NLP FREES YOU

Much of the corrective work all Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) involves the technique of self-hypnosis, ie making changes on yourself while in a trance.

The word ‘hypnosis’ was rather erroneously coined by James Braid in 1842, renaming Frantz Anton Mesmer’s technique, hypnotism, which comes from the Greek for ‘’sleep’’.

A hypnotized patient doesn’t actually go to sleep, but is in a state of trance, which can be from light to deep.

Trance is actually a heightened state of awareness when the the patient is more suggestible and, therefore, more open to change work on a mental level.

Hypnosis is already a natural part of your life.

It’s an important tool for realigning your attitude to bad habits such as over eating and smoking.

It is being increasingly used to improve or enhance sports performance and to relieve stress.

Billions of dollars are spent annually by advertising companies subjecting you to hypnotic imagery and language so that you buy their products.

It is very important to stress that, when you are under hypnosis, you are always in control; hypnosis is a perfectly natural state.

Hypnotherapy is being increasingly recognised in medicine and has successfully been used to treat patients for epilepsy, phobias, hysteria, asthma, anesthesia, births and rheumatism.

The psychiatrist, Milton Erickson, is credited for bringing hypnosis into the modern era. 

His methods were studied in detail by the therapist Richard Bandler and the linguist John Grinder who developed the earliest form of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is based on modeling perfect results and applying them to make changes in patients/clients.

Self-hypnosis and hypnosis are not easily defined as they are actually a state of mind.

Here are some examples of when you operate in trance-mode in your everyday life:

·         You take the car out to go somewhere and you drive on, only to realise that you’re going in the direction of work, when you are meant to be going to a friend’s; your mind was somewhere else

·         You’re driving along a highway, when suddenly you realise you’ve missed the turn off; again your mind was somewhere else

·         Whenever you daydream, you’re in a trance

·         Whenever you get spellbound reading good book or watching a movie, you’re in a trance

·         When in that trance, reading that good book, someone comes up to you and asks you if you would like to do something, describing it beautifully.  Because you’re in this trance, your imagination is heightened, creating a suggestible state, you say ‘yes’, then, when you’ve put your book down and you’re out of that state, you wonder why you ever said that you would go and do that

·         Meditation is another form of trance. This is when you practice quieting your mind and finding peace

·         Also, praying is another form of trance, as are certain dances

·         Going into a room to look for something and when you get there, forgetting what you went for is again operating in trance-mode

It has been estimated that we operate almost 80% of our day in a trance.

This is where the expressions ‘live in the now’ and ‘be in the now’ come from.

Over a period of three days, count the number of times that you’ve caught yourself being in a trance.  You’ll be amazed.