fluid. Around 1842 a Scottish surgeon realized that the healing power of hypnosis was contained in the 'suggestions' given to the patient. From then on more importance was given on how to frame these suggestions to achieve the desired results. When someone is under a hypnotic trance, the person's awareness reaches a heightened state, and the thinking faculty is sparingly used, which is good to bring about positive changes. Hypnosis Positive Changes While we can be proud of our ability to think and reason, sometimes it can be our worst enemy. Especially, when you want to feed your mind with a new idea the reasoning part carefully scrutinizes that idea and only after its satisfied, it accepts it as a fact. For example, let us ... [more...]

NLP Training in Scotland and the UK generally has increased exponentially in the last few years. Many new NLP trainers are being qualified each year. In fact you can go from knowing nothing about NLP to being a fully qualified trainer in around six weeks. Add in the fact that several NLP companies, including my own are moving into optimising for the internet and increasing visibility - new NLP companies are pooping up all the time. One NLP company in Glasgow is even buying up huge numbers of NLP related domain names in an effort to dominate search engine traffic. Add in the wide variance in size of course, number of days and the jargon that extends right through the industry is it any wonder that people are confused about how to pick the right course for them. A NLP Practitioner Training Course is a big investment of your time and money. Spending a little effort digging past the superficialities of the first page of Google will pay you dividends in getting on to a course with a trainer that is exactly right for you. There are already some very good articles about the thought process to go through for deciding what type of ... [more...]

Hypnosis In Therapy If you've ever driven to work and wondered how you got there because you were thinking about a million other things, then you've experienced hypnosis. You've also experienced hypnosis if you've entered the "zone," a place where writers, athletes and artists experience when they are only devoted to their art and nothing else comes in the way of their task. Hypnosis is simply the ability to access specific everyday trance states of both the dissociated (the divided, thinking about a million other things) and the associated (the flow state, the "zone") of the mind. With hypnosis, therapists can help clients understand the power of their mind so they can break through barriers and reach their full potential. Hypnosis In Therapy How Can Hypnosis Help? We need to imagine that the brain is divided into two parts: the cortex, which is the thinking, rational part and the limbic system, which handles emotional part. Phobias stem from the limbic system from incorrectly associating a trigger to a fear response. Hypnosis is used in therapy to treat these phobias and fears, but it won't automatically get rid of these phobias. Not all people respond to hypnosis, but the good news ... [more...]

NLP or Neurolinguistic Programming fits among some of the other most important healing tools of our day, such as Homeopathy, hypnosis, and energy healing. Neuro Linguistic Programming was founded by UC Santa Cruz Linguistics Professor John Grinder, Phd., and Gestalt therapist and student Richard Bandler in the 1970's at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Important contributors to NLP include Robert Dilts, Todd Epstein, Judith DeLozier, Carmen Bostic St. Claire, and many others. The original models of NLP included Milton Erickson, Virgina Satir, Fritz Perls, and Moshe Feldenkrais among others. Carlos Casteneda served as an important early influence. Gregory Bateson, author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind, guided much of the early work. By integrating the tools of many of these geniuses, they have helped many people heal old problems and transform people allowing individuals to become peak performers, achievers, and livers of life with greater joy and excellence. Basic ideas such as repoir, represenational systems, and modeling have become a part of most management and behavioral training operations. Grinder and Bandler published many influential books in the 1970's and each continued to develop nlp in different directions since that time. In recent years, other influential contributers such as ... [more...]