| What is the First Thing I Teach my Students? |
This week’s is a slightly different edition of Adam Up.
One of the first lessons I teach on my hypnotherapy training diploma is all about creating expectation.
Before the diploma even begins, I write asking them what they expect from me as the tutor and what their expectations of the course are. But on day one, we discuss the most important thing… Our hypnotherapy client’s expectations.
I tell my students that it doesn’t really matter who you are, how much you know, how much experience you have had being a therapist or hypnotising others, the client expects something, and you have to make sure it is positive.
Many schools of hypnotherapy, particularly cognitive behavioural hypnotherapists believe that hypnosis as a phenomena is purely about meeting expectations and behaving according to those expectations.
This essential piece of understanding does not only apply to students of hypnotherapy or professional hypnotherapists. Even if you’re just having fun with Hypnosis — learning it for your own use, for your own self-improvement in some way, to communicate more persuasively or anything else — this is one concept that can be expanded to many other areas of life.
To create a positive sense of expectation in another person (a client, a child, a co-worker, etc.), act confidently… It is as simple as that. Behave as if you know the outcome. Behave in a way that assumes the most positive and desirable outcome. Believe in it so that you demonstrate congruence… And you’ll create an abundance of expectation. And when people expect things to happen… Those things tend to happen.
I tell my hypnotherapy diploma students that even if they’re not really sure that they are doing things totally correctly, with hypnosis it doesn’t matter much. You cannot do any harm wielding hypnosis!
The simple yet profound process of acting as if you know what you’re doing, and focusing on the client and not on your own thoughts and memories… that’s how you create a sense of congruence and confidence!
If you are not convinced in your own abilities, when a client arrives at your offices, you might be spotted as being nervous in some way, and not create the kind of expectation that you need for really effective hypnotherapy.
That’s one of the reasons all my students conduct case studies and get lots of practice before they go out into the world as a qualified hypnotherapist.
When any therapy client knows he’s about to get results… When they can read it and hear it with every fibre of who and how you are… Then what they expect is very, very likely to happen. Expectation is an incredibly hypnotic facet! |
| What We Are Soon to be Doing for You! |
Last week, Keith came to me and gave me a presentation.
Him and I sat alone in my office, sat at my desk, and he was nervous. If I am honest, he made me nervous because he told me he was. When I told him that I was pleased with how he was dealing with this, he told me that I may not be when he had finished proposing what he wanted us to do with our business.
So I got nervous. He expected issues with me and I started feeling like I was going to have issues too.
Keith and I have had a long, close relationship, and we want to take our business together to an entirely new level, and so Keith presented to me some ideas and thoughts that he believed were the way forward.
I loved them.
I loved the entire process and they way that we are going ahead with a very new way of working together. There are going to be some challenges ahead for us both, and we are both going to encounter all kinds of fun and games on the way to where we want to be… But let me tell you what got me on board.
Despite being nervous about talking to me, despite his worries about how I would respond — I have that effect on people; my students will tell you that it can be an invigorating experience to spend time in close quarters with me — he expected it to be successful.
Keith expects the entire thing to be successful to the levels that I want and need. He expects it to the extent that he was utterly congruent and determined and believable in every way — I was and am on board entirely with how we are changing things in our business.
We both now expect. We have high expectations and I wanted to share this with you this week. Next week I am running my intensive diploma course and as such, I am not going to be able to write Adam Up… So Keith is going to do it instead. And he is going to tell you about all the new things that are going to be happening here…
You, my regular reader, are going to be given a great deal more from us. We have so many exciting things in the pipeline that we are going to share with you, I think you’ll be as excited about it as I am right now.
So I’ll be back in two weeks and things are going to be different around here.
You do realise that my aim today was to create expectation for what we have in store for you soon, don’t you? ;-) |
| Tweets of the Week: A Lot of Stuff Going on this Week |
Here are most of the things I tweeted in the last week, minus all the personal banter and stuff that also goes on (you’ll see if you connect with me there) if you are at twitter do come and follow me: http://twitter.com/adameason
- Bottled air given out by National Trust – Telegraph – http://ow.ly/1lu1E Comedy!
9:27 AM Mar 16th
- Can You Really Get Online Hypnotherapy? “Look into my webcam, you are feeling sleepy” http://ow.ly/1ltLL
9:15 AM Mar 16th
- My arms are aching more than my legs this morning. Yesterdays Wii games have affected me more than the marathon training. Ridiculous!
12:35 AM Mar 15th
- Motherly Love And Self-Hypnosis For Mothers Day http://ow.ly/1kRAU
12:28 AM Mar 15th
- Off on my first 20 mile training run of the year… Glorious conditions!!
10:59 PM Mar 13th
- hahaha RT @RichardWiseman: http://twitpic.com/183e48 – Ok, own up, who drew the cock ?
6:04 AM Mar 12th
- Is The Entire World Going To Have ADD In 2013? http://ow.ly/1hOrr
12:28 AM Mar 12th
- RT @duhism: I’m using visualization and affirmations to attract what I want into my life. No results yet. I’m experiencing Manifrustration
8:15 AM Mar 11th
- Cracking up at Peter Crouch. In response to the question “What would you be if you weren’t a footballer?” He replied: “A virgin.” Haha
8:09 AM Mar 11th
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Mother of Six
A man has six children and is very proud of his achievement.
He is so proud of himself, that he starts calling his wife,’ Mother of Six’ in spite of her objections.
One night, they go to a party. The man decides that it IS time to go home and wants to find out if his wife is ready to leave as well. He shouts at the top of his voice, “Shall we go home Mother of Six?”
His wife, irritated by her husband’s lack of discretion, shouts right back, “Any time you’re ready, Father of Four.”
Hahaha… Very funny. Thank you everyone who emails me the jokes each week, I really appreciate them. |
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Until next week… Enjoy expressing some gratitude … I thank you for reading…Goodbye for now…
With my very best wishes,
Adam Eason
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