Category: Book

  • Into Trance

    The easiest way to decide what to say to help people experience a trance is to keep in mind that you want them to do two things: (a) pay full attention to what you are saying and, at the same time, (b) carefully observe (not control, just observe) their thoughts and sensations. Havens, R. A.,…

  • Healing Metaphors

    This is from a great book I have found called The Healing Metaphor – Hypnotherapy Scripts by Zetta Thomelin, What is important about the metaphor is its subtlety, it slips between the cracks in the resistant subconscious mind, by using a metaphor in therapy we remove that element of resistance within the client who does…

  • Five Basic Releasing Questions

    There are five basic releasing questions that serve as the foundation of the Sedona Method. First of all, focus on an issue that you would like to feel better about, and then allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling in this moment. Ask yourself, 1. What is your NOW feeling? 2. Could you welcome…

  • Under-invested Aspects and Dreams

    Like most people you probably have certain behaviours and attitudes that are overinvested, and others that are underinvested. … Jung believed that the only sure way to maturation lies in our willingness to recognize and practice our disowned character traits. He called these parts of the self our Shadow. Without them we remain fragmented. With…

  • Human Givens Model

    The model I use or keep in mind when I am doing hypnotherapy sessions is the RIGAAR model by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell within Human Givens Therapy, Rapport: Build rapport quickly, start getting a ‘yes set’ Information gathering: On basic needs, interests, relationships, etc Goal setting: Establish what the desired goal is Agree strategy:…

  • The Courage to Love

    One of the obvious implications is that a person will have to face the fact that she cannot meet other people’s expectations. This signals the end of what might be called the “camel” phase of human development. I believe it was Nietschze who suggested that for the first part of life, we are camels, trudging…

  • Remove Obstacles

    From ‘The Gift of Therapy’ by Irvin D. Yalom (one of the ‘must-read’ books for psychotherapists), … identify and remove obstacles. The rest would follow automatically, fueled by the self-actualizing forces within the patient.

  • Human Potential at its Best

    From Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, … What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. … Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he…

  • Post-Hypnotic Suggestions

    Research findings on post-hypnotic suggestion, As one would expect, the probability that subjects will respond to a posthypnotic suggestion is positively correlated with their measured hypnotic susceptibility, and susceptible subjects do experience a certain compulsion to respond (Barnier & McConkey 1998). Some theories of hypnosis (e.g. that of Woody & Bowers 1994) may explain this…

  • What We Become

    An excerpt from the book, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from…