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2010 HYPNOTHERAPY COURSES  from Hypnosis New Zealand HNZ Certificate in Hypnotherapy       * Anytime This Modern Suggestive Hypnotherapy Course is a homestudy course that you complete in the comfort and privacy of your own home.  It offers the best support available and continued mentoring after completion by Registered Hypnotherapist and Hypnosis New Zealand principal, Grant Boddington. Priced from just $345.00 and complete with a $200.00 loyalty discount voucher that can be used for one of the following 5 day courses. A great way to see if Hypnotherapy is your calling, at a reasonable cost, with extraordinary support! HNZ Diploma of Hypnotherapy       * February 15th - 19th. Registrations filling fast (Earlybird discount available until January 15th)       * June 14th - 18th. Registrations now open       * October 4th - 8th. Registrations now open This Modern Suggestive Hypnotherapy Course is held over 5 days in central Auckland and features personal training by Registered Hypnotherapist and Hypnosis New Zealand principal, Grant Boddington. It is very interactive, very fast paced and very focused! This course is priced at just $1400.00 and generous loyalty, earlybird and group discounts apply. NEW! HNZ Diploma of Advanced Hypnotherapy   * July 19th - 23rd. Registrations now open (Huge interest & filling fast!)       * November 8th - 12th. Registrations now open (Nearly full already!) A comprehensive Diploma of Advanced Hypnotherapy course to complement the existing Certificate and Diploma courses.  This course will also be 5 days and $1400.00.  It will be held in the same venue too (in central Auckland). Since announcing the 1st Diploma of Advanced Hypnotherapy course for 2010 (just last month) the response has been overwhelming and the course is pretty much filled already!  So I've decided to run a second one - to make sure there is space for everyone who would like to attend. Watch the website for news and details of the course.

 

A New Decade for Hypnotherapy? (by Sue Leech) Has anyone else noticed that hypnosis has turned a metaphorical corner?  That perceptions of reality have noticeably altered?  That the World has shrunk but there’s more in it? That’s right.  In general we are more aware than ever before, in a more enlightened sort of a way rather than in a superstitious sort of a way, about ourselves and our environment and how one reflects and mirrors the other.  How the more we give out the more we receive and of course the alternative also rings true, the more we close ourselves down the less interaction and the more isolated we can feel. Isn’t it great that we have at our fingertips the techniques to change whatever it is that we want to change, whether that change is a personal inner change or the ability to dissociate and assess a situation from a wider more global view to help make clearer more positive decisions towards a better life for ourselves. Having been in practice since the last century (doesn’t that sound solid and dependable?) I’ve certainly noticed the changes .  Clients are more aware when they make first contact so we are able to pin point their issues and make quick progression towards resolution in a more ‘everyday conversational’ way, with clients being able to change focus, or refocus, in a blink of an eye once they have the tools they need.  So my job as a therapist has changed from a traditional role to a more interactive one where each client learns how to achieve rapid catalepsy and change, remove or resolve, whatever it is that is needed for them in that moment.  Being able to converse with their inner self, or part/s of their inner self and/or direct their sub-conscious in an aware and alert manner to enable balanced decisions and actions.  Being in control of the hormones that course through the body (our organic mechanical machine) gives not just insights mentally but a chance for neutral homeostasis to occur to help in an holistic and emotionally settling way. I’ve always been a Dave Elman fan and still use his rapid techniques as a basis in my clinic with great success, but the icing on the cake is that today’s clients are more able to switch between states quite rapidly.  To find that part that is holding them in an old habit/pattern and to be in charge of conversing with it, changing it, letting it go, regressing to the beginning of ‘that’ time and re-writing the script and consequently altering every scripted subsequent  event, even out into the future is a revelation and so empowering!  So I send thanks to those other pioneers who have helped to mould what it is that i do, to Erickson and his modellers, Bandler & Grinder, to Hall and Bodenheimer, to Igor (I can never pronounce his surname) and Yapko.  And closer to home – to people I’ve actually met and admire greatly, to Shelley Stockwell-Nicholas, Leon Cowen, Roy Hunter and my colleagues who help to form the circle of learning within hypnotherapy in NZ as we converse and convert techniques to even more powerful tools for our clients – and ourselves.  I’d also like to thank Grant for all his work in keeping the industry alive – so Thanks Grant! I operate from the northwest of Auckland, visit www.hypnotherapyplus.co.nz for more information about me. However there may be a registered & qualified Hypnotherapist in your area check at Hypnosis New Zealand's Hypnotherapist's Directory.  If you have any questions please contact me Sue Leech adv.dip.clin.hyp  N.B. As with any therapy it is always up to the client to make a conscious choice to take control over their actions.

Are They Tricking You? How To Tell If Someone Is REALLY In Trance
(By Nathan Thomas)  [Originally published at www.YourFirstInduction.com]

Often times, it can be hard to tell whether the person you hypnotize is REALLY 'in trance' and following your suggestions. Naturally, this is something we need to know, so I'm about to show you how to read people's unconscious signals, and detect what's actually going on in their minds.

First of all, in my opinion there is no such thing as 'in trance' as my philosophy defines hypnosis as a PROCESS, not a STATE. (You may feel differently, and it is your right to do so.) Bearing this in mind, there are various levels at which people can seem to be responding, and all people are very different. That said, there are a few concrete signs which are quite typical of people in the responsive, relaxed state (yes, I said state - testament to the fact that hypnosis is better DONE than analysed) generally named hypnotic 'trance.'

A general rule of body language observation (that some people will charge you $500.00 to teach!) is that when observing body language, don't look for a specific signal. Look for CHANGE and COMBINATION. So, some typical signals of 'hypnosis' are:
- relaxed posture
- eyelid flicker
- eye movement under lids
- moist eyes (during waking hypnosis / after the session)
- change in skin tone of face (due to blood flowing to / from capillaries)
- change in breathing rate
- slight muscle twitches
- slowness of speech
- use of non cognitive but highly emotive words when talking (i.e. simple language)
- loosening of the jaw and facial muscles

Again, none of these are absolute, but a combination of these signals, brought about as a direct result of what you are doing, can be useful.

There is another important C in body language, CHANGE, COMBINATION, and, a big one, CALIBRATION. Notice the way they are before, during and after the induction you do. Establish a point of reference to use to compare. When / if your subject begins exhibiting these signals feed them back (i.e. pace and lead). This is a strong convincer, and is surprisingly powerful.

As an example, you could say: "That's right, now as I have been talking to you, your breathing has slowed, your eye lids, have begun to flicker, and your muscles are relaxing, which means that you are already experiencing deep hypnosis, going deeper, with every breath you take." Prima facie pacing, leading and cause - effect. If you feel that, despite your efforts, someone is just playing along, such a statement as the above (with genuine observations, even if it's as obvious as 'you are sitting there, breathing...') can cause the subject to begin to experience 'real' hypnosis.

The best way, in my opinion, to test the responsiveness of a subject, lies not however in passive observation, but in their response to your suggestions. If they follow the suggestion - they're in hypnosis! Well, usually anyway. Occasionally there will be that person who, out of hallucinated politeness or the desire to win one over on you, will fake responding to the suggestion. In that case, rely on and trust your intuition, and look out for the quality and nature of the subject's actions. 

For example, if you are doing arm levitation (a great deepener and convincer), look out for the jerky, ideodynamic qualities of genuine unconscious, almost dreamlike, movement. If you still feel that your subject isn't responding, remember the big word UTILIZATION. Take what they are giving you (hint: EVERYTHING they do, say, think or even POSSIBLY think can be utilized) and link it back to what you want.

For example, "you may be sitting there, and that little voice inside your head may be saying [whiny voice] 'oh this will never work,' but I know, and your unconscious knows, that the more you sit there, still - going deeper, the more your unconscious realizes - now, that you are already in this trance, you just don't know which one-derful experience you are finding, now"

Notice all the ambiguity there, and see if you can guess where the delicate pauses and inflection would go (it's somewhat hard to communicate via text - but it gives you the opportunity to put your own spin on it). Also, remember to take control! Fractionation is a great tool for fixing potentially failed trance, as is conversation. Be prepared to talk to the subject - in trance - to ask open questions, and to guide and observe their imagination as it runs free yet targeted in that magical unconscious way.

Now, this lesson may be a little more complicated than usual, as I am trying to communicate an art rather than a science. With practice comes intuition, and with mastery comes confidence in that intuition - so get hypnotizing, and get learning!

Cheers,
Nathan Thomas
www.TheConfidentHypnotist.com
 
 
 

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