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Ok, so after running the first weekend of my latest hypnotherapy diploma…. I am getting asked ‘those’ questions… Similar questions that I get asked following a speaking event, or a seminar…

“Were you doing hypnosis on us while we were not expecting it?”…. “I felt funny after you spoke, were you doing something else while you were speaking?”

Those brave and knowledgeable ones don’t ask questions, they make statements…

“I saw you doing a tapping thing with your toes, that was hypnotising us, wasn’t it?” or “I could tell you were using your hands in that particular way to make us feel different, weren’t you?”

Hmmmmm….

In my field, when you are inherently using all that you know, it is not a case of ‘consciously applying’ these things on purpose… They are just happening. Any good communicator, trained or not, gets asked these things and because of my specialist area of interest, everyone is asking me about Barack Obama… Let me explain… (more…)

This weekend was my second weekend on the trot I was working… I tend to work at some full-on, full-throttle pace when running courses and as such, I can get pretty pooped afterwards, so not a huge amount of effort is going into todays blog entry… My wife went out with a friend shopping for the day yesterday.

That may make some husbands think ‘uh-oh’. Not me. We have no debt. No need for it. Her friend was joking that she had found a credit card with some credit left on it and needed to use it up… Her friend used up most of that remaining credit.

In these times where everyone is scrutinising their spending and finances so much, it is very interesting to note that certain psychological processes influence how much we pay off on our credit cards… (more…)

So my marathon training is well under way again… Yesterday I was doing lactate threshold runs… Phew, they do make you want to have a rosey-cheeked lie down afterwards… As well as my mid-tempo runs, fast interval days and my weekly long run… There is lots going on for my body…

As I am also working so much at the moment, with training courses at weekends (latest diploma starts tomorrow), my daily practice, my online business and attempting to have a social life of some kind, I have had a period of time where I have not been drinking alcohol… Not at all…

The reason I am telling you this today?

New research shows that all you need to do is have two drinks (or more) a day and, voila!, honey you’ve shrunk your brain.

Let me explain in some detail…. (more…)

I love the hypnotic effects of urban myths… Urban myths are the ultimate meme… The ultimate group hypnosis of a thouht or a story that flies around a classroom, through an office and into communities and neighbourhoods and groups of friends…

They are not quite like old wives tales… Things like eating carrots helps you see in teh dark, eating your crusts will make your hair curly and that sort of stuff… Although that stuff does tend to stick often… I want to show you some crazy mass hypnotic thought processes that are working their way through towns and villages near you… (more…)

This weekend, I bid a fond farewell to this years students from my 10 month hypnotherapy diploma course… During our graduation and handing out of certificates, I chose to mention some of the times that had been foremost in my mind from this set of students, all of whom I now consider to be friends… As I summed up, I recommended that they all keep positive, that they ensure they have much fun and laughter in their work and lives… That they also remain realistic and keep things in perspective… Why would I tag on the end of such inspiring stuff, a bit of a damp squib?

Yet another wad of articles flew across my desk this morning about how the world is soon going to end because of the credit crunch… Let me tell you how I think we got into this mess… (more…)