Most people don’t recognize the role suggestions plays – in or out of “formal” hypnosis. Even professional hypnotherapists can make the mistake of thinking that deep trance is necessary for suggestions to take hold. Some even hold that suggestion and hypnosis are the same thing. Suggestion exists separately from hypnosis and hypnosis can exist without ...…
So, how do you develop mastery with Metaphor? There are a couple of great ways to do so. I offer a free, 7-part Email Mini-Course on Metaphor Learn… What is a Metaphor? How Metaphors are Hypnosis When to Use Metaphor How to Construct Metaphors A Real Life Metaphor Story – and the Results Building Effective ...…
See Balloons and Other Wisdom and The Stock Market, Balloons, Southern Charm and Metaphor for parts one and two of this thread. “As nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs” paints a more vivid picture than “he’s nervous,” doesn’t it? “The man’s engine is runnin’, but ain’t nobody driving” really ...…
My wife, (she’s a Licensed Mental Health Counselor) recently used a metaphor with a couple of family members who were not communicating with each other. She had them put all their anger and resentment toward each other in balloons and popped the balloons! The metaphor of the balloons holding the anger and then popping did ...…
What are the Hypnosis Tips newsletter and blog all about? Why did I create them? Listen, I believe strongly in the powers of hypnosis. So much so that I’ve dedicated my career to it. In fact, I’m the President of the American chapter of the Professional Board of Hypnotherapy and President of the Washington State ...…
I was reading a book about the stock market recently. It brought to mind hypnosis. Hypnosis? Sometimes when I teach how to communicate with the unconscious mind using metaphor, people ask me if you can use metaphor in a business context. The answer is an emphatic “Yes you can!” A metaphor is a story whose ...…
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