Work & Career

We've certainly come a long way. Or have we? Ever wonder what basic tenants of hypnosis are the same as they were a century ago? Can you spot hypnosis disguised as other "miracle modalities" from the nineteenth century? Are you able to discuss the development of hypnosis through the decades, what they had plain "wrong" back when, and why the modern shifts in models and techniques are more effective?

If these kinds of questions have ever crossed your mind, and if you have a few minutes until your next client appointment, you might want to check out all of the free ebooks on Hypnosis available on Google Books. You can read them on your desktop, laptop, and now also on your iPad or phone using the Google Books app.

http://books.google.com/ebooks?q=hypnosis&as_brr=4

Explore centuries of hypnosis literature, discover where some of the most persistent (and annoying) myths about hypnosis originated, and brush up on your fodder for sparkling party conversations by browsing scores of books dating from the early 1800's through the 1970's. Newer titles are available for purchase as ebooks, too.

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Nathan Thomas is an impressive young man. A young New Zealand hypnotist, he is also a co-founder of the International Association for Teenage Hypnotists. Using the Internet to connect with other hypnosis fans and experts around the world is natural for Nathan, and he has a blog called "Key's to the Mind" where he has videos, articles and interviews about hypnosis and NLP - as well as several other web sites.

I've been watching Nathan's web sites and progress for a few months now, and I must say that he is one of the new hypnosis whiz kids. Not only is he smart, determined, and excited, but he is learning and improving an all fronts quickly. His interviewing skills, for example, have improved dramatically in the last few months. We could all learn something from Nathan's openess and excitement around learning and "going for it."

He's posted two new interviews this weekend, both are well worth the listen.

Step Three is preparing for the job interview. If you enjoyed the television technique in Step Two, then you have probably already realized that this technique could work equally well for an interview. If you would like to try this, first self-induce a trance state:

Observe your breathing, and relax your breathing. Imagine all of your muscles relaxing, muscle group by muscle group, moving either from toe to head or from head to toe. Next, choose a number over five, and tell yourself that as you count down from that number, with each number, you will be relaxing ten times more deeply than before. Count down, and when you reach the number one, start the television technique.

If Step One, deleting the terminated job from your thoughts, was very difficult to impossible, you are in good company. If we stop to consider how many applicants there are for a given job, and if a certain percentage of them lost the previous job under stressful circumstances, and then we multiply that vague figure by every job that is now open, it is clear that multitudes are at risk for perseverating on thoughts of the old job and how they might have done things differently or had things done differently to them, or both.

If you are still haunted by thoughts of the old job, and you are not sleeping well due to these thoughts, it is wise to notice how long this situation goes on. If the insomnia does not naturally resolve itself, and you also find that you feel removed from your feelings, are often irritable, have trouble concentrating and feel all alone and somehow to blame for the whole experience, all of this makes sense. These are some of the more common symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and are natural responses to a traumatic experience.

We have shifted from an Industrial economy to a Information economy. Of course, the remnants of the industrial age businesses are still struggling, some transforming successfully and some not. But the fact that the economy has shifted is, at this point, indisputable.

New skills, new knowledge, new tools, new opportunities all abound. You can drown in new information; as a species, we literally have ten times the knowledge than we had in 1999, across hundreds of different domains of knowledge and science. This does not mean you simply need to learn ten times more than your grandfather knew, but it does mean that you need to learn how to filter and manage information far differently than your grandfather did.

The 21st century is characteristically different than the 20th century, although there are many parallels in the effects and our reactions to the massive changes. Just as we shifted from an agricultural society to an industrial one around the turn of the 20th century, so we shift again.

In the book, "Nine Shift" by Julie Coats and William Draves (link below), they explain that we are going to be replacing commute time with learning time.

It isn't hard to figure: higher energy costs, unstable gas prices, reduced travel and expense budgets, and the need to make more happen in less time with fewer dollars. The cherry on top is that flying just isn't fun - or even really pleasant - anymore.

Put it all together, and it spells fewer in-person meetings, fewer conferences, and less travel. Yet, somehow, more contacts, more connections, more partner projects need to get done? The pressure is on for electronic meetings to become a normal and usual part of modern business. It's been trying to come into regular use for some 15 years, but now finally have both the technology and the demand for it to happen.

Salespeople, administrators and managers routinely take workshops where they learn neuro-linguistic programming techniques that trigger trust and compliance in their customers and co-workers. The purpose of this blog is to give you methods that you can use to stand your ground (without seeming to be in any way oppositional) when you are confronted with the aforementioned techniques. Following the fictional example below will be three combinations of methods that you can use to sidestep the specific sales and management techniques covered in the example.

Example:
Let's say the person using the management techniques actually is your manager, and her name is Ms. Jane Smith-Doe. Her goal in the interaction is to have you say, "Yes" to becoming chair of the conflict-fraught Committee for Relations Overview and Cooperation Know-how.

Ms. Smith-Doe's first move is to ask you how you are and put out her hand. Now, this seems innocent enough, and even cordial, and perhaps it is. On another level, however, it follows the principle that a neutral response is halfway to a "yes" response, and the easiest neutral response to trigger is an automatic one.

A Tool Will Help You Only if You Use It Properly

From the book, "Your Creative Voice" by Henry Buldoc

A helpful encouragement to practice hypnosis with your own voice, to improve your trance-voice skills while also practicing using the powerful tool of self-hypnosis.