Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

We have all known people whose personalities and actions tend to push our buttons. They are everywhere, they are our co-workers, postal employees, and family members. We all know some of these people and they are indeed irritating. But most of us have never stopped to consider that these people can serve as our greatest teachers. These individuals serve as our mirrors and teach us what needs to be revealed about ourselves. Seeing what we don't like in others helps us look deeper inside ourselves for similar traits and challenges that need healing, balancing, or changing.

Our society is full of people who, through their own limiting beliefs, have settled into becoming victims of their circumstances. They feel powerless to make changes in their lives because they think that the elements of their lives are out of their control. All too often they're quick to ask, "Why do bad things keep happening to me? "You probably know someone like this. They are the "why me?" people who always seem to have an excuse for the things in their life that aren't working. And much of what is in their lives isn't working as well as it could be. They have poor health or bad relationships; they have dead-end jobs or chronic financial problems.

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.

It could be several times per day. Sometimes salespeople, administrators and managers use neurolinguistic programming techniques to trigger trust and compliance (see numbers 1-3.) Since this is a detailed topic, a separate blog will be devoted to how these techniques work and how you can sidestep them.

Sometimes, family members and friends unconsciously hypnotize us (see numbers 4-7.) If you are interested in this topic, let me know, and I can devote a blog to the nuts and bolts of that, too.

Often, we hypnotize ourselves from within or through our connection to the environment (see numbers 8-16.) Relating to nature and listening to music can be enhanced to create a deeper and potentially very pleasurable and even healing trance state. Another blog will give specific steps on how to do that.

Meanwhile, here's the information you were wondering about, that is, how to determine how many times per day you may be in a hypnotic trance without knowing it. You are probably in a trance state if you are experiencing a situation similar to one in which, for example, you find yourself:

Check out this article in the Telegraph (UK):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/telegraphchristmasappeal/4348791/Charity...

A quote from near the end of the article:

"In addition to the research into the causes of PTSD, new treatment is being developed, drawing on neurolinguistic programming, relaxation techniques and even Eye Movement Desensitisation Therapy..."

As hypnotherapists, we are needed where the healing & personal support is needed. We can help support the healing and treatment of PTSD by teaching sufferers self-hypnosis and deep relaxation as well as NLP techniques (if you have that training). Inductions for insomnia, depression and anxiety may be helpful in many cases.

The need is certainly great and growing. Check with the psychotherapists and physicians in your area to see if they would like a referral source for hypnotherapy, relaxation and (if you are qualified) NLP work around PTSD. And, of course, always seek a medical referral if you should get a walk-in client that wishes to work specifically to heal or manage PTSD.

President-elect Obama has a website to give ideas to his administration.
These ideas can be voted for or against by fellow citizens. The ideas that have the highest positive vote rates will be passed onto President-elect Obama for consideration. This is our opportunity to bring hypnotherapy into the mainstream!
Here's the link:
http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=087800000...
Thanks,

Clay

We are seeing disruptive the effects of the Internet and new technology on the traditional forms of media advertising: newspapers and radio are struggling to find their new niches, and even television viewing hours are down (along with advertising revenue).

Meanwhile, 2008 showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Internet is the new place for finding goods and services, as well as information about whatever it is that consumers want. Blogging proved to be the marketing darling of the year.

AAPH is committed to helping its professional members thrive in this new age of advertising, marketing and 21st century business. Listen to this five-minute podcast from AAPH President and technologist Katin Imes to learn more about how professional blogging can help you.

Click here to listen to AAPH EP-001: An Introduction to Professional Blogging.

Every once in awhile we hypnotherapists are thrown into a subject matter covering Metaphysical and Paranormal anomalies where our clients are the victims of such behavior. My past 30 years' of hypnotherpay has brought me to many countries with clients in this category.

I deal with individuals as well as in the workshop scenario. Some of the subjects I have dealt with are past life repressions, projections into the future, metaphysical trauma, UFO abductions and paranormal activities. Dealing with such experiences requires a hypnosis technician who has professional training in these situations. The task of working in these sessions also requires the technician to take the victim into a deeper trance than normal working conditions. Brain waves need to be in the Theta or even Delta range. You as the hypnotherapist have to give the client an extreme sense of trust in you.